May 27, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (05/27) - Jackie Filla from the Hotel Association of Los Angeles comes on the show to talk about Mayor Bass signing into law a new minimum wage for hotel and airport workers. More on Mayor Bass signing into law a new minimum wage for hotel and airport workers. LA is the number 1 city for people moving out of the city. California is changing the rules for transgender athletes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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to talk momentarily with Jackie FeelA, President and CEO of
the Hotel Association in Los Angeles. Karen Bass is relentless
in destroying the city. Not enough to allow the Pacific
Palisades to burn down, not enough to new to the police,
so we could have a thousand mobsters try to destroy
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downtown LA over the weekend. Now it's about wrecking the
hotel industry in the up to the Olympics. It is
a she signed. It just happened a short time ago.
She signed an ordinance that tourism, hotels and tourism workers
are getting a thirty dollars an hour minimum wage. Thirty
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dollars an hour for hotel and tourism workers, airport workers
thirty bucks by July twenty twenty eight, just in time
for the for the Olympics. Jackie feel is going to
come on now, President and CEO the Hotel Association of
Los Angeles, Jackie, how are you?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Oh? I am frustrated, but otherwise well, thank you for
having me.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well we originally Ray talked with you about coming on
because you wanted to send out the word so people
could somehow write to or call Karen Bass to not
sign this ordinance. But in the meantime she did. And
so now you're with the hotel industry in La is industry.
What are they what are they left with? What are
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they going to be facing now over the next few years.
It's only two years until the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Sure, so this is now the highest minimum wage in
the country at the worst possible time for Los Angeles.
This only applies to the tourism industry, and the tourism
industry is struggling it in Los Angeles. We're still recovering
from COVID nineteen, fast forward to the January fires and
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now national rhetoric that is completely decimated international travel. This
is an industry that on multiple fronts is struggling, and
imposing such dramatic increases in labor, which is the number
one cost in running a hotel, is just completely infeasible.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I imagine you were lobbying heavily with the city council
and with Baths not to do this. What were their responses,
I mean the obbvie. The obvious case you make is
like this is unaffordable and they don't care or they
don't know how to do maths.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Well.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Unfortunately, like so many pressing issues in the city, and
despite repeated attempts by hoteliers and residents to raise concerns
about the consequences, Mayer Baths did not actively engage on
the numerous impacts this ordinance will have on the city.
She was absent in regard to the concerns for the industry,
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absent on the concerns for the jobs that this industry provides,
Absent on the impact of the city's budget and city services.
The hotel bed tax alone contributes approximately three hundred million
dollars a year when a city is in a severe deficit.
She still didn't show up to advocate for the best
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interest of the residents, and now she is absent on
the impact of the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
What is the current wage because I saw story which
says it's going up to twenty two to fifty an
hour this July. So what is it at right now?
Twenty dollars?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The current wage is has historically set to be fifteen
percent higher than the standard city minimum wage, and every
July it goes up by the CPI.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
All right, well, it's going.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
To be twenty two fifty in July, and then by
twenty twenty eight, which is just three years, two and
a half years away, it's going to be thirty. So
this is a pretty steep increase in a very short
time to go from less than twenty to fifty now
to thirty dollars in two and a half years.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well, certainly, and it's important to remember when we think
about the Olympics and all of these hotels that agreed
to contribute rooms to our ability to host the Olympics,
the minimum wage in twenty twenty, at the time that
most hotel signed these agreements was seventeen thirteen. And so
when you add the minimum wage and what will be
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by the time of the Olympics, an approximate eight dollars
and thirty five cent healthcare credit. That is more than
doubling of the wage and more than doubling of the
cost structure, at least the cost end of the cost
structure in those Olympic agreements that were signed by hotels,
which devastates the ability of a lot of hotels to
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be able to honor staying in those agreements under these circumstances.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So the hotels, we're going to offer discounted rooms for
the Olympics, and I am reading that those health hotels
say they're going to pull out of those deals. They're
not going to be offering those discounted rooms. They can't
afford it, not with a thirty dollars an hour mandate.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Sure, So again, what the city has done here is
they've more than doubled the cost of labor. And so
there is a very strict calculation for what you can
charge for a hotel room. So the idea that the
Olympic wage is something that was going to be this
fantastic financial boondoggle for hotels was always a flawed argument
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because the majority of hotels actually did agree to participate
in these blocks with the goal of creating room or
of setting aside rooms that were well located to Olympic events.
For those associated with the Olympics, it's a very strict
formula governed by LA twenty eight and the Olympics. And now,
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unfortunately hotels, many of them have already done the math
more will do so now that they've heard the mayor
had signed, they're finding themselves completely upside down. The contracts
that they sign now will make them have them going
into the Olympics losing money instead of making any money
or even taking.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It happens at a terrible time because tourists into Los
Angeles from Americans is way down because they had watched
television and they see the fires and they see the
homeless and the roving gangs that are doing the smash
and grab robberies over the last few years, and they're
thinking LA is not safe, and they're right, it isn't.
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And then the Canadians are upset over Trump's antics, and
usually they're a big portion of tourism to California. So
at that moment is when they're jacking up the rates
to thirty dollars an hour, it certainly.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Doesn't make a lot of sense, and it's something that
the leaders of the tourism Department, lax the Lava World Airport.
Have the city council in discussions about this, but also
in discussions of just the city's budget. All of these
numbers are down. We predict that we could be down
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twenty to twenty five percent for the year, and that
is devastating for the industry. But people forget this is
also devastating for the city's budget. The bed tax alone
is three hundred million dollar contribution to the city. The
city and a budget deficit. And I don't know why
you'd want to do anything to jeopardize those funds for
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critical services that Angelino's need from their city.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The city council in the Marriat, they don't seem to
have the slightest idea how mathematics or economics work at all.
It's almost like they dropped out of school when they
were in first grade and they learned absolutely nothing about
how math works, nothing about supplying demand, nothing about how
how businesses need to make a profit. And you can't
jack up their labor costs, you know, but by this much.
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But doubling the labor costs in a few short years,
that that that that's just insane, That that is a
suicide mission.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, I think what's really disappointing about this whole process
is that the industry actually came to council members, tried
to go to the mayor, and wanted to understand what
the goals were, and that you know, wages and healthcare
were the stage goals, and the industry actually had quite
a lot of good ideas about how to get closer
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to achieving those goals in ways that would keep hotels
and business people employed in the hotels. And one of
the things that I think also gets overlooked in this
conversation is there are hundreds, if not thousands of small
businesses that operate within hotels. How to keep those folks
operating as well, and almost all of those considerations were ignored,
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and we just don't see those changes proposed in the
ultimate ordinance that was adopted. So I think it's disappointing
because at the end, when you see a lot of
these consequences that will be very negative for our city
and our city residents, we think a lot of them
could have been avoided by trying to work with the
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industry to achieve what councils that wanted to achieve.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
All right, Jackie, thank you for coming on. Jackie Fale
at presidency of the Hotel Association in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Thank you for all right.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
There is a Hotel Angelino if you drive north on
the four h five the Sunset Boulevard exit. Years ago,
it used to be a holiday inn. It's it's that
circular building in there, now known as the Hotel Angelina.
It's a nice hotel. One of their representatives, Mark Beccaria, says,
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common sense tells you you cannot raise wages over thirty
percent in less than a year when revenue is flat.
If this labor if this increase in labor costs passes,
we will be forced by the city to consider converting
this hotel in the heart of residential Brentwood into a
homeless shelter.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
John, a homeless gonna do about that?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
That is, I can't take this news home. That's about
a mile from my house.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
You be packing up tomorrow, Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Geez niate, No, this is just that You're gonna have
a homeless shelter looming over the four h five. Bodies
methadics are going to be flying out the windows onto
the pavement below.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Those people that live in that area are not going
to put up with that.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Oh, oh my god, this is like some kind of
civil war has been unleashed.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
We'll have more coming up.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
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La Hotel Association is furious. They tried to talk sense
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to the blockhead Karen Bass and the blockheads on the
city Council that you cannot jack up the minimum wage
to thirty dollars an hour, that the math doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
And you know, people don't know this or they forget.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But every year, let's take Los Angeles City schools. Every year,
seventy percent of the children who are graduating high school
in LA Unified School District are not proficient at math,
and they're also not proficient at reading.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
But let's focus on the math.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So seventy percent not proficient, and you multiply that. By
the last thirty thirty five years this has been going on.
You have people who are now in their early fifties,
and younger, all LA high school graduates. They never learned
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how to do mathematics. They don't know. Doesn't make any
sense to them. They are now on the city council,
they are now working for Karen Bassett City Hall. They
don't know how to do math. And probably none of
them took any economic classes in college.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Maybe one required class and.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
That's it, because they all got into social work. You know,
a lot of the progressives got degrees in sociology and
social work and public health and things of that nature. Again,
it doesn't require any basic math knowledge. So they go
through their whole lives where math is not a thing.
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It's like asking them speak Swahili, speak Bulgarian.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
They don't. There's no such thing. They don't know math.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And so of course they come up with an insane,
absurd policy that in the hotel industry, the hotel owners
are going to have to spend thirty dollars an hour
by twenty twenty eight. And the thing is, the hotels,
many of them had signed a deal saying, hey, we'll
give discount hotel rooms. Well now they're they'd blocked rooms out.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Eight hotels now are backing out of the agreement.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
They're not going to offer those rooms at the discount
prices it was going to be for officials, sponsors.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
The media. No way, can't do it. They got to
make this money back.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And I'm gonna repeat the quote from Marca Beckerrea of
the Hotel Angelino, which is the former Holiday Inn many
years ago and it still looms, one of those circular
hotels that Holiday Inn used to have in some cities,
looms over the four or five by Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It's actually a really nice hotel.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
And he said, we're gonna have to consider converting the
hotel in the heart of residential Brentwood into.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
A homeless shelter. A homeless shelter, what what is that?
Is that?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Like twenty stories that hotel I'm always bad at estimating.
I don't remember at least yeah, it's at least twenty stories.
So we're gonna have like, we're gonna have this huge
tower of homeless people, people drunk and stoned and standing
naked on the top of the hotel. You'll be it
when you're stuck in traffic on the four or five
You're gonna be able to see them all the way
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from Torrents to uh to north Ridge.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
But this is this is when a civilization declines. This
is what happens.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
So now nice hotels in nice sections of town were
turned into rat infested homeless source. Just as the Olympics
are going to start. Boy, is that going to be entertaining.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
There's no way, there's no way that that hotel is
going to be a homeless shelter. First of all, your
people aren't going to allow it. And second of all,
can you imagine the Olympics and my people like the
carent Bass Yeah, I know, but this is now I'm
telling you. When you talk to your people in the area.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yes, I have regular meetings and conferences with my people.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Attention, my people, please come.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I I have something to say my people.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
My people think I'm crazy.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Well, I mean, they both can be true.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You're gonna stay alone in that room. I know.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I'm used to it now, all.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Right, when we come back, Dever just had this story.
It's first I heard of it. You had breaking news
for my years. At least we're going to tell you
more about it. Los Angeles is the number one city
in the nation for people moving out.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, Karen Bass has done a hell of a job here.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You imagine all that tax revenue that's leaving number one
for people moving out.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Last year we were number one, so.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
This is our second consecutive championship. We'll give you some
of the details why people are moving out, but you
could probably guess. I don't think it's all that complicated.
But I guess she can't do that math either. When
we return, you're.
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is coming on. A lot of people are pissed off
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about this. You know, they fly Southwest because it's less expensive.
Now they have to pay thirty five dollars for a
checked bag, forty five dollars for the second bag, and
that you know, I stopped checking bags. Even if I'm
gone ten days, I cram everything into one carry on,
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you know.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
I mean, what do you do pack one pair of shoes.
You probably don't even pack a pair of shoes. You
just have the one that you're wearing on your front.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I have done that. Yeah, yeah, and only only two dresses. Yes, yes,
well I.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Didn't know that about you. I thought I knew a lot.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Anything goes these days, Okay, you know I like to
stay current sport.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah, even if I was, even if I was in
a kindergarten competition for girls, I wouldn't do very well.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Where are people moving to?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Never had this story in the news a few minutes ago,
and the city of Los Angeles when people go, oh,
why you pick on Karen Bath so much? Hey, look
at the numbers. Oh, I forget most people can't do math. Well,
you just have to remember one number, the number one.
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We are number one in people moving out of a
major city. Yes, number one. And it's the second straight
year that we have won this championship. This is according
to Pods. Have you seen you know, the company Pods.
They have the moving trucks and the storage binds. Sometimes
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they're parked outside of people's.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Homes for a very long time. For a very long time.
Construction crews use them.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Pods. Pods the big red letters. Well, they have their
annual moving Trends report. Okay said they know this, they
know this, this is their life, their business. And California
had seven cities among the top twenty with the highest
number of moveouts.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Seven out of the top twenty.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
This is what Kevin Newsom and Karen Bass are doing
to the state. In the city, people are running out
by the thousands, and then they lie about it. Well,
what do you know. High living costs? Yeah, you think
that five dollars an hour gas? You think having the
top tax rates in the country, that doesn't drive people out,
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highest energy and electricity rates, housing affordability issues, that is
that is driven up by the regulation in the state.
Increased natural disaster risks that the city of la did
not spend a dime to mitigate to prevent. Yeah, we
have natural disasters. How about funding a fire department fully?
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Oh you funded half the department. Good gee, Well that
was another twenty five Well it's another twenty thousand people
now that have to move out, at least move out
of the Palisades, and many of them are going to
have moved out of the state. The second city is
the San Francisco Metro area. They are number two on
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the list of most people moving out. They were number
two last year. Then Miami is number three, San Diego
is number five, there were eighth, even San Diego's gone
to hell. God, these are such beautiful places. God, I
remember coming here, when we came here, when I first
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got the job at KFI.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Is your dream to live in LA Since.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I was a little kid, little kid used to watch
the West Coast football games, and in New Jersey, the
West Coast games would come at four o'clock in the afternoon.
Now we're talking about November December, when it's about you know,
twenty three degrees outside. It is cold, cloudy, winds blowing hard.
You can't go out to play, you get frostbite. Right,
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So Sunday afternoons, I watched the football games, and I'd
see the Rams and the Chargers and the Raiders and
the forty nine Ers, and I saw especially I remember
the Chargers games, audience is sitting out there wearing in
shirt sleeves. It's seventy five degrees in November, and I thought,
oh my god, this is the place, this is the
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place to be.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Gross Bowl Parade every year.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
And for many many years, this is why I'm so
pissed off because I was here when it was good.
I moved here when it was good, when it was
still and it's heydays.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
I was born and raised here, So I'm really pissed off.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
You've seen a lot, so now it's the most likely
place somebody gets out of San Francisco. So when we
came here, it was in ninety two, and it was
three weeks. We landed like the first of November of
ninety two, actually Halloween night, the night before, and then
it was three weeks till we started on the air.
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And so for three weeks we could do what we want.
We're getting paid already, and so we got a car
and we drove everywhere from Tijuana to San Francisco, went
through San Diego. It was gorgeous. San Francisco to me
was jaw dropping. I could not believe how beautiful that
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city was.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
San Francisco was so unaffordable how many years ago, right,
I mean people, because everybody wanted to live in San Francisco.
And then you have the drugs and the feces and
the homeless people, and then it turned to you know.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
What, Yeah, no, it turned to crap and that's putting
it politely. And the thing is the people living in
these cities let it happen. They elected progressive morons. I
mean these progressives. They are sick, they're mentally ill, and
you have them in great numbers, and they will destroy
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a city.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Santa Monica the same thing.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
So they destroyed San Francisco, they destroyed Santa Monica and
Los Angeles. I guess San Diego is on its way
out from the looks of these statistics. I haven't been
there in a while. And uh, the affordability is crazy.
And then you know this is this is pre homeless era,
pre smash and grab, criminals everywhere, constant break ins, and
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so now PODS is telling you, you know, they're they're
setting records here.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Many of the cities topping the list.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Just going through this overcrowding, high cost of living, low affordabile,
increase natural disaster, and people are looking for less congestion,
more nature, lower cost of living. Seattle is another city
making the list for the first time.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Why do people want Why do.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
People keep voting the way they're voting? Why are they
so stuck in this pattern? They didn't used to vote
this way. It just wasn't tolerated that. There's a clip
I just saw this Santa Monica promenade, some kind of
like riot broke out over the weekend daylight. Dozens of
guys beating the crap out of each other on the promenade.
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Where's the police with the rubber bullets?
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Drink?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Oh, that's gonna be a great idea.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
I mean, I do not understand that.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Hey, it's not bad enough.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I know, let's have all these gang members walking around loaded.
Let the homeless be completely blasted out of their minds.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
That'll be good for business. And they have no idea.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It's their fault, the idiot mayor of Santa Monica, as
she has no idea.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Well, Governor Newsom, when he hears the rhetoric of people
leaving California, he says, no, no, no, no, no, that's
not true. People aren't leaving California. So I wonder how
Mayor Bass would react to this same thing.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
They both just why you just deny it, and the
stupid media prints the lie. You'll see a big headline
there's some proclaims that people are moving back to California. Well,
no they're not. He's lying. But thanks for printing the lie.
Thanks for making it a lead story with a graphic
on it. Same thing with beth oh Bass. We'll get
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into this later. Because we got that clip that you've
been playing. I wanted to analyze it. Karen Bass is
doing an impression of an outraged mayor. After those thousand
goons and thugs and criminals gathered together over the weekend,
I think it was around midnight on Saturday night and
Sunday morning, just started a riot and started vandalizing everything
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in sight downtown in LA and they charged onto a train,
one of those metro trains that Karen hopes is your
first choice for mass transit for travel, and they started
spray painting all the businesses in the neighborhood. And like,
this is the lowest form. This is not even human behavior.
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This is the this is this is like if you
gave animals in the zoo the capability to hold a
spray paint can, what would they do. They would run
around in a pack and just start spraying. Because I
don't know what they're spraying at right, So they're spraying
the train, They're spraying the sides of buildings, the windows,
they're spraying the police cars, as you ran. Can you
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imagine how badly you've been raised that you're willing to
run up to a police car and start spray painting it?
And why the cops don't mow them down with rubber
bullets right away?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
It's the same people think who think, you know, in
a tragedy, a disaster, that it's okay to go looting?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, yeah, the whole lot.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I saw the media was trying to celebrate the fifth
anniversary of the George Floyd Riots, but people were having
none of it. Did people look back down and say,
oh my god, that that unleashed years worth of bayhem?
And it was like some kind of stupid nervous breakdown
people had. Suddenly it was okay to what? Did they burned?
Like eighty eight businesses?
Speaker 5 (27:29):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
At the fair fact statuary people.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Justify that and they say it's okay to do that.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Everything's okay. Every time I think we hit bottom, we
hit another bottom.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
I don't think we've hit bottom yet.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
No, Uh, I got what I wanted to do. Oh
when we come back.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
It looks like California has is changing the rules all
of a sudden regarding transgender athletes because of that guy
who won two major statewide events in the long jump.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
And what was the other thing was here in California.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
It was the CIF, the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section.
This is, you know, the annual state championships long jump
and triple jump. A guy wanted beat all these girls.
And Trump came out and thundered against Newsom because Newsom
has said that don sense is deeply unfair, but he
allows it to go on. Well, I don't know if
somebody made a call. We'll tell you about how it
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turned out when we come back.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
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sixty three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Alex Stone will be on after Debor's news because Southwest
is charging big fat prices now for a checked bag.
They were supposed to be the cool airline, the funny airline,
the cheap airline. Thirty five bucks for a check bag
and that's just for starters. So a lot of people
unhappy with that. Alex have come on all right, so
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early on in the show. This is something that broke
in the La Times this morning. Trump went off on
a rant on his truth social site and said that
it was a message to Gavin Newsom that if he
continues to illegally allow men to play in women's sports,
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he is going to cut federal funding. What specific federal
funding he didn't say, but there's all kinds of funding,
billions and billions of dollars, a lot of it, A
lot of money goes to the schools. And Trump said
I will speak to him today to find out which
way he wants to go. This was triggered by a
California high school junior, a boy who won the girls'
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long jump and triple jump. This was at a big event,
a state competition, the California Interscholastic Federation, that's the CIF
the Southern Section masters meet and eventually the winners will
go on to a state final.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
So a guy.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Won the long jump and the triple jump and the
girls were denied.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Their honors.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And there has been a big uproar, And I'm glad
people are finally fighting back against this idiocy, especially the mothers.
Where are the mothers here? How do you watch your
girls go through the struggles they go through for being
women in this world? And I'm still a male dominated
society and took them decades and decades to get the
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right to compete in sports and have their own championships,
and now you take it away by putting men in there.
And I love how these pro transgender women think they're feminists.
I don't know what they're I think they're saying is
what they are. Well, there has been a change the
state organization that oversees state policies in sports. It's the
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California Interscholastic Federation the CIF. They have a new entry
process to make sure that girls are not displaced from
winning a medal. The new process is going to begin
for the upcoming track and field state championships, and a
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biological female who competes and wins but may have been
displaced by a guy, they're still going to get their
medal any biologically you realize, do you have to read this?
This is actually news. This is actually an earthshaking policy.
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A biological female student athlete who would have earned the
medal and did not achieve the mark in their finals
are going to be awarded a medal and allowed to
move on to the next round of the championships.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
So are there two winners that are going to be
putting the record books. Now I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
They just won't be blocked out of moving up, and
they won't be blocked out of getting a medal. Oh
there now could be three first place a second, all right,
So they're going to score separately for transgender students.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
So you'll have the.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Boys competition, one winner, there, the girls competition, and then
a trans athletes competition.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
But it may not be a competition. They'll just be
scored differently.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
They'll be competing with the girls, but they will't count
towards the standings of the girls.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Right, So let's say the trans athlete finish is first
and beats out all the other girls. Whoever technically comes
in second. Is now the winner is now the actual
first place girl, right, and we'll get a first place medal. Yes, exactly,
you believe this? And then and then this is a
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spokeshole for a Gavin Newsom. So I guess this came
from Newsom. Ah, so Trump actually shamed him. How the
hell is Newing going to run on this nonsense for president? Is?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
The Garden says the proposal is a reasonable, respectful way
to navigate a complex issue. It is not a complex issue.
You're born with a penis, you are a guy. If
you're born with a vagina, you're a woman. You can
do whatever you want privately, you could call yourself whatever
you want, but you don't get to steal metals from
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girls in high school.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Geez.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Trump threatened to withhold large scale funding from California, and
that was specifically over this guy who beat the girls
in this track championship. It's just what a stupid, stupid
error we're in.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
If my mother could could rise out of the grave
and witness this, she'd climb back into the grave.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
She'd say, no, this isn't my time.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
What would your dad say?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
My dad would just go, oh, one syllable at a
time with my dad, Oh yeah, oh, no, good, Oh
all right. We come back Alex Stone and he's covering
this Southwest thing where they're charging lots of money. Now
to check it back, and Deborah Mark is lied in
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to talk momentarily with Jackie FeelA, President and CEO of
the Hotel Association in Los Angeles. Karen Bass is relentless
in destroying the city. Not enough to allow the Pacific
Palisades to burn down, not enough to new to the police,
so we could have a thousand mobsters try to destroy
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downtown LA over the weekend. Now it's about wrecking the
hotel industry in the up to the Olympics. It is
a she signed. It just happened a short time ago.
She signed an ordinance that tourism, hotels and tourism workers
are getting a thirty dollars an hour minimum wage. Thirty
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dollars an hour for hotel and tourism workers, airport workers
thirty bucks by July twenty twenty eight, just in time
for the for the Olympics. Jackie feel is going to
come on now, President and CEO the Hotel Association of
Los Angeles, Jackie, how are you?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Oh? I am frustrated, but otherwise well, thank you for
having me.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well we originally Ray talked with you about coming on
because you wanted to send out the word so people
could somehow write to or call Karen Bass to not
sign this ordinance. But in the meantime she did. And
so now you're with the hotel industry in La is industry.
What are they what are they left with? What are
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they going to be facing now over the next few years.
It's only two years until the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Sure, so this is now the highest minimum wage in
the country at the worst possible time for Los Angeles.
This only applies to the tourism industry, and the tourism
industry is struggling it in Los Angeles. We're still recovering
from COVID nineteen, fast forward to the January fires and
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now national rhetoric that is completely decimated international travel. This
is an industry that on multiple fronts is struggling, and
imposing such dramatic increases in labor, which is the number
one cost in running a hotel, is just completely infeasible.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I imagine you were lobbying heavily with the city council
and with Baths not to do this. What were their responses,
I mean the obbvie. The obvious case you make is
like this is unaffordable and they don't care or they
don't know how to do maths.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Well.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Unfortunately, like so many pressing issues in the city, and
despite repeated attempts by hoteliers and residents to raise concerns
about the consequences, Mayer Baths did not actively engage on
the numerous impacts this ordinance will have on the city.
She was absent in regard to the concerns for the industry,
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absent on the concerns for the jobs that this industry provides,
Absent on the impact of the city's budget and city services.
The hotel bed tax alone contributes approximately three hundred million
dollars a year when a city is in a severe deficit.
She still didn't show up to advocate for the best
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interest of the residents, and now she is absent on
the impact of the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
What is the current wage because I saw story which
says it's going up to twenty two to fifty an
hour this July. So what is it at right now?
Twenty dollars?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The current wage is has historically set to be fifteen
percent higher than the standard city minimum wage, and every
July it goes up by the CPI.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
All right, well, it's going.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
To be twenty two fifty in July, and then by
twenty twenty eight, which is just three years, two and
a half years away, it's going to be thirty. So
this is a pretty steep increase in a very short
time to go from less than twenty to fifty now
to thirty dollars in two and a half years.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well, certainly, and it's important to remember when we think
about the Olympics and all of these hotels that agreed
to contribute rooms to our ability to host the Olympics,
the minimum wage in twenty twenty, at the time that
most hotel signed these agreements was seventeen thirteen. And so
when you add the minimum wage and what will be
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by the time of the Olympics, an approximate eight dollars
and thirty five cent healthcare credit. That is more than
doubling of the wage and more than doubling of the
cost structure, at least the cost end of the cost
structure in those Olympic agreements that were signed by hotels,
which devastates the ability of a lot of hotels to
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be able to honor staying in those agreements under these circumstances.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So the hotels, we're going to offer discounted rooms for
the Olympics, and I am reading that those health hotels
say they're going to pull out of those deals. They're
not going to be offering those discounted rooms. They can't
afford it, not with a thirty dollars an hour mandate.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Sure, So again, what the city has done here is
they've more than doubled the cost of labor. And so
there is a very strict calculation for what you can
charge for a hotel room. So the idea that the
Olympic wage is something that was going to be this
fantastic financial boondoggle for hotels was always a flawed argument
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because the majority of hotels actually did agree to participate
in these blocks with the goal of creating room or
of setting aside rooms that were well located to Olympic events.
For those associated with the Olympics, it's a very strict
formula governed by LA twenty eight and the Olympics. And now,
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unfortunately hotels, many of them have already done the math
more will do so now that they've heard the mayor
had signed, they're finding themselves completely upside down. The contracts
that they sign now will make them have them going
into the Olympics losing money instead of making any money
or even taking.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It happens at a terrible time because tourists into Los
Angeles from Americans is way down because they had watched
television and they see the fires and they see the
homeless and the roving gangs that are doing the smash
and grab robberies over the last few years, and they're
thinking LA is not safe, and they're right, it isn't.
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And then the Canadians are upset over Trump's antics, and
usually they're a big portion of tourism to California. So
at that moment is when they're jacking up the rates
to thirty dollars an hour, it certainly.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Doesn't make a lot of sense, and it's something that
the leaders of the tourism Department, lax the Lava World Airport.
Have the city council in discussions about this, but also
in discussions of just the city's budget. All of these
numbers are down. We predict that we could be down
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twenty to twenty five percent for the year, and that
is devastating for the industry. But people forget this is
also devastating for the city's budget. The bed tax alone
is three hundred million dollar contribution to the city. The
city and a budget deficit. And I don't know why
you'd want to do anything to jeopardize those funds for
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critical services that Angelino's need from their city.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The city council in the Marriat, they don't seem to
have the slightest idea how mathematics or economics work at all.
It's almost like they dropped out of school when they
were in first grade and they learned absolutely nothing about
how math works, nothing about supplying demand, nothing about how
how businesses need to make a profit. And you can't
jack up their labor costs, you know, but by this much.
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But doubling the labor costs in a few short years,
that that that that's just insane, That that is a
suicide mission.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, I think what's really disappointing about this whole process
is that the industry actually came to council members, tried
to go to the mayor, and wanted to understand what
the goals were, and that you know, wages and healthcare
were the stage goals, and the industry actually had quite
a lot of good ideas about how to get closer
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to achieving those goals in ways that would keep hotels
and business people employed in the hotels. And one of
the things that I think also gets overlooked in this
conversation is there are hundreds, if not thousands of small
businesses that operate within hotels. How to keep those folks
operating as well, and almost all of those considerations were ignored,
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and we just don't see those changes proposed in the
ultimate ordinance that was adopted. So I think it's disappointing
because at the end, when you see a lot of
these consequences that will be very negative for our city
and our city residents, we think a lot of them
could have been avoided by trying to work with the
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industry to achieve what councils that wanted to achieve.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
All right, Jackie, thank you for coming on. Jackie Fale
at presidency of the Hotel Association in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Thank you for all right.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
There is a Hotel Angelino if you drive north on
the four h five the Sunset Boulevard exit. Years ago,
it used to be a holiday inn. It's it's that
circular building in there, now known as the Hotel Angelina.
It's a nice hotel. One of their representatives, Mark Beccaria, says,
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common sense tells you you cannot raise wages over thirty
percent in less than a year when revenue is flat.
If this labor if this increase in labor costs passes,
we will be forced by the city to consider converting
this hotel in the heart of residential Brentwood into a
homeless shelter.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
John, a homeless gonna do about that?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
That is, I can't take this news home. That's about
a mile from my house.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
You be packing up tomorrow, Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Geez niate, No, this is just that You're gonna have
a homeless shelter looming over the four h five. Bodies
methadics are going to be flying out the windows onto
the pavement below.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Those people that live in that area are not going
to put up with that.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Oh, oh my god, this is like some kind of
civil war has been unleashed.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
We'll have more coming up.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
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La Hotel Association is furious. They tried to talk sense
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to the blockhead Karen Bass and the blockheads on the
city Council that you cannot jack up the minimum wage
to thirty dollars an hour, that the math doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
And you know, people don't know this or they forget.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But every year, let's take Los Angeles City schools. Every year,
seventy percent of the children who are graduating high school
in LA Unified School District are not proficient at math,
and they're also not proficient at reading.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
But let's focus on the math.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So seventy percent not proficient, and you multiply that. By
the last thirty thirty five years this has been going on.
You have people who are now in their early fifties,
and younger, all LA high school graduates. They never learned
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how to do mathematics. They don't know. Doesn't make any
sense to them. They are now on the city council,
they are now working for Karen Bassett City Hall. They
don't know how to do math. And probably none of
them took any economic classes in college.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Maybe one required class and.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
That's it, because they all got into social work. You know,
a lot of the progressives got degrees in sociology and
social work and public health and things of that nature. Again,
it doesn't require any basic math knowledge. So they go
through their whole lives where math is not a thing.
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It's like asking them speak Swahili, speak Bulgarian.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
They don't. There's no such thing. They don't know math.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And so of course they come up with an insane,
absurd policy that in the hotel industry, the hotel owners
are going to have to spend thirty dollars an hour
by twenty twenty eight. And the thing is, the hotels,
many of them had signed a deal saying, hey, we'll
give discount hotel rooms. Well now they're they'd blocked rooms out.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Eight hotels now are backing out of the agreement.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
They're not going to offer those rooms at the discount
prices it was going to be for officials, sponsors.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
The media. No way, can't do it. They got to
make this money back.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And I'm gonna repeat the quote from Marca Beckerrea of
the Hotel Angelino, which is the former Holiday Inn many
years ago and it still looms, one of those circular
hotels that Holiday Inn used to have in some cities,
looms over the four or five by Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It's actually a really nice hotel.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
And he said, we're gonna have to consider converting the
hotel in the heart of residential Brentwood into.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
A homeless shelter. A homeless shelter, what what is that?
Is that?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Like twenty stories that hotel I'm always bad at estimating.
I don't remember at least yeah, it's at least twenty stories.
So we're gonna have like, we're gonna have this huge
tower of homeless people, people drunk and stoned and standing
naked on the top of the hotel. You'll be it
when you're stuck in traffic on the four or five
You're gonna be able to see them all the way
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from Torrents to uh to north Ridge.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
But this is this is when a civilization declines. This
is what happens.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
So now nice hotels in nice sections of town were
turned into rat infested homeless source. Just as the Olympics
are going to start. Boy, is that going to be entertaining.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
There's no way, there's no way that that hotel is
going to be a homeless shelter. First of all, your
people aren't going to allow it. And second of all,
can you imagine the Olympics and my people like the
carent Bass Yeah, I know, but this is now I'm
telling you. When you talk to your people in the area.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yes, I have regular meetings and conferences with my people.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Attention, my people, please come.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I I have something to say my people.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
My people think I'm crazy.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Well, I mean, they both can be true.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You're gonna stay alone in that room. I know.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I'm used to it now, all.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Right, when we come back, Dever just had this story.
It's first I heard of it. You had breaking news
for my years. At least we're going to tell you
more about it. Los Angeles is the number one city
in the nation for people moving out.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, Karen Bass has done a hell of a job here.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You imagine all that tax revenue that's leaving number one
for people moving out.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Last year we were number one, so.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
This is our second consecutive championship. We'll give you some
of the details why people are moving out, but you
could probably guess. I don't think it's all that complicated.
But I guess she can't do that math either. When
we return, you're.
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Speaker 2 (17:01):
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is coming on. A lot of people are pissed off
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about this. You know, they fly Southwest because it's less expensive.
Now they have to pay thirty five dollars for a
checked bag, forty five dollars for the second bag, and
that you know, I stopped checking bags. Even if I'm
gone ten days, I cram everything into one carry on,
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you know.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
I mean, what do you do pack one pair of shoes.
You probably don't even pack a pair of shoes. You
just have the one that you're wearing on your front.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I have done that. Yeah, yeah, and only only two dresses. Yes, yes,
well I.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Didn't know that about you. I thought I knew a lot.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Anything goes these days, Okay, you know I like to
stay current sport.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah, even if I was, even if I was in
a kindergarten competition for girls, I wouldn't do very well.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Where are people moving to?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Never had this story in the news a few minutes ago,
and the city of Los Angeles when people go, oh,
why you pick on Karen Bath so much? Hey, look
at the numbers. Oh, I forget most people can't do math. Well,
you just have to remember one number, the number one.
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We are number one in people moving out of a
major city. Yes, number one. And it's the second straight
year that we have won this championship. This is according
to Pods. Have you seen you know, the company Pods.
They have the moving trucks and the storage binds. Sometimes
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they're parked outside of people's.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Homes for a very long time. For a very long time.
Construction crews use them.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Pods. Pods the big red letters. Well, they have their
annual moving Trends report. Okay said they know this, they
know this, this is their life, their business. And California
had seven cities among the top twenty with the highest
number of moveouts.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Seven out of the top twenty.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
This is what Kevin Newsom and Karen Bass are doing
to the state. In the city, people are running out
by the thousands, and then they lie about it. Well,
what do you know. High living costs? Yeah, you think
that five dollars an hour gas? You think having the
top tax rates in the country, that doesn't drive people out,
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highest energy and electricity rates, housing affordability issues, that is
that is driven up by the regulation in the state.
Increased natural disaster risks that the city of la did
not spend a dime to mitigate to prevent. Yeah, we
have natural disasters. How about funding a fire department fully?
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Oh you funded half the department. Good gee, Well that
was another twenty five Well it's another twenty thousand people
now that have to move out, at least move out
of the Palisades, and many of them are going to
have moved out of the state. The second city is
the San Francisco Metro area. They are number two on
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the list of most people moving out. They were number
two last year. Then Miami is number three, San Diego
is number five, there were eighth, even San Diego's gone
to hell. God, these are such beautiful places. God, I
remember coming here, when we came here, when I first
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got the job at KFI.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Is your dream to live in LA Since.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I was a little kid, little kid used to watch
the West Coast football games, and in New Jersey, the
West Coast games would come at four o'clock in the afternoon.
Now we're talking about November December, when it's about you know,
twenty three degrees outside. It is cold, cloudy, winds blowing hard.
You can't go out to play, you get frostbite. Right,
(21:28):
So Sunday afternoons, I watched the football games, and I'd
see the Rams and the Chargers and the Raiders and
the forty nine Ers, and I saw especially I remember
the Chargers games, audience is sitting out there wearing in
shirt sleeves. It's seventy five degrees in November, and I thought,
oh my god, this is the place, this is the
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place to be.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Gross Bowl Parade every year.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
And for many many years, this is why I'm so
pissed off because I was here when it was good.
I moved here when it was good, when it was
still and it's heydays.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
I was born and raised here, So I'm really pissed off.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
You've seen a lot, so now it's the most likely
place somebody gets out of San Francisco. So when we
came here, it was in ninety two, and it was
three weeks. We landed like the first of November of
ninety two, actually Halloween night, the night before, and then
it was three weeks till we started on the air.
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And so for three weeks we could do what we want.
We're getting paid already, and so we got a car
and we drove everywhere from Tijuana to San Francisco, went
through San Diego. It was gorgeous. San Francisco to me
was jaw dropping. I could not believe how beautiful that
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city was.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
San Francisco was so unaffordable how many years ago, right,
I mean people, because everybody wanted to live in San Francisco.
And then you have the drugs and the feces and
the homeless people, and then it turned to you know.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
What, Yeah, no, it turned to crap and that's putting
it politely. And the thing is the people living in
these cities let it happen. They elected progressive morons. I
mean these progressives. They are sick, they're mentally ill, and
you have them in great numbers, and they will destroy
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a city.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Santa Monica the same thing.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
So they destroyed San Francisco, they destroyed Santa Monica and
Los Angeles. I guess San Diego is on its way
out from the looks of these statistics. I haven't been
there in a while. And uh, the affordability is crazy.
And then you know this is this is pre homeless era,
pre smash and grab, criminals everywhere, constant break ins, and
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so now PODS is telling you, you know, they're they're
setting records here.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Many of the cities topping the list.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Just going through this overcrowding, high cost of living, low affordabile,
increase natural disaster, and people are looking for less congestion,
more nature, lower cost of living. Seattle is another city
making the list for the first time.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Why do people want Why do.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
People keep voting the way they're voting? Why are they
so stuck in this pattern? They didn't used to vote
this way. It just wasn't tolerated that. There's a clip
I just saw this Santa Monica promenade, some kind of
like riot broke out over the weekend daylight. Dozens of
guys beating the crap out of each other on the promenade.
(24:38):
Where's the police with the rubber bullets?
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Drink?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Oh, that's gonna be a great idea.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
I mean, I do not understand that.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Hey, it's not bad enough.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I know, let's have all these gang members walking around loaded.
Let the homeless be completely blasted out of their minds.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
That'll be good for business. And they have no idea.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It's their fault, the idiot mayor of Santa Monica, as
she has no idea.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Well, Governor Newsom, when he hears the rhetoric of people
leaving California, he says, no, no, no, no, no, that's
not true. People aren't leaving California. So I wonder how
Mayor Bass would react to this same thing.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
They both just why you just deny it, and the
stupid media prints the lie. You'll see a big headline
there's some proclaims that people are moving back to California. Well,
no they're not. He's lying. But thanks for printing the lie.
Thanks for making it a lead story with a graphic
on it. Same thing with beth oh Bass. We'll get
(25:42):
into this later. Because we got that clip that you've
been playing. I wanted to analyze it. Karen Bass is
doing an impression of an outraged mayor. After those thousand
goons and thugs and criminals gathered together over the weekend,
I think it was around midnight on Saturday night and
Sunday morning, just started a riot and started vandalizing everything
(26:05):
in sight downtown in LA and they charged onto a train,
one of those metro trains that Karen hopes is your
first choice for mass transit for travel, and they started
spray painting all the businesses in the neighborhood. And like,
this is the lowest form. This is not even human behavior.
(26:25):
This is the this is this is like if you
gave animals in the zoo the capability to hold a
spray paint can, what would they do. They would run
around in a pack and just start spraying. Because I
don't know what they're spraying at right, So they're spraying
the train, They're spraying the sides of buildings, the windows,
they're spraying the police cars, as you ran. Can you
(26:47):
imagine how badly you've been raised that you're willing to
run up to a police car and start spray painting it?
And why the cops don't mow them down with rubber
bullets right away?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
It's the same people think who think, you know, in
a tragedy, a disaster, that it's okay to go looting?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, yeah, the whole lot.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I saw the media was trying to celebrate the fifth
anniversary of the George Floyd Riots, but people were having
none of it. Did people look back down and say,
oh my god, that that unleashed years worth of bayhem?
And it was like some kind of stupid nervous breakdown
people had. Suddenly it was okay to what? Did they burned?
Like eighty eight businesses?
Speaker 5 (27:29):
That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
At the fair fact statuary people.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Justify that and they say it's okay to do that.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Everything's okay. Every time I think we hit bottom, we
hit another bottom.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
I don't think we've hit bottom yet.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
No, Uh, I got what I wanted to do. Oh
when we come back.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
It looks like California has is changing the rules all
of a sudden regarding transgender athletes because of that guy
who won two major statewide events in the long jump.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
And what was the other thing was here in California.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
It was the CIF, the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section.
This is, you know, the annual state championships long jump
and triple jump. A guy wanted beat all these girls.
And Trump came out and thundered against Newsom because Newsom
has said that don sense is deeply unfair, but he
allows it to go on. Well, I don't know if
somebody made a call. We'll tell you about how it
(28:28):
turned out when we come back.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
sixty three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Alex Stone will be on after Debor's news because Southwest
is charging big fat prices now for a checked bag.
They were supposed to be the cool airline, the funny airline,
the cheap airline. Thirty five bucks for a check bag
and that's just for starters. So a lot of people
unhappy with that. Alex have come on all right, so
(29:01):
early on in the show. This is something that broke
in the La Times this morning. Trump went off on
a rant on his truth social site and said that
it was a message to Gavin Newsom that if he
continues to illegally allow men to play in women's sports,
(29:23):
he is going to cut federal funding. What specific federal
funding he didn't say, but there's all kinds of funding,
billions and billions of dollars, a lot of it, A
lot of money goes to the schools. And Trump said
I will speak to him today to find out which
way he wants to go. This was triggered by a
California high school junior, a boy who won the girls'
(29:47):
long jump and triple jump. This was at a big event,
a state competition, the California Interscholastic Federation, that's the CIF
the Southern Section masters meet and eventually the winners will
go on to a state final.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
So a guy.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Won the long jump and the triple jump and the
girls were denied.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Their honors.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And there has been a big uproar, And I'm glad
people are finally fighting back against this idiocy, especially the mothers.
Where are the mothers here? How do you watch your
girls go through the struggles they go through for being
women in this world? And I'm still a male dominated
society and took them decades and decades to get the
(30:41):
right to compete in sports and have their own championships,
and now you take it away by putting men in there.
And I love how these pro transgender women think they're feminists.
I don't know what they're I think they're saying is
what they are. Well, there has been a change the
state organization that oversees state policies in sports. It's the
(31:07):
California Interscholastic Federation the CIF. They have a new entry
process to make sure that girls are not displaced from
winning a medal. The new process is going to begin
for the upcoming track and field state championships, and a
(31:30):
biological female who competes and wins but may have been
displaced by a guy, they're still going to get their
medal any biologically you realize, do you have to read this?
This is actually news. This is actually an earthshaking policy.
(31:51):
A biological female student athlete who would have earned the
medal and did not achieve the mark in their finals
are going to be awarded a medal and allowed to
move on to the next round of the championships.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
So are there two winners that are going to be
putting the record books. Now I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
They just won't be blocked out of moving up, and
they won't be blocked out of getting a medal. Oh
there now could be three first place a second, all right,
So they're going to score separately for transgender students.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
So you'll have the.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Boys competition, one winner, there, the girls competition, and then
a trans athletes competition.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
But it may not be a competition. They'll just be
scored differently.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
They'll be competing with the girls, but they will't count
towards the standings of the girls.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Right, So let's say the trans athlete finish is first
and beats out all the other girls. Whoever technically comes
in second. Is now the winner is now the actual
first place girl, right, and we'll get a first place medal. Yes, exactly,
you believe this? And then and then this is a
(33:18):
spokeshole for a Gavin Newsom. So I guess this came
from Newsom. Ah, so Trump actually shamed him. How the
hell is Newing going to run on this nonsense for president? Is?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
The Garden says the proposal is a reasonable, respectful way
to navigate a complex issue. It is not a complex issue.
You're born with a penis, you are a guy. If
you're born with a vagina, you're a woman. You can
do whatever you want privately, you could call yourself whatever
you want, but you don't get to steal metals from
(33:51):
girls in high school.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Geez.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Trump threatened to withhold large scale funding from California, and
that was specifically over this guy who beat the girls
in this track championship. It's just what a stupid, stupid
error we're in.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
If my mother could could rise out of the grave
and witness this, she'd climb back into the grave.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
She'd say, no, this isn't my time.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
What would your dad say?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
My dad would just go, oh, one syllable at a
time with my dad, Oh yeah, oh, no, good, Oh
all right. We come back Alex Stone and he's covering
this Southwest thing where they're charging lots of money. Now
to check it back, and Deborah Mark is lied in
the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
(34:52):
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