October 1, 2025 • 29 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (10/01) - Jamie Paige comes on the show to talk about the city of LA spending over $120,000/bed for homeless people in the "Inside Safe" program. More on the city of LA spending over $120,000/bed for homeless people in the "Inside Safe" program. Hybrid and electric vehicle drivers are getting kicked out of the carpool lane in California. A San Bernardino business is using cat noises to deter homeless people.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app after four o'clock. John
Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. Two o'clock hour,
we interviewed the Governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stit. You ought
to listen to that on the podcast. He's making a
pitch this week in Los Angeles to California businessmen. Oklahoma's
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getting a lot of interest from California businessmen who want
out from Gavin Newsom's onerous business policies, the high taxes,
the high regulation, the high cost of living. You know,
it costs three times as much for energy here in
California as Oklahoma, three times as much. And a lot
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of these businesses are mobile and they got wide open space.
They can build a manufacturing space real fast. And you'll
hear it from Kevin Stitt. Listen to our number two
of the podcast, the Oklahoma Governor. All right, let's move
on now to to Jamie Page. Jamie Page is a
writer for the Westside Current Westside Current dot com. We
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touched on this story yesterday. All the wasted money in
this homeless scam that Karen Bass is running costs one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year for some of
the motel beds used in the inside Safe racket. One
hundred and twenty four thousand, eight hundred and thirty dollars
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to be exact for one section of Los Angeles. And
there are a number of sections where the price of
a bed is is just ninety two, one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars. Let's get Jamie Page on to tell
us more.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Do you know how much money that would how far
that money would go in Oklahoma? By the way, one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars for one unhoused individual.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
That's that's just so shot for a bed, right, it's
a motel room.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
It's a motel room.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Motel These places are so disgusting and dilapidated. If they're
used at all, they're used by pips and prostitutes and
drug runners. How the hell is the city paying one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars for a motel bed?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Well, and if this story was about that's what it
costs all that, But also if you look into that,
that's not the sex story. To look at all these numbers.
But there's a lot cheaper. There's cheaper options out there
for us, including bridge homes or temporary camping sites that
we could be spending our money on. But these contracts
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we just get with these hotels and motels and don't
ask questions about how much we're spending or why we're
spending what we are. While you and I have talked
about in the past, we can't get things like papols
filled because we don't have money in the city.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
No, who's approving these.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Is this well, the council proved it, yes, it went
through the Homeless committee last week, and the city council
proved it yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So this just got to prove these prices that you
wrote about here, these are the latest prices approved.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It is, And you know, I just listen to your
and I think there's a few of us who are
paying attention and reporting on this, but I just feel
like there it needs to be more of a conversation
day to day. People need to be talking and asking
questions about how our money is being spent and why
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we're spending so much money on a motel room for
nunehow's individual and in some cases you and I both
know this a lot of these folks come from other places,
and then you and I as packed payers or our
readers and your listeners are the ones who are putting
the dins.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
This is what's crazy because if you if you just
like sketch out how this happens. You know, some some
drug addict gets on a bus, you know, out of
out of Texas right and makes his way to La
gets off the bus and Cara bask gives him a
hotel for one hundred and twenty thousand a year, a
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motel room. I about blah blah, and this is supposed
to go on it definitely, And we've got tens of
thousands of these people. I don't understand what kind of
what's wrong with everybody in the city government. What is
wrong with them? What are they doing.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Rubber stamping some of these things through? I say, I,
you know this is I don't know why they're not.
When we budget, you look at your budget, you see
how much money you have, and you know what you're
spending year to year, right, Like, that's what our budgeting
is for. But it feels like the city for some reason,
just thinks that money grows on trees or for certain things,
it grows on trees next week. We're working on a
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story next week's which I'm sure you'll find interesting, is
how much nonprofits have made since twenty fifteen since we
started voting for Measure Agent and HHH fund measure.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So, oh my god, you're gonna get me a stroke
with that one.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It's eye opening. I mean, we went from a deficit
homeless funding to hundreds of millions of dollars that we're
spending on and giving that profit.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So yeah, so this is what I'm wondering that one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars is that really going to
the company or the guy who runs the motel or
there's got to be kickbacks here. There's got to be
some kind of payoffs. If you have all these members
of the city council looking at that and saying one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars for a motel bed per year,
that sounds about right that there's got to be a
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payoff to them. How could there not be. That's the
only reason they would sign this off, because you're right,
there's all these other options that are much less expensive,
So why are they doing it? They have to be
profiting personally or their their their relatives or their buddies. Somehow,
somehow they are getting a cut of this. I have
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to believe it, and I know you don't know that,
but there's no other explanation.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Well, even if you look at homeless housing, there's so
many layers of soft cost in there, right, so it's
it's built in. You just have to figure you just
have to follow the money and figure out why and how.
And we do need city council members who don't rubber
stamp these through and ask the questions, why are we
paying one hundred and twenty thousand dollars for a bed?
We're never going to dig our way out of this, No,
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this is.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, this is why we haven't. We've hardly made a
dent in the homeless problem because they're blowing excessive amounts
of money after you know, shaming and manipulated people's emotions
to two big propositions, you know, the county and the
city billions of dollars in money, and one of those
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taxes just got got doubled and extended.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Indefinitely. Remember the Venice Bridge Home, by the way, we
did a report on that in twenty twenty two. The
two first years that was open we spent eight million
dollars on building it, five million dollars in operation feed
We only house thirty people through that.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
What yeah, thirty?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
These are the thirty people.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And we spent how much we spent eight.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Million dollars to build the bridge home and five million
dollars in operating costs.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Them first two years for thirty people.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
For thirty people.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Oh that is that's just corruption that a lot of
those involved politically and on the inside that that's just
absolute corruption. They must be running off with just bags
of cash. It's unbelievable. Jamie, thank you for coming on again.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Of course, good talking to you.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Jamie Page. Westside Current dot com we got more coming up.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Because we have one party in this state. You can
hear a report like Jamie Page just did from the
west Side Current. By the way, west Side Current is
this small online news site on the West Side. It
produces an incredible amount of material that we use here.
They're uncovering all the dirty stuff going on downtown. And
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like like Jamie mentioned in a report, it doesn't seem
there's many reporters interested in this stuff at all, and
it's all really gross stuff. And it's amazing that this
this stuff is publicized. And if it wasn't a one
party state, wouldn't you have the attorney general investigating all
this fraud and all this theft. I have got to believe. Look, well,
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let me finish, I've got to believe that a significant
number of city council people and their staff members and
their relatives are stealing money through all the homeless nonprofits
and through all the grant money that the city gives
out and all the payments the city makes. It's like
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if you have some kind of motel and you're given
one hundred and twenty four thousand dollars a year for
one homeless guy. I don't think the guy running the
motel demanded that much money. He probably never even asked
for it. Never in his wildest dreams would you if
you were running a motel, and again, all you're doing
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is running out rooms to pimp's, prostitutes and drug addicts.
And the city comes and says, hey, would you take
in some homeless people. We'll give you one hundred and
twenty four grand per person for the year. So if
you take what eight people in that's a million dollars.
Are you going to actually ask for a million? No,
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they offered it because part of the deal was we're
going to give you this million. But here's how much
is going to the councilman or the counselman's wife, or
the brother or the staff member and his brother and
his wife. That's got to be what's going on here?
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And you know, normally the I mean the Attorney General
Rob Bonte should be investigating you know, from twenty different angles.
The city council ought to be investigating it, except they're
approving the payments. Can you imagine they constantly approved the
payments that if it was that they should be investigating
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at just see current price today. And he's he's under indictment,
he's facing all kinds of felony charges. He's a jackass.
He used to come after us. And he fell over
on the ground during that ridiculous convention Center news conference
today having a panic attack because he realizes that, you know,
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he's maybe this time next year he's going to be
in a prison. And how many others are Three to
four of the four others have already gone to prison
from the city council or the board of supervisors. I mean,
how many criminals you have to put away before you
just assume a majority of criminals? Right, And we've got
pretty small sample size. We only have fifteen council people,
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and we're gonna have about a third of the council
people in jail or they had been in jail recently,
or they're going to jail tomorrow. It's a criminal operation.
And that's just the stuff the FBI catches, and they
have to spend years documenting their case. Well, I'm sorry,
if you vote yes on one hundred and twenty four
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thousand dollars bed for a homeless person for her kakamami
inside safe nonsense, you actually willfully do this in broad daylight.
I got to assume you're getting a cut. I don't
know what else to think. And it's not the only one.
There are many, many of these contracts. How are they
not stealing the money? Now, I'm not saying you could
prove all this, because if you're good at it, you
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don't leave behind a paper trail. You do like they
did it high speed rail. Billions of dollars a high
speed rail money disappeared and we sent in and all
everybody says, doing audit the front of audit, Well they did.
There was no paper trail. Nobody wrote down where the
money went. It didn't go from A to B. It
went from A to oblivion. Money's gone, but nobody knows
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where the money landed. Same thing with the Lawson right
two billion missing under bass. But she just ignores it.
And then she holds a press conference and she screams
about something. Now she's screaming about how we're going to
Angelino's or going to rise to the occasion we're gonna
meet the moment we're gonna get the convention Center built
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in two years. I'll stop it. You couldn't. You couldn't
build a doghouse in two years. You've never seen I've
seen such an incompeten city. They can't build anything, and
the things they do build get ruined by all the
graffiti animals and the criminals and the gangsters that run
free on their no bail policies. If they were normal,
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they'd be embarrassed by all this, they'd be guilty, they
would be very emotionally upset. They're not because they're profiting
from it. And apparently there's nobody investigating on the state level,
because you go to Sacramento, they got all their own scams, right, knew.
Some lost track of twenty four billion dollars in almost money.
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There was thirty billion dollars in unemployment money that disappeared.
There's the seventeen billion dollars in high speed rail money.
Nobody's upset the legislatures simply they said no, because they're
all stealing it. They've got to be. Every other place
I ever lived, including California, when you had a lot
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of money disappeared by the billions, they were all kinds
of investigations going on, and people were indicted and tried
and put in jail, put in prison. That's what normally happened.
Now everybody just laughs along because they're the ones stealing
the money. All right, we got more coming up.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A six.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Eight seven seven Moist eighty six. You're using talkback feature
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Cobelt Radio on social media. So join us And what
else do I want to tell you? Oh? I got
a lot of things here I want to do. I
want to start with this one because it's new. I
just found it. Never I get a question for you,
(14:50):
what is it? So they found some of Joe Biden's
note cards that they would give him when he made
public appearances, called palm cards, and you put them in
your palm so you could glance down and you know,
remember a talking point, yeah, or some information you need.
(15:11):
And among the palm cards were apparently a number of
them that were used when he was giving Hillary Clinton
the Presidential Medal of Freedom. All right, So that was
a whole ceremony, one of the highest honors a president
can be stole on someone. So what do you think
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was on the card? Her name, her picture, and her
name and what she did. It had a photo of
Clinton and a short note saying she was Secretary of
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State in the Obama Biden administration. In case he didn't remember,
in case he didn't know who he's putting the Medal
of Freedom.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Right, Well, that's better than him not knowing who she was,
or going to and putting the medal on somebody else.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I thought you were going to say someone played a
trick on him, and it said lock her up.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
He would have read.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
It to be fair, though. When I work like red
carpets and stuff. I heard all the events and stuff.
We get a sheet of paper that has a picture
and names of like all the celebs and stuff, so
we don't incidentally, like mess up and call someone the
wrong name or say who are you? Kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Yeah, but this is Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, No, I know. I'm just saying it'll be fair.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Nice try.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Oh man, all right, Today was the day that solo
drivers and electric vehicles were kicked out of the carpool lane.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Yes, were you on the top of that list?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
No, I don't have an electric vehicle. Okay, I should
be kicked out.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
You're a solo driver?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, and I'm in the carpool lane a lot, Yes,
because I don't. I don't believe in carpool lanes. I
don't that's the law. I don't accept. Everybody seems to
be rejecting the law these days.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
I just don't want to be pulled over.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I don't want to be pulled over either. But there
aren't many cops on the roads anymore.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Well, they find me.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Well, because you've got the top down on your control.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Even when I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Have you got If you got do you get nailed
a lot for tickets?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
But remember I told you I was when I got
that Moreau award.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Oh right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I was looking at my texts and uh on the
one on one freeway in the Woodland Hills area, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Right, because you said, but I got out of it.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
The hop was very nice because I explained the situation.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Don't you know who I am? Yeah, remark from CAFI
radio John.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Co Belt show. You know that show that he loves
police officers. He's raw, raw police.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
And look at this award I just got.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
I did you did?
Speaker 5 (18:13):
You showed it.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Every time Eric or I make a joke about you,
it turns out to be true.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Imagine that the cops said, I don't care, here's your ticket.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
He said, Oh, I actually tried to sell your reward
there to him, as I just told him.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I was very excited that I just found out that
I won. Not not when I actually got it.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Did you give an acceptance speech to him too?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
And I did not.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
I needed to get to work, John, so I can
be on the air. I had to get out of
there in a timely fashion.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Anyway, solo drivers, it was part of this uh you know,
green energy electric car hysteria that we all ought to
live through and now they're kicked out. They can't use it,
and you won't get ticketed because hardly anybody gets ticketed.
And I'm going to keep driving in the carpoolanes. Of
course you are well, because it just jams up traffic.
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Carpoolinges jam up traffic. Now that's fine.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
You do you and you do that, and I agree.
I'm just not going to be the one because I
don't want to take the chance of getting a ticket.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
You ever heard of Joan Didion, famous author, Yes, she wrote.
I had one of her books and it was actually
a collection of essays, and she did one essay she
wrote back in the nineteen seventies at the beginning of
what they used to call the HOV lanes high occupancy
vehicle it's carpoolines. And she actually investigated the background of
this and went to Coltrans and interviewed people there and
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they admitted, and this is fifty years ago she wrote this,
They admitted that they were trying to control people's behavior.
They were trying to change the way people live and
force people to drive together in groups. And fifty years
nobody's followed that enticement. We effect the only time I'm
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legally in there is if I'm with my wife or
you know, family members. It's only families who get into
carpool lanes. Nobody carpools to work. It's kind of embarrassing.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Why is it embarrassing?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Embarrassing? Okay, here's a yeah, here's Fred. Yeah, he works
in the cubiclea next door to me, and you know,
we pick each other up every morning. That's it's weird
and creepy.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Sometimes people don't like to be alone.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
And saves on gas because the gas prices are so ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
How many coworkers here would you like to be stuck
with in the carpool lane every day?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Maybe just a couple. The list is very short.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You know, the California has
a thousand, one hundred and seventy one carpool lane miles
and the uh they think, now, maybe if the electric
vehicles are forced out of the carpool lanes, it's going
to increase the traffic in the regular lanes. But I'm
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telling you go on you go on the ten Freeway
East where they have two carpool lanes express lanes that
they charge money for. They've got a toll on them.
Very few, very few people take them. In the times
I've driven on that freeway, four lanes all jammed, two
lanes nobody. And I'm looking at this, It's like, Okay,
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who got this payoff? Who got this bribe to install
the fast track system? And who's the madiac at Coltrans
who tried to change the behavior of hundreds of thousands
of people every day and completely failed. Literally, nobody's using it.
I don't understand why people put up with this stuff.
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One more thing. You know that they're going to redraw
the district lines. Yes, well, the Secretary of State sent
out congressional maps. Uh you know this. This special election
is costing two hundred and eighty four million dollars. Last
I saw it was two fifty Now it's two hundred
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and eighty four million. And they sent out the congressional
district map as part of the voter guide. They got
the map wrong. I heard that they got the map wrong.
They had one draw One job is to draw the
lines properly for these new congressional districts so that we
only have Democrats representing us in Congress. This is Newsome's
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big scam. And of course they want to confuse people.
So in order to confuse people, they make a mistake
and send out a bad map.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Are they going to send out a good map?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yes, spending even more money. I was going to say,
and the La Times this is how they subtly downplay it. Uh,
California mailed inaccurate voter gods. Inaccurate. That's about as mild
a word as You're going to get a correction postcard
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now sent with the correct map on it. And the
Secretary of State Shirley Weber, Yeah, she's doing great. Another
good voting choice there. Accuracy and voter information is essential
to maintaining public trust in California's elections. I have no
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trust in California's elections. As long as you have ballot
harvesting where people are going door to door in nursing
homes and illegal alien neighborhoods with ballots that are pre
filled out, there is no trust in the elections. All Right,
we come back, Sam Bernardino. One of the dirtiest cities
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in the country, that's a fact Number one in the
last survey. Also has an enormous number of homeless people.
It is, so I've got to drive through San Bernino
briefly on the way to Lake Arrowhead, and I hate it,
and I in fact, my wife and I just drove
a couple of weekends ago up to Lake Arrowhead and
I said, don't stop at the light, like, just go
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through the light. And she said, well, we need gas.
You want to get gas? Here I go. No. We
never stop at gas stations in San Bernardino. You just
don't do it because there's all sorts of people writhing
and dying, laying on the laying on the ground in
front of the gas pumps. I'm telling the truth. I
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hear you.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I don't drive.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
I don't drive through Sandburg.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Don't do that. Well, there's so many homeless people at
a shopping center that officials are now I guess it's
shopping center officials. They are using cat sounds to chase
the homeless away.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Oh yeah, Amy King actually did that story.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Yeah yeah, Well we got we got a we got
a version of a story to play for you and
talk more about this cat sounds actually getting the homeless
out of there so people could shop in piece. They're
gonna play irritating cat noises. That's next.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
There are so many drug addicts and mental patients laying
around a shopping center in San Bernardino, the nobody knows
what to do. So now the owners of the shopping
center are are using recordings of cat noise to chase
them away. Here is Fox eleven reporter Matthew Seedorf.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
A bold new homeless de turrent in this San Bernardino
shopping center, a meal mix of fighting in hissing cats
played on repeat all night long.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
There's a lot of people that come to drive through Wendy's.
They think that it's like a shelter and they're like
torturing cats, and.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
We got to tell them, like no, it's like that's
just got the homeless disturbing.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
Shopping center has a known problem with campers posting signs
for urging people to not give the homeless money. Then
a night, the homeless wander and the cats come out.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
It does help, and especially because we would have them
all here with the shopping carts, so it just it
doesn't let you sleep, that's the main thing.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
And for extra measure, if you get too close to
the property, they have these sensors. Has an alarm and
tells you you're on private property and to move.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
It gets loud.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
The homeless at this point I've gotten used to.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
It's something I really shouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Used to, though, but it's uh, it's it's an unspoken epidemic.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
In nearby Los Angeles, businesses have also turned to sound warfare,
even using annoyingly catching music to deter the homeless.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
But this San.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
Bernardino shopping center is trying a new way to call.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
One hiss out of time. What does it sound like,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Like dying cats.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
So a lot of people say they torturing cats, and
anything that I've taught them know is just to scare
off people.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
The workers out here say that this goes on from
closing time around ten o'clock all the way until six am, and.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
It is very loud. That might be the most ridiculous,
absurd story I've ever heard in my life. This is
what they do in San Bernardino. That's at the Sterling
Plaza shopping center. So that they have these loud buzzards,
they have cats squealing and screaming. I thought it was
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the homeless people at first, but those were That was
the set of the recorded cats So you got screaming cats,
you got gongs and buzzards, you got drug addicts and
mental patients splattered all over the pavement. And one of
the residents there goes, well, I've kind of gotten used
to it. What's wrong with you? What mean you got
(28:02):
used to it? And I looked up who the mayor
of San Bernardino is, Helen Tran. So it's a cool
for Helen Tran is cool with having news stories about
a shopping center with screaming cats and buzzers and gongs
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and homeless people. They're not homeless and drug addicts and
mental patients.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
But I'm looking it up, and you know how she's
advertised the first Asian American mayor in San Bernardino. That's
that's all that matters in progressive circles. Are you the
first in some ethnic category? Not? Can you get the
freaking mental patients and drug addicts out of a shopping center?
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Are there residents that live near there? It's an outdoor
in asylum. It's quieter in an insane asylum. We got
to do more in that one. H All right, what's next?
Tim Conway, He's next? All right? And our podcast is
on sometime after four o'clock it gets posted. We got
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an interview with the governor of Oklahoma who is successfully
getting California businesses to come to Oklahoma, so you want
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we interviewed the Governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stit. You ought
to listen to that on the podcast. He's making a
pitch this week in Los Angeles to California businessmen. Oklahoma's
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getting a lot of interest from California businessmen who want
out from Gavin Newsom's onerous business policies, the high taxes,
the high regulation, the high cost of living. You know,
it costs three times as much for energy here in
California as Oklahoma, three times as much. And a lot
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of these businesses are mobile and they got wide open space.
They can build a manufacturing space real fast. And you'll
hear it from Kevin Stitt. Listen to our number two
of the podcast, the Oklahoma Governor. All right, let's move
on now to to Jamie Page. Jamie Page is a
writer for the Westside Current Westside Current dot com. We
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touched on this story yesterday. All the wasted money in
this homeless scam that Karen Bass is running costs one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year for some of
the motel beds used in the inside Safe racket. One
hundred and twenty four thousand, eight hundred and thirty dollars
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to be exact for one section of Los Angeles. And
there are a number of sections where the price of
a bed is is just ninety two, one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars. Let's get Jamie Page on to tell
us more.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Do you know how much money that would how far
that money would go in Oklahoma? By the way, one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars for one unhoused individual.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
That's that's just so shot for a bed, right, it's
a motel room.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
It's a motel room.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Motel These places are so disgusting and dilapidated. If they're
used at all, they're used by pips and prostitutes and
drug runners. How the hell is the city paying one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars for a motel bed?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Well, and if this story was about that's what it
costs all that, But also if you look into that,
that's not the sex story. To look at all these numbers.
But there's a lot cheaper. There's cheaper options out there
for us, including bridge homes or temporary camping sites that
we could be spending our money on. But these contracts
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we just get with these hotels and motels and don't
ask questions about how much we're spending or why we're
spending what we are. While you and I have talked
about in the past, we can't get things like papols
filled because we don't have money in the city.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
No, who's approving these.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Is this well, the council proved it, yes, it went
through the Homeless committee last week, and the city council
proved it yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So this just got to prove these prices that you
wrote about here, these are the latest prices approved.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It is, And you know, I just listen to your
and I think there's a few of us who are
paying attention and reporting on this, but I just feel
like there it needs to be more of a conversation
day to day. People need to be talking and asking
questions about how our money is being spent and why
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we're spending so much money on a motel room for
nunehow's individual and in some cases you and I both
know this a lot of these folks come from other places,
and then you and I as packed payers or our
readers and your listeners are the ones who are putting
the dins.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
This is what's crazy because if you if you just
like sketch out how this happens. You know, some some
drug addict gets on a bus, you know, out of
out of Texas right and makes his way to La
gets off the bus and Cara bask gives him a
hotel for one hundred and twenty thousand a year, a
(04:08):
motel room. I about blah blah, and this is supposed
to go on it definitely, And we've got tens of
thousands of these people. I don't understand what kind of
what's wrong with everybody in the city government. What is
wrong with them? What are they doing.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Rubber stamping some of these things through? I say, I,
you know this is I don't know why they're not.
When we budget, you look at your budget, you see
how much money you have, and you know what you're
spending year to year, right, Like, that's what our budgeting
is for. But it feels like the city for some reason,
just thinks that money grows on trees or for certain things,
it grows on trees next week. We're working on a
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story next week's which I'm sure you'll find interesting, is
how much nonprofits have made since twenty fifteen since we
started voting for Measure Agent and HHH fund measure.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So, oh my god, you're gonna get me a stroke
with that one.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It's eye opening. I mean, we went from a deficit
homeless funding to hundreds of millions of dollars that we're
spending on and giving that profit.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So yeah, so this is what I'm wondering that one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars is that really going to
the company or the guy who runs the motel or
there's got to be kickbacks here. There's got to be
some kind of payoffs. If you have all these members
of the city council looking at that and saying one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars for a motel bed per year,
that sounds about right that there's got to be a
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payoff to them. How could there not be. That's the
only reason they would sign this off, because you're right,
there's all these other options that are much less expensive,
So why are they doing it? They have to be
profiting personally or their their their relatives or their buddies. Somehow,
somehow they are getting a cut of this. I have
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to believe it, and I know you don't know that,
but there's no other explanation.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Well, even if you look at homeless housing, there's so
many layers of soft cost in there, right, so it's
it's built in. You just have to figure you just
have to follow the money and figure out why and how.
And we do need city council members who don't rubber
stamp these through and ask the questions, why are we
paying one hundred and twenty thousand dollars for a bed?
We're never going to dig our way out of this, No,
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this is.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, this is why we haven't. We've hardly made a
dent in the homeless problem because they're blowing excessive amounts
of money after you know, shaming and manipulated people's emotions
to two big propositions, you know, the county and the
city billions of dollars in money, and one of those
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taxes just got got doubled and extended.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Indefinitely. Remember the Venice Bridge Home, by the way, we
did a report on that in twenty twenty two. The
two first years that was open we spent eight million
dollars on building it, five million dollars in operation feed
We only house thirty people through that.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
What yeah, thirty?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
These are the thirty people.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And we spent how much we spent eight.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Million dollars to build the bridge home and five million
dollars in operating costs.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Them first two years for thirty people.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
For thirty people.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Oh that is that's just corruption that a lot of
those involved politically and on the inside that that's just
absolute corruption. They must be running off with just bags
of cash. It's unbelievable. Jamie, thank you for coming on again.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Of course, good talking to you.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Jamie Page. Westside Current dot com we got more coming up.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Because we have one party in this state. You can
hear a report like Jamie Page just did from the
west Side Current. By the way, west Side Current is
this small online news site on the West Side. It
produces an incredible amount of material that we use here.
They're uncovering all the dirty stuff going on downtown. And
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like like Jamie mentioned in a report, it doesn't seem
there's many reporters interested in this stuff at all, and
it's all really gross stuff. And it's amazing that this
this stuff is publicized. And if it wasn't a one
party state, wouldn't you have the attorney general investigating all
this fraud and all this theft. I have got to believe. Look, well,
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let me finish, I've got to believe that a significant
number of city council people and their staff members and
their relatives are stealing money through all the homeless nonprofits
and through all the grant money that the city gives
out and all the payments the city makes. It's like
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if you have some kind of motel and you're given
one hundred and twenty four thousand dollars a year for
one homeless guy. I don't think the guy running the
motel demanded that much money. He probably never even asked
for it. Never in his wildest dreams would you if
you were running a motel, and again, all you're doing
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is running out rooms to pimp's, prostitutes and drug addicts.
And the city comes and says, hey, would you take
in some homeless people. We'll give you one hundred and
twenty four grand per person for the year. So if
you take what eight people in that's a million dollars.
Are you going to actually ask for a million? No,
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they offered it because part of the deal was we're
going to give you this million. But here's how much
is going to the councilman or the counselman's wife, or
the brother or the staff member and his brother and
his wife. That's got to be what's going on here?
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And you know, normally the I mean the Attorney General
Rob Bonte should be investigating you know, from twenty different angles.
The city council ought to be investigating it, except they're
approving the payments. Can you imagine they constantly approved the
payments that if it was that they should be investigating
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at just see current price today. And he's he's under indictment,
he's facing all kinds of felony charges. He's a jackass.
He used to come after us. And he fell over
on the ground during that ridiculous convention Center news conference
today having a panic attack because he realizes that, you know,
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he's maybe this time next year he's going to be
in a prison. And how many others are Three to
four of the four others have already gone to prison
from the city council or the board of supervisors. I mean,
how many criminals you have to put away before you
just assume a majority of criminals? Right, And we've got
pretty small sample size. We only have fifteen council people,
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and we're gonna have about a third of the council
people in jail or they had been in jail recently,
or they're going to jail tomorrow. It's a criminal operation.
And that's just the stuff the FBI catches, and they
have to spend years documenting their case. Well, I'm sorry,
if you vote yes on one hundred and twenty four
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thousand dollars bed for a homeless person for her kakamami
inside safe nonsense, you actually willfully do this in broad daylight.
I got to assume you're getting a cut. I don't
know what else to think. And it's not the only one.
There are many, many of these contracts. How are they
not stealing the money? Now, I'm not saying you could
prove all this, because if you're good at it, you
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don't leave behind a paper trail. You do like they
did it high speed rail. Billions of dollars a high
speed rail money disappeared and we sent in and all
everybody says, doing audit the front of audit, Well they did.
There was no paper trail. Nobody wrote down where the
money went. It didn't go from A to B. It
went from A to oblivion. Money's gone, but nobody knows
(12:29):
where the money landed. Same thing with the Lawson right
two billion missing under bass. But she just ignores it.
And then she holds a press conference and she screams
about something. Now she's screaming about how we're going to
Angelino's or going to rise to the occasion we're gonna
meet the moment we're gonna get the convention Center built
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in two years. I'll stop it. You couldn't. You couldn't
build a doghouse in two years. You've never seen I've
seen such an incompeten city. They can't build anything, and
the things they do build get ruined by all the
graffiti animals and the criminals and the gangsters that run
free on their no bail policies. If they were normal,
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they'd be embarrassed by all this, they'd be guilty, they
would be very emotionally upset. They're not because they're profiting
from it. And apparently there's nobody investigating on the state level,
because you go to Sacramento, they got all their own scams, right, knew.
Some lost track of twenty four billion dollars in almost money.
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There was thirty billion dollars in unemployment money that disappeared.
There's the seventeen billion dollars in high speed rail money.
Nobody's upset the legislatures simply they said no, because they're
all stealing it. They've got to be. Every other place
I ever lived, including California, when you had a lot
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of money disappeared by the billions, they were all kinds
of investigations going on, and people were indicted and tried
and put in jail, put in prison. That's what normally happened.
Now everybody just laughs along because they're the ones stealing
the money. All right, we got more coming up.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A six.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Eight seven seven Moist eighty six. You're using talkback feature
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Cobelt Radio on social media. So join us And what
else do I want to tell you? Oh? I got
a lot of things here I want to do. I
want to start with this one because it's new. I
just found it. Never I get a question for you,
(14:50):
what is it? So they found some of Joe Biden's
note cards that they would give him when he made
public appearances, called palm cards, and you put them in
your palm so you could glance down and you know,
remember a talking point, yeah, or some information you need.
(15:11):
And among the palm cards were apparently a number of
them that were used when he was giving Hillary Clinton
the Presidential Medal of Freedom. All right, So that was
a whole ceremony, one of the highest honors a president
can be stole on someone. So what do you think
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was on the card? Her name, her picture, and her
name and what she did. It had a photo of
Clinton and a short note saying she was Secretary of
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State in the Obama Biden administration. In case he didn't remember,
in case he didn't know who he's putting the Medal
of Freedom.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Right, Well, that's better than him not knowing who she was,
or going to and putting the medal on somebody else.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I thought you were going to say someone played a
trick on him, and it said lock her up.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
He would have read.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
It to be fair, though. When I work like red
carpets and stuff. I heard all the events and stuff.
We get a sheet of paper that has a picture
and names of like all the celebs and stuff, so
we don't incidentally, like mess up and call someone the
wrong name or say who are you? Kind of thing.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Yeah, but this is Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, No, I know. I'm just saying it'll be fair.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Nice try.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Oh man, all right, Today was the day that solo
drivers and electric vehicles were kicked out of the carpool lane.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Yes, were you on the top of that list?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
No, I don't have an electric vehicle. Okay, I should
be kicked out.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
You're a solo driver?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, and I'm in the carpool lane a lot, Yes,
because I don't. I don't believe in carpool lanes. I
don't that's the law. I don't accept. Everybody seems to
be rejecting the law these days.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
I just don't want to be pulled over.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I don't want to be pulled over either. But there
aren't many cops on the roads anymore.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Well, they find me.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Well, because you've got the top down on your control.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Even when I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Have you got If you got do you get nailed
a lot for tickets?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
But remember I told you I was when I got
that Moreau award.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Oh right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I was looking at my texts and uh on the
one on one freeway in the Woodland Hills area, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Right, because you said, but I got out of it.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
The hop was very nice because I explained the situation.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Don't you know who I am? Yeah, remark from CAFI
radio John.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Co Belt show. You know that show that he loves
police officers. He's raw, raw police.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
And look at this award I just got.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
I did you did?
Speaker 5 (18:13):
You showed it.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Every time Eric or I make a joke about you,
it turns out to be true.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Imagine that the cops said, I don't care, here's your ticket.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
He said, Oh, I actually tried to sell your reward
there to him, as I just told him.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
I was very excited that I just found out that
I won. Not not when I actually got it.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Did you give an acceptance speech to him too?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
And I did not.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
I needed to get to work, John, so I can
be on the air. I had to get out of
there in a timely fashion.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Anyway, solo drivers, it was part of this uh you know,
green energy electric car hysteria that we all ought to
live through and now they're kicked out. They can't use it,
and you won't get ticketed because hardly anybody gets ticketed.
And I'm going to keep driving in the carpoolanes. Of
course you are well, because it just jams up traffic.
(19:13):
Carpoolinges jam up traffic. Now that's fine.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
You do you and you do that, and I agree.
I'm just not going to be the one because I
don't want to take the chance of getting a ticket.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
You ever heard of Joan Didion, famous author, Yes, she wrote.
I had one of her books and it was actually
a collection of essays, and she did one essay she
wrote back in the nineteen seventies at the beginning of
what they used to call the HOV lanes high occupancy
vehicle it's carpoolines. And she actually investigated the background of
this and went to Coltrans and interviewed people there and
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they admitted, and this is fifty years ago she wrote this,
They admitted that they were trying to control people's behavior.
They were trying to change the way people live and
force people to drive together in groups. And fifty years
nobody's followed that enticement. We effect the only time I'm
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legally in there is if I'm with my wife or
you know, family members. It's only families who get into
carpool lanes. Nobody carpools to work. It's kind of embarrassing.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Why is it embarrassing?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Embarrassing? Okay, here's a yeah, here's Fred. Yeah, he works
in the cubiclea next door to me, and you know,
we pick each other up every morning. That's it's weird
and creepy.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Sometimes people don't like to be alone.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
And saves on gas because the gas prices are so ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
How many coworkers here would you like to be stuck
with in the carpool lane every day?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Maybe just a couple. The list is very short.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You know, the California has
a thousand, one hundred and seventy one carpool lane miles
and the uh they think, now, maybe if the electric
vehicles are forced out of the carpool lanes, it's going
to increase the traffic in the regular lanes. But I'm
(21:08):
telling you go on you go on the ten Freeway
East where they have two carpool lanes express lanes that
they charge money for. They've got a toll on them.
Very few, very few people take them. In the times
I've driven on that freeway, four lanes all jammed, two
lanes nobody. And I'm looking at this, It's like, Okay,
(21:29):
who got this payoff? Who got this bribe to install
the fast track system? And who's the madiac at Coltrans
who tried to change the behavior of hundreds of thousands
of people every day and completely failed. Literally, nobody's using it.
I don't understand why people put up with this stuff.
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One more thing. You know that they're going to redraw
the district lines. Yes, well, the Secretary of State sent
out congressional maps. Uh you know this. This special election
is costing two hundred and eighty four million dollars. Last
I saw it was two fifty Now it's two hundred
(22:10):
and eighty four million. And they sent out the congressional
district map as part of the voter guide. They got
the map wrong. I heard that they got the map wrong.
They had one draw One job is to draw the
lines properly for these new congressional districts so that we
only have Democrats representing us in Congress. This is Newsome's
(22:33):
big scam. And of course they want to confuse people.
So in order to confuse people, they make a mistake
and send out a bad map.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Are they going to send out a good map?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yes, spending even more money. I was going to say,
and the La Times this is how they subtly downplay it. Uh,
California mailed inaccurate voter gods. Inaccurate. That's about as mild
a word as You're going to get a correction postcard
(23:09):
now sent with the correct map on it. And the
Secretary of State Shirley Weber, Yeah, she's doing great. Another
good voting choice there. Accuracy and voter information is essential
to maintaining public trust in California's elections. I have no
(23:31):
trust in California's elections. As long as you have ballot
harvesting where people are going door to door in nursing
homes and illegal alien neighborhoods with ballots that are pre
filled out, there is no trust in the elections. All Right,
we come back, Sam Bernardino. One of the dirtiest cities
(23:51):
in the country, that's a fact Number one in the
last survey. Also has an enormous number of homeless people.
It is, so I've got to drive through San Bernino
briefly on the way to Lake Arrowhead, and I hate it,
and I in fact, my wife and I just drove
a couple of weekends ago up to Lake Arrowhead and
I said, don't stop at the light, like, just go
(24:14):
through the light. And she said, well, we need gas.
You want to get gas? Here I go. No. We
never stop at gas stations in San Bernardino. You just
don't do it because there's all sorts of people writhing
and dying, laying on the laying on the ground in
front of the gas pumps. I'm telling the truth. I
(24:35):
hear you.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I don't drive.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
I don't drive through Sandburg.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Don't do that. Well, there's so many homeless people at
a shopping center that officials are now I guess it's
shopping center officials. They are using cat sounds to chase
the homeless away.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Oh yeah, Amy King actually did that story.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Yeah yeah, Well we got we got a we got
a version of a story to play for you and
talk more about this cat sounds actually getting the homeless
out of there so people could shop in piece. They're
gonna play irritating cat noises. That's next.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
There are so many drug addicts and mental patients laying
around a shopping center in San Bernardino, the nobody knows
what to do. So now the owners of the shopping
center are are using recordings of cat noise to chase
them away. Here is Fox eleven reporter Matthew Seedorf.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
A bold new homeless de turrent in this San Bernardino
shopping center, a meal mix of fighting in hissing cats
played on repeat all night long.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
There's a lot of people that come to drive through Wendy's.
They think that it's like a shelter and they're like
torturing cats, and.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
We got to tell them, like no, it's like that's
just got the homeless disturbing.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
Shopping center has a known problem with campers posting signs
for urging people to not give the homeless money. Then
a night, the homeless wander and the cats come out.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
It does help, and especially because we would have them
all here with the shopping carts, so it just it
doesn't let you sleep, that's the main thing.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
And for extra measure, if you get too close to
the property, they have these sensors. Has an alarm and
tells you you're on private property and to move.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
It gets loud.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
The homeless at this point I've gotten used to.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
It's something I really shouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Used to, though, but it's uh, it's it's an unspoken epidemic.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
In nearby Los Angeles, businesses have also turned to sound warfare,
even using annoyingly catching music to deter the homeless.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
But this San.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
Bernardino shopping center is trying a new way to call.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
One hiss out of time. What does it sound like,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Like dying cats.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
So a lot of people say they torturing cats, and
anything that I've taught them know is just to scare
off people.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
The workers out here say that this goes on from
closing time around ten o'clock all the way until six am, and.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
It is very loud. That might be the most ridiculous,
absurd story I've ever heard in my life. This is
what they do in San Bernardino. That's at the Sterling
Plaza shopping center. So that they have these loud buzzards,
they have cats squealing and screaming. I thought it was
(27:42):
the homeless people at first, but those were That was
the set of the recorded cats So you got screaming cats,
you got gongs and buzzards, you got drug addicts and
mental patients splattered all over the pavement. And one of
the residents there goes, well, I've kind of gotten used
to it. What's wrong with you? What mean you got
(28:02):
used to it? And I looked up who the mayor
of San Bernardino is, Helen Tran. So it's a cool
for Helen Tran is cool with having news stories about
a shopping center with screaming cats and buzzers and gongs
(28:25):
and homeless people. They're not homeless and drug addicts and
mental patients.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
But I'm looking it up, and you know how she's
advertised the first Asian American mayor in San Bernardino. That's
that's all that matters in progressive circles. Are you the
first in some ethnic category? Not? Can you get the
freaking mental patients and drug addicts out of a shopping center?
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Are there residents that live near there? It's an outdoor
in asylum. It's quieter in an insane asylum. We got
to do more in that one. H All right, what's next?
Tim Conway, He's next? All right? And our podcast is
on sometime after four o'clock it gets posted. We got
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getting California businesses to come to Oklahoma, so you want
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