June 19, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (06/19) - Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about the ICE activity near Dodger Stadium today. ICE is expanding detention facilities in California. Pres. Trump took another shot at Gov. Newsom over high speed rail today. A lot of people are using AI to find their news.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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to whatever you missed. Well, today's such an exciting day.
This supposed to be another special birthday gift I got.
Michael Monks is here from KFI News covering the never
(00:24):
ending immigration beat.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I was told I was here to sing for you.
I didn't realize we were doing any reporting today.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You could sing your report if you want. That'd be fine,
not if we want to keep the ratings.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's another day of immigration.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
You really don't expect a kind of day where the
federal government is responding to a tweet from the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
But that's where we are in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Today, and there in dispute the Dodgers and the Department
of Homeland Security.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, what is this about?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Okay, So this started off as a pretty busy morning.
We sold a couple of immigrations what looked like immigration raids.
I try to be careful using that word because I
don't know what exact act the operation is, but there was,
so I tend to lean on the word activity. We
certainly saw ICE at a home depost store on Sunset
Boulevard in Hollywood. The reports from witnesses indicate several people
were detained, some set up the twenty people were taking
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We're talking day labors in the parking lot, food vendors
on the sidewalk nearby who were caught up in this thing.
In Pacoima, outside of a Lows, we saw some ICE
activity there. The LAPD ended up having to respond to
that because demonstrators showed up pretty quickly, and I don't
know if the if there was any interference with ICE's
departure from that parking lot, but LAPD showed up to
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help clear the crowd out. Moments after that, reports started
to surface online that Ice was spotted near Dodger Stadium,
and the initial reaction from some activists who are against
the immigration enforcement was that the Dodgers are colluding with
the Department of Homeland Security and allowing ICE to stage there.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Nice hysterical reaction.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
So the demonstrators then showed up at Dodger Stadium out
there side Gate E, and that's what led us to
this dispute.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So again a bunch of demonstrators show up.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
The LAPD has to show up to stand between the
demonstrators and the ICE agents who have been confirmed to
have been there. But then the Dodgers put out a
statement later in the morning and they said, look, ICE
agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access
the parking lots. They were denied entry to the grounds
by the organization. Tonight's game will be played as scheduled,
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And then quote tweeted by the Department of Homeland Security,
which says this had nothing to do with the Dodgers.
CBP Border Patrol vehicles were in the stadium parking lot
very briefly, unrelated to any operation or enforcement. So the
Dodgers claim they were asked like somebody from Yeah, like
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Christy Noan got them on the phone or something and
it said, yeah, you might be parking for.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
A staging area, yeah, to round up illegal aliens. And
Homeland Security is saying no such thing. We briefly parked
there to take a nap, to have a donut. I mean,
what the why would they park at Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You mentioned something I think just before the break about
how quickly demonstrators show up to some of these events.
So today's shows two things. One that's obviously correct. The demonstrators,
the organizers, the protesters in LA do have a rapid
response network. They get the word out quickly and people
show they showed up in Hollywood, they showed up in Pacoima,
and they showed up in Dodger Stadium. Conversely, DHS, the
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Department of Homeland Security, has been very active on social
media because there are tons of immigration enforcement stories all
across the country. Some of them are just a general
look a certain store was raided, or an operation was rated,
a workplace was raided. But there are also some that
have maybe a sappier tone to them. So and so
pregnant mom or grandmother or this and that. There's always
a pregnant mom.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
There's never a mom absconded who's not pregnant. Every mother
that Department Homeland Security is deported, they've all been pregnant.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I don't know how that happens. America is a romantic place.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Apparently, you know, reproduction quickly, absolutely so DHS is very
quick at responding to a lot of those headlines saying,
you know, Let's say a beloved grandfather was arrested and
then they come out with it this is not an
actual one, but while it turns out he murdered a
small village outside of Caracas in nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
They're very fast at their response too, so you've got
rapid response going right on both ways.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, are any grandfathers who get deported not beloved? I
noticed that almost everybody deported if they're not pregnant, they're beloved.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
My grandfather was a mean old snake from World War
Two who would drink Yellowstone right out of the bottle
like it was a glass of water.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
And I loved him anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And he wasn't deported, was he No, No, not at all.
So it's just swirling misinformation and denial.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
These things happen fast. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Obviously ICE doesn't tell anybody when they're about to show up,
and because of that, you've got the heightened tension, the
fears in the community. You have activists who are ready
to respond, and you have the government that is also
ready to respond. So there are a lot of messages
that are going out and somehow we here who are
just supposed to convey information have to piece all of
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that together to let people know what's really happening. But
it's a rapid fire information system right now.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And we're still in the very early days of this.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
We got three and a half years, at least three
and a half ye Trump, if you take home and at
his word, I mean, they're going to go after everybody eventually,
and supposedly in La County there's almost a million illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So there's just literally going to be thousands and thousands
of these operations going on.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
If you're going to hit what has been the reported
goal of the administration three thousand illegal immigrants arrested each day,
you're going to be very busy. And it does indicate
the volume of people that they suspect are here illegally.
But this is one of those places in America where
there is that high volume. So that's probably why you're
seeing the concentration.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
You go to North Dakota, there's maybe five Canadians, I mean,
and their loss at what point, I mean, the these
resistance groups just exhaust themselves because you're going to go
out and scream in the hot sun every single day
for the you know the rest of the decade.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I you know, la is a.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I've been here two years, right and covering the government.
You see these activist groups on this or that issue.
They're highly motivated, and they're allowed and organized. They're very organized.
And this isn't necessarily general protesters who might feel something
for the first time in their lives. I won't go
out and take a stand. These are people who know
how to engage law enforcement. They know what tactics will
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be used against them, they know how to reverse some
of those tactics.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And because they also move from issue to issue, you know,
it could be racism one day, it could be like
Elon Musk, it could be a climate change, it could
be the Palestinian cause. Now it's it's the deportations. And
I suspect in a lot of cases it's the same
people and they just get you know, they're talking points
and they're rhymes that they have to shout. E.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
There's so many flags they're holding. They look like a
walking United Nations building. It's really hard to figure out
what they really believe. But I think this is my
observation editorializing a bit here. I think at the core
of this, yeah, a lot for a lot of them
is an antagonism towards law enforcement that kind of dates
back five years ago when the protests really hyped up
with these these sentiments against police, and some of those
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sentiments are obviously justified for you know, behaviors that Look,
this police department pays millions in lawsuits every year for
behavior that they've engaged in.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That's indisputable.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
That the police department is found guilty or settles because
of wrongdoing.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Casts a tremendous amount of money, exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
But beyond that, I mean, further than that, there's something
deep rooted I think in a lot of people against policing,
and so that's why they're always anxious.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
So whatever laws are being enforced, this crowd is against
law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Well, whether the laws being enforced, just the general presence
of law enforcement, I think is what they're ready to
get dirty with.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
That's an interesting way to spend your life. That's just
an observation, not a fact. I'm reporting. My job is
to draw you into the swamp. I'm here swimming with
you every day.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
All right, Thank you, Mike, my pleasure, Happy birthday, all right,
thank you.
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Trump gave another another short dig at California, reiterating that
he is not funding high speed rail.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
We'll talk about that now. Ice. You know this is funny.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's been kind of an ongoing theme through all these
ICE stories today is how flaccid and impotent the resistance
really has been, even with the King of Impotence, Gavin
Newsom trying to inspire everybody to revolt. ICE is expanding
detention capacity in California, and in fact, they have a
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contract now to create the largest detention facility of illegal
aliens in the state. They are ICE is contracting out
with Courcivic. They're a private prison and detention company and
they're going to convert a twenty five hundred bed in California,
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a twenty five hundred bed facility in califor Ffornia City
into the state's newest and largest migrant detention center. The
company got funding of ten million dollars and they'll get
up to thirty one million for six months and eventually
(10:16):
it'll lead to a long term agreement. Now, Gavin Newsom
signed a bill in twenty nineteen that banned the use
of private prisons and immigration detention facilities. Then a company
and the Trump administration sued California and one Newsome lost
(10:40):
a federal court founded as unconstitutional as it applied to
federal private detention centers. In other words, California could not
ban federal detention contracts and detention centers. See, we don't
have that many detention beds in the state. We have
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that we have funding for forty one thousand. Ice has
funding across the nation, and they're going to go from
forty one thousand to one hundred thousand around the country.
Now California has only thirty two hundred beds. You imagine
we have a huge percentage of the illegal aliens and
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we have a small number of detention beds. Texas, for example,
has over twelve thousand. So Texas is over twelve thousand,
We have a little over three thousand. Louisiana has over
seven thousand. So this new California city facility cour Civic
is going to be a big deal and they're not
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going to let news get in the way. This is
this is what's really amusing. It's like while you had
thousands of people standing in the sun shouting nonsense and
abusing horses, not to mention the three guys who lost
their testicle, finger and I respectively. Right, that's what you
(12:08):
Some guy gave up his eye, another guy gives up
his testicles, third guy loses a finger, and then two
days later Ice is opening up a twenty five hundred
detention center for illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
You guys are having no effect, I mean none.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And one guy has almost literally made himself into impotent.
He's not only politically impotent, he's actually impotent. Maybe the
other testicle could pick up the slack. I don't know
exactly how that works. And so Newsom filed the big
lawsuit and he lost the big lawsuit. That's why don't
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pay attention to Newsom and bodto when they stand in
front of their podium and they start going on their tire.
By the way, you're not much money they put aside.
You know, you know how badly we're in debt here
in California, we're in devasit. They put aside fifty million
dollars just to sue Trump. What a huge waste of money. Huh,
What an enormous freaking waste of money. Yeah, that's what
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I'm going to work for. I can't stand looking at
how much state taxes are taken out of my check
every two weeks makes me crazy. And then I see them,
Oh it's for another pointless lawsuit. Excellent, good work you
have buffoon. Oh it's thirty five billion a year for
legal aliens. Yeah, that's why I go to work. That's
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best use of money. This is absolutely nuts. And when
we come back, because this is never going to end,
Trump is coming out and repeating, They keep repeating the
same thing, and Newsome is not getting it. Homan made
it clear they're going to keep arresting people, raiding businesses,
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detaining them, deporting them. That that machine is going to
rumble on. You could throw your testicles at them. It
doesn't matter. Trump is making it clear, I don't care
how many times you ask, You're not getting any more
high speed rail money, no federal tax money for that loser.
So it's almost like there's been a coup. It's like
all the worst policies that Newsom has had over the years,
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they've really a lot of this has been propped up
by federal inaction or federal tax money, and those days
are coming to an end.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
We'll talk more about it coming up.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Coming up after three o'clock. Westside Current is one of
the best local news sites, and I learned many things
from the Westside Current dot com that I do not
learn from the La Times because they don't write relevant
stories very often. We're gonna talk to Jamie Page, who's
one of their lead writers, and she's gonna give us
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the latest because it's been oddly quiet. There's that federal
judge David o'carter who's supposed to make a decision on
what he's going to do with Los Angeles' failing homeless program.
Is he going to put it into receivership, have an
outside receiver, an outside person or entity take over the
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disastrous homeless bureaucracy that Karen Bass is currently in charge of.
And remember, Karen Bass hired eleven lawyers to keep her
from testifying. After the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which is
an organization made up of LA residents and businesses, it's
(15:37):
LA Alliance for Human Rights, after they realized that the
eleven lawyers were probably going to create a three month delay,
they dropped their demand that Bass testify. Why didn't Bass
want to testify? Why do you think just because there
was an audit that said two billion dollars is unaccounted
for and she's ultimately in charge and one of her
(16:00):
whenever her friends, Vlicia Adams Kellum, who's leaving that post,
gave two million dollars to her own husband, her own
husband's nonprofit. Jah, why doesn't Why doesn't Bess want to testify?
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I can't imagine. Could it be that there's massive corruption?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Jeez?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I hope she's not involved in that. I hope she
wasn't aware of it, But we're not going to know
because she's not testifying. So anyway, Jamie Page is going
to be with us and tell us you know where
this decision is because he hasn't made one yet. And
then and this kind of cracks me up. And Jamie
is going to have some information on this. Librarians across
Los Angeles now feel now say they no longer feel safe.
(16:52):
You know, librarians have been on the side of all
the drug addicts, mental patient vagrants that have ruined the library.
A lot of parents will not bring their kids to
the library for obvious reasons. Many of the vagrants sit
there and watch pornography right out in the open, and
the librarians never had a problem with it. They never
(17:13):
had a problem with needles being found in the restrooms
of the libraries. I don't know why suddenly they're upset.
I mean, they tolerated this for thirty years. That's all
coming up after three o'clock. Donald Trump made some comments
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that was he had one of his on the spot
press conferences on the White House lawn today.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And you know what I.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Love is as he's rambling along with his answers, you
know he'll find a way to take a shot at
Newsom and point out again one of the many failures
of this governor. And high up on the list is
high speed rail, and Trump said that the high speed
rail line is one of the most incompetent things.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
And you know what, nod he can say. This is
what I love about this.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
It's irrefutable, indisputable that it is one of the most
incompetent things. I mean, you cannot make a case of
seventeen billion dollars in seventeen years and no track and
not agree. It's like, wow, that is that is absurdly incompetent.
How does that happen? And he said the money doesn't
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go Well, no, he said, the train doesn't go where
it's supposed to. It's supposed to go from La to
San Francisco now because they don't have any money, and
they made it much shorter. This is the famous Madera
to Bakersfield run. And I think that should be stopped
because no one is ever going to take the train
from Madera to Bakersfield or vice versa. And it isn't
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even Madera to Bakersfield. It's well, actually it's Maderre Owasco,
which are two little towns next to Merced and Bakersfield.
So there's going to be virtually zero use of of
this rail. Now there's a new CEO, and I'm trying
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to find out how much money he makes. I was
looking up online. I found that the old CEO was
getting a base salary of three hundred and eighty four
thousand dollars. His name was Brian Kelly. Brian Kelly had
the job running high speed rail for the last six years,
six years, spent billions of dollars no track, and I'm thinking,
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can you imagine. I mean, that's just the base salary.
So he made at least two and a half million dollars,
not to mention bonuses and whatever other perks they threw
in there. Let's just say conservatively two and a half million.
Doire bag to getting two and a half million dollars
And at the end of it all, you look around
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and you have nothing to show for it. You built nothing.
Wouldn't you love a government job that paid you two
and a half million dollars only six years out of
your life?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
You go, you wake up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I think you started in twenty eighteen, started in twenty eighteen,
got into the office, went to the office every day,
probably forty eight weeks a year, five days a week,
put in all all the hours, all the meetings, all
the Zoom conferences. After six years of this, looks out
the window. It's like, wow, there's still no track, there's
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still nothing. How much money do we spend? How many
billions did we spend in the last six years and
we got nothing out of it? And the plan now
is and they say this with a straight face, as
if there's going to be a market to go Madera Ouasco,
as if there's going to be a crowd lined up
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every day for every train and the train's going to
be slow. It's slow speed rail to wasco. Ian Chowdrey,
he's the CEO. You know, there's a federal audit last
week and after the audit they terminated four billion dollars
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in grants and Chowdre said it's unwarranted and unjustified. Yeah,
can you imagine would you do this? You take a
job where there's been utter failure for seventeen years, there's
no track, and then when you find out one of
your benefactors is pulling the plug on the money, you go,
that's unwarranted and unjustified.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You can do that.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
It's like that's a special Ian Chowdrey, I never heard
of him. I looked at his background. You know he's
got oh it says years ago he did work in
UH in France with high speed rail, and I think Spain.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I had his bio up there.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
But UH is in Europe, like the high speed rail
works in Europe.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
So I mean, what's what's he gonna do here? Because
this whole.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Uh, this whole uh maderia owasco idea isn't if they
if they have the money, which they don't, would would
still not be built to twenty thirty three. But they
don't have the money, so it's twenty infinity and then
you still don't have LA to San Francisco was Why
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isn't that an absolute ironclad promise? Right, they promised LA
to San Francisco. They blew it. Why aren't they forcibly
closed down? How come there should be a lawsuit, There
should be some kind of a God, there's a lawsuit
for everything new someone assume himself some kind of referendum
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that says stop this. They're focusing on constructing one hundred
and nineteen miles.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Chowdri claims that the federal investigation is inaccurate, often outright misleading.
An inaccurate, often outright misleading presentation of the evidence. You
just use your eyes. You look out the windows, like
ian you see track there? No, oh, okay, that's inaccurate, misleading.
It's like, okay, and look over here. Do you see track? No,
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you don't see track? Do you what's misleading about it?
What's inaccurate about it? It's either there or it's not.
Look out the window, there's not.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Dope. More coming up.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Coming up after three o'clock Jamie Page from the West
Side Current, Westside Current dot com, and we're gonna find
out where the trial is. The federal trial Judge David
o'carter is deciding whether he's going to take Karen Bass's hopeless,
homeless bureaucracy and give it over to an outside receiver
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to run.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
And then she also has a story on how librarians
in Los Angeles now say they no longer feel safe
because of all the drug addicts and sexual devians that
the librarians have embraced for decades.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Now they're uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
We always keep track of AI news here because we
never know and you.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Know, AI is going to come for our jobs. One
of these days.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
We figure there's probably an iHeart laboratory that is recreating
you and I, and one day the new AI version
of us will debut and you at home will not
know the difference. In fact, it may have already happened.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
AI is very popular for people looking for news updates.
Twelve percent of the population under the age of thirty
five uses AI to find their news twelve percent fifteen
percent of people under twenty five.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
So what do they say? What's going on in the
news today?
Speaker 7 (25:22):
And then AI pops up online?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah, that's exactly what they say. There you go. How
easy is that? I watch my friends do it all
the time.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
They're not typing in what is Deborah Mark reporting on today?
Well they should, they should, but actually probably wish, probably
wouldn't get much of an answer.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
A chat gpt is the number one chatbot used Gemini,
which Google puts out, Lama which Meta puts out, and
chat gpt is owned by Open Ai. And uh there
is another This is actually scary for a lot of people.
There's a CEO of an AI company called Anthropic. His
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name is Dario Amode. And he's considered one of the
foremost minds in artificial intelligence. And he gave an interview
and said that AI could wipe out half of all
entry level white collar jobs and spike unemployment to ten
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to twenty percent in the next one.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
To five years.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
How's anybody going to make a living?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
So by the year twenty thirty, unemployment could be twenty percent.
Half of the entry level white collar jobs gone. Most
people are unaware that this is about to happen. It
sounds crazy, so people just don't believe it. But he
thinks the public is sleepwalking towards a mass economic dislocation
that could reorder society.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
That could be.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
That's fromental, that's going to be rights in the streets.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Seriously.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Open AI, which makes makes chat GPT and Google and
Anthropic are racing to develop AI that can outperform humans
in tasks ranging from legal review.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
All the uh law clerks.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Law clerks, Yeah, they're gone. What do you call those?
What are the jobs in law offices? Well like paralleegal parallegal, yes,
paralegal industry gone, financial analysis gone, software engineering, marketing. Here's
one case. New York Times looked at a startup that
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only required one data scientist to complete work that used
to require seventy five people seventy five to one. So
unemployment and one of those things nobody noticed, has surged
to almost six percent, and the Federal Reserve Bank of
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New York says job prospects among recent college graduates have
deteriorated noticeably and that that's the unemployment number. I just
gave six percent for recent college graduates. Steve Bannon, who's
one of Trump's advisors, says, I don't think anyone is
taking into consideration how administrative, menagerial and tech jobs for
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people under thirty are going to be eviscerated. They're using
very strong language.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
Here, So does everybody have to seriously change their majors
to well, you have to work for an AI company.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Here's what occurred to me is with all the raids
that are going on at construction sites. Oh, I know
where you're guarding gardening jobs.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
You think that these college students paralegals are now going
to become a housekeeper.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well maybe they have to. It's like the thing the
things our grandparents.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Then, are people going to pay, you know, one hundred
thousand dollars a year to a gardener.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
No, but that, but that gardening job is worth something.
Your paper pushing job isn't worth anything. Wow, so it's relative. See,
I was thinking. I heard the other day there's like
seven million men who get Medicaid, and medicaid is health
care for poor people. But they're able bodied, they can work,
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they choose not to, and we're paying for their health care.
And I'm thinking, wow, you know, maybe maybe they could
do some of the jobs Americans won't do. Maybe they
could do construction jobs and gardening jobs. Maybe they could
do farm work. Why are we paying them free health
care and they're allowed to sit on the doll And
I was thinking of the same thing for all these
(29:58):
white collar people with their fancy college degrees that are worthless.
I guess we got to send them to the farm fields.
Let him pick the almonds.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
We are going to have riots in the streets.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Let him pick tomatoes.
Speaker 7 (30:11):
I can't even imagine a world like that. I mean,
I understand why you're saying this, but I just.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I read the other day.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Well, first of all, a lot of jobs pay very little, right,
service jobs pay terribly, and a lot of people have
two jobs right, yes, because they're not making much money.
It's like, well, all right, looks like these those Americans
maybe should do the jobs that the illegal aliens used
to do. It looks like Americans are going to start
having to do hard labor and blue collar work again.
(30:42):
Which is that was the neighborhood I grew up in.
Almost all the dads had blue collar jobs.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
What are you going to do, John, when AI takes
over your job?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Listen?
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Are you going to go pick.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Say the guys? Any good?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (30:59):
Okay, well you don't yeah, at that point you don't
need to work.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Well, I'll have to compete with myself somehow, that would
be funny.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
The real John Copel, the AI version.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I'll fight somebody. I'll find somebody to hire me. I
see if I can beat see if I could beat myself.
All right, were three o'clock's coming up? Uh in just seconds,
and Dever's gonna do the news, and then we're gonna
talk to Jamie Page from the west Side Current dot com.
Westside Current dot Com. She's got two stories we're gonna cover.
One is, what's the status of Judge Carter's case regarding
(31:35):
Karen Bass's failed homeless bureaucracy. Is he gonna turn over
the reins to an outside receiver. And secondly, why are
librarians in Los Angeles suddenly afraid they were enjoying all
the crazy vagrants and sex perverts they len let in
for decades. Now it's too much. That's ahead, Debra Mark Live,
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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We are on every day from one until four o'clock,
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to whatever you missed. Well, today's such an exciting day.
This supposed to be another special birthday gift I got.
Michael Monks is here from KFI News covering the never
(00:24):
ending immigration beat.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I was told I was here to sing for you.
I didn't realize we were doing any reporting today.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You could sing your report if you want. That'd be fine,
not if we want to keep the ratings.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's another day of immigration.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
You really don't expect a kind of day where the
federal government is responding to a tweet from the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
But that's where we are in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Today, and there in dispute the Dodgers and the Department
of Homeland Security.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, what is this about?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Okay, So this started off as a pretty busy morning.
We sold a couple of immigrations what looked like immigration raids.
I try to be careful using that word because I
don't know what exact act the operation is, but there was,
so I tend to lean on the word activity. We
certainly saw ICE at a home depost store on Sunset
Boulevard in Hollywood. The reports from witnesses indicate several people
were detained, some set up the twenty people were taking
(01:14):
We're talking day labors in the parking lot, food vendors
on the sidewalk nearby who were caught up in this thing.
In Pacoima, outside of a Lows, we saw some ICE
activity there. The LAPD ended up having to respond to
that because demonstrators showed up pretty quickly, and I don't
know if the if there was any interference with ICE's
departure from that parking lot, but LAPD showed up to
(01:36):
help clear the crowd out. Moments after that, reports started
to surface online that Ice was spotted near Dodger Stadium,
and the initial reaction from some activists who are against
the immigration enforcement was that the Dodgers are colluding with
the Department of Homeland Security and allowing ICE to stage there.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Nice hysterical reaction.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
So the demonstrators then showed up at Dodger Stadium out
there side Gate E, and that's what led us to
this dispute.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So again a bunch of demonstrators show up.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
The LAPD has to show up to stand between the
demonstrators and the ICE agents who have been confirmed to
have been there. But then the Dodgers put out a
statement later in the morning and they said, look, ICE
agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access
the parking lots. They were denied entry to the grounds
by the organization. Tonight's game will be played as scheduled,
(02:26):
And then quote tweeted by the Department of Homeland Security,
which says this had nothing to do with the Dodgers.
CBP Border Patrol vehicles were in the stadium parking lot
very briefly, unrelated to any operation or enforcement. So the
Dodgers claim they were asked like somebody from Yeah, like
(02:46):
Christy Noan got them on the phone or something and
it said, yeah, you might be parking for.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
A staging area, yeah, to round up illegal aliens. And
Homeland Security is saying no such thing. We briefly parked
there to take a nap, to have a donut. I mean,
what the why would they park at Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You mentioned something I think just before the break about
how quickly demonstrators show up to some of these events.
So today's shows two things. One that's obviously correct. The demonstrators,
the organizers, the protesters in LA do have a rapid
response network. They get the word out quickly and people
show they showed up in Hollywood, they showed up in Pacoima,
and they showed up in Dodger Stadium. Conversely, DHS, the
(03:23):
Department of Homeland Security, has been very active on social
media because there are tons of immigration enforcement stories all
across the country. Some of them are just a general
look a certain store was raided, or an operation was rated,
a workplace was raided. But there are also some that
have maybe a sappier tone to them. So and so
pregnant mom or grandmother or this and that. There's always
a pregnant mom.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
There's never a mom absconded who's not pregnant. Every mother
that Department Homeland Security is deported, they've all been pregnant.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I don't know how that happens. America is a romantic place.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Apparently, you know, reproduction quickly, absolutely so DHS is very
quick at responding to a lot of those headlines saying,
you know, Let's say a beloved grandfather was arrested and
then they come out with it this is not an
actual one, but while it turns out he murdered a
small village outside of Caracas in nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
They're very fast at their response too, so you've got
rapid response going right on both ways.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, are any grandfathers who get deported not beloved? I
noticed that almost everybody deported if they're not pregnant, they're beloved.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
My grandfather was a mean old snake from World War
Two who would drink Yellowstone right out of the bottle
like it was a glass of water.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
And I loved him anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And he wasn't deported, was he No, No, not at all.
So it's just swirling misinformation and denial.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
These things happen fast. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Obviously ICE doesn't tell anybody when they're about to show up,
and because of that, you've got the heightened tension, the
fears in the community. You have activists who are ready
to respond, and you have the government that is also
ready to respond. So there are a lot of messages
that are going out and somehow we here who are
just supposed to convey information have to piece all of
(05:08):
that together to let people know what's really happening. But
it's a rapid fire information system right now.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And we're still in the very early days of this.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
We got three and a half years, at least three
and a half ye Trump, if you take home and at
his word, I mean, they're going to go after everybody eventually,
and supposedly in La County there's almost a million illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So there's just literally going to be thousands and thousands
of these operations going on.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
If you're going to hit what has been the reported
goal of the administration three thousand illegal immigrants arrested each day,
you're going to be very busy. And it does indicate
the volume of people that they suspect are here illegally.
But this is one of those places in America where
there is that high volume. So that's probably why you're
seeing the concentration.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
You go to North Dakota, there's maybe five Canadians, I mean,
and their loss at what point, I mean, the these
resistance groups just exhaust themselves because you're going to go
out and scream in the hot sun every single day
for the you know the rest of the decade.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I you know, la is a.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I've been here two years, right and covering the government.
You see these activist groups on this or that issue.
They're highly motivated, and they're allowed and organized. They're very organized.
And this isn't necessarily general protesters who might feel something
for the first time in their lives. I won't go
out and take a stand. These are people who know
how to engage law enforcement. They know what tactics will
(06:33):
be used against them, they know how to reverse some
of those tactics.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And because they also move from issue to issue, you know,
it could be racism one day, it could be like
Elon Musk, it could be a climate change, it could
be the Palestinian cause. Now it's it's the deportations. And
I suspect in a lot of cases it's the same
people and they just get you know, they're talking points
and they're rhymes that they have to shout. E.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
There's so many flags they're holding. They look like a
walking United Nations building. It's really hard to figure out
what they really believe. But I think this is my
observation editorializing a bit here. I think at the core
of this, yeah, a lot for a lot of them
is an antagonism towards law enforcement that kind of dates
back five years ago when the protests really hyped up
with these these sentiments against police, and some of those
(07:23):
sentiments are obviously justified for you know, behaviors that Look,
this police department pays millions in lawsuits every year for
behavior that they've engaged in.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That's indisputable.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
That the police department is found guilty or settles because
of wrongdoing.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Casts a tremendous amount of money, exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
But beyond that, I mean, further than that, there's something
deep rooted I think in a lot of people against policing,
and so that's why they're always anxious.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
So whatever laws are being enforced, this crowd is against
law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Well, whether the laws being enforced, just the general presence
of law enforcement, I think is what they're ready to
get dirty with.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
That's an interesting way to spend your life. That's just
an observation, not a fact. I'm reporting. My job is
to draw you into the swamp. I'm here swimming with
you every day.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
All right, Thank you, Mike, my pleasure, Happy birthday, all right,
thank you.
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Trump gave another another short dig at California, reiterating that
he is not funding high speed rail.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
We'll talk about that now. Ice. You know this is funny.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's been kind of an ongoing theme through all these
ICE stories today is how flaccid and impotent the resistance
really has been, even with the King of Impotence, Gavin
Newsom trying to inspire everybody to revolt. ICE is expanding
detention capacity in California, and in fact, they have a
(09:34):
contract now to create the largest detention facility of illegal
aliens in the state. They are ICE is contracting out
with Courcivic. They're a private prison and detention company and
they're going to convert a twenty five hundred bed in California,
(09:56):
a twenty five hundred bed facility in califor Ffornia City
into the state's newest and largest migrant detention center. The
company got funding of ten million dollars and they'll get
up to thirty one million for six months and eventually
(10:16):
it'll lead to a long term agreement. Now, Gavin Newsom
signed a bill in twenty nineteen that banned the use
of private prisons and immigration detention facilities. Then a company
and the Trump administration sued California and one Newsome lost
(10:40):
a federal court founded as unconstitutional as it applied to
federal private detention centers. In other words, California could not
ban federal detention contracts and detention centers. See, we don't
have that many detention beds in the state. We have
(11:04):
that we have funding for forty one thousand. Ice has
funding across the nation, and they're going to go from
forty one thousand to one hundred thousand around the country.
Now California has only thirty two hundred beds. You imagine
we have a huge percentage of the illegal aliens and
(11:25):
we have a small number of detention beds. Texas, for example,
has over twelve thousand. So Texas is over twelve thousand,
We have a little over three thousand. Louisiana has over
seven thousand. So this new California city facility cour Civic
is going to be a big deal and they're not
(11:47):
going to let news get in the way. This is
this is what's really amusing. It's like while you had
thousands of people standing in the sun shouting nonsense and
abusing horses, not to mention the three guys who lost
their testicle, finger and I respectively. Right, that's what you
(12:08):
Some guy gave up his eye, another guy gives up
his testicles, third guy loses a finger, and then two
days later Ice is opening up a twenty five hundred
detention center for illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
You guys are having no effect, I mean none.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And one guy has almost literally made himself into impotent.
He's not only politically impotent, he's actually impotent. Maybe the
other testicle could pick up the slack. I don't know
exactly how that works. And so Newsom filed the big
lawsuit and he lost the big lawsuit. That's why don't
(12:43):
pay attention to Newsom and bodto when they stand in
front of their podium and they start going on their tire.
By the way, you're not much money they put aside.
You know, you know how badly we're in debt here
in California, we're in devasit. They put aside fifty million
dollars just to sue Trump. What a huge waste of money. Huh,
What an enormous freaking waste of money. Yeah, that's what
(13:06):
I'm going to work for. I can't stand looking at
how much state taxes are taken out of my check
every two weeks makes me crazy. And then I see them,
Oh it's for another pointless lawsuit. Excellent, good work you
have buffoon. Oh it's thirty five billion a year for
legal aliens. Yeah, that's why I go to work. That's
(13:28):
best use of money. This is absolutely nuts. And when
we come back, because this is never going to end,
Trump is coming out and repeating, They keep repeating the
same thing, and Newsome is not getting it. Homan made
it clear they're going to keep arresting people, raiding businesses,
(13:51):
detaining them, deporting them. That that machine is going to
rumble on. You could throw your testicles at them. It
doesn't matter. Trump is making it clear, I don't care
how many times you ask, You're not getting any more
high speed rail money, no federal tax money for that loser.
So it's almost like there's been a coup. It's like
all the worst policies that Newsom has had over the years,
(14:16):
they've really a lot of this has been propped up
by federal inaction or federal tax money, and those days
are coming to an end.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
We'll talk more about it coming up.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Coming up after three o'clock. Westside Current is one of
the best local news sites, and I learned many things
from the Westside Current dot com that I do not
learn from the La Times because they don't write relevant
stories very often. We're gonna talk to Jamie Page, who's
one of their lead writers, and she's gonna give us
(14:52):
the latest because it's been oddly quiet. There's that federal
judge David o'carter who's supposed to make a decision on
what he's going to do with Los Angeles' failing homeless program.
Is he going to put it into receivership, have an
outside receiver, an outside person or entity take over the
(15:13):
disastrous homeless bureaucracy that Karen Bass is currently in charge of.
And remember, Karen Bass hired eleven lawyers to keep her
from testifying. After the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which is
an organization made up of LA residents and businesses, it's
(15:37):
LA Alliance for Human Rights, after they realized that the
eleven lawyers were probably going to create a three month delay,
they dropped their demand that Bass testify. Why didn't Bass
want to testify? Why do you think just because there
was an audit that said two billion dollars is unaccounted
for and she's ultimately in charge and one of her
(16:00):
whenever her friends, Vlicia Adams Kellum, who's leaving that post,
gave two million dollars to her own husband, her own
husband's nonprofit. Jah, why doesn't Why doesn't Bess want to testify?
(16:20):
I can't imagine. Could it be that there's massive corruption?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Jeez?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I hope she's not involved in that. I hope she
wasn't aware of it, But we're not going to know
because she's not testifying. So anyway, Jamie Page is going
to be with us and tell us you know where
this decision is because he hasn't made one yet. And
then and this kind of cracks me up. And Jamie
is going to have some information on this. Librarians across
Los Angeles now feel now say they no longer feel safe.
(16:52):
You know, librarians have been on the side of all
the drug addicts, mental patient vagrants that have ruined the library.
A lot of parents will not bring their kids to
the library for obvious reasons. Many of the vagrants sit
there and watch pornography right out in the open, and
the librarians never had a problem with it. They never
(17:13):
had a problem with needles being found in the restrooms
of the libraries. I don't know why suddenly they're upset.
I mean, they tolerated this for thirty years. That's all
coming up after three o'clock. Donald Trump made some comments
(17:33):
that was he had one of his on the spot
press conferences on the White House lawn today.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And you know what I.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Love is as he's rambling along with his answers, you
know he'll find a way to take a shot at
Newsom and point out again one of the many failures
of this governor. And high up on the list is
high speed rail, and Trump said that the high speed
rail line is one of the most incompetent things.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
And you know what, nod he can say. This is
what I love about this.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
It's irrefutable, indisputable that it is one of the most
incompetent things. I mean, you cannot make a case of
seventeen billion dollars in seventeen years and no track and
not agree. It's like, wow, that is that is absurdly incompetent.
How does that happen? And he said the money doesn't
(18:22):
go Well, no, he said, the train doesn't go where
it's supposed to. It's supposed to go from La to
San Francisco now because they don't have any money, and
they made it much shorter. This is the famous Madera
to Bakersfield run. And I think that should be stopped
because no one is ever going to take the train
from Madera to Bakersfield or vice versa. And it isn't
(18:45):
even Madera to Bakersfield. It's well, actually it's Maderre Owasco,
which are two little towns next to Merced and Bakersfield.
So there's going to be virtually zero use of of
this rail. Now there's a new CEO, and I'm trying
(19:10):
to find out how much money he makes. I was
looking up online. I found that the old CEO was
getting a base salary of three hundred and eighty four
thousand dollars. His name was Brian Kelly. Brian Kelly had
the job running high speed rail for the last six years,
six years, spent billions of dollars no track, and I'm thinking,
(19:35):
can you imagine. I mean, that's just the base salary.
So he made at least two and a half million dollars,
not to mention bonuses and whatever other perks they threw
in there. Let's just say conservatively two and a half million.
Doire bag to getting two and a half million dollars
And at the end of it all, you look around
(19:58):
and you have nothing to show for it. You built nothing.
Wouldn't you love a government job that paid you two
and a half million dollars only six years out of
your life?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
You go, you wake up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I think you started in twenty eighteen, started in twenty eighteen,
got into the office, went to the office every day,
probably forty eight weeks a year, five days a week,
put in all all the hours, all the meetings, all
the Zoom conferences. After six years of this, looks out
the window. It's like, wow, there's still no track, there's
(20:31):
still nothing. How much money do we spend? How many
billions did we spend in the last six years and
we got nothing out of it? And the plan now
is and they say this with a straight face, as
if there's going to be a market to go Madera Ouasco,
as if there's going to be a crowd lined up
(20:52):
every day for every train and the train's going to
be slow. It's slow speed rail to wasco. Ian Chowdrey,
he's the CEO. You know, there's a federal audit last
week and after the audit they terminated four billion dollars
(21:16):
in grants and Chowdre said it's unwarranted and unjustified. Yeah,
can you imagine would you do this? You take a
job where there's been utter failure for seventeen years, there's
no track, and then when you find out one of
your benefactors is pulling the plug on the money, you go,
that's unwarranted and unjustified.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
You can do that.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
It's like that's a special Ian Chowdrey, I never heard
of him. I looked at his background. You know he's
got oh it says years ago he did work in
UH in France with high speed rail, and I think Spain.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I had his bio up there.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
But UH is in Europe, like the high speed rail
works in Europe.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
So I mean, what's what's he gonna do here? Because
this whole.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Uh, this whole uh maderia owasco idea isn't if they
if they have the money, which they don't, would would
still not be built to twenty thirty three. But they
don't have the money, so it's twenty infinity and then
you still don't have LA to San Francisco was Why
(22:35):
isn't that an absolute ironclad promise? Right, they promised LA
to San Francisco. They blew it. Why aren't they forcibly
closed down? How come there should be a lawsuit, There
should be some kind of a God, there's a lawsuit
for everything new someone assume himself some kind of referendum
(22:55):
that says stop this. They're focusing on constructing one hundred
and nineteen miles.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Chowdri claims that the federal investigation is inaccurate, often outright misleading.
An inaccurate, often outright misleading presentation of the evidence. You
just use your eyes. You look out the windows, like
ian you see track there? No, oh, okay, that's inaccurate, misleading.
It's like, okay, and look over here. Do you see track? No,
(23:33):
you don't see track? Do you what's misleading about it?
What's inaccurate about it? It's either there or it's not.
Look out the window, there's not.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Dope. More coming up.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Coming up after three o'clock Jamie Page from the West
Side Current, Westside Current dot com, and we're gonna find
out where the trial is. The federal trial Judge David
o'carter is deciding whether he's going to take Karen Bass's hopeless,
homeless bureaucracy and give it over to an outside receiver
(24:15):
to run.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
And then she also has a story on how librarians
in Los Angeles now say they no longer feel safe
because of all the drug addicts and sexual devians that
the librarians have embraced for decades.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Now they're uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
We always keep track of AI news here because we
never know and you.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Know, AI is going to come for our jobs. One
of these days.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
We figure there's probably an iHeart laboratory that is recreating
you and I, and one day the new AI version
of us will debut and you at home will not
know the difference. In fact, it may have already happened.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
You don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
AI is very popular for people looking for news updates.
Twelve percent of the population under the age of thirty
five uses AI to find their news twelve percent fifteen
percent of people under twenty five.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
So what do they say? What's going on in the
news today?
Speaker 7 (25:22):
And then AI pops up online?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah, that's exactly what they say. There you go. How
easy is that? I watch my friends do it all
the time.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
They're not typing in what is Deborah Mark reporting on today?
Well they should, they should, but actually probably wish, probably
wouldn't get much of an answer.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
A chat gpt is the number one chatbot used Gemini,
which Google puts out, Lama which Meta puts out, and
chat gpt is owned by Open Ai. And uh there
is another This is actually scary for a lot of people.
There's a CEO of an AI company called Anthropic. His
(26:04):
name is Dario Amode. And he's considered one of the
foremost minds in artificial intelligence. And he gave an interview
and said that AI could wipe out half of all
entry level white collar jobs and spike unemployment to ten
(26:26):
to twenty percent in the next one.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
To five years.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
How's anybody going to make a living?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
So by the year twenty thirty, unemployment could be twenty percent.
Half of the entry level white collar jobs gone. Most
people are unaware that this is about to happen. It
sounds crazy, so people just don't believe it. But he
thinks the public is sleepwalking towards a mass economic dislocation
that could reorder society.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
That could be.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
That's fromental, that's going to be rights in the streets.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Seriously.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Open AI, which makes makes chat GPT and Google and
Anthropic are racing to develop AI that can outperform humans
in tasks ranging from legal review.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
All the uh law clerks.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Law clerks, Yeah, they're gone. What do you call those?
What are the jobs in law offices? Well like paralleegal parallegal, yes,
paralegal industry gone, financial analysis gone, software engineering, marketing. Here's
one case. New York Times looked at a startup that
(27:42):
only required one data scientist to complete work that used
to require seventy five people seventy five to one. So
unemployment and one of those things nobody noticed, has surged
to almost six percent, and the Federal Reserve Bank of
(28:03):
New York says job prospects among recent college graduates have
deteriorated noticeably and that that's the unemployment number. I just
gave six percent for recent college graduates. Steve Bannon, who's
one of Trump's advisors, says, I don't think anyone is
taking into consideration how administrative, menagerial and tech jobs for
(28:25):
people under thirty are going to be eviscerated. They're using
very strong language.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
Here, So does everybody have to seriously change their majors
to well, you have to work for an AI company.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Here's what occurred to me is with all the raids
that are going on at construction sites. Oh, I know
where you're guarding gardening jobs.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
You think that these college students paralegals are now going
to become a housekeeper.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well maybe they have to. It's like the thing the
things our grandparents.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
Then, are people going to pay, you know, one hundred
thousand dollars a year to a gardener.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
No, but that, but that gardening job is worth something.
Your paper pushing job isn't worth anything. Wow, so it's relative. See,
I was thinking. I heard the other day there's like
seven million men who get Medicaid, and medicaid is health
care for poor people. But they're able bodied, they can work,
(29:35):
they choose not to, and we're paying for their health care.
And I'm thinking, wow, you know, maybe maybe they could
do some of the jobs Americans won't do. Maybe they
could do construction jobs and gardening jobs. Maybe they could
do farm work. Why are we paying them free health
care and they're allowed to sit on the doll And
I was thinking of the same thing for all these
(29:58):
white collar people with their fancy college degrees that are worthless.
I guess we got to send them to the farm fields.
Let him pick the almonds.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
We are going to have riots in the streets.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Let him pick tomatoes.
Speaker 7 (30:11):
I can't even imagine a world like that. I mean,
I understand why you're saying this, but I just.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I read the other day.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Well, first of all, a lot of jobs pay very little, right,
service jobs pay terribly, and a lot of people have
two jobs right, yes, because they're not making much money.
It's like, well, all right, looks like these those Americans
maybe should do the jobs that the illegal aliens used
to do. It looks like Americans are going to start
having to do hard labor and blue collar work again.
(30:42):
Which is that was the neighborhood I grew up in.
Almost all the dads had blue collar jobs.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
What are you going to do, John, when AI takes
over your job?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Listen?
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Are you going to go pick.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Say the guys? Any good?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (30:59):
Okay, well you don't yeah, at that point you don't
need to work.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Well, I'll have to compete with myself somehow, that would
be funny.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
The real John Copel, the AI version.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I'll fight somebody. I'll find somebody to hire me. I
see if I can beat see if I could beat myself.
All right, were three o'clock's coming up? Uh in just seconds,
and Dever's gonna do the news, and then we're gonna
talk to Jamie Page from the west Side Current dot com.
Westside Current dot Com. She's got two stories we're gonna cover.
One is, what's the status of Judge Carter's case regarding
(31:35):
Karen Bass's failed homeless bureaucracy. Is he gonna turn over
the reins to an outside receiver. And secondly, why are
librarians in Los Angeles suddenly afraid they were enjoying all
the crazy vagrants and sex perverts they len let in
for decades. Now it's too much. That's ahead, Debra Mark Live,
mcaf I twenty four Hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
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