April 28, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (04/28) - John is back! John thinks the new composting rules at the radio station are ridiculous. 55,000 county workers in LA are going on strike. Don Mihalek comes on the show to talk about Kristi Noem's purse being stolen and Luigi Mangione's trial. John discusses the person who he deemed would be the worst person to sit next to on an airplane.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
We're back together again.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Yeah, we missed you.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I missed you too.
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podcast to keep track of whatever's going on here. First
thing we're going to do at one thirty, we're going
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to have a retired Secret Service agent, Don Mahalakan, he's
an ABC News Law enforcement contributor, to talk about two stories.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
One is they.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Found the guy or they arrested the guy who stole
Christy Nomes purse and she had three thousand dollars in it.
I don't know what she's doing, but probably a shopping spree.
But you know, she's charge of Homeland security. And guess what,
it was an illgal alien who stole the purse. I
don't know if that was a political statement. We'll see
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if Don knows. Also Luigi Mangioni, and he is that
pin up model murderer. By the way, do you see
the group that was protesting outside of Luigi Mangioni's hearing
last week. Yes, okay, there was a lot of seriously
overfed women there. I mean, I could see why they're
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lonely and they're willing to idolize a killer. But wow,
maybe ezepic would be a better way to go.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Wow, no fat shaming this early in the program.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
No, But I mean if I was like, committed some
terrible crime and became like a cause.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Right, you would want hot women.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I would hope I get a better crowd than that.
That's for him. That's embarrassing. I mean, but we'll talk
to Don maybe not about that specifically coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So all right, I feel like I did.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
This this rant already just two three weeks ago, but
I'm gonna do it again because remember a couple of
weeks ago, I had a long weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina,
where one of my sons live lives, and then last
week I went to Sarasota, which has been a destination
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for the family going back many decades.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
My wife's family moved there.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
When she was a teenager, and then we spent a
lot of time over the years with our kids and
grandma and grandpa and all that. And now we bought
a second home there, and it's a great getaway place.
But it is Sarasota County is a fairly decent sized
metro area. Charlotte is like top fifteen city for population.
So these aren't small rural backwaters. But like I said
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about Charlotte, it's Sarasota. There are no problems. Start with
the gas again, all right, Well, just on Sunday, I
filled up the gas tank half a tank, ten gallons.
Thirty one dollars for ten gallons of gas.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, it was like three seven a gallon or something
like that, and I come here and it's five.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well, you know, Carl Demaia when he was filling in
for you, one of the things.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
He said, the reason we have high gas prices Governor Newsom.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
It is Governor Newsom.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
That's what he said.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
He's absolutely right, And that's what USC, the USC professor said,
who we spoke with right before my vacation, and it's like,
my god, I mean Newsom has tacked on what would
that be? That'd be a sixty seven percent penalty. Do
you realize it's a sixty seven percent Newsom tax? On
your gas because trust me, it's three bucks. Uh in Florida.
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When I was in North Carolina it was two eighty seven.
So you know, I was reading statistics online. TRIPAA does
a constant day by day evaluation of prices in all
fifty states, and you know, you wonder is this really true?
Is this accurate? Well, I on the scene. I did
an on the scene investigation. Wow, and I filled up
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half a tank for thirty one bucks. No homeless people.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Do you have alligators?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Though? Well, there was one restaurant we went to.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I saw the photo with the sign warning of alligators.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It's the restaurant's built over like a creek, like a lagoon,
and that's where alligators like to live in Florida.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, Why would I want to go there and live there?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
There was a warning.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I was sitting right next to the sign because we
were sitting right next to the wooden fence.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Did you see one?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
No, But I have seen.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Them in the area. I have seen them along the
side of the road. Along the side of the road,
there's these drainage gullies. Yeah, because that area of Florida
floods easily, and occasionally they get torrential rains and so
they have these these drainage gullies and you ride down
a two lane highway just you know, peer over the edge.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
It's like, oh there is.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Wow, he'd eat up and like one bike. Yeah, you
are a snack.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You're like, why I'm not retiring to Florida.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You're an order for these guys. And so there's no
homeless people, there's no encampments, there's no garbage. And you know,
I kept track of the LA news, and I kept
track of the dasa's State of the City speech last
week and her new budget and all that. I'm thinking,
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you know, it's not that hard. It really isn't that hard.
I've got to two decent sized cities which has zero
percent of the issues here, and it's just I don't
care what excuses they give.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It's them.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's the person running the city, it's the person running
the state. It's Karen Bass and Gavin new some period.
End of story. I don't know what else to say,
but I realize human nature adapts very quickly, and people
forget very quickly. It's just the nature of our brains.
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There's probably some evolutionary advantage to this, but you should
be aware how an evolutionary advantage maybe in Caveman times,
can become an evolutionary disadvantage now because you're putting up
with things that literally no one else in the country
is putting up with, and when you get away for
a week or two, it's like, oh, oh wow, this
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is normal life. Look at this. Wow, this is fun.
This is the way it used to be, this is
the way I grew up. In fact, last week I
felt like I was on summer vacation when I was
seventeen years old, because there was just none of the
stress and tention of doing anything in Los Angeles. You know,
just going to the grocery store in LA really is
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a pain in the ass because at the I go to,
they've had homeless people, they've had encampments, they've had shootings, they've.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
They've got all guy's armed security wander around.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It's a grocery store parking lot, for God's sakes, and
it's been a war zone.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I think things will be better in twenty twenty eight
for a little while because of the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
For the Olympics, yeah, they're gonna do how and how
are they gonna pull that on?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
They will.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Are a Karen, I believe.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
You have to have like a religious belief in her.
I mean, I just I was just astonished. You actually
you actually get a surge, you spend it a couple
of days, and you're really happy because there's an absence
of stress. I mean when when I left, I was
just having a big fight trying to get this encampment
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which was a half mile from my house, which blocked
the walking sidewalk, you know, the sidewalk on the way
to the local drug store.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Couldn't do that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That was the guy who was chasing me with the
with the uh yeah, with the broomstick or the metal
pipe or whatever the hell he was waving around.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
It's like, this is not going on anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, on my way to the five dollars gas I
have to buy, there's a guy with a stick wanting
to kill me.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, we still live here.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I know.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, this is this is where you question. It's like maybe, no,
maybe I'm maybe I'm insane. We're insane for putting up
with this. There's some kind of collective insanity. And the
thing is you can't get into an argument with these people.
It's like, no, it's not like this everywhere else, and
there's no reason for this, for it to be like
this here.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And in San Francisco, they're waking up every day.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I read a story in San Francisco how people are
are happier and more positive and there's business coming back
because they have one guy, a mayor, Daniel Lourie, a
business guy who says, no, this is over with okay,
and you know, we have whatever it is we have.
I don't know what she is. And Newsom is Newsom
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is insane. See, that's the thing. He's the crazy person,
a very effective crazy person, because he actually convinced and
brainwashed a significant part of the state that we're we're
supposed to live like this and that there's nothing he
can do about it, and that we have to live
like this, that we lack you know, compassion, we last lash,
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lack caring for our fellow matter, whatever nonsense they spiel.
It's like, no, no, people don't lack caring and compassion.
We gave you billions of dollars. You are a criminal,
You're a thief. That's what these people are. They're criminals
and thieves, manipulating your mind to make you feel like
if you complain about it, Well, looks like you're cold
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hearted and mean when we come back. So this is
what I'm coming back to. Apparently fifty five thousand county
workers are going on strike tonight, forty eight hours. First
time they've had a strike like this in LA County history.
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And I laughed like hell. The strike could impact the
number of services, including homeless encampment enforcement. Oh really, I
think there's been a ten year strike with that department.
How would I notice the difference Homeless encampment enforce it.
They're unionized. They're unionized.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You believe this.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
The people who don't clean up the homeless encampments are
unionized and are threatening to strike and not clean up
the homeless encampments. Oh yeah, yeah, all right, we'll do that.
We got Don Mahallak to come on about Luji Mangione.
And also there's another story he's going to talk about
as well. Oh oh yeah, christin nom and they stolen handbag
and we don't know if it was a Burken bag yet.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Or to tell you a Burton in and out, but
I remind me, I have to tell you a.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Birken story, all right, a Perkin. Oh we got that
thing one thousand dollars to give away too.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
All right, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You know, I almost never read company emails on the
air company memos because I just don't need that hassle.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I trust me, and you hardly ever even read the emails.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Right. For for many years, I never looked at my email.
Maybe once every couple of months. There'd be twelve thousand
emails there, and ninety nine point nine percent of them
were nonsense. I've gotten a little better because it seems
now the the the advertising sales department is communicating more
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and more by email, and if it has to do
with money, I'll read it. There's not money in it.
You got to you got to pay me to read
your email. However, I can't let this one go by.
In compliance with City of Burbank.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Regulations, I knew you were going to talk about this one.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
We are launching a mandatory composting program, effective immediately the
radio station. You didn't see the bucket in the kitchen, No,
oh yeah, there's a green bucket next.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
To the sink.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Composting pails have been placed in all break rooms. Look
for the small green bins with signage. Oh, they have
a sign explaining, yeah, what can be composted food scraps
including meat, bones, bones, dairy and produce, peels, coffee grounds,
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tea bags and leaves, eggshells, foods, so oiled paper, napkins,
paper tobbles, uncoded takeout containers. And then, of course there's
always a line about best practices always keep lids closed
to prevent odors and pests.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, makes sense.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
You want to prevent odors.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Don't let people microwave fish burritos, all right, that's where
the worst odors come from. If you have any questions,
feel free to reach out. I don't think you.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Want me to reach out. I do absolutely, please.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Please, we need some fun around here.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I don't compost, all right, it's against my religion. I
do not compost. That is, it's absurd. I don't care
what the City of Burbank says. All these cities are
run by insufferable Wieners. It's an insufferable Danny state. Let
me click on the helpful little guide here. Oh, it's
just a reiteration what I just read here. What materials
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are compostable? And it's always got this condace sending you know,
public service announcement kind of tone. It's like, well, let
me tell you what materials are compostable, all right, so
you do this properly and you follow perceip No, you
follow best practices.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
God almighty, where's the other one here? Oh good?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
It can't open the second one because we can't open
the image file because it's nonsense.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
That's why. What this is?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Now? Food that rots? Okay, this is what I don't understand.
This is rotting food. Wherever you throw it, it's gonna rot.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I could throw it on the ground it rots. I
could throw it in a landfill. I could throw it
in this composting bin. It doesn't matter. A banana peel
is gonna turn brown and break apart and become.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Carbon I guess at some point. But here's what I
don't get.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
They got all these composting rules, but there's all this
filth on the streets, those all those garbage.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
What's more important?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
It's like, how come the outdoor people, the vagrants, they
don't have to compost.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Any people experiencing homelessness, the.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
People experiencing homelessness, the people unhoused.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Through no fault of their own.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
How come they're not required to compost or separate their
their food wrappings from their banana peels. I don't understand.
I've got to go through that. Got two letters for you. Yeah, yeah, speak.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
To me privately if you want to know what I
figure it out.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
If you have any questions about my two letters, feel
free to reach out. All right, Well, I'm not composting.
They can send me to compost prison.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
If they want. God, what's become of this world?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
You cannot You cannot walk the streets without being terrified, harassed, chased,
and that almost things happen, right. I have been chased,
Some people have been hit over the head, some people
have been killed, and we got these nitties worried about
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my composting bin.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Something's got to change here.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
In the meantime, Just to complete my thought about the strike,
they have a guy named David Green, the executive director
and president of the union. Fifty five thousand members of
this union Local seven to twenty one Service Employees International
Union now now Los Angeles County is teetering because they
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just had to cough up four billion dollars to pay.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Off sex abuse claims.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Because for decades, the people who work in the detention
system in La County buggered the juvenile prisoners, went on
for decades. Nobody cares. Now everybody wants money, and it's
four billion dollars. Why don't you take your complaints to
the people who are buggering those children because they cost
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the city taxpayers, the county taxpayers four billion. And I
got another one. Why don't you go to the homeless
people and tell them to get out of town. In fact,
this should be blamed actually on the all the people
who worked in a homeless encampment outreach because they did
their jobs very badly. We've blown billions of dollars on
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the homeless.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
And now the.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
People who did their job badly are coming to me
and coming to you for a raise. Why would you
get a raise if you work in homeless encampment cleanup?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
You don't. You don't deserve a raise.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
And you didn't clean up homeless encampments very well, and
that's cost us billions of dollars. And that's why you're
not getting a raise. What's wrong with you? It's homeless
encampments and illegal aliens. Why don't you go complain about that?
Go to the neighborhoods where they were ilegal aliens go
to the homeless encampments and say, you know you people
aren't supposed to be here.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
You're costing me my rais And why do the animals
have to suffer?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
John?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Why do we have to close animal shelter.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
We're gonna get to that. We're gonna that makes me no.
I Karen Bass burn down your house and now she's
going to kill your dog. Okay, that's that's her campaign
for twenty twenty six. She kills dogs and cats and cats,
guinea pigs, rabbits.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Speaking of cats, it's another thing. I come home.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, cat, Apparently it was upset while we were gone.
Soaked a fabric cushion? What do you do about that?
See my wife? My wife is still.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Still taking dry cleaner.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
It's like, this is not good. Husband comes home, got
a soaked fabric cushion. I don't know what to do?
Dry cleaners?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Do you do that?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You can take it's a kind of a big cushion.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
It does it? Does the the cover come off the cushion?
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I didn't think of that. Oh yeah, I guess they zip,
don't they?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Some this is not this is nice. And if it
doesn't you got to get rid of it.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
If I didn't get married, I'd be sleeping in a
tent with all the other guys in the park.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I was gonna say, you should you should be home
alone right now. No, I shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
But then you also have to bring the pillow in
as well, because even if it has a cover, it
soaked through.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Oh yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I just threw it down on the back porch to
dry in the sun, hoping, hoping it's not gonna smell.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
All right, you're listening to John Cobel's on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Well, in the last few days, we've had the Homeland
Security Secretary Christy Nome. She had her purse stolen right
from her from under a chair. She was at a
restaurant Washington, d C. On Easter Sunday. She was eating
with her family and somebody stole her bag, which had
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three thousand dollars in it, and her passport and her makeup.
Let's talk to Don mohollock about that, and about the
Luigi and Mengoni circus as well. He is the ABC
News law enforcement contributor and retired Secret Service agent.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
How are you, Don Good?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Good?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
John how are you so, who's this guy they caught
swiping Christy Nome's bag.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Apparently it's two guys, one guy that just locked up
in Miami. They are a conspiracy that's been causing set
in and around d C for a while now. Apparently MPD,
the Metropromt Police Department, has been looking for these guys.
They've had a rash of these type of perse snatchings
and grabs, and on this particular day, these individuals picked
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the wrong purse to snatch. The secretary was as you
talked about, she was out at a burger joint in
DC with her family for dinner. She had her purse
at her feet someplace. These guys were able to somehow
manipulate to get the purse from her, and I took
the purse out. I stole the purse. One guy got
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caught in her somewhere around DC, and the other guy
got caught actually then in Miami. Who was apparently an
illegal alien. So the next stop maybe Salvador.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
How how does somebody get under her chair at a
restaurant considering who she is the secretary of Department Homeland Security.
I mean, you're a former Secret Service agent. I don't
does she get security when she goes out in public
like that?
Speaker 6 (21:28):
So the secretary is the secret Service secret Service detail.
It's nowhere near what people see the president or the
vice president have. It's a much you know, smaller detail.
And on these private settings, family outings, you know, they
try to give the secretary space so she can be
with her family and do family stuff. So they're not
up on the table. You know, they have eyesight. They're
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responsible to make sure the secretary stay safe, but they're
not necessarily tracking her her purse or you know, presidents
she brings or anything like that that's not within their
per you and watching the secretary to make sure nobody
does anything to her. And uh, you know, she had
it on the floor out of you which for most
people who have a spouse or a girlfriend, you know,
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there's there's there's purse etiquette in public to make sure
you keep eyes on the purse at all times, to
keep it somewhere secure, that kind of thing. Yeah, why
she put it on the floor, I don't know. And
they were able to get it while it was on
the floor onto the table.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I just wonder what happened was this guy crawling on
his hands and knees underneath her underneath her chair.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
I don't know if it was that or he walked,
but you gotta remember, see it's this is a public setting.
So she's in the middle of a restaurant or in
a restaurant with her family. Uh, there's other people around her,
other diners around her. Now what amazes me is like
she's not an unknown individual between her ads, she's done
on TV and everything else. You know, it's a pretty
known figure. So you know, these guys targeted her purse
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to snatch, which was the wrong purse to match. And
I don't know what that says so much about the
crime in DC, that these guys are so brazen as
the seal of Secretary's perset in broad daylight in Washington,
d C. I think it's some commentary there about the
crime going on in DC.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Right, yeah, yeah, they must feel there's no consequences. But
the guy, the guy who's here illegally, I mean, he's
got three hundred and forty million people to rob. You
rob the Department of Homeland Security secretary when you're an
illegal alien, that's the woman you decide to rob.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
John. I think that goes I think that goes to
the few good men quote of Colonel Nathan Jessip. They
screwed with the wrong marine. They certainly did that.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
That just apparently this guy isn't, you know, keep track
of the news. I mean, it's not like she's unknown.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Now clearly, clearly they were. They're not watching a lot
of TV or reading many newspapers or anything.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Because if I'm a thing, we picked the wrong If
I'm a thief and I'm here illegally, I'm keeping her
photo in my wallet just to make sure I don't
accidentally Robert.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
No kidding. Yeah, yeah, My guess is Tom Holman's got
a plane, a plane ready for them right now.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah. Yeah, they're going home and not coming back, all right.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
In the other case, Luigi Mangione not guilty, pled to
murdering the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Everybody's aware of
this case. They're going after him for the death penalty.
And why does it turn from a simple murder that
you normally would see a state prosecutor be in charge of.
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How did it turn into a federal death penalty case?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Well, so he is charged on a state level for murder.
So New York State got him for the murder, but
it's also a federal crime because of the bysday nature
he fled, so made a refugitive and he went to Pennsylvania,
so that gave it a federal nexus, so to speak,
and the federal government exercises nexus based upon the fact
that he fled multi jurisdiction he had. You know, he
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targeted a CEO of a major US corporation and assassinated
him in broad daylight, so they were the federal government.
The Southern Dissute of New York was able to establish
that nexus to prosecute him and now to seek the
death penalty against him. His non guilty plea was not
in common That's typically what happens because the defense attorney
in needs time to kind of figure this out, and
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hopefully not a road comes to a plea agreement short
of the death penalty. But if this doesn't happen, and
this goes through a full criminal trial and he's found guilty,
there'll actually be two trials. There'll be the actual credile
criminal trial about the crimes, and then if he found
guilty and the charges of death penalty eligible, they'll have
a separate trial for the death penalty. To establish whether
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he actually gets the death penalty or not.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
He had several rows of supporters, crazy people, and we
know why why they're supporting him. How I mean to
go to trial, you have to hope someone like one
of those supporters ends up on the jury. Because he
did it on video. There's no question he did it well.
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They found the evidence on him. So the only hope
is somebody engaging in jury nullification. We get an oj
Simpson scenario here, right or if?
Speaker 6 (26:26):
But you know, the federal government is pretty good at
these these That's why the federal most US attorneys always
have about a ninety nine percent conviction rate. Yeah, so
they're going to use their their objections during the vlid
year of the jury to punt people that show any
type of sympathy towards him. So his chances of this occurring,
of him getting a jury that is anyway favorable to him.
(26:50):
You know, they'll be impartial. But like you said, the
evidence is the evidence, and it's hard to not you know,
it's hard to refute the evidence right as.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I would say, Guilt is not the issue here. The
issue is how badly are you going to punish him?
Is he going to go away for life or is
he going to go to the death chair or maybe
he gets parole in fifty years something like that. But
there's no question he did it.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
It wouldn't surprise me if his defense attorney doesn't put
it through some psychological evaluation as to try to determine
if he wasn't mentally competent at the time of the
crime and try to and try to play that angle
going at the trial.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
All right, well, listen, good talking with you again.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
New job.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Don Mahallack.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
He's ABC News law enforcement contributor, retired Secret Service agent,
and it's always good speaking with him. All right, Two o'clock,
John Many ah Man. So the Pope, the Pope expired
last week.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I'm glad. I'm glad I was off the air and
the funeral or Saturday.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Right, I really haven't been tracking, Yes, Saturday, okay, And
now they're going to have the conclave and everybody's waiting
for the puff of smoke.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
By the way, I've submitted my name to the concert. Really, yes, yes,
So there's not a great chance, but a small chance,
you know, if there's a big fight, I could be
a compromise candidate. Uh, we've got We've got John Manley
on because he represented I don't know how many victims
of the UH child sex abuse priests here in the
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Archdiocese of Los Angeles, you know, the Roger mahoneyer, And
they sent Roger Mahoney of all people, as the archdiocese
representative to Rome for the funeral, which is unbelievably offensive
and obnoxious. What that makes me, you know, because I
was here. It's like now things are different. Now you
(28:43):
know that would never happen again, you know, and we
understand the pain that we've caused. No, you don't understand it.
You're sending Mahoney is the ambassador from LA.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
That's why I'm glad it's off.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I'm not good with UH when people die, and it's
the kind of person that you're supposed to revere.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Are people adore them?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I know, Yeah, we've talked about that.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Off the I'm not the best person I take off
high profile funerals.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
I know you do.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
When we come back, though, this is the I was
just on a plane last night. As I mentioned, this
is the worst passenger you could be seated next to.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
When we come back, you're listening to John Cobels on
demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Right after two o'clock. Could you believe they sent Roger Mahoney.
Actually his first name is disgraced, disgraced Cardinal Roger Mahoney,
and he is a disgrace. Roger Mahoney covered up all
the a lot of the child rapists that were employed
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by him as priests back in the eighties, nineties, two
thousands when he was the Cardinal of Los Angeles, and
we had a lot to do with the unmasking of
Ardinal Mahoney. And actually I thought I was done. I thought,
actually I thought he was dead. Really I did him.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Phony Blogoney mahoney or something like that.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yes, very good, that was one of our better rhymes. Yes,
phony Bologne mahoney. Anyway, they sent him to Rome to
be the official representative from the Alley Archdiocese for the
Pope Francis funeral and John Manley, who represented I don't
know how many victims, but this was one of the largest,
(30:39):
maybe the largest settlement. No, I guess this would be
the largest settlement that any church ever had to make
A billion and a half dollars for eighteen hundred victims.
Talk about this thing with Manley coming up Okay, So
I was on a plane last night. Nothing happened. But
(31:03):
on this Southwest flight to Chicago, imagine you're sitting next
to this woman. This was at Chicago's Midway Airport. Saturday.
Flight for eighteen from Philadelphia arrived. One passenger got up,
She took off her clothes and emptied her bobbles on
(31:25):
a plane seat.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Oh are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
No, she stripped naked and booped on her seat.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Was she having a mental health crisis?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
See, this wasn't an accident because she went out of
her way to take off her clothes and wow, it
wasn't like she was sitting in the seat.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Something uncontrollable happened.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I would die.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
I would rather die a woman dump her dump her load. Man.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Let's be clear, our Southwest says, our teams are reaching
out to those on board to apologize.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I'm gonna apologize. She's the one who make took the dump.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
You didn't, But they also already suffered.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yes, if I got a free ticket for free ticket,
I'll put up with yes my next flight.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Nothing is more important to Southwest than the safety of
our customers and employees. Uh, they don't know what happened
to the passenger. They took the plane out of service, though.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
They had a lot of cleaning up to do. That's
so gross, that's.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Beyond That's why on a plane I always work like pants,
and not everybody does.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
And and well no I couldn't, by.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
The way, I got right exactly.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Okay, I was. I think everybody wears and.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
I I was in the airport last night. I can't
tell you how disgusting people are now when they travel.
I mean, really truly offensively disgusting. I mean, I'm stuck
behind a guy waiting to walk down the jetway.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Jesus, buddy, take a shower.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I mean, what, because you're not a hot and humid
it can get in the jetways when you're about to
board the plane. You're between the the gate. I stunk,
and I could see the sweat like building up on
his shirt.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
So gross.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
And also people dress so badly. And there's so much
weird hair out there. I don't know if you've noticed
this weird hair.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Weird hair. First of all, there's like way too many.
I'm gonna get in trouble. Yeah, you watch what you're
gonna say.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I don't want you suspended. Now that you're back from vacation.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I guess you just get on a plane. Not sure.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
There were just a lot of offensive things I saw. Okay,
we can imagine. Okay, we're going to be back that
he rapidly edits himself devor marksliding the CAFI twenty for
our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The John Cobalt
Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
We're back together again.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Yeah, we missed you.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I missed you too.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We're on from one till four every day and anything
you miss on the show, you get to hear after
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the millions of other people who tune in on the
podcast to keep track of whatever's going on here. First
thing we're going to do at one thirty, we're going
(00:32):
to have a retired Secret Service agent, Don Mahalakan, he's
an ABC News Law enforcement contributor, to talk about two stories.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
One is they.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Found the guy or they arrested the guy who stole
Christy Nomes purse and she had three thousand dollars in it.
I don't know what she's doing, but probably a shopping spree.
But you know, she's charge of Homeland security. And guess what,
it was an illgal alien who stole the purse. I
don't know if that was a political statement. We'll see
(01:04):
if Don knows. Also Luigi Mangioni, and he is that
pin up model murderer. By the way, do you see
the group that was protesting outside of Luigi Mangioni's hearing
last week. Yes, okay, there was a lot of seriously
overfed women there. I mean, I could see why they're
(01:26):
lonely and they're willing to idolize a killer. But wow,
maybe ezepic would be a better way to go.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Wow, no fat shaming this early in the program.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
No, But I mean if I was like, committed some
terrible crime and became like a cause.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Right, you would want hot women.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I would hope I get a better crowd than that.
That's for him. That's embarrassing. I mean, but we'll talk
to Don maybe not about that specifically coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So all right, I feel like I did.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
This this rant already just two three weeks ago, but
I'm gonna do it again because remember a couple of
weeks ago, I had a long weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina,
where one of my sons live lives, and then last
week I went to Sarasota, which has been a destination
(02:20):
for the family going back many decades.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
My wife's family moved there.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
When she was a teenager, and then we spent a
lot of time over the years with our kids and
grandma and grandpa and all that. And now we bought
a second home there, and it's a great getaway place.
But it is Sarasota County is a fairly decent sized
metro area. Charlotte is like top fifteen city for population.
So these aren't small rural backwaters. But like I said
(02:48):
about Charlotte, it's Sarasota. There are no problems. Start with
the gas again, all right, Well, just on Sunday, I
filled up the gas tank half a tank, ten gallons.
Thirty one dollars for ten gallons of gas.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, it was like three seven a gallon or something
like that, and I come here and it's five.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well, you know, Carl Demaia when he was filling in
for you, one of the things.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
He said, the reason we have high gas prices Governor Newsom.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
It is Governor Newsom.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
That's what he said.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
He's absolutely right, And that's what USC, the USC professor said,
who we spoke with right before my vacation, and it's like,
my god, I mean Newsom has tacked on what would
that be? That'd be a sixty seven percent penalty. Do
you realize it's a sixty seven percent Newsom tax? On
your gas because trust me, it's three bucks. Uh in Florida.
(03:50):
When I was in North Carolina it was two eighty seven.
So you know, I was reading statistics online. TRIPAA does
a constant day by day evaluation of prices in all
fifty states, and you know, you wonder is this really true?
Is this accurate? Well, I on the scene. I did
an on the scene investigation. Wow, and I filled up
(04:12):
half a tank for thirty one bucks. No homeless people.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Do you have alligators?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Though? Well, there was one restaurant we went to.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I saw the photo with the sign warning of alligators.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It's the restaurant's built over like a creek, like a lagoon,
and that's where alligators like to live in Florida.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, Why would I want to go there and live there?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
There was a warning.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I was sitting right next to the sign because we
were sitting right next to the wooden fence.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Did you see one?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
No, But I have seen.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Them in the area. I have seen them along the
side of the road. Along the side of the road,
there's these drainage gullies. Yeah, because that area of Florida
floods easily, and occasionally they get torrential rains and so
they have these these drainage gullies and you ride down
a two lane highway just you know, peer over the edge.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
It's like, oh there is.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Wow, he'd eat up and like one bike. Yeah, you
are a snack.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You're like, why I'm not retiring to Florida.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You're an order for these guys. And so there's no
homeless people, there's no encampments, there's no garbage. And you know,
I kept track of the LA news, and I kept
track of the dasa's State of the City speech last
week and her new budget and all that. I'm thinking,
(05:36):
you know, it's not that hard. It really isn't that hard.
I've got to two decent sized cities which has zero
percent of the issues here, and it's just I don't
care what excuses they give.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It's them.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's the person running the city, it's the person running
the state. It's Karen Bass and Gavin new some period.
End of story. I don't know what else to say,
but I realize human nature adapts very quickly, and people
forget very quickly. It's just the nature of our brains.
(06:14):
There's probably some evolutionary advantage to this, but you should
be aware how an evolutionary advantage maybe in Caveman times,
can become an evolutionary disadvantage now because you're putting up
with things that literally no one else in the country
is putting up with, and when you get away for
a week or two, it's like, oh, oh wow, this
(06:34):
is normal life. Look at this. Wow, this is fun.
This is the way it used to be, this is
the way I grew up. In fact, last week I
felt like I was on summer vacation when I was
seventeen years old, because there was just none of the
stress and tention of doing anything in Los Angeles. You know,
just going to the grocery store in LA really is
(06:57):
a pain in the ass because at the I go to,
they've had homeless people, they've had encampments, they've had shootings, they've.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
They've got all guy's armed security wander around.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It's a grocery store parking lot, for God's sakes, and
it's been a war zone.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I think things will be better in twenty twenty eight
for a little while because of the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
For the Olympics, yeah, they're gonna do how and how
are they gonna pull that on?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
They will.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Are a Karen, I believe.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
You have to have like a religious belief in her.
I mean, I just I was just astonished. You actually
you actually get a surge, you spend it a couple
of days, and you're really happy because there's an absence
of stress. I mean when when I left, I was
just having a big fight trying to get this encampment
(07:53):
which was a half mile from my house, which blocked
the walking sidewalk, you know, the sidewalk on the way
to the local drug store.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Couldn't do that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That was the guy who was chasing me with the
with the uh yeah, with the broomstick or the metal
pipe or whatever the hell he was waving around.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
It's like, this is not going on anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, on my way to the five dollars gas I
have to buy, there's a guy with a stick wanting
to kill me.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, we still live here.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I know.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, this is this is where you question. It's like maybe, no,
maybe I'm maybe I'm insane. We're insane for putting up
with this. There's some kind of collective insanity. And the
thing is you can't get into an argument with these people.
It's like, no, it's not like this everywhere else, and
there's no reason for this, for it to be like
this here.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And in San Francisco, they're waking up every day.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I read a story in San Francisco how people are
are happier and more positive and there's business coming back
because they have one guy, a mayor, Daniel Lourie, a
business guy who says, no, this is over with okay,
and you know, we have whatever it is we have.
I don't know what she is. And Newsom is Newsom
(09:03):
is insane. See, that's the thing. He's the crazy person,
a very effective crazy person, because he actually convinced and
brainwashed a significant part of the state that we're we're
supposed to live like this and that there's nothing he
can do about it, and that we have to live
like this, that we lack you know, compassion, we last lash,
(09:27):
lack caring for our fellow matter, whatever nonsense they spiel.
It's like, no, no, people don't lack caring and compassion.
We gave you billions of dollars. You are a criminal,
You're a thief. That's what these people are. They're criminals
and thieves, manipulating your mind to make you feel like
if you complain about it, Well, looks like you're cold
(09:48):
hearted and mean when we come back. So this is
what I'm coming back to. Apparently fifty five thousand county
workers are going on strike tonight, forty eight hours. First
time they've had a strike like this in LA County history.
(10:09):
And I laughed like hell. The strike could impact the
number of services, including homeless encampment enforcement. Oh really, I
think there's been a ten year strike with that department.
How would I notice the difference Homeless encampment enforce it.
They're unionized. They're unionized.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You believe this.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
The people who don't clean up the homeless encampments are
unionized and are threatening to strike and not clean up
the homeless encampments. Oh yeah, yeah, all right, we'll do that.
We got Don Mahallak to come on about Luji Mangione.
And also there's another story he's going to talk about
as well. Oh oh yeah, christin nom and they stolen handbag
and we don't know if it was a Burken bag yet.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Or to tell you a Burton in and out, but
I remind me, I have to tell you a.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Birken story, all right, a Perkin. Oh we got that
thing one thousand dollars to give away too.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
All right, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You know, I almost never read company emails on the
air company memos because I just don't need that hassle.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I trust me, and you hardly ever even read the emails.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Right. For for many years, I never looked at my email.
Maybe once every couple of months. There'd be twelve thousand
emails there, and ninety nine point nine percent of them
were nonsense. I've gotten a little better because it seems
now the the the advertising sales department is communicating more
(11:52):
and more by email, and if it has to do
with money, I'll read it. There's not money in it.
You got to you got to pay me to read
your email. However, I can't let this one go by.
In compliance with City of Burbank.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Regulations, I knew you were going to talk about this one.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
We are launching a mandatory composting program, effective immediately the
radio station. You didn't see the bucket in the kitchen, No,
oh yeah, there's a green bucket next.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
To the sink.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Composting pails have been placed in all break rooms. Look
for the small green bins with signage. Oh, they have
a sign explaining, yeah, what can be composted food scraps
including meat, bones, bones, dairy and produce, peels, coffee grounds,
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tea bags and leaves, eggshells, foods, so oiled paper, napkins,
paper tobbles, uncoded takeout containers. And then, of course there's
always a line about best practices always keep lids closed
to prevent odors and pests.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, makes sense.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
You want to prevent odors.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Don't let people microwave fish burritos, all right, that's where
the worst odors come from. If you have any questions,
feel free to reach out. I don't think you.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Want me to reach out. I do absolutely, please.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Please, we need some fun around here.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I don't compost, all right, it's against my religion. I
do not compost. That is, it's absurd. I don't care
what the City of Burbank says. All these cities are
run by insufferable Wieners. It's an insufferable Danny state. Let
me click on the helpful little guide here. Oh, it's
just a reiteration what I just read here. What materials
(13:57):
are compostable? And it's always got this condace sending you know,
public service announcement kind of tone. It's like, well, let
me tell you what materials are compostable, all right, so
you do this properly and you follow perceip No, you
follow best practices.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
God almighty, where's the other one here? Oh good?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
It can't open the second one because we can't open
the image file because it's nonsense.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
That's why. What this is?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Now? Food that rots? Okay, this is what I don't understand.
This is rotting food. Wherever you throw it, it's gonna rot.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I could throw it on the ground it rots. I
could throw it in a landfill. I could throw it
in this composting bin. It doesn't matter. A banana peel
is gonna turn brown and break apart and become.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Carbon I guess at some point. But here's what I
don't get.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
They got all these composting rules, but there's all this
filth on the streets, those all those garbage.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
What's more important?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
It's like, how come the outdoor people, the vagrants, they
don't have to compost.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Any people experiencing homelessness, the.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
People experiencing homelessness, the people unhoused.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Through no fault of their own.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
How come they're not required to compost or separate their
their food wrappings from their banana peels. I don't understand.
I've got to go through that. Got two letters for you. Yeah, yeah, speak.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
To me privately if you want to know what I
figure it out.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
If you have any questions about my two letters, feel
free to reach out. All right, Well, I'm not composting.
They can send me to compost prison.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
If they want. God, what's become of this world?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
You cannot You cannot walk the streets without being terrified, harassed, chased,
and that almost things happen, right. I have been chased,
Some people have been hit over the head, some people
have been killed, and we got these nitties worried about
(16:07):
my composting bin.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Something's got to change here.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
In the meantime, Just to complete my thought about the strike,
they have a guy named David Green, the executive director
and president of the union. Fifty five thousand members of
this union Local seven to twenty one Service Employees International
Union now now Los Angeles County is teetering because they
(16:39):
just had to cough up four billion dollars to pay.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Off sex abuse claims.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Because for decades, the people who work in the detention
system in La County buggered the juvenile prisoners, went on
for decades. Nobody cares. Now everybody wants money, and it's
four billion dollars. Why don't you take your complaints to
the people who are buggering those children because they cost
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the city taxpayers, the county taxpayers four billion. And I
got another one. Why don't you go to the homeless
people and tell them to get out of town. In fact,
this should be blamed actually on the all the people
who worked in a homeless encampment outreach because they did
their jobs very badly. We've blown billions of dollars on
(17:29):
the homeless.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
And now the.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
People who did their job badly are coming to me
and coming to you for a raise. Why would you
get a raise if you work in homeless encampment cleanup?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
You don't. You don't deserve a raise.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
And you didn't clean up homeless encampments very well, and
that's cost us billions of dollars. And that's why you're
not getting a raise. What's wrong with you? It's homeless
encampments and illegal aliens. Why don't you go complain about that?
Go to the neighborhoods where they were ilegal aliens go
to the homeless encampments and say, you know you people
aren't supposed to be here.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
You're costing me my rais And why do the animals
have to suffer?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
John?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Why do we have to close animal shelter.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
We're gonna get to that. We're gonna that makes me no.
I Karen Bass burn down your house and now she's
going to kill your dog. Okay, that's that's her campaign
for twenty twenty six. She kills dogs and cats and cats,
guinea pigs, rabbits.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Speaking of cats, it's another thing. I come home.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, cat, Apparently it was upset while we were gone.
Soaked a fabric cushion? What do you do about that?
See my wife? My wife is still.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Still taking dry cleaner.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
It's like, this is not good. Husband comes home, got
a soaked fabric cushion. I don't know what to do?
Dry cleaners?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Do you do that?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You can take it's a kind of a big cushion.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
It does it? Does the the cover come off the cushion?
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I didn't think of that. Oh yeah, I guess they zip,
don't they?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Some this is not this is nice. And if it
doesn't you got to get rid of it.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
If I didn't get married, I'd be sleeping in a
tent with all the other guys in the park.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I was gonna say, you should you should be home
alone right now. No, I shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
But then you also have to bring the pillow in
as well, because even if it has a cover, it
soaked through.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Oh yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I just threw it down on the back porch to
dry in the sun, hoping, hoping it's not gonna smell.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
All right, you're listening to John Cobel's on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Well, in the last few days, we've had the Homeland
Security Secretary Christy Nome. She had her purse stolen right
from her from under a chair. She was at a
restaurant Washington, d C. On Easter Sunday. She was eating
with her family and somebody stole her bag, which had
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three thousand dollars in it, and her passport and her makeup.
Let's talk to Don mohollock about that, and about the
Luigi and Mengoni circus as well. He is the ABC
News law enforcement contributor and retired Secret Service agent.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
How are you, Don Good?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Good?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
John how are you so, who's this guy they caught
swiping Christy Nome's bag.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Apparently it's two guys, one guy that just locked up
in Miami. They are a conspiracy that's been causing set
in and around d C for a while now. Apparently MPD,
the Metropromt Police Department, has been looking for these guys.
They've had a rash of these type of perse snatchings
and grabs, and on this particular day, these individuals picked
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the wrong purse to snatch. The secretary was as you
talked about, she was out at a burger joint in
DC with her family for dinner. She had her purse
at her feet someplace. These guys were able to somehow
manipulate to get the purse from her, and I took
the purse out. I stole the purse. One guy got
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caught in her somewhere around DC, and the other guy
got caught actually then in Miami. Who was apparently an
illegal alien. So the next stop maybe Salvador.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
How how does somebody get under her chair at a
restaurant considering who she is the secretary of Department Homeland Security.
I mean, you're a former Secret Service agent. I don't
does she get security when she goes out in public
like that?
Speaker 6 (21:28):
So the secretary is the secret Service secret Service detail.
It's nowhere near what people see the president or the
vice president have. It's a much you know, smaller detail.
And on these private settings, family outings, you know, they
try to give the secretary space so she can be
with her family and do family stuff. So they're not
up on the table. You know, they have eyesight. They're
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responsible to make sure the secretary stay safe, but they're
not necessarily tracking her her purse or you know, presidents
she brings or anything like that that's not within their
per you and watching the secretary to make sure nobody
does anything to her. And uh, you know, she had
it on the floor out of you which for most
people who have a spouse or a girlfriend, you know,
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there's there's there's purse etiquette in public to make sure
you keep eyes on the purse at all times, to
keep it somewhere secure, that kind of thing. Yeah, why
she put it on the floor, I don't know. And
they were able to get it while it was on
the floor onto the table.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I just wonder what happened was this guy crawling on
his hands and knees underneath her underneath her chair.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
I don't know if it was that or he walked,
but you gotta remember, see it's this is a public setting.
So she's in the middle of a restaurant or in
a restaurant with her family. Uh, there's other people around her,
other diners around her. Now what amazes me is like
she's not an unknown individual between her ads, she's done
on TV and everything else. You know, it's a pretty
known figure. So you know, these guys targeted her purse
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to snatch, which was the wrong purse to match. And
I don't know what that says so much about the
crime in DC, that these guys are so brazen as
the seal of Secretary's perset in broad daylight in Washington,
d C. I think it's some commentary there about the
crime going on in DC.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Right, yeah, yeah, they must feel there's no consequences. But
the guy, the guy who's here illegally, I mean, he's
got three hundred and forty million people to rob. You
rob the Department of Homeland Security secretary when you're an
illegal alien, that's the woman you decide to rob.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
John. I think that goes I think that goes to
the few good men quote of Colonel Nathan Jessip. They
screwed with the wrong marine. They certainly did that.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
That just apparently this guy isn't, you know, keep track
of the news. I mean, it's not like she's unknown.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Now clearly, clearly they were. They're not watching a lot
of TV or reading many newspapers or anything.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Because if I'm a thing, we picked the wrong If
I'm a thief and I'm here illegally, I'm keeping her
photo in my wallet just to make sure I don't
accidentally Robert.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
No kidding. Yeah, yeah, My guess is Tom Holman's got
a plane, a plane ready for them right now.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah. Yeah, they're going home and not coming back, all right.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
In the other case, Luigi Mangione not guilty, pled to
murdering the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Everybody's aware of
this case. They're going after him for the death penalty.
And why does it turn from a simple murder that
you normally would see a state prosecutor be in charge of.
(24:40):
How did it turn into a federal death penalty case?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Well, so he is charged on a state level for murder.
So New York State got him for the murder, but
it's also a federal crime because of the bysday nature
he fled, so made a refugitive and he went to Pennsylvania,
so that gave it a federal nexus, so to speak,
and the federal government exercises nexus based upon the fact
that he fled multi jurisdiction he had. You know, he
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targeted a CEO of a major US corporation and assassinated
him in broad daylight, so they were the federal government.
The Southern Dissute of New York was able to establish
that nexus to prosecute him and now to seek the
death penalty against him. His non guilty plea was not
in common That's typically what happens because the defense attorney
in needs time to kind of figure this out, and
(25:29):
hopefully not a road comes to a plea agreement short
of the death penalty. But if this doesn't happen, and
this goes through a full criminal trial and he's found guilty,
there'll actually be two trials. There'll be the actual credile
criminal trial about the crimes, and then if he found
guilty and the charges of death penalty eligible, they'll have
a separate trial for the death penalty. To establish whether
(25:52):
he actually gets the death penalty or not.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
He had several rows of supporters, crazy people, and we
know why why they're supporting him. How I mean to
go to trial, you have to hope someone like one
of those supporters ends up on the jury. Because he
did it on video. There's no question he did it well.
(26:15):
They found the evidence on him. So the only hope
is somebody engaging in jury nullification. We get an oj
Simpson scenario here, right or if?
Speaker 6 (26:26):
But you know, the federal government is pretty good at
these these That's why the federal most US attorneys always
have about a ninety nine percent conviction rate. Yeah, so
they're going to use their their objections during the vlid
year of the jury to punt people that show any
type of sympathy towards him. So his chances of this occurring,
of him getting a jury that is anyway favorable to him.
(26:50):
You know, they'll be impartial. But like you said, the
evidence is the evidence, and it's hard to not you know,
it's hard to refute the evidence right as.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I would say, Guilt is not the issue here. The
issue is how badly are you going to punish him?
Is he going to go away for life or is
he going to go to the death chair or maybe
he gets parole in fifty years something like that. But
there's no question he did it.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
It wouldn't surprise me if his defense attorney doesn't put
it through some psychological evaluation as to try to determine
if he wasn't mentally competent at the time of the
crime and try to and try to play that angle
going at the trial.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
All right, well, listen, good talking with you again.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
New job.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Don Mahallack.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
He's ABC News law enforcement contributor, retired Secret Service agent,
and it's always good speaking with him. All right, Two o'clock,
John Many ah Man. So the Pope, the Pope expired
last week.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I'm glad. I'm glad I was off the air and
the funeral or Saturday.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Right, I really haven't been tracking, Yes, Saturday, okay, And
now they're going to have the conclave and everybody's waiting
for the puff of smoke.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
By the way, I've submitted my name to the concert. Really, yes, yes,
So there's not a great chance, but a small chance,
you know, if there's a big fight, I could be
a compromise candidate. Uh, we've got We've got John Manley
on because he represented I don't know how many victims
of the UH child sex abuse priests here in the
(28:22):
Archdiocese of Los Angeles, you know, the Roger mahoneyer, And
they sent Roger Mahoney of all people, as the archdiocese
representative to Rome for the funeral, which is unbelievably offensive
and obnoxious. What that makes me, you know, because I
was here. It's like now things are different. Now you
(28:43):
know that would never happen again, you know, and we
understand the pain that we've caused. No, you don't understand it.
You're sending Mahoney is the ambassador from LA.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
That's why I'm glad it's off.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I'm not good with UH when people die, and it's
the kind of person that you're supposed to revere.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Are people adore them?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I know, Yeah, we've talked about that.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Off the I'm not the best person I take off
high profile funerals.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
I know you do.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
When we come back, though, this is the I was
just on a plane last night. As I mentioned, this
is the worst passenger you could be seated next to.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
When we come back, you're listening to John Cobels on
demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Right after two o'clock. Could you believe they sent Roger Mahoney.
Actually his first name is disgraced, disgraced Cardinal Roger Mahoney,
and he is a disgrace. Roger Mahoney covered up all
the a lot of the child rapists that were employed
(29:49):
by him as priests back in the eighties, nineties, two
thousands when he was the Cardinal of Los Angeles, and
we had a lot to do with the unmasking of
Ardinal Mahoney. And actually I thought I was done. I thought,
actually I thought he was dead. Really I did him.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Phony Blogoney mahoney or something like that.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yes, very good, that was one of our better rhymes. Yes,
phony Bologne mahoney. Anyway, they sent him to Rome to
be the official representative from the Alley Archdiocese for the
Pope Francis funeral and John Manley, who represented I don't
know how many victims, but this was one of the largest,
(30:39):
maybe the largest settlement. No, I guess this would be
the largest settlement that any church ever had to make
A billion and a half dollars for eighteen hundred victims.
Talk about this thing with Manley coming up Okay, So
I was on a plane last night. Nothing happened. But
(31:03):
on this Southwest flight to Chicago, imagine you're sitting next
to this woman. This was at Chicago's Midway Airport. Saturday.
Flight for eighteen from Philadelphia arrived. One passenger got up,
She took off her clothes and emptied her bobbles on
(31:25):
a plane seat.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Oh are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
No, she stripped naked and booped on her seat.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Was she having a mental health crisis?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
See, this wasn't an accident because she went out of
her way to take off her clothes and wow, it
wasn't like she was sitting in the seat.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Something uncontrollable happened.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I would die.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
I would rather die a woman dump her dump her load. Man.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Let's be clear, our Southwest says, our teams are reaching
out to those on board to apologize.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I'm gonna apologize. She's the one who make took the dump.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
You didn't, But they also already suffered.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yes, if I got a free ticket for free ticket,
I'll put up with yes my next flight.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Nothing is more important to Southwest than the safety of
our customers and employees. Uh, they don't know what happened
to the passenger. They took the plane out of service, though.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
They had a lot of cleaning up to do. That's
so gross, that's.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Beyond That's why on a plane I always work like pants,
and not everybody does.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
And and well no I couldn't, by.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
The way, I got right exactly.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Okay, I was. I think everybody wears and.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
I I was in the airport last night. I can't
tell you how disgusting people are now when they travel.
I mean, really truly offensively disgusting. I mean, I'm stuck
behind a guy waiting to walk down the jetway.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Jesus, buddy, take a shower.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I mean, what, because you're not a hot and humid
it can get in the jetways when you're about to
board the plane. You're between the the gate. I stunk,
and I could see the sweat like building up on
his shirt.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
So gross.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
And also people dress so badly. And there's so much
weird hair out there. I don't know if you've noticed
this weird hair.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Weird hair. First of all, there's like way too many.
I'm gonna get in trouble. Yeah, you watch what you're
gonna say.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I don't want you suspended. Now that you're back from vacation.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I guess you just get on a plane. Not sure.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
There were just a lot of offensive things I saw. Okay,
we can imagine. Okay, we're going to be back that
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our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The John Cobalt
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