September 24, 2025 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (09/24) - Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about the city of LA figuring out a way to avoid laying off city workers. More on LA avoiding having to lay off city workers. The escalator and teleprompter stopped working for Pres. Trump at the UN yesterday. Previewing the interview with Santa Monica Mayor Lana Negrete.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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to listen to what you've missed. Same as the radio show.
We did a lot in the first hour about the
shooting in Dallas today of the three illegal aliens who
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were being processed at a detention center and some crazy
anti ICE guy started firing a rifle from another snapper's
position on a rooftop and he killed one, wounded two,
and then killed himself. The bullets that were met for
ICE agents and I know this because it's said so
on his bullet anti Ice, but he missed all the
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ICE agents and only got the immigrants being processed. And
we've also played a lot of Gavin Newsom, who was
doing a PEP rally on Stephen Colbert last night trying
to whip up anger towards ICE. More on that later next.
Lennon Negrete, she's the mayor of Santa Monica. She is
taking issue with what I've been saying about Santa Monica
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over the last few days, actually the last few years,
and she posted a video and inserted my face in
the middle of the video. So we'll talk to her.
We asked her to come on. She said yeah, but first,
as the circus continues, Michael monks, because you got Santa
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Monica being out of money, you got La being out
of money. But miraculously, yesterday Mayor Bass held a public
event and said that, well, we don't have to lay
off anybody. It was supposed to be sixteen hundred, now
it's zero. And Michael's gonna explain this magic trick here.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's quite a magic trick. In fact, back in April,
those sixteen hundred layoff were proposed by Mayor Baths herself.
She creates a suggested budget and it goes to the
city council and then they do their hacking and their
maneuvering and figure out what the priorities are and they
craft a budget that then goes back to her her
excuse me. By the time that they got back to her,
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the city had closed this billion dollar budget shortfall and
saved about a thousand of those jobs. There were still
six hundred people on the shopping block, but they all
hoped that at some point, in some way, they'd be
able to save those hundreds of city jobs. And that's
what the mayor announced yesterday, is that they were able
to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Did they get an unexpected windfall? Did someone die and
leave the city an inheritance?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Know?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
What they got was different positions in different departments. So
if you may have had a let's say you were
a guy who cleaned the windows at the city building,
you might be cleaning the windows at the airport now
or at the Port of Los Angeles. Well, other agencies
they ship exactly city agencies or city related agencies.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Or other departments. Are they really said to the airport
there are airport jobs. No. No, I'm just wondering if
they're going to keep doing their same job and they're
just listed under a different No. No.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
People were moved into different positions other departments. A lot
of the jobs represented by unions took some concessions, not
necessarily of course, on their pay, but for example, a
lot of the police officers will bank their overtime hours.
And in fact, the city councilman Monic Rodriguez was on
the Bill Handle Show this morning with Nil Savedra, and
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this is how she explained the maneuvering at the end.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Of the day that people are still losing out in
terms of the services in the city from the cuts.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
That were achieved or were done to our.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Graffiti abatement, to street services, sidewalk repairs, street lighting, all
of those things her still being affected by these cuts. So, yes,
we were able to avoid layoffs, and that's always a
good thing.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
There will be furloughs though, right there.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Are furloughs, and there were a lot of compromises. LAPD
a lot of their overtime is going to be banked,
so that's ultimately going to cost more.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So what you're saying there is we may a lot
of cuts in the budget process in order to close
that billion dollars shortfall. A lot of public facing services
still got cut, but everybody saved their job.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The job for these people is just somewhere else right now.
That's exactly. So we're not going to have the people
to clean up the graffiti or to fix the street lighting.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
But people are still employed and you're still on a
humanity level, that's great news. But if you're not getting
the services as a tax paying itsident.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
That's all I care about it. I know you lack humanity, Bob.
Like Gavin Newsome, I'm a narcissistic sociopath. I can't help it.
I don't understand. So I'm not going to get the
services anymore. But at least these people still have their
jobs giving the services in some other department not directly
connected to the city, that's right.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Or I'm still connected to the city, but not necessarily
doing what they were doing before. So the other key here,
as I've sat through all of those grueling budget meetings
in the spring up until they passed the budget, you.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Did something terrible in a previous life, I think I did, yeah,
and probably in this life.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah. But there were projections. They don't just make the
budget for this year. They are told what to expect
for the next several years.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And it's not good. It's not good for the next
several years.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So I thought, you know, my own understanding of local government,
maybe they should go ahead and just bite the bullet
and lay these folks off. Sad as that is, because
their financial outlook is not improving, and so they may
find themselves in a similar position when the time to
craft next fiscal year budget comes around in the spring.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
And here's the weird thing.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
John.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Last Friday, the city council voted for the expansion of
the La Convention Center. I don't think many people dispute
whether that convention center needs to be expanded or cleaned
up to be more competitive. It's been thirty years since
the last time. But with their financial condition, it seems
a strange choice because it's a two point six billion
dollar project that basically guarantees they're going to have another
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one hundred million dollars worth of debt payments coming out
of their pockets as soon as next Year's City controller,
Keneth Mahia is beside himself. Here's what he said about
the decision.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
We are still on the hook to find an additional
one hundred four million dollars for the next thirty years,
and so I'm afraid financially because I do not know
where we're going to find one hundred four million dollars
each year for the next thirty years. And the city
just keeps over estimating revenues. There's no controls. It's it
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mind boggles me how the city is handling its finances.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You don't want the city controller to say there are
no controls, and it mind boggles me how the city
is handling its finances.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Well, what's his role in that? He does he have
any power to say stop, don't we can't do this?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yes, excuse me again. He has the power to recommend,
that's it. Yeah, and the power of some oversight and
some auditing and those sorts of things. And he may
be able to audit some some different categories.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
So he has audits from time to time, and then
everybody ignores them. That's right.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
In fact, that ignoring, he says, ignoring his proposed audit
of the homeless spinning in the city is how the
city ended up with those attorneys that I think you've
talked about, Yes, and that massive attorney bill, another underestimated expenditure,
right that many many times more than what they had
already budgeted.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Six million dollars for fifteen attorneys, And you heard it
from the controller there.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Now, every year for the next thirty years, this city
that was already in a billion dollar budget hole just
this year, has to find another one hundred four million
dollars this year, next year, the year after that to
pay for this convention center expansion. Wish Mayor Bass signed
into law today.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And she doesn't talk about any of this publicly, it's
always Ray Rob pep rally stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
They think by closing the budget gap and keeping these
folks jobs that they have done the right thing, that
they have done the right thing for as she says Angelino's.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
But graffiti's not going to get cleaned up. I'm sure
the sanitation Department's going to be that la is so
disgustingly dirty as I'm sure you know, I do know.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I'll tell you this being downtown, well, one of the
things that none of the many things did you hear
from downtown residents, who, by the way, supported this expansion
because they think it'll be important economic driver down there,
so to a lot of the civic and business organizations.
The mayor says, with this expansion project that she signed
today to make it official, she says that they're also
going to have more police foot patrols, they are going
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to have more mental health.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
People down there. But there broke well, I guess you'll
see LAPD banking those overtime hours to be paid off.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
When I tell you this, when we get together in
this room in about six months in spring, when it's
time for the budget to be crafted again, I hope
we save this conversation because I'm very anxious to see
what the projected deficit is by.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Then and how many layoffs they're proposed. All right, Michael Monks, excellent,
Thank you very much. AFI News.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Mois sign eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven
seven only to eighty six or used the talkback feature
on the iHeartRadio app. After three o'clock, we're gonna have
the mayor of Santa Monica coming on, Lanna ne Grete. Really,
she went online and she's not happy about what I'm
saying about Santa Monica, and so she wants to talk
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and we invited her on the show. And you'll hear
that right after three o'clock. Oh, you just heard Michael
Monk's son. You know, there's nothing more phony than government budgets.
And I'm not gonna get lost in the weeds here
because it's all nonsense. Right. They claim they were a
billion dollars short. They this is Karen Bass, and you
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know she's she's in over her head, she's incompetent, she
can't count, she's you know, a cashtro girl. You know,
she's just she's not fit to be the mayor of anywhere,
but she gets elected in La basically because of her
gender and her race. But as far as actual qualify pations, no,
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that's pretty much zero. And you can see as it
played out. The place is overrun with the legal aliens,
homeless people, mental patients, vagrants. City services are next to nothing.
The streets are in total disrepair. It is like being
I don't know, maybe in maybe Palace, maybe Gaza after
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Israel got through that. That's what some of the roads
are like. I've never been to Gaza, but when I
drive in La City streets, this reminds me of Gaza. Seriously,
it's really bad, incredible amounts of garbage, especially around the
homeless encampments. She's a complete failure, but she does these
weird happy dances in these press conference every few days,
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and she had one yesterday, which Michael Monks I think
saw through because there were supposed to be sixteen hundred
layoffs to help fill the billion dollar deficit, and now
they filled the billion dollar deficit and there were no layoffs,
and so these people have been reassigned, like to go
work at the airport or some other quasi city related agency,
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except their jobs are still gone. There's nobody's gonna be
picking up the garbage, and nobody's going to be painting
over the graffiti, and nobody's going to be fixing the
street lights. You know, they've been reassigned somewhere else. That's
not going to help out your life and help out
what's going on in your block. But she does a
big victory dance because she balanced the budget. Now you
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heard Michael's report, I hope you did. Let's play this
Channel seven report and see how how they covered it.
Seems the same thing. This is ABC seven sid Garcia.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Labor and city leaders were all smiles earlier today as
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced there will be no
layoffs for this fiscal year.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
I remember in April when I gave my State of
the City speech and unfortunately had to announce that the
state of the economy and our budget in the city
at that time in April of this year, was going
to result in the potential layoff of sixteen hundred city workers. Well,
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I am here today to tell you that this has
been completely everted, I.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Should say everted. So how did the city do it?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
It? Was facing. How Mayor Bass describes it, a terrifying
billion dollar budget deficit. In Layman's terms, the heads of
city departments were able to fill vacancies with current employees.
The city got creative and shuffling city employees around.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
This was always about protecting our skilled city workforce who
have trained for years and honed their crafts as building inspectors,
truck operators, mechanics.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
A second, the way they they're presenting it is if
everybody moved around a differ departments within the city. But
if that was true, that's still the same amount of
money you have to pay these people. You haven't saved
any money unless you get them off the City of
Los Angeles payroll. Training everybody around in different departments doesn't accomplish.
That doesn't save a penny. You have to farm them
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out and put them under put them under an expense
column that is not directly connected to the city, like
the airport. The airport has its own budget, you see.
Maybe they'll explain that coming up. Play some more.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Truck operators, mechanics, engineers, city planners, street lighting electricians, crime
and intelligence officers, zoo animal keepers, and so many more
roles that are responsible for the delivery of vital services
to Angelino's.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
The city's twenty twenty five twenty twenty six budget is
fourteen billion dollars and there are approximately fifty thousand city employees.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
As of now, the billion dollar deficit was closed and
as this budget is implemented, we are projecting structural balance
in the following fiscal year, along with surpluses in years
three and four.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
This is more than a budget decision, This is a
promise kept to the people who keep our city running
every single day, from sanitation crew to S three services,
from clerks to cross the sanitations and emergency responders. Our
city workers are the backbone of Los Angeles and.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
Those who happened laid off have been called back to
work according to the city.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Wow, that report sucked. That's stunk, sid Garcia. His reports
have popped up on our radar before. That was terrible.
It makes no sense if they're moved to other departments,
those departments are still spending the same city money. They
were moved to a two different budgets, not the actual
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city but city related agencies that are off the city
books and they have their own fiscal structures. That's terrible
and the city is disgustingly dirty. What what is that
other woman talking about sanitation hardest work? Oh? Stop it. Wow,
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these are terrible reports. Michael played it out right. These
people are still gonna work, They're gonna work for different agencies.
They're not gonna have their old jobs. No one's gonna
do their old jobs. So you're not gonna have people
working in street lighting or graffiti abatement or in sanitation.
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They'll be doing something else, somewhere else. So why couldn't
they be c seven? Did they not understand? Did they
not ask the questions? Does anybody pay attention? Will you
get your news the KFI way or you can get
it the local news way? And no wonder people don't
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respond the way they should and vote the way they
should because nobody knows what's going on, and there's nobody
around to tell them. Well, we're gonna keep trying. Coming up.
So Trump's escalator ride to his UN speech, the escalator stopped,
telepropter broke down, and just by coincidence, UN employees were
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heard joking about stopping his escalator before he arrived. Not
a conspiracy theory, actually true, and there's a secret service
investigation now that's next.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
We're on everyday one and to four o'clock and if
you miss stuff, eh, we have the podcast same as
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iHeartRadio app John Cobolt Show on demand. Coming up after
three o'clock, Lana Negrete is gonna come on with us.
Lanta is the mayor of Santa Monica. In Santa Monica,
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they have a city council and they rotate who's mayor.
It's her turn. We had Phil Brock on a few
times last year when he was mayor. Lana is coming on.
She is a little miffed at what I've been saying
on the air about the city of Santa Monica. But
I'm just telling everybody what I see with my own eyes.
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I've lived in the area long enough and it's it's
got a lot of trouble. Well, she wants to talk
O well, actually she you know, she put out some
criticism and then we called her and she said she'd
come on. So we'll see what that's like. Coming up
after three o'clock. Now, you know, at first I thought
this is just you know, conspiracy theory nonsense, but it's not.
(18:09):
Trump went to the United Nations yesterday and he told
off the world and I got to tell you, I
enjoyed it. That's what I wish. That's what I've always
wanted to do. Stand before all those pompfoons of the
United Nation and just tell them off on how they're
ruining the world. Their countries are a mess. Illegal immigration
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has ruined Europe, it really has, and their green energy
policies were absurd, and it's screwed up their economies. He's
just tell them the truth. And everybody's appalled and offended
because he is so blunt and rude about it. But
that's the only way to cut through because otherwise they
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talk in diplo speak, in government babble. These people are
one of the worst generations of leaders, you know. And
and and they they've made they've made the economies and
the way of life in Europe so much worse. And
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because my wife and I've flown there a number of times,
and you know, it's it's like witnessing Santa Monica. You
just trust your own eyes, do you know what's going on? Well,
the same thing's happened was happening here. We were blowing
hundreds of billions of dollars on green energy nonsense. We
had illegal aliens running amock, criminals and gang members harming people.
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We got tons of drugs being imported into the country,
and Trump has said stop it enough, and he's actually
stopped it. He's closed the border, he has stopped a
lot of the drug flow. He's blown up the ships
in Venezuela that are trying to cart more more drugs here,
and they're chasing all the criminals out of Washington, d C.
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He's shut down all the wasteful green energy projects because
that was a racket. Is a racket. So he's threatened
every once in a while to cut the UN budget,
and the UN workers don't like him. And apparently some
of the workers, and this is from the Lunday the
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London Sunday Times, they overheard employees joking about stunts they
could pull to highlight the funding shortage because the Trump
administration is withholding money. We put in billions. So one
of the ideas they were kicking around was to turn
off the escalators and the elevators, and then when Trump complained, say, oh,
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we ran out of money and force him to walk
up the stairs. And guess what happened. Malania steps on
the escalator and then Trump does and immediately it stopped.
And you know, she's wearing those really high heels, and
she almost toppled over.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
Oh trust me, I've yeah, I can relate to that.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
You wear the same kind.
Speaker 11 (21:10):
Yeah, I do. Yeah, And mind the little the heel
gets stuck sometimes in right different places.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
And so she started wobbling and she had to grab
the she had to grab the arm rest, and they
both looked over to the right. And this didn't occur
to me the first time I saw it, but you know,
later on I heard people saying, what the hell was
the Secret Service? Because that would be a great distraction
to freeze the two of them, and and and while
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everybody's trying to figure out the escalator, somebody could take
a shot at them, somebody could do something to kill them.
And both of them look kind of scared in the
moment because they stopped and they both look to the right.
It's like, what is this Secret Service? Didn't move? I
think they hired a lot of it must have been
during the DEI or they hired a lot of bad
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Secret Service agents. They have fired quite a few, but
they got to cycle them through the system, and they
got to train new ones. Because these agents there, their
shoes must have been nailed to the ground. So anyway,
Malania is wobbling. Trump stops and stares, and it looks
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like maybe the U and staff members actually did this.
They turned off the escalators as soon as they because
the escalator is working fine all day. They step on
the escalator and it stops, and then Trump starts his
speech and the teleprompter stops. Well, he went on an
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hour anyway, probably mostly off the top of his head.
Here is what he said at the beginning of the speech.
Speaker 10 (22:48):
I don't mind making this speech without a teleprompter because
the teleprompter is not working.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I feel very happy.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
To be up here with you. Nevertheless, and that way
you speak more from the heart. I can only say
that whoever's operating this teleprompter is in big trouble.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Some teleprompter breaks, the escalator breaks. You mentioned Biden was
left up there last year without a teleprompter. Uh uh
would have went on for an hour then. According to
Katie Pavlich, who's a reporter with town Hall or Communist,
she said, the audio inside the press room was much
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lower and different for Trump than all the other speakers.
Caroline Levitt, the President's press secretary, So when you put
all this together, the teleprompter, the escalator, the audio, it
doesn't look like a coincidence. So the US Secret Service
is investigating it. And if we find that UN staffers
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were purposely trying to trip up Little really trip up
the President and the first Lady, well there better be
a accountability for these people, and I will personally see
to it. They were working this in this story is
from the London Times too. The yeah, they were working
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perfectly until Milania first stepped foot on one.
Speaker 12 (24:24):
All right, Oh they're playing the video of them walking up.
Oh yeah, yeah, I see. You see on the left
side the escalator going up isn't working, but the one
on the right is working. Yeah, So why did they
stop just the one that Trump and Millennia were on,
Because Trump and Millennia were on it exactly. Yeah, it
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was a targeted attack of that escalator. And he later said,
there's two things I got from the United Nations, a
bad escalator and a bad teleprompter. And it was now
now the UN is trying to deny all this. They said, well,
the escalator was the safety mechanism that was inadvertently triggered
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by someone who was ahead of the president.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Well who the escalator is immediately reset and in operation. Wow,
what a coincidence. The one minute that Trump's on the escalator,
somebody hits a switch. Regarding the teleproptery, we have no comment.
We don't operate that teleprompter. Also, they said that the
the video feed of his speech was switched to a
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foreign language and suddenly there was like a closed caption
on the screen and Trump's words were obscured because they
had to they this this, this had this had to
be this, this had to be coordinated. I mean they really,
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they really are trying to kill him. Guys almost aid
years old. You could have fallen down the escalator. They
missed time to stop by a few seconds. That's that's
where we're living now, all right, Lennon to Grette coming
up after three o'clock, the mayor of Santa Monica. I
know what I'm seeing in Santa Monica. We're going to
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talk about it with her. Coming up.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
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Speaker 1 (26:24):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock and
then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on
the iHeart app. We are going to have the Mayor
of Santa Monica, Lennon to Grete. I just watched her
full video that she posted. I guess that was on Instagram.
It was a lengthy statement and there was a piece
of it about how somebody told her about a radio
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host and that radio host has lots of listeners and
I was talking about Santa Monica and you can follow
the show for four and five minutes. You know what
I've witnessed in Santa Monica over the last few years.
And she says, well, I've only been there since December. Well,
we'll talk. She put a photo of me in the
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middle of her speech. I just suddenly popped up on
the screen. There, Oh you're famous. I well, she'd mentioned
my name, she just my photo, like this is the
jackass right here. Okay, they should have had a little
red arrow pointing at me. She didn't want to say
her name, but she wanted to show your face. Yeah.
So uh we called her and said you want to
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come on, and she said she would, and I listened
to her. It was a lengthy speech, and there wasn't
much I disagreed with in terms of a worldview on
how we should get our head out of our screens.
And we have these curated algorithms feeding us a lot
of bad information, and we should be talking to each
other and getting civically involved. Most of what she's saying
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is true, but I don't know what she's upset with me. Well, well,
well we'll find out coming up. I mean, you know,
by the way, feel free to chime in, because you
were talking about being in Santa Mona.
Speaker 11 (28:03):
I'm terrified of being in Santa Monica. I love Santa Monica.
I told you one of my dreams was to live
in Santa Monica one day. And if Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Now, I think a lot of people misunderstand. I'm not
just here too aggressively wax Santa Monica.
Speaker 11 (28:20):
No, we would like to go back to Santa Monica, right,
You and your wife would like to go shopping at
Santa Monica place again.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
We all would like to.
Speaker 11 (28:27):
Go to the restaurants in the beach and all of
that and feel safe.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, I'm disappointed. Yeah, like I'm sad me too. I mean,
between that and the Palisades burning on my side of town.
We've got nowhere to go. We really don't. We did
most of our fun stuff in Santa Monica and Palisades.
Speaker 11 (28:45):
Santa Monica is a tourist destination as well, so it
needs to be safe for people that want to come
and visit and people like us who live in southern
California and we want to go to Santa Monica and hang.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Out, which pretended when you live on the west side,
a lot of people tend to go to the west
for fun, like Santa Monic compalses because going to the
east requires crossing the four h five.
Speaker 11 (29:07):
Well, it's us valley people. Going to your side is
a big pain in the butt.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
You're former valley person. You've upgraded to the mountaintop. Don't
mislead people.
Speaker 11 (29:18):
That's still part of the San Fernando Valley, right, but.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
You're not down below anymore. You look down on those people. Oh, John,
she's not at the peak, but she's on a hill.
Yeah she is, it's not at the very top.
Speaker 12 (29:32):
Well that's true, John, Deborah might as well give her
address out.
Speaker 11 (29:39):
Oh there's nothing to steal there.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Let me just tell you, all right, well, we'll we'll
have Lennon and Grette on and that'll be in just
a couple of minutes. Deborah Mark live in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The
John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show
live on CAFI A six forty from one to four
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pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on
demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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from one until four o'clock, and then after four o'clock
you can go to the John Coblt on demand podcast
to listen to what you've missed. Same as the radio show.
We did a lot in the first hour about the
shooting in Dallas today of the three illegal aliens who
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were being processed at a detention center and some crazy
anti ICE guy started firing a rifle from another snapper's
position on a rooftop and he killed one, wounded two,
and then killed himself. The bullets that were met for
ICE agents and I know this because it's said so
on his bullet anti Ice, but he missed all the
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ICE agents and only got the immigrants being processed. And
we've also played a lot of Gavin Newsom, who was
doing a PEP rally on Stephen Colbert last night trying
to whip up anger towards ICE. More on that later next.
Lennon Negrete, she's the mayor of Santa Monica. She is
taking issue with what I've been saying about Santa Monica
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over the last few days, actually the last few years,
and she posted a video and inserted my face in
the middle of the video. So we'll talk to her.
We asked her to come on. She said yeah, but first,
as the circus continues, Michael monks, because you got Santa
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Monica being out of money, you got La being out
of money. But miraculously, yesterday Mayor Bass held a public
event and said that, well, we don't have to lay
off anybody. It was supposed to be sixteen hundred, now
it's zero. And Michael's gonna explain this magic trick here.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's quite a magic trick. In fact, back in April,
those sixteen hundred layoff were proposed by Mayor Baths herself.
She creates a suggested budget and it goes to the
city council and then they do their hacking and their
maneuvering and figure out what the priorities are and they
craft a budget that then goes back to her her
excuse me. By the time that they got back to her,
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the city had closed this billion dollar budget shortfall and
saved about a thousand of those jobs. There were still
six hundred people on the shopping block, but they all
hoped that at some point, in some way, they'd be
able to save those hundreds of city jobs. And that's
what the mayor announced yesterday, is that they were able
to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Did they get an unexpected windfall? Did someone die and
leave the city an inheritance?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Know?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
What they got was different positions in different departments. So
if you may have had a let's say you were
a guy who cleaned the windows at the city building,
you might be cleaning the windows at the airport now
or at the Port of Los Angeles. Well, other agencies
they ship exactly city agencies or city related agencies.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Or other departments. Are they really said to the airport
there are airport jobs. No. No, I'm just wondering if
they're going to keep doing their same job and they're
just listed under a different No. No.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
People were moved into different positions other departments. A lot
of the jobs represented by unions took some concessions, not
necessarily of course, on their pay, but for example, a
lot of the police officers will bank their overtime hours.
And in fact, the city councilman Monic Rodriguez was on
the Bill Handle Show this morning with Nil Savedra, and
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this is how she explained the maneuvering at the end.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Of the day that people are still losing out in
terms of the services in the city from the cuts.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
That were achieved or were done to our.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Graffiti abatement, to street services, sidewalk repairs, street lighting, all
of those things her still being affected by these cuts. So, yes,
we were able to avoid layoffs, and that's always a
good thing.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
There will be furloughs though, right there.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Are furloughs, and there were a lot of compromises. LAPD
a lot of their overtime is going to be banked,
so that's ultimately going to cost more.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So what you're saying there is we may a lot
of cuts in the budget process in order to close
that billion dollars shortfall. A lot of public facing services
still got cut, but everybody saved their job.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The job for these people is just somewhere else right now.
That's exactly. So we're not going to have the people
to clean up the graffiti or to fix the street lighting.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
But people are still employed and you're still on a
humanity level, that's great news. But if you're not getting
the services as a tax paying itsident.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
That's all I care about it. I know you lack humanity, Bob.
Like Gavin Newsome, I'm a narcissistic sociopath. I can't help it.
I don't understand. So I'm not going to get the
services anymore. But at least these people still have their
jobs giving the services in some other department not directly
connected to the city, that's right.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Or I'm still connected to the city, but not necessarily
doing what they were doing before. So the other key here,
as I've sat through all of those grueling budget meetings
in the spring up until they passed the budget, you.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Did something terrible in a previous life, I think I did, yeah,
and probably in this life.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah. But there were projections. They don't just make the
budget for this year. They are told what to expect
for the next several years.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And it's not good. It's not good for the next
several years.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So I thought, you know, my own understanding of local government,
maybe they should go ahead and just bite the bullet
and lay these folks off. Sad as that is, because
their financial outlook is not improving, and so they may
find themselves in a similar position when the time to
craft next fiscal year budget comes around in the spring.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
And here's the weird thing.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
John.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Last Friday, the city council voted for the expansion of
the La Convention Center. I don't think many people dispute
whether that convention center needs to be expanded or cleaned
up to be more competitive. It's been thirty years since
the last time. But with their financial condition, it seems
a strange choice because it's a two point six billion
dollar project that basically guarantees they're going to have another
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one hundred million dollars worth of debt payments coming out
of their pockets as soon as next Year's City controller,
Keneth Mahia is beside himself. Here's what he said about
the decision.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
We are still on the hook to find an additional
one hundred four million dollars for the next thirty years,
and so I'm afraid financially because I do not know
where we're going to find one hundred four million dollars
each year for the next thirty years. And the city
just keeps over estimating revenues. There's no controls. It's it
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mind boggles me how the city is handling its finances.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You don't want the city controller to say there are
no controls, and it mind boggles me how the city
is handling its finances.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Well, what's his role in that? He does he have
any power to say stop, don't we can't do this?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yes, excuse me again. He has the power to recommend,
that's it. Yeah, and the power of some oversight and
some auditing and those sorts of things. And he may
be able to audit some some different categories.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
So he has audits from time to time, and then
everybody ignores them. That's right.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
In fact, that ignoring, he says, ignoring his proposed audit
of the homeless spinning in the city is how the
city ended up with those attorneys that I think you've
talked about, Yes, and that massive attorney bill, another underestimated expenditure,
right that many many times more than what they had
already budgeted.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Six million dollars for fifteen attorneys, And you heard it
from the controller there.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Now, every year for the next thirty years, this city
that was already in a billion dollar budget hole just
this year, has to find another one hundred four million
dollars this year, next year, the year after that to
pay for this convention center expansion. Wish Mayor Bass signed
into law today.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And she doesn't talk about any of this publicly, it's
always Ray Rob pep rally stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
They think by closing the budget gap and keeping these
folks jobs that they have done the right thing, that
they have done the right thing for as she says Angelino's.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
But graffiti's not going to get cleaned up. I'm sure
the sanitation Department's going to be that la is so
disgustingly dirty as I'm sure you know, I do know.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I'll tell you this being downtown, well, one of the
things that none of the many things did you hear
from downtown residents, who, by the way, supported this expansion
because they think it'll be important economic driver down there,
so to a lot of the civic and business organizations.
The mayor says, with this expansion project that she signed
today to make it official, she says that they're also
going to have more police foot patrols, they are going
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to have more mental health.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
People down there. But there broke well, I guess you'll
see LAPD banking those overtime hours to be paid off.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
When I tell you this, when we get together in
this room in about six months in spring, when it's
time for the budget to be crafted again, I hope
we save this conversation because I'm very anxious to see
what the projected deficit is by.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Then and how many layoffs they're proposed. All right, Michael Monks, excellent,
Thank you very much. AFI News.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Mois sign eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight seven
seven only to eighty six or used the talkback feature
on the iHeartRadio app. After three o'clock, we're gonna have
the mayor of Santa Monica coming on, Lanna ne Grete. Really,
she went online and she's not happy about what I'm
saying about Santa Monica, and so she wants to talk
(09:19):
and we invited her on the show. And you'll hear
that right after three o'clock. Oh, you just heard Michael
Monk's son. You know, there's nothing more phony than government budgets.
And I'm not gonna get lost in the weeds here
because it's all nonsense. Right. They claim they were a
billion dollars short. They this is Karen Bass, and you
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know she's she's in over her head, she's incompetent, she
can't count, she's you know, a cashtro girl. You know,
she's just she's not fit to be the mayor of anywhere,
but she gets elected in La basically because of her
gender and her race. But as far as actual qualify pations, no,
(10:01):
that's pretty much zero. And you can see as it
played out. The place is overrun with the legal aliens,
homeless people, mental patients, vagrants. City services are next to nothing.
The streets are in total disrepair. It is like being
I don't know, maybe in maybe Palace, maybe Gaza after
(10:26):
Israel got through that. That's what some of the roads
are like. I've never been to Gaza, but when I
drive in La City streets, this reminds me of Gaza. Seriously,
it's really bad, incredible amounts of garbage, especially around the
homeless encampments. She's a complete failure, but she does these
weird happy dances in these press conference every few days,
(10:47):
and she had one yesterday, which Michael Monks I think
saw through because there were supposed to be sixteen hundred
layoffs to help fill the billion dollar deficit, and now
they filled the billion dollar deficit and there were no layoffs,
and so these people have been reassigned, like to go
work at the airport or some other quasi city related agency,
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except their jobs are still gone. There's nobody's gonna be
picking up the garbage, and nobody's going to be painting
over the graffiti, and nobody's going to be fixing the
street lights. You know, they've been reassigned somewhere else. That's
not going to help out your life and help out
what's going on in your block. But she does a
big victory dance because she balanced the budget. Now you
(11:34):
heard Michael's report, I hope you did. Let's play this
Channel seven report and see how how they covered it.
Seems the same thing. This is ABC seven sid Garcia.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Labor and city leaders were all smiles earlier today as
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced there will be no
layoffs for this fiscal year.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
I remember in April when I gave my State of
the City speech and unfortunately had to announce that the
state of the economy and our budget in the city
at that time in April of this year, was going
to result in the potential layoff of sixteen hundred city workers. Well,
(12:16):
I am here today to tell you that this has
been completely everted, I.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Should say everted. So how did the city do it?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
It? Was facing. How Mayor Bass describes it, a terrifying
billion dollar budget deficit. In Layman's terms, the heads of
city departments were able to fill vacancies with current employees.
The city got creative and shuffling city employees around.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
This was always about protecting our skilled city workforce who
have trained for years and honed their crafts as building inspectors,
truck operators, mechanics.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
A second, the way they they're presenting it is if
everybody moved around a differ departments within the city. But
if that was true, that's still the same amount of
money you have to pay these people. You haven't saved
any money unless you get them off the City of
Los Angeles payroll. Training everybody around in different departments doesn't accomplish.
That doesn't save a penny. You have to farm them
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out and put them under put them under an expense
column that is not directly connected to the city, like
the airport. The airport has its own budget, you see.
Maybe they'll explain that coming up. Play some more.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Truck operators, mechanics, engineers, city planners, street lighting electricians, crime
and intelligence officers, zoo animal keepers, and so many more
roles that are responsible for the delivery of vital services
to Angelino's.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
The city's twenty twenty five twenty twenty six budget is
fourteen billion dollars and there are approximately fifty thousand city employees.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
As of now, the billion dollar deficit was closed and
as this budget is implemented, we are projecting structural balance
in the following fiscal year, along with surpluses in years
three and four.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
This is more than a budget decision, This is a
promise kept to the people who keep our city running
every single day, from sanitation crew to S three services,
from clerks to cross the sanitations and emergency responders. Our
city workers are the backbone of Los Angeles and.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
Those who happened laid off have been called back to
work according to the city.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Wow, that report sucked. That's stunk, sid Garcia. His reports
have popped up on our radar before. That was terrible.
It makes no sense if they're moved to other departments,
those departments are still spending the same city money. They
were moved to a two different budgets, not the actual
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city but city related agencies that are off the city
books and they have their own fiscal structures. That's terrible
and the city is disgustingly dirty. What what is that
other woman talking about sanitation hardest work? Oh? Stop it. Wow,
(15:28):
these are terrible reports. Michael played it out right. These
people are still gonna work, They're gonna work for different agencies.
They're not gonna have their old jobs. No one's gonna
do their old jobs. So you're not gonna have people
working in street lighting or graffiti abatement or in sanitation.
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They'll be doing something else, somewhere else. So why couldn't
they be c seven? Did they not understand? Did they
not ask the questions? Does anybody pay attention? Will you
get your news the KFI way or you can get
it the local news way? And no wonder people don't
(16:16):
respond the way they should and vote the way they
should because nobody knows what's going on, and there's nobody
around to tell them. Well, we're gonna keep trying. Coming up.
So Trump's escalator ride to his UN speech, the escalator stopped,
telepropter broke down, and just by coincidence, UN employees were
(16:40):
heard joking about stopping his escalator before he arrived. Not
a conspiracy theory, actually true, and there's a secret service
investigation now that's next.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
We're on everyday one and to four o'clock and if
you miss stuff, eh, we have the podcast same as
the radio show, moves even quicker. You go to the
iHeartRadio app John Cobolt Show on demand. Coming up after
three o'clock, Lana Negrete is gonna come on with us.
Lanta is the mayor of Santa Monica. In Santa Monica,
(17:20):
they have a city council and they rotate who's mayor.
It's her turn. We had Phil Brock on a few
times last year when he was mayor. Lana is coming on.
She is a little miffed at what I've been saying
on the air about the city of Santa Monica. But
I'm just telling everybody what I see with my own eyes.
(17:42):
I've lived in the area long enough and it's it's
got a lot of trouble. Well, she wants to talk
O well, actually she you know, she put out some
criticism and then we called her and she said she'd
come on. So we'll see what that's like. Coming up
after three o'clock. Now, you know, at first I thought
this is just you know, conspiracy theory nonsense, but it's not.
(18:09):
Trump went to the United Nations yesterday and he told
off the world and I got to tell you, I
enjoyed it. That's what I wish. That's what I've always
wanted to do. Stand before all those pompfoons of the
United Nation and just tell them off on how they're
ruining the world. Their countries are a mess. Illegal immigration
(18:31):
has ruined Europe, it really has, and their green energy
policies were absurd, and it's screwed up their economies. He's
just tell them the truth. And everybody's appalled and offended
because he is so blunt and rude about it. But
that's the only way to cut through because otherwise they
(18:51):
talk in diplo speak, in government babble. These people are
one of the worst generations of leaders, you know. And
and and they they've made they've made the economies and
the way of life in Europe so much worse. And
(19:12):
because my wife and I've flown there a number of times,
and you know, it's it's like witnessing Santa Monica. You
just trust your own eyes, do you know what's going on? Well,
the same thing's happened was happening here. We were blowing
hundreds of billions of dollars on green energy nonsense. We
had illegal aliens running amock, criminals and gang members harming people.
(19:35):
We got tons of drugs being imported into the country,
and Trump has said stop it enough, and he's actually
stopped it. He's closed the border, he has stopped a
lot of the drug flow. He's blown up the ships
in Venezuela that are trying to cart more more drugs here,
and they're chasing all the criminals out of Washington, d C.
(19:58):
He's shut down all the wasteful green energy projects because
that was a racket. Is a racket. So he's threatened
every once in a while to cut the UN budget,
and the UN workers don't like him. And apparently some
of the workers, and this is from the Lunday the
(20:19):
London Sunday Times, they overheard employees joking about stunts they
could pull to highlight the funding shortage because the Trump
administration is withholding money. We put in billions. So one
of the ideas they were kicking around was to turn
off the escalators and the elevators, and then when Trump complained, say, oh,
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we ran out of money and force him to walk
up the stairs. And guess what happened. Malania steps on
the escalator and then Trump does and immediately it stopped.
And you know, she's wearing those really high heels, and
she almost toppled over.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
Oh trust me, I've yeah, I can relate to that.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
You wear the same kind.
Speaker 11 (21:10):
Yeah, I do. Yeah, And mind the little the heel
gets stuck sometimes in right different places.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
And so she started wobbling and she had to grab
the she had to grab the arm rest, and they
both looked over to the right. And this didn't occur
to me the first time I saw it, but you know,
later on I heard people saying, what the hell was
the Secret Service? Because that would be a great distraction
to freeze the two of them, and and and while
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everybody's trying to figure out the escalator, somebody could take
a shot at them, somebody could do something to kill them.
And both of them look kind of scared in the
moment because they stopped and they both look to the right.
It's like, what is this Secret Service? Didn't move? I
think they hired a lot of it must have been
during the DEI or they hired a lot of bad
(21:58):
Secret Service agents. They have fired quite a few, but
they got to cycle them through the system, and they
got to train new ones. Because these agents there, their
shoes must have been nailed to the ground. So anyway,
Malania is wobbling. Trump stops and stares, and it looks
(22:18):
like maybe the U and staff members actually did this.
They turned off the escalators as soon as they because
the escalator is working fine all day. They step on
the escalator and it stops, and then Trump starts his
speech and the teleprompter stops. Well, he went on an
(22:40):
hour anyway, probably mostly off the top of his head.
Here is what he said at the beginning of the speech.
Speaker 10 (22:48):
I don't mind making this speech without a teleprompter because
the teleprompter is not working.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I feel very happy.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
To be up here with you. Nevertheless, and that way
you speak more from the heart. I can only say
that whoever's operating this teleprompter is in big trouble.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Some teleprompter breaks, the escalator breaks. You mentioned Biden was
left up there last year without a teleprompter. Uh uh
would have went on for an hour then. According to
Katie Pavlich, who's a reporter with town Hall or Communist,
she said, the audio inside the press room was much
(23:36):
lower and different for Trump than all the other speakers.
Caroline Levitt, the President's press secretary, So when you put
all this together, the teleprompter, the escalator, the audio, it
doesn't look like a coincidence. So the US Secret Service
is investigating it. And if we find that UN staffers
(23:58):
were purposely trying to trip up Little really trip up
the President and the first Lady, well there better be
a accountability for these people, and I will personally see
to it. They were working this in this story is
from the London Times too. The yeah, they were working
(24:18):
perfectly until Milania first stepped foot on one.
Speaker 12 (24:24):
All right, Oh they're playing the video of them walking up.
Oh yeah, yeah, I see. You see on the left
side the escalator going up isn't working, but the one
on the right is working. Yeah, So why did they
stop just the one that Trump and Millennia were on,
Because Trump and Millennia were on it exactly. Yeah, it
(24:46):
was a targeted attack of that escalator. And he later said,
there's two things I got from the United Nations, a
bad escalator and a bad teleprompter. And it was now
now the UN is trying to deny all this. They said, well,
the escalator was the safety mechanism that was inadvertently triggered
(25:08):
by someone who was ahead of the president.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Well who the escalator is immediately reset and in operation. Wow,
what a coincidence. The one minute that Trump's on the escalator,
somebody hits a switch. Regarding the teleproptery, we have no comment.
We don't operate that teleprompter. Also, they said that the
the video feed of his speech was switched to a
(25:33):
foreign language and suddenly there was like a closed caption
on the screen and Trump's words were obscured because they
had to they this this, this had this had to
be this, this had to be coordinated. I mean they really,
(25:55):
they really are trying to kill him. Guys almost aid
years old. You could have fallen down the escalator. They
missed time to stop by a few seconds. That's that's
where we're living now, all right, Lennon to Grette coming
up after three o'clock, the mayor of Santa Monica. I
know what I'm seeing in Santa Monica. We're going to
(26:17):
talk about it with her. Coming up.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock and
then after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on
the iHeart app. We are going to have the Mayor
of Santa Monica, Lennon to Grete. I just watched her
full video that she posted. I guess that was on Instagram.
It was a lengthy statement and there was a piece
of it about how somebody told her about a radio
(26:47):
host and that radio host has lots of listeners and
I was talking about Santa Monica and you can follow
the show for four and five minutes. You know what
I've witnessed in Santa Monica over the last few years.
And she says, well, I've only been there since December. Well,
we'll talk. She put a photo of me in the
(27:10):
middle of her speech. I just suddenly popped up on
the screen. There, Oh you're famous. I well, she'd mentioned
my name, she just my photo, like this is the
jackass right here. Okay, they should have had a little
red arrow pointing at me. She didn't want to say
her name, but she wanted to show your face. Yeah.
So uh we called her and said you want to
(27:32):
come on, and she said she would, and I listened
to her. It was a lengthy speech, and there wasn't
much I disagreed with in terms of a worldview on
how we should get our head out of our screens.
And we have these curated algorithms feeding us a lot
of bad information, and we should be talking to each
other and getting civically involved. Most of what she's saying
(27:52):
is true, but I don't know what she's upset with me. Well, well,
well we'll find out coming up. I mean, you know,
by the way, feel free to chime in, because you
were talking about being in Santa Mona.
Speaker 11 (28:03):
I'm terrified of being in Santa Monica. I love Santa Monica.
I told you one of my dreams was to live
in Santa Monica one day. And if Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Now, I think a lot of people misunderstand. I'm not
just here too aggressively wax Santa Monica.
Speaker 11 (28:20):
No, we would like to go back to Santa Monica, right,
You and your wife would like to go shopping at
Santa Monica place again.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
We all would like to.
Speaker 11 (28:27):
Go to the restaurants in the beach and all of
that and feel safe.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, I'm disappointed. Yeah, like I'm sad me too. I mean,
between that and the Palisades burning on my side of town.
We've got nowhere to go. We really don't. We did
most of our fun stuff in Santa Monica and Palisades.
Speaker 11 (28:45):
Santa Monica is a tourist destination as well, so it
needs to be safe for people that want to come
and visit and people like us who live in southern
California and we want to go to Santa Monica and hang.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Out, which pretended when you live on the west side,
a lot of people tend to go to the west
for fun, like Santa Monic compalses because going to the
east requires crossing the four h five.
Speaker 11 (29:07):
Well, it's us valley people. Going to your side is
a big pain in the butt.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
You're former valley person. You've upgraded to the mountaintop. Don't
mislead people.
Speaker 11 (29:18):
That's still part of the San Fernando Valley, right, but.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
You're not down below anymore. You look down on those people. Oh, John,
she's not at the peak, but she's on a hill.
Yeah she is, it's not at the very top.
Speaker 12 (29:32):
Well that's true, John, Deborah might as well give her
address out.
Speaker 11 (29:39):
Oh there's nothing to steal there.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Let me just tell you, all right, well, we'll we'll
have Lennon and Grette on and that'll be in just
a couple of minutes. Deborah Mark live in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The
John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show
live on CAFI A six forty from one to four
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