September 12, 2025 • 27 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (09/12) - Jamie Paige comes on the show to talk about why LA is such a dump despite having a huge clean up budget. Mayor Bass has hired a new chief of staff and Gov. Newsom pledged more money to high-speed rail. Rounds 1 & 2 of the Moist Line.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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after four o'clock John Cobelt's show on demand. The first
hour we covered extensively, in great detail, the arrest of
(00:24):
Tyler Robinson, the man who killed Charlie Kirk. So if
you want all the information and analysis, Alex Stone was
on with us. We focused on some clips from the governor,
who I wish was our governor. Spencer Ross didn't even
know the guy but before this week and I'm already sold.
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He could be president and we should be California's governor.
And I don't know, Gavin Newsom should go run like
an ice cream shop or a toy store or something
something inconsequential. Los angelesly are a disgusting dirty city. A
recent study by a carpet cleaning company called oxy Fresh
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said the Los Angeles metro second dirtiest in the United States.
Another report by the lawn care company lawn Starter los
Angeles second dirtiest city in the nation. And this is
all part of an article Jamie Page did for Westside
Current dot com talking about the millions of dollars that
LA spends on cleaning up the city and yet the
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place still looks like a dump. Let's get Jamie Page
on Hi John, Hi, how are you? You know? You
open this set? You go ahead? Sorry we we uh
oh you're well. LA has a huge budget and you
open up your piece about uh older volunteers who try
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to clean up garbage in their neighborhoods on their own.
I think the La Times also had a story about
a similar group, and it's like people are being forced
to act like the sanitation department because the sanitation apartment
that these people fund with their taxes will not show
up what is going on in the city.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I think it's also worth noting those two studies that
you talked about on the top. Those studies are actually
done by scientists, so it's not just this oxyclean company doing.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
A random study.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
There's a lot of science involved with the studies that
said that we are the second dirty oft city.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
And the other part is is yes, there are a
ton of volunteer groups that are out there. We see
them all the time.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
But the city, the county, and the state all get
funding to clean up our community, and it still looks
like a dump.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You can't drive anywhere right now and not see trash
on freeways, on on and out off ramps in the city,
in the county. The one thing that I highlighted in
this story is all of us as journalists went to
the Annenberg crossing, that ninety million dollar bridge to see
the letters put on that bridge, and there was trash
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all around the bridge, never mentioned in any story. But
you can't drive by it and not think there's garbage
all over the place.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's where the animals are supposed to across from one
side of the other.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yes, yeah, well, I mean and I'll it's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well, you have a quote in here from Karen Bass
at an Encino Community Zoom meeting and she says, I'm
not sure if you guys notice this, but we don't
really have street cleaning anymore. LA is dirty and this
and has a very interesting history of being dirty. Oh
and I'm looking at this is like you, well, you're
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the mayor in charge of the sanitation department. If it's
dirty it's because you allow it to be dirty. Am
I wrong here?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Well, the budget is also decided by the city council,
and they have had significant budget cuts.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Last budget season.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Last year they cut street cleaning from once a week
to every other week. It's noticeable if street cleaning even
gets to certain areas. If you read the comments on
our stories, folks say they haven't seen a street sweeper
in a year. You know, that's just people commenting. We
have to follow up and report on it.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
But I almost I almost never see street sweepers. I
drive all over the West Side every day. I don't
even know what one looks like in La.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Well, you have a neighbor in Westwood who has been
emailing us with pictures and photos of everybody getting tickets
on their street but not seeing a street sweeper. And
they've been documented for almost a year now, and so
they never see anybody sweeping, but they certainly see people
getting tickets.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
For not moving their cars.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That I see, I see parking enforcement going after cars
because people try to obey the signs that say no
parking street sweeping Thursday one to three pm. People do
their best, some people screw up or don't care and
they get the tickets, but the actual sweepers and the
fifth the filth along the ramps, like along the four
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or five on an off ramp apps and the bridges,
the overpasses so disgusting, so foul, and past goes well, yeah,
you know, LA is pretty dirty. What's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
We've become a complacent or something.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I just took a road trip, which is why I
did this story, and as soon as I left Los Angeles,
it was clean. I went all the way to Minnesota
with my three dogs and it was clean everywhere, no
matter what size the city.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Was, what the community was. As soon as I came
back dirty again.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I'm here in Burbank, right the border to La Is
I don't know, maybe a half mile away to get
to Touluca Lake. Burbank is clean. It's just clean. Then
there's no homeless people and there's a little crime. And
Burbank is partly surrounded by la So it's just nonsense.
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It's Karen Bass And if the city council won't put
the money in, that's what a veto pen is for.
That's when she should be hold That's when she should
be yelling in front of the TV. Cameras instead of
carrying on about ice all the time.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
My point was we should hold all of them accountable,
not just the mayor, the city council, who also decides
on what our budget is spent on. These are quality
of life issues that we really have to keep talking about.
We are wasting money on one issue and we need
to be spending it on another.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Why don't they have any pride in the city. There's
a lot of cities that pride themselves on being safe
and clean. Isn't there a single member of the city
council that is said, come on, this place is literally
a garbage dump.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I mean, you're right, we need they need to take
pride in the city, or we need to hold them
accountable if they don't. That's where elections play in. You
and I have talked about this before, but people need
to wake up. They need to know what they're voting for.
The city is dirty, it's disgusting and as you pointed out,
you can't.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Drive anywhere without seeing the trash all over our city.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, so I don't understand. And and she has a
way of saying, yeah, wow, there's a problem, man, it's
pretty dirty here. With that, like apologizing that you've not
done a bad job here and things are going to
get fixed tomorrow. And who's running who's running the sanitation department?
What knucklehead has that that job?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
That's a good question.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yes, you and I would all we were held accountable
for what we do and what progress we make at
our jobs. But it feels like the city it's business
as usual, meaning we're going to do the least amount
for what resources we have. We don't understand it when
it comes to just this visible and it's the broken
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windows theory as well too. If somebody sees trash, they're gonna.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Throw out trash, and.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
That is part of what we're seeing right now as
well too.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
There was all story about in downtown huge amounts of
produce have been dumped on streets and sidewalks and then
somebody cleans it up after a TV station does a
story and the next day there's more produce dumped.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
And that's what Jill, who.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I interviewed for the story said.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Construction workers just throw their trash.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Like whatever it is debris now because they see other
people throwing the debris. And we can't forget about encampments
as well. Too, the tons of trash that we pick up.
I mentioned this in my story. We're not doing anything
to prohibit the encampments from being there, but when they're.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
There, we clean for them. Every Friday or whatever day
it is that we do.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
The cleaning, and then when they leave, we spend textpayer
dollars on cleaning up the entire mess that was left behind.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
All right, Thank you for coming on. Jamie. By the way,
the name of the lughead who runs the sanitation department
in La is Raymond Tromblay. Raymond Tromblay. Horrible job, Raymond.
I don't know what you do all day, but you're
not picking up the trash. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Take care all right.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
That is Jamie Page with the Westside Current dot Com,
which is an excellent local news source, better than that
other thing in town. Deborah mah voiceline coming up in
just moments.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
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Speaker 2 (09:39):
This time for round one of the Moistlines. Hey Sean,
thanks for calling the Moistline.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
I'm so excited to hear from you about time.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
This whole La County, La City. I don't even live
there and it gets me so riled up. The people
running that city, county are so incompetent.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
They're incompetent for not.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Doing anything to straighten all this out, and the homeless
and the supulsit a basin. I can't do it anymore.
If the Justice Department is suing Edison for the eaton fires,
how is that going to help all the people that
have Edison. All they're going to do is raise all
our rates to cover paying the government back.
Speaker 9 (10:24):
How long before they give dignitary status to the good
old Gavin Newsom seven hundred fires and the sepublic a basement?
How many thousands or millions of tax dollars are being
spent by the fire department to put these fires out?
Speaker 10 (10:40):
Pro chip for all the illegal immigrants in the country
that don't have a criminal record.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
If you don't want to get rolled up in an immigration.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
Action, don't hang out with illegal immigrants with criminal records.
So what did all these liberal morons think was going
to happen when the Biden administration led in millions and
millions of people.
Speaker 11 (10:57):
It was all just a plan, get the camel's nose
under the tent and bring these people in to game
congressional districting and to game the presidential election.
Speaker 9 (11:09):
Hey, Gavin, I got the news.
Speaker 12 (11:11):
Yah, we're going to enforce the law when the like
it or not.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
Why we just deport everybody from the United States because
we all stole the land.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Whyn't you get mister Trumpy to do that?
Speaker 13 (11:24):
Wegs lot more than dogs voting illegally. Who do you
take all the homeless people end up voting for with
the ballot harvesting.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
And the illegal aliens in.
Speaker 14 (11:35):
The ballot harvest team, That's who keeps the Democrats in power.
Speaker 15 (11:40):
Baths and gruesome newsom need to live together, and they
need to live in a place where they're surrounded by
the homeless and the criminals causing all the problems and
the fires.
Speaker 13 (11:54):
You are doing the American public a disservice of allowing
these aliens to come into our country and to take
jobs away from Americans, So knock it off.
Speaker 12 (12:06):
They're trying to clean up the streets to make us together,
and she's got it all backwards.
Speaker 9 (12:10):
It's disgusting to.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Hear Mayor Bass talk about the vision when she's the run.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
Credian As Division.
Speaker 16 (12:16):
We finally have a United States Supreme Court that stands
up for the United States of America and for Americans
and legal citizens. Thank you United States Supreme Court.
Speaker 12 (12:32):
Yep, I'm really smiling every time I listened to the
news and hear about how all the LA politicians have
got their pannies in a wad over the Supreme Court
ruling about the illegal immigration being overruled.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I just came back from Miikikim and their gas was
four fifty nine, and I thought to myself, Wow, I'm
in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and gash here
is still cheaper than on the mainland.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
What the hell.
Speaker 14 (12:56):
Rhetoric goes both ways.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
We're talking about this gentleman in his life life.
Speaker 13 (13:00):
We're not talking about left right and whoever the hell.
Speaker 12 (13:03):
You believe in.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I may not agree with Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
At least not everything, but I do appreciate fact that
he did have.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Calm, respectful conversations.
Speaker 17 (13:12):
What the heck is wrong with people in Los Angeles.
We literally elected someone who with their responsibility to protect
the citizens of Los Angeles and Karen Bath. Yet he's
the one announcing the Turla number and directing people to
our neighborhoods to have them destroyed.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
When I shows up.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
We are truly in.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
A bizarre world.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
We need to wake up or I don't know how
much longer this can last. That guy who used to
be our mayor, he wants to bring affordability to Los Angelis.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Huh.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
That's such a joke.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
That word is used out of context throughout California and
it should no longer.
Speaker 9 (13:52):
Exist because it doesn't in California. Not only does that
poor dog have privacy rights when it votes and has
Miranda rights remain silent and a sixth Amendment right so
it does not have to testify itself. That dog has
more rights than you think.
Speaker 13 (14:06):
Thank you for leaving your message.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Please hang up, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
It's avoistline. Round one. Round two is going to come
up in about twenty minutes we come back. You know,
Gavin Newsom of the legislatures has agreed. Now they're going
to put in all right, so as we're at seventeen
years and about seventeen billion dollars for high speed rail
and no track, they are going to spend more money
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all the way to the year twenty forty five, twenty
more years of funding for high speed rail. Not making
this one up either. Tell you how much when we
come back. There's got to be somebody else. There's got
to be somebody else. Debora Mark, Maybe you no, you
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can do math better. Well, maybe maybe we can't fight
twenty for our newsroom.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
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Speaker 2 (15:16):
We're on every day from one until four, although today
it probably should have been one until three.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I just I just I don't know. Something happened in
the last hour, and I just think I need to
go to lie down for I have to lie down for.
You have two days to do it. Very intense week.
We've got the Moistline coming up in a few minutes.
I was just looking through my email. Daniel Gush has
sent me an email a Karen Bass press release. Everybody
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at city Hall really is insane. I don't know if
we can get a federal judge to issue some kind
of directive, some kind of restraining order and lock everybody
up the side. They're all nuts. Here's the press release.
Mayor Bass announces Mitch Cayman will be the new chief
of staff. I don't know who he is, but it's
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the second line. Cayman will continue the mayor's momentum moving
Los Angeles in a new direction, building on historic decreases
in homelessness, historic lows and homicide totals, comprehensive improvements in
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citywide safety, and the fastest disaster recovery in state history.
There's been no disaster recovery. What the hell is she
talking about. I'm excited to bring in Mitch, a season
leader and a status quot, a status quo disruptor, who
thought of that phrase? Who will elevate our momentum to
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move Los Angeles in a new direction. And then she
goes goes through all the historic this and that it's
just that I think they're doing well, or that they're
just so used to producing this bs knowing the news
media is going to cover it and not question it.
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I mean, I just don't understand. The place is a
disaster by any objective measure. It's a disaster. And she
hasn't shown any interest in anything in screaming at about
ICE agents who are enforcing the law. I here's another
insane person, Gavin Newsom. He made a deal with the legislature.
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The bullet train was supposed to be finished. I think
it was supposed to be finished in twenty twenty three,
wasn't it Originally? It is already blown through seventeen billion
dollars in seventeen years with no track, and now the
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legislature knews some agreed to spend another twenty billion on it.
They're gonna keep going. They're gonna put a billion dollars
a year in until twenty forty five. And it's gonna
be tax money. And I thought the original referendum said
there was gonna be no tax money used. There's no
tax money. And this is just to get me, said
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to Bakersfield that stretch. Now they have a new quack
named Ian Chowdry. And this guy has this this this
idea that he's going to get private money. But here's
the problem. Baker's to Bakersfield to merced they admit will
not be profitable. Really, it's not gonna be profitable to
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run a two hundred mile an hour train between Bakersfield
and merced because nobody really wants to go to either city.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
But in order to get these private investors interested, he
wants to build the rail from Gilroy to Palmdale, which
is even funnier than Bakersfield to Mercede Gilroy of Palmdale.
The only thing I know about Gilroy is the garlic festival.
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That is it, right? And it stinks like hell when
you drive through there. Oh if you like garlic, yeah,
I feel like garlic. And then Palmdale is Palmdale and
there's nothing we can do about that. Oh my god.
A billion a year and it's from it's from the
money they use to tax the oil industry, which is
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threatening to leave the state entirely. I don't understand. This
is well destructive. They're destroying the oil industry. They never
built the train. It's never gonna go La to San Francisco.
Nobody wants to go to Bakersfield and Merced and even
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fewer people want to go from Gilroy to Palmdale. Like
once you get to Palmdale, then what do you do?
Go to Lancaster and then go back to Gilroy. And
what goes out in Gilroy when they're not having the
garlic festival? Do they have another festival there? Like an
onion festival, a cilantro festival, anything good. I don't understand.
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And this whole thing is published in a newspaper like
it all makes sense, like there's nothing insane about this.
Bakersfielder mar said it's gonna cost at least thirty seven billion.
You know, it's gonna be much more than that. That's
already higher than the digital price of San Francisco to LA.
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And they're still they've been looking for investors into high
speed rail for I don't know, twenty five years. They
were looking for investors even before they put it on
the ballot in Oa, because if they had investors, then
they could sell this. Hey just approve a small amount
of borrowed money, and look at all these private companies
that are investing because it's going to make a profit
and we'll pay off the loans quickly. And they haven't
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been able to sell this for twenty five years. And
they think building a train from Gilroy to Palmdale, and
then suddenly investors are going to go, are you kidding me?
Gilroy to Palmdale? Oh, I'm in, I'm in. Here's a billion.
What's going on? What is going on? And I start
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to see this every day and I'm thinking, well, this
almost be fiction, right? Is this like some kind of
elaborate prank? Have I fallen into another dimension? I think
we have? And this new kook Ian chowdry he's the CEO.
He said, this is a historic commitment. This is the
new word that they use. Bass had several historics and
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hurt nonsense prpiece and now Ian Chowdrey is using the
word historic. What would be historic is if you laid
even one yard of railroad track. Okay, when you get
your first three feet of railroad track, then you could
say this is historic.
Speaker 13 (22:29):
You don't have that.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
We must work towards securing long term funding. Again, it's
been twenty five years, but you vote for this, Deborah Mark,
we have we have uh we got nextvoiceline high speed moistline.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
You need to go home.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You need to take a home. I know, I'm very tired.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
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Speaker 2 (23:03):
Let's do it round to the moistline. Man Sean, thanks
for calling the moistline.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
I'm so excited to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
To Mad Time.
Speaker 18 (23:13):
The United States and all who live here know where
all the illegal immigrants work. What did happen is they
could go after all the company that hire them.
Speaker 14 (23:25):
There's not a personal life that when that concert came
and the contributions we're asked for. We're thinking they would
go to a nonprofit and not the victims. You and
I know once a nonprofit gives the money, no victims
are never going to see a single penny. They're going
to go buy new cars and furniture and go on trips.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
The heat is off the ice finally, so maybe they
could clean up these.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Illegal alien clown houses that have popped up.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Another thing is all these street venders, all.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Of the restaurants have to be regulated, the street bunders,
none regulation, no regulation.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
They're all in the goal and.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Carry bass could give a game.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
It occurs to me that the left side, it's so
frustrated how they can do a shoot of us on
the right.
Speaker 15 (24:07):
Side, whether it's Trump of course twice and now Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
The shootings have got to stop.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yes, I think we need stricter gun laws. Before you
get a gun.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
You have to pass the mental stability test.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
So sorry, no more psychos of legal gun.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
A question about changing this shooting then Charlie Kirk get shot. Yeah,
sounded like that question was the signal to pull the trigger.
They ought to investigate the person who asked that question.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
We lost a hero and it wasn't because of the question.
Speaker 12 (24:40):
A shooter is going to take the opportunity that he
can get in and get out.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
He doesn't know what the heck anybody's saying. Bottom line
is the radical left.
Speaker 11 (24:48):
And the Democrats and the liberals, they're the ones that
caused the hassle.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
My son sent me a text telling me that Charlie
Kirk had been shot. I tried every FM radio station
was in this vehicle. I scanned them.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
Not one of them was talking about it.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
I finally put my phone on KFI. It was talked
about as soon as.
Speaker 17 (25:08):
It came on.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
So, yeah, we need AM radios in our cars.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
Everyone should vote no on Crop fifty.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
They're starting a.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
New category criminals.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
You've got rapist, murderers.
Speaker 17 (25:19):
Child lessors.
Speaker 8 (25:20):
The new one is non profit organizations.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
I love the way they advertise rewards.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
You might as well give the guy a million dollar reward.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
No one's going to get.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
The reward, No one ever does.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
If you ever think that you could be shot because
you think a guy is a guy and a girl
as a.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Girl, I wouldn't even know where to start.
Speaker 9 (25:38):
But in between the poo Ukrainian woman getting murdered and
then Charlie Kirk getting murdered. I think they will open
a sleeping giant and the far left is not being
able to handle it.
Speaker 14 (25:48):
What is The person that posed the question was involved
with the actual shooter and it.
Speaker 15 (25:54):
Was a setup.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Everybody needs to keep in mind your response and your
reaction to one something terrible happens to another human being
till the entire world exactly what kind of person you are?
Get the new stuff you're planning.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
It's on punching those sums of faith. Be careful, buddy,
don't break it down about.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
The getting punched like Kevin Newsome in the mouth. I'm suspected.
I feel like getting.
Speaker 10 (26:19):
Punched by a loaf of bread.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
I don't think anybody in Texas is worried about it.
Speaker 12 (26:23):
Mike, the only one noticed that Rodico or Craig Ray
last it got.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Loting on an argument.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
They respond with, mony, thank you for leaving your message.
Speaker 8 (26:33):
Please hang up, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
All right, enough of us, We'll be back on Monday.
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hour we covered extensively, in great detail, the arrest of
(00:24):
Tyler Robinson, the man who killed Charlie Kirk. So if
you want all the information and analysis, Alex Stone was
on with us. We focused on some clips from the governor,
who I wish was our governor. Spencer Ross didn't even
know the guy but before this week and I'm already sold.
(00:44):
He could be president and we should be California's governor.
And I don't know, Gavin Newsom should go run like
an ice cream shop or a toy store or something
something inconsequential. Los angelesly are a disgusting dirty city. A
recent study by a carpet cleaning company called oxy Fresh
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said the Los Angeles metro second dirtiest in the United States.
Another report by the lawn care company lawn Starter los
Angeles second dirtiest city in the nation. And this is
all part of an article Jamie Page did for Westside
Current dot com talking about the millions of dollars that
LA spends on cleaning up the city and yet the
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place still looks like a dump. Let's get Jamie Page
on Hi John, Hi, how are you? You know? You
open this set? You go ahead? Sorry we we uh
oh you're well. LA has a huge budget and you
open up your piece about uh older volunteers who try
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to clean up garbage in their neighborhoods on their own.
I think the La Times also had a story about
a similar group, and it's like people are being forced
to act like the sanitation department because the sanitation apartment
that these people fund with their taxes will not show
up what is going on in the city.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I think it's also worth noting those two studies that
you talked about on the top. Those studies are actually
done by scientists, so it's not just this oxyclean company doing.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
A random study.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
There's a lot of science involved with the studies that
said that we are the second dirty oft city.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
And the other part is is yes, there are a
ton of volunteer groups that are out there. We see
them all the time.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
But the city, the county, and the state all get
funding to clean up our community, and it still looks
like a dump.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You can't drive anywhere right now and not see trash
on freeways, on on and out off ramps in the city,
in the county. The one thing that I highlighted in
this story is all of us as journalists went to
the Annenberg crossing, that ninety million dollar bridge to see
the letters put on that bridge, and there was trash
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all around the bridge, never mentioned in any story. But
you can't drive by it and not think there's garbage
all over the place.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's where the animals are supposed to across from one
side of the other.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yes, yeah, well, I mean and I'll it's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Well, you have a quote in here from Karen Bass
at an Encino Community Zoom meeting and she says, I'm
not sure if you guys notice this, but we don't
really have street cleaning anymore. LA is dirty and this
and has a very interesting history of being dirty. Oh
and I'm looking at this is like you, well, you're
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the mayor in charge of the sanitation department. If it's
dirty it's because you allow it to be dirty. Am
I wrong here?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Well, the budget is also decided by the city council,
and they have had significant budget cuts.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Last budget season.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Last year they cut street cleaning from once a week
to every other week. It's noticeable if street cleaning even
gets to certain areas. If you read the comments on
our stories, folks say they haven't seen a street sweeper
in a year. You know, that's just people commenting. We
have to follow up and report on it.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
But I almost I almost never see street sweepers. I
drive all over the West Side every day. I don't
even know what one looks like in La.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Well, you have a neighbor in Westwood who has been
emailing us with pictures and photos of everybody getting tickets
on their street but not seeing a street sweeper. And
they've been documented for almost a year now, and so
they never see anybody sweeping, but they certainly see people
getting tickets.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
For not moving their cars.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That I see, I see parking enforcement going after cars
because people try to obey the signs that say no
parking street sweeping Thursday one to three pm. People do
their best, some people screw up or don't care and
they get the tickets, but the actual sweepers and the
fifth the filth along the ramps, like along the four
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or five on an off ramp apps and the bridges,
the overpasses so disgusting, so foul, and past goes well, yeah,
you know, LA is pretty dirty. What's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
We've become a complacent or something.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I just took a road trip, which is why I
did this story, and as soon as I left Los Angeles,
it was clean. I went all the way to Minnesota
with my three dogs and it was clean everywhere, no
matter what size the city.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Was, what the community was. As soon as I came
back dirty again.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I'm here in Burbank, right the border to La Is
I don't know, maybe a half mile away to get
to Touluca Lake. Burbank is clean. It's just clean. Then
there's no homeless people and there's a little crime. And
Burbank is partly surrounded by la So it's just nonsense.
(06:12):
It's Karen Bass And if the city council won't put
the money in, that's what a veto pen is for.
That's when she should be hold That's when she should
be yelling in front of the TV. Cameras instead of
carrying on about ice all the time.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
My point was we should hold all of them accountable,
not just the mayor, the city council, who also decides
on what our budget is spent on. These are quality
of life issues that we really have to keep talking about.
We are wasting money on one issue and we need
to be spending it on another.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Why don't they have any pride in the city. There's
a lot of cities that pride themselves on being safe
and clean. Isn't there a single member of the city
council that is said, come on, this place is literally
a garbage dump.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I mean, you're right, we need they need to take
pride in the city, or we need to hold them
accountable if they don't. That's where elections play in. You
and I have talked about this before, but people need
to wake up. They need to know what they're voting for.
The city is dirty, it's disgusting and as you pointed out,
you can't.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Drive anywhere without seeing the trash all over our city.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, so I don't understand. And and she has a
way of saying, yeah, wow, there's a problem, man, it's
pretty dirty here. With that, like apologizing that you've not
done a bad job here and things are going to
get fixed tomorrow. And who's running who's running the sanitation department?
What knucklehead has that that job?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
That's a good question.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yes, you and I would all we were held accountable
for what we do and what progress we make at
our jobs. But it feels like the city it's business
as usual, meaning we're going to do the least amount
for what resources we have. We don't understand it when
it comes to just this visible and it's the broken
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windows theory as well too. If somebody sees trash, they're gonna.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Throw out trash, and.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
That is part of what we're seeing right now as
well too.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
There was all story about in downtown huge amounts of
produce have been dumped on streets and sidewalks and then
somebody cleans it up after a TV station does a
story and the next day there's more produce dumped.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
And that's what Jill, who.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I interviewed for the story said.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Construction workers just throw their trash.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Like whatever it is debris now because they see other
people throwing the debris. And we can't forget about encampments
as well. Too, the tons of trash that we pick up.
I mentioned this in my story. We're not doing anything
to prohibit the encampments from being there, but when they're.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
There, we clean for them. Every Friday or whatever day
it is that we do.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
The cleaning, and then when they leave, we spend textpayer
dollars on cleaning up the entire mess that was left behind.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
All right, Thank you for coming on. Jamie. By the way,
the name of the lughead who runs the sanitation department
in La is Raymond Tromblay. Raymond Tromblay. Horrible job, Raymond.
I don't know what you do all day, but you're
not picking up the trash. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Take care all right.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
That is Jamie Page with the Westside Current dot Com,
which is an excellent local news source, better than that
other thing in town. Deborah mah voiceline coming up in
just moments.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
This time for round one of the Moistlines. Hey Sean,
thanks for calling the Moistline.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
I'm so excited to hear from you about time.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
This whole La County, La City. I don't even live
there and it gets me so riled up. The people
running that city, county are so incompetent.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
They're incompetent for not.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Doing anything to straighten all this out, and the homeless
and the supulsit a basin. I can't do it anymore.
If the Justice Department is suing Edison for the eaton fires,
how is that going to help all the people that
have Edison. All they're going to do is raise all
our rates to cover paying the government back.
Speaker 9 (10:24):
How long before they give dignitary status to the good
old Gavin Newsom seven hundred fires and the sepublic a basement?
How many thousands or millions of tax dollars are being
spent by the fire department to put these fires out?
Speaker 10 (10:40):
Pro chip for all the illegal immigrants in the country
that don't have a criminal record.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
If you don't want to get rolled up in an immigration.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
Action, don't hang out with illegal immigrants with criminal records.
So what did all these liberal morons think was going
to happen when the Biden administration led in millions and
millions of people.
Speaker 11 (10:57):
It was all just a plan, get the camel's nose
under the tent and bring these people in to game
congressional districting and to game the presidential election.
Speaker 9 (11:09):
Hey, Gavin, I got the news.
Speaker 12 (11:11):
Yah, we're going to enforce the law when the like
it or not.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
Why we just deport everybody from the United States because
we all stole the land.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Whyn't you get mister Trumpy to do that?
Speaker 13 (11:24):
Wegs lot more than dogs voting illegally. Who do you
take all the homeless people end up voting for with
the ballot harvesting.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
And the illegal aliens in.
Speaker 14 (11:35):
The ballot harvest team, That's who keeps the Democrats in power.
Speaker 15 (11:40):
Baths and gruesome newsom need to live together, and they
need to live in a place where they're surrounded by
the homeless and the criminals causing all the problems and
the fires.
Speaker 13 (11:54):
You are doing the American public a disservice of allowing
these aliens to come into our country and to take
jobs away from Americans, So knock it off.
Speaker 12 (12:06):
They're trying to clean up the streets to make us together,
and she's got it all backwards.
Speaker 9 (12:10):
It's disgusting to.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Hear Mayor Bass talk about the vision when she's the run.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
Credian As Division.
Speaker 16 (12:16):
We finally have a United States Supreme Court that stands
up for the United States of America and for Americans
and legal citizens. Thank you United States Supreme Court.
Speaker 12 (12:32):
Yep, I'm really smiling every time I listened to the
news and hear about how all the LA politicians have
got their pannies in a wad over the Supreme Court
ruling about the illegal immigration being overruled.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I just came back from Miikikim and their gas was
four fifty nine, and I thought to myself, Wow, I'm
in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and gash here
is still cheaper than on the mainland.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
What the hell.
Speaker 14 (12:56):
Rhetoric goes both ways.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
We're talking about this gentleman in his life life.
Speaker 13 (13:00):
We're not talking about left right and whoever the hell.
Speaker 12 (13:03):
You believe in.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I may not agree with Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
At least not everything, but I do appreciate fact that
he did have.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Calm, respectful conversations.
Speaker 17 (13:12):
What the heck is wrong with people in Los Angeles.
We literally elected someone who with their responsibility to protect
the citizens of Los Angeles and Karen Bath. Yet he's
the one announcing the Turla number and directing people to
our neighborhoods to have them destroyed.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
When I shows up.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
We are truly in.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
A bizarre world.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
We need to wake up or I don't know how
much longer this can last. That guy who used to
be our mayor, he wants to bring affordability to Los Angelis.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Huh.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
That's such a joke.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
That word is used out of context throughout California and
it should no longer.
Speaker 9 (13:52):
Exist because it doesn't in California. Not only does that
poor dog have privacy rights when it votes and has
Miranda rights remain silent and a sixth Amendment right so
it does not have to testify itself. That dog has
more rights than you think.
Speaker 13 (14:06):
Thank you for leaving your message.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Please hang up, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
It's avoistline. Round one. Round two is going to come
up in about twenty minutes we come back. You know,
Gavin Newsom of the legislatures has agreed. Now they're going
to put in all right, so as we're at seventeen
years and about seventeen billion dollars for high speed rail
and no track, they are going to spend more money
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all the way to the year twenty forty five, twenty
more years of funding for high speed rail. Not making
this one up either. Tell you how much when we
come back. There's got to be somebody else. There's got
to be somebody else. Debora Mark, Maybe you no, you
(15:02):
can do math better. Well, maybe maybe we can't fight
twenty for our newsroom.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
We're on every day from one until four, although today
it probably should have been one until three.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I just I just I don't know. Something happened in
the last hour, and I just think I need to
go to lie down for I have to lie down for.
You have two days to do it. Very intense week.
We've got the Moistline coming up in a few minutes.
I was just looking through my email. Daniel Gush has
sent me an email a Karen Bass press release. Everybody
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at city Hall really is insane. I don't know if
we can get a federal judge to issue some kind
of directive, some kind of restraining order and lock everybody
up the side. They're all nuts. Here's the press release.
Mayor Bass announces Mitch Cayman will be the new chief
of staff. I don't know who he is, but it's
(16:11):
the second line. Cayman will continue the mayor's momentum moving
Los Angeles in a new direction, building on historic decreases
in homelessness, historic lows and homicide totals, comprehensive improvements in
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citywide safety, and the fastest disaster recovery in state history.
There's been no disaster recovery. What the hell is she
talking about. I'm excited to bring in Mitch, a season
leader and a status quot, a status quo disruptor, who
thought of that phrase? Who will elevate our momentum to
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move Los Angeles in a new direction. And then she
goes goes through all the historic this and that it's
just that I think they're doing well, or that they're
just so used to producing this bs knowing the news
media is going to cover it and not question it.
(17:19):
I mean, I just don't understand. The place is a
disaster by any objective measure. It's a disaster. And she
hasn't shown any interest in anything in screaming at about
ICE agents who are enforcing the law. I here's another
insane person, Gavin Newsom. He made a deal with the legislature.
(17:41):
The bullet train was supposed to be finished. I think
it was supposed to be finished in twenty twenty three,
wasn't it Originally? It is already blown through seventeen billion
dollars in seventeen years with no track, and now the
(18:04):
legislature knews some agreed to spend another twenty billion on it.
They're gonna keep going. They're gonna put a billion dollars
a year in until twenty forty five. And it's gonna
be tax money. And I thought the original referendum said
there was gonna be no tax money used. There's no
tax money. And this is just to get me, said
(18:28):
to Bakersfield that stretch. Now they have a new quack
named Ian Chowdry. And this guy has this this this
idea that he's going to get private money. But here's
the problem. Baker's to Bakersfield to merced they admit will
not be profitable. Really, it's not gonna be profitable to
(18:53):
run a two hundred mile an hour train between Bakersfield
and merced because nobody really wants to go to either city.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
But in order to get these private investors interested, he
wants to build the rail from Gilroy to Palmdale, which
is even funnier than Bakersfield to Mercede Gilroy of Palmdale.
The only thing I know about Gilroy is the garlic festival.
(19:27):
That is it, right? And it stinks like hell when
you drive through there. Oh if you like garlic, yeah,
I feel like garlic. And then Palmdale is Palmdale and
there's nothing we can do about that. Oh my god.
A billion a year and it's from it's from the
money they use to tax the oil industry, which is
(19:52):
threatening to leave the state entirely. I don't understand. This
is well destructive. They're destroying the oil industry. They never
built the train. It's never gonna go La to San Francisco.
Nobody wants to go to Bakersfield and Merced and even
(20:14):
fewer people want to go from Gilroy to Palmdale. Like
once you get to Palmdale, then what do you do?
Go to Lancaster and then go back to Gilroy. And
what goes out in Gilroy when they're not having the
garlic festival? Do they have another festival there? Like an
onion festival, a cilantro festival, anything good. I don't understand.
(20:44):
And this whole thing is published in a newspaper like
it all makes sense, like there's nothing insane about this.
Bakersfielder mar said it's gonna cost at least thirty seven billion.
You know, it's gonna be much more than that. That's
already higher than the digital price of San Francisco to LA.
(21:05):
And they're still they've been looking for investors into high
speed rail for I don't know, twenty five years. They
were looking for investors even before they put it on
the ballot in Oa, because if they had investors, then
they could sell this. Hey just approve a small amount
of borrowed money, and look at all these private companies
that are investing because it's going to make a profit
and we'll pay off the loans quickly. And they haven't
(21:27):
been able to sell this for twenty five years. And
they think building a train from Gilroy to Palmdale, and
then suddenly investors are going to go, are you kidding me?
Gilroy to Palmdale? Oh, I'm in, I'm in. Here's a billion.
What's going on? What is going on? And I start
(21:51):
to see this every day and I'm thinking, well, this
almost be fiction, right? Is this like some kind of
elaborate prank? Have I fallen into another dimension? I think
we have? And this new kook Ian chowdry he's the CEO.
He said, this is a historic commitment. This is the
new word that they use. Bass had several historics and
(22:14):
hurt nonsense prpiece and now Ian Chowdrey is using the
word historic. What would be historic is if you laid
even one yard of railroad track. Okay, when you get
your first three feet of railroad track, then you could
say this is historic.
Speaker 13 (22:29):
You don't have that.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
We must work towards securing long term funding. Again, it's
been twenty five years, but you vote for this, Deborah Mark,
we have we have uh we got nextvoiceline high speed moistline.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
You need to go home.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You need to take a home. I know, I'm very tired.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Let's do it round to the moistline. Man Sean, thanks
for calling the moistline.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
I'm so excited to hear from you.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
To Mad Time.
Speaker 18 (23:13):
The United States and all who live here know where
all the illegal immigrants work. What did happen is they
could go after all the company that hire them.
Speaker 14 (23:25):
There's not a personal life that when that concert came
and the contributions we're asked for. We're thinking they would
go to a nonprofit and not the victims. You and
I know once a nonprofit gives the money, no victims
are never going to see a single penny. They're going
to go buy new cars and furniture and go on trips.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
The heat is off the ice finally, so maybe they
could clean up these.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Illegal alien clown houses that have popped up.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Another thing is all these street venders, all.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Of the restaurants have to be regulated, the street bunders,
none regulation, no regulation.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
They're all in the goal and.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Carry bass could give a game.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
It occurs to me that the left side, it's so
frustrated how they can do a shoot of us on
the right.
Speaker 15 (24:07):
Side, whether it's Trump of course twice and now Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
The shootings have got to stop.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yes, I think we need stricter gun laws. Before you
get a gun.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
You have to pass the mental stability test.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
So sorry, no more psychos of legal gun.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
A question about changing this shooting then Charlie Kirk get shot. Yeah,
sounded like that question was the signal to pull the trigger.
They ought to investigate the person who asked that question.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
We lost a hero and it wasn't because of the question.
Speaker 12 (24:40):
A shooter is going to take the opportunity that he
can get in and get out.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
He doesn't know what the heck anybody's saying. Bottom line
is the radical left.
Speaker 11 (24:48):
And the Democrats and the liberals, they're the ones that
caused the hassle.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
My son sent me a text telling me that Charlie
Kirk had been shot. I tried every FM radio station
was in this vehicle. I scanned them.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
Not one of them was talking about it.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
I finally put my phone on KFI. It was talked
about as soon as.
Speaker 17 (25:08):
It came on.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
So, yeah, we need AM radios in our cars.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
Everyone should vote no on Crop fifty.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
They're starting a.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
New category criminals.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
You've got rapist, murderers.
Speaker 17 (25:19):
Child lessors.
Speaker 8 (25:20):
The new one is non profit organizations.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
I love the way they advertise rewards.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
You might as well give the guy a million dollar reward.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
No one's going to get.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
The reward, No one ever does.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
If you ever think that you could be shot because
you think a guy is a guy and a girl
as a.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Girl, I wouldn't even know where to start.
Speaker 9 (25:38):
But in between the poo Ukrainian woman getting murdered and
then Charlie Kirk getting murdered. I think they will open
a sleeping giant and the far left is not being
able to handle it.
Speaker 14 (25:48):
What is The person that posed the question was involved
with the actual shooter and it.
Speaker 15 (25:54):
Was a setup.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Everybody needs to keep in mind your response and your
reaction to one something terrible happens to another human being
till the entire world exactly what kind of person you are?
Get the new stuff you're planning.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
It's on punching those sums of faith. Be careful, buddy,
don't break it down about.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
The getting punched like Kevin Newsome in the mouth. I'm suspected.
I feel like getting.
Speaker 10 (26:19):
Punched by a loaf of bread.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
I don't think anybody in Texas is worried about it.
Speaker 12 (26:23):
Mike, the only one noticed that Rodico or Craig Ray
last it got.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Loting on an argument.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
They respond with, mony, thank you for leaving your message.
Speaker 8 (26:33):
Please hang up, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
All right, enough of us, We'll be back on Monday.
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