March 26, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (03/26) - Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about LA City Council passed four motions to further protect illegal immigrants. A Ukrainian model went to Dubai only to go missing for 10 days after attending a sex party in the country. More on how Gov. Newsom has destroyed California. Newsom is blocking an environmental bill that some stores have already implemented.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Michael Monks here from KFI News Now. We've spent a
lot of time this past hour talking about the insurance
disaster here in California and.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Also the.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Lack of action on the part of the City of
Los Angeles. Only four permits have been issued, four permits
for the thousands of homes destroyed in the Palisades. Remember
Karen Bass claiming they're gonna cut the red tape, They're
going to expedite matters. Gavin Newsom said, we're cutting the
red tape and expediting Matt nothing's been expedited. We're paying
ten million dollars to an outside consulting firm.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
They've done nothing.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Steve Sobroff, he's almost over as whatever the hell he
was as a special I don't know what did he do,
you know, Michael.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
We don't know what he did, what he's done, what
he's supposed to do, whether he's been paid what he's
supposed to be paid.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well, there's four permits. But what is the city council
working on. They're working on giving more protections to illegal
aliens because ICE is doing these sweeps and deportations and
Hugo Soto Martinez is leading the charge. Michael Minkes is
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going to explain what are these motions about. And motions
doesn't mean they passed a law. Motions means it can depend.
I mean, an ordinance is the law. When the adopt
an ordinance, and that usually takes a couple of votes
and that sort of thing, maybe the mayor has to
sign off on it. Motions can often be symbolic, or
they can ask for something and then action might be
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taken later. And that's the case here. You already know
that Los Angeles City Council has determined that LA is
a sanctuary city, which limits the type of partnerships that
can take place between local officials and federal officials when
it comes to immigration enforcement. Council in HUGOSDA Martinez says
more motions like this are necessary because they want to
strengthen that sanctuary status. He's quite concerned about what the
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Trump administration has done and what they might have in store,
particularly as it relates to illegal immigrants in the City
of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So what does he want done?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Okay, So now, for example, one of these motions ask
for something. So they have asked for city staff to
find funding to the tune of five hundred and forty
thousand dollars to help support legal defense for illegal immigrants
who might find themselves caught up in any type of
immigration enforcement situation. That's important at this time because, as
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we talked about last week, the city doesn't have five
hundred and forty thousand dollars lying around that they can
dedicate to.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
No, they're broke exactly, they got a billion dollar deficit
and they're gonna lay off thousands of people.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
They say.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It's not just been this motion related to illegal immigrants
and defense attorneys. We've seen multiple motions in recent weeks
where the motion reads city staff find the funding for
this idea that we have and bring back what those
possibilities might look like. So that's one thing that they're
trying to do today. Another one includes a know your
Rights campaign. This would be city wide and they would
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target immigrants, illegal immigrants. Let them know, these are what
your rights are under the current law. This is what
your rights are in the city of la specifically, what
you can say, what you don't have to say, what
you can withhold if you find yourself dealing with immigration.
That would cost efforts, and that's going to cost money
as well. They've also voted to endorse some state legislation
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that is in Sacramento, where the state of California is
considering a possibility of increasing funding for deportation defense and
Hugo Soda Martinez has that reinforce versus the city's commitment
to protecting immigrants.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Now, there's also a motion to identify. Now, now I
have this story here ABC seven five hundred million to
maintain immigration services or is that a typo? I think
as you were talking about identifying, exactly five hundred and
forty thousand dollars would maintain immigration legal services. Oh so
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this this is a mistake, then that would be a
typo in that article there in that article I think
from KFI that's in the KFI newsroom it didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
But this is the ABC news room. Exactly what five
hundred billion?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Because I saw that and it's like, oh my god,
that's an enormous amount of money.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I think that's what happens with the homeless spending in
this city. A comma gets misplaced and suddenly we don't
know where any of the money. Reporters added zeros to
all this.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
We need more audits around you.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So what happened was with that particular situation, there was
funding available to help immigrants from public funds to help
immigrants prepared to f and says to protect themselves against
potential deportation. Council in Hugosoda Martinez says there was a
gap created in that funding when the Trump administration froze it,
so now they don't have access to it. So the
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council has voted to direct city staff to find more
than half a million dollars in the couches somewhere to
help restore a little bit of that funding in order
to help.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So it's an ask and the city officials are required
to go looking, yeah, and then report back to say
if they found any money line around or not.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
You seeing report back is such a city hall thing
to say, or a county government thing to say.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That's often what they say.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
We'd like a report back in thirty or sixty or
ninety days on what we're.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Asking about, and that's what they've asked. So this is
all symbolic nonsense.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
No, hugosda Martinez says, to the contrary, these are not
symbolic efforts. He says, the Trump administration has taken notice
of what we're doing. He says federal officials are already
worried that illegal immigrants in LA and elsewhere already know
too much on how to protect themselves because of efforts
like what the La City Council did today.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Specifically said this is not somebody, of course, having these
illegal immigrants in LA. They all cost us a lot
more money and we're broke, he says. And I talked
to him on the phone after the vote. We had
a chat and I asked him, you know, what, what
do you think is missing in the conversation about illegal
immigrants in LA. People who are ready to just you know,
wash their hands of this situation, and folks like you
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who are moving to offer more protections, And he says,
you know, it helps when you know someone. It's one
of those situations where if you know someone who is
an illegal immigrant, your perspective might change a little bit.
And he suggested that La in particular, because there are
so many here that you probably do know one. They
might be a nanny, they might be a housekeeper, they
might be a vendor himself, got a burrito.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I don't care if you're an illegal alien. You're an
illegal alien. You gotta go.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I heart checked my papers. I'm good. That doesn't work
with me. Oh, you know one. I don't care if
I know one. And your position's not unusual. There are
many of people who hardline on this, and that's why
I asked him. I said, you know, how are you
engaging that line of thinking that it's time for this
to be over, Let's get all of the illegal immigrants gone.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And he thinks that there might be a situation where
you might know people and not be awhere that status is.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I'll give him a little goodbye gift. I'll call immigration myself.
It's costing me too much money. All right, very good, Michael,
thanks always, please very much. Michael Monks KFI News Hugo
Soda Martinez never represents American citizens on any issue here
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Never.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Next time I hear he is will be the first time.
All right, we come back. Why don't we do the
Dubai story since we came off last hour when we
went through Ricardo Lara's travelogue. The insurance commissioner who has
gone looks like on dozens of trips, many of them
are taxpayer's expense, all kinds of exotic locations, many of
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them never has been to, and one of them, in particular, Dubai.
Terrible things go on in Dubai to women.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I didn't have a problem except for the flooding, which, well.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
You probably don't sign up for sex parties with chikhs.
I was gonna say, you weren't flown out by a prince. Yeah,
But in case you get an offer, this is this
is a public warning.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Thank you for that bolic service announcement.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Sorry, anybody out there who's thinking to go in the
flight to Dubai for a sex party with sheiks you
hear this story, you're not going to want to do that. Well,
maybe you will, maybe you're going to want to make
the money. No, no, not kidding, but that's really the question.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
More coming up.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
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Speaker 4 (09:13):
Bring it on.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
That's the favorite for American and I all right, So
you've been to Dubai. I have, and you flooded out
Dubai when you were there. I did, yes, some massive
once in a century floodstore.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Was flooded, Its were flooded.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You got tongue up for a while. Well, you were
in a better place than this poor Ukrainian model. This
is actually kind of a nasty story. But people, you know,
a lot of people don't know this, but in that
part of the world, there are a lot of extremely
wealthy oil chiks. They have billions of dollars like the
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Saudi Arabian family that runs the country, and the wealth
is unimaginable. I mean it d Wharf's American wealth, right. You
look at the American billionaires, you look at the Saudi
Arabian UAE billionaires. It's not even close. She went missing
for ten days. She attended a hotel sex party in Dubai.
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Her name is Maria Kovalchuk, and she was supposed to
come home and she missed her flight, and she told
her family and friends she was going to a hotel party.
And then two days later she was supposed to go
on a flight, never showed. Ten days, nobody heard from her.
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She's only twenty years old. She's Eventually, she's discovered on
the side of a road, bloodied and with several horrific injuries,
including a broken spine and broken arms and legs.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I'm a sex party.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Well, that's the last thing she attended, as far as
they know. I don't know what they do to women
at these sex parties, but if they threw her out
a window. When they found her, she was unable to speak,
had to undergo four different surgeries, and now they think
she was the victim of a sinister sex slave.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Plot in Dubai.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Oh gosh, it's like, don't even next time you land
in Dubai, don't even get out of the plane. You
know what.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
I'm not a twenty year old model, so I think
I'll be okay.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Don't beat me.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Russian media outlets said her relatives think that she could
have been made a sex slave and just was sexually
attacked for several days before being thrown onto the road.
She attended some kind of cult like party with unknown shakes,
where models and only fan stars, especially those from Eastern Europe,
are known to be popular. Do you know what I
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have heard over the years being out here in La
all this time, that there are a number of actresses
and models want to be actresses and models when they
can't make money anymore. They have trouble getting roles and jobs.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
They don't hear about the violins that goes on.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The Arab sheiks apparently troll the all the clubs and
the restaurants, and they find beautiful women and they invite them,
They seduce them and invite them to come to the parties.
I know somebody who knows someone who went on one
of it, and she used to make good money. You know,
she was an actress who hit the end of the road.
And what are you going to.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Do find another profession?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Well, well, if you're promised twenty thousand dollars in a
broken bag from a Saudi Arabian or divide sick. Oh,
I see you perked up. Don't don't be so sure
that they wouldn't want you.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
They wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Uh well, uh the event.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Is called a porta potty party.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
That's sexy.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Well, it's a phrase used to describe these gatherings with
female influencers. Oh, I see they troll Instagram.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
They're paid exorbitant amounts of money to carry out horrific
and degrading sexual acts. Yes, apparently it includes human waste.
But the women are paid one hundred thousand dollars to
attend and are subjected to extreme abuse to fulfill the
dark desires of these wealthy Arab Shaks.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Look at Eric, he's wishing he was a woman.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Now, absolutely not. I'm just saying, like I said, for
a certain amount of price, it might be wishing if
he's an Arab Shak. I don't know about that. Kavalta
purportedly met with two men from the modeling business. Now
Tavalcik was was the model. She met with two men
from the modeling business will in Dubai and the next
day she told the family she's going to stay with
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them for the night, and then she was supposed to
fly on to Thailand, but not heard from again until
she was found on the side of the road. She's
from Norway and that's where she's making a recovery after
all the surgeries. She had no documents, no phone, nothing.
Did she get paid well, I don't know. The The
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ud Buy police claim that the woman's injuries occurred because
she fell from a construction site.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Oh sure, yeah, so calling the police there isn't going
to help.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
The police said a comprehensive investigation revealed that she sustained
serious injuries after entering a restricted construction site alone and
falling from a height A good one. The family does
not believe this. I think there's one attorney Gordon has
is urging influencers, and we have many of them here
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in Los Angeles, many beautiful women who were influencers, and
they try to work as models and actresses and they
you know, they offer you get offered one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
You probably think, well, how bad could it be?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Yeah, it could be pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, maybe I'll have sex with a cute guy for
a night for one hundred grand. But the lawyer said
she was She was found after a party with Arab shakes.
And the scandal with the porta potty parties has been
raging over a year. Apparently there's videos on the internet
and you could see the shakes beating the girls, cutting
their hair and doing all sorts of terrible things to them.
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And the lawyer is urging women do not go to
these parties.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
So noted, Okay, so okay, Well you know I won't
be going.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You get in trouble A lot of times I do,
but somebody might invite you to a party, and you know, thanks, John,
we don't want to find you on the side of
the road.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I don't want to find myself on the side of
a road either.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
All right, you're listening to John Cobel's on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Coming up after three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
We're going to talk with someone from the Slantahunga neighborhood.
They are very upset that a lot of toxic waste
from the eating fire. Toxic dirt is being dumped in
the neighborhood. So we'll get into that after three o'clock.
Why they can't, By the way, there are tons of
trucks driving within a quarter mile in my house every
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day carrying all sorts of disgusting, filthy, toxic materials and
they're not supposed to. I just want people to know
that they're supposed to go down Pch and get on
the ten and to take the ten freeway east to
I don't know where.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
They covered trucks, well, is anything spewing out?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
The covering is flimsy. They have a tarp.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Oh that's not good.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
No, it's not sealed.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
And as they're driving, the wind blows the tarp up,
and there's tons of trucks and we were told that
wasn't going to happen, and people in the neighborhoods are screaming,
but nobody cares because they're trying to do this fast
dirt and which which I understand, except now every day
we're all breathing in all the toxic dirt.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
There's a really good documentary on Netflix called Toxic Town.
It's based on a true story and uh, you may,
you may want to watch that.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
John.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
What was it they had like a toxic dump in
the town. Huh, Well, these are rolling toxic dumps. Yeah,
I can't tell you how many tracks.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Now that's very scary.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Yeah, And because that stuff is going to fly into
your your yard and your dog's wandering around the yard
and maybe it lands on something your dog eats.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
I mean, there's there's hazards.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I will say it because we drove through there again
over the weekend and there was a lot more activity
than we saw a couple of weeks ago. And and
I don't know how much activity there should be. You know,
it's hard to say they're they're they're not doing enough
or they're doing the right amount, because you don't know
any of the details. But there was a lot more activity,
and there's a lot of trucks carrying a lot of
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debris out of there. But everybody in my section in
town thought that the trucks were going to stay on
the highways.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Well, I mean, so that's one thing, But the other
thing is if you're going to be hauling toxic stuff,
why would you have tarps?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yes, that's what my wife noticed right away, is like
that that that's not a cover there exactly because the
tarp isn't stopping anything from flying out, you know, as
it flaps up in the wind and it's running over
at Sunset Boulevard is some of the roughest roads in
North America.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
That is just just awful.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
So now, Gavin Newsome, I want to get into a
story that Katie Grimes put together, because you've been playing
a clip from his podcast where he's claiming how well
California does so many different categories. He has a guest
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on this podcast that I'm familiar with. His name is
Ezracline As reclined as a writer and a columnist now
for The New York Times, and he's a liberal Democrat.
That's where his sympathies lie. But he tells the truth
every week. He tells Democrats, it's like lately, you guys
can't build anything. You guys, for example, the high speed rail,
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the Democratic mayors that run the big cities. There's no
execution here.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
We can't. If you're gonna want people.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
To vote for your party and your candidates, you can't
foul up every time you're given a job to build something,
which is you know, happening now with the rebuilding the Palisades,
there's only four permits. This after just dozens of insurances
from Newsoman Bass.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
And what.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Katie Grimes pointed out, because this is a report from
the California Center for the for Jobs in the Economy,
and she describes it as a devastating report. How far
Newsome has destroyed California, even worse than Jerry Brown.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Net job growth in January? How many? How many?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
All right, here's a good one. Here's another quiz for
the two of you. How many jobs net job growth?
How many jobs do you think we added to the
California economy in the month of January?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Ten thousand, ten thousand, says Eric h five hundred, five
hundred zero.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
We sunck this guy.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I was gonna say, we're over too. I've tried this
three times this week. Texas added twenty eight thousand, so
you were on the right track, Eric, Florida gained sixteen thousand,
even New York State, which is a mess, twenty thousand,
and California zero. California has the second highest unemployment rate
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of all fifty states, and Los Angeles's unemployment rate is
higher than any of the states.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
It's at six percent.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
There is a million Californians unemployed, more than a million
for the thirteenth straight month. We're of only we're only
one of five states that haven't recovered to pre COVID levels.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
So that's why I whant I heard you play that clip?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Do you want to hear it?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, play play that again.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Okay, here we go. Well, let me read what the
interest read the whole thing?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Governor Newsom says California isn't building enough housing. He was
joined on his podcast by New York Times columnist as
a Recline, where they talked about the cost of living
in California.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
This notion that everyone's leaving is complete. Bs. We dominate
in so many of these categories because I think of
our values, but we're not building enough damn housing and
that's led to this homeless crisis.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Oh, there's so many lies in that, and somebody, you're
not leading in all these categories, but I canno don't
know where to start with that one. And we don't
have homelessness because we aren't building enough housing. Because the
people that you're finding laying in the streets are not
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going to.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Be buying homes.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Even if the homes were cheap, even if there is
like two hundred thousand dollars homes available for them. Those
people are mental patients and drug addicts. They couldn't buy
a twenty dollars dog house to stop it. And the
reason we're not building enough housing is because of the
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incredible regulations. There are so many regulations against developers building anything.
And then when you try to build well, case in point,
palace four permits in seventy five days, which what as
a recline and I read asraclined because he's trying to
explain to people in his own party that you guys
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are bad at this job of governing. You guys are
bad at running cities and states. And that's what people
are reacting to. You know, everybody starts screaming about, you know,
transgenders or whatever the hot button issue is. But really
what's grinding down the Democratic Party in the most of
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the country is just a terrible performance in these cities.
People are fleeing California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey by
the droves, and the population is moving south to Florida
and Texas and Arizona and Tennessee and the Carolinas and
by twenty thirty, so many people will have moved from
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Democrat states to current reportublican states that those Republican states
are going to pick up twelve electoral votes because your
population determines how many Congress people you have, and the
number of Congress people you have determine how many electoral
votes is up for grabs in a presidential race. So
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people are leaving California because California is scheduled to lose
a certain number of electoral votes, and then New York
is going to lose some, and New Jersey and Illinois
are going to lose some, and they're moving to states
that are already Republican. So, by the way, this has
been projected by Democratic analysts who are trying to sound
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the alarm about all this stupid progressive politics. According to
the Democratic analysts, whoever runs for president as a Democrat
in twenty thirty, they could win all the states Kamala
Harris did and win Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Michigan and
still lose because now you have so many electoral votes
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that have gone south. And so what Newsom is saying,
there were like three lives in one in that one
little paragraph there were at least three lives, probably more.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
He's so. And the thing is he's.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Got a guest who's trying to save his ass and
trying to save his party's ass by saying, you guys
are are effing up. And then when you get this
California Center for Jobs in the Economy, which I guess
is a non partisan unit, they'll tell you the unemployment
is second highest, LA is higher than any state, net
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job growth is zero, only five states haven't recovered to
pre COVID levels. And the proportion of Californians receiving unemployment
payments is double the national average. That that's you know,
don't say, oh, well, California the biggest state. No, no, no,
it's the percentage of people in California getting unemployment is
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double the national average. And there's never going to be
affordable housing never because developers, if they build it, they
can't make a profit. If they can't make a profit,
they're not going to build it. The government can't build
it because they've tried that in LA. Remember under Garcetti
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and they were building million dollar apartments. It was costing
a million dollars to build an apartment for what almost guy,
all right, we come back. Newsom is blocking an environmental
law that some stores have started to implement. And I
(26:51):
discovered this a couple of weeks ago when I went
to the vegetable department. They have a new kind of
bag to put your vegetables. And you may be saying,
why am I buying vegetables for my wife?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Well?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Sometimes yes, sometimes no, Well sometimes for my lizard.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Oh you see. And every week I got to buy a.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Lizard lettuce, lizard lettuce.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
And what's funny is this state is such an overwhelming
nanny state that I could be do something, do something
really benign, Like I go to the.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Grocery store, which I like doing.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Got to buy half a dozen things, good husband, reading
the list, I have to get the lizard lettuce. I
get to the lettuce, I look up at the plastic bags.
They have a new kind of plastic bags. And it's infuriating.
And I start running up to employees to.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Complain, Oh, what do you think they're going to do?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
They stare at me and they blame Newsome. So I'll
tell you about this when we come back.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
He can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social
media at John Cobelt Radio. After three o'clock, we're going
to talk with Lydia Grant. Lydia is the head of
the Sunland Tahunga Neighborhood Council. She's the president, and she
and many people in that region are upset that so
much toxic dirt from the Eton fire zone is going
(28:26):
to be dumped in their area. They have done independent
tests that show potentially toxic levels of arsenic and selenium.
So Lydia Grant is coming on because the aftermath of
the fires is affected a much much wider group of
people than just people's whose homes have burned. All right,
(28:47):
Gavin Newsom, now this is gonna be fascinating year as
he gears up for his presidential run, and this is
all he cares about. And so you see he's doing
these public renunciations of his formerly woke positions like boys
playing in girls' sports. Most famously, although this week we
(29:11):
highlighted it, bill a sale, the Republican assemblyman came up
with a bill that said boys and men can't play
in any organized sports from elementary school through college. Democrats
vetoed it Newsom didn't do anything to stop him. So
Newsom is a lying hypocrite. Almost nothing he says is true.
You can believe almost nothing. I don't know what it
(29:33):
says about a state. That Alexa guy that everybody should know,
is a pathological liar, he's compulsive. He's now quietly screwed
over the environmentalists because there was a law that Newsom
signed in twenty twenty two, and it was about limiting
(29:58):
the use of well admitted, limiting the amount of single
use plastics that are sold and distributed in California, plastic bags,
for example, and other items I guess like plastic knives
and forks. And since then, dozens of regulators. Now that's
signed in twenty twenty two, Since then, dozens of regulators, lawmakers, environmentalists,
(30:23):
and industry groups have worked together to write the rules
and regulations.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
You imagine this.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
They have been doing this for two and a half years.
Two and a half years. They're writing the rules on
single use plastics to cut plastic pollution, claiming that it.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
All ends up in the water.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
The goal is to reduce single use plastic packaging by
twenty five percent and ensure that sixty five percent of
that material is recyclable. One hundred percent either recyclable or compostable. Okay,
this takes me to the produce department at my local
store to buy lettuce from my Lizard because my store
(31:07):
has jumped the gun and they're already. They used to
have these beautiful clear plastic bags and it was a
really strong plastic and you could put in, you know,
your cumquats and avocados and apples and at everything, and
it was a strong plastic and it was big and
it held a lot. One day, I show up to
(31:29):
buy the Lizard lettuce Bandelion Greens and it's this extremely thin,
flimsy plastic where both sides of the bag stick to
each other and you can't pull it apart and it
wrinkles all up and you can't and the bag is
too small and you can't get anything into the bag easily,
(31:52):
and whatever you buy, it's always sticking out. And there's
a big sign on the bag that says compostable. I
am not going to compost my Lizard lettuce bag. Nobody
does that.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Well, there are some people that do.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
But they're they're whack jobs. Normal people don't compost. I'm
not gonna have a garbage landfill in my backyard to
dump my lizard lettuce bags.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
So you're you're you're you're forcing something.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I mean, if you wanted to make thinner plastic or
better plastic or whatever it is, like like they, you know,
because paper straws were so awful, companies did come up
with plastic like material that you don't really notice the
difference now, but that and it makes me mad. And
I go there and I'm stuffing the lizard lettuce in
and it's always sticking out, and I keep going up
(32:46):
to the UH. I keep going up to the employees
because I'd forgotten about this law. And I'm thinking maybe
some nut got involved in management at the grocery store.
And they go, well, and that's that's the state rules,
it's the state, or well that's got that's Gavin Newsom
for you. In fact, that cashier told me I can't
stand him. He goes, that's Gavin Newsom. That's why you
(33:06):
have that bag. Even cashiers are speaking out against this nonsense.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
To get to the final point here, he has suspended
the rules and regulations. He's told them to go back
and start over again and rewrite them because this is
going to buy him a couple of more. It took
him two and a half years they presented to him.
It's like, oh, I'm running for president.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
If people start realizing you have these flimsy compostable bags
that are awful, it's going to be a national news
story about the nanny state and Newsom running the nanny state.
So he told them to all go home and start again,
knowing he's not gonna have to deal with this for
another two and a half years.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Aren't you happy then?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Well, I'd be happy if they got see as I'm saying,
I start jumped the gun.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
Okay, but now they're gonna a backstep and they're gonna
bring the better bag.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I'm bringing this article to them.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Good show it to the store manager's.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I mean I did composting.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Now you could be a rebel. John.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Only hippies do that. Oh, by the way, you know
what that's led to Because I can't really use it
to store. It doesn't keep the lettuce fresh. I have
to get a ziplock bag and put the lettuce in
a large gallon sized ziplock bag. So I'm using a
plastic bag anyway. Now I have two bags.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
I'm using, bring your ziplock bag to the store until
they go back to the better bags, and then there
you go. You don't have to have the flimsy bag,
and you don't have two plastic bags.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
And now the ziplock bag is going to end up
in the landfill.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Though you know what, you don't worry about that. You
don't care.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I worry about it. Yeah, sure, no, nothing gets me
crazier than bags.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
No, but what I'm saying is you don't care that
it's going.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
To end up.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I don't. That's what land so for now on.
Speaker 6 (35:03):
So you don't have to complain anymore. Just bring a
zip block bag until they go back to would I
do If I can't conform, I don't know, You'll find
something else to complain.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Nember Marks Live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI Am six
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and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We are on every day from one until four o'clock,
and then after four o'clock. If you miss something, shame
on you. After four o'clock, go to the iHeart app
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version same as the radio show. Moves more quickly and
there's no excuse for missing a single segment. We have
(00:25):
Michael Monks here from KFI News Now. We've spent a
lot of time this past hour talking about the insurance
disaster here in California and.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Also the.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Lack of action on the part of the City of
Los Angeles. Only four permits have been issued, four permits
for the thousands of homes destroyed in the Palisades. Remember
Karen Bass claiming they're gonna cut the red tape, They're
going to expedite matters. Gavin Newsom said, we're cutting the
red tape and expediting Matt nothing's been expedited. We're paying
ten million dollars to an outside consulting firm.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
They've done nothing.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Steve Sobroff, he's almost over as whatever the hell he
was as a special I don't know what did he do,
you know, Michael.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
We don't know what he did, what he's done, what
he's supposed to do, whether he's been paid what he's
supposed to be paid.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well, there's four permits. But what is the city council
working on. They're working on giving more protections to illegal
aliens because ICE is doing these sweeps and deportations and
Hugo Soto Martinez is leading the charge. Michael Minkes is
(01:38):
going to explain what are these motions about. And motions
doesn't mean they passed a law. Motions means it can depend.
I mean, an ordinance is the law. When the adopt
an ordinance, and that usually takes a couple of votes
and that sort of thing, maybe the mayor has to
sign off on it. Motions can often be symbolic, or
they can ask for something and then action might be
(01:59):
taken later. And that's the case here. You already know
that Los Angeles City Council has determined that LA is
a sanctuary city, which limits the type of partnerships that
can take place between local officials and federal officials when
it comes to immigration enforcement. Council in HUGOSDA Martinez says
more motions like this are necessary because they want to
strengthen that sanctuary status. He's quite concerned about what the
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Trump administration has done and what they might have in store,
particularly as it relates to illegal immigrants in the City
of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So what does he want done?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Okay, So now, for example, one of these motions ask
for something. So they have asked for city staff to
find funding to the tune of five hundred and forty
thousand dollars to help support legal defense for illegal immigrants
who might find themselves caught up in any type of
immigration enforcement situation. That's important at this time because, as
(02:54):
we talked about last week, the city doesn't have five
hundred and forty thousand dollars lying around that they can
dedicate to.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
No, they're broke exactly, they got a billion dollar deficit
and they're gonna lay off thousands of people.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
They say.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It's not just been this motion related to illegal immigrants
and defense attorneys. We've seen multiple motions in recent weeks
where the motion reads city staff find the funding for
this idea that we have and bring back what those
possibilities might look like. So that's one thing that they're
trying to do today. Another one includes a know your
Rights campaign. This would be city wide and they would
(03:27):
target immigrants, illegal immigrants. Let them know, these are what
your rights are under the current law. This is what
your rights are in the city of la specifically, what
you can say, what you don't have to say, what
you can withhold if you find yourself dealing with immigration.
That would cost efforts, and that's going to cost money
as well. They've also voted to endorse some state legislation
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that is in Sacramento, where the state of California is
considering a possibility of increasing funding for deportation defense and
Hugo Soda Martinez has that reinforce versus the city's commitment
to protecting immigrants.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Now, there's also a motion to identify. Now, now I
have this story here ABC seven five hundred million to
maintain immigration services or is that a typo? I think
as you were talking about identifying, exactly five hundred and
forty thousand dollars would maintain immigration legal services. Oh so
(04:27):
this this is a mistake, then that would be a
typo in that article there in that article I think
from KFI that's in the KFI newsroom it didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
But this is the ABC news room. Exactly what five
hundred billion?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Because I saw that and it's like, oh my god,
that's an enormous amount of money.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I think that's what happens with the homeless spending in
this city. A comma gets misplaced and suddenly we don't
know where any of the money. Reporters added zeros to
all this.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
We need more audits around you.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So what happened was with that particular situation, there was
funding available to help immigrants from public funds to help
immigrants prepared to f and says to protect themselves against
potential deportation. Council in Hugosoda Martinez says there was a
gap created in that funding when the Trump administration froze it,
so now they don't have access to it. So the
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council has voted to direct city staff to find more
than half a million dollars in the couches somewhere to
help restore a little bit of that funding in order
to help.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So it's an ask and the city officials are required
to go looking, yeah, and then report back to say
if they found any money line around or not.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
You seeing report back is such a city hall thing
to say, or a county government thing to say.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That's often what they say.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
We'd like a report back in thirty or sixty or
ninety days on what we're.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Asking about, and that's what they've asked. So this is
all symbolic nonsense.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
No, hugosda Martinez says, to the contrary, these are not
symbolic efforts. He says, the Trump administration has taken notice
of what we're doing. He says federal officials are already
worried that illegal immigrants in LA and elsewhere already know
too much on how to protect themselves because of efforts
like what the La City Council did today.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Specifically said this is not somebody, of course, having these
illegal immigrants in LA. They all cost us a lot
more money and we're broke, he says. And I talked
to him on the phone after the vote. We had
a chat and I asked him, you know, what, what
do you think is missing in the conversation about illegal
immigrants in LA. People who are ready to just you know,
wash their hands of this situation, and folks like you
(06:22):
who are moving to offer more protections, And he says,
you know, it helps when you know someone. It's one
of those situations where if you know someone who is
an illegal immigrant, your perspective might change a little bit.
And he suggested that La in particular, because there are
so many here that you probably do know one. They
might be a nanny, they might be a housekeeper, they
might be a vendor himself, got a burrito.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I don't care if you're an illegal alien. You're an
illegal alien. You gotta go.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I heart checked my papers. I'm good. That doesn't work
with me. Oh, you know one. I don't care if
I know one. And your position's not unusual. There are
many of people who hardline on this, and that's why
I asked him. I said, you know, how are you
engaging that line of thinking that it's time for this
to be over, Let's get all of the illegal immigrants gone.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And he thinks that there might be a situation where
you might know people and not be awhere that status is.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I'll give him a little goodbye gift. I'll call immigration myself.
It's costing me too much money. All right, very good, Michael,
thanks always, please very much. Michael Monks KFI News Hugo
Soda Martinez never represents American citizens on any issue here
in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Never.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Next time I hear he is will be the first time.
All right, we come back. Why don't we do the
Dubai story since we came off last hour when we
went through Ricardo Lara's travelogue. The insurance commissioner who has
gone looks like on dozens of trips, many of them
are taxpayer's expense, all kinds of exotic locations, many of
(07:56):
them never has been to, and one of them, in particular, Dubai.
Terrible things go on in Dubai to women.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I didn't have a problem except for the flooding, which, well.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
You probably don't sign up for sex parties with chikhs.
I was gonna say, you weren't flown out by a prince. Yeah,
But in case you get an offer, this is this
is a public warning.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Thank you for that bolic service announcement.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Sorry, anybody out there who's thinking to go in the
flight to Dubai for a sex party with sheiks you
hear this story, you're not going to want to do that. Well,
maybe you will, maybe you're going to want to make
the money. No, no, not kidding, but that's really the question.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
More coming up.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
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(09:11):
any critiques and analysis of Debora Mark as well.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Bring it on.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
That's the favorite for American and I all right, So
you've been to Dubai. I have, and you flooded out
Dubai when you were there. I did, yes, some massive
once in a century floodstore.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Was flooded, Its were flooded.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You got tongue up for a while. Well, you were
in a better place than this poor Ukrainian model. This
is actually kind of a nasty story. But people, you know,
a lot of people don't know this, but in that
part of the world, there are a lot of extremely
wealthy oil chiks. They have billions of dollars like the
(09:51):
Saudi Arabian family that runs the country, and the wealth
is unimaginable. I mean it d Wharf's American wealth, right. You
look at the American billionaires, you look at the Saudi
Arabian UAE billionaires. It's not even close. She went missing
for ten days. She attended a hotel sex party in Dubai.
(10:17):
Her name is Maria Kovalchuk, and she was supposed to
come home and she missed her flight, and she told
her family and friends she was going to a hotel party.
And then two days later she was supposed to go
on a flight, never showed. Ten days, nobody heard from her.
(10:38):
She's only twenty years old. She's Eventually, she's discovered on
the side of a road, bloodied and with several horrific injuries,
including a broken spine and broken arms and legs.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I'm a sex party.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Well, that's the last thing she attended, as far as
they know. I don't know what they do to women
at these sex parties, but if they threw her out
a window. When they found her, she was unable to speak,
had to undergo four different surgeries, and now they think
she was the victim of a sinister sex slave.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Plot in Dubai.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Oh gosh, it's like, don't even next time you land
in Dubai, don't even get out of the plane. You
know what.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
I'm not a twenty year old model, so I think
I'll be okay.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Don't beat me.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Russian media outlets said her relatives think that she could
have been made a sex slave and just was sexually
attacked for several days before being thrown onto the road.
She attended some kind of cult like party with unknown shakes,
where models and only fan stars, especially those from Eastern Europe,
are known to be popular. Do you know what I
(11:52):
have heard over the years being out here in La
all this time, that there are a number of actresses
and models want to be actresses and models when they
can't make money anymore. They have trouble getting roles and jobs.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
They don't hear about the violins that goes on.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The Arab sheiks apparently troll the all the clubs and
the restaurants, and they find beautiful women and they invite them,
They seduce them and invite them to come to the parties.
I know somebody who knows someone who went on one
of it, and she used to make good money. You know,
she was an actress who hit the end of the road.
And what are you going to.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Do find another profession?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Well, well, if you're promised twenty thousand dollars in a
broken bag from a Saudi Arabian or divide sick. Oh,
I see you perked up. Don't don't be so sure
that they wouldn't want you.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
They wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Uh well, uh the event.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Is called a porta potty party.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
That's sexy.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Well, it's a phrase used to describe these gatherings with
female influencers. Oh, I see they troll Instagram.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
They're paid exorbitant amounts of money to carry out horrific
and degrading sexual acts. Yes, apparently it includes human waste.
But the women are paid one hundred thousand dollars to
attend and are subjected to extreme abuse to fulfill the
dark desires of these wealthy Arab Shaks.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Look at Eric, he's wishing he was a woman.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Now, absolutely not. I'm just saying, like I said, for
a certain amount of price, it might be wishing if
he's an Arab Shak. I don't know about that. Kavalta
purportedly met with two men from the modeling business. Now
Tavalcik was was the model. She met with two men
from the modeling business will in Dubai and the next
day she told the family she's going to stay with
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them for the night, and then she was supposed to
fly on to Thailand, but not heard from again until
she was found on the side of the road. She's
from Norway and that's where she's making a recovery after
all the surgeries. She had no documents, no phone, nothing.
Did she get paid well, I don't know. The The
(14:16):
ud Buy police claim that the woman's injuries occurred because
she fell from a construction site.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Oh sure, yeah, so calling the police there isn't going
to help.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
The police said a comprehensive investigation revealed that she sustained
serious injuries after entering a restricted construction site alone and
falling from a height A good one. The family does
not believe this. I think there's one attorney Gordon has
is urging influencers, and we have many of them here
(14:50):
in Los Angeles, many beautiful women who were influencers, and
they try to work as models and actresses and they
you know, they offer you get offered one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
You probably think, well, how bad could it be?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Yeah, it could be pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, maybe I'll have sex with a cute guy for
a night for one hundred grand. But the lawyer said
she was She was found after a party with Arab shakes.
And the scandal with the porta potty parties has been
raging over a year. Apparently there's videos on the internet
and you could see the shakes beating the girls, cutting
their hair and doing all sorts of terrible things to them.
(15:27):
And the lawyer is urging women do not go to
these parties.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
So noted, Okay, so okay, Well you know I won't
be going.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You get in trouble A lot of times I do,
but somebody might invite you to a party, and you know, thanks, John,
we don't want to find you on the side of
the road.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I don't want to find myself on the side of
a road either.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
All right, you're listening to John Cobel's on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Coming up after three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
We're going to talk with someone from the Slantahunga neighborhood.
They are very upset that a lot of toxic waste
from the eating fire. Toxic dirt is being dumped in
the neighborhood. So we'll get into that after three o'clock.
Why they can't, By the way, there are tons of
trucks driving within a quarter mile in my house every
(16:20):
day carrying all sorts of disgusting, filthy, toxic materials and
they're not supposed to. I just want people to know
that they're supposed to go down Pch and get on
the ten and to take the ten freeway east to
I don't know where.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
They covered trucks, well, is anything spewing out?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
The covering is flimsy. They have a tarp.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Oh that's not good.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
No, it's not sealed.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
And as they're driving, the wind blows the tarp up,
and there's tons of trucks and we were told that
wasn't going to happen, and people in the neighborhoods are screaming,
but nobody cares because they're trying to do this fast
dirt and which which I understand, except now every day
we're all breathing in all the toxic dirt.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
There's a really good documentary on Netflix called Toxic Town.
It's based on a true story and uh, you may,
you may want to watch that.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
John.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
What was it they had like a toxic dump in
the town. Huh, Well, these are rolling toxic dumps. Yeah,
I can't tell you how many tracks.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Now that's very scary.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Yeah, And because that stuff is going to fly into
your your yard and your dog's wandering around the yard
and maybe it lands on something your dog eats.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
I mean, there's there's hazards.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I will say it because we drove through there again
over the weekend and there was a lot more activity
than we saw a couple of weeks ago. And and
I don't know how much activity there should be. You know,
it's hard to say they're they're they're not doing enough
or they're doing the right amount, because you don't know
any of the details. But there was a lot more activity,
and there's a lot of trucks carrying a lot of
(18:01):
debris out of there. But everybody in my section in
town thought that the trucks were going to stay on
the highways.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Well, I mean, so that's one thing, But the other
thing is if you're going to be hauling toxic stuff,
why would you have tarps?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yes, that's what my wife noticed right away, is like
that that that's not a cover there exactly because the
tarp isn't stopping anything from flying out, you know, as
it flaps up in the wind and it's running over
at Sunset Boulevard is some of the roughest roads in
North America.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
That is just just awful.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
So now, Gavin Newsome, I want to get into a
story that Katie Grimes put together, because you've been playing
a clip from his podcast where he's claiming how well
California does so many different categories. He has a guest
(18:59):
on this podcast that I'm familiar with. His name is
Ezracline As reclined as a writer and a columnist now
for The New York Times, and he's a liberal Democrat.
That's where his sympathies lie. But he tells the truth
every week. He tells Democrats, it's like lately, you guys
can't build anything. You guys, for example, the high speed rail,
(19:24):
the Democratic mayors that run the big cities. There's no
execution here.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
We can't. If you're gonna want people.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
To vote for your party and your candidates, you can't
foul up every time you're given a job to build something,
which is you know, happening now with the rebuilding the Palisades,
there's only four permits. This after just dozens of insurances
from Newsoman Bass.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
And what.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Katie Grimes pointed out, because this is a report from
the California Center for the for Jobs in the Economy,
and she describes it as a devastating report. How far
Newsome has destroyed California, even worse than Jerry Brown.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Net job growth in January? How many? How many?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
All right, here's a good one. Here's another quiz for
the two of you. How many jobs net job growth?
How many jobs do you think we added to the
California economy in the month of January?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Ten thousand, ten thousand, says Eric h five hundred, five
hundred zero.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
We sunck this guy.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I was gonna say, we're over too. I've tried this
three times this week. Texas added twenty eight thousand, so
you were on the right track, Eric, Florida gained sixteen thousand,
even New York State, which is a mess, twenty thousand,
and California zero. California has the second highest unemployment rate
(21:08):
of all fifty states, and Los Angeles's unemployment rate is
higher than any of the states.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
It's at six percent.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
There is a million Californians unemployed, more than a million
for the thirteenth straight month. We're of only we're only
one of five states that haven't recovered to pre COVID levels.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
So that's why I whant I heard you play that clip?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Do you want to hear it?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, play play that again.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Okay, here we go. Well, let me read what the
interest read the whole thing?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Governor Newsom says California isn't building enough housing. He was
joined on his podcast by New York Times columnist as
a Recline, where they talked about the cost of living
in California.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
This notion that everyone's leaving is complete. Bs. We dominate
in so many of these categories because I think of
our values, but we're not building enough damn housing and
that's led to this homeless crisis.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Oh, there's so many lies in that, and somebody, you're
not leading in all these categories, but I canno don't
know where to start with that one. And we don't
have homelessness because we aren't building enough housing. Because the
people that you're finding laying in the streets are not
(22:26):
going to.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Be buying homes.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Even if the homes were cheap, even if there is
like two hundred thousand dollars homes available for them. Those
people are mental patients and drug addicts. They couldn't buy
a twenty dollars dog house to stop it. And the
reason we're not building enough housing is because of the
(22:49):
incredible regulations. There are so many regulations against developers building anything.
And then when you try to build well, case in point,
palace four permits in seventy five days, which what as
a recline and I read asraclined because he's trying to
explain to people in his own party that you guys
(23:12):
are bad at this job of governing. You guys are
bad at running cities and states. And that's what people
are reacting to. You know, everybody starts screaming about, you know,
transgenders or whatever the hot button issue is. But really
what's grinding down the Democratic Party in the most of
(23:33):
the country is just a terrible performance in these cities.
People are fleeing California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey by
the droves, and the population is moving south to Florida
and Texas and Arizona and Tennessee and the Carolinas and
by twenty thirty, so many people will have moved from
(23:57):
Democrat states to current reportublican states that those Republican states
are going to pick up twelve electoral votes because your
population determines how many Congress people you have, and the
number of Congress people you have determine how many electoral
votes is up for grabs in a presidential race. So
(24:20):
people are leaving California because California is scheduled to lose
a certain number of electoral votes, and then New York
is going to lose some, and New Jersey and Illinois
are going to lose some, and they're moving to states
that are already Republican. So, by the way, this has
been projected by Democratic analysts who are trying to sound
(24:44):
the alarm about all this stupid progressive politics. According to
the Democratic analysts, whoever runs for president as a Democrat
in twenty thirty, they could win all the states Kamala
Harris did and win Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Michigan and
still lose because now you have so many electoral votes
(25:07):
that have gone south. And so what Newsom is saying,
there were like three lives in one in that one
little paragraph there were at least three lives, probably more.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
He's so. And the thing is he's.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Got a guest who's trying to save his ass and
trying to save his party's ass by saying, you guys
are are effing up. And then when you get this
California Center for Jobs in the Economy, which I guess
is a non partisan unit, they'll tell you the unemployment
is second highest, LA is higher than any state, net
(25:44):
job growth is zero, only five states haven't recovered to
pre COVID levels. And the proportion of Californians receiving unemployment
payments is double the national average. That that's you know,
don't say, oh, well, California the biggest state. No, no, no,
it's the percentage of people in California getting unemployment is
(26:05):
double the national average. And there's never going to be
affordable housing never because developers, if they build it, they
can't make a profit. If they can't make a profit,
they're not going to build it. The government can't build
it because they've tried that in LA. Remember under Garcetti
(26:29):
and they were building million dollar apartments. It was costing
a million dollars to build an apartment for what almost guy,
all right, we come back. Newsom is blocking an environmental
law that some stores have started to implement. And I
(26:51):
discovered this a couple of weeks ago when I went
to the vegetable department. They have a new kind of
bag to put your vegetables. And you may be saying,
why am I buying vegetables for my wife?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Well?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Sometimes yes, sometimes no, Well sometimes for my lizard.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Oh you see. And every week I got to buy a.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Lizard lettuce, lizard lettuce.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
And what's funny is this state is such an overwhelming
nanny state that I could be do something, do something
really benign, Like I go to the.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Grocery store, which I like doing.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Got to buy half a dozen things, good husband, reading
the list, I have to get the lizard lettuce. I
get to the lettuce, I look up at the plastic bags.
They have a new kind of plastic bags. And it's infuriating.
And I start running up to employees to.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Complain, Oh, what do you think they're going to do?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
They stare at me and they blame Newsome. So I'll
tell you about this when we come back.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
He can follow us at John Cobelt Radio on social
media at John Cobelt Radio. After three o'clock, we're going
to talk with Lydia Grant. Lydia is the head of
the Sunland Tahunga Neighborhood Council. She's the president, and she
and many people in that region are upset that so
much toxic dirt from the Eton fire zone is going
(28:26):
to be dumped in their area. They have done independent
tests that show potentially toxic levels of arsenic and selenium.
So Lydia Grant is coming on because the aftermath of
the fires is affected a much much wider group of
people than just people's whose homes have burned. All right,
(28:47):
Gavin Newsom, now this is gonna be fascinating year as
he gears up for his presidential run, and this is
all he cares about. And so you see he's doing
these public renunciations of his formerly woke positions like boys
playing in girls' sports. Most famously, although this week we
(29:11):
highlighted it, bill a sale, the Republican assemblyman came up
with a bill that said boys and men can't play
in any organized sports from elementary school through college. Democrats
vetoed it Newsom didn't do anything to stop him. So
Newsom is a lying hypocrite. Almost nothing he says is true.
You can believe almost nothing. I don't know what it
(29:33):
says about a state. That Alexa guy that everybody should know,
is a pathological liar, he's compulsive. He's now quietly screwed
over the environmentalists because there was a law that Newsom
signed in twenty twenty two, and it was about limiting
(29:58):
the use of well admitted, limiting the amount of single
use plastics that are sold and distributed in California, plastic bags,
for example, and other items I guess like plastic knives
and forks. And since then, dozens of regulators. Now that's
signed in twenty twenty two, Since then, dozens of regulators, lawmakers, environmentalists,
(30:23):
and industry groups have worked together to write the rules
and regulations.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
You imagine this.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
They have been doing this for two and a half years.
Two and a half years. They're writing the rules on
single use plastics to cut plastic pollution, claiming that it.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
All ends up in the water.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
The goal is to reduce single use plastic packaging by
twenty five percent and ensure that sixty five percent of
that material is recyclable. One hundred percent either recyclable or compostable. Okay,
this takes me to the produce department at my local
store to buy lettuce from my Lizard because my store
(31:07):
has jumped the gun and they're already. They used to
have these beautiful clear plastic bags and it was a
really strong plastic and you could put in, you know,
your cumquats and avocados and apples and at everything, and
it was a strong plastic and it was big and
it held a lot. One day, I show up to
(31:29):
buy the Lizard lettuce Bandelion Greens and it's this extremely thin,
flimsy plastic where both sides of the bag stick to
each other and you can't pull it apart and it
wrinkles all up and you can't and the bag is
too small and you can't get anything into the bag easily,
(31:52):
and whatever you buy, it's always sticking out. And there's
a big sign on the bag that says compostable. I
am not going to compost my Lizard lettuce bag. Nobody
does that.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Well, there are some people that do.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
But they're they're whack jobs. Normal people don't compost. I'm
not gonna have a garbage landfill in my backyard to
dump my lizard lettuce bags.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
So you're you're you're you're forcing something.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
I mean, if you wanted to make thinner plastic or
better plastic or whatever it is, like like they, you know,
because paper straws were so awful, companies did come up
with plastic like material that you don't really notice the
difference now, but that and it makes me mad. And
I go there and I'm stuffing the lizard lettuce in
and it's always sticking out, and I keep going up
(32:46):
to the UH. I keep going up to the employees
because I'd forgotten about this law. And I'm thinking maybe
some nut got involved in management at the grocery store.
And they go, well, and that's that's the state rules,
it's the state, or well that's got that's Gavin Newsom
for you. In fact, that cashier told me I can't
stand him. He goes, that's Gavin Newsom. That's why you
(33:06):
have that bag. Even cashiers are speaking out against this nonsense.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
To get to the final point here, he has suspended
the rules and regulations. He's told them to go back
and start over again and rewrite them because this is
going to buy him a couple of more. It took
him two and a half years they presented to him.
It's like, oh, I'm running for president.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
If people start realizing you have these flimsy compostable bags
that are awful, it's going to be a national news
story about the nanny state and Newsom running the nanny state.
So he told them to all go home and start again,
knowing he's not gonna have to deal with this for
another two and a half years.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Aren't you happy then?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Well, I'd be happy if they got see as I'm saying,
I start jumped the gun.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
Okay, but now they're gonna a backstep and they're gonna
bring the better bag.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I'm bringing this article to them.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Good show it to the store manager's.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I mean I did composting.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Now you could be a rebel. John.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Only hippies do that. Oh, by the way, you know
what that's led to Because I can't really use it
to store. It doesn't keep the lettuce fresh. I have
to get a ziplock bag and put the lettuce in
a large gallon sized ziplock bag. So I'm using a
plastic bag anyway. Now I have two bags.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
I'm using, bring your ziplock bag to the store until
they go back to the better bags, and then there
you go. You don't have to have the flimsy bag,
and you don't have two plastic bags.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
And now the ziplock bag is going to end up
in the landfill.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Though you know what, you don't worry about that. You
don't care.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I worry about it. Yeah, sure, no, nothing gets me
crazier than bags.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
No, but what I'm saying is you don't care that
it's going.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
To end up.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I don't. That's what land so for now on.
Speaker 6 (35:03):
So you don't have to complain anymore. Just bring a
zip block bag until they go back to would I
do If I can't conform, I don't know, You'll find
something else to complain.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
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