March 12, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (03/12) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about Southwest Airlines getting rid of their policy allowing customers to check a bag for free. More on Janisse Quiñones wanting security after receiving threats after the fires in January. Scott Peterson got beat up in jail over a pickleball argument.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
If you miss anything after four o'clock John Cobelt's show
on demand on the iHeart app, you can hear what
you missed. We have Alex Stone coming on in just
a moment to talk about Southwest. Next segment, we're going
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to tell you about this whole, this whole seven hundred
thousand dollars contract for private security for the idiot Genie
Keinonyez who didn't fill up the reservoir.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
She's the CEO of the DWP.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's been blocked now by Karen Bass, and everybody's clammed up.
Nobody wants to talk about it. And I wonder if
the threats are even real or is this a way
to shut down criticism. Get into that coming up in
the next segment. All right, yesterday, Southwest Airlines says they're
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going to start acting like all the other Harble airlines.
No more free bags and no more pick your own seats.
I've always had a lot of mixed feelings on Southwest
despite those perks. I'll tell you about that in a minute,
But first, Alex Stone, ABC News gonna give us the
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details here, Alex, how are you? But Tom, they're just
so easy at a burbank and at what like John
Wayne you go down there, and so easy to get
on and off of. But uh, yeah, this has been
the big talk travelers in the last twenty four hours
because Southwest is no longer going to be what Southwest
has always been about, and because executives at Southwest have
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always said that the bags fly Free, that that program
is core to what they do, and that they always
said they got more money by enticing customers with free
bags then they would make by charging for them.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, that has changed.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It was only a few months ago in the fall
that they were making some changes and they send an
email to cutustomers saying, but bags fly Free remains and
is here to stay. Well a couple months later, no,
it's not so. Southwest they said a few months ago
they're going to go to assigned seating, not quite a
first class but an extra leg room area in the
front of the plane if you want to pay for it.
That they've got to bring in more revenue now the
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bag fees as well. And the CEO is talking about
it now.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
He's saying it's about securing our future.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
We're announcing changes to our business that will help us
return to the levels of profitability we all expect and
to support our collective long term success.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And they're adding in power outlets to every seat, which
you would say, well, that's great, but that is not
part of the low fare model that they had always
been with where you just get the seat and that's
all you get. Red eye flights that they're adding, that's
something that they in the history of Southwest had not
done true red eyes. Maybe a month or two ago
they added those longer transcon flights and they just announced
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as well that flight credits a year and when you
cancel a flight will now only be good for a year,
it won't be in definitely longer. So we've seen it
Spirit as well. Spirit Day announce that they're coming out
of bankruptcy. But the low cost, no frills model really
isn't working any longer. That in the post pandemic world,
people are saying they want a better experience, they want
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a club the United Delta American, they want options to upgrade.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
That they've gotten away from the.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Basic fare and just trying to get the basic on
board experience does Spirit have a no Fights club and
they need one these days.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I've seen quite a few online videos.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, it's either Spirit or Frontier, and they're the two
lowest cost airlines and there's fights every week, it seems. Yeah,
and that those two airlines have been hurting as well,
and they've talked about merging, and the merger that Spirit
was gonna have a Jet Blue and then with Frontier
those fell apart. So all the lower cost carriers are
trying to figure it out. The other interesting part of
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this is that just yesterday, United, Delta, American, all the
legacy carriers came out and said that the domestic bookings
are no those diving right now because of concerns about
the economy. You know what the economy is going to
do in the next couple of months, in addition to
to recent airline crashes, that some people are afraid to fly,
but generally it's an economic thing. So Southwest is switching
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to be more like the legacy carriers. And now as
they're switching, the legacy carriers are saying, oh, no, people
aren't booking flights right now because they don't want to
spend the money. You have to wonder are people going
to be wanting to go back to the low fare
carrier to try to get a better deal, right as
Southwest is switching out of that. Yeah, I wonder when
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they Delta plane slipped over upside down, if you could
track purchases, how far down does that go for the
next twenty four hours as long as that that that
video is running on the news. You know where they
felt the most American airlines after the plane and the
helicopter hit in Washington, d C. Yeah, they saw a
big decline after that, and a big decline to go
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to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
To go into to Reagan National.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Mixed with government jobs going away and everything that they've
seen a big decline in the DCA. But they could
see that, and they can track. When there's an airline incident,
people get scared and they don't do it. But more
longer term, it's more economic. Really, well, I always thought
that the data book of flight is the day after
a plane crash, because you don't get two days in
a row with big plane crashes. That's true. Why that
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next day? Yeah, go the next day. Statistically you're in
a much better place. Yeah, Well, you know, we'll see
over the next few months if people come back to it,
depending on what goes on in the airline industry and
when it comes to the economy as well. But Southwest
they're potentially gambling here. They say that they've got to
to turn things around and bring in more money. But
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there are a lot of die hard Southwest customers who
may not be die hard enough to be an Elite
member to get free bags because elite members a list
members will still get them. That the people are saying
Southwest is no longer the cheapest. Sometimes you can find
it cheaper on United or on Delta. Of course you're
going to find it cheaper on Frontier where it's like
fifteen dollars, but then you pay more by the helmet though.
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Well yeah, so some people are saying that they're no
longer going to be stuck on Southwest because of what
they've always been about. But Southwest says that all their
research shows that they have had a small chunk of
the flying public who was okay with and enjoyed the
open seating and all the no frills. Whether there's a
whole bigger part of the pie that's been going elsewhere
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that will now come to them, We'll see if that works,
or do they just kind of fade away, is not
that they're going away or but just become another airline
and the people don't then flock to them because they
got rid of the open seating. Alex Stone, ABC News,
thank you for coming. Thanks j Yeah, all right. So
here's the thing with the Southwest from me. Some years ago,
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my son was playing high school baseball and club ball,
and there'd be tournaments in Arizona. They'd use the spring
training fields that the Major League clubs had, and so
we were taking frequent flying trips back and forth on
Southwest because it was the cheapest airline and there were
so many delayers. There was one time we were supposed
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to get to the We were supposed to get to
Phoenix at eight o'clock. They were having a ceremony at
the start of this tournament, and we wanted to get
there for the ceremony to eight o'clock. And from eight
in the morning, I had already booked a flight, and
it was it had gotten canceled or postponed, and then
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it was repostponed and repostponed. I'm sure it went on
all morning, and I spent hours looking at the websites
going from Lax, or maybe we should leave from Burbank,
or maybe we'd go back to Lax. Maybe this will work,
that'll work. We eventually got there a half hour before
before the ceremony at seven thirty at night. Again we
we're gonna leave early in the morning. Then one time
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coming back, we're going to the gate. We get right
to the gate, right to the waiting area, and I
get a buzz on my phone. Oh, the flight's been canceled.
And suddenly two hundred people all got up in the
same time and ran to another gate where another flight
was coming out here, and it was chaotic and that
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stuff like that kept happening. It's like, hey, you know,
I'm done. I'm done with Southwest. They're on beyond probation.
This is the blacklist now. For a while six years
I didn't fly Southwest and I was going to Phoenix
this weekend I met my friends go to spring training games.
And what happened. I get there. It's supposed to lift
off at eight thirty.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Boom.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I get there right away. Plane is the lake for
an hour. It's like, why this is like the old days.
And what they've done is they've built in a lot
of extra fat on their schedule, so they always land
on time, but that's only because they added another half
hour another hour to the flight time.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It's a scam.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Then coming home, everything was good until the landing. And
this is the story I told yesterday where suddenly it
seemed like the plane fell out of the sky really
hard landing.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Plane is skidding down the runway.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It is veering left, veering right, and it's doing the
seesaw with the wings like it was tip left, tipped right.
It seemed like we were skidding down an icy mountain
road breaks squealing, and I'm thinking, are we going to
crash into the gate here? Hope everybody in the in
the plane is groaning.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Whoo whoa.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
No apology, no explanation from the pilot. I mean, Southwest,
I'm sure has a great safety record and customer approval
and all that, but I've just had the worst luck.
So they're back on probation for me. Interesting thing though,
it's a hedge fund named Elliott Management that bought ten
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percent in Southwest and they started agitating for change, and
they got their way, and they they wanted the CEO ousted,
but they settled for the border directors shaking up, and
they're the ones who said, hey, you can make a
lot more money. Stop with this, with this no seat selection,
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stop with this free check bags. You're giving away a
lot of profit. All right, well we come back, Oh yeah,
the private security contract for Janice kone. She's making seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year and she can't
hire her own guard. We'll talk about it because something's
going on here.
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Speaker 1 (10:42):
Now. Yesterday we told you that.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Janie z seven hundred thousand dollars private security contract to
protect her was blocked. The board decided not to move
on it yet. Wait at least two weeks. Karen Bass
called the DWP board president, Richard Katz, and according to
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what he said, we had a discussion about this, and
the mayor made it very clear she would like to
see a much, much less expensive contract than the one
we have before us. Now, Kenoniez is claiming she's getting
a lot of death threats. But the board came up
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with a seven hundred thousand dollars security arrangement. And I
don't know how much time that covers or how many
people are going to surround her? She was going to
get a driver. And I find it rich because we
had twelve people die in that palis Ades fire, and
it's because Cononia is in part because Cononias didn't bother
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to get a garden hose out and fill up the reservoir.
The San di Inez Reservoir one hundred and seventeen million
gallons bone dry. You've heard the story, the cover torn
and they never fixed it. Would it taken a month,
would have taken one hundred and thirty grand Obviously a
lot of people angry. Thousands of people lost their homes,
thousands of families displaced, and some of the homes would
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have been saved some of them. Would no way to
prove how many. But if you have one hundred and
seventeen million gallons, there was no water pressure, it was
very low. A lot of hydrants were busted. This is
all on her. And instead of her being fired, I
mean it makes me want to smack myself in the head.
Instead of being fired, instead of instead of the board
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holding a public here, they should hold a public trial
and explain to everyone why they never filled the reservoir.
All these weeks later, two months later, more than two
months later, still nobody says a peep about this. So,
instead of being kicked on her ass to the curb,
she says, well, I'm getting I'm getting death threats. Wow,
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it looks like you're gonna have to protect yourself. Oh no, no, no,
I can't afford that. Oh sure, let the rate payers
pay for it, right, the rate payers who over time
paid for the reservoir, paid for the fire hydrants, paid
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for all the piping. Well, you didn't maintain the piping.
You didn't maintain the hydrants, you didn't fill the reservoir.
Now you you wouldn't spend money on all that. Now
you want to spend money because you're you're getting bad emails.
Uh huh, you don't want to pay that for yourself.
And then they're trying to find out details about the
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nature of the threats.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And this is where my radar is going up.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Uh, this is a city news story, city news service story.
And they called the DWP, and the DWP said, well,
you have to call LA Police. Well, LA Police, the
Media Relations Division said, well, contact the public Information officer
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for the DWP. We don't have the information. See I
follow that DWP says call the police. Police say, call
the DWP. So nobody knows the nature of the threats,
how many of them, how serious do they really seem?
Is it some jackal jes trolling on the internet? Is
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she getting tailed? You know what's going on? She wout
seven hundred thousand dollars. She doesn't want to pay for
her own security, and the security would cost five times
as much as the as the reservoir cover. So I'm
now why and why is bass saying, uh no, way
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got to be much less, much smaller? Are there really threats?
What's the proof of that? And when you do something
as stupid and boneheaded as not fillip reservoir that was
designed to put out the fire when you have like
thirteen hundred fire hydrants busted in the city, when you
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have minuscule water pressure. Because nobody ever did an analysis,
I mean, I saw, I got time. No, all right,
I'll pick it up when we come back. Because they
had they had a poll today on how people are
feeling in Los Angeles about the fire, and most people
in the city would actually pay more taxes if the
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fire department was fully funded. So they should have told
us years ago, that only half the fire department was
funded and the reservoir, well, the reservoir was empty for
a year. They'd never told us that the fire hydrants
were broken. They never told us the water pressure was
going to be low, not enough for a major fire,
a fire, a wildfire. Nobody told us. But the Pole
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says there would have been a receptive audience. We'll continue
with this when we come back.
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Speaker 1 (17:03):
I was telling you that.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Something, something smells with this Jense Kennonia situation. It is
it is absolutely shocking, even by Los Angeles corrupt stupidity standards.
Uh that Genez Kennonia still has a job as the
CEO of the l A d WP, it's just so outrageous.
She gets six seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year,
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and then she wanted another seven hundred grand for private security,
including a driver, claiming she's getting death threats. But when
the city news service started calling around, well what's what's
exactly the severity of the threats? The DWP said, why
didn't you call LAPD, And then l A p D said, well,
why don't you call the public.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Information officer for the DWP.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
We don't know, So the lap doesn't know what the
threats are, and the DWP is referring everybody back to
the police or whatever. Threats justify this seven hundred thousand dollars?
I mean, she's obviously one of these entitled professionals because
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her only public statements at the DWP meetings is to
carry on about all the degrees she has. Apparently she
has an engineering degree and to other graduate degrees, and
all that education didn't add up to having the common
sense to fill up the reservoir at to start a
fire season and then not to talk about it. Ever since,
nobody talks about it. No nobody at the DWP talks
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about it, Karen Bass doesn't talk about it, Nobody at
fire department talks about it.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
And now Bass says.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well, no way, we're paying seven hundred thousand dollars, it's
got to be a lot lot less. So the president
of the DWP, Richardkat said, Okay, we're gonna put this
off for two weeks. Something doesn't add up, something kind
of stinks. I don't believe it. I just don't believe
she's getting threats that justify seven hundred thousand dollars. And
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I guess Karen Bass doesn't believe it either. Karen Bass
doesn't believe it. Well, you got you got a credibility problem,
and she should have a credibility problem. Why would anybody
trust her running anything? There has to be such a
huge rebuild of the water system, not only in the
Palisades but all over the place, and the.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Fire department.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Where it's only been fifty percent funded, and this is
not civilization. Here in twenty twenty five, we have half
a fire department and a nineteen forty style water system.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
And the thing is the La Times. This morning.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
They've been running a number of polls that they've done
with Berkeley. You see Berkeley and the La Times. One
of the questions was, do you support greater funding for
city and county fire departments even if it means increasing taxes.
This tax increase got sixty sixty five percent support, sixty
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five to twenty nine, and it looks like only about
fifteen percent opposed it strongly. So that's about as good
as you could ever get for a tax increase. Because
everybody saw what's going on here, So why didn't they
tell us all these years?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
The appetite was there.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
If they had gone out and said, wow, you know
the fire department, we only have half as many firefighters
and half as many fire trucks, and a lot of
those fire trucks are up on blocks because we don't
have mechanics, people would have supported it. I remember in
past years there'd be these state initiatives for one thing
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or another, and they would usually put a few bucks
in for the state Fire Department cal Fire, and the
commercials would not be about the main thrust of the initiative.
It would be about the little bitty amount they were
given to cal Fire. And the commercials would just show
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neighborhoods ablaze or forests ablaze, right, wildfires, And it was
supposed to get you all emotional and scared, to manipulate
you into voting for whatever the proposition was about. They
led with, oh, look at all the bad fires. We
need the firefighters supported, we need money, and people go, okay, yeah,
you're right, But most of the money didn't go to
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the firefighters. That happened a couple of times. It's a
scam they do because you know, they're all dishonest. And
all this time, nobody ever put a ballot measure. I mean,
there's so many ballot measures for bonds, for tax increases.
I mean, we have another homeless tax increase hitting April,
the first nobody ever did it for the fire department.
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Nobody told us we only had half a fire department.
Nobody told us we had half the firefighters, half the engines,
a lot of the engines were busted, that we had
thirteen hundred fire hydrants broken, that we had a reservoir
that was empty until thousands of people suffered this terrible
tragedy and twelve people died. And then the woman behind
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all this for the last year or two. Genie Quinonez,
she's upset that everybody's mad at her. She wants private security.
And I don't know if she's exaggerating or is hysterical
or what. But Karen Bass said no, and the board said, okay, no, no.
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I don't know what they're going to work out in
a couple of weeks. But there's something funky there. Why
isn't she work? Where is an investigation? There should be
a hearing immediately. Of course, we're run by a bunch
of criminals in Sacramento, the one party criminal rule. They're
not going to interview Jennie Kinonyez and have her testify
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under oath and explain everything.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
No water in the.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Reservoir, busted fire, hydrants, lack of water pressure, all of it.
The only public comments that she would make was about
diversity inequity. Swear to god, we played some of it.
That's all she cared about was diversity in equity, actually
using the water supply to mitigate a horrific wildfire. There
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can't be anything easier than filling a hole.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Right.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
A reservoir is just a big hole, and all you
gotta do is pump in the water and fill it up,
so different than filling your kid's waiting pool right and
put in the hose and fill it up will take
a month.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
She never did.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
It wouldn't fix what amounted to the pool cover on
a reservoir that was designed and built to fight fires.
And she still doesn't. And Bass doesn't explain whether she
knew this was going on. I think Michael played a
clip of Bass or had a quote of Bass saying
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that she's not quitting on the city. She's not resigning charity,
quit on the city. When you go to Africa, when
you've been told for two days that the worst fire
in history may be coming, the worst winds in history
may be coming, and you leave anyway, you've already quit.
And you could tell from that tape we played yesterday
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she didn't think Saturday and Sunday were workdays. She was
insisting on this tape that I'm only taking two work
days off, which was a lie because of a five
day trip, so it was three work days and Saturday
and Sunday or workdays for mayors. And if you don't
like that, then don't run for mayor.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
And it turns out if you just had told everybody.
Sixty five percent of the.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Of the citizens in the city of Los Angeles would
would vote for the tax. All you had to do
was tell us instead of cover it up and hide.
All right, more coming up a good news we'll talk
about it next. Apparently Scott Peterson got beat up in prison.
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Six John Corbelt's show Conway. In minutes. Here's the good news,
feel good story of the day.
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Scott Peterson got a real ass whooping, it says according
to TMZ at a California state prison.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
He got beat up pounded playing pickleball.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Really, he got into a fight in the exercise yard
at Mill Creek State Prison that's forty miles outside of Sacramento.
That's where they transferred him to and acording to TMZ,
Peterson hit whacked the pickleball directly at another inmate, and
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the inmate got pissed off and beat up Peterson. Unfortunately,
his injuries were not serious. He didn't have to go
to the hospital. But Peterson getting a beating. Life's getting better. Conway.
What an introduction? What he was playing pickleball?
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Pickleball? I thought pickleball is a very low speed game.
Uh have you ever played it?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
No? I played paddle tennis, which is similar. But what
do you mean love speed?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I mean you could hit a ball really hard if
you're not supposed to it, you're supposed to hit up
on it.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
There's no slamming the.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Ball in pickleball. Well he did, he did, I mean
like he killed his wife. So I wonder who's you're
going to follow pickleball etiquette. I wonder who looks down
on the other group to paddable paddle old tennis guys
look down on pickleball or pickleball looks down on paddle tennis.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Who's the who's the higher eschel on that? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
But pickleball exploded a few years ago, right, and everybody's
and they're taking over the paddle tennis courts and there's
a whole thing.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
They say ninety three percent of pickleball rackets that were
sold three years ago or not being used to them.
They say that, or they it was a fad. You know,
people got into it for eight seconds. Everything's like that.
And because you know they have a term like in
the kitchen and dink, you know, it's not it's.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Not a real it's odd. It's not a real masculine sport.
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Well, not even that it's not even real sport, the
real sport. Yeah, I mean it's it hit a dink.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I mean that doesn't right, Like here's here's the proof
that it's not a real sport. I can go out
today and be pretty good at and I've never played.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Were you good at any sports?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I was?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
That was a good picture in baseball?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yeah? Yeah, I'll tell you a quick story. I told
the story in the every four or so if you
heard a cigarette and beer time. When I was in
I think fourth or fourth grade, I pitched a no
hitter in West Valley Little League. Six innings, no runs,
no hits, no airs, nothing. I struck most of those
kids out. They grabbed me, put me on their shoulders,
took me off the field. The audience was applauding. Everybody's
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going crazy. And my dad wasn't there. He was working.
She had six kids, a wife that liked loved Bullocks
and Macy's and you know, and Shamanda Fair and ditto.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
And so he had to work. I get that.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
So I get home. He comes home around seven o'clock
at night. I'm still in my Boston Red Sox uniform
and I said, hey, Dad, I said, I pitched a
no hitter today. No runs, no hits, no airs, nothing,
a perfect game. He goes, hey, that's so great, man.
I wish I was there. Hope there's pictures of it.
That's fantastic. I knew it, man, I knew you're going
(28:51):
to get these guys. And I said, yeah, I said,
I think I got something here. And he goes, you're
not that good.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Not great?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Is that you sit down? You're not that great? A
different time, different time. You know, if your kid pitches
a no hitter nowadays, you know you ship him off
to you know, to Varo Beach, I know, to a
baseball training camp. Right, he goes and loses some family somewhere.
(29:27):
You know, he's great, But that in the old days.
My dad's like, you're not that great. Sit down because
he had six kids. He wasn't gonna get up at
four a m. You know, to throw the ball around
with me.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
He's tired.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah, travel with those club teams, right, yeah, traveling team
he like on the track, not the you know, the
West Vallet Little League but that was a real defining moment.
I remember where I was sitting in his office when
he told me, hey, you're not that great. He said,
you're pitching to kids who will never make a junior, high,
high school, or college team.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
You and.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I look back at the photos the kids that I
was pitching to. Out of the nine kids on the
other team, seven of them were wearing glasses.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Well that was me.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Yeah right, The seven of them couldn't even see the ball, right,
So I get it.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Anyway, we got Alex Stone coming on tonight.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
He's great. Bags don't fly for free anymore. You're probably
not a Southwest guy. You've made well, I know. I
actually this weekend I took it twice.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Well he did. Yeah, neither neither trip was was good.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I imagine irritation is pretty quick to you when on Southwest.
Uh yeah, yeah. Because you're an organized guy. You need
a seat. You need to know where you're gonna be.
You didn't know he's gonna sit.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Next to you. I don't want And that's what I'd forgotten.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
It's like, if you want to get the good seat,
you have to check in at the exact minute, right, Yeah,
twenty four hours before you got to sit near the phone.
It's eight twenty five am on Thursday and I'm My
wife is going, what are you doing? And I said,
like twenty five I want to get the good seat
of Southwest And then I realized, opid, this is it
is horrible.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Then we got to Jojo Wright coming on tonight talk
about the Oango Tango Festival.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
So Dink doing all right? Conway is next.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
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you missed. We have Alex Stone coming on in just
a moment to talk about Southwest. Next segment, we're going
(00:22):
to tell you about this whole, this whole seven hundred
thousand dollars contract for private security for the idiot Genie
Keinonyez who didn't fill up the reservoir.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
She's the CEO of the DWP.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's been blocked now by Karen Bass, and everybody's clammed up.
Nobody wants to talk about it. And I wonder if
the threats are even real or is this a way
to shut down criticism. Get into that coming up in
the next segment. All right, yesterday, Southwest Airlines says they're
(01:01):
going to start acting like all the other Harble airlines.
No more free bags and no more pick your own seats.
I've always had a lot of mixed feelings on Southwest
despite those perks. I'll tell you about that in a minute,
But first, Alex Stone, ABC News gonna give us the
(01:22):
details here, Alex, how are you? But Tom, they're just
so easy at a burbank and at what like John
Wayne you go down there, and so easy to get
on and off of. But uh, yeah, this has been
the big talk travelers in the last twenty four hours
because Southwest is no longer going to be what Southwest
has always been about, and because executives at Southwest have
(01:42):
always said that the bags fly Free, that that program
is core to what they do, and that they always
said they got more money by enticing customers with free
bags then they would make by charging for them.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, that has changed.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It was only a few months ago in the fall
that they were making some changes and they send an
email to cutustomers saying, but bags fly Free remains and
is here to stay. Well a couple months later, no,
it's not so. Southwest they said a few months ago
they're going to go to assigned seating, not quite a
first class but an extra leg room area in the
front of the plane if you want to pay for it.
That they've got to bring in more revenue now the
(02:17):
bag fees as well. And the CEO is talking about
it now.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
He's saying it's about securing our future.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
We're announcing changes to our business that will help us
return to the levels of profitability we all expect and
to support our collective long term success.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And they're adding in power outlets to every seat, which
you would say, well, that's great, but that is not
part of the low fare model that they had always
been with where you just get the seat and that's
all you get. Red eye flights that they're adding, that's
something that they in the history of Southwest had not
done true red eyes. Maybe a month or two ago
they added those longer transcon flights and they just announced
(02:52):
as well that flight credits a year and when you
cancel a flight will now only be good for a year,
it won't be in definitely longer. So we've seen it
Spirit as well. Spirit Day announce that they're coming out
of bankruptcy. But the low cost, no frills model really
isn't working any longer. That in the post pandemic world,
people are saying they want a better experience, they want
(03:13):
a club the United Delta American, they want options to upgrade.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
That they've gotten away from the.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Basic fare and just trying to get the basic on
board experience does Spirit have a no Fights club and
they need one these days.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I've seen quite a few online videos.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, it's either Spirit or Frontier, and they're the two
lowest cost airlines and there's fights every week, it seems. Yeah,
and that those two airlines have been hurting as well,
and they've talked about merging, and the merger that Spirit
was gonna have a Jet Blue and then with Frontier
those fell apart. So all the lower cost carriers are
trying to figure it out. The other interesting part of
(03:51):
this is that just yesterday, United, Delta, American, all the
legacy carriers came out and said that the domestic bookings
are no those diving right now because of concerns about
the economy. You know what the economy is going to
do in the next couple of months, in addition to
to recent airline crashes, that some people are afraid to fly,
but generally it's an economic thing. So Southwest is switching
(04:14):
to be more like the legacy carriers. And now as
they're switching, the legacy carriers are saying, oh, no, people
aren't booking flights right now because they don't want to
spend the money. You have to wonder are people going
to be wanting to go back to the low fare
carrier to try to get a better deal, right as
Southwest is switching out of that. Yeah, I wonder when
(04:35):
they Delta plane slipped over upside down, if you could
track purchases, how far down does that go for the
next twenty four hours as long as that that that
video is running on the news. You know where they
felt the most American airlines after the plane and the
helicopter hit in Washington, d C. Yeah, they saw a
big decline after that, and a big decline to go
(04:56):
to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
To go into to Reagan National.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Mixed with government jobs going away and everything that they've
seen a big decline in the DCA. But they could
see that, and they can track. When there's an airline incident,
people get scared and they don't do it. But more
longer term, it's more economic. Really, well, I always thought
that the data book of flight is the day after
a plane crash, because you don't get two days in
a row with big plane crashes. That's true. Why that
(05:22):
next day? Yeah, go the next day. Statistically you're in
a much better place. Yeah, Well, you know, we'll see
over the next few months if people come back to it,
depending on what goes on in the airline industry and
when it comes to the economy as well. But Southwest
they're potentially gambling here. They say that they've got to
to turn things around and bring in more money. But
(05:43):
there are a lot of die hard Southwest customers who
may not be die hard enough to be an Elite
member to get free bags because elite members a list
members will still get them. That the people are saying
Southwest is no longer the cheapest. Sometimes you can find
it cheaper on United or on Delta. Of course you're
going to find it cheaper on Frontier where it's like
fifteen dollars, but then you pay more by the helmet though.
(06:04):
Well yeah, so some people are saying that they're no
longer going to be stuck on Southwest because of what
they've always been about. But Southwest says that all their
research shows that they have had a small chunk of
the flying public who was okay with and enjoyed the
open seating and all the no frills. Whether there's a
whole bigger part of the pie that's been going elsewhere
(06:26):
that will now come to them, We'll see if that works,
or do they just kind of fade away, is not
that they're going away or but just become another airline
and the people don't then flock to them because they
got rid of the open seating. Alex Stone, ABC News,
thank you for coming. Thanks j Yeah, all right. So
here's the thing with the Southwest from me. Some years ago,
(06:47):
my son was playing high school baseball and club ball,
and there'd be tournaments in Arizona. They'd use the spring
training fields that the Major League clubs had, and so
we were taking frequent flying trips back and forth on
Southwest because it was the cheapest airline and there were
so many delayers. There was one time we were supposed
(07:08):
to get to the We were supposed to get to
Phoenix at eight o'clock. They were having a ceremony at
the start of this tournament, and we wanted to get
there for the ceremony to eight o'clock. And from eight
in the morning, I had already booked a flight, and
it was it had gotten canceled or postponed, and then
(07:30):
it was repostponed and repostponed. I'm sure it went on
all morning, and I spent hours looking at the websites
going from Lax, or maybe we should leave from Burbank,
or maybe we'd go back to Lax. Maybe this will work,
that'll work. We eventually got there a half hour before
before the ceremony at seven thirty at night. Again we
we're gonna leave early in the morning. Then one time
(07:54):
coming back, we're going to the gate. We get right
to the gate, right to the waiting area, and I
get a buzz on my phone. Oh, the flight's been canceled.
And suddenly two hundred people all got up in the
same time and ran to another gate where another flight
was coming out here, and it was chaotic and that
(08:16):
stuff like that kept happening. It's like, hey, you know,
I'm done. I'm done with Southwest. They're on beyond probation.
This is the blacklist now. For a while six years
I didn't fly Southwest and I was going to Phoenix
this weekend I met my friends go to spring training games.
And what happened. I get there. It's supposed to lift
off at eight thirty.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Boom.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I get there right away. Plane is the lake for
an hour. It's like, why this is like the old days.
And what they've done is they've built in a lot
of extra fat on their schedule, so they always land
on time, but that's only because they added another half
hour another hour to the flight time.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It's a scam.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Then coming home, everything was good until the landing. And
this is the story I told yesterday where suddenly it
seemed like the plane fell out of the sky really
hard landing.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Plane is skidding down the runway.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It is veering left, veering right, and it's doing the
seesaw with the wings like it was tip left, tipped right.
It seemed like we were skidding down an icy mountain
road breaks squealing, and I'm thinking, are we going to
crash into the gate here? Hope everybody in the in
the plane is groaning.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Whoo whoa.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
No apology, no explanation from the pilot. I mean, Southwest,
I'm sure has a great safety record and customer approval
and all that, but I've just had the worst luck.
So they're back on probation for me. Interesting thing though,
it's a hedge fund named Elliott Management that bought ten
(09:56):
percent in Southwest and they started agitating for change, and
they got their way, and they they wanted the CEO ousted,
but they settled for the border directors shaking up, and
they're the ones who said, hey, you can make a
lot more money. Stop with this, with this no seat selection,
(10:17):
stop with this free check bags. You're giving away a
lot of profit. All right, well we come back, Oh yeah,
the private security contract for Janice kone. She's making seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year and she can't
hire her own guard. We'll talk about it because something's
going on here.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Now. Yesterday we told you that.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Janie z seven hundred thousand dollars private security contract to
protect her was blocked. The board decided not to move
on it yet. Wait at least two weeks. Karen Bass
called the DWP board president, Richard Katz, and according to
(11:09):
what he said, we had a discussion about this, and
the mayor made it very clear she would like to
see a much, much less expensive contract than the one
we have before us. Now, Kenoniez is claiming she's getting
a lot of death threats. But the board came up
(11:29):
with a seven hundred thousand dollars security arrangement. And I
don't know how much time that covers or how many
people are going to surround her? She was going to
get a driver. And I find it rich because we
had twelve people die in that palis Ades fire, and
it's because Cononia is in part because Cononias didn't bother
(11:50):
to get a garden hose out and fill up the reservoir.
The San di Inez Reservoir one hundred and seventeen million
gallons bone dry. You've heard the story, the cover torn
and they never fixed it. Would it taken a month,
would have taken one hundred and thirty grand Obviously a
lot of people angry. Thousands of people lost their homes,
thousands of families displaced, and some of the homes would
(12:13):
have been saved some of them. Would no way to
prove how many. But if you have one hundred and
seventeen million gallons, there was no water pressure, it was
very low. A lot of hydrants were busted. This is
all on her. And instead of her being fired, I
mean it makes me want to smack myself in the head.
Instead of being fired, instead of instead of the board
(12:40):
holding a public here, they should hold a public trial
and explain to everyone why they never filled the reservoir.
All these weeks later, two months later, more than two
months later, still nobody says a peep about this. So,
instead of being kicked on her ass to the curb,
she says, well, I'm getting I'm getting death threats. Wow,
(13:05):
it looks like you're gonna have to protect yourself. Oh no, no, no,
I can't afford that. Oh sure, let the rate payers
pay for it, right, the rate payers who over time
paid for the reservoir, paid for the fire hydrants, paid
(13:27):
for all the piping. Well, you didn't maintain the piping.
You didn't maintain the hydrants, you didn't fill the reservoir.
Now you you wouldn't spend money on all that. Now
you want to spend money because you're you're getting bad emails.
Uh huh, you don't want to pay that for yourself.
And then they're trying to find out details about the
(13:49):
nature of the threats.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And this is where my radar is going up.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Uh, this is a city news story, city news service story.
And they called the DWP, and the DWP said, well,
you have to call LA Police. Well, LA Police, the
Media Relations Division said, well, contact the public Information officer
(14:19):
for the DWP. We don't have the information. See I
follow that DWP says call the police. Police say, call
the DWP. So nobody knows the nature of the threats,
how many of them, how serious do they really seem?
Is it some jackal jes trolling on the internet? Is
(14:41):
she getting tailed? You know what's going on? She wout
seven hundred thousand dollars. She doesn't want to pay for
her own security, and the security would cost five times
as much as the as the reservoir cover. So I'm
now why and why is bass saying, uh no, way
(15:03):
got to be much less, much smaller? Are there really threats?
What's the proof of that? And when you do something
as stupid and boneheaded as not fillip reservoir that was
designed to put out the fire when you have like
thirteen hundred fire hydrants busted in the city, when you
(15:24):
have minuscule water pressure. Because nobody ever did an analysis,
I mean, I saw, I got time. No, all right,
I'll pick it up when we come back. Because they
had they had a poll today on how people are
feeling in Los Angeles about the fire, and most people
in the city would actually pay more taxes if the
(15:46):
fire department was fully funded. So they should have told
us years ago, that only half the fire department was
funded and the reservoir, well, the reservoir was empty for
a year. They'd never told us that the fire hydrants
were broken. They never told us the water pressure was
going to be low, not enough for a major fire,
a fire, a wildfire. Nobody told us. But the Pole
(16:10):
says there would have been a receptive audience. We'll continue
with this when we come back.
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Speaker 1 (17:03):
I was telling you that.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Something, something smells with this Jense Kennonia situation. It is
it is absolutely shocking, even by Los Angeles corrupt stupidity standards.
Uh that Genez Kennonia still has a job as the
CEO of the l A d WP, it's just so outrageous.
She gets six seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year,
(17:28):
and then she wanted another seven hundred grand for private security,
including a driver, claiming she's getting death threats. But when
the city news service started calling around, well what's what's
exactly the severity of the threats? The DWP said, why
didn't you call LAPD, And then l A p D said, well,
why don't you call the public.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Information officer for the DWP.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
We don't know, So the lap doesn't know what the
threats are, and the DWP is referring everybody back to
the police or whatever. Threats justify this seven hundred thousand dollars?
I mean, she's obviously one of these entitled professionals because
(18:13):
her only public statements at the DWP meetings is to
carry on about all the degrees she has. Apparently she
has an engineering degree and to other graduate degrees, and
all that education didn't add up to having the common
sense to fill up the reservoir at to start a
fire season and then not to talk about it. Ever since,
nobody talks about it. No nobody at the DWP talks
(18:34):
about it, Karen Bass doesn't talk about it, Nobody at
fire department talks about it.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
And now Bass says.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well, no way, we're paying seven hundred thousand dollars, it's
got to be a lot lot less. So the president
of the DWP, Richardkat said, Okay, we're gonna put this
off for two weeks. Something doesn't add up, something kind
of stinks. I don't believe it. I just don't believe
she's getting threats that justify seven hundred thousand dollars. And
(19:05):
I guess Karen Bass doesn't believe it either. Karen Bass
doesn't believe it. Well, you got you got a credibility problem,
and she should have a credibility problem. Why would anybody
trust her running anything? There has to be such a
huge rebuild of the water system, not only in the
Palisades but all over the place, and the.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Fire department.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Where it's only been fifty percent funded, and this is
not civilization. Here in twenty twenty five, we have half
a fire department and a nineteen forty style water system.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
And the thing is the La Times. This morning.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
They've been running a number of polls that they've done
with Berkeley. You see Berkeley and the La Times. One
of the questions was, do you support greater funding for
city and county fire departments even if it means increasing taxes.
This tax increase got sixty sixty five percent support, sixty
(20:06):
five to twenty nine, and it looks like only about
fifteen percent opposed it strongly. So that's about as good
as you could ever get for a tax increase. Because
everybody saw what's going on here, So why didn't they
tell us all these years?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
The appetite was there.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
If they had gone out and said, wow, you know
the fire department, we only have half as many firefighters
and half as many fire trucks, and a lot of
those fire trucks are up on blocks because we don't
have mechanics, people would have supported it. I remember in
past years there'd be these state initiatives for one thing
(20:52):
or another, and they would usually put a few bucks
in for the state Fire Department cal Fire, and the
commercials would not be about the main thrust of the initiative.
It would be about the little bitty amount they were
given to cal Fire. And the commercials would just show
(21:14):
neighborhoods ablaze or forests ablaze, right, wildfires, And it was
supposed to get you all emotional and scared, to manipulate
you into voting for whatever the proposition was about. They
led with, oh, look at all the bad fires. We
need the firefighters supported, we need money, and people go, okay, yeah,
you're right, But most of the money didn't go to
(21:35):
the firefighters. That happened a couple of times. It's a
scam they do because you know, they're all dishonest. And
all this time, nobody ever put a ballot measure. I mean,
there's so many ballot measures for bonds, for tax increases.
I mean, we have another homeless tax increase hitting April,
the first nobody ever did it for the fire department.
(21:57):
Nobody told us we only had half a fire department.
Nobody told us we had half the firefighters, half the engines,
a lot of the engines were busted, that we had
thirteen hundred fire hydrants broken, that we had a reservoir
that was empty until thousands of people suffered this terrible
tragedy and twelve people died. And then the woman behind
(22:20):
all this for the last year or two. Genie Quinonez,
she's upset that everybody's mad at her. She wants private security.
And I don't know if she's exaggerating or is hysterical
or what. But Karen Bass said no, and the board said, okay, no, no.
(22:41):
I don't know what they're going to work out in
a couple of weeks. But there's something funky there. Why
isn't she work? Where is an investigation? There should be
a hearing immediately. Of course, we're run by a bunch
of criminals in Sacramento, the one party criminal rule. They're
not going to interview Jennie Kinonyez and have her testify
(23:03):
under oath and explain everything.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
No water in the.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Reservoir, busted fire, hydrants, lack of water pressure, all of it.
The only public comments that she would make was about
diversity inequity. Swear to god, we played some of it.
That's all she cared about was diversity in equity, actually
using the water supply to mitigate a horrific wildfire. There
(23:32):
can't be anything easier than filling a hole.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Right.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
A reservoir is just a big hole, and all you
gotta do is pump in the water and fill it up,
so different than filling your kid's waiting pool right and
put in the hose and fill it up will take
a month.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
She never did.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
It wouldn't fix what amounted to the pool cover on
a reservoir that was designed and built to fight fires.
And she still doesn't. And Bass doesn't explain whether she
knew this was going on. I think Michael played a
clip of Bass or had a quote of Bass saying
(24:18):
that she's not quitting on the city. She's not resigning charity,
quit on the city. When you go to Africa, when
you've been told for two days that the worst fire
in history may be coming, the worst winds in history
may be coming, and you leave anyway, you've already quit.
And you could tell from that tape we played yesterday
(24:40):
she didn't think Saturday and Sunday were workdays. She was
insisting on this tape that I'm only taking two work
days off, which was a lie because of a five
day trip, so it was three work days and Saturday
and Sunday or workdays for mayors. And if you don't
like that, then don't run for mayor.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
And it turns out if you just had told everybody.
Sixty five percent of the.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Of the citizens in the city of Los Angeles would
would vote for the tax. All you had to do
was tell us instead of cover it up and hide.
All right, more coming up a good news we'll talk
about it next. Apparently Scott Peterson got beat up in prison.
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Six John Corbelt's show Conway. In minutes. Here's the good news,
feel good story of the day.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Scott Peterson got a real ass whooping, it says according
to TMZ at a California state prison.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
He got beat up pounded playing pickleball.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Really, he got into a fight in the exercise yard
at Mill Creek State Prison that's forty miles outside of Sacramento.
That's where they transferred him to and acording to TMZ,
Peterson hit whacked the pickleball directly at another inmate, and
(26:07):
the inmate got pissed off and beat up Peterson. Unfortunately,
his injuries were not serious. He didn't have to go
to the hospital. But Peterson getting a beating. Life's getting better. Conway.
What an introduction? What he was playing pickleball?
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Pickleball? I thought pickleball is a very low speed game.
Uh have you ever played it?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
No? I played paddle tennis, which is similar. But what
do you mean love speed?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I mean you could hit a ball really hard if
you're not supposed to it, you're supposed to hit up
on it.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
There's no slamming the.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Ball in pickleball. Well he did, he did, I mean
like he killed his wife. So I wonder who's you're
going to follow pickleball etiquette. I wonder who looks down
on the other group to paddable paddle old tennis guys
look down on pickleball or pickleball looks down on paddle tennis.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Who's the who's the higher eschel on that? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
But pickleball exploded a few years ago, right, and everybody's
and they're taking over the paddle tennis courts and there's
a whole thing.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
They say ninety three percent of pickleball rackets that were
sold three years ago or not being used to them.
They say that, or they it was a fad. You know,
people got into it for eight seconds. Everything's like that.
And because you know they have a term like in
the kitchen and dink, you know, it's not it's.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Not a real it's odd. It's not a real masculine sport.
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Well, not even that it's not even real sport, the
real sport. Yeah, I mean it's it hit a dink.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I mean that doesn't right, Like here's here's the proof
that it's not a real sport. I can go out
today and be pretty good at and I've never played.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Were you good at any sports?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I was?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
That was a good picture in baseball?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yeah? Yeah, I'll tell you a quick story. I told
the story in the every four or so if you
heard a cigarette and beer time. When I was in
I think fourth or fourth grade, I pitched a no
hitter in West Valley Little League. Six innings, no runs,
no hits, no airs, nothing. I struck most of those
kids out. They grabbed me, put me on their shoulders,
took me off the field. The audience was applauding. Everybody's
(28:18):
going crazy. And my dad wasn't there. He was working.
She had six kids, a wife that liked loved Bullocks
and Macy's and you know, and Shamanda Fair and ditto.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
And so he had to work. I get that.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
So I get home. He comes home around seven o'clock
at night. I'm still in my Boston Red Sox uniform
and I said, hey, Dad, I said, I pitched a
no hitter today. No runs, no hits, no airs, nothing,
a perfect game. He goes, hey, that's so great, man.
I wish I was there. Hope there's pictures of it.
That's fantastic. I knew it, man, I knew you're going
(28:51):
to get these guys. And I said, yeah, I said,
I think I got something here. And he goes, you're
not that good.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Not great?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Is that you sit down? You're not that great? A
different time, different time. You know, if your kid pitches
a no hitter nowadays, you know you ship him off
to you know, to Varo Beach, I know, to a
baseball training camp. Right, he goes and loses some family somewhere.
(29:27):
You know, he's great, But that in the old days.
My dad's like, you're not that great. Sit down because
he had six kids. He wasn't gonna get up at
four a m. You know, to throw the ball around
with me.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
He's tired.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah, travel with those club teams, right, yeah, traveling team
he like on the track, not the you know, the
West Vallet Little League but that was a real defining moment.
I remember where I was sitting in his office when
he told me, hey, you're not that great. He said,
you're pitching to kids who will never make a junior, high,
high school, or college team.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
You and.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I look back at the photos the kids that I
was pitching to. Out of the nine kids on the
other team, seven of them were wearing glasses.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Well that was me.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Yeah right, The seven of them couldn't even see the ball, right,
So I get it.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Anyway, we got Alex Stone coming on tonight.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
He's great. Bags don't fly for free anymore. You're probably
not a Southwest guy. You've made well, I know. I
actually this weekend I took it twice.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Well he did. Yeah, neither neither trip was was good.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
I imagine irritation is pretty quick to you when on Southwest.
Uh yeah, yeah. Because you're an organized guy. You need
a seat. You need to know where you're gonna be.
You didn't know he's gonna sit.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Next to you. I don't want And that's what I'd forgotten.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
It's like, if you want to get the good seat,
you have to check in at the exact minute, right, Yeah,
twenty four hours before you got to sit near the phone.
It's eight twenty five am on Thursday and I'm My
wife is going, what are you doing? And I said,
like twenty five I want to get the good seat
of Southwest And then I realized, opid, this is it
is horrible.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Then we got to Jojo Wright coming on tonight talk
about the Oango Tango Festival.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
So Dink doing all right? Conway is next.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Michael Krezer with the news live in the CAFI twenty
four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John
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