August 7, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (08/07) - Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about the LADWP repairs in the San Fernando Valley. More on the LADWP repairs that went wrong. Gov. Newsom is upset that people are going to have to prove they work or volunteer to get MediCal. What are the "Dark Triad of Traits"?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Denise Konias has been hiding out in a bunker about
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six miles below the earth ever since she botched up
the Palisades fire. She never filled the reservoir there still
making her seven hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
And now she has surfaced because there's been another big
foul up at the DWP. Ninety two hundred customers Granada
Hills and Porter Ranch, no water service, no water and
this is a hot day, and they went in to
fix something and they busted something else. Michael Monks with
all the details, and you will shortly hear Denise Cononia's
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voice for.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
The first time in about six months. You certainly will.
They had a a news conference.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
It's been since yesterday, since last we heard an official
news conference where they give formal updates about this situation.
But as you note, thousands of people without water. No,
this is a big city. Of course, some nine thousand
people a drop in the proverbial bucket, but they would
love to have a drop in any bucket right now
out there, because there's more than nine thousand without water
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right now. When you think is you noted hottest days
of the summer so far to not have access to
your own water nine.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Thousand customers, that's probably more like twenty thousand people.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
That's a good point, that's right. Something we forget when
power goes out anywhere. It's a one thousand or so,
but there are a lot of people that live in
that affected area, so very good point to raise there.
You also noted what is important here is that this
wasn't an accident. It was an accident, of course, but
this wasn't something involving weather or a driver or something.
This was ledwp going out and doing some repair work
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and apparently making the situation worse at What we've learned
is that water crews were conducting repair work two days
ago on Tuesday, at a pump station connecting to a
ten million gallon water tank that serves that area of
Grenada Hills and Porter ranch when a valve that controls
the flow of the water failed to open. Okay, and
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so what that has done is the water flowing from
the tank into the pipe serving the area was cut
off completely. Oh and the problem is very difficult to address.
Jennie Connas, the executive director of the General Manager of LADWP,
describes for us the challenges.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
At the same time, our crews are working to remove
the valve that fail to restore water flow to the tank.
The location of the abalve is twenty four feet deep
and the repairs are very complex. They have been working
since last night and this morning. They found two oil pipelines,
active pipelines, a gas line and lash boulders that have
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complicated our excavation efforts because we cannot use heavy equipment
until those lines are clear. We're working with the owners
of those lines to clear the pipeline so we can
continue the excavation.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You're going to bring subtitles to the existence.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
She is, I believe from Puerto Rico, so she does
have a Spanish language accent.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yes, but basically, if I may translate for you, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
This is a big mess and it's only gotten messier
as they've tried to fix the problem that they created.
They went in to fix one thing, broke the situation,
and as they have to go deep into the earth
to fix to fix it more, they're finding oil lines,
gas lines, boulders, boulders, boulders, boulders.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Big rocks, big rock.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Sir, You'll also be happy to know John as you
are anytime there's a disaster in Los Angeles at the
City of Los Angeles is on it, as detailed by
Mayor Bass.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
I want Angelino's in Porta Ranch and Granada Hills to
know that city crews are working around the clock on
this issue. That was the bride last night, the councilman
and I made it very clear to our general managers
that this needed to be fixed immediately and that in
the meantime we will do all we can to support
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families that are impacted.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
What was its urgency on January seventh.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I think what she has learned from January seventh is
to speak with more urgency. You can see it, whether
it's the immigration situation that's going on or this that
she has learned from just the communication mistakes that we're
taking place back in early January, because it has very
visibly shifted. This happened on Tuesday, it is now Thursday. Originally,
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LEDWP thought they might be able to have the situation
resolved by tomorrow Friday. Now it looks like it could
drag on through the weekend, maybe even beyond that.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
If they just had stayed home, none of this would
have happened.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I'm sure they feel really bad.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Why you know, you don't You're probably you're doing some
routine well, I mean, the engineers are probably well paid
while they're working on it.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
But did they Is there something specific that they did
that led to this situation.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
We don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You know what, what it sounds like is whatever the
routine maintenance work that they were doing in this area,
the equipment down there was apparently so old that this
valve just would not open. I mean it sounds like,
you know, some WD forty might have been useful at
that point.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well, this stuff's one hundred years old, exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
And this is something that they have said, and the
city has said its own sewer department, for example, we
got to get more money, We got to raise your
rates because a lot of this infrastructure under the earth
is ancient at this point.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
And that's true in a lot of cities. You know,
there's these sewers. They're all run badly.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, that's right, and then they do not invest in
the infrastructure until it becomes absolutely necessary and a crisis
mode would When you think about water the area around
Los Angeles and the heat, you may also think about
the threat of fire. Right, And we are not just
under the threat of wildfire in southern California or California
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in general because of the climate or because of the topography.
We are also under the threat of fires because of
some of the people who live among us.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
This is something we've discussed before. So Counselman John Lee.
You heard the mayor talk about the councilman, and I
talk to so and so. She was talking about Counselman
John Lee, who represents this area, and so.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
He is aware that this could be a problem. Here's
what he said.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Additionally, I instructed LAPD to increase patrols in the high
fire severity zones throughout the district. So you know, in
light of this incident, it's essential that we stay ahead
of any potential threats. Let me make this perfectly clear,
and the attempt to take advantage of this emergency will
not be tolerated. We are prepared and we will hold
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those people accountable.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
So please don't start fires. Please don't break into anybody's homes.
If they happen to leave the area, pass pass all
the homeless vagrants.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
They're on they're on notice.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
They are indeed, now if you are somebody living in
that area, you are eligible for a lot of free water.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That they're hanging out.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
They've brought in portable bathrooms, portable showers, portable methods to
clean your laundry. I understand. So they they being the government,
they are bringing what what is that exactly? I don't
know if it's a bucket in US. I don't know
if it's an my laundry and a community bucket.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I live in an apartment where we share, and that's
bad enough. Oh yeah, I know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I want to get a washboard. That was the thing
I hated most about the worst apartment, the worst dog hair,
all that laundry, that laundry room down in the basement.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I'm waiting for a race so I can get out
of the fashion district to get a get a better laundry.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
You got to get out of there. You stay there
much longer. Well, it could be worse in your mental stability.
We do have water today.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You have water. I have one.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, So our thoughts are with the folks in Grenada
Hills and Porter Ranchts resolved.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
But you have Karen Bass and they're on it, so
don't worry. Things will be fine. How about you want
a bit Monday we have the same conversation.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I will look forward to that.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Okay, We've got Michael Monk's KFI News.
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could unleash whatever is burning in your soul. And boy,
wasn't it good to hear Janise Canoniez again.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
It was what we're just asking about her. Weren't you
a couple of days ago?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Periodically, you know, you have your question which which I
share the curiosity? You know what started the fire in
the Palisades? Yeah, they told us the after action report
was coming out this summer. I remember hearing all it
will be out around July. I thought it was going
to come out on July fourth itself, you know, when
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the whole world is shut down and there isn't much
news coverage going on. But that came and went. Now
it's it's August, and they still don't know.
Speaker 9 (09:14):
They still don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
This is what we need the California Post for at
the California Post is going to be an offshoot of
the New York Post. And if they put their time
and resources in attitude like they do in New York,
a lot of these stories will blow sky high a
lot sooner they'll find out. And there's just just too much,
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too much comfortable silence about this Palace stage fire. And
I'm thinking there's a bad story that they don't want
to release and they don't know what to do.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
All they've said, and I think that the narrative is
the same that there were there was fireworks that happened
on a January first, right, yeah, and that fire was
put out. There was a little fire that was started
by fireworks that was put out, and then it smoldered
and then it happened again.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
It broke out January seventh. That's it. That's all I've.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Heard, right, yep, that was a possibility. Of course, they
should have had a strike team standing on the land
that burned back on January first, if it was possible
that a strong wind could whip up the fire again,
because everybody after the fact said, oh, yeah, that could happen.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Well, then you.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Should have had a crew there, right, yep. You should
have said, hey, what was the last fire we had
in this area? Oh yeah, January first, Yeah, we had
four acres. I think now there's a lot of questions
they still want to answer, and they hope everybody forgets
and losing his interest.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
But we will never know.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
But Cheniz Kinonia sounds to me like somebody who's running
to be high school class president. I mean, she just
doesn't sound like she knows anything. She's very tentative and halting,
and I can't believe she's in charge of the entire
water system and power system of Los Angeles. Do we
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have that clip again of her?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
At the same time, our crews are working to remove
the valve that fail to restore.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Water stuff the valve. That's what she said.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
At the same time, our crews are working to remove
the valve that fail to restore water flow to the tank.
The location of the valve is twenty four feet deep
and the repairs are very complex. They have been working
since last night and this morning. They found two oil pipelines,
active pipelines, a gas line, and lash boulders that have
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complicated our excavation efforts because we can't heavy equipment until
those lines are clear. We're working with the owners of
those lines to clear the pipeline so we can continue
the excavation.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I don't know how anybody could have confidence in her.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I want I want some detail, like what did they
do wrong?
Speaker 9 (12:04):
We're not going to find that out.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And there's no remote way to turn off or turn
a valve on that's twenty four feet underground.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
There should be so that understand a valve. I guess.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I guess they have the original infrastructure from nineteen twenty
four and we.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Have nine thousand more than nine thousand people now are.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Affected, and they have they have oil pipelines and large boulders.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Whatever the hell she said.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And I've read fiber optic lines, gas lines, I mean everything.
It's like, did they do they have a map of
this stuff. When they were putting in all these extra lines,
did anybody say, well, what happens if the valve locks
up down there?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
How we're going to get to it?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Shouldn't there become some kind of pathway, a shaft, you know,
an underground tunnel.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
What are they digging with my hand with a shovel?
I don't know the uh?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
But she gets seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year.
I don't know what you get paid at home. She
gets seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 9 (13:07):
I'll take over the DWP so I can make that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You can't do any worse.
Speaker 9 (13:12):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
You'll make more sense when you talk. Well, that's need
a book.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Oh, by the way, I have to I have to
unleash some This is going to sound really petty, but
this is what I do. You ever walk into a
store and you see somebody's face and you immediately don't
like them, and he size up there their personality?
Speaker 9 (13:32):
Yeah, we all do.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Okay, So I went to a pet store yesterday in
Santa Monica. I'm sure you've gotten many times to a
pet store. Right, pet store in Santa Monica is weird, okay.
All the employees have nose rings, covered wall to wall
with tattoos, bizarre hair colors. There's like nobody normal looking
in there, and the customers customers a lot of batty,
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older ladies. So I walk in there and all I'm
wanted to get is a bag of crickets and two
small tubs of worms to the two lizards we have, right,
the gecko eats worms, bearded dragon eats eats the crickets,
and really that should take about a minute. And I
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saw there was a couple of people on line. I
run down to the refrigerator, get the little toups of money. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
because you know that I I would have lost the
worms or the crickets. So I'm standing the line and
I just want to get the worms in the crickets.
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And this woman that I had eyed as soon as
I walked in later middle age. I could tell she
was rich just by the way she dressed. She's got
a fashionable top on, and she's kind of.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
A fashion expert.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
No, I could tell.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I could tell us about that by the shoes, by
the by the top, by the kind of pants she
was wearing, by the way her hair is pulled back.
It's like she's got money. And I, after I got
the worms, I come back and she's still there. And
she was buying about a dozen cans of cat food.
And buying a dozen cancer cat food took fifteen minutes
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because she wanted to take advantage of the price matching policy,
and she had an app and for each can of food, oh,
she had to find it on the app.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Then she would hold the phone in.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Front of in front of the bewildered, baffled clerk, who
then would scan the cat food somehow, and then she'd
put the can down, go back to the phone, back
to the air. And they were, they were, they were
debating this whole process the whole time.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
And you kept your mouth shut.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
It was really close.
Speaker 8 (15:47):
I would have said, hey, I only have this can
I go in front of you please.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
The reason I talked about her clothes is this woman
is not on food stamps. She's not eating the cat food,
but she's even expensive cat food.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Food is cheap, right, yes, but she's trying.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
Yes, I don't know, because I don't have a cat.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
It is. The most expensive cat food is cheap cap food.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
So she's spending fifteen minutes to get I don't know,
thirty nine cents or eighty nine cents whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
So many people do that.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
John's so frustrated.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
So they can't have this system, especially when it's tied
to an app and a scan and you know, the
woman had to get the supervisor over.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
They need another line.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Who whoa whoa fifteen minutes and I was just boiling
and I'm going, don't do it, don't do it, and
it's like it's like, just.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
You know what. In fact, what I want to do
is say I'll pay the bill.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Okay, I'll pay the pill if you leave now, Okay,
I'll pay full bright.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It's just about a minute away. It is so aggravating.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Plus, this particular store has one of these things where
you have to type in your phone number to see
if you're a member of the club I know, you know,
you know I'm talking about, and then it wants you
to round up your purchase, so you go homeless ninth
sense to homeless cats, oh god, And and and one
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of the drugstore changes like that too. There's all these
questions just pumping gas, there's all these questions you know
you a member of the club, would you like a
car wash, you know? Would you like to join the
club and get five cents off a Allen for sixty days?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
You know? Would you type in your zip call? Would
you just.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Let me pump the gas and then buy the cat food,
buy the worms.
Speaker 9 (17:36):
It's okay, you got it out. You feel better.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I can't stand going to the store. I can't stand
being in line. I can't stand the way the stores have.
I remember as a as a little kid, I'd go
with my mother to the grocery store. This is pre
technology days, and the woman at the cash register who
actually hit the keys on the cash register got it
done in seconds.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
But did you ever in line in a grocery store
with somebody in front of you with like fifty of
those paper coupons?
Speaker 9 (18:04):
Oh that was the worst.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Oh it's always batty old ladies. Oh, and they fight
over every coupon because you know half of them are
expired yep, or they get them for the wrong product,
and it's like, oh, chess, just stop it. Stop it
with the coupons. Go out and make more money, all right.
Get a part time job so you can afford the
cheap cat food. So you're wasting your time that fifteen minutes,
she could have been working somewhere.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
She didn't need to work.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
No, I don't think she needed to work. That made
it more infuriating, you know, if it was obviously somebody
in need.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
Right next time that happens, John, just do me a favor,
just say excuse me.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
I just have these crickets and what else?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Worms? Crickets, mag No, no, maggets, crickets and worms.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
Can I just go in front of you, please?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
And she had this pressy look on her face, like
we shoes sucking on a lemon all day or a prune.
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if you work for a living, this is probably going
to make you crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Do you know that.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
One third of the state is on Medicaid, which is
which is the federal program for poor people healthcare one
third and there's a lot of people in California who
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are getting free healthcare, and all they have they don't
have to do anything.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
They don't have to work.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I think I told you there's probably seven to eight
million men in America who don't work, but they are
of working age between let's say eighteen and fifty four
prime working years. They don't work, and they get free healthcare. Well,
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in Trump's big bill that they passed, there's a new requirement.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
You have to prove that.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
You're working at least twenty hours a week, and if
you can't get a job, you can do volunteer work,
but you have to have proof.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Now, this polls very well.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
One health research group found that sixty two percent of
Americans support tying Medicaid eligibility to work requirements. So they
shouldn't be controversial. If you want free healthcare, just make
a minimal effort twenty hours and you can do volunteer work.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Well, Gavin and.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
The rest of the progressives are screaming, Holy hell, they
think this is wildly unfair.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Newsom.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Now, because you have to fill out paperwork to get Medicaid,
and you've got to fill out paperwork to prove that
you're you're working, Newsom is calling it a labyrinth of
manual verification.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You only have to prove every six months.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
That you're working, going to school or volunteering eighty hours
a month, twenty hours a week every six months. That's unreasonable.
And for Newsom to complain about the labyrinth, well, when
you do verification, it cuts the fraudway down. If you remember,
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he gave away thirty billion dollars to fraudsters during the
COVID unemployment emergency, thirty billion dollars they blew because they
had no verification program. That's how Scott Peterson ended up
getting unemployment money while on death row.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That's what happens eighty five countries.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Eighty five countries had citizens who were ripping off the
state of California with false unemployment claims. So, of course,
in Gavin Newsom's empty mind, oh, it just sounds really onerous.
And they always assume that people who are getting benefits
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are stupid. They can't fill out forms. The rest of
us we have to fill out forms all day and night.
But if you're getting public welfare benefits or free healthcare, well,
obviously these people aren't very bright. Obviously they're too stupid forms,
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which means, of course they can defraud us. Democrats argue
that work requirements. Work requirements lead to eligible people losing
their health insurance because of bureaucratic hurdles.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
The hell, if you don't work, then you're not eligible.
And if you can't work, why can't you work twenty
hours a week? I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
What it's going to do is get these eight million
able body workers, get them off their rear ends because
they're healthcare coverage is tied to it. In fact, for
the rest of us, normal people, is in our healthcare
coverage tied to our work right. Most of us have
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to show up for work otherwise we lose health benefits.
A lot of people keep working even after they wish
they could retire, because they don't want to lose the benefits.
The number one thing I've heard people say over the years,
it's like, I really don't like my job, but you know,
I can't afford to lose the benefits. Which is a
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tough situation, but that's that's the sacrifice you make in
order not to be sunk with enormous medical bills or worse,
get medical care denied entirely, and then you die. So
this Georgetown University professor has studied Medicaid people can lose
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coverage a variety of ways, said Joan Alker, Georgetown University.
Now listen, listen to these categories of woe. Some people
hear that the rules have changed and assume they're no
longer eligible. Well, I don't know. Maybe Newsom is right.
These people are too stupid. Maybe they're too stupid to live.
What do you mean You heard the rules change and
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you assume you're no longer eligible. How about this, Go
and read the rules, or you call one of those
eight hundred numbers and sit on hold for six and
a half hours. It's tough, but again, it's better than
losing your coverage and dying early. Others struggle to prove
their eligibility because their income fluctuates. Well, again, if you
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just proved that you did the twenty hours of volunteer work,
doesn't matter what your income is, you'll get the You'll
get the money anyway, or you get the coverage anyway.
Some of them say, well, I'm paid in cash. Well,
if you're being paid in cash, it looks like what
we have is tax evasion on both ends. Or their
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jobs don't keep good payroll records. Well, go to a
job where they have payroll records, and they pay you
with a.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Check or a direct deposit.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Now, these people in medical in California, and medical is
California's version of Medicaid. These people are very little, less
than twenty one thousand for a single person, less than
forty three thousand for a household of four. So they're
short of money. And by the way, you're making, if
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you're making like under forty thousand dollars, why don't you
stop having children for a few minutes. Seriously, it's not
gonna end up well if you keep reproducer and they
say it says Californians Might Newsom is trying to warn
(26:46):
people that you're going to have to fill out thirty
six pages of paperwork. That's what he was showing reporters,
thirty six pages. Well, the thing is, in California, the
rest of us are already required to fill out their
six pages to get in medical and covered California, which
(27:06):
is California's version of Obamacare. So the rest of us,
people who show up for work, we're filling out the
thirty six page form. But for some reason, the people
who don't work that thirty six page form is onerous.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
This is like the voter ID argument.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
It's like, we can't have voter idea ID because you know,
some people are too stupid to go to the DMV
and get ID. And it always, this always comes from
progressive Democrats like Newsom. The people are too stupid to
get voter ideas, the people are too stupid to fill
out an an online form. What they're not motivated by
(27:55):
preserving their free healthcare astonishing more coming up.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
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Speaker 2 (28:09):
We have the Moist line coming up tomorrow eight seven seven,
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we we could have some openings if you're good enough.
Often I describe Gavin Newsom and many politicians as being
(28:29):
a sociopathic or psychopathic and they're they're different flavors of
this of the same problem. Uh, you don't you don't
have a conscience, and uh they call it the dark
triad of traits. It's narcissism, psychopathy or psychopathy, and another
(28:54):
one they call machiavelianism, which is manipulation. So if you
have no conscience, and you're narcissistic and you like to
manipulate people. Those are the three traits that create the
dark triad. And there's a new study in the Journal
of Personality and Individual Differences and I said, start reading
(29:16):
the story, and I immediately thought a Newsome. I mean
he should He's the classic case. And the answer is
their looks. People with these traits tend to be perceived
as more physically attractive, and this perception of attractiveness strongly
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influences how trustworthy people believe them to be. Like, you
could be a narcissistic psychopath, but if you're short, fat
and ugly, you don't get away with much.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
But if you have slick, thick hair.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
And you're tall, and you got a jawline and you're handsome,
cheerleaders cheered for cheerleaders exactly. People with these traits are
perceived as more physically attractive, and because they're that attractive
strongly influences how trustworthy. They did an experiment involving six
(30:16):
hundred participants. This is why people vote for Gavin Newsom.
This is the reason throw out anything you've heard about
politics and political strategy and this and that.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
It's this.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
There were people six hundred individuals were asked to judge
strangers faces in rating tasks, and they played these trust games,
and those with high scores in narcissism, psychopathic behavior, and
manipulation we're seen as more trustworthy from their image alone.
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So the people with the worst scores, the darkest personality
and psychopathic behavior here was characterized by lack of empathy
and impulsivity, and normally that would repel trust, but in practice,
people with these with this trade can be highly charming
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and socially strategic. Now, I remember when years ago, years ago,
when Newsom was the mayor and he'd just gotten married
to this to this actress, Bimbo Jennifer Sybell. Of course
she got entangled in Harvey Weinstein's sweaty body. And there
(31:34):
was a terrible murder up in San Francisco. There was
a father and I think two of two sons, and
they were all murdered by an illegal alien gang member.
And this guy had been on the loose in San
Francisco because San Francisco was a sanctuary city. It basically
was Newsom's policies allowed this guy to run free and
led to the killing of the family. I remember we
(31:56):
had we had the wife on the air and it
was it's just a brutal, awful story. And she waited,
still is waiting forever. Newsome never called, never called to
comfort her, to apologize to her, to explain it anything.
Her husband and her two sons would be alive except
for his sanctuary city policy that allowed this criminal he
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had a record to keep spinning through the system. Never
get reported, never get deported, never get imprisoned for any
reasonable length of time. Narcissists exhibit confidence, charm, polished self presentation.
The manipulators excel at reading social cues, social cues, and
(32:41):
manipulating perceptions. So you imagine haf somebody without a conscience,
without a lack of empathy. Right, if they have all
three chaits traits, no empathy, no conscience, they project confidence
and charm, They present themselves well. They're great at reading
social cues and manipulating a people. You've got a deadly combination,
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and you become a governor.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
UH.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
In short term cooperative settings, individuals with these traits tend
to inspire more trust, partly due to being seen as
more attractive based on their facial features.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
So it is Newsome's.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Delicately carved face, and is the I always I always
use this as a test. Right when when when somebody
who seemingly does not have the talent or the brains
to be worthy of the job they have or the
influence they have, I thought, not this guy short and fat, short, fat, fat,
and bald?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Is he here? Answers almost always? No.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I mean, I mean most of the people you know
in powerful positions that you question if they're if they're
if they're attractive, any questions like what's this guy doing here?
Just apply the short, fat and ball test. Does he
have so much intelligent and talents that it doesn't matter
what he looks like?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
No, and newsome the most politicians have these traits. I
mean book Clinton had.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Them, Trump obviously has them. Better partisan thing, this is
just what do you need to make it to the top.
A lot of CEOs have this, a lot of celebrities
have it.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
It's about four percent of.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
The population, but they're overrepresented in certain lines of work,
in certain fields, a certain positions. All right, more coming
up Deborah Mark live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey,
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Denise Konias has been hiding out in a bunker about
(00:24):
six miles below the earth ever since she botched up
the Palisades fire. She never filled the reservoir there still
making her seven hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
And now she has surfaced because there's been another big
foul up at the DWP. Ninety two hundred customers Granada
Hills and Porter Ranch, no water service, no water and
this is a hot day, and they went in to
fix something and they busted something else. Michael Monks with
all the details, and you will shortly hear Denise Cononia's
(00:56):
voice for.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
The first time in about six months. You certainly will.
They had a a news conference.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
It's been since yesterday, since last we heard an official
news conference where they give formal updates about this situation.
But as you note, thousands of people without water. No,
this is a big city. Of course, some nine thousand
people a drop in the proverbial bucket, but they would
love to have a drop in any bucket right now
out there, because there's more than nine thousand without water
(01:22):
right now. When you think is you noted hottest days
of the summer so far to not have access to
your own water nine.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Thousand customers, that's probably more like twenty thousand people.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
That's a good point, that's right. Something we forget when
power goes out anywhere. It's a one thousand or so,
but there are a lot of people that live in
that affected area, so very good point to raise there.
You also noted what is important here is that this
wasn't an accident. It was an accident, of course, but
this wasn't something involving weather or a driver or something.
This was ledwp going out and doing some repair work
(01:52):
and apparently making the situation worse at What we've learned
is that water crews were conducting repair work two days
ago on Tuesday, at a pump station connecting to a
ten million gallon water tank that serves that area of
Grenada Hills and Porter ranch when a valve that controls
the flow of the water failed to open. Okay, and
(02:14):
so what that has done is the water flowing from
the tank into the pipe serving the area was cut
off completely. Oh and the problem is very difficult to address.
Jennie Connas, the executive director of the General Manager of LADWP,
describes for us the challenges.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
At the same time, our crews are working to remove
the valve that fail to restore water flow to the tank.
The location of the abalve is twenty four feet deep
and the repairs are very complex. They have been working
since last night and this morning. They found two oil pipelines,
active pipelines, a gas line and lash boulders that have
(02:57):
complicated our excavation efforts because we cannot use heavy equipment
until those lines are clear. We're working with the owners
of those lines to clear the pipeline so we can
continue the excavation.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You're going to bring subtitles to the existence.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
She is, I believe from Puerto Rico, so she does
have a Spanish language accent.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yes, but basically, if I may translate for you, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
This is a big mess and it's only gotten messier
as they've tried to fix the problem that they created.
They went in to fix one thing, broke the situation,
and as they have to go deep into the earth
to fix to fix it more, they're finding oil lines,
gas lines, boulders, boulders, boulders, boulders.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Big rocks, big rock.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Sir, You'll also be happy to know John as you
are anytime there's a disaster in Los Angeles at the
City of Los Angeles is on it, as detailed by
Mayor Bass.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
I want Angelino's in Porta Ranch and Granada Hills to
know that city crews are working around the clock on
this issue. That was the bride last night, the councilman
and I made it very clear to our general managers
that this needed to be fixed immediately and that in
the meantime we will do all we can to support
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families that are impacted.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
What was its urgency on January seventh.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I think what she has learned from January seventh is
to speak with more urgency. You can see it, whether
it's the immigration situation that's going on or this that
she has learned from just the communication mistakes that we're
taking place back in early January, because it has very
visibly shifted. This happened on Tuesday, it is now Thursday. Originally,
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LEDWP thought they might be able to have the situation
resolved by tomorrow Friday. Now it looks like it could
drag on through the weekend, maybe even beyond that.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
If they just had stayed home, none of this would
have happened.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I'm sure they feel really bad.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Why you know, you don't You're probably you're doing some
routine well, I mean, the engineers are probably well paid
while they're working on it.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
But did they Is there something specific that they did
that led to this situation.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
We don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You know what, what it sounds like is whatever the
routine maintenance work that they were doing in this area,
the equipment down there was apparently so old that this
valve just would not open. I mean it sounds like,
you know, some WD forty might have been useful at
that point.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well, this stuff's one hundred years old, exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
And this is something that they have said, and the
city has said its own sewer department, for example, we
got to get more money, We got to raise your
rates because a lot of this infrastructure under the earth
is ancient at this point.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
And that's true in a lot of cities. You know,
there's these sewers. They're all run badly.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, that's right, and then they do not invest in
the infrastructure until it becomes absolutely necessary and a crisis
mode would When you think about water the area around
Los Angeles and the heat, you may also think about
the threat of fire. Right, And we are not just
under the threat of wildfire in southern California or California
(06:12):
in general because of the climate or because of the topography.
We are also under the threat of fires because of
some of the people who live among us.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
This is something we've discussed before. So Counselman John Lee.
You heard the mayor talk about the councilman, and I
talk to so and so. She was talking about Counselman
John Lee, who represents this area, and so.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
He is aware that this could be a problem. Here's
what he said.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Additionally, I instructed LAPD to increase patrols in the high
fire severity zones throughout the district. So you know, in
light of this incident, it's essential that we stay ahead
of any potential threats. Let me make this perfectly clear,
and the attempt to take advantage of this emergency will
not be tolerated. We are prepared and we will hold
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those people accountable.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
So please don't start fires. Please don't break into anybody's homes.
If they happen to leave the area, pass pass all
the homeless vagrants.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
They're on they're on notice.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
They are indeed, now if you are somebody living in
that area, you are eligible for a lot of free water.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That they're hanging out.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
They've brought in portable bathrooms, portable showers, portable methods to
clean your laundry. I understand. So they they being the government,
they are bringing what what is that exactly? I don't
know if it's a bucket in US. I don't know
if it's an my laundry and a community bucket.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I live in an apartment where we share, and that's
bad enough. Oh yeah, I know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I want to get a washboard. That was the thing
I hated most about the worst apartment, the worst dog hair,
all that laundry, that laundry room down in the basement.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I'm waiting for a race so I can get out
of the fashion district to get a get a better laundry.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
You got to get out of there. You stay there
much longer. Well, it could be worse in your mental stability.
We do have water today.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
You have water. I have one.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, So our thoughts are with the folks in Grenada
Hills and Porter Ranchts resolved.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
But you have Karen Bass and they're on it, so
don't worry. Things will be fine. How about you want
a bit Monday we have the same conversation.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I will look forward to that.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Okay, We've got Michael Monk's KFI News.
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Speaker 8 (08:38):
It was what we're just asking about her. Weren't you
a couple of days ago?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Periodically, you know, you have your question which which I
share the curiosity? You know what started the fire in
the Palisades? Yeah, they told us the after action report
was coming out this summer. I remember hearing all it
will be out around July. I thought it was going
to come out on July fourth itself, you know, when
(09:04):
the whole world is shut down and there isn't much
news coverage going on. But that came and went. Now
it's it's August, and they still don't know.
Speaker 9 (09:14):
They still don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
This is what we need the California Post for at
the California Post is going to be an offshoot of
the New York Post. And if they put their time
and resources in attitude like they do in New York,
a lot of these stories will blow sky high a
lot sooner they'll find out. And there's just just too much,
(09:40):
too much comfortable silence about this Palace stage fire. And
I'm thinking there's a bad story that they don't want
to release and they don't know what to do.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
All they've said, and I think that the narrative is
the same that there were there was fireworks that happened
on a January first, right, yeah, and that fire was
put out. There was a little fire that was started
by fireworks that was put out, and then it smoldered
and then it happened again.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
It broke out January seventh. That's it. That's all I've.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Heard, right, yep, that was a possibility. Of course, they
should have had a strike team standing on the land
that burned back on January first, if it was possible
that a strong wind could whip up the fire again,
because everybody after the fact said, oh, yeah, that could happen.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Well, then you.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Should have had a crew there, right, yep. You should
have said, hey, what was the last fire we had
in this area? Oh yeah, January first, Yeah, we had
four acres. I think now there's a lot of questions
they still want to answer, and they hope everybody forgets
and losing his interest.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
But we will never know.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
But Cheniz Kinonia sounds to me like somebody who's running
to be high school class president. I mean, she just
doesn't sound like she knows anything. She's very tentative and halting,
and I can't believe she's in charge of the entire
water system and power system of Los Angeles. Do we
(11:11):
have that clip again of her?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
At the same time, our crews are working to remove
the valve that fail to restore.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Water stuff the valve. That's what she said.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
At the same time, our crews are working to remove
the valve that fail to restore water flow to the tank.
The location of the valve is twenty four feet deep
and the repairs are very complex. They have been working
since last night and this morning. They found two oil pipelines,
active pipelines, a gas line, and lash boulders that have
(11:42):
complicated our excavation efforts because we can't heavy equipment until
those lines are clear. We're working with the owners of
those lines to clear the pipeline so we can continue
the excavation.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I don't know how anybody could have confidence in her.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I want I want some detail, like what did they
do wrong?
Speaker 9 (12:04):
We're not going to find that out.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And there's no remote way to turn off or turn
a valve on that's twenty four feet underground.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
There should be so that understand a valve. I guess.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I guess they have the original infrastructure from nineteen twenty
four and we.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Have nine thousand more than nine thousand people now are.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Affected, and they have they have oil pipelines and large boulders.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Whatever the hell she said.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And I've read fiber optic lines, gas lines, I mean everything.
It's like, did they do they have a map of
this stuff. When they were putting in all these extra lines,
did anybody say, well, what happens if the valve locks
up down there?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
How we're going to get to it?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Shouldn't there become some kind of pathway, a shaft, you know,
an underground tunnel.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
What are they digging with my hand with a shovel?
I don't know the uh?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
But she gets seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year.
I don't know what you get paid at home. She
gets seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 9 (13:07):
I'll take over the DWP so I can make that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You can't do any worse.
Speaker 9 (13:12):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
You'll make more sense when you talk. Well, that's need
a book.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Oh, by the way, I have to I have to
unleash some This is going to sound really petty, but
this is what I do. You ever walk into a
store and you see somebody's face and you immediately don't
like them, and he size up there their personality?
Speaker 9 (13:32):
Yeah, we all do.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Okay, So I went to a pet store yesterday in
Santa Monica. I'm sure you've gotten many times to a
pet store. Right, pet store in Santa Monica is weird, okay.
All the employees have nose rings, covered wall to wall
with tattoos, bizarre hair colors. There's like nobody normal looking
in there, and the customers customers a lot of batty,
(13:55):
older ladies. So I walk in there and all I'm
wanted to get is a bag of crickets and two
small tubs of worms to the two lizards we have, right,
the gecko eats worms, bearded dragon eats eats the crickets,
and really that should take about a minute. And I
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saw there was a couple of people on line. I
run down to the refrigerator, get the little toups of money. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
because you know that I I would have lost the
worms or the crickets. So I'm standing the line and
I just want to get the worms in the crickets.
(14:36):
And this woman that I had eyed as soon as
I walked in later middle age. I could tell she
was rich just by the way she dressed. She's got
a fashionable top on, and she's kind of.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
A fashion expert.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
No, I could tell.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I could tell us about that by the shoes, by
the by the top, by the kind of pants she
was wearing, by the way her hair is pulled back.
It's like she's got money. And I, after I got
the worms, I come back and she's still there. And
she was buying about a dozen cans of cat food.
And buying a dozen cancer cat food took fifteen minutes
(15:13):
because she wanted to take advantage of the price matching policy,
and she had an app and for each can of food, oh,
she had to find it on the app.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Then she would hold the phone in.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Front of in front of the bewildered, baffled clerk, who
then would scan the cat food somehow, and then she'd
put the can down, go back to the phone, back
to the air. And they were, they were, they were
debating this whole process the whole time.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
And you kept your mouth shut.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
It was really close.
Speaker 8 (15:47):
I would have said, hey, I only have this can
I go in front of you please.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
The reason I talked about her clothes is this woman
is not on food stamps. She's not eating the cat food,
but she's even expensive cat food.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Food is cheap, right, yes, but she's trying.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
Yes, I don't know, because I don't have a cat.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
It is. The most expensive cat food is cheap cap food.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
So she's spending fifteen minutes to get I don't know,
thirty nine cents or eighty nine cents whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
So many people do that.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
John's so frustrated.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
So they can't have this system, especially when it's tied
to an app and a scan and you know, the
woman had to get the supervisor over.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
They need another line.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Who whoa whoa fifteen minutes and I was just boiling
and I'm going, don't do it, don't do it, and
it's like it's like, just.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
You know what. In fact, what I want to do
is say I'll pay the bill.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Okay, I'll pay the pill if you leave now, Okay,
I'll pay full bright.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
It's just about a minute away. It is so aggravating.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Plus, this particular store has one of these things where
you have to type in your phone number to see
if you're a member of the club I know, you know,
you know I'm talking about, and then it wants you
to round up your purchase, so you go homeless ninth
sense to homeless cats, oh god, And and and one
(17:15):
of the drugstore changes like that too. There's all these
questions just pumping gas, there's all these questions you know
you a member of the club, would you like a
car wash, you know? Would you like to join the
club and get five cents off a Allen for sixty days?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
You know? Would you type in your zip call? Would
you just.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Let me pump the gas and then buy the cat food,
buy the worms.
Speaker 9 (17:36):
It's okay, you got it out. You feel better.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I can't stand going to the store. I can't stand
being in line. I can't stand the way the stores have.
I remember as a as a little kid, I'd go
with my mother to the grocery store. This is pre
technology days, and the woman at the cash register who
actually hit the keys on the cash register got it
done in seconds.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
But did you ever in line in a grocery store
with somebody in front of you with like fifty of
those paper coupons?
Speaker 9 (18:04):
Oh that was the worst.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Oh it's always batty old ladies. Oh, and they fight
over every coupon because you know half of them are
expired yep, or they get them for the wrong product,
and it's like, oh, chess, just stop it. Stop it
with the coupons. Go out and make more money, all right.
Get a part time job so you can afford the
cheap cat food. So you're wasting your time that fifteen minutes,
she could have been working somewhere.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
She didn't need to work.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
No, I don't think she needed to work. That made
it more infuriating, you know, if it was obviously somebody
in need.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
Right next time that happens, John, just do me a favor,
just say excuse me.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
I just have these crickets and what else?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Worms? Crickets, mag No, no, maggets, crickets and worms.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
Can I just go in front of you, please?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
And she had this pressy look on her face, like
we shoes sucking on a lemon all day or a prune.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
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if you work for a living, this is probably going
to make you crazy.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Do you know that.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
One third of the state is on Medicaid, which is
which is the federal program for poor people healthcare one
third and there's a lot of people in California who
(19:50):
are getting free healthcare, and all they have they don't
have to do anything.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
They don't have to work.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I think I told you there's probably seven to eight
million men in America who don't work, but they are
of working age between let's say eighteen and fifty four
prime working years. They don't work, and they get free healthcare. Well,
(20:18):
in Trump's big bill that they passed, there's a new requirement.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
You have to prove that.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
You're working at least twenty hours a week, and if
you can't get a job, you can do volunteer work,
but you have to have proof.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Now, this polls very well.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
One health research group found that sixty two percent of
Americans support tying Medicaid eligibility to work requirements. So they
shouldn't be controversial. If you want free healthcare, just make
a minimal effort twenty hours and you can do volunteer work.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Well, Gavin and.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
The rest of the progressives are screaming, Holy hell, they
think this is wildly unfair.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Newsom.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Now, because you have to fill out paperwork to get Medicaid,
and you've got to fill out paperwork to prove that
you're you're working, Newsom is calling it a labyrinth of
manual verification.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You only have to prove every six months.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
That you're working, going to school or volunteering eighty hours
a month, twenty hours a week every six months. That's unreasonable.
And for Newsom to complain about the labyrinth, well, when
you do verification, it cuts the fraudway down. If you remember,
(21:50):
he gave away thirty billion dollars to fraudsters during the
COVID unemployment emergency, thirty billion dollars they blew because they
had no verification program. That's how Scott Peterson ended up
getting unemployment money while on death row.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That's what happens eighty five countries.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Eighty five countries had citizens who were ripping off the
state of California with false unemployment claims. So, of course,
in Gavin Newsom's empty mind, oh, it just sounds really onerous.
And they always assume that people who are getting benefits
(22:40):
are stupid. They can't fill out forms. The rest of
us we have to fill out forms all day and night.
But if you're getting public welfare benefits or free healthcare, well,
obviously these people aren't very bright. Obviously they're too stupid forms,
(23:02):
which means, of course they can defraud us. Democrats argue
that work requirements. Work requirements lead to eligible people losing
their health insurance because of bureaucratic hurdles.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
The hell, if you don't work, then you're not eligible.
And if you can't work, why can't you work twenty
hours a week? I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
What it's going to do is get these eight million
able body workers, get them off their rear ends because
they're healthcare coverage is tied to it. In fact, for
the rest of us, normal people, is in our healthcare
coverage tied to our work right. Most of us have
(23:52):
to show up for work otherwise we lose health benefits.
A lot of people keep working even after they wish
they could retire, because they don't want to lose the benefits.
The number one thing I've heard people say over the years,
it's like, I really don't like my job, but you know,
I can't afford to lose the benefits. Which is a
(24:14):
tough situation, but that's that's the sacrifice you make in
order not to be sunk with enormous medical bills or worse,
get medical care denied entirely, and then you die. So
this Georgetown University professor has studied Medicaid people can lose
(24:38):
coverage a variety of ways, said Joan Alker, Georgetown University.
Now listen, listen to these categories of woe. Some people
hear that the rules have changed and assume they're no
longer eligible. Well, I don't know. Maybe Newsom is right.
These people are too stupid. Maybe they're too stupid to live.
What do you mean You heard the rules change and
(25:00):
you assume you're no longer eligible. How about this, Go
and read the rules, or you call one of those
eight hundred numbers and sit on hold for six and
a half hours. It's tough, but again, it's better than
losing your coverage and dying early. Others struggle to prove
their eligibility because their income fluctuates. Well, again, if you
(25:25):
just proved that you did the twenty hours of volunteer work,
doesn't matter what your income is, you'll get the You'll
get the money anyway, or you get the coverage anyway.
Some of them say, well, I'm paid in cash. Well,
if you're being paid in cash, it looks like what
we have is tax evasion on both ends. Or their
(25:47):
jobs don't keep good payroll records. Well, go to a
job where they have payroll records, and they pay you
with a.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Check or a direct deposit.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Now, these people in medical in California, and medical is
California's version of Medicaid. These people are very little, less
than twenty one thousand for a single person, less than
forty three thousand for a household of four. So they're
short of money. And by the way, you're making, if
(26:25):
you're making like under forty thousand dollars, why don't you
stop having children for a few minutes. Seriously, it's not
gonna end up well if you keep reproducer and they
say it says Californians Might Newsom is trying to warn
(26:46):
people that you're going to have to fill out thirty
six pages of paperwork. That's what he was showing reporters,
thirty six pages. Well, the thing is, in California, the
rest of us are already required to fill out their
six pages to get in medical and covered California, which
(27:06):
is California's version of Obamacare. So the rest of us,
people who show up for work, we're filling out the
thirty six page form. But for some reason, the people
who don't work that thirty six page form is onerous.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
This is like the voter ID argument.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
It's like, we can't have voter idea ID because you know,
some people are too stupid to go to the DMV
and get ID. And it always, this always comes from
progressive Democrats like Newsom. The people are too stupid to
get voter ideas, the people are too stupid to fill
out an an online form. What they're not motivated by
(27:55):
preserving their free healthcare astonishing more coming up.
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we we could have some openings if you're good enough.
Often I describe Gavin Newsom and many politicians as being
(28:29):
a sociopathic or psychopathic and they're they're different flavors of
this of the same problem. Uh, you don't you don't
have a conscience, and uh they call it the dark
triad of traits. It's narcissism, psychopathy or psychopathy, and another
(28:54):
one they call machiavelianism, which is manipulation. So if you
have no conscience, and you're narcissistic and you like to
manipulate people. Those are the three traits that create the
dark triad. And there's a new study in the Journal
of Personality and Individual Differences and I said, start reading
(29:16):
the story, and I immediately thought a Newsome. I mean
he should He's the classic case. And the answer is
their looks. People with these traits tend to be perceived
as more physically attractive, and this perception of attractiveness strongly
(29:39):
influences how trustworthy people believe them to be. Like, you
could be a narcissistic psychopath, but if you're short, fat
and ugly, you don't get away with much.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
But if you have slick, thick hair.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
And you're tall, and you got a jawline and you're handsome,
cheerleaders cheered for cheerleaders exactly. People with these traits are
perceived as more physically attractive, and because they're that attractive
strongly influences how trustworthy. They did an experiment involving six
(30:16):
hundred participants. This is why people vote for Gavin Newsom.
This is the reason throw out anything you've heard about
politics and political strategy and this and that.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
It's this.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
There were people six hundred individuals were asked to judge
strangers faces in rating tasks, and they played these trust games,
and those with high scores in narcissism, psychopathic behavior, and
manipulation we're seen as more trustworthy from their image alone.
(30:50):
So the people with the worst scores, the darkest personality
and psychopathic behavior here was characterized by lack of empathy
and impulsivity, and normally that would repel trust, but in practice,
people with these with this trade can be highly charming
(31:11):
and socially strategic. Now, I remember when years ago, years ago,
when Newsom was the mayor and he'd just gotten married
to this to this actress, Bimbo Jennifer Sybell. Of course
she got entangled in Harvey Weinstein's sweaty body. And there
(31:34):
was a terrible murder up in San Francisco. There was
a father and I think two of two sons, and
they were all murdered by an illegal alien gang member.
And this guy had been on the loose in San
Francisco because San Francisco was a sanctuary city. It basically
was Newsom's policies allowed this guy to run free and
led to the killing of the family. I remember we
(31:56):
had we had the wife on the air and it
was it's just a brutal, awful story. And she waited,
still is waiting forever. Newsome never called, never called to
comfort her, to apologize to her, to explain it anything.
Her husband and her two sons would be alive except
for his sanctuary city policy that allowed this criminal he
(32:18):
had a record to keep spinning through the system. Never
get reported, never get deported, never get imprisoned for any
reasonable length of time. Narcissists exhibit confidence, charm, polished self presentation.
The manipulators excel at reading social cues, social cues, and
(32:41):
manipulating perceptions. So you imagine haf somebody without a conscience,
without a lack of empathy. Right, if they have all
three chaits traits, no empathy, no conscience, they project confidence
and charm, They present themselves well. They're great at reading
social cues and manipulating a people. You've got a deadly combination,
(33:04):
and you become a governor.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
UH.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
In short term cooperative settings, individuals with these traits tend
to inspire more trust, partly due to being seen as
more attractive based on their facial features.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
So it is Newsome's.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Delicately carved face, and is the I always I always
use this as a test. Right when when when somebody
who seemingly does not have the talent or the brains
to be worthy of the job they have or the
influence they have, I thought, not this guy short and fat, short, fat, fat,
and bald?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Is he here? Answers almost always? No.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I mean, I mean most of the people you know
in powerful positions that you question if they're if they're
if they're attractive, any questions like what's this guy doing here?
Just apply the short, fat and ball test. Does he
have so much intelligent and talents that it doesn't matter
what he looks like?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
No, and newsome the most politicians have these traits. I
mean book Clinton had.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Them, Trump obviously has them. Better partisan thing, this is
just what do you need to make it to the top.
A lot of CEOs have this, a lot of celebrities
have it.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
It's about four percent of.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
The population, but they're overrepresented in certain lines of work,
in certain fields, a certain positions. All right, more coming
up Deborah Mark live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey,
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