July 8, 2025 • 38 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (07/08) - More on the immigration raid yesterday at MacArthur Park and John has noticed that Mayor Bass cares more about certain issues over others. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino says that LA better get used to seeing federal agents in their city and that immigration raids are not local officials' call. More on ICE agents being ambushed. A 77-year-old man tried to save a turtle but was hit and killed by a driver after a chain reaction crash happened.
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Next hour. We're going to talk to Rick Caruso.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
The famous businessman here in La who's running Steadfast La,
among other things. That is the nonprofit that is trying
to help people cut through the red tape and get
their homes rebuilt. In Palisades and Altadena A there's over
seven thousand homes that were destroyed in the Palisades, over
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seven thousand destroyed in Altadena, there was some destroyed in Malibu.
It was totally think of about sixteen thousand altogether, and
it has been very, very difficult to get permitting from
either the city or the county.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I mean, it's it's atrocious. What's gone on with.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Karen Bass and with the five supervisors in La County
is just awful, unconscionable, unforgivable. They are not processing the
permits and people are stuck. Even That's how I'm feeling
on the inside. It's gonna be a lot of that
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today anyway. Rick Carusso is gonna come on, uh and
we're gonna talk about what he's doing. And you know,
it's six months and it's hit me. I think yesterday
it's kind of one of those notions that I always
carry around with me, but it really came to the
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surface of my brain. I saw a Bass in Newsom
doing their self congratulatory press conference, and they had nothing
to congratulate themselves about except the cleanup that was done
on the burned out lots, and that was done almost
entirely by the federal government. That was done by the
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Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA that that had nothing
to do with.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Anything.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I had nothing to do with Newsom or Bass or there.
They're governments, their employees. It was entirely a federal government situation.
And you know, if everybody, if everybody in city and
state government performed like the Army Corps of Engineers, we'd
be in a far different place in many ways. And
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I started thinking, you know what, care best doesn't care?
She really doesn't, because what else hit me yesterday was
on the way to the self congratulatory press conference, she
got into araw and MacArthur Park.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
MacArthur Park's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Filled with the illegal immigration, drug cartels, gang members, all
crimes of all kinds of criminals and homeless people and
drug addicts and mental patients.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
It's awful, awful, And.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Iceland was there, National Guard was there and they were
doing some had a staging exercise. I guess, I don't
know what they were doing. And that caused a big Ruckus.
The Rapid Response Network went into operation. That's Turla, that's
an illegal alien rights group. We paid, We paid for
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the Rapid Response Network TA spare money that they got
from Newsom. And that's to warn the locals that Ice
is here and it's time to resist, interfere, maybe.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Shoot at them.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Well, Bass went over there to do her official interference.
And man, she is so engaged, she's so passionate. And
I'm listening to some of this on the newscasts yesterday
and I'm thinking, God, she never gets like that when
it came. She never got like that when it came
to the fire. And even when she does the self congratulations,
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there's no passion. There's no real engagement, there's no emotion,
there's there's no nothing. I remember when she first came
off the plane after partying with the President of Ghana.
That was ninety seconds of silence. And yesterday I'm here
and here yell and scream and make demands and this
and that. Play a clip here, this is Bass. So
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supposedly she was on her way to meet Newsome so
they could mug for the cameras about what they're not
doing for the Palisades and she.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Made a turn to MacArthur Park.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You know, she got she got the message that the
federal government that ICE was there, and uh she demanded
to get on the phone with some federal official. Here's
what happened, Aaron Bethel.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So, what's the time where the start walking to the car?
You have better I am going to say my comments
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as they need to leave?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Can they need to leave right now?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Unaccepted yourself the phone, They need to leave, and they
leave to leave. They need to leave now? Eric, Can
you isolate that particular line, because this is what she
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cares about. She cares about MacArthur Park and the illegal
aliens there and the homeless people and the criminals, and
she wants law enforcement out. That is what gets her crazy.
Listen to the emotion in her voice here they need
to leave?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Can they need to leave right now?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I have never heard her express any of that energy
and passion when it came to the Palisades. I mean,
I mean thousands and thousands of people homeless, thousands of
buildings destroyed, you know, the whole routine. She never seemed
to care. She was guilty of leaving town. Maybe there
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was a bit of shame in that response. Guilty of
not preparing the city, not preparing the fire department, Guilty
not having the reservoir filled. Guilty for hiring an idiot,
Genie Kinonias to run the DWP. Guilty of not having
the power turned off. And then another fire exploded that
evening on January seventh. Guilty of funding the fire department,
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Guilty of defunding the police department, Guilty of not having
the hydrants working. Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. I mean,
for all her neglige, she got to be spending about
twenty years in prison, but she never uttered a peep.
And then I'm listening to her yelling yesterday, It's like, oh, okay,
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I get it. You judge people by what they do.
She's angry, animated, challenging the federal government because this really
pisses her off. That the park that's home to so
many criminals, so many gang members, so many drug addicts,
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and mental patients, all the worst elements of humanity inhabit
MacArthur Park twenty four hours a day, and she's upset
that law enforcement is getting in the way of that party.
The palisades. She's got nothing, doesn't care, and it makes
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me wonder what's up to her entirely. What would she
do about the Palisades. Maybe she doesn't want the Palisades rebuilt.
Maybe she doesn't like the people in the Palisades. Maybe
she doesn't consider it really Los Angeles. Maybe those are
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not her people, she doesn't really care. Maybe she has
another vision for what the Palisades ought to be. Talk
more about this coming up.
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Speaker 2 (09:46):
All right, let's continue here, So two o'clock, we're gonna
have Rick Caruso. On three o'clock hour, we're gonna have
Michael MChE from USC with his latest analysis of jess
how far out the gas prices are going to go
in this state with two refineries closing, with a low
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carbon fuel standard being imposed any day now, as you know,
he has predicted that gas could be well over eight
dollars a gallon, you know, within the next year and
a half. So we're gonna be talking to Michael Shay
coming up. But back to Karen Bass, because it was
very revealing yesterday when the federal government ICE held some
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kind of workout, some kind of demonstration. I guess They
had a lot of armed men there and they had
military like vehicles, they had horses, they had a National Guard.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It was quite a show.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
They didn't do anything, and they didn't do a ray,
they didn't rest anybody, and it was either some kind
of training exercise or rehearsal, or maybe it was a
show of force, because that area is just wall to
wall the legal aliens. I mean, most of the buildings
they are the apartment buildings and most of the businesses.
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It's almost like a separate country when you get into
MacArthur Park. And so maybe this was a force to say,
you know, we're trying to be nice here. We're not
carrying you out, but we're here and we're not going away,
and maybe it's time to make some decisions, you know.
Twenty four hours later, That's what it seemed like it
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was meant to be because I noticed when in the
clip we played, Karen bass Is saying something along the lines,
oh this is ending soon.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Well what time is it going to end? And I
think whoever she.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Had on the phone, whatever ICE official she was speaking with,
said hey, you know this, this particular exercise is going
to be over in fifteen minutes or it's going to
be over at eleven thirty whatever. The answer was something
like that, and of course she popped off, claiming sim
she's angry. It's like like, you know, this must end.
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And the Border Patrol Sector chief, it's the Elcentro sector.
Name is Gregory Bovino. He spoke with Fox eleven and
made it clear to the world that this is not
Karen Bass's call. He said, quote, the federal government is
not leaving LA. The federal government does not work for
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Karen Bass. We're going to be here until that mission
is accomplished. Better get used to us now, because this
is going to be normal very soon.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And it sounded like.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
This was some kind of staging, some kind of rehearsal
that maybe soon we're going to see this quite frequently,
and this is a way for everybody in Los Angeles
who's not compliant with federal law to get it together
that they're not going away. Do you think Trump and
Tom Homan are going to change their minds because Bass
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is shaking her fist.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
This isn't her call. This really isn't her business. Sorry,
it's not.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It's federal law they try to enforce. It's not Karen
Bass's sanctuary city. That was a fake concept. It's fascinating.
These people live in a world of well, we're going
to come up with a really cool, politically correct Wilke
concept like sanctuary city, and we are going to pass
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up resolutions and legislations and declarations. And then somebody comes
along and says, sanc craise city. It's no such thing.
Where's that in the constitution, where is that in federal law?
Doesn't exist? You made that up, No such thing, imaginary, delusional.
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So Bass is bumpering and sputtering and waving her arms
and getting all mad. It's like, what are you doing.
You have zero power on this one, no vote. You're disenfranchised,
And Bovino just said it clearly, we don't work for you.
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Get used to us.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
The way it is.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Of course, Bass is saying, the second I heard about this,
I went to the park to speak to the person
in charge and tell them it it needed to end. Now,
absolutely outrageous. She has no jurisdiction. But again my mind
flashes to the Palisades, and when she should have been
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upset and moved and angry at herself.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
At least.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
She came off that plane a day after Palisades burned.
Dead silence, and it's been it's been pretty much dead
silence ever since.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Occasionally she'll do some kind of raw ras speech and
they'll have placards out, they say something stupid like LA Stronger.
But she's done absolutely nothing to cut the red tape.
Remember when Trump was grilling her, Remember that she was
promising all kinds of things. Oh, absolutely cut the red tape.
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Some says cut the red tape. Nothing was cut.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
There's a seven thousand homes in the Palisades that burned down.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
There's been one hundred permits granted, a hundred takes forever.
I know this. I got friends, they're trying. It's extremely difficult.
We're gonna talk to Rick Caruso about that. He's trying
to get them to accept this this AI technology, which
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would turn the permit process from a few months into
a few hours. Have they taken him up on it,
talk to him about it coming up after after two o'clock.
But and if she and if she's wondering why I
keep hearing squealing, Oh who did I read today? That
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other idiot at the La Times, Steve Lopez, He is, uh, yeah,
here it is Steve Lopez is another elderly columnist at
the La Time La Times, and and he says, on
Monday morning, federal agents on horseback in armored vehicles to
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send it on MacArthur Park in a show of force.
Children playing in the park were ushered to safer ground.
According to Karen Bass, Yeah, Bass was leaning heavily on
the little kids who were playing in the park. She
doesn't care when the little kids are surrounded by gang members,
by drug cartel guys, by criminals, homeless people, homeless people
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shooting up fentanyl, snorting meth, all the mental patients frothing
at the mouth, all those vendors selling stolen stuff. Kids
have to grow up around that. She doesn't care. But
you bring in law enforce once. Oh my god, this
is outrageous. I've never seen anything like a lot of.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
She performs, and she's got this.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
All these sycophants, all these askissers at the LA Times,
they immediately write columns.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Well, billions of dollars have been added for border and
ice agents, but billions have been trimmed from medical, climate
and weather related resources. Says Steve Lopez, What the bleep
are you talking about? Of course, we're spending more billions
of dollars on the border. By the way, dentinyl imports
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are way down and fentinyl deaths are down because they
closed the border, which is slowed down the flow of
the fentanyl. Don't call them on that, Lopez, you phony,
your big fraud.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Listen, here's another thing. Lopez says.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
MacArthur Park has a sizeable undocumented immigrant population and a
lot of big problems to tackle homelessness, wide open drug trade,
gang activity. On some days, areas of the park were
unusable for families. First responders rolled out on overdose calls,
Attics took over an alley, merchants struggled to stay open
amid all of mayhem.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Then why wouldn't you bring in law.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Enforcement to do a raid and get rid of the
illegal aliens, which means you'll be getting rid of some
of the drug cartel members and some of the gang members.
Let them intimidate all these bad guys, let them clean
up the park. Bass isn't doing it. People have been
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begging Bass to do this for a long time. See
how can he complain.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
That the.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Ice agents scared the children when then he carries on
about all the homelessness and the drug trade and the
gang activity unusable for families.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Well, if we had.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
A huge show of force to chase away all these
bad guys, then it would be usable for families.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
They're just idiots, They're just stupid. All right.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
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sixty two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Rick Cruso is coming on to talk about the lack
of progress in rebuilding the Palisades. While Newsom and Bass
yesterday where patting themselves on the back for doing nothing,
but we talked to Rick Caruso's actually doing something. By
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the way, did you say Newsom is campaigning today in
South Carolina?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I don't say.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I didn't say he was campaigning for president, but I
did say that he is in South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
And what's he doing there? He is campaigning for president.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
He didn't say that he's campaigning for president.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I'm going by his actions, but he is there. He's
meeting with Democratic professional Yes.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
He is, and uh, you know, South Carolina is a
big deal, one of the first primary for the primaries.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Then I say he's campaigning for president.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Okay, well, then you can say that that's how I'm going.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
To refer to it, all right, I wouldn't last five
minutes in the news.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
No, you would.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I used to do what you do. I used to do.
You were a news person, well, i'd read the new news.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah, I thought you were a DJ.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yes, But it was such a tiny station. We didn't
have a news department. The DJ read the news. I
would love to hear a tape of that fifteen minutes
of news at five o'clock every afternoon, right in the
middle of the show.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Wow, so you put on your news voice.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Yes, I was very serious. I don't know what I
was talking about much of the time. This is show.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
This is where we're going this next story. First of all,
it's already started. The reason the military is heavily armed,
maybe inform all the bozos at the La Times. Ice
agents were targeted in two ambush attacks this week. Yesterday,
I think we told you about one. Well there was
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another one, and the Justice Department has named ten people.
They're charged with shooting a police officer in the neck
and opening fire on other off officers outside the Prayerland
Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. Happened on the fourth of July.
This was a group of ten men. They wore all
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black outfits. First they started shooting fireworks, which is being
used by Homeland Security to hold illegal immigrants, either their
violators or their awaiting deportation. And they named the ten
defendants Cameron Arnold, Savannah Betten, Nathan Bowman, Zachary Evans, Joy Gibson,
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Bradford Morris, Marciella Ruta. Sounds like they have some women
in this group. Yeah, Seth Sikes, Elizabeth Soto in this
Soto and the complete charges each of them with three
counts of attempting attempted murder of a federal officer and
other crimes.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
So you have ten people.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I guess this would be the resistance being charged with
three counts of attempted murder. This is why you see
armored cars and you see heavy do any weapons. This
is why you bozo morons at the LA Times, because
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they don't want to die.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
They don't want to get a bullet rip them through
their brains. That's why. And look at this Democrats House.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Democrats congressman told Axios that's a political website that people
in their voter base are so angry that they want
more violence.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I'll give you some examples.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Here there's the representative Brad Schneider from Illinois said, we've
got people they go to these town hall meetings. We've
got people who are desperately wanting us to do something,
no matter what we say. They want more. Our base
is telling us that what we're doing is not good enough.
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There needs to be blood to grab the attention of
the press and the public. That's according to an anonymous congressman.
There needs to be blood. Here's a Fourth House Democrat.
Constituents told him civility isn't working. Prepare for violence to
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protect our democracy. Fifth House democrat told Axios that people
online have sent me crazy bleep, told me to storm
the White House and stuff like that. Sixth House Democrat
told Axios, people who are angry don't accept channeling their
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frustration to campaigning and voting. They're angry beyond these things.
It's like the Roman colisseum. People just want more and
more of the spectacle set a seventh lawmaker. Then there's
another lawmaker says these well, actually several lawmakers say, these
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voters tend to be white, well educated, and live in
upscale suburban or urban neighborhoods. Are these the white wealthy,
woke women. They want blood. They're sitting in their big homes,
in their luxurious neighborhoods, and they're so angry with Trump
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that they want other people to go out and start killing.
They want blood and violence. That's what the congress people
are saying. One lawmaker says, what I have seen is
a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow
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ourselves to be victims of violence. A lot of times
that's coming from economically, very secure white people. A ninth
lawmaker told Axios, I actually said in the meeting, well,
when they light a fire, my thought is to grab
an extinguisher. And someone at the table says, have you
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tried gasoline? Why are wealthy people getting so violent? What
kind of mentality is there?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
You got to ask your people, my.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
People, Actually, you know, I know a couple of people.
I know you know a couple of people who are
violently angry with me. Yes, we should call them west
Side warriors. Normally they were west Side weenies, and now
they have transformed into these soldiers ready to go.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
So this is what we're gonna see.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
We're gonna we're gonna see women an expensive carrying, expensive handbag.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Oh yeah, the Birken bag, the burken bag, and we're burken.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Bag and expensive heels and uh, brass knuckles and brass
knuckles you go and beating the crap at ice agents.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
What's wrong? Since this is the thing.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
They're living good lives. Their neighborhoods are beautiful. They're not
dealing with like, it's not MacArthur Park in these neighborhoods right.
The the illegal immigration and the drug cartels and the gangs.
They have turned MacArthur Park into a war zone. Trump's
crowd is trying to clean up and these people are
storming out of their wealthy mansions in the suburbs to
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do what.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
This is just flat out mental illness, isn't it. Well,
Unissus Hernandez said, they need to be ready to throw down.
Oh did she say that? Yeah? I remember, Yeah, it's down,
throw down the burken bags, right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
When I see them, when I see them armed holding
burken bags, then I know they're serious.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
When they start risking their.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Oh yeah, I can't risk fifty thousand dollars handbags.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
When they start risking their accessories, then I know were
we're Can you imagine how how mentally damaged do you
have to be? Because they're going to the town halls, right,
and they're addressing congress people and they're saying this out loud,
and they don't think it's insane. How far Gandhi. I've
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never seen this in my life. You know, there's always
been a crazy lunatic fringe all our lives. I mean,
there's plenty of violence in the sixties and the seventies,
and there's always been there militias in the nineties. And
but to see these uh, these burken bag warriors suddenly
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demanding blood, it must be really bored, I think.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I think that happens when you get too rich. Yeah,
and you have nothing to do, you don't have any problems,
you know, in humans, if there's a lack of.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
A lack of engagement in your life, I think you
start searching for stimulation, something to make your life meaningful,
to join.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
A cost then go rescue pets.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, you tell them that, why don't you go rescue pets? Oh,
we should do the turtle story. Oh yes, oh boy,
all right, we'll do the turtle story next, and then
Rick Caruso coming on at two o'clock.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Rick Caruso coming on after two o'clock. Rick Caruso, and
he is running Steadfast LA in addition to all his
entire business empire, but Steadfast LA has been set up
to try and help people navigate the process of rebuilding
in the Palisades in Altadena with all the incredible bureaucracy
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and red tape. So Rick is coming on in about
fifteen minutes or so, right after Deborah's news. All right,
so here's the turtle story. Seventy seven year old man
eighty seven I think eighty seven, eighties, All right, I
got seventy seven. Well, I think he aged a lot.
He was standing in Florida for some reason Sunday afternoon,
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four twenty Interstate ninety five, which is the biggest north
south freeway on the East Coast, runs from Maine all
the way to Florida. And he's in the southbound lane
and he sees a turtle and he gets out of
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his car to rescue the turtle, and he's walking across
the lanes and then a chain reaction crash. A Miami
woman driving a vehicle she slowed down so she wouldn't
hit the old guy. But behind her, another man in
a ram pickup truck failed to break in time. The
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pickup truck rear ended the first vehicle, veered off the road,
crashed through the fence. The ram continued southbound and hit
the guy from Vermont, killed him. And then you know,
there were other cars that were crashed and backed up
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behind them. Man's dead at the scene. Don't know what
happened to the turbine.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
I have been pouring over these stories and I'm seeing
eighty seven, So.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
What well, I'm seeing dead. Okay, you could be a
seventy seven year old dead body or an eighty.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Seven year old dad seven.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
You know that's ten years older. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Maybe it was senile, because who would cross Interstate ninety five.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I would, It's like Interstate Oh you wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Yes, I have done those things before. I had a
rescue dog that I went in the middle of a
very busy street. It's Corbin Avenue in Woodland Hills, very
very busy, and.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
I go, I put my hands up, wave to be
people can.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Even see you. Well, it's the bright yellow she's wearing today.
They would yeah, maybe.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Right, I cannot find what happened to the turtle.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
That would be the first question I, as the journalist,
would ask if I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Writing this story.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
It sounds like Auntie may might have had some turtle
stew for dinner.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
It's it's not worth it for your your your children,
your grand children.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
You don't think. But John, you're not thinking that turtle.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
He didn't think he was going to get killed.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
I would think of that, say, ah, poor turtle, he's
gonna get crushed.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
He saw the turtle. It's big. It was big.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
I saw a picture of it, and he probably thought,
you know what, people are gonna stop, just like I'm stopping.
I'm gonna take a chance. I'm gonna think positive that
I'm able to say.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
People don't pay attention anymore.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Well, you know when I saw it the other day,
like over twenty percent of the public is staring at
their phones while driving.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
I know I see it every day, five cars past you.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
One of the five is not watching the road.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
But John, in the moment, you know, you get caught
up in the moment you see a helpless turtle, and your.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Instinct, there's your your instinct.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Okay, my instinct would be okay, I think.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Doesn't want to be flattened by a Dodge Ram truck.
Someone was probably texting and driving and didn't break on time,
and that's what caused the crash. Yeah, it's very exactly
what goes on.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Look, this guy had a good heart.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
He did.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
He tried.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Not anymore.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I know he's dead, but he tried. He really wanted.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
He wanted to.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
That was very selfless.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
You can't just try.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
You have to pull it off, okay, he thought. I
am sure he thought he was going to pull it off.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
I really do.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
I don't think he thought.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
At eighty seven, how quickly can you get across?
Speaker 4 (34:20):
He thought people would see this old man that jopped
and they would stop for him.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
At eighty seven, how's a guy going to cross five
lanes of traffic?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Minimum five lanes of traffic?
Speaker 3 (34:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Again, I've been in a situation like that where you
don't really necessarily think at the time. Rationally, I think
you are all impulse huh. I am oh, yeah, that's
why I said that. It's a good thing I don't
have a gun in my car. I get so riled
up in this traffic.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
You jump out to save a turtle. But if somebody
cuts you off, you got no problem.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Off.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Yeah, right, because I hate a lot of people and
I love animals.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Is it bad that I'm just picturing President Biden trying
to cross five state planes to save the turtle. It
wasn't Biden. This is just my imagination.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
I think it was very nice.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Look if it was my grandfather, of course, i'd be
very sad, but i'd also say hots after you, Grandpa for.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Trying to through the right. And then one more story,
Jere about the guy at Mulan Airport. Was it?
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Uh no, that's something else.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
No, he got sucked into a jet engine.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Oh yes, I was going to send that here this morning. Actually,
did you send me.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
The turtle story? I did, Yes, And you were gonna
say I was.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Going to said I saw that this morning, but I thought, eh,
you know, people do these stupid things.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Well, apparently he did it on purpose.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Oh I didn't know he did it on there.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Yeah, yeah, this is how he decided to leave the planet.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Oh oh he oh, oh, okay, why don't you do that?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
I mean, there's there's easier ways.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
To go, there's more peaceful ways to go. But hurling
yourself into a jet engine.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
No, that would be wouldn't that be painful?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Oh and messy? Yikes? Who gave him that idea? I
don't know what.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
So yeah he if the story is right, Uh so
they he just threw himself into the engine and that's it.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Oh, that's an awful way to go.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
That is it's it's like a huge blender. Oh that yeah. No, no, no, no, no,
all right. When we come back, we're gonna have Rick
Caruso on.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
And Rick is not only owns the Grove and many
other real estate projects that are wildly successful. Ran for
mayor lost to Karen Bass, worst decision voter have ever
made in the history of the United States of America.
And now, while Bass flounders around and botches up everything
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in sight, especially the Palisades rebuild after being absent during
the fire, Rick has put together Steadfast LA, which is
a nonprofit organization that tries to connect all the Palisades
and Altadena residents with I don't know, we're trying to
get their their homes rebuilt because there's so much in
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the way. We're going to talk to Rick. Since Bass
and newsome We're having a congratulatory press conference yesterday, and
that really they they had nothing to show for it.
I knew, some kind of knew that. That's why he
ran off to South Carolina a campaign for president today. Well, anyway,
Rick's coming up next Deborah Mark Live and the KFI
(37:53):
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Well, Shannon was here by herself, and so usually the
camera's pointed toward you or Gary. Yeah, but today it
was actually pointed toward her, which was actually nice.
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Next hour. We're going to talk to Rick Caruso.
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The famous businessman here in La who's running Steadfast La,
among other things. That is the nonprofit that is trying
to help people cut through the red tape and get
their homes rebuilt. In Palisades and Altadena A there's over
seven thousand homes that were destroyed in the Palisades, over
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seven thousand destroyed in Altadena, there was some destroyed in Malibu.
It was totally think of about sixteen thousand altogether, and
it has been very, very difficult to get permitting from
either the city or the county.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I mean, it's it's atrocious. What's gone on with.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Karen Bass and with the five supervisors in La County
is just awful, unconscionable, unforgivable. They are not processing the
permits and people are stuck. Even That's how I'm feeling
on the inside. It's gonna be a lot of that
(02:06):
today anyway. Rick Carusso is gonna come on, uh and
we're gonna talk about what he's doing. And you know,
it's six months and it's hit me. I think yesterday
it's kind of one of those notions that I always
carry around with me, but it really came to the
(02:26):
surface of my brain. I saw a Bass in Newsom
doing their self congratulatory press conference, and they had nothing
to congratulate themselves about except the cleanup that was done
on the burned out lots, and that was done almost
entirely by the federal government. That was done by the
(02:46):
Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA that that had nothing
to do with.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Anything.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I had nothing to do with Newsom or Bass or there.
They're governments, their employees. It was entirely a federal government situation.
And you know, if everybody, if everybody in city and
state government performed like the Army Corps of Engineers, we'd
be in a far different place in many ways. And
(03:18):
I started thinking, you know what, care best doesn't care?
She really doesn't, because what else hit me yesterday was
on the way to the self congratulatory press conference, she
got into araw and MacArthur Park.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
MacArthur Park's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Filled with the illegal immigration, drug cartels, gang members, all
crimes of all kinds of criminals and homeless people and
drug addicts and mental patients.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
It's awful, awful, And.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Iceland was there, National Guard was there and they were
doing some had a staging exercise. I guess, I don't
know what they were doing. And that caused a big Ruckus.
The Rapid Response Network went into operation. That's Turla, that's
an illegal alien rights group. We paid, We paid for
(04:19):
the Rapid Response Network TA spare money that they got
from Newsom. And that's to warn the locals that Ice
is here and it's time to resist, interfere, maybe.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Shoot at them.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Well, Bass went over there to do her official interference.
And man, she is so engaged, she's so passionate. And
I'm listening to some of this on the newscasts yesterday
and I'm thinking, God, she never gets like that when
it came. She never got like that when it came
to the fire. And even when she does the self congratulations,
(04:57):
there's no passion. There's no real engagement, there's no emotion,
there's there's no nothing. I remember when she first came
off the plane after partying with the President of Ghana.
That was ninety seconds of silence. And yesterday I'm here
and here yell and scream and make demands and this
and that. Play a clip here, this is Bass. So
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supposedly she was on her way to meet Newsome so
they could mug for the cameras about what they're not
doing for the Palisades and she.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Made a turn to MacArthur Park.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You know, she got she got the message that the
federal government that ICE was there, and uh she demanded
to get on the phone with some federal official. Here's
what happened, Aaron Bethel.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So, what's the time where the start walking to the car?
You have better I am going to say my comments
(06:29):
as they need to leave?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Can they need to leave right now?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Unaccepted yourself the phone, They need to leave, and they
leave to leave. They need to leave now? Eric, Can
you isolate that particular line, because this is what she
(06:55):
cares about. She cares about MacArthur Park and the illegal
aliens there and the homeless people and the criminals, and
she wants law enforcement out. That is what gets her crazy.
Listen to the emotion in her voice here they need
to leave?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Can they need to leave right now?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I have never heard her express any of that energy
and passion when it came to the Palisades. I mean,
I mean thousands and thousands of people homeless, thousands of
buildings destroyed, you know, the whole routine. She never seemed
to care. She was guilty of leaving town. Maybe there
(07:36):
was a bit of shame in that response. Guilty of
not preparing the city, not preparing the fire department, Guilty
not having the reservoir filled. Guilty for hiring an idiot,
Genie Kinonias to run the DWP. Guilty of not having
the power turned off. And then another fire exploded that
evening on January seventh. Guilty of funding the fire department,
(08:01):
Guilty of defunding the police department, Guilty of not having
the hydrants working. Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. I mean,
for all her neglige, she got to be spending about
twenty years in prison, but she never uttered a peep.
And then I'm listening to her yelling yesterday, It's like, oh, okay,
(08:24):
I get it. You judge people by what they do.
She's angry, animated, challenging the federal government because this really
pisses her off. That the park that's home to so
many criminals, so many gang members, so many drug addicts,
(08:44):
and mental patients, all the worst elements of humanity inhabit
MacArthur Park twenty four hours a day, and she's upset
that law enforcement is getting in the way of that party.
The palisades. She's got nothing, doesn't care, and it makes
(09:04):
me wonder what's up to her entirely. What would she
do about the Palisades. Maybe she doesn't want the Palisades rebuilt.
Maybe she doesn't like the people in the Palisades. Maybe
she doesn't consider it really Los Angeles. Maybe those are
(09:29):
not her people, she doesn't really care. Maybe she has
another vision for what the Palisades ought to be. Talk
more about this coming up.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
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Speaker 2 (09:46):
All right, let's continue here, So two o'clock, we're gonna
have Rick Caruso. On three o'clock hour, we're gonna have
Michael MChE from USC with his latest analysis of jess
how far out the gas prices are going to go
in this state with two refineries closing, with a low
(10:08):
carbon fuel standard being imposed any day now, as you know,
he has predicted that gas could be well over eight
dollars a gallon, you know, within the next year and
a half. So we're gonna be talking to Michael Shay
coming up. But back to Karen Bass, because it was
very revealing yesterday when the federal government ICE held some
(10:34):
kind of workout, some kind of demonstration. I guess They
had a lot of armed men there and they had
military like vehicles, they had horses, they had a National Guard.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It was quite a show.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
They didn't do anything, and they didn't do a ray,
they didn't rest anybody, and it was either some kind
of training exercise or rehearsal, or maybe it was a
show of force, because that area is just wall to
wall the legal aliens. I mean, most of the buildings
they are the apartment buildings and most of the businesses.
(11:10):
It's almost like a separate country when you get into
MacArthur Park. And so maybe this was a force to say,
you know, we're trying to be nice here. We're not
carrying you out, but we're here and we're not going away,
and maybe it's time to make some decisions, you know.
Twenty four hours later, That's what it seemed like it
(11:32):
was meant to be because I noticed when in the
clip we played, Karen bass Is saying something along the lines,
oh this is ending soon.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Well what time is it going to end? And I
think whoever she.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Had on the phone, whatever ICE official she was speaking with,
said hey, you know this, this particular exercise is going
to be over in fifteen minutes or it's going to
be over at eleven thirty whatever. The answer was something
like that, and of course she popped off, claiming sim
she's angry. It's like like, you know, this must end.
(12:04):
And the Border Patrol Sector chief, it's the Elcentro sector.
Name is Gregory Bovino. He spoke with Fox eleven and
made it clear to the world that this is not
Karen Bass's call. He said, quote, the federal government is
not leaving LA. The federal government does not work for
(12:27):
Karen Bass. We're going to be here until that mission
is accomplished. Better get used to us now, because this
is going to be normal very soon.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And it sounded like.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
This was some kind of staging, some kind of rehearsal
that maybe soon we're going to see this quite frequently,
and this is a way for everybody in Los Angeles
who's not compliant with federal law to get it together
that they're not going away. Do you think Trump and
Tom Homan are going to change their minds because Bass
(13:06):
is shaking her fist.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
This isn't her call. This really isn't her business. Sorry,
it's not.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It's federal law they try to enforce. It's not Karen
Bass's sanctuary city. That was a fake concept. It's fascinating.
These people live in a world of well, we're going
to come up with a really cool, politically correct Wilke
concept like sanctuary city, and we are going to pass
(13:35):
up resolutions and legislations and declarations. And then somebody comes
along and says, sanc craise city. It's no such thing.
Where's that in the constitution, where is that in federal law?
Doesn't exist? You made that up, No such thing, imaginary, delusional.
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So Bass is bumpering and sputtering and waving her arms
and getting all mad. It's like, what are you doing.
You have zero power on this one, no vote. You're disenfranchised,
And Bovino just said it clearly, we don't work for you.
(14:23):
Get used to us.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
The way it is.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Of course, Bass is saying, the second I heard about this,
I went to the park to speak to the person
in charge and tell them it it needed to end. Now,
absolutely outrageous. She has no jurisdiction. But again my mind
flashes to the Palisades, and when she should have been
(14:49):
upset and moved and angry at herself.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
At least.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
She came off that plane a day after Palisades burned.
Dead silence, and it's been it's been pretty much dead
silence ever since.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Occasionally she'll do some kind of raw ras speech and
they'll have placards out, they say something stupid like LA Stronger.
But she's done absolutely nothing to cut the red tape.
Remember when Trump was grilling her, Remember that she was
promising all kinds of things. Oh, absolutely cut the red tape.
(15:28):
Some says cut the red tape. Nothing was cut.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
There's a seven thousand homes in the Palisades that burned down.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
There's been one hundred permits granted, a hundred takes forever.
I know this. I got friends, they're trying. It's extremely difficult.
We're gonna talk to Rick Caruso about that. He's trying
to get them to accept this this AI technology, which
(16:00):
would turn the permit process from a few months into
a few hours. Have they taken him up on it,
talk to him about it coming up after after two o'clock.
But and if she and if she's wondering why I
keep hearing squealing, Oh who did I read today? That
(16:22):
other idiot at the La Times, Steve Lopez, He is, uh, yeah,
here it is Steve Lopez is another elderly columnist at
the La Time La Times, and and he says, on
Monday morning, federal agents on horseback in armored vehicles to
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send it on MacArthur Park in a show of force.
Children playing in the park were ushered to safer ground.
According to Karen Bass, Yeah, Bass was leaning heavily on
the little kids who were playing in the park. She
doesn't care when the little kids are surrounded by gang members,
by drug cartel guys, by criminals, homeless people, homeless people
(17:10):
shooting up fentanyl, snorting meth, all the mental patients frothing
at the mouth, all those vendors selling stolen stuff. Kids
have to grow up around that. She doesn't care. But
you bring in law enforce once. Oh my god, this
is outrageous. I've never seen anything like a lot of.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
She performs, and she's got this.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
All these sycophants, all these askissers at the LA Times,
they immediately write columns.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Well, billions of dollars have been added for border and
ice agents, but billions have been trimmed from medical, climate
and weather related resources. Says Steve Lopez, What the bleep
are you talking about? Of course, we're spending more billions
of dollars on the border. By the way, dentinyl imports
(18:06):
are way down and fentinyl deaths are down because they
closed the border, which is slowed down the flow of
the fentanyl. Don't call them on that, Lopez, you phony,
your big fraud.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Listen, here's another thing. Lopez says.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
MacArthur Park has a sizeable undocumented immigrant population and a
lot of big problems to tackle homelessness, wide open drug trade,
gang activity. On some days, areas of the park were
unusable for families. First responders rolled out on overdose calls,
Attics took over an alley, merchants struggled to stay open
amid all of mayhem.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Then why wouldn't you bring in law.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Enforcement to do a raid and get rid of the
illegal aliens, which means you'll be getting rid of some
of the drug cartel members and some of the gang members.
Let them intimidate all these bad guys, let them clean
up the park. Bass isn't doing it. People have been
(19:08):
begging Bass to do this for a long time. See
how can he complain.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
That the.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Ice agents scared the children when then he carries on
about all the homelessness and the drug trade and the
gang activity unusable for families.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Well, if we had.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
A huge show of force to chase away all these
bad guys, then it would be usable for families.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
They're just idiots, They're just stupid. All right.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
sixty two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Rick Cruso is coming on to talk about the lack
of progress in rebuilding the Palisades. While Newsom and Bass
yesterday where patting themselves on the back for doing nothing,
but we talked to Rick Caruso's actually doing something. By
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the way, did you say Newsom is campaigning today in
South Carolina?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I don't say.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I didn't say he was campaigning for president, but I
did say that he is in South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
And what's he doing there? He is campaigning for president.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
He didn't say that he's campaigning for president.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I'm going by his actions, but he is there. He's
meeting with Democratic professional Yes.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
He is, and uh, you know, South Carolina is a
big deal, one of the first primary for the primaries.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Then I say he's campaigning for president.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Okay, well, then you can say that that's how I'm going.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
To refer to it, all right, I wouldn't last five
minutes in the news.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
No, you would.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I used to do what you do. I used to do.
You were a news person, well, i'd read the new news.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah, I thought you were a DJ.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yes, But it was such a tiny station. We didn't
have a news department. The DJ read the news. I
would love to hear a tape of that fifteen minutes
of news at five o'clock every afternoon, right in the
middle of the show.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Wow, so you put on your news voice.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Yes, I was very serious. I don't know what I
was talking about much of the time. This is show.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
This is where we're going this next story. First of all,
it's already started. The reason the military is heavily armed,
maybe inform all the bozos at the La Times. Ice
agents were targeted in two ambush attacks this week. Yesterday,
I think we told you about one. Well there was
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another one, and the Justice Department has named ten people.
They're charged with shooting a police officer in the neck
and opening fire on other off officers outside the Prayerland
Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. Happened on the fourth of July.
This was a group of ten men. They wore all
(22:11):
black outfits. First they started shooting fireworks, which is being
used by Homeland Security to hold illegal immigrants, either their
violators or their awaiting deportation. And they named the ten
defendants Cameron Arnold, Savannah Betten, Nathan Bowman, Zachary Evans, Joy Gibson,
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Bradford Morris, Marciella Ruta. Sounds like they have some women
in this group. Yeah, Seth Sikes, Elizabeth Soto in this
Soto and the complete charges each of them with three
counts of attempting attempted murder of a federal officer and
other crimes.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
So you have ten people.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I guess this would be the resistance being charged with
three counts of attempted murder. This is why you see
armored cars and you see heavy do any weapons. This
is why you bozo morons at the LA Times, because
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they don't want to die.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
They don't want to get a bullet rip them through
their brains. That's why. And look at this Democrats House.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Democrats congressman told Axios that's a political website that people
in their voter base are so angry that they want
more violence.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I'll give you some examples.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Here there's the representative Brad Schneider from Illinois said, we've
got people they go to these town hall meetings. We've
got people who are desperately wanting us to do something,
no matter what we say. They want more. Our base
is telling us that what we're doing is not good enough.
(24:12):
There needs to be blood to grab the attention of
the press and the public. That's according to an anonymous congressman.
There needs to be blood. Here's a Fourth House Democrat.
Constituents told him civility isn't working. Prepare for violence to
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protect our democracy. Fifth House democrat told Axios that people
online have sent me crazy bleep, told me to storm
the White House and stuff like that. Sixth House Democrat
told Axios, people who are angry don't accept channeling their
(24:58):
frustration to campaigning and voting. They're angry beyond these things.
It's like the Roman colisseum. People just want more and
more of the spectacle set a seventh lawmaker. Then there's
another lawmaker says these well, actually several lawmakers say, these
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voters tend to be white, well educated, and live in
upscale suburban or urban neighborhoods. Are these the white wealthy,
woke women. They want blood. They're sitting in their big homes,
in their luxurious neighborhoods, and they're so angry with Trump
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that they want other people to go out and start killing.
They want blood and violence. That's what the congress people
are saying. One lawmaker says, what I have seen is
a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow
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ourselves to be victims of violence. A lot of times
that's coming from economically, very secure white people. A ninth
lawmaker told Axios, I actually said in the meeting, well,
when they light a fire, my thought is to grab
an extinguisher. And someone at the table says, have you
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tried gasoline? Why are wealthy people getting so violent? What
kind of mentality is there?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
You got to ask your people, my.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
People, Actually, you know, I know a couple of people.
I know you know a couple of people who are
violently angry with me. Yes, we should call them west
Side warriors. Normally they were west Side weenies, and now
they have transformed into these soldiers ready to go.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
So this is what we're gonna see.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
We're gonna we're gonna see women an expensive carrying, expensive handbag.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Oh yeah, the Birken bag, the burken bag, and we're burken.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Bag and expensive heels and uh, brass knuckles and brass
knuckles you go and beating the crap at ice agents.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
What's wrong? Since this is the thing.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
They're living good lives. Their neighborhoods are beautiful. They're not
dealing with like, it's not MacArthur Park in these neighborhoods right.
The the illegal immigration and the drug cartels and the gangs.
They have turned MacArthur Park into a war zone. Trump's
crowd is trying to clean up and these people are
storming out of their wealthy mansions in the suburbs to
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do what.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
This is just flat out mental illness, isn't it. Well,
Unissus Hernandez said, they need to be ready to throw down.
Oh did she say that? Yeah? I remember, Yeah, it's down,
throw down the burken bags, right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
When I see them, when I see them armed holding
burken bags, then I know they're serious.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
When they start risking their.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Oh yeah, I can't risk fifty thousand dollars handbags.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
When they start risking their accessories, then I know were
we're Can you imagine how how mentally damaged do you
have to be? Because they're going to the town halls, right,
and they're addressing congress people and they're saying this out loud,
and they don't think it's insane. How far Gandhi. I've
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never seen this in my life. You know, there's always
been a crazy lunatic fringe all our lives. I mean,
there's plenty of violence in the sixties and the seventies,
and there's always been there militias in the nineties. And
but to see these uh, these burken bag warriors suddenly
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demanding blood, it must be really bored, I think.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I think that happens when you get too rich. Yeah,
and you have nothing to do, you don't have any problems,
you know, in humans, if there's a lack of.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
A lack of engagement in your life, I think you
start searching for stimulation, something to make your life meaningful,
to join.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
A cost then go rescue pets.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, you tell them that, why don't you go rescue pets? Oh,
we should do the turtle story. Oh yes, oh boy,
all right, we'll do the turtle story next, and then
Rick Caruso coming on at two o'clock.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Rick Caruso coming on after two o'clock. Rick Caruso, and
he is running Steadfast LA in addition to all his
entire business empire, but Steadfast LA has been set up
to try and help people navigate the process of rebuilding
in the Palisades in Altadena with all the incredible bureaucracy
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and red tape. So Rick is coming on in about
fifteen minutes or so, right after Deborah's news. All right,
so here's the turtle story. Seventy seven year old man
eighty seven I think eighty seven, eighties, All right, I
got seventy seven. Well, I think he aged a lot.
He was standing in Florida for some reason Sunday afternoon,
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four twenty Interstate ninety five, which is the biggest north
south freeway on the East Coast, runs from Maine all
the way to Florida. And he's in the southbound lane
and he sees a turtle and he gets out of
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his car to rescue the turtle, and he's walking across
the lanes and then a chain reaction crash. A Miami
woman driving a vehicle she slowed down so she wouldn't
hit the old guy. But behind her, another man in
a ram pickup truck failed to break in time. The
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pickup truck rear ended the first vehicle, veered off the road,
crashed through the fence. The ram continued southbound and hit
the guy from Vermont, killed him. And then you know,
there were other cars that were crashed and backed up
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behind them. Man's dead at the scene. Don't know what
happened to the turbine.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
I have been pouring over these stories and I'm seeing
eighty seven, So.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
What well, I'm seeing dead. Okay, you could be a
seventy seven year old dead body or an eighty.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Seven year old dad seven.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
You know that's ten years older. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Maybe it was senile, because who would cross Interstate ninety five.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I would, It's like Interstate Oh you wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Yes, I have done those things before. I had a
rescue dog that I went in the middle of a
very busy street. It's Corbin Avenue in Woodland Hills, very
very busy, and.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
I go, I put my hands up, wave to be
people can.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Even see you. Well, it's the bright yellow she's wearing today.
They would yeah, maybe.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Right, I cannot find what happened to the turtle.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
That would be the first question I, as the journalist,
would ask if I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Writing this story.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
It sounds like Auntie may might have had some turtle
stew for dinner.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
It's it's not worth it for your your your children,
your grand children.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
You don't think. But John, you're not thinking that turtle.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
He didn't think he was going to get killed.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
I would think of that, say, ah, poor turtle, he's
gonna get crushed.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
He saw the turtle. It's big. It was big.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
I saw a picture of it, and he probably thought,
you know what, people are gonna stop, just like I'm stopping.
I'm gonna take a chance. I'm gonna think positive that
I'm able to say.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
People don't pay attention anymore.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Well, you know when I saw it the other day,
like over twenty percent of the public is staring at
their phones while driving.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
I know I see it every day, five cars past you.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
One of the five is not watching the road.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
But John, in the moment, you know, you get caught
up in the moment you see a helpless turtle, and your.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Instinct, there's your your instinct.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Okay, my instinct would be okay, I think.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Doesn't want to be flattened by a Dodge Ram truck.
Someone was probably texting and driving and didn't break on time,
and that's what caused the crash. Yeah, it's very exactly
what goes on.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Look, this guy had a good heart.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
He did.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
He tried.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Not anymore.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I know he's dead, but he tried. He really wanted.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
He wanted to.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
That was very selfless.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
You can't just try.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
You have to pull it off, okay, he thought. I
am sure he thought he was going to pull it off.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
I really do.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
I don't think he thought.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
At eighty seven, how quickly can you get across?
Speaker 4 (34:20):
He thought people would see this old man that jopped
and they would stop for him.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
At eighty seven, how's a guy going to cross five
lanes of traffic?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Minimum five lanes of traffic?
Speaker 3 (34:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Again, I've been in a situation like that where you
don't really necessarily think at the time. Rationally, I think
you are all impulse huh. I am oh, yeah, that's
why I said that. It's a good thing I don't
have a gun in my car. I get so riled
up in this traffic.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
You jump out to save a turtle. But if somebody
cuts you off, you got no problem.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Off.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Yeah, right, because I hate a lot of people and
I love animals.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Is it bad that I'm just picturing President Biden trying
to cross five state planes to save the turtle. It
wasn't Biden. This is just my imagination.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
I think it was very nice.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Look if it was my grandfather, of course, i'd be
very sad, but i'd also say hots after you, Grandpa for.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Trying to through the right. And then one more story,
Jere about the guy at Mulan Airport. Was it?
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Uh no, that's something else.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
No, he got sucked into a jet engine.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Oh yes, I was going to send that here this morning. Actually,
did you send me.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
The turtle story? I did, Yes, And you were gonna
say I was.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Going to said I saw that this morning, but I thought, eh,
you know, people do these stupid things.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Well, apparently he did it on purpose.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Oh I didn't know he did it on there.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Yeah, yeah, this is how he decided to leave the planet.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Oh oh he oh, oh, okay, why don't you do that?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
I mean, there's there's easier ways.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
To go, there's more peaceful ways to go. But hurling
yourself into a jet engine.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
No, that would be wouldn't that be painful?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Oh and messy? Yikes? Who gave him that idea? I
don't know what.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
So yeah he if the story is right, Uh so
they he just threw himself into the engine and that's it.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Oh, that's an awful way to go.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
That is it's it's like a huge blender. Oh that yeah. No, no, no, no, no,
all right. When we come back, we're gonna have Rick
Caruso on.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
And Rick is not only owns the Grove and many
other real estate projects that are wildly successful. Ran for
mayor lost to Karen Bass, worst decision voter have ever
made in the history of the United States of America.
And now, while Bass flounders around and botches up everything
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in sight, especially the Palisades rebuild after being absent during
the fire, Rick has put together Steadfast LA, which is
a nonprofit organization that tries to connect all the Palisades
and Altadena residents with I don't know, we're trying to
get their their homes rebuilt because there's so much in
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the way. We're going to talk to Rick. Since Bass
and newsome We're having a congratulatory press conference yesterday, and
that really they they had nothing to show for it.
I knew, some kind of knew that. That's why he
ran off to South Carolina a campaign for president today. Well, anyway,
Rick's coming up next Deborah Mark Live and the KFI
(37:53):
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