May 5, 2026 • 29 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (05/05) - 450 anti-ICE signs have been placed all over parks and other LA City property. California is starting to mirror a horror film. More people are falling for scams. Ricardo Lara completely botched his job as CA Insurance Commissioner.
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could see the recorded live stream we did. Now there
(00:44):
we've been talking a lot about Karen Bass, Nathew Romin,
Spencer Pratt. Because the ballots were mailed out yesterday. Maybe
they arrived at your home today. If not today, then tomorrow.
And there are a number of debates going on. I
believe there is two NBC debates tomorrow, the mayoral debate
and the governor's debate. CNN has a governor's debate tonight,
(01:09):
don't they?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
And we have a mayor's debate tonight and governor Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Right, the mayor's debate is the Sermon Oaks Homeowners Association.
Governor's debate is on CNN. Then tomorrow on NBC four.
You're going to get a governor's debate and a mayoral debate.
Then you go look it up to find the times.
But so everything's heating up. The ballots are arriving today,
so it's going to be top of mind for people.
(01:35):
That's why they've scheduled all these debates this week because
most people weren't paying much attention to what's going on about.
The only news story that really broke through was Eric
Swawaw allegedly raping all those women. By the way, did
you see the latest story on him? No, that he's
had the history of him sending perverted photos on Snapchat?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Oh oh yeah I saw that last week.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yes, yes, yeah, that guy allegedly has god.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Karen Bass, what's the thing she's focusing on this week?
What's the it's hard to believe. I got a story
I'm gonna play from Matthew Seedorf from Fox eleven. She
has purchased She spent an extraordinary amount of money to
purchase anti ice signs to try to pretend that Parks
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libraries and transit hubs are public property off limits to ice,
which is a really nutty concept, but we'll play Matthew
Seedorf story.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
First, there goes a sign, right there, A bold message
now posted across Los Angeles. Signs going up declaring city
property off limits for ice.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
De signs have no legal weight, force, or effect on
anything the federal government does.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Federal authorities firing back, saying the words are just that
federal agents will go anywhere they need to go to
enforce federal law.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
City property included at LAFI at Park.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Most people say they didn't notice the sign, but support
the idea.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Some people's families out here, dude to know.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
That's not right, man.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
The message from LA no immigration enforcement, no staging, processing
or operations at parks. Speaking with the federal government. They
say that the sign doesn't really do anything for them.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, I'm sure more.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Than four hundred and fifty of these signs now posted
at parking lots, libraries, the LA Zoo, and notably MacArthur Park,
where last summer Mayor Karen Bass asked Border Patrol agents
to leave during an operation.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Comments as they need.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
To leave, and they need to leave right now.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
We asked the city how much these signs cost taxpayers
and never heard back, but based on industry estimates, one
sign and installation could run about five hundred dollars, bringing
the total to around two hundred and fifty thousand bucks.
Director Laire Bass issued executive Directive seventeen for these signs
earlier this year, now telling Fox eleven, I will not
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stand by while federal agents use our neighborhoods as staging
grounds for fear and intimidation. City property will not be
used to carry out these raids. Just to be clear,
from a federal perspective, do these signs stop ice?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
If they're null and void, they mean nothing to us, and.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I look forward to her trying to enforce them.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
As Bill Saley at the end there the assistant US
Attorney that he runs the Los Angeles well, the Central
California district here in La So And I feel like
I've said this many many times, maybe too many times,
but there's it's something called the supremacy clause which Karen
Bass is too stupid to understand, or she figures her
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voters are too stupid and ignorant to understand. It may
make you feel good to put a no ice sign
up at a public park that has no legal impact
whatsoever for the ten thousandth time, and pardon me for
sounding condescending, But the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution says
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that federal law supersedes state and local law all the time,
every time. If there is an area of government that
the Constitution has given to federal authorities, then the federal
authorities have one hundred percent control over executing the policies.
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Karen Bass has zero percent input. It doesn't matter. She
could huff and puff and scream and yell it doesn't matter,
and she knows it doesn't matter. This is all where
the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Associations say. It's all performative. They
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think Spencer Pratt is performative. No, this is performative. Has
no power at all. She doesn't understand. No, she understands.
She figures you don't understand. She figures you're too stupid
and ignorant. She thinks her voters are stupid and ignorant,
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or they're so overwhelmed by emotion they can't think rationally.
It is a completely fantastical belief to think that you
put up a sign saying no Ice and that has
some federal authority. Bill Saley says null and void. You
know how much cost though, If Matthew Cedorf's numbers are correct,
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four hundred and fifty signs at five hundred and fifty
five dollars a sign, that's two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars of your tax money flushed into the sore along
with all the needles and feces from the homeless. There's feces,
there's homeless, and then there's your tax money swimming down
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there somewhere for the signs that Karen Bass put up.
Put up the day that the ballots are bailed out
to voters, because a no Ice sign is gonna is
going to inflame people to vote. There are so many
issues that people are angry about or they blame Trump for,
(07:47):
that have no impact on your lives. The major impact
on your lives is because of policies that are created
by local and state politicians. Almost everything we talk about
on the air here, everything you're unhappy with, is from
policies from the local or state government. Virtually none of
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it is from the federal government. And conversely, the state
and local governments can't do anything about issues where the
federal government has supreme authority, and on immigration, federal government does.
Every president, doesn't matter who it is, Biden, Obama, Bush, Trump,
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all those presidents had the supreme authority over immigration policy.
And again, Karen Bass served in Congress. She knows this.
She's intentionally lying because she figures her followers are emotionally unhinged, stupid,
or ignorant or all three comes in a package. All right,
(08:53):
more coming up. Oh, we'll talk about the what Jay
Rogers wrote in California Globe on how California voters are
acting like those silly teenagers in the old horror movies
Freddy Krueger and Jason horror movies from the nineteen eighties. Yeah,
you're acting like those scared teenagers running for the wrong
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exit over and over again. We'll explain we come back.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
So Jay Rodgers wrote this piece for California Globe, which
amused me. And he's right. Did you watch a lot
of horror movies?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I absolutely hate them?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
So no, I hate them too. Three p's in a pod.
Then I don't like getting frightened at all, and I
didn't understand the appeal of that I watched. I watched
one horror movie because when we came out to lam
my wife actually got a bit part in a Wes
Craven New Nightmare movie, and I watched that. I didn't
(10:00):
understand a single thing. I really didn't. I've seen it
a couple of times, and I I liked Poulter guys. Yeah,
Polter guy. I don't know s. I don't know that.
People make references all the time, and it's like, I mean,
I remember Freddy Krueger and Jason like I knew those characters.
(10:20):
Insisted because they were so popular. She couldn't get away
from him. But I never sat through any of it
because I don't want to be frightened. I don't like
gory stuff. I don't like blood, you know. I think
when I was in high school, I went to see
The Exorcist and I ran out in the middle of it.
You did, Oh, yeah, I was like a like a
five year old. I can't take blood and vomit, which
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of course is all I see now walking around town.
Did you watch the extract?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I think I did when I was way younger. I
only I can only remember was that when the head
was spinning.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, yeah, the hair and the green vomit was coming out.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I don't know if I watched the whole thing, to be.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Honest, what were you like six?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, that's what I mean, I think, or maybe I
just saw.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I mean no, because my parents would let me even
watch R rated movies, you know, before I was seventeen.
I mean obviously I did, but this Exorcist, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I ever watched them.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
No. Well, anyway, Jay Rodgers wrote a piece saying, okay,
he grew up Freddy Krueger Jason where the big movie characters,
in the horror movies, and in all the movies, the
teenagers always made the same dumb decision instead of bolting
for the exit, usually the girl in distress sprinted upstairs
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and locked herself in a dark room, which was the
worst place to be because that's where the bad guy is. Right.
But every movie was the same thing, And I think
they've done a parody of those in commercials where the
audience is yelling, you know, head for the door, head
for the door, and don't go there. What people do?
And psychologists have a whole concept for this they call
(12:04):
it fight or flight hijack. Your amgdala floods the body
with adrenaline, your prefrontal cortex shuts down. And then there's
something called normalcy bias, which insists that well, everything is fine,
which it is until the chainsaw starts. And you could
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see that in the way people live their life and
vote here in California. People think they're seeing normal things.
They've gotten used to all the disgusting mayhem. I don't
have this in my head. See the way I'm wired.
I see all the disgusting things. I know this is
not normal. It affects me the same way every time.
But for some people they go, no, everything's okay, it's
(12:46):
not that bad. And then they go out and they
constantly take the wrong exit and they go and they
vote for the same dumb asses that created the price.
I mean, this is very clear. And if you watch
one of the governor's debates, like I said, there's another
(13:07):
one tomorrow night watch most of the Democratic candidates don't
repudiate anything that Gavin Newsom has done. Most of them
will continue with the exact same policies or worse ones. Savior.
(13:28):
But Sarah thinks there's nothing wrong with six sixty five
a gallon for gas. He doesn't. Now. Steve Hilton and
Chad Bianco, the two Republicans, want to suspend or eliminate
the gas tax in some way. They're very clear about it.
Met Mayhan, who I tell you is the only same Democrat,
(13:49):
the mayor of San Jose, Uh. He wants to suspend
the gas tax. The rest of them want the exact
same set of taxes. They give us six to sixty
five a gallon. Now, then why is this? Everybody I
know is pissed off. But the diversion is old strump
but stromp. I was just in Florida. The price of gas,
(14:16):
the price of oil is a worldwide commodity. Everybody has
to pay the same price for a barrel of oil.
The difference is largely taxes. So in Florida, gas was
three seventy when I showed up, bumped up to four
(14:38):
h five by time I left. But here, when I left,
the gas was six bucks. I came back with six
sixty five. In fact, I was at a traffic light
less than a half mile from my house, and I'm
staring at the chevron sign that says six sixty five.
It's like, so, why do people want this? And it's
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it is, everyone's trapped in a horror movie and they
do the same stupid thing that the teenagers did in
the Freddy Krueger movies. That this is all a psychological
phenomenon we're living through. When we come back, you're not
going to believe the banking scams that are going on
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here in California, and that people more and more people
are falling for them, not fewer, more, and they're getting
quite elaborate. The psychological manipulation. That's next.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
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We are on every day from three until six, after
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the radio right after six o'clock. All Right, I might
sound mean during this, but unless you have dementia Alzheimer's,
(16:04):
I have no idea how anybody could ever be scammed
by a phone call or an email or a text.
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Okay, John, there have been some of those in my
past where I've questioned it and I was a little worried,
and then of course I asked other people to make
sure that it wasn't a scam.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You see, that proves you have the necessary make sure, Sam,
I should say, you have the necessary intelligence to continue
working at the high level that you're working. You're actually smart.
I'm just assuming that lots and lots of people are
stupid fools. I don't know. I know that sounds harsh,
but I can't explain this. When you get I'm going
(16:45):
to give you some examples. Two stories came out today,
one on Fox Business and one from Channel seven about
different ways people got scammed. And as soon as I
read just a couple of lines of the story, it's like, well, well,
first of all, don't just hang up the phone, just
delete the text. You cannot get scammed because these people
(17:08):
lost tens of thousands dollars. But if you hang up
the phone, or better yet, don't answer the phone, or
you don't respond to the text, it doesn't matter what
they say. I don't know why this is so hard,
am I sending me no? All right? So anyway, the
Channel seven Channel seven story, the FBI says this is
(17:32):
a growing problem. Here's one customer named Jennifer. I don't
want to announce her name because I don't want to
embarrass her. She lost forty thousand dollars. I mean, it's
a big money, forty thousand dollars for picking up the phone.
And it was a spoof call because the number on
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her screen matched the number on the back of her
Chase debit card, and it said Chase Fraud Department, and
they were pretending to call from Chase, and they said,
we've discovered the Chase employees are accessing accounts. And then
Jennifer said, they read me my account number, and they
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had my account balance down to the penny, and they
had fake FBI agents that gave me an agent number.
She fell for all this. She was convinced to move
forty thousand dollars from her real Chase account into a
new secured Chase account at her local branch, and then
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to transfer thousands more to an online bank. All the
money she sent disappeared. No, that's not how the world works.
You don't get a call from a bank saying, hey,
we found our own employees are stealing money and you
better take that money out of your account and move
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it somewhere else. First of all, if they found their
employees are somehow stealing money, the bank would automatically replenish
those accounts, because you know, you don't actually have real
cash sitting in a drawer somewhere a chase. It's just
an electronic representation of the money that they owe you
if you want to withdraw it. But there isn't forty
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thousand dollars sitting with Jennifer's name on it in a box,
so nothing's actually stolen, so you don't have to send
forty thousand dollars to replace it.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Not everybody is as smart as you.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, but apparently they're as smart as you because you
wouldn't do this.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
But I said, I did question it. Question.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I've never been caught up in a scam, but there
are some that are.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Are They make you pause.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
But you would never get to the point where you's.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
No, I would never send any money to.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Anybody, never, yees. All you have to do is have
that rule, never send any money to anybody. So she
moved to forty thousand plus. Or here's another one Huntington
Bank customer named Susie. She got a spoof call from
someone saying I'm from Zell, you know the payment service,
And they said, in order to continue to receive money
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to and from Zell, I had to upgrade my Zeal
account to a business account. And he said, I'm from Zell,
I'm working with Huntingdon Bank and he already had my
routing number. So she was convinced to send five thousand
dollars via Zell to the scammer's account to keep her
money safe. I don't know what to tell you. Yes,
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they have your routing number, they have your account number.
There's a tremendous amount of They've stolen everybody's private information.
When I type in a password or I go into
my password manager on my iPad, virtually all my passwords
have been stolen. So yes they can. They can access everything.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
What a sad world we live in.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I was, I admit to sending the money, said Susie.
But I was also instructed by somebody who had the
last four digits of my bank account, had my phone number.
So companies never do this ever, Always hang up, never
send money one more. Now this I get a little
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slack to because he's eighty years old. Another phone spoofing scam,
sponepoofing scam yeah, get it. Eighty year old man tricked
into withdrawing twenty five thousand dollars in cash and handing
it to a stranger at a parking lot. He got
a text message from somebody saying, I'm from Apple. There's
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a suspicious Apple pay charge phone number, and he called
the number and was told that his identity had been
stolen and used to buy illegal drugs and firearms. And
they transferred him to somebody who supposedly was with the Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms Agency. There was an officer's name that
had a LinkedIn profile, and he really is an associate
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director at the ATF. The man hung up at the
phone rang again. This time it was the Irvine Police
Department's real number on the screen, and officer Ziggy Azrakhan
said the scammer named to be Wait a second, is
that a real officer or the scam officer? Is there
an officer Ziggy? I don't know him, said. The scammer
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claimed to be the city's police chief and told the
victim he needed to cooperate with federal authorities. So there
was a fake police chief on the phone, and one
guy is it was scammed out of one hundred and
seventy two thousand dollars. He placed the cash in a
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shoe box, wrapped in duct tape and drove to an
IRV on shopping center, where he handed it to a stranger.
Oh no, don't do that either. Don't put your cash
in a shoe box and drive it to a parking
lot to give to a stranger. Good advice, John, But
I'm thinking that guy probably he was eighty. He was eighty. Yeah,
I think I think things had softened up.
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can be around all the time, all day, all night,
even while you're sleeping Uh, there is, you know, probably
one of the next to the governor most insurance. The
most important race going on across the state would be
the California Insurance Commissioner. The current one, Ricardo calpart Lara,
(24:19):
has been the biggest disaster, and he's acted like a crook.
He's taken a lot of our tax money and gone
on all sorts of bizarre trips around the world, dozens
of trips, spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to
attend all sorts of gay rights events and parades and festivals,
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and it's it's been a huge embarrassment. He completely effed
up the insurance industry beyond recognition. Negotiated a horrible, horrible
deal with insurance companies right before the Palisades fire that
caused thousands of people to lose their coverage, especially in
the Palace. It's right before the fire, the amount of
(25:02):
damage that this blockhead did. And Deborah had mentioned that
he was thinking of running for a lieutenant governor, and
I looked up and he had filed papers and then
Withdrew and he's not on the ballot because I guess,
you know, all the publicity because there were some major
media investigations done. The thing is he needs to be
(25:24):
investigated in the hopes of an indictment. Let me put
it that way, because what that guy did with all
the travel and all the tax money and the deal
that he gave away to the insurance companies is just horrendous.
And there are a number of candidates, and we had
a couple on There's another one that was profiled today
(25:45):
in the California Post, Stacy Cosgarden, and she flat out
says California is not insurable right now. It's not insurable.
The insurance market is just completely Premiums are going up rapidly,
policies are disappearing altogether. She says, it's either going up
(26:06):
or you can't get a policy. And it's all self inflicted.
It's because of all the regulations and all the policies.
Other states don't have this issue. I know we have
some natural disasters, but some of those natural disasters are
also self inflicted. I mean, the whole Palisades thing didn't
(26:29):
have to happen. We know that story. The Altadena fire
didn't have to happen if so cal Edison had maintained
its equipment. So much of this stuff it's not natural disasters.
It's corporate greed, human incompetence, and stupidity. And why we
(26:52):
have so much of it in California, Well, for one thing,
we have one party rule, and so a tremendous amount
of complacency and an few attitude has settled in among
most office holders in LA and in California, in the state.
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And when you know that no scandal, no disaster, no
horrible situation will bring you down, there is no incentive
to do the right thing. So you don't have to
fix the insurance situation. You're not gonna lose your job.
You don't have to fund the fire department, you don't
(27:34):
have to respond to the fire. You're not going to
lose your job. And she says California has not had
an insurance commissioner with industry experience in decades. They simply
don't understand the insurance industry. She is a licensed insurance
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professional and small business owner. It's worth reading it's in
the Californi the Post because what an embarrassment Ricardo Lara
is And if he was running for lieutenant governor, it
means he wanted to sit on his fat ass for
eight years. Then run for governor. That was the way
Gavin Newsom and Gray Davis got in and look at
(28:15):
those two, see anybody who is willing to be a
do nothing lieutenant governor for eight years will be a
bad governor, And got Newsom and Davis to point to
and l Lara then probably would have ran on, well,
I can be the first gay Latino governor. That would
have been his whole campaign, because that was his campaign
for Insurance commissioner. All right, we're done. Podcasts being released
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we've been talking a lot about Karen Bass, Nathew Romin,
Spencer Pratt. Because the ballots were mailed out yesterday. Maybe
they arrived at your home today. If not today, then tomorrow.
And there are a number of debates going on. I
believe there is two NBC debates tomorrow, the mayoral debate
and the governor's debate. CNN has a governor's debate tonight,
(01:09):
don't they?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
And we have a mayor's debate tonight and governor Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Right, the mayor's debate is the Sermon Oaks Homeowners Association.
Governor's debate is on CNN. Then tomorrow on NBC four.
You're going to get a governor's debate and a mayoral debate.
Then you go look it up to find the times.
But so everything's heating up. The ballots are arriving today,
so it's going to be top of mind for people.
(01:35):
That's why they've scheduled all these debates this week because
most people weren't paying much attention to what's going on about.
The only news story that really broke through was Eric
Swawaw allegedly raping all those women. By the way, did
you see the latest story on him? No, that he's
had the history of him sending perverted photos on Snapchat?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Oh oh yeah I saw that last week.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yes, yes, yeah, that guy allegedly has god.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Karen Bass, what's the thing she's focusing on this week?
What's the it's hard to believe. I got a story
I'm gonna play from Matthew Seedorf from Fox eleven. She
has purchased She spent an extraordinary amount of money to
purchase anti ice signs to try to pretend that Parks
(02:38):
libraries and transit hubs are public property off limits to ice,
which is a really nutty concept, but we'll play Matthew
Seedorf story.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
First, there goes a sign, right there, A bold message
now posted across Los Angeles. Signs going up declaring city
property off limits for ice.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
De signs have no legal weight, force, or effect on
anything the federal government does.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Federal authorities firing back, saying the words are just that
federal agents will go anywhere they need to go to
enforce federal law.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
City property included at LAFI at Park.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Most people say they didn't notice the sign, but support
the idea.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Some people's families out here, dude to know.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
That's not right, man.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
The message from LA no immigration enforcement, no staging, processing
or operations at parks. Speaking with the federal government. They
say that the sign doesn't really do anything for them.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, I'm sure more.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Than four hundred and fifty of these signs now posted
at parking lots, libraries, the LA Zoo, and notably MacArthur Park,
where last summer Mayor Karen Bass asked Border Patrol agents
to leave during an operation.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Comments as they need.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
To leave, and they need to leave right now.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
We asked the city how much these signs cost taxpayers
and never heard back, but based on industry estimates, one
sign and installation could run about five hundred dollars, bringing
the total to around two hundred and fifty thousand bucks.
Director Laire Bass issued executive Directive seventeen for these signs
earlier this year, now telling Fox eleven, I will not
(04:17):
stand by while federal agents use our neighborhoods as staging
grounds for fear and intimidation. City property will not be
used to carry out these raids. Just to be clear,
from a federal perspective, do these signs stop ice?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
If they're null and void, they mean nothing to us, and.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I look forward to her trying to enforce them.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
As Bill Saley at the end there the assistant US
Attorney that he runs the Los Angeles well, the Central
California district here in La So And I feel like
I've said this many many times, maybe too many times,
but there's it's something called the supremacy clause which Karen
Bass is too stupid to understand, or she figures her
(05:08):
voters are too stupid and ignorant to understand. It may
make you feel good to put a no ice sign
up at a public park that has no legal impact
whatsoever for the ten thousandth time, and pardon me for
sounding condescending, But the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution says
(05:29):
that federal law supersedes state and local law all the time,
every time. If there is an area of government that
the Constitution has given to federal authorities, then the federal
authorities have one hundred percent control over executing the policies.
(05:52):
Karen Bass has zero percent input. It doesn't matter. She
could huff and puff and scream and yell it doesn't matter,
and she knows it doesn't matter. This is all where
the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Associations say. It's all performative. They
(06:13):
think Spencer Pratt is performative. No, this is performative. Has
no power at all. She doesn't understand. No, she understands.
She figures you don't understand. She figures you're too stupid
and ignorant. She thinks her voters are stupid and ignorant,
(06:35):
or they're so overwhelmed by emotion they can't think rationally.
It is a completely fantastical belief to think that you
put up a sign saying no Ice and that has
some federal authority. Bill Saley says null and void. You
know how much cost though, If Matthew Cedorf's numbers are correct,
(06:58):
four hundred and fifty signs at five hundred and fifty
five dollars a sign, that's two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars of your tax money flushed into the sore along
with all the needles and feces from the homeless. There's feces,
there's homeless, and then there's your tax money swimming down
(07:19):
there somewhere for the signs that Karen Bass put up.
Put up the day that the ballots are bailed out
to voters, because a no Ice sign is gonna is
going to inflame people to vote. There are so many
issues that people are angry about or they blame Trump for,
(07:47):
that have no impact on your lives. The major impact
on your lives is because of policies that are created
by local and state politicians. Almost everything we talk about
on the air here, everything you're unhappy with, is from
policies from the local or state government. Virtually none of
(08:10):
it is from the federal government. And conversely, the state
and local governments can't do anything about issues where the
federal government has supreme authority, and on immigration, federal government does.
Every president, doesn't matter who it is, Biden, Obama, Bush, Trump,
(08:31):
all those presidents had the supreme authority over immigration policy.
And again, Karen Bass served in Congress. She knows this.
She's intentionally lying because she figures her followers are emotionally unhinged, stupid,
or ignorant or all three comes in a package. All right,
(08:53):
more coming up. Oh, we'll talk about the what Jay
Rogers wrote in California Globe on how California voters are
acting like those silly teenagers in the old horror movies
Freddy Krueger and Jason horror movies from the nineteen eighties. Yeah,
you're acting like those scared teenagers running for the wrong
(09:14):
exit over and over again. We'll explain we come back.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
So Jay Rodgers wrote this piece for California Globe, which
amused me. And he's right. Did you watch a lot
of horror movies?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I absolutely hate them?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
So no, I hate them too. Three p's in a pod.
Then I don't like getting frightened at all, and I
didn't understand the appeal of that I watched. I watched
one horror movie because when we came out to lam
my wife actually got a bit part in a Wes
Craven New Nightmare movie, and I watched that. I didn't
(10:00):
understand a single thing. I really didn't. I've seen it
a couple of times, and I I liked Poulter guys. Yeah,
Polter guy. I don't know s. I don't know that.
People make references all the time, and it's like, I mean,
I remember Freddy Krueger and Jason like I knew those characters.
(10:20):
Insisted because they were so popular. She couldn't get away
from him. But I never sat through any of it
because I don't want to be frightened. I don't like
gory stuff. I don't like blood, you know. I think
when I was in high school, I went to see
The Exorcist and I ran out in the middle of it.
You did, Oh, yeah, I was like a like a
five year old. I can't take blood and vomit, which
(10:42):
of course is all I see now walking around town.
Did you watch the extract?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I think I did when I was way younger. I
only I can only remember was that when the head
was spinning.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, yeah, the hair and the green vomit was coming out.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I don't know if I watched the whole thing, to be.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Honest, what were you like six?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, that's what I mean, I think, or maybe I
just saw.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I mean no, because my parents would let me even
watch R rated movies, you know, before I was seventeen.
I mean obviously I did, but this Exorcist, I don't think.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I ever watched them.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
No. Well, anyway, Jay Rodgers wrote a piece saying, okay,
he grew up Freddy Krueger Jason where the big movie characters,
in the horror movies, and in all the movies, the
teenagers always made the same dumb decision instead of bolting
for the exit, usually the girl in distress sprinted upstairs
(11:41):
and locked herself in a dark room, which was the
worst place to be because that's where the bad guy is. Right.
But every movie was the same thing, And I think
they've done a parody of those in commercials where the
audience is yelling, you know, head for the door, head
for the door, and don't go there. What people do?
And psychologists have a whole concept for this they call
(12:04):
it fight or flight hijack. Your amgdala floods the body
with adrenaline, your prefrontal cortex shuts down. And then there's
something called normalcy bias, which insists that well, everything is fine,
which it is until the chainsaw starts. And you could
(12:25):
see that in the way people live their life and
vote here in California. People think they're seeing normal things.
They've gotten used to all the disgusting mayhem. I don't
have this in my head. See the way I'm wired.
I see all the disgusting things. I know this is
not normal. It affects me the same way every time.
But for some people they go, no, everything's okay, it's
(12:46):
not that bad. And then they go out and they
constantly take the wrong exit and they go and they
vote for the same dumb asses that created the price.
I mean, this is very clear. And if you watch
one of the governor's debates, like I said, there's another
(13:07):
one tomorrow night watch most of the Democratic candidates don't
repudiate anything that Gavin Newsom has done. Most of them
will continue with the exact same policies or worse ones. Savior.
(13:28):
But Sarah thinks there's nothing wrong with six sixty five
a gallon for gas. He doesn't. Now. Steve Hilton and
Chad Bianco, the two Republicans, want to suspend or eliminate
the gas tax in some way. They're very clear about it.
Met Mayhan, who I tell you is the only same Democrat,
(13:49):
the mayor of San Jose, Uh. He wants to suspend
the gas tax. The rest of them want the exact
same set of taxes. They give us six to sixty
five a gallon. Now, then why is this? Everybody I
know is pissed off. But the diversion is old strump
but stromp. I was just in Florida. The price of gas,
(14:16):
the price of oil is a worldwide commodity. Everybody has
to pay the same price for a barrel of oil.
The difference is largely taxes. So in Florida, gas was
three seventy when I showed up, bumped up to four
(14:38):
h five by time I left. But here, when I left,
the gas was six bucks. I came back with six
sixty five. In fact, I was at a traffic light
less than a half mile from my house, and I'm
staring at the chevron sign that says six sixty five.
It's like, so, why do people want this? And it's
(15:00):
it is, everyone's trapped in a horror movie and they
do the same stupid thing that the teenagers did in
the Freddy Krueger movies. That this is all a psychological
phenomenon we're living through. When we come back, you're not
going to believe the banking scams that are going on
(15:21):
here in California, and that people more and more people
are falling for them, not fewer, more, and they're getting
quite elaborate. The psychological manipulation. That's next.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A six.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
We are on every day from three until six, after
six o'clock. John Cobelt's Show on Demand. We did a
live stream hour at three o'clock and that's been recorded
and posted as well. And Conway be coming up on
the radio right after six o'clock. All Right, I might
sound mean during this, but unless you have dementia Alzheimer's,
(16:04):
I have no idea how anybody could ever be scammed
by a phone call or an email or a text.
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Okay, John, there have been some of those in my
past where I've questioned it and I was a little worried,
and then of course I asked other people to make
sure that it wasn't a scam.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You see, that proves you have the necessary make sure, Sam,
I should say, you have the necessary intelligence to continue
working at the high level that you're working. You're actually smart.
I'm just assuming that lots and lots of people are
stupid fools. I don't know. I know that sounds harsh,
but I can't explain this. When you get I'm going
(16:45):
to give you some examples. Two stories came out today,
one on Fox Business and one from Channel seven about
different ways people got scammed. And as soon as I
read just a couple of lines of the story, it's like, well, well,
first of all, don't just hang up the phone, just
delete the text. You cannot get scammed because these people
(17:08):
lost tens of thousands dollars. But if you hang up
the phone, or better yet, don't answer the phone, or
you don't respond to the text, it doesn't matter what
they say. I don't know why this is so hard,
am I sending me no? All right? So anyway, the
Channel seven Channel seven story, the FBI says this is
(17:32):
a growing problem. Here's one customer named Jennifer. I don't
want to announce her name because I don't want to
embarrass her. She lost forty thousand dollars. I mean, it's
a big money, forty thousand dollars for picking up the phone.
And it was a spoof call because the number on
(17:55):
her screen matched the number on the back of her
Chase debit card, and it said Chase Fraud Department, and
they were pretending to call from Chase, and they said,
we've discovered the Chase employees are accessing accounts. And then
Jennifer said, they read me my account number, and they
(18:16):
had my account balance down to the penny, and they
had fake FBI agents that gave me an agent number.
She fell for all this. She was convinced to move
forty thousand dollars from her real Chase account into a
new secured Chase account at her local branch, and then
(18:41):
to transfer thousands more to an online bank. All the
money she sent disappeared. No, that's not how the world works.
You don't get a call from a bank saying, hey,
we found our own employees are stealing money and you
better take that money out of your account and move
(19:03):
it somewhere else. First of all, if they found their
employees are somehow stealing money, the bank would automatically replenish
those accounts, because you know, you don't actually have real
cash sitting in a drawer somewhere a chase. It's just
an electronic representation of the money that they owe you
if you want to withdraw it. But there isn't forty
(19:25):
thousand dollars sitting with Jennifer's name on it in a box,
so nothing's actually stolen, so you don't have to send
forty thousand dollars to replace it.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Not everybody is as smart as you.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, but apparently they're as smart as you because you
wouldn't do this.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
But I said, I did question it. Question.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I've never been caught up in a scam, but there
are some that are.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Are They make you pause.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
But you would never get to the point where you's.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
No, I would never send any money to.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Anybody, never, yees. All you have to do is have
that rule, never send any money to anybody. So she
moved to forty thousand plus. Or here's another one Huntington
Bank customer named Susie. She got a spoof call from
someone saying I'm from Zell, you know the payment service,
And they said, in order to continue to receive money
(20:18):
to and from Zell, I had to upgrade my Zeal
account to a business account. And he said, I'm from Zell,
I'm working with Huntingdon Bank and he already had my
routing number. So she was convinced to send five thousand
dollars via Zell to the scammer's account to keep her
money safe. I don't know what to tell you. Yes,
(20:44):
they have your routing number, they have your account number.
There's a tremendous amount of They've stolen everybody's private information.
When I type in a password or I go into
my password manager on my iPad, virtually all my passwords
have been stolen. So yes they can. They can access everything.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
What a sad world we live in.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I was, I admit to sending the money, said Susie.
But I was also instructed by somebody who had the
last four digits of my bank account, had my phone number.
So companies never do this ever, Always hang up, never
send money one more. Now this I get a little
(21:35):
slack to because he's eighty years old. Another phone spoofing scam,
sponepoofing scam yeah, get it. Eighty year old man tricked
into withdrawing twenty five thousand dollars in cash and handing
it to a stranger at a parking lot. He got
a text message from somebody saying, I'm from Apple. There's
(21:58):
a suspicious Apple pay charge phone number, and he called
the number and was told that his identity had been
stolen and used to buy illegal drugs and firearms. And
they transferred him to somebody who supposedly was with the Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms Agency. There was an officer's name that
had a LinkedIn profile, and he really is an associate
(22:20):
director at the ATF. The man hung up at the
phone rang again. This time it was the Irvine Police
Department's real number on the screen, and officer Ziggy Azrakhan
said the scammer named to be Wait a second, is
that a real officer or the scam officer? Is there
an officer Ziggy? I don't know him, said. The scammer
(22:42):
claimed to be the city's police chief and told the
victim he needed to cooperate with federal authorities. So there
was a fake police chief on the phone, and one
guy is it was scammed out of one hundred and
seventy two thousand dollars. He placed the cash in a
(23:03):
shoe box, wrapped in duct tape and drove to an
IRV on shopping center, where he handed it to a stranger.
Oh no, don't do that either. Don't put your cash
in a shoe box and drive it to a parking
lot to give to a stranger. Good advice, John, But
I'm thinking that guy probably he was eighty. He was eighty. Yeah,
I think I think things had softened up.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI Am sixty.
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show live stream and it's already now been recorded and
(23:54):
posted and you can you can watch that as well,
so you can spend the whole evening with us. We
can be around all the time, all day, all night,
even while you're sleeping Uh, there is, you know, probably
one of the next to the governor most insurance. The
most important race going on across the state would be
the California Insurance Commissioner. The current one, Ricardo calpart Lara,
(24:19):
has been the biggest disaster, and he's acted like a crook.
He's taken a lot of our tax money and gone
on all sorts of bizarre trips around the world, dozens
of trips, spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to
attend all sorts of gay rights events and parades and festivals,
(24:41):
and it's it's been a huge embarrassment. He completely effed
up the insurance industry beyond recognition. Negotiated a horrible, horrible
deal with insurance companies right before the Palisades fire that
caused thousands of people to lose their coverage, especially in
the Palace. It's right before the fire, the amount of
(25:02):
damage that this blockhead did. And Deborah had mentioned that
he was thinking of running for a lieutenant governor, and
I looked up and he had filed papers and then
Withdrew and he's not on the ballot because I guess,
you know, all the publicity because there were some major
media investigations done. The thing is he needs to be
(25:24):
investigated in the hopes of an indictment. Let me put
it that way, because what that guy did with all
the travel and all the tax money and the deal
that he gave away to the insurance companies is just horrendous.
And there are a number of candidates, and we had
a couple on There's another one that was profiled today
(25:45):
in the California Post, Stacy Cosgarden, and she flat out
says California is not insurable right now. It's not insurable.
The insurance market is just completely Premiums are going up rapidly,
policies are disappearing altogether. She says, it's either going up
(26:06):
or you can't get a policy. And it's all self inflicted.
It's because of all the regulations and all the policies.
Other states don't have this issue. I know we have
some natural disasters, but some of those natural disasters are
also self inflicted. I mean, the whole Palisades thing didn't
(26:29):
have to happen. We know that story. The Altadena fire
didn't have to happen if so cal Edison had maintained
its equipment. So much of this stuff it's not natural disasters.
It's corporate greed, human incompetence, and stupidity. And why we
(26:52):
have so much of it in California, Well, for one thing,
we have one party rule, and so a tremendous amount
of complacency and an few attitude has settled in among
most office holders in LA and in California, in the state.
(27:14):
And when you know that no scandal, no disaster, no
horrible situation will bring you down, there is no incentive
to do the right thing. So you don't have to
fix the insurance situation. You're not gonna lose your job.
You don't have to fund the fire department, you don't
(27:34):
have to respond to the fire. You're not going to
lose your job. And she says California has not had
an insurance commissioner with industry experience in decades. They simply
don't understand the insurance industry. She is a licensed insurance
(27:55):
professional and small business owner. It's worth reading it's in
the Californi the Post because what an embarrassment Ricardo Lara
is And if he was running for lieutenant governor, it
means he wanted to sit on his fat ass for
eight years. Then run for governor. That was the way
Gavin Newsom and Gray Davis got in and look at
(28:15):
those two, see anybody who is willing to be a
do nothing lieutenant governor for eight years will be a
bad governor, And got Newsom and Davis to point to
and l Lara then probably would have ran on, well,
I can be the first gay Latino governor. That would
have been his whole campaign, because that was his campaign
for Insurance commissioner. All right, we're done. Podcasts being released
(28:36):
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YouTube tonight and Conway is up next. On the radio.
Michael Krazer is live in the CAFI twenty four our newsroom.
You've been listening to the John Cobelt Show podcast. You
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