July 15, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (07/15) - More on all of the misleading headlines from news outlets lately. There was a double murder in Encino where one of the victims was a music supervisor on American Idol. What is the Gen Z stare? More on the lawsuit regarding the LADWP coverup in Pacific Palisades.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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you could listen to what you missed we spent. We
spent a lot of time in the one o'clock hour
looking back at Karen Bass's years as a Fidel Castro groupie.
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She was with a leftist revolutionary group called the vin
Simeros Brigade, the sixth contingent of the ven Sameros Brigade,
and it was a far left radical revolutionary group. She
made eight trips as a young woman to Cuba and
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even worked in construction in Cuba, and she found Castro
to be extremely charismatic, and this kind of hardened her
belief in a real hard form of socialism or communism. Really,
it's true, So listen to that. It was in the
one o'clock hour on the podcast, among other things we've
done so far, last half hour, I think we're all
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still kind of dizzy and nauseous. That was the that
answer we played in the last segment where a podcast
host named Sean Ryan was asking Newsom whether eight years
old is too young for gender affirming surgery. Newsom went
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on a two and a half minute soliloquy, and he
got lost in the forest, sunk in the bog, and
he never came out. And I don't know what he
was talking about. He could not get more through more
than just a few words without interrupting himself or losing
his train of thought, and was constantly circling back and
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rewording and reworking his thought process. I was as incoherent
as he really. Really gave Kamala Harris run for money
on that one. That's unbelievable. Well, I talked a lot
the last couple of days about the immense amount of propaganda.
You know, for six months, all the left wing radicals
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at Los Angeles Times and at our local television stations
and at the Washington Post in New York Times, all
they were searching for something to beat Trump with, some
kind of a club. And it seems like they've settled
on heavy propaganda and lies about the immigration rates because
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they realize they can get people emotional about it, and
they rarely print anything about the law the constitution. Supreme
Court decisions that have really allowed for almost all the
policies you see, and they're not going to stop him.
I don't think most people understand that. In this last
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budget bill that passed, you know what he called what
Trump called the Big Beautiful Bill, Department of Homeland Security
got one hundred and fifty billion dollars for immigration, border
enforcement and deportations and everything related manpower, technology. I mean,
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every dream that anybody at DHS or the Border Patrol
or ICE ever had is going to be met. So
they are going to be so well staffed, well powered,
They're going to have the latest technology. They're going to
have better weapons, better systems that you're going to lose.
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And they've got the law, the Constitution, and the Supreme
Court on their side. So if you're some little pips
weeek pipsqueak La City councilman like Hugo So to Martinez,
and you're promising to resist, good luck, buddy, because you're
about to get squashed politically. Of course, listen to this
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in the Washington Post. LA's fight against federal immigration raids
is moving beyond protests.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That's the headline.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well, of course, because the protests didn't change anything. I
kept pointing this out. Remember no King's Day a few
weeks ago. King is still there. They're still doing what
they're doing, even more so so they figured out that
standing in the streets and waving signs in the air
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and chanting rhymes.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Is what the little toddlers do has no effect.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
But this story is written by Anchi, Orianna Hernandez and
Anumita Kawar. They ride a little more than a month
after mass demonstrations against federal immigration raids gripped Los Angeles,
the protest.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Movement hasn't stopped. It's transforming.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Its spontaneous nature has shifted into a methodical one. As
activists prepare for a longer fight against Trump's immigration crackdown.
Volunteers are stationing themselves outside home depots to monitor for
ice activity, targeting day labors. Ooh, well that's gonna stop them.
That's gonna stop the federal government. They got one hundred
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and fifty billion dollars. You have monitors at home depot
parking lots. Organizers are hosting smaller demonstration demonstrations, coordinating know
your rights workshops and passing out pamphlets. Oh, they're passing
out pamphlets. Well, I have pamphlets. We're gonna stop ICE,
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look pamphlets. There's a strategy behind the shift, says The Post.
Immigrant advocates and city leaders told The Post it's crucial
to find ways to dissent as the Trump administration continues
targeting Los Angeles County's large immigrant community. That'd be the
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illegal immigrant community, which is which would be the people
breaking the law the Trump promised to do something about,
and that he was elected to do something about. Thousands
of National Guard troops remain in the area.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
ICE continues to conduct operations.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
So the little pip Squeak, the socialist Hugo Soda Martinez,
We're in this for at least three and a half
more years. What are the values that we're leading with.
What's the core messaging that we're trying to uplift. What
are our demands? Your demands? Nobody's going to listen to
your demands. Your demands don't matter. You are powerless, impotent, flaccid.
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There's no beef there. What are our demands? What are
the values? Your values are disrupting law enforcement and trying
to protect people who are breaking the law. But those
are your values, They go ahead. It's a free country.
You're allowed to have those values. We're also allowed to
enforce the law and have the values of protecting and
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supporting law enforcement. Those are our values over here in America.
And also, the Trump administration said in a statement in
LA those who are not merely demonstrations, they were riots.
Attack on federal law enforcement will never be tolerated. The
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Trump administration will continue enforcing federal immigration law no matter
how upset and violent left wing rioters get.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You got that Hugo. Doesn't matter how loud you shout.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I guess you could keep throwing rocks and bricks, but
they'll catch you, and they'll throw you guys in prison,
and you'll be breaking rocks in prison. Listen to this
Washington Post special. It's talking about the riots. They drew
thousands of people, but were not especially large by Los
Angeles standards. There's no standard for a demonstration. Look how
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they tried to downplay, Well, it wasn't that big a deal.
Los Angeles has had bigger demon shoot. Did you see
amount of damage was done? Well, while videos circulated showing
way Mo cars set ablaze and windows smashed, videos showed this,
they didn't actually happen. It was just that the videos
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were circulating, so it made it seem like it was happening.
The LA police reported that some people through concrete, bottles
and other objects. No, I saw that with my own
eyes on television. The protests were mostly peaceful, according to
local authorities and previous reporting by the Post. So the
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Post lies and tells people last month that the protests
are peaceful, and then refers to its own false reporting
as proof that the protests were peaceful. I hadn't seen
that trick before. That is great, it's like they were
mostly peaceful. Well, how do you know that? Well, that's
what we.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Said last month.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Oh okay, this is after acknowledging the burning waymow cars
and the concrete and bottles and rocks being thrown at
the police. Trump repeatedly condemned participants as insurrectionist, looters, and
criminals because that's what they were. I watched it on
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television for hours and hours an hour heart All right,
we'll have more coming up, but meet he's in full, unapologetic,
unabashed lying mode.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Now they're just lying and lying and lying. More coming up.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
You might have heard of Deborah's news that there was
a double murder and Encino and TMZ of all Places
has an intriguing article. This is really mysterious. The couple
that was killed is Robin Kay, she was an award
winning music supervisor on American Idol, and her husband Thomas
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de Luca. They were both shot in the head, found
in different rooms and no signs of a break in
and the house was not ransacked. They're looking at surveillance footage.
Nobody's in custody. They don't see any evidence of it
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being a burglary. They had an LPD helicopter flying over
the house, but the suspect wasn't there. They were discovered Monday.
LAPD officers did a welfare check because the couple hadn't
been heard fro him for four days. They found blood
at the front entrance and then smashed a window to
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gain entry. They found Robin and Thomas with possible gunshot wounds,
declared dead at the scene, and cops had been called
to the house on Thursday. An unidentified suspect was seen
trying to gain an entry on Thursday, may have been armed.
Neighbors saw the guy hopping a fence and called the police.
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Top showed up and they found no signs of force
entry on Thursday, searched the property and left. They don't
know if there's a connection here. Sounds like there would be, though,
and there's no further further details. Now, yesterday we talked
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extensively about this wacko professor at cal State Channel Islands.
He showed up at the immigration riot at the Glasshouse Farms,
the marijuana farm in Carpetaria on Thursday, and his name
is Jonathan Caravello, and he decided to throw a tear
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gas canister at the heads of ice officials. Now, if
you've seen his mudshot photo or some random photo of him,
long haired, wild eyed, oversized glasses, maniacal smile, bad teeth,
looks like he hasn't showered in a month, just looks
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like a smelly hippie and looks like a crazy person.
And Caravella, according to US attorney Bill of Sale, was
charged with a federal crime for assaulting federal officer. The
affidavit says dozens of protesters attempted to obstruct the execution
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of the search warrant. By the way, this is the
federal judge that had authorized the search warrant. Caravello ran
towards the canister, picked it up, and threw the tear
gas canister overhand at back at Border Patrol agents, and
the canister came within several feet above their heads, so
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if he'd been more accurate, he would have hit somebody
in the head with it. There are some reports that
when he was arrested, he was trying to remove another
tear gas canister that got stuck underneath somebody's wheelchair. I'm
in a wheelchair. I'm not showing up at a riot.
That doesn't seem smart to me. You obviously can't make
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a quick getaway. You know you're or what are you
gonna do when all hell breaks lose? Nobody's gonna stick
around to help you now, cal State Channel Islands, I mean,
I cannot believe we pay this guy tax money. Oh
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he's a philosophy and mathematics lecturer. Yeah, I'd love to
hear his philosophy about trying to kill government agents trying
to hit him in the head with a tear gas canister. Well,
it looks like the people who run cal State Channel
Islands are also insane at this time. Get ready for
this one, it is our understanding that Professor Caravello was
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peacefully participating in a protest, an act protected under the
First Amendment and a right guaranteed to all Americans.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Somebody got the Constitution is throwing a tear gas canister
at the heads of law enforcement officials. That is protected
by the First Amendment. I wasn't aware of that. If confirmed, Oh,
if it's confirmed that he was peacefully protesting, we stand
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with elected officials and community leaders calling for his immediate release.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
No, what's been.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Confirmed is he's been charged with a federal crime. Now
there's something called the California Faculty Association. They condemned the
abduction and disappearance of Caravello. Well, he didn't disappear. He
was in jail. Everybody knew where he was because law
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enforcement took him away. These abductions, Oh, they're abductions. Now,
they're not arrest they're abductions. The California Faculty Association says,
these abductions are an attack on our constitutional rights to
free speech. I just got to read the First Amendment.
I'll do that during the commercial break. I will check
the First Amendment. See if there's a tear gas canister exemption.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Let us know what you find.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I will because I am a constitutional scholar part time.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
The California Faculty Association is described as a labor union
that centers on anti racism and social justice work, and
all this stuff feels so dated and stale, like this
is all left over from the summer of twenty and
they demand the immediate release of all our members, including
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doctor Caravello, from federal custody.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Oh, doctor Carravello, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And then the National Review points out, just as a reminder,
more than three hundred and fifty illegal aliens were less arrested.
Fourteen migrant children were working out in the fields. Yes,
fourteen illegal alien children abandoned by their parents, forced into
slave labor, working the pot fields. Those are our California values,
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I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
One of the criminals they arrested was previously deported in
two thousand and six after being convicted of kidnapping, attempted rape,
and attempted child molestation.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Wow, that didn't make the headlines, did it.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
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Speaker 1 (18:02):
This is too stupid, This is too stupid. This is
actually beneath us, but it's been bugging me all day.
It was in the New York Times. I don't know
if you saw this. Did you see the story about
the gen Z stare? No, Eric, are you familiar with this?
The gen Z stare on TikTok?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
No? I got a long article on the New York Times.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Well, what is it?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Apparently older adults than gen Z people think they get
get this stare, especially when they go to businesses looking
for their requests to be filled, or you know, when
they want to buy things or you know, eat food
or whatever that the gen Z people seem to be
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as TikTok trend. They just stare at you with these
dead eyes, as if you're crazy for ordering food, d
or asking a question or making a complaint. I'll just
read this to you. None of this may make sense.
When Valerie Jefferson posted a video about the gen Z
stare on TikTok, she did not expect it to start
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a fight. Her video, which documented one interpretation of the stare.
It's the blank look of someone in a service job
who is handling frustrating requests from a customer. And apparently
millennials complain about the stare and the gen Z. People
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are tired of the criticism. There's been dozens of clips
racking up millions of views. Is this is what people
debate all day, whether they get stared at.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
When they go into a business.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
It's a blank stare instead of a verbal response, retail, restaurants,
any job where you face the customer. But some people
say it's even beyond that. One woman describes she had
to take her daughter to a golf lesson with a teenager,
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and she greeted the instructor and thanked her for agreeing
to teach her daughter how to play golf. In response,
the golf instructor said she was met with us well.
In response, the mother said she was met with a
stare and a yeah. And the mother was confused, Did
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I do something wrong? Did I not read the social
situation right?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
See? I never respond to anybody when I go to
a store.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
If they say hi, may I help, you can just
ignore them a grunt.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Apparently people have been fuddling. There's one person got more
than eleven million views. The stare is challenging the way
customers treat people in the food service and retail industries.
The gen Z stare is saying the customer is not
always right. So you got a problem now, and you
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take it to an employee. The employee doesn't give a crap.
They're probably stoned, and they're probably so they stare.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
They're also probably filming the interaction somewhere and they're just
staring at them so they can see how long it
takes them for the person to react.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
That's right, who's going to crack? And probably you. They
don't know where this came from. Why do these things?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
All these people are like robots.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Some goofy stupid idea gets on TikTok and everybody starts
copying the goofy stupid idea for a few weeks, and
then everybody stops. People think it's uh well, people think, yeah,
that there's a lot of vaping going on. Or it
comes from growing up staring at an iPad, or it's
some effect of the COVID nineteen pandemic because people spent
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so much time indoors when they were kids and they
didn't develop a situational awareness on how you communicate in public.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
They probably also don't like to deal with conflict because
of that. I either Gene Twinch, we've had her on
the show. She wrote a book on the different generations,
and she said social skills take thousands and thousands of
hours to develop, and adolescence is a critical period for
developing social skills and gen Z has spent much less
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time in person with their peers during that stage. Because
they spent so much time indoors staring at screens, their
brains did not develop the ability to do normal, everyday interactions.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Now, now that they're in the workforce.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I'm just going to stare at you for now on.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Oh, you're not going to talk anymore. You're not going
to respond to anything. You're at least a grunt is
a response.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
That was stupid.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I told you it was stupid. I told you it
was beneath us.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
It really is beneath us. John, I'm appalled that we're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Well, I'm just looking.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It's like there's millions of people who are and they're
debating it, and they're getting in fights online about it,
and I'm and doing it.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
People have way too much time on their hands.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Oh god, don't they.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Yeah, I mean that makes and what we.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Were talking about before, trying to get people to understand
why everything has gone haywire in the real world. And
they don't pay attention to any of that. They don't
know what's what's going on in the news. They don't
understand why the politics is what it is. Why these why?
Why why there are so many homeless people in the
streets and life is so difficult here in seven California.
They don't know because they don't pay attention. But they're
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arguing by the millions over. You order a cheeseburger and
somebody stares at you.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Maybe they just don't understand certain things. What's a cheeseburger?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, it's a pandemic. Like you said before.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
I mean if I go into a restaurant and I say, hey,
I'm vegan, Oh, well do you eat fish? No, I'm vegan.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Oh normal people, normal people don't know what that is.
That's your own weird cult there. See, I would give
you the stare.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Okay, I guess that was a bad example.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
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Speaker 2 (24:57):
Do you remember a few days ago we had an attorney.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
On who's representing many of the Palisades' residents who got
burned out in the fire, Roger Bailey, and as part
of their amended lawsuit, they say that they found that
the lawp had ordered one of their workers to shut
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off the electricity at one forty pm the day of
the fire January seventh, to deenergize the circuits for Palisades Village.
He was told to do this at one forty. He
didn't show up at the substation until six eighteen and
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then couldn't turn off the energy because the equipment is malfunctioning,
malfunctioning and the fire was approaching.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
The lawsuit says the.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Worker showed up twenty two days later and changed his
arrival time in the records, claiming that he got there
at one forty seven. He was ordered at one forty
and then he changed the records to one forty seven
instead of six p't eighteen, difference of four hours and
thirty eight minutes between the time the order was given
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in the time a worker arrived at the substation. Well,
LEDWP is denying these allegations, and they have a spokeshole
named ellen Cheng ellen Cheng and this is a Doozy
Cheng said, well, yeah, it did take four hours and
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thirty eight minutes before they tried to turn off the
electrical energy, four hours and thirty eight minutes before the
guy showed up at the substation. But she said that
it would be a mischaracterization to call it a delay.
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Ellen Cheng, spokeshole for the LEDWP. Uh, yeah, the guy
was four and a half hours late, but that's a
mischaracterization to describe it as a delay.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Well, what would be the better term when you're late?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
It wasn't how about incompetence, how about didn't give a crap?
Because if he showed up at one forty seven and
turned off the energy, then maybe the electrical lines wouldn't
have fallen to the ground and the hot wires wouldn't
have set more fires in the brush. Then she goes
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hardworking LEDWP employees, we're responding. We're responding to numerous requests
throughout the city that day during a challenging and evolving situation.
They always describe government workers as hard hard working, Yet
people are waiting months to get the permits processed. In
the Palisades, firefighters didn't show up for hours and hours.
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They left the electricity on for twelve hours until the
winds blew the wires down and.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
It started the fire all over again.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
But they're all hard working, aren't they. Karen Bass was
drinking and ghana, but she's a hardworking mare Cheng says.
The changes were made to the computer log but not
by the same worker who tried to de energize the circuits.
And oh so he didn't do it as somebody else did.
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Somebody else lied about turning off the circuits. And it
was not an attempt to hide the gap of nearly
five hours. No, Instead, we put in more information in
times to give a clearer picture of what transpires.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
By the way, were.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
The people who should have filled up the reservoir a
year earlier?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Were they hardworking? Too?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Were the people who didn't fix the fire hydrants?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Were they hardworking? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
There was no water power in the hydrants. The firefighting
helicopters had to fly miles and miles away to collect
water and then fly all the way back. The LEDWP
didn't have a backup plan for the reservoir. The people
who didn't draw up the backup plan were they hardworking?
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They were not doing yearly underwater inspections of the cover
as required by its own policy. Were those inspectors also hardworking.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Well? Cheng said.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Allegations that the LEDWP failed to meet its inspection schedule
are without merit. They are liars, They're hopeless, they don't care.
They're trying to mitigate the millions and millions of dollars
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in damages that they're gonna have to pay out. Janie
Kinoniez still has a job. She's still making seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year. Karen Bass is still
in office, running around protecting illegal aliens and not even
bothering to show at press conferences that discuss the fire.
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You vote for these people and you don't force them out.
I don't know why. I'm gonna go home and think
about it. Why we got Michael Krozer with the news
and Tim Conway is coming up next, and Michael's live
in the KFI twenty for our newsroun. Hey, you've been
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you could listen to what you missed we spent. We
spent a lot of time in the one o'clock hour
looking back at Karen Bass's years as a Fidel Castro groupie.
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She was with a leftist revolutionary group called the vin
Simeros Brigade, the sixth contingent of the ven Sameros Brigade,
and it was a far left radical revolutionary group. She
made eight trips as a young woman to Cuba and
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even worked in construction in Cuba, and she found Castro
to be extremely charismatic, and this kind of hardened her
belief in a real hard form of socialism or communism. Really,
it's true, So listen to that. It was in the
one o'clock hour on the podcast, among other things we've
done so far, last half hour, I think we're all
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still kind of dizzy and nauseous. That was the that
answer we played in the last segment where a podcast
host named Sean Ryan was asking Newsom whether eight years
old is too young for gender affirming surgery. Newsom went
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on a two and a half minute soliloquy, and he
got lost in the forest, sunk in the bog, and
he never came out. And I don't know what he
was talking about. He could not get more through more
than just a few words without interrupting himself or losing
his train of thought, and was constantly circling back and
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rewording and reworking his thought process. I was as incoherent
as he really. Really gave Kamala Harris run for money
on that one. That's unbelievable. Well, I talked a lot
the last couple of days about the immense amount of propaganda.
You know, for six months, all the left wing radicals
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at Los Angeles Times and at our local television stations
and at the Washington Post in New York Times, all
they were searching for something to beat Trump with, some
kind of a club. And it seems like they've settled
on heavy propaganda and lies about the immigration rates because
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they realize they can get people emotional about it, and
they rarely print anything about the law the constitution. Supreme
Court decisions that have really allowed for almost all the
policies you see, and they're not going to stop him.
I don't think most people understand that. In this last
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budget bill that passed, you know what he called what
Trump called the Big Beautiful Bill, Department of Homeland Security
got one hundred and fifty billion dollars for immigration, border
enforcement and deportations and everything related manpower, technology. I mean,
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every dream that anybody at DHS or the Border Patrol
or ICE ever had is going to be met. So
they are going to be so well staffed, well powered,
They're going to have the latest technology. They're going to
have better weapons, better systems that you're going to lose.
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And they've got the law, the Constitution, and the Supreme
Court on their side. So if you're some little pips
weeek pipsqueak La City councilman like Hugo So to Martinez,
and you're promising to resist, good luck, buddy, because you're
about to get squashed politically. Of course, listen to this
(04:13):
in the Washington Post. LA's fight against federal immigration raids
is moving beyond protests.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That's the headline.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well, of course, because the protests didn't change anything. I
kept pointing this out. Remember no King's Day a few
weeks ago. King is still there. They're still doing what
they're doing, even more so so they figured out that
standing in the streets and waving signs in the air
(04:45):
and chanting rhymes.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Is what the little toddlers do has no effect.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
But this story is written by Anchi, Orianna Hernandez and
Anumita Kawar. They ride a little more than a month
after mass demonstrations against federal immigration raids gripped Los Angeles,
the protest.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Movement hasn't stopped. It's transforming.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Its spontaneous nature has shifted into a methodical one. As
activists prepare for a longer fight against Trump's immigration crackdown.
Volunteers are stationing themselves outside home depots to monitor for
ice activity, targeting day labors. Ooh, well that's gonna stop them.
That's gonna stop the federal government. They got one hundred
(05:32):
and fifty billion dollars. You have monitors at home depot
parking lots. Organizers are hosting smaller demonstration demonstrations, coordinating know
your rights workshops and passing out pamphlets. Oh, they're passing
out pamphlets. Well, I have pamphlets. We're gonna stop ICE,
(05:59):
look pamphlets. There's a strategy behind the shift, says The Post.
Immigrant advocates and city leaders told The Post it's crucial
to find ways to dissent as the Trump administration continues
targeting Los Angeles County's large immigrant community. That'd be the
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illegal immigrant community, which is which would be the people
breaking the law the Trump promised to do something about,
and that he was elected to do something about. Thousands
of National Guard troops remain in the area.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
ICE continues to conduct operations.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
So the little pip Squeak, the socialist Hugo Soda Martinez,
We're in this for at least three and a half
more years. What are the values that we're leading with.
What's the core messaging that we're trying to uplift. What
are our demands? Your demands? Nobody's going to listen to
your demands. Your demands don't matter. You are powerless, impotent, flaccid.
(07:10):
There's no beef there. What are our demands? What are
the values? Your values are disrupting law enforcement and trying
to protect people who are breaking the law. But those
are your values, They go ahead. It's a free country.
You're allowed to have those values. We're also allowed to
enforce the law and have the values of protecting and
(07:31):
supporting law enforcement. Those are our values over here in America.
And also, the Trump administration said in a statement in
LA those who are not merely demonstrations, they were riots.
Attack on federal law enforcement will never be tolerated. The
(07:55):
Trump administration will continue enforcing federal immigration law no matter
how upset and violent left wing rioters get.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You got that Hugo. Doesn't matter how loud you shout.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I guess you could keep throwing rocks and bricks, but
they'll catch you, and they'll throw you guys in prison,
and you'll be breaking rocks in prison. Listen to this
Washington Post special. It's talking about the riots. They drew
thousands of people, but were not especially large by Los
Angeles standards. There's no standard for a demonstration. Look how
(08:35):
they tried to downplay, Well, it wasn't that big a deal.
Los Angeles has had bigger demon shoot. Did you see
amount of damage was done? Well, while videos circulated showing
way Mo cars set ablaze and windows smashed, videos showed this,
they didn't actually happen. It was just that the videos
(08:57):
were circulating, so it made it seem like it was happening.
The LA police reported that some people through concrete, bottles
and other objects. No, I saw that with my own
eyes on television. The protests were mostly peaceful, according to
local authorities and previous reporting by the Post. So the
(09:19):
Post lies and tells people last month that the protests
are peaceful, and then refers to its own false reporting
as proof that the protests were peaceful. I hadn't seen
that trick before. That is great, it's like they were
mostly peaceful. Well, how do you know that? Well, that's
what we.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Said last month.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Oh okay, this is after acknowledging the burning waymow cars
and the concrete and bottles and rocks being thrown at
the police. Trump repeatedly condemned participants as insurrectionist, looters, and
criminals because that's what they were. I watched it on
(10:01):
television for hours and hours an hour heart All right,
we'll have more coming up, but meet he's in full, unapologetic,
unabashed lying mode.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Now they're just lying and lying and lying. More coming up.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
You might have heard of Deborah's news that there was
a double murder and Encino and TMZ of all Places
has an intriguing article. This is really mysterious. The couple
that was killed is Robin Kay, she was an award
winning music supervisor on American Idol, and her husband Thomas
(10:50):
de Luca. They were both shot in the head, found
in different rooms and no signs of a break in
and the house was not ransacked. They're looking at surveillance footage.
Nobody's in custody. They don't see any evidence of it
(11:13):
being a burglary. They had an LPD helicopter flying over
the house, but the suspect wasn't there. They were discovered Monday.
LAPD officers did a welfare check because the couple hadn't
been heard fro him for four days. They found blood
at the front entrance and then smashed a window to
(11:35):
gain entry. They found Robin and Thomas with possible gunshot wounds,
declared dead at the scene, and cops had been called
to the house on Thursday. An unidentified suspect was seen
trying to gain an entry on Thursday, may have been armed.
Neighbors saw the guy hopping a fence and called the police.
(12:01):
Top showed up and they found no signs of force
entry on Thursday, searched the property and left. They don't
know if there's a connection here. Sounds like there would be, though,
and there's no further further details. Now, yesterday we talked
(12:25):
extensively about this wacko professor at cal State Channel Islands.
He showed up at the immigration riot at the Glasshouse Farms,
the marijuana farm in Carpetaria on Thursday, and his name
is Jonathan Caravello, and he decided to throw a tear
(12:51):
gas canister at the heads of ice officials. Now, if
you've seen his mudshot photo or some random photo of him,
long haired, wild eyed, oversized glasses, maniacal smile, bad teeth,
looks like he hasn't showered in a month, just looks
(13:12):
like a smelly hippie and looks like a crazy person.
And Caravella, according to US attorney Bill of Sale, was
charged with a federal crime for assaulting federal officer. The
affidavit says dozens of protesters attempted to obstruct the execution
(13:35):
of the search warrant. By the way, this is the
federal judge that had authorized the search warrant. Caravello ran
towards the canister, picked it up, and threw the tear
gas canister overhand at back at Border Patrol agents, and
the canister came within several feet above their heads, so
(13:56):
if he'd been more accurate, he would have hit somebody
in the head with it. There are some reports that
when he was arrested, he was trying to remove another
tear gas canister that got stuck underneath somebody's wheelchair. I'm
in a wheelchair. I'm not showing up at a riot.
That doesn't seem smart to me. You obviously can't make
(14:19):
a quick getaway. You know you're or what are you
gonna do when all hell breaks lose? Nobody's gonna stick
around to help you now, cal State Channel Islands, I mean,
I cannot believe we pay this guy tax money. Oh
(14:39):
he's a philosophy and mathematics lecturer. Yeah, I'd love to
hear his philosophy about trying to kill government agents trying
to hit him in the head with a tear gas canister. Well,
it looks like the people who run cal State Channel
Islands are also insane at this time. Get ready for
this one, it is our understanding that Professor Caravello was
(15:04):
peacefully participating in a protest, an act protected under the
First Amendment and a right guaranteed to all Americans.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Somebody got the Constitution is throwing a tear gas canister
at the heads of law enforcement officials. That is protected
by the First Amendment. I wasn't aware of that. If confirmed, Oh,
if it's confirmed that he was peacefully protesting, we stand
(15:49):
with elected officials and community leaders calling for his immediate release.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
No, what's been.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Confirmed is he's been charged with a federal crime. Now
there's something called the California Faculty Association. They condemned the
abduction and disappearance of Caravello. Well, he didn't disappear. He
was in jail. Everybody knew where he was because law
(16:16):
enforcement took him away. These abductions, Oh, they're abductions. Now,
they're not arrest they're abductions. The California Faculty Association says,
these abductions are an attack on our constitutional rights to
free speech. I just got to read the First Amendment.
I'll do that during the commercial break. I will check
the First Amendment. See if there's a tear gas canister exemption.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Let us know what you find.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I will because I am a constitutional scholar part time.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
The California Faculty Association is described as a labor union
that centers on anti racism and social justice work, and
all this stuff feels so dated and stale, like this
is all left over from the summer of twenty and
they demand the immediate release of all our members, including
(17:05):
doctor Caravello, from federal custody.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Oh, doctor Carravello, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And then the National Review points out, just as a reminder,
more than three hundred and fifty illegal aliens were less arrested.
Fourteen migrant children were working out in the fields. Yes,
fourteen illegal alien children abandoned by their parents, forced into
slave labor, working the pot fields. Those are our California values,
(17:37):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
One of the criminals they arrested was previously deported in
two thousand and six after being convicted of kidnapping, attempted rape,
and attempted child molestation.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Wow, that didn't make the headlines, did it.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from kifay.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
This is too stupid, This is too stupid. This is
actually beneath us, but it's been bugging me all day.
It was in the New York Times. I don't know
if you saw this. Did you see the story about
the gen Z stare? No, Eric, are you familiar with this?
The gen Z stare on TikTok?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
No? I got a long article on the New York Times.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Well, what is it?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Apparently older adults than gen Z people think they get
get this stare, especially when they go to businesses looking
for their requests to be filled, or you know, when
they want to buy things or you know, eat food
or whatever that the gen Z people seem to be
(18:52):
as TikTok trend. They just stare at you with these
dead eyes, as if you're crazy for ordering food, d
or asking a question or making a complaint. I'll just
read this to you. None of this may make sense.
When Valerie Jefferson posted a video about the gen Z
stare on TikTok, she did not expect it to start
(19:14):
a fight. Her video, which documented one interpretation of the stare.
It's the blank look of someone in a service job
who is handling frustrating requests from a customer. And apparently
millennials complain about the stare and the gen Z. People
(19:36):
are tired of the criticism. There's been dozens of clips
racking up millions of views. Is this is what people
debate all day, whether they get stared at.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
When they go into a business.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
It's a blank stare instead of a verbal response, retail, restaurants,
any job where you face the customer. But some people
say it's even beyond that. One woman describes she had
to take her daughter to a golf lesson with a teenager,
(20:12):
and she greeted the instructor and thanked her for agreeing
to teach her daughter how to play golf. In response,
the golf instructor said she was met with us well.
In response, the mother said she was met with a
stare and a yeah. And the mother was confused, Did
(20:34):
I do something wrong? Did I not read the social
situation right?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
See? I never respond to anybody when I go to
a store.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
If they say hi, may I help, you can just
ignore them a grunt.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Apparently people have been fuddling. There's one person got more
than eleven million views. The stare is challenging the way
customers treat people in the food service and retail industries.
The gen Z stare is saying the customer is not
always right. So you got a problem now, and you
(21:10):
take it to an employee. The employee doesn't give a crap.
They're probably stoned, and they're probably so they stare.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
They're also probably filming the interaction somewhere and they're just
staring at them so they can see how long it
takes them for the person to react.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
That's right, who's going to crack? And probably you. They
don't know where this came from. Why do these things?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
All these people are like robots.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Some goofy stupid idea gets on TikTok and everybody starts
copying the goofy stupid idea for a few weeks, and
then everybody stops. People think it's uh well, people think, yeah,
that there's a lot of vaping going on. Or it
comes from growing up staring at an iPad, or it's
some effect of the COVID nineteen pandemic because people spent
(22:06):
so much time indoors when they were kids and they
didn't develop a situational awareness on how you communicate in public.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
They probably also don't like to deal with conflict because
of that. I either Gene Twinch, we've had her on
the show. She wrote a book on the different generations,
and she said social skills take thousands and thousands of
hours to develop, and adolescence is a critical period for
developing social skills and gen Z has spent much less
(22:38):
time in person with their peers during that stage. Because
they spent so much time indoors staring at screens, their
brains did not develop the ability to do normal, everyday interactions.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Now, now that they're in the workforce.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I'm just going to stare at you for now on.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Oh, you're not going to talk anymore. You're not going
to respond to anything. You're at least a grunt is
a response.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
That was stupid.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I told you it was stupid. I told you it
was beneath us.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
It really is beneath us. John, I'm appalled that we're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Well, I'm just looking.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It's like there's millions of people who are and they're
debating it, and they're getting in fights online about it,
and I'm and doing it.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
People have way too much time on their hands.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Oh god, don't they.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Yeah, I mean that makes and what we.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Were talking about before, trying to get people to understand
why everything has gone haywire in the real world. And
they don't pay attention to any of that. They don't
know what's what's going on in the news. They don't
understand why the politics is what it is. Why these why?
Why why there are so many homeless people in the
streets and life is so difficult here in seven California.
They don't know because they don't pay attention. But they're
(24:02):
arguing by the millions over. You order a cheeseburger and
somebody stares at you.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Maybe they just don't understand certain things. What's a cheeseburger?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, it's a pandemic. Like you said before.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
I mean if I go into a restaurant and I say, hey,
I'm vegan, Oh, well do you eat fish? No, I'm vegan.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Oh normal people, normal people don't know what that is.
That's your own weird cult there. See, I would give
you the stare.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Okay, I guess that was a bad example.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
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Speaker 2 (24:57):
Do you remember a few days ago we had an attorney.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
On who's representing many of the Palisades' residents who got
burned out in the fire, Roger Bailey, and as part
of their amended lawsuit, they say that they found that
the lawp had ordered one of their workers to shut
(25:22):
off the electricity at one forty pm the day of
the fire January seventh, to deenergize the circuits for Palisades Village.
He was told to do this at one forty. He
didn't show up at the substation until six eighteen and
(25:44):
then couldn't turn off the energy because the equipment is malfunctioning,
malfunctioning and the fire was approaching.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
The lawsuit says the.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Worker showed up twenty two days later and changed his
arrival time in the records, claiming that he got there
at one forty seven. He was ordered at one forty
and then he changed the records to one forty seven
instead of six p't eighteen, difference of four hours and
thirty eight minutes between the time the order was given
(26:19):
in the time a worker arrived at the substation. Well,
LEDWP is denying these allegations, and they have a spokeshole
named ellen Cheng ellen Cheng and this is a Doozy
Cheng said, well, yeah, it did take four hours and
(26:40):
thirty eight minutes before they tried to turn off the
electrical energy, four hours and thirty eight minutes before the
guy showed up at the substation. But she said that
it would be a mischaracterization to call it a delay.
(27:03):
Ellen Cheng, spokeshole for the LEDWP. Uh, yeah, the guy
was four and a half hours late, but that's a
mischaracterization to describe it as a delay.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Well, what would be the better term when you're late?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
It wasn't how about incompetence, how about didn't give a crap?
Because if he showed up at one forty seven and
turned off the energy, then maybe the electrical lines wouldn't
have fallen to the ground and the hot wires wouldn't
have set more fires in the brush. Then she goes
(27:46):
hardworking LEDWP employees, we're responding. We're responding to numerous requests
throughout the city that day during a challenging and evolving situation.
They always describe government workers as hard hard working, Yet
people are waiting months to get the permits processed. In
the Palisades, firefighters didn't show up for hours and hours.
(28:10):
They left the electricity on for twelve hours until the
winds blew the wires down and.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
It started the fire all over again.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
But they're all hard working, aren't they. Karen Bass was
drinking and ghana, but she's a hardworking mare Cheng says.
The changes were made to the computer log but not
by the same worker who tried to de energize the circuits.
And oh so he didn't do it as somebody else did.
(28:41):
Somebody else lied about turning off the circuits. And it
was not an attempt to hide the gap of nearly
five hours. No, Instead, we put in more information in
times to give a clearer picture of what transpires.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
By the way, were.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
The people who should have filled up the reservoir a
year earlier?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Were they hardworking? Too?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Were the people who didn't fix the fire hydrants?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Were they hardworking? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
There was no water power in the hydrants. The firefighting
helicopters had to fly miles and miles away to collect
water and then fly all the way back. The LEDWP
didn't have a backup plan for the reservoir. The people
who didn't draw up the backup plan were they hardworking?
(29:40):
They were not doing yearly underwater inspections of the cover
as required by its own policy. Were those inspectors also hardworking.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Well? Cheng said.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Allegations that the LEDWP failed to meet its inspection schedule
are without merit. They are liars, They're hopeless, they don't care.
They're trying to mitigate the millions and millions of dollars
(30:16):
in damages that they're gonna have to pay out. Janie
Kinoniez still has a job. She's still making seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year. Karen Bass is still
in office, running around protecting illegal aliens and not even
bothering to show at press conferences that discuss the fire.
(30:37):
You vote for these people and you don't force them out.
I don't know why. I'm gonna go home and think
about it. Why we got Michael Krozer with the news
and Tim Conway is coming up next, and Michael's live
in the KFI twenty for our newsroun. Hey, you've been
listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always
hear the show live on KFI AM six forty from
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