July 14, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (07/14) - Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about the new LA homeless numbers that were released today. More on the new homeless numbers in LA. More on Rick Cole's daughters being arrested during the ICE riots. A homeless man won $1 million dollar lottery in San Luis Obispo.
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Speaker 2 (01:00):
You can't rely on me to be able to operate
the control by time for training, I'd screw it up. Well,
Michael is here because today they were going to announce
the homeless county in LA City and LA County. They
did the census in February, the homeless secon Yeah, they
deleted a month because of the fires in different parts
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of the county.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
So homeless started moving around. That's right. The flames were changed,
so they had to track them down.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
They did find them, and they didn't find as many
as they did last year. Apparently, because for the second
year in a row, LA Homeless Services Authority is reporting
a decline in homelessness, both at the county level and
within the city limits of lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
That's great news. How big a decline?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Well, the big decline in LA County is represented as
four percent four and in Los Angeles it is three
point four percent in terms of raw numbers.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It's that's it.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
All those billions of dollars and it's down four in
the county and three point four in the city.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That all the billions that LASA has spent. That's right. Wow,
that's right. I mean I could have done that myself.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
This is gonna chase four percent of the homeless out
of the county by myself.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And I'm sure they would love for you to do that. However,
in the meantime, not only have they spent billions, they
continue to spend a lot of money. This is also
a very awkward time to be Valicia Adams Kellum, the
CEO's LA Homeless Service Authority. She is leaving, but she
is still there and led this news conference that is
(02:34):
still ongoing, still moment.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Well, it started late.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
It was supposed to start at one, It started about
a quarter after and everybody's got to get up and
do their their song and dance.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
That's a long that is a long press conference though
for a four percent drop.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And she credits the spending and says that because last
year there was a decline and this year is a decline,
it is now a trend that there is a decline.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Do we have to spend twenty five times as much
money in order to get all the homeless gone?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Hopefully not.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
If they have zero in most cities in the United
States they have zero, homeless.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
LA has a lot more than zero at this point.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
And because of the spending and because of the auditing,
and because of the lack of proper accounting, as determined
by auditors and a federal judge. Right there are changes
with the way the homeless industrial complex in Los Angeles
will be governed. Felicia Kellum Adams Kellum is leaving LASA.
The La County Board of Supervisors voted to leave LASSA. Basically,
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they're creating their own homeless department. In fact, LA County
Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, who pushed for the new homeless department
and to leave loss behind, put out a statement that
says a four percent decrease in progress is positive basically,
but she says it's a sign that our efforts are
making a difference. But at this pace, it would take
three centuries to end homelessness in Los Angeles County. In
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raw numbers, John, it's seventy two thousand, three hundred and
eight homeless people in Los Angeles County, more than half
of whom are in the city property There used to be.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
What seventy five thousand, Now it's seventy two thousands.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
They peaked at seventy five thousand, They dropped modestly for
the first time last year, and now they've seen further reduction.
By the way, there is a margin of error of
thirteen hundred individuals according to USC.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I wonder which way that era goes. There could be more,
there could be fewer.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
But when you think back to twenty nineteen, homelessness was
still a significant issue even six years ago and Los Angeles,
but the number in La County according to this annual
what they call the point in time census of homeless
people was fifty eighty nine hundred and thirty six.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Thank you for that. That sounds great.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
It's in fact, they take that down and give it
to me because that's the story. That is the story
that now we're talking six years later and instead of
fifty eight thousand, it's seventy two thousand, and they're holding
a news conference appl cutting themselves that it's only seventy
two thousand.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
It's almost a fifty percent increase from twenty nineteen to
twenty twenty five. So we're celebrating these incremental drops. Yeah,
off a huge increase from just six years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Right, So if you look at six years of funding,
it's a tremendous failure because homelessness is up significantly since
since six years ago, and.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It took the past six months for really, at least
seemingly serious conversations to start at the local government level.
You are finally starting to see not just the county
break away from it entirely basically, but finally at LA
City Hall, which has been slow to criticize lass you
are seeing more voices and louder voices say this isn't working.
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They don't have anybody at La City Hall keeping track
of these homeless dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Well, that's what's shocking about this.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
For all the money we spent, they're not employees working
every day to try how the money.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Is being spent.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, and there are various committees here and different positions here,
and even LASSA itself. It's a big organization that oversees
a ton of smaller organizations that deals with contracts with
smaller service providers. And that's where they've run into these
problems with how and where the money is being spent
because they're writing big checks to smaller agencies that don't
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even have to tell them apparently what they did with
the money.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Don't have to tell, or what the what the plan was,
or how do we measure success? What are the metrics here?
That's what they haven't known. This is all in that
federal court case.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
No, I know, I know, which I'll give you a
lot of credit because hardly any journalist is covering that
court case or has been covering the court case all year,
and that that has revealed. I mean, just the audit
Alan when they hired that firm and found there was
over two billion dollars that they couldn't track.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
There are very few problems in Los Angeles County that
aren't somehow related to the presence of this population right now,
large population of homeless people, safety concerns. Look, just yesterday
we had another machete wielding man in downtown LA who
was shot by police.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, and near the Crypto.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Nearcrypto dot com, which is supposed to be one of
the safer parts of downtown Los Angeles. But that guy
was I believe, reported to have been homeless as well.
And it's not just people without a house living on
the streets. A lot of these folks are drug addicted
with mental health issues and create scary environments all the
time all over this community.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
No, it is it's mostly that it's drug addiction and
mental health issues.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Because if you.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Don't have that you figure out how to bounce back
from some kind of you know, life issue that sent
you into the street, because there's plenty of services that
you can go to to climb your way out. If
you want shelter, it's there. If you want an education,
it's there. If you need job training, it's all there,
all funded. A lot of folks don't want this health.
(08:00):
That's what I have thought from the beginning, and I
have seen. I mean, Gavin Newsom, I remember a few
years ago, was getting hounded by the media over something
and gee, I simply reject the idea that people don't
want help. Okay, you reject the idea that happens to be.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
The trouble or they would love to have an apartment
without the responsibilities right of having the Yeah, well of
course I'd love to, but then you have to go
to work.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
All right, Michael, very good, get me all those numbers
if I'm here for you, all right, Michael monks KFI News.
See if you hear any of that, any of those
facts and wisdom and perspective anywhere else on radio, television
or on the news sites.
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Speaker 2 (08:47):
I got I got distracted, Debra said, a very relevant
post that Karen bass but on X the more results
from today's report homelessness dropping in Los Angeles leading to
noticeable change not just in the city but throughout the region.
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Noticeable change.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Having you noticed a change, John.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
No, I could take you to the areas that have
not changed very much. It seems like people are living
There are fewer people in their cars.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
That's not something you'd notice.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
There's fewer people living in their vans, fewer people living
in there arevs. These are the decreases that she's highlighting.
Nineteen percent drop in people living in cars, sixteen percent
drop in r vs. The stuff that's frightening people are
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the people on the streets. They are so scary. My
wife and I were going to go for a walk
on the West Side. We got to one of our
favorite walking spots. Oh ironically, it was a guy in
a car, but he had his door open. His entire
car was filled with bags of garbage. I don't know
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what he was doing. He was hanging his legs out
of the car. He looked wild eyed and crazy, and
it was in the exact place we were going.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
To park.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And my wife goes, well, we're not walking here because
he had his door. It's like you, you don't know
if he's got weapons inside the car.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Smart, you did the right thing.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
But here's what she doesn't right. And this is what
Michael Moss, Michael Moss, Michael Monks, I used to work
with a Michael Moss. Oh you did a long time ago. Yeah,
I'm really.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I know, I know. I think I'm dehydrated.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Michael Monks had had the story just a few minutes ago,
and he highlighted something specifically that I want to return
to because while the homeless might be down four percent
in the county Woho and three point four percent in
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the city, we are still looking at a homeless total
that's at seventy two thousand people in the county, forty
three thousand in the city, seventy two and forty three.
And what you need to know that compared to twenty nineteen,
these numbers are way up. Homelessness in the county was
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fifty nine thousand people in twenty nineteen. It's now at
seventy two thousand, and that's not good. Remember I was
talking about the distorted headlines that you get like in
the La Times, the distorted stories you get on Channel
five and other places. When it count comes to the
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immigration operations, well, same thing with the homeless guarantee.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
You guarantee you every.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Single news outlet is going to say homelessness down, homelessness
down four percent county, three and a half percent city,
And maybe some of them will say, oh, it's down
nineteen percent in cars. Well, the cars are mobile, so
I don't know how accurate that statistic could possibly be.
(12:26):
Check to see if any of them note and you
should note this by the second paragraph of your story.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I will grant you.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I'll give you that the lead should be four percent
down in the county, three percent down in the city
compared to last year. But the real story is in
twenty nineteen it was fifty eight almost fifty nine thousand
people and now it's seventy two. And why that's important
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is since twenty nineteen we have spent many, many billions
of day in tax money.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
The taxes that we.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Spend targeted by the city in county for homelessness didn't
exist before twenty eighteen. That came as the result of
a twenty a pair of twenty seventeen votes on election day,
one for the county, one for the city, two separate
measures that produced billions of dollars a year. So we
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have had many billions of dollars for the city in
county since twenty eighteen. And yet the numbers in twenty nineteen,
the county number was fifty nine thousand people and now
it's seventy two thousand. In the City of Los Angeles
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in twenty nineteen was thirty five thousand homeless people. Now
it's forty three thousand. Well, this isn't good. This is
not a success. And that's why Karen Bass puts a
big graphic on X in black and white and deal
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with these big arrows pointing down, down, down. Except she's
not She's not putting out the numbers between twenty nineteen
and twenty twenty five. She's putting the numbers from last
year to this year. When it comes to cars and
vans and RVs, tense makeshift shelters.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Again, the total numbers in the county.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Are now it's now seventy two thousand, and it used
to be fifty nine thousand, which by the way, is
still a ridiculously high number.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Almost this was really bad in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That's why we passed those two funding mechanisms in twenty seventeen,
because it was already out of control. Most of this
happened in the last ten t twelve years, but it
really accelerated after twenty nineteen, and suddenly we were in
the seventies in the county and in the mid forties
in the city. So in her city it used to
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be thirty five thousand, and now it's forty three thousand.
So there's no success here at all. It's great that
they're cherry picking twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But we're still living.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
We everyone who's very angry and upset in twenty nineteen,
they're still angry and upset. You're not going to get
any applause from anybody normal except the leftist progressive jackals.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
But what's the coverage tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
See what all the local stations do with this, See
what the La Times does with this. They'll pretend that
life didn't even exist before last year. It's just gonna
to be Oh, we of the numbers compared to twenty
twenty four. See if any of them admits that there
is a significant increase in twenty nineteen still to this day,
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and all of it's intolerable. The twenty nineteen numbers were intolerable,
twenty twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five, all of it.
It was bad in twenty seventeen. That's why we passed
the money.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
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Speaker 1 (16:27):
We are on every day from one until four o'clock.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
After four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand on the
iHeart app and you can listen to what you missed.
One o'clock hour, we had Bill a sale on the
US Attorney for the Central District of California, which is
Los Angeles and a large area that surrounds the city,
and he is filing an appeal he in his office
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against that wacky judge who claimed that the federal government
has no right to be round up these illegal aliens
that they're rounding up, claiming that they're just being rounded
up based on their race. Saley says that's not true.
It's a whole combination of factors which is entirely legal.
So he denies that's The judge also put out a
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list of things that she says ought to be done.
If you're going to do immigration enforcement, it's not her call.
She's a district court judge. She's not the President of
the United States. He has he and his executive branch
have sole control over the policies.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Of the Immigration Department.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I don't under see all do these I'm trying to
figure out are they stupid, are they ignorant? Or do
they know this stuff? And they're just creating havoc for
the sake of creating havoc. The federal government's in charge
of immigration, period They're in charge of immigrants, whether you
think their laws are too lenient or too strict. They
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were too lenient, and some states tried to set their
an immigration policy and they were smacked down by the
Supreme Court. I didn't like that, but that's what the
constitution says. So the Yeah, the Constitution says that you
have to accept it even if you don't like it.
I didn't like it, but hey, that's what it says
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in black and white. Now the situation's reversed. Everybody think
Trump has gone overboard. Doesn't matter what you think. Constitution
gives the president the power, whether it's Trump, Obama, Biden,
doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
They get to call the shots.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
A district judge does not, Karen Bass doesn't, and Gavin
Newsom doesn't. They're all just emotionally manipulating people to get
them all whipped up.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
And they've got them whipped up to now.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Ice agents are getting assaulted with rocks and bottles and concrete.
People are firing bullets at them here in California, in Texas.
We'll have more on that coming up in the three
o'clock hour. We're also going to have Tracy park on
in the three o'clock hour. She's the LA councilman for
the West Side my counseling, and we're going to address,
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among other things, the one hundred and one million dollars
that Gavin Newsom is deploying for affordable housing in the Palisades.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
People in the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
And I drove around the Palisades, my wife and I yesterday,
and you know what it's like there right now on
a Sunday, grant you it was a Sunday, so workers
were taking the day off. It is still eerily quiet.
There's nothing being constructed. After six months, there's nothing being
built at all. There's not a single structure I think one.
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I think there's one commercial structure that I saw, and
they had their wood frame going up, but it's in
a state of suspended animation. It's like a Twilight Zone episode.
All the people are gone, all the buildings are gone,
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and nobody is rebuilding anything. But Newsom jumped on his
affordable housing horse and he found one hundred million dollars.
So we'll talk with Tracy Park about that. I've been
talking a lot today about the extreme amount of false information,
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twisted slanted information in the local media, and of course
you're going to discuss that goes back to the La Times.
They have some bubblehead writer named Julia Wick, and I
always noticed the bylines, and I notice the most egregious
of the writers who basically bull crap at you, just
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steaming piles. Julia Wick is a leading is a leading
bull crap shoveler. She does a profile here on a
guy named Rick Cole. Rick Cole, she writes, has forgotten
more about municipal government than most of us will ever know.
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Former mayor of Pasadena, City Manager in Ventura Azusa in
Santa Monica, Deputy mayor of Los Angeles. He's seventy two
now he returned for a third time to La City
Hall in twenty twenty two to be the chief deputy
to the City Controller Kenneth Mahea. And now he announced
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he's leaving, and what follows is a question and answer session,
which he says, very lightly edited, condensed for clarity. Tell
me about the speech you gave it the council, what
motivated it? Why are you so armed about the future
of Los Angeles? Do you think government is wasting tax
payer money? What would it look like to fix these problems?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
And I noticed right away, and Daniel Guss noticed right away.
We've been corresponding a little bit back and forth. He's
the journalist and he's got a Substack column, Daniel Guss
at substant Daniel Guss dot substack dot com.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And we both noticed the same thing.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Julia Wick didn't mention that this Rick Cole, this deputy
city Controller, did not mention that he resigned very shortly
after his twin daughters were arrested for assault with a
deadly weapon against law enforcement during the Ice riots.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So as she wrote that.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Their conversation published today was very lightly edited and condensed
for clarity, I assumed and he assumed he neverd she
never asked Cole about the two daughters and what that
had to do with his sudden resignation. So he's emailed
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the following questions to Julia Wick, journalist.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Number one.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Were there any conditions that you had to agree to
in order to have the interview with Rick Cole? If so,
what were these conditions. Did you ask Cole whether his
leaving the city of La Job had anything to do
with the criminal charges against his twin daughters?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
If so, how did he respond?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
If you did not, why not did you ask him
whether he or any government official intempted to get the
charges against his twin daughters dropped or reduced so they
could be released without bail. Do you believe the Times
readers would have liked an answer to some of all
or all of these questions? I mean, I find it
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outrageous that you talked to a guy who's two daughters,
by the way, work in government. They're in their twenties,
they're both arrested for felonies for this assault with a
deadly weapon situation against law enforcement. Can you imagine you
have two daughters accused of assault with a deadly weapon
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and you work in a high ranking position at city Hall.
The Ally Times interviews you to ask about your leaving office,
and Julia Wick doesn't bring it up. And that is
the key to all this bias. Biases is not a
strong enough word. This is this is deception. I want
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to know from Rick Cole, how did you end up
with two daughters getting arrested on Ice Riot Day?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
How did you raise your daughters?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
You've worked in government all your life at many different cities.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I had never heard of this guy. Usually a good thing.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Usually guys like that, they're just you know, doing their jobs,
staying below the radar, no corruption, no controversies. You know,
I wonder. I don't know if he's a good or
a bad guy. Again, I never heard of him. But
you've got two lunatic daughters, assault with a deadly weapon
against against law enforcement officials.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Those are terrorist style charges. So what's that?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's not a story like if Julia Wick has editors nobody?
The La Times said, well, wait a second, what about
the crazy daughters? At least mentioned it in the paragraph
and say Rick Cole didn't want to talk about any
of that. He asked me not to ask him those
questions because he wasn't going to answer them. Just let
me know otherwise, I think you either weren't aware you forgot,
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or you were intentionally covering it up, or you made
some kind of sneaky deal and you didn't want to
admit to it, like I said.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
With Channel five.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Burying the details of that cal State Channel Islands professor
who threw a tear gas canister at ICE agents and
is arrested on felony charges, federal felony charges, and ninety
plus of Carlos Cescedo's report on Channel five was character testimony.
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This for this wacky professor Jonathan Caravello who looks like
a deranged mental patient in his mudshot photo.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
If you look at it, you'll see it.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
We got more coming up, and we've got Tracy Park,
the LA City Council Woman. After three, Deborah Mark Park
and Mark, you're listening.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
To John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
We've got Tracy Park coming up, the LA City Councilwoman
west side. She represents Palisades Park, Palisads Park, Pacific Palisades
and up in Pacific Palisades is where Dosh He's sending
one hundred million dollars to build affordable housing for some reason.
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That's on a fast track, but not any of the
permits coming out of Karen Bass's office. And we're going
to talk to Tracy about that and other things coming up.
We should take a minute to congratulate a vagrant who
won a million dollars in the lottery in San Luis Obispo.
We got this Instagram video audio from thrifty dot Beaches
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on Instagram. Play cut number four if you will. My
friend here just won the lottery for a million dollars
in slow.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Are you comfortable saying that like being posted? Sure? So
you want a million dollars?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
I want a million dollars, Karen Slowe that said he's
at the store, and yes, I just can't wait to get.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Off the streets. You can't wait to get off the streets. Brother,
that's sick. That's so dope. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Spends one a million dollars, that's crazy. Like two stoners
on a sidewalk, that's sick. That's dope. Those two will
be working for NASA soon. So this homeless guy, how
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much you want to Betty blows the whole million and
he's homeless. Within what I say, five years, he's back
on the streets.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Hopefully somebody will get him a good financial planner.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, he's got to listen to the financial planner.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
True, it's like those I mean, they've done whole I've
seen whole shows done on lottery winners who blew a
lot more than a million dollars, and usually you figure
out why they were buying lottery tickets to begin with.
Why they were so broke they had to buy lottery
tickets is because you know, they've got all kinds of
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personality disorders, h and drug addictions and alcohol addictions, and
it's certainly why you end up homeless. So I don't
know if you hand out a million dollars to just
random alcoholics or drug addicts.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Why didn't you try that, John Wy, don't you do
an experiment?
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Well, you know, I get this was on Scratchers he
got and Michelle Q buys me a Scratcher card every
year for my birthday.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Not a dollar i've won before, I won twenty bucks, you.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Buy a lottery tickets.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
No, she gives me Scratchers for my birthday.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Oh was that right? And you got twenty bucks yes,
and I got zero?
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Well it was one time.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I don't remember. I don't remember you sharing the twenty bucks.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
I probably didn't, toughly selfish.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Come on, are either of you in the lottlepool that
she does too? Yes, I'm not, but my wife entered
against my will. Oh okay, so you're technically in it.
Technically in it, But I've got nothing out of that either.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah. No, we rarely get anything. I mean it's some
kind of a racket.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
No, because if if the day happens where we're big winters,
can you imagine the fomo?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Oh yeah, no, that's exactly why I joined it. Yes,
I can't be the only schmuck that didn't get it.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
You'd be so unhappy everybody walks away by your.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
We're quitting You're exactly, I'd be the only one left
working here.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
So if I win it that I buy the place, well,
maybe an institute.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
You have to work here five days a week. Yeah,
it's right.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Oh yeah, there's no remote.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Working, no no working from home, and no cooking any
weird food in the in the lunch room either, all
those horrific odors.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Uh and no.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Compost no comp okay.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
God, what was that? Sorry? I think you had it
on your news last week.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
It had the word compost in it and it was
about there was they'd done some study that a tremendous
amount of food is wasted by people who rent out
homes for short term like Airbnb style rentals. Yeah, and
that there's all this food wasted. So this goodie good
organization thought that there should be some kind of law
(31:24):
passed where the owners of the airbnb tell the renters
make recommendations on where they could take their food before
they go back home.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Sure, can you imagine doing that?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
You know, a list of like food banks or something
places to donate the excess food, or or where they
could compost the food. Can you imagine that? I mean,
there's no end to these busy bodies and their ideas.
It's like I'm on vacation and I can take my leftover.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Food getard list.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Okay, so we can are here here, here, Let's go here.
Let's go there.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Oh they're closed.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Okay, we're going to go here.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Before we go to the airport, before we return the
rental car, before we get the kids all packed up.
Let's make let's make sure we go to the compost
facility in town.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
You're not a good citizen, Have.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
You composted anything in the at the bucket in the air?
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Have not?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yesterday?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Just yesterday, all the weird little irritations of Newsom. I
wish he wasn't on my mind so much in the legislature.
But we went to a restaurant in Malibu near the beach,
and the waiter comes and he gives us our food
and our drink, and he's walking away, and I got
(32:45):
to go, oh, can I.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Have a straw?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Because they're not allowed to hand a straw. And I
don't know why that bothers me so much. It's this
weird little infringement, you know, just something to make more
friction in life. Is that I have to, like like
halfway get up and flag him down so he could
bring back the straw because he doesn't want to violate
state law.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I go to the grocery store. We're coming back from
the beach. Stop at the grocery store. I had to
get some lettuce for the lizard. I get the lettuce
and it's dandelion greens which are really leafy, and the
stalk is too big for that flimsy compost bag they
give you now used to give you a big thick
plastic bag to put it in, and so on the
front what I'm trying to stuff the composts. I'm trying
(33:29):
to stuff the dandelions, dandelion greens, the lizard lettuce into
this compostable bag. And I couldn't go in because it's
really flimsy. It doesn't open up, it sticks together. The
whole bag is the worst design for a bag ever,
and it doesn't fit. And I'm thinking, you know, it's
more friction, right, more unnecessary, stupid friction.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Did you have to have a bag that was the
only thing you bought? You really didn't need it?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Oh? I needed it for the lettuce?
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Oh you didn't. You can just grab the bundle of
it and pay for it and go. You're buying other things,
Well I had one other thing. Oh well then never mind.
But I just I know I understand they those bags.
I know exactly what you're talking about. They are a paint.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Somebody has to repeal that law. How much would it
take to finance a statewide referendum to repeal the compost
bag law for vegetables and fruits in grocery stores.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
That is so.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Annoying, And I've complained to everybody at the store, and
I know there's nothing they can do about it, although
one guy started cursing out Newsome over it, and I
do that just to amuse myself. I want to see
what other people think. All the grocery store employees agree
that it's a terrible bag. But this is why he's
on my mind. And then by the time I get
to work on Monday, you know, I'm ready to throttle
(34:51):
somebody because I've been wrestling with composting bags and begging
people for straws and thinking how many different ways, and
then you need when you leave California go to another state.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
It's easier, but we got to stop. Sorry once I
get started.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Deborah mark Oh, Tracy Park next CAFI AM six forty. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. You
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You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Well,
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that if you missed it. John Cobelt's show on demand
on the iHeart app. I mean, Dever was telling me
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soon as our time slot moved a few years ago,
the guy doesn't listen anymore. It's like, you know, there's
(00:24):
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to get on the iHeartRadio app and follow the show
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of hearing that. I mean, I understand for the first month,
you know, but after all these years, it's like to
(00:45):
figure out how to work the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's not that hard.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I am the least technologically a Depp person that's ever existed.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
We were just talking about that offense. Why we can't
play the sound from inside here because Eric is shooting
a video and that means we can't play sound.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You can't rely on me to be able to operate
the control by time for training, I'd screw it up. Well,
Michael is here because today they were going to announce
the homeless county in LA City and LA County. They
did the census in February, the homeless secon Yeah, they
deleted a month because of the fires in different parts
(01:21):
of the county.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
So homeless started moving around. That's right. The flames were changed,
so they had to track them down.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
They did find them, and they didn't find as many
as they did last year. Apparently, because for the second
year in a row, LA Homeless Services Authority is reporting
a decline in homelessness, both at the county level and
within the city limits of lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
That's great news. How big a decline?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Well, the big decline in LA County is represented as
four percent four and in Los Angeles it is three
point four percent in terms of raw numbers.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It's that's it.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
All those billions of dollars and it's down four in
the county and three point four in the city.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That all the billions that LASA has spent. That's right. Wow,
that's right. I mean I could have done that myself.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
This is gonna chase four percent of the homeless out
of the county by myself.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And I'm sure they would love for you to do that. However,
in the meantime, not only have they spent billions, they
continue to spend a lot of money. This is also
a very awkward time to be Valicia Adams Kellum, the
CEO's LA Homeless Service Authority. She is leaving, but she
is still there and led this news conference that is
(02:34):
still ongoing, still moment.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Well, it started late.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
It was supposed to start at one, It started about
a quarter after and everybody's got to get up and
do their their song and dance.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
That's a long that is a long press conference though
for a four percent drop.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And she credits the spending and says that because last
year there was a decline and this year is a decline,
it is now a trend that there is a decline.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Do we have to spend twenty five times as much
money in order to get all the homeless gone?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Hopefully not.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
If they have zero in most cities in the United
States they have zero, homeless.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
LA has a lot more than zero at this point.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
And because of the spending and because of the auditing,
and because of the lack of proper accounting, as determined
by auditors and a federal judge. Right there are changes
with the way the homeless industrial complex in Los Angeles
will be governed. Felicia Kellum Adams Kellum is leaving LASA.
The La County Board of Supervisors voted to leave LASSA. Basically,
(03:33):
they're creating their own homeless department. In fact, LA County
Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, who pushed for the new homeless department
and to leave loss behind, put out a statement that
says a four percent decrease in progress is positive basically,
but she says it's a sign that our efforts are
making a difference. But at this pace, it would take
three centuries to end homelessness in Los Angeles County. In
(04:00):
raw numbers, John, it's seventy two thousand, three hundred and
eight homeless people in Los Angeles County, more than half
of whom are in the city property There used to be.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
What seventy five thousand, Now it's seventy two thousands.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
They peaked at seventy five thousand, They dropped modestly for
the first time last year, and now they've seen further reduction.
By the way, there is a margin of error of
thirteen hundred individuals according to USC.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I wonder which way that era goes. There could be more,
there could be fewer.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
But when you think back to twenty nineteen, homelessness was
still a significant issue even six years ago and Los Angeles,
but the number in La County according to this annual
what they call the point in time census of homeless
people was fifty eighty nine hundred and thirty six.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Thank you for that. That sounds great.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
It's in fact, they take that down and give it
to me because that's the story. That is the story
that now we're talking six years later and instead of
fifty eight thousand, it's seventy two thousand, and they're holding
a news conference appl cutting themselves that it's only seventy
two thousand.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
It's almost a fifty percent increase from twenty nineteen to
twenty twenty five. So we're celebrating these incremental drops. Yeah,
off a huge increase from just six years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Right, So if you look at six years of funding,
it's a tremendous failure because homelessness is up significantly since
since six years ago, and.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It took the past six months for really, at least
seemingly serious conversations to start at the local government level.
You are finally starting to see not just the county
break away from it entirely basically, but finally at LA
City Hall, which has been slow to criticize lass you
are seeing more voices and louder voices say this isn't working.
(05:49):
They don't have anybody at La City Hall keeping track
of these homeless dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Well, that's what's shocking about this.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
For all the money we spent, they're not employees working
every day to try how the money.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Is being spent.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, and there are various committees here and different positions here,
and even LASSA itself. It's a big organization that oversees
a ton of smaller organizations that deals with contracts with
smaller service providers. And that's where they've run into these
problems with how and where the money is being spent
because they're writing big checks to smaller agencies that don't
(06:26):
even have to tell them apparently what they did with
the money.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Don't have to tell, or what the what the plan was,
or how do we measure success? What are the metrics here?
That's what they haven't known. This is all in that
federal court case.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
No, I know, I know, which I'll give you a
lot of credit because hardly any journalist is covering that
court case or has been covering the court case all year,
and that that has revealed. I mean, just the audit
Alan when they hired that firm and found there was
over two billion dollars that they couldn't track.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
There are very few problems in Los Angeles County that
aren't somehow related to the presence of this population right now,
large population of homeless people, safety concerns. Look, just yesterday
we had another machete wielding man in downtown LA who
was shot by police.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, and near the Crypto.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Nearcrypto dot com, which is supposed to be one of
the safer parts of downtown Los Angeles. But that guy
was I believe, reported to have been homeless as well.
And it's not just people without a house living on
the streets. A lot of these folks are drug addicted
with mental health issues and create scary environments all the
time all over this community.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
No, it is it's mostly that it's drug addiction and
mental health issues.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Because if you.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Don't have that you figure out how to bounce back
from some kind of you know, life issue that sent
you into the street, because there's plenty of services that
you can go to to climb your way out. If
you want shelter, it's there. If you want an education,
it's there. If you need job training, it's all there,
all funded. A lot of folks don't want this health.
(08:00):
That's what I have thought from the beginning, and I
have seen. I mean, Gavin Newsom, I remember a few
years ago, was getting hounded by the media over something
and gee, I simply reject the idea that people don't
want help. Okay, you reject the idea that happens to be.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
The trouble or they would love to have an apartment
without the responsibilities right of having the Yeah, well of
course I'd love to, but then you have to go
to work.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
All right, Michael, very good, get me all those numbers
if I'm here for you, all right, Michael monks KFI News.
See if you hear any of that, any of those
facts and wisdom and perspective anywhere else on radio, television
or on the news sites.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
m six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I got I got distracted, Debra said, a very relevant
post that Karen bass but on X the more results
from today's report homelessness dropping in Los Angeles leading to
noticeable change not just in the city but throughout the region.
(09:07):
Noticeable change.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Having you noticed a change, John.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
No, I could take you to the areas that have
not changed very much. It seems like people are living
There are fewer people in their cars.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
That's not something you'd notice.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
There's fewer people living in their vans, fewer people living
in there arevs. These are the decreases that she's highlighting.
Nineteen percent drop in people living in cars, sixteen percent
drop in r vs. The stuff that's frightening people are
(09:51):
the people on the streets. They are so scary. My
wife and I were going to go for a walk
on the West Side. We got to one of our
favorite walking spots. Oh ironically, it was a guy in
a car, but he had his door open. His entire
car was filled with bags of garbage. I don't know
(10:11):
what he was doing. He was hanging his legs out
of the car. He looked wild eyed and crazy, and
it was in the exact place we were going.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
To park.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And my wife goes, well, we're not walking here because
he had his door. It's like you, you don't know
if he's got weapons inside the car.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Smart, you did the right thing.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
But here's what she doesn't right. And this is what
Michael Moss, Michael Moss, Michael Monks, I used to work
with a Michael Moss. Oh you did a long time ago. Yeah,
I'm really.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I know, I know. I think I'm dehydrated.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Michael Monks had had the story just a few minutes ago,
and he highlighted something specifically that I want to return
to because while the homeless might be down four percent
in the county Woho and three point four percent in
(11:11):
the city, we are still looking at a homeless total
that's at seventy two thousand people in the county, forty
three thousand in the city, seventy two and forty three.
And what you need to know that compared to twenty nineteen,
these numbers are way up. Homelessness in the county was
(11:36):
fifty nine thousand people in twenty nineteen. It's now at
seventy two thousand, and that's not good. Remember I was
talking about the distorted headlines that you get like in
the La Times, the distorted stories you get on Channel
five and other places. When it count comes to the
(11:57):
immigration operations, well, same thing with the homeless guarantee.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
You guarantee you every.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Single news outlet is going to say homelessness down, homelessness
down four percent county, three and a half percent city,
And maybe some of them will say, oh, it's down
nineteen percent in cars. Well, the cars are mobile, so
I don't know how accurate that statistic could possibly be.
(12:26):
Check to see if any of them note and you
should note this by the second paragraph of your story.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I will grant you.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I'll give you that the lead should be four percent
down in the county, three percent down in the city
compared to last year. But the real story is in
twenty nineteen it was fifty eight almost fifty nine thousand
people and now it's seventy two. And why that's important
(12:55):
is since twenty nineteen we have spent many, many billions
of day in tax money.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
The taxes that we.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Spend targeted by the city in county for homelessness didn't
exist before twenty eighteen. That came as the result of
a twenty a pair of twenty seventeen votes on election day,
one for the county, one for the city, two separate
measures that produced billions of dollars a year. So we
(13:25):
have had many billions of dollars for the city in
county since twenty eighteen. And yet the numbers in twenty nineteen,
the county number was fifty nine thousand people and now
it's seventy two thousand. In the City of Los Angeles
(13:46):
in twenty nineteen was thirty five thousand homeless people. Now
it's forty three thousand. Well, this isn't good. This is
not a success. And that's why Karen Bass puts a
big graphic on X in black and white and deal
(14:10):
with these big arrows pointing down, down, down. Except she's
not She's not putting out the numbers between twenty nineteen
and twenty twenty five. She's putting the numbers from last
year to this year. When it comes to cars and
vans and RVs, tense makeshift shelters.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Again, the total numbers in the county.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Are now it's now seventy two thousand, and it used
to be fifty nine thousand, which by the way, is
still a ridiculously high number.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Almost this was really bad in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That's why we passed those two funding mechanisms in twenty seventeen,
because it was already out of control. Most of this
happened in the last ten t twelve years, but it
really accelerated after twenty nineteen, and suddenly we were in
the seventies in the county and in the mid forties
in the city. So in her city it used to
(15:14):
be thirty five thousand, and now it's forty three thousand.
So there's no success here at all. It's great that
they're cherry picking twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
But we're still living.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
We everyone who's very angry and upset in twenty nineteen,
they're still angry and upset. You're not going to get
any applause from anybody normal except the leftist progressive jackals.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
But what's the coverage tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
See what all the local stations do with this, See
what the La Times does with this. They'll pretend that
life didn't even exist before last year. It's just gonna
to be Oh, we of the numbers compared to twenty
twenty four. See if any of them admits that there
is a significant increase in twenty nineteen still to this day,
(16:10):
and all of it's intolerable. The twenty nineteen numbers were intolerable,
twenty twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five, all of it.
It was bad in twenty seventeen. That's why we passed
the money.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
We are on every day from one until four o'clock.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
After four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand on the
iHeart app and you can listen to what you missed.
One o'clock hour, we had Bill a sale on the
US Attorney for the Central District of California, which is
Los Angeles and a large area that surrounds the city,
and he is filing an appeal he in his office
(16:54):
against that wacky judge who claimed that the federal government
has no right to be round up these illegal aliens
that they're rounding up, claiming that they're just being rounded
up based on their race. Saley says that's not true.
It's a whole combination of factors which is entirely legal.
So he denies that's The judge also put out a
(17:19):
list of things that she says ought to be done.
If you're going to do immigration enforcement, it's not her call.
She's a district court judge. She's not the President of
the United States. He has he and his executive branch
have sole control over the policies.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Of the Immigration Department.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I don't under see all do these I'm trying to
figure out are they stupid, are they ignorant? Or do
they know this stuff? And they're just creating havoc for
the sake of creating havoc. The federal government's in charge
of immigration, period They're in charge of immigrants, whether you
think their laws are too lenient or too strict. They
(18:04):
were too lenient, and some states tried to set their
an immigration policy and they were smacked down by the
Supreme Court. I didn't like that, but that's what the
constitution says. So the Yeah, the Constitution says that you
have to accept it even if you don't like it.
I didn't like it, but hey, that's what it says
(18:25):
in black and white. Now the situation's reversed. Everybody think
Trump has gone overboard. Doesn't matter what you think. Constitution
gives the president the power, whether it's Trump, Obama, Biden,
doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
They get to call the shots.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
A district judge does not, Karen Bass doesn't, and Gavin
Newsom doesn't. They're all just emotionally manipulating people to get
them all whipped up.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
And they've got them whipped up to now.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Ice agents are getting assaulted with rocks and bottles and concrete.
People are firing bullets at them here in California, in Texas.
We'll have more on that coming up in the three
o'clock hour. We're also going to have Tracy park on
in the three o'clock hour. She's the LA councilman for
the West Side my counseling, and we're going to address,
(19:17):
among other things, the one hundred and one million dollars
that Gavin Newsom is deploying for affordable housing in the Palisades.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
People in the Palisades.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
And I drove around the Palisades, my wife and I yesterday,
and you know what it's like there right now on
a Sunday, grant you it was a Sunday, so workers
were taking the day off. It is still eerily quiet.
There's nothing being constructed. After six months, there's nothing being
built at all. There's not a single structure I think one.
(19:53):
I think there's one commercial structure that I saw, and
they had their wood frame going up, but it's in
a state of suspended animation. It's like a Twilight Zone episode.
All the people are gone, all the buildings are gone,
(20:14):
and nobody is rebuilding anything. But Newsom jumped on his
affordable housing horse and he found one hundred million dollars.
So we'll talk with Tracy Park about that. I've been
talking a lot today about the extreme amount of false information,
(20:38):
twisted slanted information in the local media, and of course
you're going to discuss that goes back to the La Times.
They have some bubblehead writer named Julia Wick, and I
always noticed the bylines, and I notice the most egregious
of the writers who basically bull crap at you, just
(21:03):
steaming piles. Julia Wick is a leading is a leading
bull crap shoveler. She does a profile here on a
guy named Rick Cole. Rick Cole, she writes, has forgotten
more about municipal government than most of us will ever know.
(21:24):
Former mayor of Pasadena, City Manager in Ventura Azusa in
Santa Monica, Deputy mayor of Los Angeles. He's seventy two
now he returned for a third time to La City
Hall in twenty twenty two to be the chief deputy
to the City Controller Kenneth Mahea. And now he announced
(21:45):
he's leaving, and what follows is a question and answer session,
which he says, very lightly edited, condensed for clarity. Tell
me about the speech you gave it the council, what
motivated it? Why are you so armed about the future
of Los Angeles? Do you think government is wasting tax
payer money? What would it look like to fix these problems?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
And I noticed right away, and Daniel Guss noticed right away.
We've been corresponding a little bit back and forth. He's
the journalist and he's got a Substack column, Daniel Guss
at substant Daniel Guss dot substack dot com.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And we both noticed the same thing.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Julia Wick didn't mention that this Rick Cole, this deputy
city Controller, did not mention that he resigned very shortly
after his twin daughters were arrested for assault with a
deadly weapon against law enforcement during the Ice riots.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So as she wrote that.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Their conversation published today was very lightly edited and condensed
for clarity, I assumed and he assumed he neverd she
never asked Cole about the two daughters and what that
had to do with his sudden resignation. So he's emailed
(23:10):
the following questions to Julia Wick, journalist.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Number one.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Were there any conditions that you had to agree to
in order to have the interview with Rick Cole? If so,
what were these conditions. Did you ask Cole whether his
leaving the city of La Job had anything to do
with the criminal charges against his twin daughters?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
If so, how did he respond?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
If you did not, why not did you ask him
whether he or any government official intempted to get the
charges against his twin daughters dropped or reduced so they
could be released without bail. Do you believe the Times
readers would have liked an answer to some of all
or all of these questions? I mean, I find it
(23:53):
outrageous that you talked to a guy who's two daughters,
by the way, work in government. They're in their twenties,
they're both arrested for felonies for this assault with a
deadly weapon situation against law enforcement. Can you imagine you
have two daughters accused of assault with a deadly weapon
(24:15):
and you work in a high ranking position at city Hall.
The Ally Times interviews you to ask about your leaving office,
and Julia Wick doesn't bring it up. And that is
the key to all this bias. Biases is not a
strong enough word. This is this is deception. I want
(24:43):
to know from Rick Cole, how did you end up
with two daughters getting arrested on Ice Riot Day?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
How did you raise your daughters?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
You've worked in government all your life at many different cities.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I had never heard of this guy. Usually a good thing.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Usually guys like that, they're just you know, doing their jobs,
staying below the radar, no corruption, no controversies. You know,
I wonder. I don't know if he's a good or
a bad guy. Again, I never heard of him. But
you've got two lunatic daughters, assault with a deadly weapon
against against law enforcement officials.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Those are terrorist style charges. So what's that?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's not a story like if Julia Wick has editors nobody?
The La Times said, well, wait a second, what about
the crazy daughters? At least mentioned it in the paragraph
and say Rick Cole didn't want to talk about any
of that. He asked me not to ask him those
questions because he wasn't going to answer them. Just let
me know otherwise, I think you either weren't aware you forgot,
(25:50):
or you were intentionally covering it up, or you made
some kind of sneaky deal and you didn't want to
admit to it, like I said.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
With Channel five.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Burying the details of that cal State Channel Islands professor
who threw a tear gas canister at ICE agents and
is arrested on felony charges, federal felony charges, and ninety
plus of Carlos Cescedo's report on Channel five was character testimony.
(26:28):
This for this wacky professor Jonathan Caravello who looks like
a deranged mental patient in his mudshot photo.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
If you look at it, you'll see it.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
We got more coming up, and we've got Tracy Park,
the LA City Council Woman. After three, Deborah Mark Park
and Mark, you're listening.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
To John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
We've got Tracy Park coming up, the LA City Councilwoman
west side. She represents Palisades Park, Palisads Park, Pacific Palisades
and up in Pacific Palisades is where Dosh He's sending
one hundred million dollars to build affordable housing for some reason.
(27:19):
That's on a fast track, but not any of the
permits coming out of Karen Bass's office. And we're going
to talk to Tracy about that and other things coming up.
We should take a minute to congratulate a vagrant who
won a million dollars in the lottery in San Luis Obispo.
We got this Instagram video audio from thrifty dot Beaches
(27:40):
on Instagram. Play cut number four if you will. My
friend here just won the lottery for a million dollars
in slow.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Are you comfortable saying that like being posted? Sure? So
you want a million dollars?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
I want a million dollars, Karen Slowe that said he's
at the store, and yes, I just can't wait to get.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Off the streets. You can't wait to get off the streets. Brother,
that's sick. That's so dope. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Spends one a million dollars, that's crazy. Like two stoners
on a sidewalk, that's sick. That's dope. Those two will
be working for NASA soon. So this homeless guy, how
(28:32):
much you want to Betty blows the whole million and
he's homeless. Within what I say, five years, he's back
on the streets.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Hopefully somebody will get him a good financial planner.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, he's got to listen to the financial planner.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
True, it's like those I mean, they've done whole I've
seen whole shows done on lottery winners who blew a
lot more than a million dollars, and usually you figure
out why they were buying lottery tickets to begin with.
Why they were so broke they had to buy lottery
tickets is because you know, they've got all kinds of
(29:06):
personality disorders, h and drug addictions and alcohol addictions, and
it's certainly why you end up homeless. So I don't
know if you hand out a million dollars to just
random alcoholics or drug addicts.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Why didn't you try that, John Wy, don't you do
an experiment?
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Well, you know, I get this was on Scratchers he
got and Michelle Q buys me a Scratcher card every
year for my birthday.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Not a dollar i've won before, I won twenty bucks, you.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Buy a lottery tickets.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
No, she gives me Scratchers for my birthday.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Oh was that right? And you got twenty bucks yes,
and I got zero?
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Well it was one time.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I don't remember. I don't remember you sharing the twenty bucks.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
I probably didn't, toughly selfish.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Come on, are either of you in the lottlepool that
she does too? Yes, I'm not, but my wife entered
against my will. Oh okay, so you're technically in it.
Technically in it, But I've got nothing out of that either.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah. No, we rarely get anything. I mean it's some
kind of a racket.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
No, because if if the day happens where we're big winters,
can you imagine the fomo?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Oh yeah, no, that's exactly why I joined it. Yes,
I can't be the only schmuck that didn't get it.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
You'd be so unhappy everybody walks away by your.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
We're quitting You're exactly, I'd be the only one left
working here.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
So if I win it that I buy the place, well,
maybe an institute.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
You have to work here five days a week. Yeah,
it's right.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Oh yeah, there's no remote.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Working, no no working from home, and no cooking any
weird food in the in the lunch room either, all
those horrific odors.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Uh and no.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Compost no comp okay.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
God, what was that? Sorry? I think you had it
on your news last week.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
It had the word compost in it and it was
about there was they'd done some study that a tremendous
amount of food is wasted by people who rent out
homes for short term like Airbnb style rentals. Yeah, and
that there's all this food wasted. So this goodie good
organization thought that there should be some kind of law
(31:24):
passed where the owners of the airbnb tell the renters
make recommendations on where they could take their food before
they go back home.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Sure, can you imagine doing that?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
You know, a list of like food banks or something
places to donate the excess food, or or where they
could compost the food. Can you imagine that? I mean,
there's no end to these busy bodies and their ideas.
It's like I'm on vacation and I can take my leftover.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Food getard list.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Okay, so we can are here here, here, Let's go here.
Let's go there.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Oh they're closed.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Okay, we're going to go here.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Before we go to the airport, before we return the
rental car, before we get the kids all packed up.
Let's make let's make sure we go to the compost
facility in town.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
You're not a good citizen, Have.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
You composted anything in the at the bucket in the air?
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Have not?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yesterday?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Just yesterday, all the weird little irritations of Newsom. I
wish he wasn't on my mind so much in the legislature.
But we went to a restaurant in Malibu near the beach,
and the waiter comes and he gives us our food
and our drink, and he's walking away, and I got
(32:45):
to go, oh, can I.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Have a straw?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Because they're not allowed to hand a straw. And I
don't know why that bothers me so much. It's this
weird little infringement, you know, just something to make more
friction in life. Is that I have to, like like
halfway get up and flag him down so he could
bring back the straw because he doesn't want to violate
state law.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I go to the grocery store. We're coming back from
the beach. Stop at the grocery store. I had to
get some lettuce for the lizard. I get the lettuce
and it's dandelion greens which are really leafy, and the
stalk is too big for that flimsy compost bag they
give you now used to give you a big thick
plastic bag to put it in, and so on the
front what I'm trying to stuff the composts. I'm trying
(33:29):
to stuff the dandelions, dandelion greens, the lizard lettuce into
this compostable bag. And I couldn't go in because it's
really flimsy. It doesn't open up, it sticks together. The
whole bag is the worst design for a bag ever,
and it doesn't fit. And I'm thinking, you know, it's
more friction, right, more unnecessary, stupid friction.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Did you have to have a bag that was the
only thing you bought? You really didn't need it?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Oh? I needed it for the lettuce?
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Oh you didn't. You can just grab the bundle of
it and pay for it and go. You're buying other things,
Well I had one other thing. Oh well then never mind.
But I just I know I understand they those bags.
I know exactly what you're talking about. They are a paint.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Somebody has to repeal that law. How much would it
take to finance a statewide referendum to repeal the compost
bag law for vegetables and fruits in grocery stores.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
That is so.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Annoying, And I've complained to everybody at the store, and
I know there's nothing they can do about it, although
one guy started cursing out Newsome over it, and I
do that just to amuse myself. I want to see
what other people think. All the grocery store employees agree
that it's a terrible bag. But this is why he's
on my mind. And then by the time I get
to work on Monday, you know, I'm ready to throttle
(34:51):
somebody because I've been wrestling with composting bags and begging
people for straws and thinking how many different ways, and
then you need when you leave California go to another state.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
It's easier, but we got to stop. Sorry once I
get started.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
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