August 8, 2025 • 37 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (08/08) - More on the $2 billion dollars in missing money that was meant for homeless resources went. Almond orchards are being threatened by rats. There is a new poll out regarding the California Governor's race. A boy in Carson was attacked by a coyote.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome to the show.
It's on every day from one to four Monday through Friday.
And if you miss any part of the program, or
god forbid, the whole thing. After four o'clock, John Cobelt's
Show on demand the podcast that's on the iHeart app,
(00:22):
you could download and listen Today's Friday. What Happens on
Friday's Moistline twice in the three o'clock hour, and also
in the three o'clock hour, we're going to talk with
State Senator Toby Strickland from he's from Hermosa Beach, right, No, no,
(00:42):
Huntington Beach. That's right, Huntington Beach. Because Newsom is pushing
this special election in November to redraw the congressional districts
because he wants to get rid of six Republican congress
people in this state. And but but he's got to
(01:04):
go through a whole machination about it. We've been talking
about it, and we'll explain it again later in the
show in case you're not familiar. But we also have
a really infuriating clip of this psychopathic liar to play
as well. That's all going to come up around three o'clock.
But this is going how much money is missing? You
(01:26):
remember how much money is missing from the homeless budget
here in Los Angeles?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Two billion was a billion or billion?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, two billion dollars and it's it's Karen Baths, right,
she blew the two billion dollars. And that's why maybe
I'm the only person who gets gets crazy about this stuff.
But I've seen in the last week two news articles
that suggested that Karen Bass is on some kind of
a comeback because she was seen yelling at ice ICE agents, right,
(02:02):
and so she's regained her footing, you know, she's firmed
up her position. And I'm thinking, because she yelled at
ICE agents, I keep, you know, want to raise my
hand from the back of the room and go, how
about the two billion that disappeared? Really is completely unaccounted for?
And this is a federal audit from a well, this
(02:23):
is an audit mandated by a federal District court judge
David Carter, And yeah, nobody, nobody's found the money. And
Carter wanted Karen Bass to come and testify about the
whole homeless scam that she oversees, and presumably there will
be a lot of questions about where the two billion
dollars in missing money went. Okay, this is the mayor
(02:46):
of the city of Los Angeles, and somehow she lost
track of two billion dollars. It's astounding. And that's why
the coverage of her yelling at the ice agents, it
just just makes me crazy. But I'm a feeling I'm
the only one. Well, here's another little wiggle in the case.
(03:08):
Do you remember she hired a law firm. She had
her own city attorneys, but she hired a law firm
called Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, LLB. And they sent nine
attorneys into the courtroom when Bass was supposed to testify,
(03:30):
and they argued for a long time that she shouldn't
have to testify, and they made it clear that they
were going to interfere and appeal the hell out of
any order that would require her to speak. And they
were so effective that the plaintiffs in this case, and
(03:51):
the plaintiffs they're called La Alliance, and they're a collection
of businesses and citizens who want the home money spent properly,
and instead Bass flushed two billion away and won't talk
about it. So the judge says, well, Bass has got
to come in. Well, Gibson done, and Crutcher threw up
(04:14):
all kinds of interference, and eventually the LA Alliance the
PLANEFF said, oh, forget about it. This is going to
take months and months. We'd rather move on. Well, now
the bill has come through. You know how much, You
know how much city taxpayers like you live and work
in La City taxpayers, you have to pay one point
(04:37):
eight million dollars to cover the legal bill. And I said,
there were nine attorneys in the courtroom that day. Actually
they had fifteen working on the case. There were nine
in the courtroom that day, fifteen working on the case.
(04:57):
They each bill thirteen hundred dollars an hour. So you
got thirteen hundred dollars an hour times fifteen, and it
came to one hundred and forty thousand dollars a day,
thirteen days, one point eight million, just to keep Karen
(05:21):
Bass from testifying about the missing two billion. Now, I
assume that the plaintiffs had insisted, and I wish they had,
maybe some three six months down the road, this would
have happened, good lord, one point eight million dollars of
(05:45):
our tax money to shield her from explaining where the
two billion went. That's just that's that's so that's so aggravating.
That is so wrong, it really is. In the end,
the judge said the city did not follow the terms
of an agreement that made three years ago with La
(06:06):
Alliance because La Alliance had gotten an agreement that you know,
they would create about thirteen thousand homeless beds. I now,
they were not only trying to keep Bass from testifying,
they were trying to get out of the legal obligation
to supply the thirteen thousand beds because you know, they
(06:30):
once they blew the two billion dollars, right, what are
they going to do to build the homeless beds? Right?
The money's gone already. And I am just out of
my mind that this doesn't lead to her immediate dismissal
as mayor, I mean absolute should be, should be forced
(06:52):
out of office. But we can't even get her questioned,
and she doesn't care and she probably can't don't even
count anyway. One point eight million. And what they did
to some of the witnesses during some of the testimony
is the these nine attorneys would constantly interrupt and yell objection, objection, objection,
(07:18):
hundreds of times so that nobody could follow the case,
nobody could follow the conversation or what the issue was,
which really is a stupid way to conduct a hearing.
I mean that that that's just ridiculously obnoxious. I can't
believe there's there isn't some legal restraint for that kind
of Well, I guess that's up to the judge to
(07:40):
tell them to knock it off. But man, one point
eight million dollars on fifteen attorneys for less than two weeks,
and she never had to explain where the two billion yet.
And you want her reelection, you want her running the Olympics.
You want this lady running the Olympics. No wonder. You
(08:02):
know some people are pissed off that Trump is taking over. Well,
of course he's taking over. Look at her, Look at her.
Unbelievable when we come back. Another thing I've been yelling
at out for a long time. Uh, you know, eleven
percent of the water in the state goes to almonds.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I just had some almonds today. Actually they were quite delicious.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well you're part of the problem, okay, Yeah, eleven of
all all the water that's available goes to almond farmers.
There's a very wealthy family in Beverly Hills. They are
the King and Queen of almonds, and they use just untold.
I don't know how many millions or billions of gallons
(08:49):
of water and three quarters of the almonds are sent
to China anyway. But well, the almond farms are under attack.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Oh no, yes, one of the ways I get my protein.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Oh, you will never eat another almond. After I'm done
telling you this story, you'll see Do you know this story?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Oh, okay, well tell I can't wait when we come back.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Moistline is going to be three o'clock, three o'clock twice.
We're gonna do three twenty and three fifty and you
can follow us at social on social media John Cobelt
Radio at John Cobelt Radio. All right, the uh, the
almonds almonds, and I get this way whenever whenever they're
(09:42):
supposedly a water shortage, you know, we have a drought
or so they claim for a couple of years, and
then they want to start restricting water. Because I noticed
with the fires burning, they're starting the drum beat again. Well,
you know, we only had eight inches of rain in
southern California, abnormally dry and climate change and all, you know,
just the same old song they start singing. And uh,
(10:06):
you know, if we have another dry winner, it's gonna
be a drought. We're gonna with water shortages. And so
that's kind of on my mind. And then I saw
this story. Now most most people don't know this that
almond farms take eleven percent of our available water of
the state of California, eleven percent, and the government lets
(10:30):
them do it because almond is a big crop. They
sell to China. Seventy five percent of almonds end up
in China. Well, the almond crop is in danger this year.
Almond orchards all across the San Joaquin Valley are dealing
with a massive rat infestation. Oh yes, three hundred million
(10:57):
dollars worth of crop losses and infrastruct your damage. The
Almond Board of California. These are almond growers from Merced
to kerrn County, which I believe is the path of
the high speed rail train. Roof rats they're chewing through
the irrigation lines, they're stripping bark from the branches of
(11:21):
the almond trees, and they're eating the nuts. They're eating
the almond nuts, said one wildlife advisor. We live in
an infinite sea of rats. They're everywhere. So that's who's
rummaging through your almonds right.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Now, Maybe not mine.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
An infinite sea of rats. Does that sound disgusting? The
rats are no longer confined to their traditional nests in
the trees. They're burrowing underground, especially in orchards with they
have a limited groundcover in the winter, and so you
can't detect and control them. And they're running through the
(12:03):
irrigation canals and the waterways that are set up to
provide water to the almond trees, and so they're spreading rapidly.
What a rat sounds like is that it according to
YouTube that.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
According to YouTube, rat sound effect.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Is that a rat and heat or that's what animals
make most of their cool noises, is when they're in
heat and they're showing off for guys, showing off to
the women.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Yeah, Oh, that that almost sounds like nails on a
chalkboard to me.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Ears.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Apparently, some farmers are losing fifty percent of their almonds
even though they're trapping one hundred a day. Economic losses
are going to be anywhere from one hundred to three
hundred million dollars because they're destroying the drip lines for
irrigation and there's going to be far fewer almonds.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Now, why'd you.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Say I was the problem. I don't bring rats to
these places.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Oh, you're the problem because because the almonds are absorbed, well,
the almond farmers use so much water.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, but what does that have to do with rats?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
When I when I get told I can only take
a five minute shower? Remember that? Yeah, Jerry Brown? Five minutes. Well,
if people didn't eat almonds, we wouldn't have to live
under those restricts.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Okay, Well, what if there were burger farms and they
need to water water all the meat.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
There are burger farms, they're called cattle farms, and you
know that they do have to spend a lot of
money on water. I imagine, right.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Okay, I don't hear you complaining about that.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Well, because burgers are necessary.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Well, so we're almonds they're not. Yeah, they really are
only for vegans.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It because you don't eat my shells, but we don't.
I don't think the cattle use up eleven percent of
the water. They Uh, so they're trying to kill the
rats with bait stations, fume against an oulo boxes. But
all this all costs a lot of money, and actually
(14:22):
nobody knows what to do about it, especially when it
gets warmer. When it's warmer, they breed more.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
They got to sterilize them.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, is that true with humans? I don't know when
when it gets warmer do humans breed more?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
I used to think it was when it was colder,
because people wouldn't go out her down.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And yeah, you wear less clothes in the summer though, Ye,
I'm trying to think.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I was conceived in the in the fall, just as
it was getting colder. So is my brother. My parents
had a favorite time of year because he and I
were both born in June, early June. Yeah, so there
must be one week that. Yeah, my dad would get riled.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Up, John t am I.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Did you ever hear hear your parents?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
You did.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
It was disgusting, it was traumatic, really yes. And I
would hear the bed. I would hear the bed banging
against the wall. And the crazy thing is my parents divorced.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Maybe mom was hitting her head too hard.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, that would have explained a lot of things. Did
you ever hear yours?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Not, not specifically the moment, but there was a ritual,
and I knew it was coming because I used to
stay up very late at night, even as a little kid,
and I watched television and my parents had built an
extra room over the garage, a couple of rooms away
from where I was watching TV. But I could hear
(16:16):
they always kept the door open in their bedroom. It
was a few stairs over the garage. And then during
I don't know, mating season, i'd hear somebody gently walk
down the stairs and they'd pull the door close. And
then after about I don't know, twenty minutes, I hear
(16:39):
somebody walk down the stairs and open the door. And
it took a little while, but I finally figured out
what was going on. But I never actually heard any
moaning or yelling or anything. I wouldn't do an impression
for my brother what I thought was going on.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Oh, let's hear it.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
No, No, then it would be too much information. All right, Okay,
you know that's my my fourteen year old interpretation of
what was going on. But you never walked in.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
On anything, did you I did not, Thank goodness, did.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
This like keep you up?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
It was loud, and then make matters worse when my
dad he never listens to me, so I could say
this when my dad got remarried, Yeah, I heard that too.
Different because my dad's a little horn dog.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
So you were living with him for the second marriage.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I wasn't, but I was a kid, so I would
go to his house every other week out I see,
And so I mean, I guess they had to do
it when I was there.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Well, they're newlyweds, No, they were, Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
That's yeah, that's very true.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
At the beginning. There's like a strong run of activity
until the tape.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
And my parents were only married for twelve years.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I see, I see. So what was the difference between
the two noises?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I didn't hear the bed banging against the wall. I
heard noises, okay, and that was worse because it wasn't
even my mom.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Jesus, don't ask.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Me questions, but you answer those, diarrhea.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
You answer those. I know, you know a lot of
people would have found a way not to talk about it,
but you told us I'm in a mood, Okay, not
that mood.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
But the mood.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Remember when we were talking about almonds. Yeah, oh right, almonds.
I was trying to figure remember what we were doing.
Somehow we ended up in your dad's bedroom twice.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Different bedroom stead of houses.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
That's quite a terry brought us on. Thank you. I
am all right.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
We're on every day from what is it one to
four and then after four o'clock John Cobel Show on
demand on the iHeart app and you can catch up
on what you missed. The parent company of KTLA Channel
five has teamed up with Emerson College to poll California
voters and they're already doing presidential polling and they're also
(19:38):
doing polling for California governor, which is in twenty twenty six,
that far away. Now it's what is it, just fifteen
months and there's nobody doing well in the polling. Really,
it's they have a collection of names, and I guarantee
(20:02):
you two thirds of these names you've never heard of,
although they most of them do have or have or
have had some semi responsible position government. But missus potato
Head is at the top of the list missus potato
head Katie Porter, who recently was a congresswoman and then
(20:24):
wiped out running for Senate. I mean she ended up
in third behind Steve Garvey. I mean, Katie Porter is
eighteen percent of the vote. Now there's no other Democrat
in double digits. She's the only one. Second among the
Democrats is Tony Vallar and he's even me. He's only
(20:47):
got five percent. This guy has been around. When did
he first get elected mayor? I'm two thousand and five,
I think so. He's been in the public eye for
twenty years and has made virtually no impact in California. Wow,
five percent, and among Democrats he's second. What they did
(21:12):
is they threw all the names into a big basket Republican, Democratic,
and Independent, and some of these people haven't even declared
their candidacy. The top Republican is a guy you may
not have heard of unless you watch Fox News. His
name is Steve Hilton. Steve Hilton grew up in Great
(21:37):
Britain and ended up being the director of strategy for
the British Prime Minister David Cameron back from twenty ten
to twenty twelve. He then became a Fox News post
had a show called The Next Revolution which ran for
six years, and he has a British accent and he
(22:00):
says a lot of a lot of interesting stuff. But
I think outside Fox News, I don't think it's particularly
well known. Twelve percent of the vote. Chad Bionco is
the Republican who's number two, and he's the he's the
sheriff from Riverside County. We've had him on quite a
(22:22):
few times. He's at seven percent. And again, this is
both parties all their nominees in one basket, because that's
how the primary is going to run. They call it
a jungle primary. Everybody runs in one primary and then
the top two go on to the finals in November.
So you can get two Republicans, you can get two Democrats.
(22:42):
You can't get you know, one of each, you don't know.
And then Rick Caruso has not announced he's running for governor.
Is it four percent and nobody else is about four percent?
All the all the retread names, all these wannabes, these
these losers, these refugees from the Newsomb administration. Three percent
(23:06):
or less. It's it's not even worth saying their names.
But I see, like one, two, three, four members of
either the NEWSOB administration. Yeah, four fourer members. One of
them dropped out. The Lieutenant governor Lany Kunolakis.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
She wants to be treasurer.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, well, because she's got three percent and she was
one of the biggest fundraisers. She raised millions of dollars
and she got three percent out of it. So, you know,
smart enough to pack up her bags and the rest
of them should too. Not None of these people, Like
if I say their names right now, it's possible it's
the last time you're ever going to hear their names.
Tony Thurmont, Like, who's that He's in charge of the
(23:51):
worst public school system in the country. Yeah, he's the
California Superintendent of Schools. He's running for governor. I think
that had no sense of self awareness. It's like, you're
running the worst public school system in the nation and
you want to run the whole state. Or maybe it's
just that people say, well do some did it? Uh? Yeah,
(24:16):
I want to go. Stephen Klubeck has got two percent.
We've had him on the show a couple of times.
He's the businessman. So the two business guys gruesome kluebec
have six percent between them, and then we've got missus
potato head.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Kamala should have stayed in the race.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, but she doesn't really want to work that hard. Really,
I just I don't. I don't. I don't think she
wanted to do the day to day work of being governor.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Obviously, because look she would. She was always in the lead.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I know. Now for the presidential nomination, now, this is
just California voters. Newsom is leading with twenty three percent,
followed by Pete Buddhajetch and seventeen percent. Good lord, and
Kamala is still third and eleven percent. Although that's pretty bad.
That's pretty bad. These are California voters. President Harrison and
(25:15):
then oh god, AOC is nine percent. That's on the
Democrat side. The Republican side, JD. Vance has forty. Robert
Kennedy is second at ten percent. He's not even a Republican.
Now here are some job approval ratings numbers, and it's
just if these are anywhere accurate, and you never know
(25:36):
with Poland it's like I swear, I don't know if
all these people have had lobotomies, or we have to
start giving people lobotomies Newsom has a forty four percent
job approval rating, which is actually pretty low, except his
disapproval rating is only thirty eight percent. Really so, so
(25:58):
over sixty percent either approve or are neutral about him.
What else does he need to do? That's what I'm wondering.
What else do these people have to do to convince
you that they should be escorted out of government and
taken away maybe the Al Salvador because they're so bad
(26:19):
and they damage the states so much. I mean, there's
still people willing to pull a lever for Newsom and
Kamala Harris. Trump has a thirty percent approval rating, and
I don't think there's anything I don't think there's anything
(26:41):
else interesting in this. But we really have we have
a stupid voting population. I don't know how else to
say it. We just have a really stupid and that's
why the government's so bad. And that's why you have,
you know, seventy thousand homeless people in La County. That's
why you have the highest tax, That's why the gas
prices are a dollar fifty more than any other state.
(27:03):
That's why energy prices are double the rest of the country.
You wonder why it's like what does it take people?
What is it with? Any one of these issues would
normally sink a governor in any other state. Housing prices
are at the top of the charts right, record high
expensive housing, record high expensive gas, record high expensive energy.
(27:27):
By a lot, It's not even close. It's double all
the crime we've had because they wouldn't prosecute to criminals anymore.
The homelessness, all the stolen money, the high speed rail
stolen money, the the the homeless, stolen money because there's
twenty four billion missing from the state, the thirty billions
(27:49):
stolen from the unemployment program during COVID, all of that,
all the draconian COVID restrictions that most other states state
and have that destroyed thousands of businesses, kept kids out
of school for a year and a half. I mean,
he is been a bulldozer ruining people's lives. He still
(28:11):
gets forty four percent approval read that's fascinating. It's like,
I want like a study of these people's brains. Every
NEWSOM voter should be put into an MRI tube and
I honestly, if there's something defect, maybe there's a virus
that everybody caught in the STAD. Maybe there's something in
the water that the bacteria settled in people's brains. How
(28:33):
could they not see that? I mean, everybody bitches about
all the same stuff. That's the thing. You have a
conversation with anybody for five minutes and they're all talking
about the things I just said. And then you know,
Polster calls, who do you want? Who want for prosident?
We'll get Vin Newsom?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
But do you like?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Kevin Newsom is going, yeah, I do what. I will
trade every one of those voters ten to one. I'll
take ten illegal aliens for every one of those voters.
How about how about that deal? We could stop the
deportations of illegal aliens start the deportations of Newsom voters.
(29:10):
I think I'm right on that.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Uh, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AMI.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Every time I'm late coming back, So Stepper's in here,
all right? Just see you know she comes in here.
I lose track of the show. I'm like getting back.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Why do I get blamed?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Well, it is your fault whenever I'm late and the
music's playing.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Okay, So you want me to go in there?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
No? No, I like, how can't you come visit now
what happened yesterday? I walked out the press record on
the phone. Yeah, dep's walking in, Lily say to her,
Hey breaks.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Over and I watched right out.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I know, was right before the break start.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Don't even pile on, Eric.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
So we've got we've got the kid who got attacked
by the coyote. I watch you hear this story. I
was sorry, so sorry for this kid. But you hear
him tell the story. He's kind of excited, you know,
he feels like he really went through quite a battle here.
This is I guess his family was watching a girl's
(30:16):
softball tournament in Carson and a coyote like ran out
into the field and somehow found this little boy and
he got attacked. This is ABC seven reporter Ashley Mackie.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It was a coyote and this keep scratching me and
biting me.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Six year old Enoch recounts the shocking moment he was
attacked by a coyote. He was with his family at
Dilamo Park for a softball tournament. His sister was competing in. Well,
when the coyote was biting you, what were you to
you thinking?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I was I wasn't doing a litything.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I was in Yeo hearing her son screams, Melissa Palomar
sprang into action.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
He yelled immediately as soon as the coyote bit him,
I ran towards him and then I noticed it was
a coyote, and I started making noise, and as soon
as I got close to him, he ran off.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Enoch needed more than twenty stitches. He was bit on
the back of his head, both legs, and he has
scratches down his back. He also needed several rabies shots.
The one thing I don't like in the hospital was
like shots and those more fingers you're playing fish and
Wildlife officers have collected clothing evidence for DNA testing so
(31:33):
they can attempt to locate the coyote. Melissa is hoping
by sharing their experience, more people can be aware of
the dangers.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
There's a lot of coyotes. I mean, I've seen them
in the street driving, but I never thought they would
be so close to us, you know, And for a
lot of people to be there and still a coyote
to go to the playground and attack them, it's very
shocking to me.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Melissa tells us. While Enoch is recovering, they're just watching
his wounds for signs of infection, and she says the
doctor told her luckily she was there to act fast
because the situation could have been much worse.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Imagine beating a coyote off your kid.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
No, I mean, we have so many coyotes in our neighborhood,
so do we, but they don't come up to us.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
But I think they get habituated, like a coyote in
a park is around so many people.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
They're not afraid anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
No, they're not, because I always hear you know, they
always put a disclaimer in a lot of these new stories.
It's very rare for a coyote to attack a child. Yeah,
except the coyotes can't get used to children and dogs
and they do snatch them. I mean, coyotes eat dogs
every night, and cats too. When we first moved to
(32:50):
watch it, first first day I spent in California, they
put us up at the in Burbank. What was the
name of that, It was really well known, it was
Oakwood Apartments. We stayed here three weeks before took over
on KFI. First night I woke up in the state
of California. First night, I'm here in all kinds of
(33:12):
howling what is that. Oh, it's the coyotes. They're eating
local pets. They're eating cats and dogs and or you know,
rabbits that they find. And then when we moved to
the hills on the west Side, same thing we had.
We had coyotes and they would whip themselves into a frenzy,
you know, like four or five of them at once
and shred some poor local cat.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
You don't need to describe it.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Do you do. Do you still hear that in your neighborhood?
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, I do. It's horrible.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
So with you know, some idiot on TV goings you know,
it's actually very rare.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
It's like, shut up, good thing. I didn't say it's
very rare.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
You don't say it's very rare. Okay, Well, because you know,
a lot of this stuff goes unreported. The number of
cats and dogs that I heard probably a dozens. I
never called animal shelters or animal welfare about it.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
I'm just amazed people in my neighborhood, as I said,
so many coyotes constantly, and it doesn't matter what time
of day or night it is, they still leave their
dogs out. And I just don't I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
I really don't so we've got coyotes. We have red
tailed hawks have moved in. There's a family of them
somewhere in the foliage near our house because now they're
coming and flying into our backyard and they're standing on
the pool fence or on the fence of my son's
batting cage. We've had owls flying in.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, woke up one morning there's a owls standing on
the rail.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Well, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
And then and I'm in the flatlands too, I'm not
even up in the hills. Oh. And then last night
I showed you guys the photo my wife's ring camera
went off and she had a video of a mountain
lion jumped up to the top of a side fence,
on top of the gate, and it was perched looking around.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
What do you have in your yard that's attracting all
these animals?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I don't know, because while we were watching this video,
you could hear in the background something crashing into it
was a metallic sound, So I don't know if there
was a second animal there.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Maybe trying to get the Was it a mountain lion
or a bobcat.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
It's the same thing. It's it's different names depending on
what part of the country you're from. But you could
call it a bobcat too, and a beautiful look at animal, yeah,
really good look at animal.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
But well, as Eric pointed out, it looks like it
has a caller.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah, it does. So it may be tagged because we're
near the Santa Monica Mountains, and I think sometimes whatever
agency attracts these mountain lions, they tag them to just
see that they're doing okay and they're not getting wiped
out by whatever endangers the mountain lions. Pope louis inside,
(36:01):
oh Leoh, sorry, Hope louis the hell's Pope LOI left
that poor dog.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Remember he has a pee and poop room in his house.
Oh no, let the poor dog go out.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Yeah we can't. We can't. We were letting him out
and I'd be standing near him. I won't even do
that anymore because because after I saw the red tailed hawk,
that thing will swoop in and take him away before
I could blink. And and I don't want to fight
a bobcat or a coyote, please do No, I'm not
going to get into a fist fight with one of those.
It's like, all right, everybody go home, let's stay inside.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Go to your room.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
That's right, Leo, go to your room, go poop in
the kitchen. We're not We're not going out.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Here as I do every day.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Yeah, that's that's right. But you're It's safer for you
and easier for me because I'll get oh my god,
I'll get so hammered if Leo gets taken off by
a coyote or or a red tailed hawk for some reason.
That scares me more because you don't see Do you.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
See your dog flying up in the in the air.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah, I know that's terrible. You ought to stay indoors too.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
I've gained a few pounds.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Well you think that hawk will get exhausted and yeah,
dropped you back. Yeah, I don't see those few pounds,
but if you say so. Deborah Mark is live in
the CAFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear
the show live on KFI AM six forty from one
to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course
anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome to the show.
It's on every day from one to four Monday through Friday.
And if you miss any part of the program, or
god forbid, the whole thing. After four o'clock, John Cobelt's
Show on demand the podcast that's on the iHeart app,
(00:22):
you could download and listen Today's Friday. What Happens on
Friday's Moistline twice in the three o'clock hour, and also
in the three o'clock hour, we're going to talk with
State Senator Toby Strickland from he's from Hermosa Beach, right, No, no,
(00:42):
Huntington Beach. That's right, Huntington Beach. Because Newsom is pushing
this special election in November to redraw the congressional districts
because he wants to get rid of six Republican congress
people in this state. And but but he's got to
(01:04):
go through a whole machination about it. We've been talking
about it, and we'll explain it again later in the
show in case you're not familiar. But we also have
a really infuriating clip of this psychopathic liar to play
as well. That's all going to come up around three o'clock.
But this is going how much money is missing? You
(01:26):
remember how much money is missing from the homeless budget
here in Los Angeles?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Two billion was a billion or billion?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, two billion dollars and it's it's Karen Baths, right,
she blew the two billion dollars. And that's why maybe
I'm the only person who gets gets crazy about this stuff.
But I've seen in the last week two news articles
that suggested that Karen Bass is on some kind of
a comeback because she was seen yelling at ice ICE agents, right,
(02:02):
and so she's regained her footing, you know, she's firmed
up her position. And I'm thinking, because she yelled at
ICE agents, I keep, you know, want to raise my
hand from the back of the room and go, how
about the two billion that disappeared? Really is completely unaccounted for?
And this is a federal audit from a well, this
(02:23):
is an audit mandated by a federal District court judge
David Carter, And yeah, nobody, nobody's found the money. And
Carter wanted Karen Bass to come and testify about the
whole homeless scam that she oversees, and presumably there will
be a lot of questions about where the two billion
dollars in missing money went. Okay, this is the mayor
(02:46):
of the city of Los Angeles, and somehow she lost
track of two billion dollars. It's astounding. And that's why
the coverage of her yelling at the ice agents, it
just just makes me crazy. But I'm a feeling I'm
the only one. Well, here's another little wiggle in the case.
(03:08):
Do you remember she hired a law firm. She had
her own city attorneys, but she hired a law firm
called Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, LLB. And they sent nine
attorneys into the courtroom when Bass was supposed to testify,
(03:30):
and they argued for a long time that she shouldn't
have to testify, and they made it clear that they
were going to interfere and appeal the hell out of
any order that would require her to speak. And they
were so effective that the plaintiffs in this case, and
(03:51):
the plaintiffs they're called La Alliance, and they're a collection
of businesses and citizens who want the home money spent properly,
and instead Bass flushed two billion away and won't talk
about it. So the judge says, well, Bass has got
to come in. Well, Gibson done, and Crutcher threw up
(04:14):
all kinds of interference, and eventually the LA Alliance the
PLANEFF said, oh, forget about it. This is going to
take months and months. We'd rather move on. Well, now
the bill has come through. You know how much, You
know how much city taxpayers like you live and work
in La City taxpayers, you have to pay one point
(04:37):
eight million dollars to cover the legal bill. And I said,
there were nine attorneys in the courtroom that day. Actually
they had fifteen working on the case. There were nine
in the courtroom that day, fifteen working on the case.
(04:57):
They each bill thirteen hundred dollars an hour. So you
got thirteen hundred dollars an hour times fifteen, and it
came to one hundred and forty thousand dollars a day,
thirteen days, one point eight million, just to keep Karen
(05:21):
Bass from testifying about the missing two billion. Now, I
assume that the plaintiffs had insisted, and I wish they had,
maybe some three six months down the road, this would
have happened, good lord, one point eight million dollars of
(05:45):
our tax money to shield her from explaining where the
two billion went. That's just that's that's so that's so aggravating.
That is so wrong, it really is. In the end,
the judge said the city did not follow the terms
of an agreement that made three years ago with La
(06:06):
Alliance because La Alliance had gotten an agreement that you know,
they would create about thirteen thousand homeless beds. I now,
they were not only trying to keep Bass from testifying,
they were trying to get out of the legal obligation
to supply the thirteen thousand beds because you know, they
(06:30):
once they blew the two billion dollars, right, what are
they going to do to build the homeless beds? Right?
The money's gone already. And I am just out of
my mind that this doesn't lead to her immediate dismissal
as mayor, I mean absolute should be, should be forced
(06:52):
out of office. But we can't even get her questioned,
and she doesn't care and she probably can't don't even
count anyway. One point eight million. And what they did
to some of the witnesses during some of the testimony
is the these nine attorneys would constantly interrupt and yell objection, objection, objection,
(07:18):
hundreds of times so that nobody could follow the case,
nobody could follow the conversation or what the issue was,
which really is a stupid way to conduct a hearing.
I mean that that that's just ridiculously obnoxious. I can't
believe there's there isn't some legal restraint for that kind
of Well, I guess that's up to the judge to
(07:40):
tell them to knock it off. But man, one point
eight million dollars on fifteen attorneys for less than two weeks,
and she never had to explain where the two billion yet.
And you want her reelection, you want her running the Olympics.
You want this lady running the Olympics. No wonder. You
(08:02):
know some people are pissed off that Trump is taking over. Well,
of course he's taking over. Look at her, Look at her.
Unbelievable when we come back. Another thing I've been yelling
at out for a long time. Uh, you know, eleven
percent of the water in the state goes to almonds.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I just had some almonds today. Actually they were quite delicious.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well you're part of the problem, okay, Yeah, eleven of
all all the water that's available goes to almond farmers.
There's a very wealthy family in Beverly Hills. They are
the King and Queen of almonds, and they use just untold.
I don't know how many millions or billions of gallons
(08:49):
of water and three quarters of the almonds are sent
to China anyway. But well, the almond farms are under attack.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Oh no, yes, one of the ways I get my protein.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Oh, you will never eat another almond. After I'm done
telling you this story, you'll see Do you know this story?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Oh, okay, well tell I can't wait when we come back.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Moistline is going to be three o'clock, three o'clock twice.
We're gonna do three twenty and three fifty and you
can follow us at social on social media John Cobelt
Radio at John Cobelt Radio. All right, the uh, the
almonds almonds, and I get this way whenever whenever they're
(09:42):
supposedly a water shortage, you know, we have a drought
or so they claim for a couple of years, and
then they want to start restricting water. Because I noticed
with the fires burning, they're starting the drum beat again. Well,
you know, we only had eight inches of rain in
southern California, abnormally dry and climate change and all, you know,
just the same old song they start singing. And uh,
(10:06):
you know, if we have another dry winner, it's gonna
be a drought. We're gonna with water shortages. And so
that's kind of on my mind. And then I saw
this story. Now most most people don't know this that
almond farms take eleven percent of our available water of
the state of California, eleven percent, and the government lets
(10:30):
them do it because almond is a big crop. They
sell to China. Seventy five percent of almonds end up
in China. Well, the almond crop is in danger this year.
Almond orchards all across the San Joaquin Valley are dealing
with a massive rat infestation. Oh yes, three hundred million
(10:57):
dollars worth of crop losses and infrastruct your damage. The
Almond Board of California. These are almond growers from Merced
to kerrn County, which I believe is the path of
the high speed rail train. Roof rats they're chewing through
the irrigation lines, they're stripping bark from the branches of
(11:21):
the almond trees, and they're eating the nuts. They're eating
the almond nuts, said one wildlife advisor. We live in
an infinite sea of rats. They're everywhere. So that's who's
rummaging through your almonds right.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Now, Maybe not mine.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
An infinite sea of rats. Does that sound disgusting? The
rats are no longer confined to their traditional nests in
the trees. They're burrowing underground, especially in orchards with they
have a limited groundcover in the winter, and so you
can't detect and control them. And they're running through the
(12:03):
irrigation canals and the waterways that are set up to
provide water to the almond trees, and so they're spreading rapidly.
What a rat sounds like is that it according to
YouTube that.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
According to YouTube, rat sound effect.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Is that a rat and heat or that's what animals
make most of their cool noises, is when they're in
heat and they're showing off for guys, showing off to
the women.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Yeah, Oh, that that almost sounds like nails on a
chalkboard to me.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Ears.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Apparently, some farmers are losing fifty percent of their almonds
even though they're trapping one hundred a day. Economic losses
are going to be anywhere from one hundred to three
hundred million dollars because they're destroying the drip lines for
irrigation and there's going to be far fewer almonds.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Now, why'd you.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Say I was the problem. I don't bring rats to
these places.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Oh, you're the problem because because the almonds are absorbed, well,
the almond farmers use so much water.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, but what does that have to do with rats?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
When I when I get told I can only take
a five minute shower? Remember that? Yeah, Jerry Brown? Five minutes. Well,
if people didn't eat almonds, we wouldn't have to live
under those restricts.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Okay, Well, what if there were burger farms and they
need to water water all the meat.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
There are burger farms, they're called cattle farms, and you
know that they do have to spend a lot of
money on water. I imagine, right.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Okay, I don't hear you complaining about that.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Well, because burgers are necessary.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Well, so we're almonds they're not. Yeah, they really are
only for vegans.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It because you don't eat my shells, but we don't.
I don't think the cattle use up eleven percent of
the water. They Uh, so they're trying to kill the
rats with bait stations, fume against an oulo boxes. But
all this all costs a lot of money, and actually
(14:22):
nobody knows what to do about it, especially when it
gets warmer. When it's warmer, they breed more.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
They got to sterilize them.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, is that true with humans? I don't know when
when it gets warmer do humans breed more?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
I used to think it was when it was colder,
because people wouldn't go out her down.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And yeah, you wear less clothes in the summer though, Ye,
I'm trying to think.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I was conceived in the in the fall, just as
it was getting colder. So is my brother. My parents
had a favorite time of year because he and I
were both born in June, early June. Yeah, so there
must be one week that. Yeah, my dad would get riled.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Up, John t am I.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Did you ever hear hear your parents?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
You did.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
It was disgusting, it was traumatic, really yes. And I
would hear the bed. I would hear the bed banging
against the wall. And the crazy thing is my parents divorced.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Maybe mom was hitting her head too hard.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, that would have explained a lot of things. Did
you ever hear yours?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Not, not specifically the moment, but there was a ritual,
and I knew it was coming because I used to
stay up very late at night, even as a little kid,
and I watched television and my parents had built an
extra room over the garage, a couple of rooms away
from where I was watching TV. But I could hear
(16:16):
they always kept the door open in their bedroom. It
was a few stairs over the garage. And then during
I don't know, mating season, i'd hear somebody gently walk
down the stairs and they'd pull the door close. And
then after about I don't know, twenty minutes, I hear
(16:39):
somebody walk down the stairs and open the door. And
it took a little while, but I finally figured out
what was going on. But I never actually heard any
moaning or yelling or anything. I wouldn't do an impression
for my brother what I thought was going on.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Oh, let's hear it.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
No, No, then it would be too much information. All right, Okay,
you know that's my my fourteen year old interpretation of
what was going on. But you never walked in.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
On anything, did you I did not, Thank goodness, did.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
This like keep you up?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
It was loud, and then make matters worse when my
dad he never listens to me, so I could say
this when my dad got remarried, Yeah, I heard that too.
Different because my dad's a little horn dog.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
So you were living with him for the second marriage.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I wasn't, but I was a kid, so I would
go to his house every other week out I see,
And so I mean, I guess they had to do
it when I was there.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Well, they're newlyweds, No, they were, Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
That's yeah, that's very true.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
At the beginning. There's like a strong run of activity
until the tape.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
And my parents were only married for twelve years.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I see, I see. So what was the difference between
the two noises?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I didn't hear the bed banging against the wall. I
heard noises, okay, and that was worse because it wasn't
even my mom.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Jesus, don't ask.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Me questions, but you answer those, diarrhea.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
You answer those. I know, you know a lot of
people would have found a way not to talk about it,
but you told us I'm in a mood, Okay, not
that mood.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
But the mood.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Remember when we were talking about almonds. Yeah, oh right, almonds.
I was trying to figure remember what we were doing.
Somehow we ended up in your dad's bedroom twice.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Different bedroom stead of houses.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
That's quite a terry brought us on. Thank you. I
am all right.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
We're on every day from what is it one to
four and then after four o'clock John Cobel Show on
demand on the iHeart app and you can catch up
on what you missed. The parent company of KTLA Channel
five has teamed up with Emerson College to poll California
voters and they're already doing presidential polling and they're also
(19:38):
doing polling for California governor, which is in twenty twenty six,
that far away. Now it's what is it, just fifteen
months and there's nobody doing well in the polling. Really,
it's they have a collection of names, and I guarantee
(20:02):
you two thirds of these names you've never heard of,
although they most of them do have or have or
have had some semi responsible position government. But missus potato
Head is at the top of the list missus potato
head Katie Porter, who recently was a congresswoman and then
(20:24):
wiped out running for Senate. I mean she ended up
in third behind Steve Garvey. I mean, Katie Porter is
eighteen percent of the vote. Now there's no other Democrat
in double digits. She's the only one. Second among the
Democrats is Tony Vallar and he's even me. He's only
(20:47):
got five percent. This guy has been around. When did
he first get elected mayor? I'm two thousand and five,
I think so. He's been in the public eye for
twenty years and has made virtually no impact in California. Wow,
five percent, and among Democrats he's second. What they did
(21:12):
is they threw all the names into a big basket Republican, Democratic,
and Independent, and some of these people haven't even declared
their candidacy. The top Republican is a guy you may
not have heard of unless you watch Fox News. His
name is Steve Hilton. Steve Hilton grew up in Great
(21:37):
Britain and ended up being the director of strategy for
the British Prime Minister David Cameron back from twenty ten
to twenty twelve. He then became a Fox News post
had a show called The Next Revolution which ran for
six years, and he has a British accent and he
(22:00):
says a lot of a lot of interesting stuff. But
I think outside Fox News, I don't think it's particularly
well known. Twelve percent of the vote. Chad Bionco is
the Republican who's number two, and he's the he's the
sheriff from Riverside County. We've had him on quite a
(22:22):
few times. He's at seven percent. And again, this is
both parties all their nominees in one basket, because that's
how the primary is going to run. They call it
a jungle primary. Everybody runs in one primary and then
the top two go on to the finals in November.
So you can get two Republicans, you can get two Democrats.
(22:42):
You can't get you know, one of each, you don't know.
And then Rick Caruso has not announced he's running for governor.
Is it four percent and nobody else is about four percent?
All the all the retread names, all these wannabes, these
these losers, these refugees from the Newsomb administration. Three percent
(23:06):
or less. It's it's not even worth saying their names.
But I see, like one, two, three, four members of
either the NEWSOB administration. Yeah, four fourer members. One of
them dropped out. The Lieutenant governor Lany Kunolakis.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
She wants to be treasurer.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, well, because she's got three percent and she was
one of the biggest fundraisers. She raised millions of dollars
and she got three percent out of it. So, you know,
smart enough to pack up her bags and the rest
of them should too. Not None of these people, Like
if I say their names right now, it's possible it's
the last time you're ever going to hear their names.
Tony Thurmont, Like, who's that He's in charge of the
(23:51):
worst public school system in the country. Yeah, he's the
California Superintendent of Schools. He's running for governor. I think
that had no sense of self awareness. It's like, you're
running the worst public school system in the nation and
you want to run the whole state. Or maybe it's
just that people say, well do some did it? Uh? Yeah,
(24:16):
I want to go. Stephen Klubeck has got two percent.
We've had him on the show a couple of times.
He's the businessman. So the two business guys gruesome kluebec
have six percent between them, and then we've got missus
potato head.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Kamala should have stayed in the race.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, but she doesn't really want to work that hard. Really,
I just I don't. I don't. I don't think she
wanted to do the day to day work of being governor.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Obviously, because look she would. She was always in the lead.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I know. Now for the presidential nomination, now, this is
just California voters. Newsom is leading with twenty three percent,
followed by Pete Buddhajetch and seventeen percent. Good lord, and
Kamala is still third and eleven percent. Although that's pretty bad.
That's pretty bad. These are California voters. President Harrison and
(25:15):
then oh god, AOC is nine percent. That's on the
Democrat side. The Republican side, JD. Vance has forty. Robert
Kennedy is second at ten percent. He's not even a Republican.
Now here are some job approval ratings numbers, and it's
just if these are anywhere accurate, and you never know
(25:36):
with Poland it's like I swear, I don't know if
all these people have had lobotomies, or we have to
start giving people lobotomies Newsom has a forty four percent
job approval rating, which is actually pretty low, except his
disapproval rating is only thirty eight percent. Really so, so
(25:58):
over sixty percent either approve or are neutral about him.
What else does he need to do? That's what I'm wondering.
What else do these people have to do to convince
you that they should be escorted out of government and
taken away maybe the Al Salvador because they're so bad
(26:19):
and they damage the states so much. I mean, there's
still people willing to pull a lever for Newsom and
Kamala Harris. Trump has a thirty percent approval rating, and
I don't think there's anything I don't think there's anything
(26:41):
else interesting in this. But we really have we have
a stupid voting population. I don't know how else to
say it. We just have a really stupid and that's
why the government's so bad. And that's why you have,
you know, seventy thousand homeless people in La County. That's
why you have the highest tax, That's why the gas
prices are a dollar fifty more than any other state.
(27:03):
That's why energy prices are double the rest of the country.
You wonder why it's like what does it take people?
What is it with? Any one of these issues would
normally sink a governor in any other state. Housing prices
are at the top of the charts right, record high
expensive housing, record high expensive gas, record high expensive energy.
(27:27):
By a lot, It's not even close. It's double all
the crime we've had because they wouldn't prosecute to criminals anymore.
The homelessness, all the stolen money, the high speed rail
stolen money, the the the homeless, stolen money because there's
twenty four billion missing from the state, the thirty billions
(27:49):
stolen from the unemployment program during COVID, all of that,
all the draconian COVID restrictions that most other states state
and have that destroyed thousands of businesses, kept kids out
of school for a year and a half. I mean,
he is been a bulldozer ruining people's lives. He still
(28:11):
gets forty four percent approval read that's fascinating. It's like,
I want like a study of these people's brains. Every
NEWSOM voter should be put into an MRI tube and
I honestly, if there's something defect, maybe there's a virus
that everybody caught in the STAD. Maybe there's something in
the water that the bacteria settled in people's brains. How
(28:33):
could they not see that? I mean, everybody bitches about
all the same stuff. That's the thing. You have a
conversation with anybody for five minutes and they're all talking
about the things I just said. And then you know,
Polster calls, who do you want? Who want for prosident?
We'll get Vin Newsom?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
But do you like?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Kevin Newsom is going, yeah, I do what. I will
trade every one of those voters ten to one. I'll
take ten illegal aliens for every one of those voters.
How about how about that deal? We could stop the
deportations of illegal aliens start the deportations of Newsom voters.
(29:10):
I think I'm right on that.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Uh, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AMI.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Every time I'm late coming back, So Stepper's in here,
all right? Just see you know she comes in here.
I lose track of the show. I'm like getting back.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Why do I get blamed?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Well, it is your fault whenever I'm late and the
music's playing.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Okay, So you want me to go in there?
Speaker 4 (29:37):
No? No, I like, how can't you come visit now
what happened yesterday? I walked out the press record on
the phone. Yeah, dep's walking in, Lily say to her,
Hey breaks.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Over and I watched right out.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I know, was right before the break start.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Don't even pile on, Eric.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
So we've got we've got the kid who got attacked
by the coyote. I watch you hear this story. I
was sorry, so sorry for this kid. But you hear
him tell the story. He's kind of excited, you know,
he feels like he really went through quite a battle here.
This is I guess his family was watching a girl's
(30:16):
softball tournament in Carson and a coyote like ran out
into the field and somehow found this little boy and
he got attacked. This is ABC seven reporter Ashley Mackie.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It was a coyote and this keep scratching me and
biting me.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Six year old Enoch recounts the shocking moment he was
attacked by a coyote. He was with his family at
Dilamo Park for a softball tournament. His sister was competing in. Well,
when the coyote was biting you, what were you to
you thinking?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I was I wasn't doing a litything.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I was in Yeo hearing her son screams, Melissa Palomar
sprang into action.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
He yelled immediately as soon as the coyote bit him,
I ran towards him and then I noticed it was
a coyote, and I started making noise, and as soon
as I got close to him, he ran off.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Enoch needed more than twenty stitches. He was bit on
the back of his head, both legs, and he has
scratches down his back. He also needed several rabies shots.
The one thing I don't like in the hospital was
like shots and those more fingers you're playing fish and
Wildlife officers have collected clothing evidence for DNA testing so
(31:33):
they can attempt to locate the coyote. Melissa is hoping
by sharing their experience, more people can be aware of
the dangers.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
There's a lot of coyotes. I mean, I've seen them
in the street driving, but I never thought they would
be so close to us, you know, And for a
lot of people to be there and still a coyote
to go to the playground and attack them, it's very
shocking to me.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Melissa tells us. While Enoch is recovering, they're just watching
his wounds for signs of infection, and she says the
doctor told her luckily she was there to act fast
because the situation could have been much worse.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Imagine beating a coyote off your kid.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
No, I mean, we have so many coyotes in our neighborhood,
so do we, but they don't come up to us.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
But I think they get habituated, like a coyote in
a park is around so many people.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
They're not afraid anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
No, they're not, because I always hear you know, they
always put a disclaimer in a lot of these new stories.
It's very rare for a coyote to attack a child. Yeah,
except the coyotes can't get used to children and dogs
and they do snatch them. I mean, coyotes eat dogs
every night, and cats too. When we first moved to
(32:50):
watch it, first first day I spent in California, they
put us up at the in Burbank. What was the
name of that, It was really well known, it was
Oakwood Apartments. We stayed here three weeks before took over
on KFI. First night I woke up in the state
of California. First night, I'm here in all kinds of
(33:12):
howling what is that. Oh, it's the coyotes. They're eating
local pets. They're eating cats and dogs and or you know,
rabbits that they find. And then when we moved to
the hills on the west Side, same thing we had.
We had coyotes and they would whip themselves into a frenzy,
you know, like four or five of them at once
and shred some poor local cat.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
You don't need to describe it.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Do you do. Do you still hear that in your neighborhood?
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, I do. It's horrible.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
So with you know, some idiot on TV goings you know,
it's actually very rare.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
It's like, shut up, good thing. I didn't say it's
very rare.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
You don't say it's very rare. Okay, Well, because you know,
a lot of this stuff goes unreported. The number of
cats and dogs that I heard probably a dozens. I
never called animal shelters or animal welfare about it.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
I'm just amazed people in my neighborhood, as I said,
so many coyotes constantly, and it doesn't matter what time
of day or night it is, they still leave their
dogs out. And I just don't I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
I really don't so we've got coyotes. We have red
tailed hawks have moved in. There's a family of them
somewhere in the foliage near our house because now they're
coming and flying into our backyard and they're standing on
the pool fence or on the fence of my son's
batting cage. We've had owls flying in.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, woke up one morning there's a owls standing on
the rail.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Well, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
And then and I'm in the flatlands too, I'm not
even up in the hills. Oh. And then last night
I showed you guys the photo my wife's ring camera
went off and she had a video of a mountain
lion jumped up to the top of a side fence,
on top of the gate, and it was perched looking around.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
What do you have in your yard that's attracting all
these animals?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I don't know, because while we were watching this video,
you could hear in the background something crashing into it
was a metallic sound, So I don't know if there
was a second animal there.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Maybe trying to get the Was it a mountain lion
or a bobcat.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
It's the same thing. It's it's different names depending on
what part of the country you're from. But you could
call it a bobcat too, and a beautiful look at animal, yeah,
really good look at animal.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
But well, as Eric pointed out, it looks like it
has a caller.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah, it does. So it may be tagged because we're
near the Santa Monica Mountains, and I think sometimes whatever
agency attracts these mountain lions, they tag them to just
see that they're doing okay and they're not getting wiped
out by whatever endangers the mountain lions. Pope louis inside,
(36:01):
oh Leoh, sorry, Hope louis the hell's Pope LOI left
that poor dog.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Remember he has a pee and poop room in his house.
Oh no, let the poor dog go out.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Yeah we can't. We can't. We were letting him out
and I'd be standing near him. I won't even do
that anymore because because after I saw the red tailed hawk,
that thing will swoop in and take him away before
I could blink. And and I don't want to fight
a bobcat or a coyote, please do No, I'm not
going to get into a fist fight with one of those.
It's like, all right, everybody go home, let's stay inside.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Go to your room.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
That's right, Leo, go to your room, go poop in
the kitchen. We're not We're not going out.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Here as I do every day.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Yeah, that's that's right. But you're It's safer for you
and easier for me because I'll get oh my god,
I'll get so hammered if Leo gets taken off by
a coyote or or a red tailed hawk for some reason.
That scares me more because you don't see Do you.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
See your dog flying up in the in the air.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah, I know that's terrible. You ought to stay indoors too.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
I've gained a few pounds.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Well you think that hawk will get exhausted and yeah,
dropped you back. Yeah, I don't see those few pounds,
but if you say so. Deborah Mark is live in
the CAFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear
the show live on KFI AM six forty from one
to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course
anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
The John Kobylt Show News
Host
John Kobylt
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!