January 2, 2025 • 40 mins
Phil Shuman fills in for John Kobylt. Jamie Paige comes on the show to talk about some of the biggest stories of 2024. New laws in the new year. Authorities believe that the terror attack in New Orleans and the Cybertruck exploding in Las Vegas at the Trump Hotel are not linked together.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can if I am six forty you're listening to the
John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
The news that has been dominating coverage for the past
couple of days is frightening. But we're going to overcome.
We are going to persevere, we are going to rise
above it. We're going to talk about what's been happening
in Southern California the past year and some of the
big stories that we expect to unfold over the year ahead.
I'm Phil Schumann from Fox eleven News. Been covering the
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news in southern California since nineteen eighty three? Can you
believe that? And if I was working today, I would
no doubt be out in Fullerton. This is what Debra
Mark was talking about as a small crane. A plane
has crashed into a building near the Fullerton Airport. Don't
know details, don't know whether it was on takeoff or landing,
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but we do know there was a small airport in
Fullerton very close to that crime scene. I actually used
to have my private pilot's license, but I gave it
up because I just didn't feel confident enough occasionally flying
around Southern California, especially when I cover stories like that
they'd always say, you know that Clem, he was the
safest pilot I ever knew, never had a problem in
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fifty years of flying. And then there's this, you know,
charred wreckage on the on the pavement. I'm thinking, well,
that could happen to Clem, could happen to me?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
All right?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Valley Dashcurrent dot com and Westside Current dot com websites
that are doing a great job, and I guess what
we would call it is hyperlocal coverage, one of the
many ways that people get news and information these days,
in addition to obviously newspapers, television, and the radio. You
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have to pick your websites to spend your time on.
This is an excellent one. And joining us now is
Jamie Page from uh Westside Current dot com, who has
I guess you'd call this an article or a posting.
A year of telling stories that matter, Jamie.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Good to have you on again, Good to have are,
good to talk to you. Happy new year to you, Happy.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
New year to you.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So a year of telling stories that matter, and you've
told some great ones. I haven't printed out here, but
maybe you could give our listeners like a recap of
what you think the year of stories that mattered. What
the headlines are from Southern California from twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
You know, it's really hard to choose because our city
and county seem to fumble a lot when it comes
to taxpayer dollars and accountability. That is a theme, yes, right,
It just feels like we keep getting everything wrong. But
we chose a few that we thought were important, especially
the taxpayers. One of the biggest stories that we've been telling,
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and we have a new series coming out next week,
is Project Home Key. Those are our series of hundreds
of millions of dollars being spent in Los Angeles City
and County with over seventy percent of units that remain
empty from these one hundreds of units that we've bought
and again one hundreds of millions of dollars that we
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spent on them. So that's their biggest story. We traveled
to San Francisco to see what they're doing, and next
week we're going to be publishing another series on how
we compare Los Angeles City with San Francisco. So the
biggest stories that we've been telling this year about how
the homeless funding and I hate to say, how in
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upt our city and county. It's about accountability, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
But isn't a state program.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It's a state program, but each each of the municipalities
gets money. And so what we were most curious about was, Okay,
so we've looked at LA right, We've gotten I think
three billion dollars in total over the years from State Homeky.
So we all we wanted to see how that money
was divided and how each city has spent their money.
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So we spent months driving to each location in the
city and and honestly, I was surprised in the beginning
that I found so many empty rooms because I you know,
you figure the city spending this money and people are
house right, We've got thousands of people who language on
our streets every day, so this was supposed to be
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a fix for that. But they're empty. Seventy percent of
units still remain unoccupied today of the hundreds of millions
of dollars that we spent. So again, it made us
want to look at another city and see how others
are doing it right outside of our city here in
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Los Angeles. I'm sure you've read about some of the
home key funding that's also been spent where rooms are empty.
We're talking about San Luis Obisco County. Right here next door,
one thousand oaks has empty units. So it's a failure.
The program in itself has been a failure. So we're
driving around the state to see what's happening.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Have you ever got a satisfactor with explanation as to
why the rooms are empty.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
We're talking about existing rooms.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
We're not talking about new construction that takes a period
of time.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
We're talking about both. So Project Homeky one they had
acquired hotels and motels and then they looked at this
and said, Okay, rehabbing all these is going to cost
a lot of money, and we just can't get these
online soon enough. But our second series that they did
homekey money, they bought new buildings, and what the city
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and county both have said to me is that because
of eighty eight requirements, this is one of the biggest
reasons that when things go online in the private sector,
it doesn't necessarily mean that it can be public. The
city can use it because of state requirements. But my
question was, out of all the buildings in Los Angeles,
then why are we buying the ones for hundreds of
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millions of dollars that you still can't put online and
why two years after are they still empty?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, and you'll never get a one hundred percent straight
answer on that one. There always excuses, explanations. So homeless
US accountability funding an ongoing, huge issue, very frustrating. What
would you say, somebody if you had a list two
or three, four other major Southern California phone your stories
over the past year that will continue to be important
going forward.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Well, I think one of the stories that we're continuing
to look at is our shelter crisis, that is, our
animal shelter crisis here in LA We are supposed to
be a no kill shelter, but we're killing thousands of
animals a year. We have the second highest rate in kills,
second to Texas, and we fluctuate back and forth our
city with them. So that's something that we're continuing to
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look at as well. Also, black and brown outs in
the county. You know post the little to Fire, A
lot of folks from you in the county are experiencing
days and days of blackouts where the electricity is being
turned off and that goes to Supervisor Lindsay Horrorvath's office
and we've tried to get communication with them about We've
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talked to seniors who don't have access to vital like
usage of like oxygen when they have blackouts, and they
a lot of them are on uh fixed incomes, so
they can't afford by generators. So we're looking at those stories. Again,
it's a county accountability we're looking at that. We're also
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you know, there's it's just looking at some audits that
are going around too, to see what's happening with their
city and county under this LA Alliance audit. We we
go to the courtrooms every time that they're hearing for
that to see what Judge Carter is saying about how
LASA is doing. That comes to the issue, yes, back
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to our Sydian County homelessness issue. We also started a
new series called LA is Dirty because everywhere you drive
around you see trash all over the place. So I've
been following street cleanings and we're going to be launching
a full series of three one one and request Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And because three one one is yeah, that's the city's
you know, one stop shop for any services you need,
five to one one in the county.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Does it work or does it not work?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
You guess, well, I.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Know my own personal experience.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
If I call three one one and then need, for example,
you know, a bulky item pickup, then they'll come. But
if I call three one one and say there's like
ten trash bat barrels that are, you know, spilled on
the sidewalk on Ventura Boulevard, that's that's a different story.
But I do know talk with Mayor Bass about this,
and I'm sure you're aware of it. Is there, you know,
in advance of the twenty eight Olympics, she's launching this
huge new ramp up program from the Department of Sanitation
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specifically to clean up the city.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
So at least we have the plan in place, the
goal in place, but.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
You're one of the failings of that though. We don't
have as much money in place for cleanups that we
used to. A lot of the financing had sunset and
so that's why you're seeing a lot more trash out
there right now as well too. The programs that we
were using they've sunseted, so you know, a lot of
great ideas of implementing them seems to be a struggle.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So Jamie, you're kind of like depressing me. I mean,
nothing seems to be working. Do you got any you
have any encouraging news that you've uncovered there at Valley
Current dot com or west Side Current dot com or.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
No, Well it does.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I mean, I'm teasing you. I'm teasing you, but you
know you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It's like it's it's not that people want these things
to fail. Uh, they want they're doing it as they
want to succeed. But it's especially when it comes to homelessness,
I call it, you know, the problem that's that's too
big to solve.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Well maybe, but that's why we elect our officials, right
and and you know, as journalists, it's our jobs to
give the report cards and you tell people what's going.
So it's if you're failing on a report card, there's
only one way to go and that's up. So hopefully
by spotlighting this and holding our elected officials accountable, we'll
see some improvement.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Well I hope so too.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Jamie Page from Westside Current dot com and Valley dash
Current dot com. I really appreciate the work that you
guys do. I know how much time and effort goes
into it. The websites are free, right, but people can
contribute if they would like.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
How does that work.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
We actually just launched our new hyperlocal teer system of
memberships for funding. Yes, we are free, but reporting is not,
as you know, so thank you for asking. You can
just go to any of our websites right now and
we have some new banners that you just click on
and you can choose how much you want to donate,
and that money does make a difference when it comes
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to us being able to pay reporters on the ground,
so keeps us going.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Hyperlocal journalism that is the future I think people. I
think people trust that perhaps more more than say a
national website or of course you know, one of the
cable networks and this fragmented news media landscape we're in.
So thanks for doing what you do, and I'm going
to definitely click on one of those banners.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
And see how I can help out. Appreciate it all right,
Jamie Page, thanks you so much. We'll talk with you soon.
I'm Phil Schuman in for John COBLT.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
This homelessness issue, I mean, it's perhaps the issue of
our time, along with crime and public safety, and it's
just so frustrating because, as I've said here over and
over again, it's not from a lack of money.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's not from a lack of effort.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's not from a lack of dedicated, smart people with
compassion or trying to figure out all this out. It's
just it's so ingrained and so complex and so difficult
that it seems like we're just you know, digging like
one inch forward, you know, six inches backward, one step forward,
five step steps backwards. And we need organizations like Valley Current,
Westside Current, the La Times, Fox A, Live in News, KFI,
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whatever the news organization is to keep the spotlight on
these officials and make sure that we hold them accountable.
It's very difficult to do because, as former Sheriffvino Wava
used to call it, the homeless industrial complex is, you know,
like the military industrial complex. It's a self fulfilling prophecy
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and it's rolling down the road and it's very tough
to alter the course.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I'm Phil Shuman with you till four o'clock.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I'm Phil Schuman in for John co Belt. He will
be back on Monday. The past couple of weeks have
been you know, the Christmas, the New Year's, the football,
the basketball, the parties, the eating, the fun, and then
we wake up on New Year's Morning to the terrible
news from New Orleans and then this crazy story in Vegas.
Interesting on the news that I wonder if this this
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crazed individual that blew himself up in his cyber truck
in Vegas. I wonder if he was trying to kill
himself or you hope to take people out with him.
And then you heard the news stories. I guess the
good news for the folks that were at the hotel
is that the steel cyber truck contained the blast.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Remember earlier we had Dallas Ameron from Orange County who
was at the hotel with his wife and daughter.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
What a frightening experience.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So this time of the year, if you've been listening
to KFI, you probably heard other talk show deal with this.
But I think it's worth repeating a bit without going
into too much detail because you may have heard it already.
But how California's new laws not just what they are.
We always do the new laws of the new year
at this time of year, but it's not just what
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the new laws are, but how they can affect you
and how they theoretically give us more protections make our
lives a little bit better. That's I guess if you
wanted to call it a theme that we're trying to
do here, or that I'm trying to do here, is
how do we live like a better life, a safer life,
a more productive life, more fulfilling life. These are questions
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that we should be asking ourselves all the time, and
they're particularly timely at this time of the year. Right,
So pick a number, if you have to pick a number,
All right, Debria, I'm gonna quiz you on this.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I'm not sure she's able to answer.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
But how many bills do you think California legislators passed
in twenty twenty four?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Two hundred? Eric'says two hundred. That would be low.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
California lawmakers passed roughly twelve hundred bills last year, which
is hard to believe, and then Governor Newsom Gavin Newsom
signed about eighty four percent of them, and many of
them take effect as California rings in the new year.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
So have you ever been to Amsterdam?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Amsterdam is known for many things, among them is legalized
weed marijuana. And now I guess they're saying that California's
cities and counties are going to be similar. Cities and
towns are gonna be similar to Amsterdam because you can
now hang out at dispensaries like you would at a
regular restaurant or cafe, and cannabis retailers can sell food
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and non alcoholic beverages at what it will be known
as cannabis cafes or lounges. Before that, you could use
cannabis or smoke weed in some dispensaries, but they were
only allowed to sell like prepackaged snacks and drinks. So
now you can order your steak and your gummy in
the same restaurant. So congratulations to California lawmakers for doing that.
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I know West Hollywood has already had that, and we're
quite clear on how they were able to do that.
I know still local municipalities still have to approve these
things on a case by case basis, but they aren't
legal now statewide. Artificial intelligence is something we talk about
so much. You remember, is a huge part of the
Writers and the Actors Strike that we all covered so
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much in twenty twenty three. So it's not just protecting
actors from AI imitations, but you actually required if you're
a production or a company you're making a movie, TV show, commercials,
you have to create a contract that specifies any use
of artificial intelligence, particularly when it comes to replicating an
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actor's voice or likeness. This was assembly built twenty six
oh two and it aims to protect performers and actors
by preventing artificial intelligence from replicating the voices or likeness
without permission. I'm not so sure why an actor would
give permission for something like that, which seems like the
whole point is that they would want to get paid
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for using.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Their voice or likeness.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
But at least it does significantly tighten up the procedures
around how you do that.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
And here's an interesting corollary to that.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Dead actors' voices can't be exploited, and you will get
a ten thousand dollars fine for using the voice a
dead actor or one that sounds like the voice of
a dead actor without the consent of their state. This
was sponsored by SAG after SAG Screen Actors Guilt after
American Federation of Television Radio Artists, which I've been a
proud member of for quite a while. That was introduced
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in light of advancements that made an AI that said
that you could clone human voices. Interesting, all right. On
a more basic level, the minimum wage is going up.
Workers paid the state wide minimum wage will get an
annual increase to their hourly wages from sixteen dollars in
twenty twenty four to sixteen dollars and fifty cents. That's
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the state wide minimum wage. Of course, you could get
more depending on what city or county, what industry you work.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
And you remember we covered this story in the past
year or so.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
The minimum wage for fast food workers is now twenty
dollars an hour in several cities, including Los Angeles. Minimum
wages in some sectors, not just restaurants. But you know
I told you it was gonna be sixteen fifty. It's
about seventeen dollars an hour. I mean, I'm not a
fast food restaurant customer. I don't know if you guys are,
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but from what I understand, partly to offset the increase
in wages, you know well deserved, fast food prices are
way up right. I mean, how much does it cost
to get like a burger and fries?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I wouldn't know because I really don't. I really don't
eat fast food except when John kovel. He brings me
in and out fries. I couldn't even tell you how
much they cost.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Yeah, all I know is the number one in and
out is over ten dollars. And for the longest time
it was never over ten dollars. What's that hamburger and
front do double fries and a drink? Double double fries
and a drink.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
You know it's funny because you know, in our younger days, right,
we'd hang out at McDonald's and what was a hamburger like,
you know, fifty cents or something like that. I mean
that's aging me. But yeah, not a big fast food consumer.
Although when you work in the news, right, I mean
I could tell you where every McDonald's and every seven
to eleven is, right, especially if you're on the early
morning shift. You need bathrooms, you need coffee, you need
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Wi Fi. But yeah, there's healthier options out there. Handle
talks a lot about fast food, doesn't He talks a
lot about costo food. But here's another new law. This
is an important one in the housing area. We have
more time to respond to eviction notices, one of the
big issues, one of the big causations for homelessness. We've
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been talking about is of course the cost of living,
the high rent, and the fact that people don't have
much margin for error if they're living paycheck to paycheck.
And the good news here is that tenants, if you're
a renter, you have double the time to respond to
an eviction notice. Previously, the legal time to respond to
an eviction notice was five business days, but it's now
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increased to ten business days. Of course, you're still getting
an eviction notice, but it might give you more time
to get some advice, come up with some money, or,
as the article that I'm reading from the La Times explains,
gather evidence to file an appropriate response.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Here's something that's really interesting, medical debt.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Don't really think about this in relation to your credit score,
but so many of us have medical debt.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
It's the it's the account.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
It's a factor and a huge majority of personal bankruptcies.
But a new law in California as of this year
says that credit agencies can no longer include medical debt
on people's credit reports.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
It's saying that about four.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Out of ten people are burdened with some form of
medical debt they're unable to pay off. And so you
could argue that if you have medical debt. That doesn't
mean that you're a poor credit risk. It might mean
that you don't have insurance. So you've had some unexpected
medical expenses and it shouldn't be held against you in
your credit report. So I say amen to that one.
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All right, that's going to do it for our quick
summary of new laws. I'm sure if you have a law,
you know, pitch it to your assembly person, your state senator,
and you know, maybe it'll go through the legislature and
Governor Newsom would he even signed it someday. I'm Phil
Schuman in for John Colebilt, got about a half an
hour left, lots more to talk about. We're going to
recap the big stories of the past couple of days
from Las Vegas and from New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I'm Phil Schuman in for John co Belt.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Look forward to being with you again tomorrow from one
to four and then John Big John comes back to
the Big Chair on Monday. We've been talking so much
about the twin attacks on Wednesday morning, the one in
New Orleans of course that killed fourteen people, and the
bizarre cyber truck explosion, the Tesla truck that blew up
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in the Valley parking area of the Trump International Hotel
in Las Vegas. Here in the KFI studios, just watching
some of the monitors as the National Network News comes on,
and the images from both locations are just stunning. In particular,
you see the blown up Tesla truck, that cyber truck,
and apparently a whole lot of explosives were inside that.
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Can we play a cut one Eric from Las Vegas
Metro Police talking about what was found inside that truck
that exploded.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
But I would like to highlight a couple of things
that the teams found inside of the cyber.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Truck that are useful to the investigation, and that first
and foremost is a military identification.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
We also found a passport.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
We found a Desert Eagle fifty caliber.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Semi automatic pistol, and if you'll notice on a lot
of these guns that we're going to talk about here,
they're almost just burn beyond recognition. As well, there's an
SLR Model B thirty semi automatic firearm.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Number of fireworks that were still in the vehicle that
had to be removed. We found an iPhone and a
smart watch, and then several credit cards, also in the
name of our subject. Our subject is thirty seven year
old Matthew Libelsberger is of Colorado Springs, Colorado, born in
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July twenty second of nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
That was Las Vegas law enforcement authorities talking about that
bizarre Is it a suicide attempt? Was it a terrorist attempt?
We don't know that yet. But the suspect or the
dead man, Matthield Lewsberger, former Green Beret, which is to
me shocking special operations, elite soldier through extensive obviously you
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qualified through extensive physical and psychological training. Obviously, somewhere along
the line, things went very wrong in his life, whether
it was personally, professionally, or whether he was isis inspired
as this crazed killer apparently was in New York shifting
rather in New Orleans, shifting to that story again. Were
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warnings ignored? Were security measures insufficient? A lot of cya
going on right now from New Orleans, especially that police
commissioner who's talking about, Well, he was hell bent on destruction.
So if we had a police car barricading Bourbon Street,
which apparently they did, which he went around, he would
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have just gone to another location. Well, no, because Bourbon
Street is where the crowds are. He wouldn't have gone till,
you know, Sixth Street with nobody on it, So who
are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
And nearly and this is a headline from today.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Nearly a year before he allegedly, say, allegedly still killed
fourteen people and injured I think three dozen more. This
suspect some should ding. Jabbar openly expressed his beliefs about music, quote, intoxicants,
sex and other pleasures were quote evils deserving of destruction.
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This was an account on the sound card sound cloud platform,
where you can post audio again under his own name,
at least three recordings, twenty minutes each. They all contain
numerous expressions of extremist religious views. Now, if you're with
us earlier, we were talking about if you see something,
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say something. Well, this is something you would see or
hear that if you were a responsible citizen, you would report.
But apparently nobody reported it and you saw the results.
Let's play cut to Eric. This is the FBI talking
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about right now, no link between the attack on Bourbon
Street in New Orleans and that incident in Vegas.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
At this point, there is no definitive link between the
attack here in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas.
And again I'll preface as I close, I'll preface everything
with what I started with in the beginning, which was
this is very early in an investment gation like.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
This, Yes, which we understand, and things can change. I
mean they changed between Wednesday and Thursday. There were accomplices,
there weren't accomplices. We think he had friends and other
supporters who helped him carry out the tack. Now we
think he didn't. They may have been a connection to Vegas.
Now we don't think there's a connection to Vegas. I mean,
we get it, We'll we'll give them some some slack there.
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But what what is hard to understand is how these
apparent warning signs were missed, disregarded, and then this at
the same time that security measures were perhaps less less
than robust in New Orleans. If you were with us earlier,
you heard former a Secret Service agent, now an ABC
News law enforcement contributor Don Mahllick talk about that and
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how a simple police vehicle as a barricade as opposed
to a dump truck, a city bus, concrete barriers, mobile
vehicle barriers, like they use along Colorado Boulevard, and the
rose per might have done a better job of preventing
the loss of life.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Why does he say that he made a good point.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
That's why we had experts on to give us their insight,
because let's say this is what happened now, was the
suspect was able to simply drive up on the sidewalk
in his rented electric pickup truck and go around a
vehicle that was acting as a barricade and then barrel
down the crowded street, killing fourteen and injuring three dozen.
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So if you could imagine a different scenario where maybe
he had the same intentions, but he hit a concrete barricade,
or he bounced off the side of a dump truck
and perhaps got out of his vehicle and law enforcement
could have engaged him right there and taken him out,
which they eventually did before he could have, you know,
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driven down the block and killed all those people.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
So a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yes, it's easy, especially of us, you know, weasels in
the media to second guess law enforcement on these kinds
of scenarios. To second guests are intelligence officials, why were
these warning signs missed? But we're not second guessing. We're
asking like legitimate questions. I mean, here this suspect Jabbar
(28:18):
shamsu Din Jabbar. He posted five videos on Facebook. Now,
granted this was in the early morning hours leading up
to the attack, but if you're implementing a security plan
around a venue on a New Year's Eve, then one
of the basic functions of these analysts, and as I
(28:39):
told you earlier the Joint Terrorism Task Force the Joint
Regional Intelligence Centers, is to monitor social media using computers
which pick out red flags and keywords and religious extremist views.
Again without crossing the line to spying. It's a delicate balance.
But these warning signs were not picked up. And then
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what's even more bizarre is that he apparently had discussed
plans to kill his family as well as as plans
to join ISIS, but decided that killing his family wouldn't
exactly have the same kind of impact as what he did,
which was you know, mowing down people on Bourbon Street
(29:23):
at three o'clock in the morning on Wednesday. And then
again to add to make this even more bizarre, this
is someone who was an elite Special Forces operator as
a Green Beret, who obviously had some major radicalization in
his life since he passed the psychological evaluations to become
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a Special Forces operator.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Wow, just so much here.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
And then does it matter to the fourteen people who
are dead and the thirty five people who were in
the hospital about the details of this guy's life or
what pushed an to do what he did. I would
say not really. You know, they get to deal with
it whatever, whatever the realities are. But what will matter
is that what could have been done to prevent it?
And then what we can learn from this, which we do,
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but we don't to try to prevent it from happening
again in the future.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
That to me is the bottom line.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
How do we prevent it from happening again in the
future if that's even possible, and we want to live
in a free society.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
We don't want to have, you know, roadblocks on every corner.
All right. I'm Phil Schumann in for John cole Belt.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I will be back again tomorrow from one to four.
And then I know you're saying, when is John coming back?
When is John coming back? Let's get rid of this
TV news guy. Well, John will be back on Monday,
no doubt, with some wild tales to tell about his
time off during the holidays. One of the things that's
very cool these days, and this would be under the
category of entertainment if we can take a break from
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all of this heavy depressing news, is TV. The TV
has never been better than it was than it is
right now. And yes, you have to spend money on
the streaming services and it's not like just popping on
the old broadcast networks. Although this weekend should be fun
when Nicki Glazer hosts the People's Choice the Golden Globes
(31:21):
Awards rather on Sunday on CBS. But there's so much
great content on right now. Land Man is a fun
thing I'm watching. I bet Tim Conway Junior is paying
attention Nike, Tim, because you know you come from a
rich showbiz tradition.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Do you watch a lot of TV? I don't watch anything.
You don't watch anything. No, I'm starting to watch.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Like, for instance, two years ago at Christmas, my daughter said, Hey,
you got to watch this show called The Office. I said,
I'm not a big Steve Carell fan. I'm not gonna
watch you off, okay, And she said watch. It was
in the snowing in the winter, and we had locked
inside nothing to do, and she said, look, Dad, I
never asked you anything. Just watch threepsodes and if you
don't like it, I'll never bother you again for anything.
(32:03):
And I said, okay, deal, watch the first episode. I
didn't get it. Watch the second episode. Hooked for life.
Really yeah, can't stop watching him now. I love it,
can't stop watching. And I feel like an a hole
that I did. Do you have anything from like you know,
recent times? I don't watch anything. I don't watch it,
but there's so much there's a lot of quality program
I look, I have a problem keeping track of what's
(32:25):
going on on the movies on the movie set. Like
like I'll be with my wife at a movie and
I'm like, hey, that guy who plays Superman looks a
lot like the guy playing Clark Kent. And She's like,
oh my god, Wow, can't take you anywhere.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I can't follow it.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Plus I don't like going to movies where I know
the actors, so I purposely ignore a lot of actors.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Wow, you know, because I.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Was watching I think it was Saving Private Ryan right,
and then like halfway or three quarters to the.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Movie Tim it's twenty twenty five. I know, I know, but.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Every one of my stories starts like I'm like back in,
I'm like Dad nineteen Johnny Carson. So halfway three quarters
through that movie, Ted Danson comes on. Okay, like Ted, Wait,
why is Ted Danson in World War two? This is
a war where everybody knows your name. Get out of here.
So I don't watch any of the other new stuff. Wow, No,
I'm surprising. I mean, I'm surprised to hear that.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I don't watch Netflix. I don't watch YouTube. No, that's
not true. I watch a lot of stuff on YouTube.
I watched. I listen to a lot of podcasts, watch
a lot of podcasts.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
But I like, do you read books. I don't read
books either. Wow.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I just love talk radio. So you work on the
radio and you go to the track. I grew up
on talk talk radio. I listen to talk radio from
around the country. I go to the racetrack and.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
I go home, and I go to Walmart and I
go home, and I go to the racetrack and I
go home. I live the simplest life in the world.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
That's why if I won the lottery, it would ruin
my life because everybody would bay on me. You wouldn't
know what to buy. Well, no, I don't need that
kind of you know, that kind of money. I don't
spend that kind of money. Wow, you know that's interesting.
So but I really think if I did win the lottery,
it would ruin my life because every time some to
call me, they'd be expecting like a package. Well know,
you would just say, yes, have a fifty grand. What
(34:06):
the hell do you buy lottery tickets?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
I do? Yeah, when it's big, big jackpone.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah, like right now it's in forty eight million or
forty million, Brian, yeahah, give me a billion, that's.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
We have Brian Gann coming on today. Okay, he's the
KFI national correspondent. We'll talk about the New Orleans of course. Yeah,
the house whisper at six twenty and then breaking news
here a small plane crash in Fullerton, right, resulting in
a foe alarm fire.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
So we'll talk about that as well, a.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Lot of bad news. Yeah, I know, we were talking
about that this afternoon. I mean, you know it's this
beautiful day or in the new year. Yeah, we're dominated
by this, especially the New Orleans story. I mean, the
guy in Vegas even wanted to kill himself. Good for him,
you know, right, but odd that they're both veterans. Veterans,
they both served at the same Fort Bragg, I think.
And this guy, the guy in Vegas is a Green Beret.
(34:51):
I mean, yeah, yeah, I think. Well the other guy,
Jabbarrow is his name.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I think he he.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
He left his service, left theervious as a master sergeant.
That's also very tough to Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know,
we were obviously in the early stages as you hear
these law enforcement types talk about it. But I'm a
little nervous with the Sugar Bowl tonight and then the
Super Bowl in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
You know, in a few weeks.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
We had the Rose Parade here with no issues fortunately,
and the Rose Bowl. But you know, we live in
like tense times, you know. You you I don't know
if you said heard the promos that they've cut for you,
but Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
It hit you in the face. It's like it does.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
And what we're trying to do here, at least what
I've been trying to do is figure out how to
make that blow like a little softer, you know. Yeah,
I don't look. I've asked people on the radio this week.
You know we got we got one hundred and fifty
to two hundred thousand visitors for the Rose Parade, Rose Bowl.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Please leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
You know, we can go back to punching each other
in the face on Sunday night. Yeah, you know, we
can turn return to Matt Matt Max on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
But let's leave these people alone.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Yeah, don't don't sexually views them, don't take the wallet,
you know, don't shoot them, don't punch them.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
In the face.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
These are visitors, and don't let don't let the homeless
harass them. Right but you know what, right now, Pasadena
does a pretty good job of keeping the lid on things.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Oh yeah, passing a cop step youre quick.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
But this right now in Minneapolis, it's like, I don't know,
three degrees, you know, shockling the drivewhere you can't go out,
you can't do anything, can't start your car, you can't
you know, food delivery service has been canceled.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
It's too cold, so you have nothing.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
And then they turn on the TV and they see
the Rose Parade in the Rose Bowl and they look
at their bank account. They have enough retirement money, and
they're coming here. They're coming here. That's been Yeah, that's
long been like the sort of double edged sword of
the of the Rose Parade and the coverage. Right, it's
a twelve hour commercial. Yeah, South southern California. But then
when they get here, they say, a three bedroom, two
bath house and alta dina costs how much? That's right,
(36:46):
three million dollars. But there are some people who made
a lot of money. That's another one of your themes
that come find a small town you love. Yeah, let's
a move there, But how were you gonna do live
in a tent on the sidewalk? No, Burbank is a
small town. Burbank is is uh is? He'll fairly love. Yeah,
Burbank's beautiful. You know, Burbank is the only city in
the United States. How about this for trivia only city
(37:07):
in the United States. The doubles in size every day
because the amount of people work here.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Oh yeah, okay, okay, Well you'll studio real quick story
that then I'll leave this all to you. You know,
you mentioned Johnny Carson earlier when I worked a Channel
four of course, up on the second floor, down on
the first floor is the Tonight Show studios, and every
time there's a big news story, you know, you try
to get Carson. You see, you can get Carson to
talk about it right because you got the TV cameras
are right there. And he came in in his Corvette
convertible every day on the midway and he'd walk right in.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Super nice guy, you know, no security or anything.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
One time, finally Burbank, which had been downtown Burbank, as
you know, had been depressed for for a long time,
was opening a movie theater. So I call up Carson's office. Hey,
we're doing the story and with mister Carson talk be
on the set at five o'clock and he'll do a
question for you. Mister Carson height, It's Phil Schuman from
from Channel four News. What do you think about Burbank
(37:57):
getting a movie theater? Because you know, of course he
made it fame. It's a beautiful downtown Burbank. So he
goes mm.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Next thing, you know, Tago Bill will get it drive
through and then and he walks off. That was my
one moment with Johnny Carson. I'm gonna leave it at
that and will have that tape. I don't have the tape.
I just have the Benot It's great, buddy.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
But but look if you look right out the window
and there it is that building. That's the building.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Yeah that was.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
I mean you guys were in that building forever exactly
exactly right. That used to the land used to be
owned by Bob Hope.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 8 (38:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Before NBC built on there. Yeah, Bob.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
A lot of great memories. There is Carson or is
that Carson's last show?
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (38:34):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Bette Midler and he walked out of the midway with
his wife, walked out to a waiting helicopter and threw
off into the sunset to Malibu.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Wow, what a career.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
And nobody's been able to well, Letterman got closed and
Leno got closed, but nobody sends Leno and Letterman has
been able to really reach an audience.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
No, it's so fragmented now, you know.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
It's there's so many people out there trying to get
attention and laughs. Nikki Glazer Sunday the Golden Globes, Right,
you know, she's kind of an X rated comedian. Where
she spends going to be talking about her on Monday.
I know where she spends her money by the way,
I read an article on Nikki Glazer. By the way,
she looks great for seventy one, eight seventy four. She's
seventy three, but she looks great in her seventies. But
(39:16):
she had an article came out about her. And she
has spent over the last two or three years one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars flying around the globe going
to Taylor Swift concerts.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Right, that's her thing. She went to like twenty five
of them or something. That's her thing.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
She doesn't have kids, so she doesn't have that expends,
and so she you know, she puts on a skirt,
he tends she's not seventy one and goes to these concerts.
I mean, after your fifth or sixth Taylor Swift concert,
you probably think that might be enough for a short time.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Yeah, that's right, all right, all right, I'm Bill.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
She was saying, so long, Phil Schutman, thanks to talk
for visiting with us.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Maybe we can do it again tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Before you take over, let's pay a visit to the
KFI twenty four hour news for room.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
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 if I am six forty you're listening to the
John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
The news that has been dominating coverage for the past
couple of days is frightening. But we're going to overcome.
We are going to persevere, we are going to rise
above it. We're going to talk about what's been happening
in Southern California the past year and some of the
big stories that we expect to unfold over the year ahead.
I'm Phil Schumann from Fox eleven News. Been covering the
(00:27):
news in southern California since nineteen eighty three? Can you
believe that? And if I was working today, I would
no doubt be out in Fullerton. This is what Debra
Mark was talking about as a small crane. A plane
has crashed into a building near the Fullerton Airport. Don't
know details, don't know whether it was on takeoff or landing,
(00:48):
but we do know there was a small airport in
Fullerton very close to that crime scene. I actually used
to have my private pilot's license, but I gave it
up because I just didn't feel confident enough occasionally flying
around Southern California, especially when I cover stories like that
they'd always say, you know that Clem, he was the
safest pilot I ever knew, never had a problem in
(01:10):
fifty years of flying. And then there's this, you know,
charred wreckage on the on the pavement. I'm thinking, well,
that could happen to Clem, could happen to me?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
All right?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Valley Dashcurrent dot com and Westside Current dot com websites
that are doing a great job, and I guess what
we would call it is hyperlocal coverage, one of the
many ways that people get news and information these days,
in addition to obviously newspapers, television, and the radio. You
(01:41):
have to pick your websites to spend your time on.
This is an excellent one. And joining us now is
Jamie Page from uh Westside Current dot com, who has
I guess you'd call this an article or a posting.
A year of telling stories that matter, Jamie.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Good to have you on again, Good to have are,
good to talk to you. Happy new year to you, Happy.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
New year to you.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So a year of telling stories that matter, and you've
told some great ones. I haven't printed out here, but
maybe you could give our listeners like a recap of
what you think the year of stories that mattered. What
the headlines are from Southern California from twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
You know, it's really hard to choose because our city
and county seem to fumble a lot when it comes
to taxpayer dollars and accountability. That is a theme, yes, right,
It just feels like we keep getting everything wrong. But
we chose a few that we thought were important, especially
the taxpayers. One of the biggest stories that we've been telling,
(02:42):
and we have a new series coming out next week,
is Project Home Key. Those are our series of hundreds
of millions of dollars being spent in Los Angeles City
and County with over seventy percent of units that remain
empty from these one hundreds of units that we've bought
and again one hundreds of millions of dollars that we
(03:03):
spent on them. So that's their biggest story. We traveled
to San Francisco to see what they're doing, and next
week we're going to be publishing another series on how
we compare Los Angeles City with San Francisco. So the
biggest stories that we've been telling this year about how
the homeless funding and I hate to say, how in
(03:24):
upt our city and county. It's about accountability, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
But isn't a state program.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It's a state program, but each each of the municipalities
gets money. And so what we were most curious about was, Okay,
so we've looked at LA right, We've gotten I think
three billion dollars in total over the years from State Homeky.
So we all we wanted to see how that money
was divided and how each city has spent their money.
(03:54):
So we spent months driving to each location in the
city and and honestly, I was surprised in the beginning
that I found so many empty rooms because I you know,
you figure the city spending this money and people are
house right, We've got thousands of people who language on
our streets every day, so this was supposed to be
(04:16):
a fix for that. But they're empty. Seventy percent of
units still remain unoccupied today of the hundreds of millions
of dollars that we spent. So again, it made us
want to look at another city and see how others
are doing it right outside of our city here in
(04:36):
Los Angeles. I'm sure you've read about some of the
home key funding that's also been spent where rooms are empty.
We're talking about San Luis Obisco County. Right here next door,
one thousand oaks has empty units. So it's a failure.
The program in itself has been a failure. So we're
driving around the state to see what's happening.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Have you ever got a satisfactor with explanation as to
why the rooms are empty.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
We're talking about existing rooms.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
We're not talking about new construction that takes a period
of time.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
We're talking about both. So Project Homeky one they had
acquired hotels and motels and then they looked at this
and said, Okay, rehabbing all these is going to cost
a lot of money, and we just can't get these
online soon enough. But our second series that they did
homekey money, they bought new buildings, and what the city
(05:32):
and county both have said to me is that because
of eighty eight requirements, this is one of the biggest
reasons that when things go online in the private sector,
it doesn't necessarily mean that it can be public. The
city can use it because of state requirements. But my
question was, out of all the buildings in Los Angeles,
then why are we buying the ones for hundreds of
(05:54):
millions of dollars that you still can't put online and
why two years after are they still empty?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, and you'll never get a one hundred percent straight
answer on that one. There always excuses, explanations. So homeless
US accountability funding an ongoing, huge issue, very frustrating. What
would you say, somebody if you had a list two
or three, four other major Southern California phone your stories
over the past year that will continue to be important
going forward.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Well, I think one of the stories that we're continuing
to look at is our shelter crisis, that is, our
animal shelter crisis here in LA We are supposed to
be a no kill shelter, but we're killing thousands of
animals a year. We have the second highest rate in kills,
second to Texas, and we fluctuate back and forth our
city with them. So that's something that we're continuing to
(06:44):
look at as well. Also, black and brown outs in
the county. You know post the little to Fire, A
lot of folks from you in the county are experiencing
days and days of blackouts where the electricity is being
turned off and that goes to Supervisor Lindsay Horrorvath's office
and we've tried to get communication with them about We've
(07:05):
talked to seniors who don't have access to vital like
usage of like oxygen when they have blackouts, and they
a lot of them are on uh fixed incomes, so
they can't afford by generators. So we're looking at those stories. Again,
it's a county accountability we're looking at that. We're also
(07:25):
you know, there's it's just looking at some audits that
are going around too, to see what's happening with their
city and county under this LA Alliance audit. We we
go to the courtrooms every time that they're hearing for
that to see what Judge Carter is saying about how
LASA is doing. That comes to the issue, yes, back
(07:49):
to our Sydian County homelessness issue. We also started a
new series called LA is Dirty because everywhere you drive
around you see trash all over the place. So I've
been following street cleanings and we're going to be launching
a full series of three one one and request Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And because three one one is yeah, that's the city's
you know, one stop shop for any services you need,
five to one one in the county.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Does it work or does it not work?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
You guess, well, I.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Know my own personal experience.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
If I call three one one and then need, for example,
you know, a bulky item pickup, then they'll come. But
if I call three one one and say there's like
ten trash bat barrels that are, you know, spilled on
the sidewalk on Ventura Boulevard, that's that's a different story.
But I do know talk with Mayor Bass about this,
and I'm sure you're aware of it. Is there, you know,
in advance of the twenty eight Olympics, she's launching this
huge new ramp up program from the Department of Sanitation
(08:49):
specifically to clean up the city.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
So at least we have the plan in place, the
goal in place, but.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
You're one of the failings of that though. We don't
have as much money in place for cleanups that we
used to. A lot of the financing had sunset and
so that's why you're seeing a lot more trash out
there right now as well too. The programs that we
were using they've sunseted, so you know, a lot of
great ideas of implementing them seems to be a struggle.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So Jamie, you're kind of like depressing me. I mean,
nothing seems to be working. Do you got any you
have any encouraging news that you've uncovered there at Valley
Current dot com or west Side Current dot com or.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
No, Well it does.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I mean, I'm teasing you. I'm teasing you, but you
know you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It's like it's it's not that people want these things
to fail. Uh, they want they're doing it as they
want to succeed. But it's especially when it comes to homelessness,
I call it, you know, the problem that's that's too
big to solve.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Well maybe, but that's why we elect our officials, right
and and you know, as journalists, it's our jobs to
give the report cards and you tell people what's going.
So it's if you're failing on a report card, there's
only one way to go and that's up. So hopefully
by spotlighting this and holding our elected officials accountable, we'll
see some improvement.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Well I hope so too.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Jamie Page from Westside Current dot com and Valley dash
Current dot com. I really appreciate the work that you
guys do. I know how much time and effort goes
into it. The websites are free, right, but people can
contribute if they would like.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
How does that work.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
We actually just launched our new hyperlocal teer system of
memberships for funding. Yes, we are free, but reporting is not,
as you know, so thank you for asking. You can
just go to any of our websites right now and
we have some new banners that you just click on
and you can choose how much you want to donate,
and that money does make a difference when it comes
(10:49):
to us being able to pay reporters on the ground,
so keeps us going.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Hyperlocal journalism that is the future I think people. I
think people trust that perhaps more more than say a
national website or of course you know, one of the
cable networks and this fragmented news media landscape we're in.
So thanks for doing what you do, and I'm going
to definitely click on one of those banners.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
And see how I can help out. Appreciate it all right,
Jamie Page, thanks you so much. We'll talk with you soon.
I'm Phil Schuman in for John COBLT.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
This homelessness issue, I mean, it's perhaps the issue of
our time, along with crime and public safety, and it's
just so frustrating because, as I've said here over and
over again, it's not from a lack of money.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's not from a lack of effort.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's not from a lack of dedicated, smart people with
compassion or trying to figure out all this out. It's
just it's so ingrained and so complex and so difficult
that it seems like we're just you know, digging like
one inch forward, you know, six inches backward, one step forward,
five step steps backwards. And we need organizations like Valley Current,
Westside Current, the La Times, Fox A, Live in News, KFI,
(11:54):
whatever the news organization is to keep the spotlight on
these officials and make sure that we hold them accountable.
It's very difficult to do because, as former Sheriffvino Wava
used to call it, the homeless industrial complex is, you know,
like the military industrial complex. It's a self fulfilling prophecy
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and it's rolling down the road and it's very tough
to alter the course.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I'm Phil Shuman with you till four o'clock.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I'm Phil Schuman in for John co Belt. He will
be back on Monday. The past couple of weeks have
been you know, the Christmas, the New Year's, the football,
the basketball, the parties, the eating, the fun, and then
we wake up on New Year's Morning to the terrible
news from New Orleans and then this crazy story in Vegas.
Interesting on the news that I wonder if this this
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crazed individual that blew himself up in his cyber truck
in Vegas. I wonder if he was trying to kill
himself or you hope to take people out with him.
And then you heard the news stories. I guess the
good news for the folks that were at the hotel
is that the steel cyber truck contained the blast.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Remember earlier we had Dallas Ameron from Orange County who
was at the hotel with his wife and daughter.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
What a frightening experience.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So this time of the year, if you've been listening
to KFI, you probably heard other talk show deal with this.
But I think it's worth repeating a bit without going
into too much detail because you may have heard it already.
But how California's new laws not just what they are.
We always do the new laws of the new year
at this time of year, but it's not just what
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the new laws are, but how they can affect you
and how they theoretically give us more protections make our
lives a little bit better. That's I guess if you
wanted to call it a theme that we're trying to
do here, or that I'm trying to do here, is
how do we live like a better life, a safer life,
a more productive life, more fulfilling life. These are questions
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that we should be asking ourselves all the time, and
they're particularly timely at this time of the year. Right,
So pick a number, if you have to pick a number,
All right, Debria, I'm gonna quiz you on this.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I'm not sure she's able to answer.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
But how many bills do you think California legislators passed
in twenty twenty four?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Two hundred? Eric'says two hundred. That would be low.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
California lawmakers passed roughly twelve hundred bills last year, which
is hard to believe, and then Governor Newsom Gavin Newsom
signed about eighty four percent of them, and many of
them take effect as California rings in the new year.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
So have you ever been to Amsterdam?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Amsterdam is known for many things, among them is legalized
weed marijuana. And now I guess they're saying that California's
cities and counties are going to be similar. Cities and
towns are gonna be similar to Amsterdam because you can
now hang out at dispensaries like you would at a
regular restaurant or cafe, and cannabis retailers can sell food
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and non alcoholic beverages at what it will be known
as cannabis cafes or lounges. Before that, you could use
cannabis or smoke weed in some dispensaries, but they were
only allowed to sell like prepackaged snacks and drinks. So
now you can order your steak and your gummy in
the same restaurant. So congratulations to California lawmakers for doing that.
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I know West Hollywood has already had that, and we're
quite clear on how they were able to do that.
I know still local municipalities still have to approve these
things on a case by case basis, but they aren't
legal now statewide. Artificial intelligence is something we talk about
so much. You remember, is a huge part of the
Writers and the Actors Strike that we all covered so
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much in twenty twenty three. So it's not just protecting
actors from AI imitations, but you actually required if you're
a production or a company you're making a movie, TV show, commercials,
you have to create a contract that specifies any use
of artificial intelligence, particularly when it comes to replicating an
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actor's voice or likeness. This was assembly built twenty six
oh two and it aims to protect performers and actors
by preventing artificial intelligence from replicating the voices or likeness
without permission. I'm not so sure why an actor would
give permission for something like that, which seems like the
whole point is that they would want to get paid
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for using.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Their voice or likeness.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
But at least it does significantly tighten up the procedures
around how you do that.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
And here's an interesting corollary to that.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Dead actors' voices can't be exploited, and you will get
a ten thousand dollars fine for using the voice a
dead actor or one that sounds like the voice of
a dead actor without the consent of their state. This
was sponsored by SAG after SAG Screen Actors Guilt after
American Federation of Television Radio Artists, which I've been a
proud member of for quite a while. That was introduced
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in light of advancements that made an AI that said
that you could clone human voices. Interesting, all right. On
a more basic level, the minimum wage is going up.
Workers paid the state wide minimum wage will get an
annual increase to their hourly wages from sixteen dollars in
twenty twenty four to sixteen dollars and fifty cents. That's
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the state wide minimum wage. Of course, you could get
more depending on what city or county, what industry you work.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
And you remember we covered this story in the past
year or so.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
The minimum wage for fast food workers is now twenty
dollars an hour in several cities, including Los Angeles. Minimum
wages in some sectors, not just restaurants. But you know
I told you it was gonna be sixteen fifty. It's
about seventeen dollars an hour. I mean, I'm not a
fast food restaurant customer. I don't know if you guys are,
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but from what I understand, partly to offset the increase
in wages, you know well deserved, fast food prices are
way up right. I mean, how much does it cost
to get like a burger and fries?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I wouldn't know because I really don't. I really don't
eat fast food except when John kovel. He brings me
in and out fries. I couldn't even tell you how
much they cost.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Yeah, all I know is the number one in and
out is over ten dollars. And for the longest time
it was never over ten dollars. What's that hamburger and
front do double fries and a drink? Double double fries
and a drink.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
You know it's funny because you know, in our younger days, right,
we'd hang out at McDonald's and what was a hamburger like,
you know, fifty cents or something like that. I mean
that's aging me. But yeah, not a big fast food consumer.
Although when you work in the news, right, I mean
I could tell you where every McDonald's and every seven
to eleven is, right, especially if you're on the early
morning shift. You need bathrooms, you need coffee, you need
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Wi Fi. But yeah, there's healthier options out there. Handle
talks a lot about fast food, doesn't He talks a
lot about costo food. But here's another new law. This
is an important one in the housing area. We have
more time to respond to eviction notices, one of the
big issues, one of the big causations for homelessness. We've
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been talking about is of course the cost of living,
the high rent, and the fact that people don't have
much margin for error if they're living paycheck to paycheck.
And the good news here is that tenants, if you're
a renter, you have double the time to respond to
an eviction notice. Previously, the legal time to respond to
an eviction notice was five business days, but it's now
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increased to ten business days. Of course, you're still getting
an eviction notice, but it might give you more time
to get some advice, come up with some money, or,
as the article that I'm reading from the La Times explains,
gather evidence to file an appropriate response.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Here's something that's really interesting, medical debt.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Don't really think about this in relation to your credit score,
but so many of us have medical debt.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
It's the it's the account.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
It's a factor and a huge majority of personal bankruptcies.
But a new law in California as of this year
says that credit agencies can no longer include medical debt
on people's credit reports.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
It's saying that about four.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Out of ten people are burdened with some form of
medical debt they're unable to pay off. And so you
could argue that if you have medical debt. That doesn't
mean that you're a poor credit risk. It might mean
that you don't have insurance. So you've had some unexpected
medical expenses and it shouldn't be held against you in
your credit report. So I say amen to that one.
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All right, that's going to do it for our quick
summary of new laws. I'm sure if you have a law,
you know, pitch it to your assembly person, your state senator,
and you know, maybe it'll go through the legislature and
Governor Newsom would he even signed it someday. I'm Phil
Schuman in for John Colebilt, got about a half an
hour left, lots more to talk about. We're going to
recap the big stories of the past couple of days
from Las Vegas and from New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I'm Phil Schuman in for John co Belt.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Look forward to being with you again tomorrow from one
to four and then John Big John comes back to
the Big Chair on Monday. We've been talking so much
about the twin attacks on Wednesday morning, the one in
New Orleans of course that killed fourteen people, and the
bizarre cyber truck explosion, the Tesla truck that blew up
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in the Valley parking area of the Trump International Hotel
in Las Vegas. Here in the KFI studios, just watching
some of the monitors as the National Network News comes on,
and the images from both locations are just stunning. In particular,
you see the blown up Tesla truck, that cyber truck,
and apparently a whole lot of explosives were inside that.
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Can we play a cut one Eric from Las Vegas
Metro Police talking about what was found inside that truck
that exploded.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
But I would like to highlight a couple of things
that the teams found inside of the cyber.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Truck that are useful to the investigation, and that first
and foremost is a military identification.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
We also found a passport.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
We found a Desert Eagle fifty caliber.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Semi automatic pistol, and if you'll notice on a lot
of these guns that we're going to talk about here,
they're almost just burn beyond recognition. As well, there's an
SLR Model B thirty semi automatic firearm.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Number of fireworks that were still in the vehicle that
had to be removed. We found an iPhone and a
smart watch, and then several credit cards, also in the
name of our subject. Our subject is thirty seven year
old Matthew Libelsberger is of Colorado Springs, Colorado, born in
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July twenty second of nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
That was Las Vegas law enforcement authorities talking about that
bizarre Is it a suicide attempt? Was it a terrorist attempt?
We don't know that yet. But the suspect or the
dead man, Matthield Lewsberger, former Green Beret, which is to
me shocking special operations, elite soldier through extensive obviously you
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qualified through extensive physical and psychological training. Obviously, somewhere along
the line, things went very wrong in his life, whether
it was personally, professionally, or whether he was isis inspired
as this crazed killer apparently was in New York shifting
rather in New Orleans, shifting to that story again. Were
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warnings ignored? Were security measures insufficient? A lot of cya
going on right now from New Orleans, especially that police
commissioner who's talking about, Well, he was hell bent on destruction.
So if we had a police car barricading Bourbon Street,
which apparently they did, which he went around, he would
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have just gone to another location. Well, no, because Bourbon
Street is where the crowds are. He wouldn't have gone till,
you know, Sixth Street with nobody on it, So who
are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
And nearly and this is a headline from today.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Nearly a year before he allegedly, say, allegedly still killed
fourteen people and injured I think three dozen more. This
suspect some should ding. Jabbar openly expressed his beliefs about music, quote, intoxicants,
sex and other pleasures were quote evils deserving of destruction.
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This was an account on the sound card sound cloud platform,
where you can post audio again under his own name,
at least three recordings, twenty minutes each. They all contain
numerous expressions of extremist religious views. Now, if you're with
us earlier, we were talking about if you see something,
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say something. Well, this is something you would see or
hear that if you were a responsible citizen, you would report.
But apparently nobody reported it and you saw the results.
Let's play cut to Eric. This is the FBI talking
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about right now, no link between the attack on Bourbon
Street in New Orleans and that incident in Vegas.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
At this point, there is no definitive link between the
attack here in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas.
And again I'll preface as I close, I'll preface everything
with what I started with in the beginning, which was
this is very early in an investment gation like.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
This, Yes, which we understand, and things can change. I
mean they changed between Wednesday and Thursday. There were accomplices,
there weren't accomplices. We think he had friends and other
supporters who helped him carry out the tack. Now we
think he didn't. They may have been a connection to Vegas.
Now we don't think there's a connection to Vegas. I mean,
we get it, We'll we'll give them some some slack there.
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But what what is hard to understand is how these
apparent warning signs were missed, disregarded, and then this at
the same time that security measures were perhaps less less
than robust in New Orleans. If you were with us earlier,
you heard former a Secret Service agent, now an ABC
News law enforcement contributor Don Mahllick talk about that and
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how a simple police vehicle as a barricade as opposed
to a dump truck, a city bus, concrete barriers, mobile
vehicle barriers, like they use along Colorado Boulevard, and the
rose per might have done a better job of preventing
the loss of life.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Why does he say that he made a good point.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
That's why we had experts on to give us their insight,
because let's say this is what happened now, was the
suspect was able to simply drive up on the sidewalk
in his rented electric pickup truck and go around a
vehicle that was acting as a barricade and then barrel
down the crowded street, killing fourteen and injuring three dozen.
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So if you could imagine a different scenario where maybe
he had the same intentions, but he hit a concrete barricade,
or he bounced off the side of a dump truck
and perhaps got out of his vehicle and law enforcement
could have engaged him right there and taken him out,
which they eventually did before he could have, you know,
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driven down the block and killed all those people.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
So a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yes, it's easy, especially of us, you know, weasels in
the media to second guess law enforcement on these kinds
of scenarios. To second guests are intelligence officials, why were
these warning signs missed? But we're not second guessing. We're
asking like legitimate questions. I mean, here this suspect Jabbar
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shamsu Din Jabbar. He posted five videos on Facebook. Now,
granted this was in the early morning hours leading up
to the attack, but if you're implementing a security plan
around a venue on a New Year's Eve, then one
of the basic functions of these analysts, and as I
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told you earlier the Joint Terrorism Task Force the Joint
Regional Intelligence Centers, is to monitor social media using computers
which pick out red flags and keywords and religious extremist views.
Again without crossing the line to spying. It's a delicate balance.
But these warning signs were not picked up. And then
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what's even more bizarre is that he apparently had discussed
plans to kill his family as well as as plans
to join ISIS, but decided that killing his family wouldn't
exactly have the same kind of impact as what he did,
which was you know, mowing down people on Bourbon Street
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at three o'clock in the morning on Wednesday. And then
again to add to make this even more bizarre, this
is someone who was an elite Special Forces operator as
a Green Beret, who obviously had some major radicalization in
his life since he passed the psychological evaluations to become
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a Special Forces operator.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Wow, just so much here.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
And then does it matter to the fourteen people who
are dead and the thirty five people who were in
the hospital about the details of this guy's life or
what pushed an to do what he did. I would
say not really. You know, they get to deal with
it whatever, whatever the realities are. But what will matter
is that what could have been done to prevent it?
And then what we can learn from this, which we do,
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but we don't to try to prevent it from happening
again in the future.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
That to me is the bottom line.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
How do we prevent it from happening again in the
future if that's even possible, and we want to live
in a free society.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
We don't want to have, you know, roadblocks on every corner.
All right. I'm Phil Schumann in for John cole Belt.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I will be back again tomorrow from one to four.
And then I know you're saying, when is John coming back?
When is John coming back? Let's get rid of this
TV news guy. Well, John will be back on Monday,
no doubt, with some wild tales to tell about his
time off during the holidays. One of the things that's
very cool these days, and this would be under the
category of entertainment if we can take a break from
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all of this heavy depressing news, is TV. The TV
has never been better than it was than it is
right now. And yes, you have to spend money on
the streaming services and it's not like just popping on
the old broadcast networks. Although this weekend should be fun
when Nicki Glazer hosts the People's Choice the Golden Globes
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Awards rather on Sunday on CBS. But there's so much
great content on right now. Land Man is a fun
thing I'm watching. I bet Tim Conway Junior is paying
attention Nike, Tim, because you know you come from a
rich showbiz tradition.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Do you watch a lot of TV? I don't watch anything.
You don't watch anything. No, I'm starting to watch.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Like, for instance, two years ago at Christmas, my daughter said, Hey,
you got to watch this show called The Office. I said,
I'm not a big Steve Carell fan. I'm not gonna
watch you off, okay, And she said watch. It was
in the snowing in the winter, and we had locked
inside nothing to do, and she said, look, Dad, I
never asked you anything. Just watch threepsodes and if you
don't like it, I'll never bother you again for anything.
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And I said, okay, deal, watch the first episode. I
didn't get it. Watch the second episode. Hooked for life.
Really yeah, can't stop watching him now. I love it,
can't stop watching. And I feel like an a hole
that I did. Do you have anything from like you know,
recent times? I don't watch anything. I don't watch it,
but there's so much there's a lot of quality program
I look, I have a problem keeping track of what's
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going on on the movies on the movie set. Like
like I'll be with my wife at a movie and
I'm like, hey, that guy who plays Superman looks a
lot like the guy playing Clark Kent. And She's like,
oh my god, Wow, can't take you anywhere.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I can't follow it.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Plus I don't like going to movies where I know
the actors, so I purposely ignore a lot of actors.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Wow, you know, because I.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Was watching I think it was Saving Private Ryan right,
and then like halfway or three quarters to the.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Movie Tim it's twenty twenty five. I know, I know, but.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Every one of my stories starts like I'm like back in,
I'm like Dad nineteen Johnny Carson. So halfway three quarters
through that movie, Ted Danson comes on. Okay, like Ted, Wait,
why is Ted Danson in World War two? This is
a war where everybody knows your name. Get out of here.
So I don't watch any of the other new stuff. Wow, No,
I'm surprising. I mean, I'm surprised to hear that.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I don't watch Netflix. I don't watch YouTube. No, that's
not true. I watch a lot of stuff on YouTube.
I watched. I listen to a lot of podcasts, watch
a lot of podcasts.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
But I like, do you read books. I don't read
books either. Wow.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I just love talk radio. So you work on the
radio and you go to the track. I grew up
on talk talk radio. I listen to talk radio from
around the country. I go to the racetrack and.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
I go home, and I go to Walmart and I
go home, and I go to the racetrack and I
go home. I live the simplest life in the world.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
That's why if I won the lottery, it would ruin
my life because everybody would bay on me. You wouldn't
know what to buy. Well, no, I don't need that
kind of you know, that kind of money. I don't
spend that kind of money. Wow, you know that's interesting.
So but I really think if I did win the lottery,
it would ruin my life because every time some to
call me, they'd be expecting like a package. Well know,
you would just say, yes, have a fifty grand. What
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the hell do you buy lottery tickets?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
I do? Yeah, when it's big, big jackpone.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah, like right now it's in forty eight million or
forty million, Brian, yeahah, give me a billion, that's.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
We have Brian Gann coming on today. Okay, he's the
KFI national correspondent. We'll talk about the New Orleans of course. Yeah,
the house whisper at six twenty and then breaking news
here a small plane crash in Fullerton, right, resulting in
a foe alarm fire.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
So we'll talk about that as well, a.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Lot of bad news. Yeah, I know, we were talking
about that this afternoon. I mean, you know it's this
beautiful day or in the new year. Yeah, we're dominated
by this, especially the New Orleans story. I mean, the
guy in Vegas even wanted to kill himself. Good for him,
you know, right, but odd that they're both veterans. Veterans,
they both served at the same Fort Bragg, I think.
And this guy, the guy in Vegas is a Green Beret.
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I mean, yeah, yeah, I think. Well the other guy,
Jabbarrow is his name.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I think he he.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
He left his service, left theervious as a master sergeant.
That's also very tough to Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know,
we were obviously in the early stages as you hear
these law enforcement types talk about it. But I'm a
little nervous with the Sugar Bowl tonight and then the
Super Bowl in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
You know, in a few weeks.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
We had the Rose Parade here with no issues fortunately,
and the Rose Bowl. But you know, we live in
like tense times, you know. You you I don't know
if you said heard the promos that they've cut for you,
but Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
It hit you in the face. It's like it does.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
And what we're trying to do here, at least what
I've been trying to do is figure out how to
make that blow like a little softer, you know. Yeah,
I don't look. I've asked people on the radio this week.
You know we got we got one hundred and fifty
to two hundred thousand visitors for the Rose Parade, Rose Bowl.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Please leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
You know, we can go back to punching each other
in the face on Sunday night. Yeah, you know, we
can turn return to Matt Matt Max on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
But let's leave these people alone.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Yeah, don't don't sexually views them, don't take the wallet,
you know, don't shoot them, don't punch them.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
In the face.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
These are visitors, and don't let don't let the homeless
harass them. Right but you know what, right now, Pasadena
does a pretty good job of keeping the lid on things.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Oh yeah, passing a cop step youre quick.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
But this right now in Minneapolis, it's like, I don't know,
three degrees, you know, shockling the drivewhere you can't go out,
you can't do anything, can't start your car, you can't
you know, food delivery service has been canceled.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
It's too cold, so you have nothing.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
And then they turn on the TV and they see
the Rose Parade in the Rose Bowl and they look
at their bank account. They have enough retirement money, and
they're coming here. They're coming here. That's been Yeah, that's
long been like the sort of double edged sword of
the of the Rose Parade and the coverage. Right, it's
a twelve hour commercial. Yeah, South southern California. But then
when they get here, they say, a three bedroom, two
bath house and alta dina costs how much? That's right,
(36:46):
three million dollars. But there are some people who made
a lot of money. That's another one of your themes
that come find a small town you love. Yeah, let's
a move there, But how were you gonna do live
in a tent on the sidewalk? No, Burbank is a
small town. Burbank is is uh is? He'll fairly love. Yeah,
Burbank's beautiful. You know, Burbank is the only city in
the United States. How about this for trivia only city
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in the United States. The doubles in size every day
because the amount of people work here.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Oh yeah, okay, okay, Well you'll studio real quick story
that then I'll leave this all to you. You know,
you mentioned Johnny Carson earlier when I worked a Channel
four of course, up on the second floor, down on
the first floor is the Tonight Show studios, and every
time there's a big news story, you know, you try
to get Carson. You see, you can get Carson to
talk about it right because you got the TV cameras
are right there. And he came in in his Corvette
convertible every day on the midway and he'd walk right in.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Super nice guy, you know, no security or anything.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
One time, finally Burbank, which had been downtown Burbank, as
you know, had been depressed for for a long time,
was opening a movie theater. So I call up Carson's office. Hey,
we're doing the story and with mister Carson talk be
on the set at five o'clock and he'll do a
question for you. Mister Carson height, It's Phil Schuman from
from Channel four News. What do you think about Burbank
(37:57):
getting a movie theater? Because you know, of course he
made it fame. It's a beautiful downtown Burbank. So he
goes mm.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Next thing, you know, Tago Bill will get it drive
through and then and he walks off. That was my
one moment with Johnny Carson. I'm gonna leave it at
that and will have that tape. I don't have the tape.
I just have the Benot It's great, buddy.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
But but look if you look right out the window
and there it is that building. That's the building.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Yeah that was.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
I mean you guys were in that building forever exactly
exactly right. That used to the land used to be
owned by Bob Hope.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 8 (38:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Before NBC built on there. Yeah, Bob.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
A lot of great memories. There is Carson or is
that Carson's last show?
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (38:34):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Bette Midler and he walked out of the midway with
his wife, walked out to a waiting helicopter and threw
off into the sunset to Malibu.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Wow, what a career.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
And nobody's been able to well, Letterman got closed and
Leno got closed, but nobody sends Leno and Letterman has
been able to really reach an audience.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
No, it's so fragmented now, you know.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
It's there's so many people out there trying to get
attention and laughs. Nikki Glazer Sunday the Golden Globes, Right,
you know, she's kind of an X rated comedian. Where
she spends going to be talking about her on Monday.
I know where she spends her money by the way,
I read an article on Nikki Glazer. By the way,
she looks great for seventy one, eight seventy four. She's
seventy three, but she looks great in her seventies. But
(39:16):
she had an article came out about her. And she
has spent over the last two or three years one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars flying around the globe going
to Taylor Swift concerts.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Right, that's her thing. She went to like twenty five
of them or something. That's her thing.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
She doesn't have kids, so she doesn't have that expends,
and so she you know, she puts on a skirt,
he tends she's not seventy one and goes to these concerts.
I mean, after your fifth or sixth Taylor Swift concert,
you probably think that might be enough for a short time.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Yeah, that's right, all right, all right, I'm Bill.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
She was saying, so long, Phil Schutman, thanks to talk
for visiting with us.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Maybe we can do it again tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Before you take over, let's pay a visit to the
KFI twenty four hour news for room.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
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