June 23, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (06/23) - Businessman John Alle comes on the show to talk about the decline of Santa Monica. US Attorney Bill Essayli is reminding people that they are not exempt from federal law. A BBC anchor corrected her teleprompter script live on air.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on every
day from one until four o'clock. After four o'clock John
Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. We occasionally
talk about Santa Monica because Santa Monica is just in
a terrible, frightening shape. When I moved to Los Angeles,
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Santa Monica was one of my first favorite places to
go to Third Street Promenade, And now I live near
Santa Monica and I kind of can't avoid being there frequently.
And there are parts of it that are so frightening
because the homeless people, really crazy street people, really scary, dirty, disgusting,
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and they're allowed to roam free. They've ruined a park
that my wife and I used to like to walk
in all the time. In there, we can't park in
the parking garages because there was holmeless people living there
and urinating and defecating walking. The blocks are scary, and
last time I walked down the Santa Monica streets at night,
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absolutely terrified and said never again. I mean, while we
were I think we were at the entrance to a store,
we were going to get something to eat on the promenade,
and a crazy homeless guy ended up getting tackled by
the police across the way. There's all this pushing and
shoving and yelling. There's a commotion. They've destroyed the Third
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Street promenade. They've destroyed a shopping center. Nordstroms is the anchor.
And again there's like seventy percent of the story's moved down.
It's almost entirely due to homelessness and the crime connected
to homelessness. John Alley's been on our show many times,
Santa Monica businessman, and now the latest we read a
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story last week from the West Side Current is that
the libraries are uninhabitable because there's so many crazy drug
addicts and mental patients and vagrants in there. Let's get
John on. He was quoted in the story. How are
you good?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It's an honor, John, It's good.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's good to have you on. Let's talk first about
that West Side Current story about the libraries, which I'm
sure most people in the world think are still sanctuaries
if you don't mind the term where children and everybody
else can come and read or learn to read, or
you know, engage in, you know, intellectual activities, right, peaceful activities,
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and what I've got in there now, the stories that
I've done on it, it's filled with creepy guys watching
pornography on computer screens. They're in the bathrooms bathing themselves.
They're using their needles and leaving the needles everywhere, and
they're just terrifying people. There's fights outside. Why are they
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allowing this? Well, and I know it's been going on
for many years, and everybody keeps asking why.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, Jamie's peace was spot on. We think in the
media is hiding these stories often from the residents and
the businesses, and it's too bad. It's not only that
the boards and the commissioners and the city council people
are at fault, but the vendors are at fault. The
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vendors are getting contracts longer than the terms of the
city council members staff looks at them. Right now. We've
got a guard service we've talked about inside the libraries,
just outside getting in even on the day of a
special retreat on a Saturday, eight o'clock in the morning,
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when the city council was there, a city manager, all
department heads and residents and voters were asked to come
and listen, and it was impossible to enter from the
main entry doors. So what the staff did was open
the side stairwell and everybody went up that way and
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sidetracked three homeless people who Jamie tagged in her in
her article. But that happens on a daily basis. There's
parking on the side and good guard security is the latest.
The last one was allied. Universal Time magazine did an
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article about them. They interviewed me. I told them I
wasn't working. I told the city. So the city hired
a new group. And their cars are ghost cars. They're
getting out, they're not staying there, and they come back
at the end of their ships and leave. We're seeing
this as recently, John as yesterday we saw two guys
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on meth in the parking lot. Given it to Sunday,
but two guys on meth, two people having a fight,
and we spoke to them and to it come. They're
cartel members. They work with their cartel, their vendors. They
come from the pier, they were finished for their job
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and they flat out told us that Sinaloa, that gang
and MS thirteen is deeply involved in Santa Monica, and
most of the people are from south of the border.
And you join or you have to watch your back.
And these people are coming from skid Row and they're
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coming from mccart's a park west Lake and you can
see him in various areas of Palastatees Park, sometimes Repark,
but on the pier with the rainbow coloredumbrellas selling everything
from fruits to.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Bake goods and and they're from the drug cartels.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
From the drug cartels. They've told us. We've had long
conversations with them, and they're not afraid to tell us
because that's how they're able to eat, and that's how
they're able to make money. They're not even buying food.
They're they're admittedly walking in to Trader Joe's target and
stealing what they need to get for that day.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And are they and they're reselling it under those umbrellas.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
No that that's that those items are given to them
by the cartel. There are warehouses around the city that
they're using, but they get paid their share and they
leave and most are on bikes, most are walking, so
they can't carry much. They've just got enough to last
for the rest of the day. Or evening. But we've
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brought this up to the library board. You spoke about
the main librarian as far back as March and March
and April this year. We contacted them and we said
we'd like to speak at your meeting. We see your agendas.
The agendas are great, but nowhere on the agenda is
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are there a topic of safety or crime. Safety and
crime are never mentioned. And you can't even get into
the library without seeing some sort of altercation. And we've
asked the guards there and they're very frank. There's guards
in the library lobby and forty five to fifty percent
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of the people there coming during the day are men.
And those same men have told us they're coming to
charge their phones, charge their computer, charge your phone, usually
use the bathroom and stare forty five and fifty five
year old woman. Not really healthy for kids. And that's
what we're trying to to make.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
No, let me ask you something. I'm making a leap here.
Do the people in city government know everything that you're
telling me. The people at the libraries know, and they're
afraid of angering the drug cartels, So they've turned over
Santa Monica to the cartels because they can't fight them.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You'd believe that, we'd believe that we the librarians and
even the park maintenance people are afraid to speak up
because under our former city manager they would be reassigned,
put on leave, and in areas and expertise that they
weren't familiar with. So there was a lot of repercussion
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and a lot of retaliation under the former city manager,
and the city council said they couldn't do anything about it.
They needed five votes out of seven. So the Sana
Monica Coalition did something about it. Through pr we exposed
the fact that in one of his most recent last jobs,
the city manager had used illegally federal funds and he retired.
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We did it. We did something the city council couldn't
get done. And this isn't the first time. This has
been going back for four or five years. Again under
the same librarian. About four years ago, there was a
porn shot at Ocean Park Library inside during the day,
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in the children's section of all places, the city looked
the other way.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Come on, oh wait a second, they were shooting porn
videos and the city looked the other way.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Really, he looked the other way. We never found out
who gave him permission to shoot inside, how they got inside.
Police then under the former chief, promised to investigate, but
as usual, the public never was given any of the results.
Never There was an independent newspaper that did a freedom
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of information request and much of what they got was redacted.
Names were oute. It was just very bland, very vanilla,
and it was forgotten. And this is how Santa Monica works.
It's a microcosm of a big city, LA.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
All right, can you hang on the line. I want
to continue with this in just a moment. By the way,
the director of the Santa Monica Library system is Erica.
Pay you again. And people should know that this woman
is allowing this to go on. She's allowing Porton to
be shot inside a Santa Monica library, among all the
other things that John Ally is talking about. He's with
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Santa Monica Coalition. People just have no idea. And now
to know that the park that my wife and I
have been walking through for years is actually controlled by
Mexican drug cartels. This is so heartbreaking and overwhelming.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
We continue with John Alley Santa Monica businessman Santa Monica Coalition.
We were discussing first the story in the West Side
Current about the horrific conditions in the library with homeless
people and mental patients and drug addicts, and people shooting
pornography videos in the library and everybody looking the other way,
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and drug cartel members controlling Palisades Park and other areas.
John is and I only got a few minutes. It
Is there any response from the public. Are they all
cool with this? They must be afraid. There must be
a majority that's terrified and discussed and fed up with this.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, they recognize it. A portion of the grant money
that they received the library, for instance, comes from the Feds.
The Feds have the history museum in the main library.
They get money for that. They don't want this to
go public. That could be why there's nobody talking about it.
But the city council members, most of them, have truly
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become agents of chaos, doubling down on stupid. Our Vice
mayor in December announced during a city council meeting the
necessity to trump proof the city. That's what we're dealing with.
We just don't demand accountability from leaders. So they did
these people.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
How did these people, assuming I'm assuming they were normal
at some point in their life, how did they start
to embrace all kinds of deviant, dangerous, sick behavior by
so many people in so many places that used to
be safe family spaces. How I mean, it's almost like
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a that they've caught some kind of terrible viral disease
in their brain.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Selfish and political and financial. The city is run by SMUR.
That's what's that short for Santa Monica. For renters' rights.
It started forty five years ago, and that was when
rent control was the major issue. Rent control is not
going anywhere. It's like social security in Santa Monica at least,
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it's not going anywhere. And every election they make that
the cornerstone of who they should vote for. So they
have the majority on the city council who goes on
these boards.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
But that's separate from allowing all the mental patients and
the drug addicts taking over the parks and the libraries
and the beaches. Why do they want that. It's got
nothing to do with rent control.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Well, it didn't seem to bother them when we lost
the beach. Volleyball didn't seem to bother them when we
lost the American Film Institute for three weeks millions and
millions of dollars. They just don't care.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
All right. At the inside, political people, I get it,
they got a winning organization there. They're probably all profiting
from from their group. What about just regular homeowners, just people.
I know a lot of people in Santa Monica who
are just normal people with families. There aren't enough of them.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Seventy one percent rent, and that's seventy one percent. Quite
a few come in for high tech jobs and leave.
We're making great gains by getting the attention of homeowners
who are seeing this go into their own backyards in
areas north of Montana and the leafy areas of Santa Monica,
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and the area is a single family residences, we're seeing this.
They're being affected. Every home and every street in the
residential areas of Santa Monica interestingly has an alley. Most
of them don't go into the alleys at night, even
to them to their trash. And even the renters who
live in rent control departments, the landlords have to have guards.
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Now many of them do, and you know that raises
the cost six hundred one thousand a month, So it's
not just on the promenade right now, the petty theft
thirty five four hundred dollars a day. It's in the
residential neighborhoods and it's spreading. So we're finally giving the
attention and the cooperation of more homeowners. We're going to
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be having a meeting coming up soon. And one great
thing that I think we've done is we're limited in
city council meetings as to what we can discuss and
how long usually six minutes. They loath the city council
meeting with so many items that interested citizens that want
to come and voice their opinion are cut off. And
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if there's more than a certain number in line and
they're willing to wait, they still can't talk or they're
limited to a minute. So we've done is something different.
We've created. We're calling it space on X at the
SMC Coalition, So we're hosting a public space on X
account beginning tomorrow prior to the council meeting and continuing
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through the council meeting so engage citizens who have to
travel at dusk and then wait hours for the council
to hear items on the agenda. Most of which come
up after they go into closed session and enjoy a
great kitter dinner and come back two hours later. Most
of them have to wait to talk or go home
and come back. So as the line calls X the
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public square, it only seems right that we have a
place for public comment through our public space on X
as people are prevented from getting their own comments out
there from time to time, and too many items are
placed on each council agenda period. So we're going to
all right, I'm gonna warre people be able to talk.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Okay, John Ally, thank you. We'll have you on again.
Got to run, got to do the news.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
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Speaker 1 (17:17):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. Then
after four o'clock John Cobelts show on demand on the
iHeart App. I had this scary stuff that John Alley
told us. He's with the Santa Monica Coalition. Just how
how how the drug cartels have have apparently taken over
the parks and they're supplying drugs to all the homeless
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people and all the mental patients, and they're working on
the beaches, they're working in the parks.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
They have control of a large part of Santa Monica
and nobody's nobody's covering this.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
It's just it's just astounding. What's what's going on there? Uh?
The uh the US turn for central California, including the
city in County of Los Angeles, is Bill A. Saily.
And Bill's been a guest on our show many times
going back to his days as a legislator in Sacramento.
And the National Review had did a piece on Bill Assaily,
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and he is trying to explain why California has had
as there's been so much resistance to enforcing federal law
which most other states accept. This really is a unique situation,
and we've talked about it on the air, and Assily
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talks about it in the same way. Assaie, who's the
son of Lebanese immigrants who came to the US. He
came to the US legally. Here's the quote that jumped
out at me. You're seeing what I call a public
temper tantrum because they they like Bassi Newsom, conditioned people
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to believe over the last few years that California is
special or really is exempt from federal law. It is not,
and that cuts to the heart of this. Newsome always
talks as if California is a nation state, a state,
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and a nation at the same time. We chart our
own way, we lead the world. And he actually inhaled
his own gas and believed it. And now here comes
Trump and JD. Vance and Bill A. Salee and Tom
Homan to say, no, you're one of the fifty states,
and the way the law is constructed, the Constitution is constructed,
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you must follow federal law. There's no exceptions here. So
the other forty United States are forced to follow federal law.
Some of them don't selectively, but the most resistance is
from California. And I realize people don't know any better.
It's been so many years of listening to idiots like
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Newsom and Garcetti and Karen Bass Jerry Brown, like a
whole generation has grown up and they had no idea
that California cannot make its own federal law because it's
not its own nation. Sanctuary cities are not a thing.
They don't exist. It's like Newsom trying to claim the
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National Guard that Trump can't control it. It's called the
national Guard. You calling National Guard troops. Every state has
its own contingent, which the governor can deploy if necessary
there's a problem within the state. But ultimately Donald Trump,
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like Joe Biden, Barack Obama, they're the commander in chief.
Newsom is not commander in chief. The National Guard is
a subset of the US military. But he goes around
with the fiction that no, no, I'm in charge of
a federal government military unit. No you're not. I can
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decide that California is a sanctuary from federal immigration law.
No you can't. But Obama and Biden allowed Newsom to
get away with it, and Trump, because of all the
chaos that was going on in the first term, never
seriously addressed it. And now he's coming better organized, better staffed,
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and it's clear that they had a long term plan
to take over part of California, the part that was
not obeying federal law anymore, and a sale. He's got
it right. So now the toddlers that have enjoyed their
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nation statehood are having the big tantrum. They can't believe it.
You mean we're not our own country. No you're not.
There's a Congress, there's a president, there's a US Constitution
that governs you. That supersedes what you want to do
in the state, and you could go ram your head
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against the wall as many times as you want, just
like a little kid does. You can follow all the
lawsuits you want, but federal law superseded state law, period
full stop. Newsom says, We're still going out and doing
our enforcement operations. We have not stopped. We will not
be deterred. And the only thing that's going to happen
is you're going to see more resources come to our district.
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If they don't like the number of National guardsmen that
are here now, they should see how many we get
if this continues. Yeah, they're gonna ship more National Guard
members to California, more marines. If they have to govern
this place from a federal law enforcement standpoint, they will.
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The days of sanctuary cities are over. Like Newsom tried
to set his own emission standards and now Congress and
the President took that away. No, you can't do that.
That's not a thing. You can't have your own emission
standards and dictate how the auto industry manufactures its cars.
You can't do that. And you have to follow immigration law.
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And Trump's in charge of the National Guard. Do you
have any other questions? And Asalia is filing federal charges
against any of the rioters who broke federal laws. Alejandro
Orolana is being charged with conspiracy to commit civil disorder,
aiding a betting civil disorder. He was passing out face
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shields to violent rioters, as Sali said, the face shields
are designed to protect the writers from chemical splashes and
flying debris, which helps protect violent agitators from the less
than lethal weapons deployed by law enforcement. They executed a
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search warrant the FBI at Arelana's home and they found
a wrist rocket style shing, a wrist rocket style slingshot, ammunition,
plastic goggles, and a notebook with abbreviations for all cops
or bastards and murder. They're also going after Adam Palermo
federal charges and attacking CHP officers, attempted arson of the
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vehicle used in interstate or foreign commerce. You go on
his social media account, there was a collage of photographs
and videos depicting someone holding flying debris, HP patrol car
on fire, and other photos of damage to patrol cars.
And he took one shot at Alex Padilla because Bill
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Saley was standing near Christy Nome when Padilla burst in
before he was tackled, and he said, I remember seeing
an extremely large, tall individual charging at us and screaming.
We had no idea it was there. I've never met
him before. I didn't know he was there. I wasn't
expecting him to be there. And so the security detail
did its job. Are we come back? Are you a
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mother or are you a pregnant person?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
You're never supposed to ask.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Why. I think that's changing. One BBC anchor woman got
fed up with it and settled the issue live on
camera in the middle of a newscast. Yeah, play that
for you. We come back. And then after three o'clock,
how many of you knew that Gavin Newsom helped his
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mother commits suicide. Yeah, there's a whole story on this.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
And she tried to reveal her decision to Newsom, but
he was too busy to answer the phone when she called.
And this was all publicized seven years ago, and a
story seemed to escape notice. And I bring this up
because Newsom tried to use his mother's breast cancer over
the weekend to excuse why he was drinking wine during
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the riots at a fundraiser, and so people now have
dug up the background story on it all. Right after
three o'clock.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
We're on from one until four every day. In Great Britain,
they call the news anchors on television news presenters.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
I like that you can call me that.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
You are a radio presenter.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Well, I'm a new I'm a radio news.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Radio news presenter.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
This woman works for the BBC. Her name is Martine Croxel.
She's been there for over thirty years. And you know
sometimes you get bad copy written by a newswriter. Oh yeah, yeah,
sometimes you have to decode it on the fly, me too,
Yeah right, Well, she had one of these woke idiots
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in the newsroom who gave her some copy with a
phrase that no normal person uses. You're going to hear
her correct the script live on the air.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine House released research
which says that nearly six hundred heat related deaths are
expected in the UK. Malcolm Mystery, who was involved in
the research, says that the aged pregnant people, women and
those with pre existing health can made to type precautions.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
The aged aged comma pregnant people, and then she corrected
it and called pregnant people women and rolled her eyes.
Might have been more obvious on video, but uh yes,
she she she got she got upset because she saw
the phrase pregnant people. What about aged, well, aged is
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old people. It's like two separate categories. I know you
don't like aged.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
I don't, No, I don't know. It's just it sounded
very pregnant too, prong.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
Aged pregnant people, I mean aged pregnant women.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Whatever.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
It's it's weird. That was written, very strange.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
That is very bad, badly written by all counts. Uh
she she rolled her eyes and uh she she'd seen
this on the uh from the teleprompter. Uh it was
research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical The
British use the English language, but they don't use it
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in the same way we do. And the newscast went
viral on social media, with most people happy that she corrected.
That is the worst phrase I've ever heard in my life.
Pregnant people. I don't think I've taken the like the
most sacred thing that women are capable of doing. I mean,
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the just the single thing, the very top thing that
separates men from women. They have the ability to reproduce
and make a new human being in their womb. Yeah,
and they won't give it. Credit to the to the
to the sex, to the species that can pull this off.
There is no person who gives pregnant, who gives birth
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to a child who's a man. That's another thing. It's
not a thing. Oh, I was giving a list of
stuff that's not a thing here in California. How California
thinks it's its own nation. No, it's not. You can't
violate all these laws, you can't violate the Constitution. This
is another one. Pregnant men not a thing, doesn't exist.
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I started. You know, occasionally I look up stuff on
the internet, medical sites, big medical sites, you know, the
Male Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic. Right, might be some medical
issue I hear about my family, or there's a story
that has a medical issue, and I go to these
medical sites to see what they say, and I run
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across these bizarre woke phrases like sex assigned at birth,
not not boy or girl whatever, sex assigned at birth.
That there's no such thing. You're born a certain sex.
It's not a sign to you. There isn't a committee
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of sex assignment experts. And this is part of the
crap that that's are just like a sewage system of
garbage phrases and garbage concepts. That's total nonsense. You were
a pregnant woman, Yes.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
I'm still a woman. I'm no longer pregnant.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
That would have been a long overdue base.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Yes, it would. That story went somewhere. I never thought
it would.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
I thought it was going to be about you know,
when you're heavy and you ask somebody, hey, are you pregnant?
Speaker 4 (31:46):
You're not sure if they're heavy or they're pregnant.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yes, I thought anybody ever grabbed your your pregnant belly.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
I think there were people that that touched.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
It became like a public property.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Yeah, I didn't like that.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
At My wife was in a restaurant once in Malibu
and first baby, she looked really pregnant, right, and a
woman actually walked up to her and grabbed her belly
and shook it in said, God, are you having triplets?
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Oh geez? Yeah, Oh what'd your wife do? Did you
kick her?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
No? She might have tilted have tipped over.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
That's crazy. I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
I don't know. Apparently if you stick out far enough
people think that it's uh no, touch part of the
public space. All right, Debor Mark Ly, Oh we come back.
Did you know that Gavin Newsom helped his mother commit suicide?
Speaker 6 (32:37):
And you're not supposed to say commit suicide. You have
to say died by suicide. That's that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Where'd you get that one?
Speaker 4 (32:46):
The deed Hirsh Mental Health Center?
Speaker 6 (32:49):
And I mean, but it's it's it's definitely because when
you we used to say you commit suicide, and it
makes it seem like it's a crime.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
So they like, so it's not.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah, all right, we'll get into the Newsom situation coming up,
Debor Mark Liden the KFI twenty four Hour newser Hey,
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talk about Santa Monica because Santa Monica is just in
a terrible, frightening shape. When I moved to Los Angeles,
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Santa Monica was one of my first favorite places to
go to Third Street Promenade, And now I live near
Santa Monica and I kind of can't avoid being there frequently.
And there are parts of it that are so frightening
because the homeless people, really crazy street people, really scary, dirty, disgusting,
(00:52):
and they're allowed to roam free. They've ruined a park
that my wife and I used to like to walk
in all the time. In there, we can't park in
the parking garages because there was holmeless people living there
and urinating and defecating walking. The blocks are scary, and
last time I walked down the Santa Monica streets at night,
(01:14):
absolutely terrified and said never again. I mean, while we
were I think we were at the entrance to a store,
we were going to get something to eat on the promenade,
and a crazy homeless guy ended up getting tackled by
the police across the way. There's all this pushing and
shoving and yelling. There's a commotion. They've destroyed the Third
(01:37):
Street promenade. They've destroyed a shopping center. Nordstroms is the anchor.
And again there's like seventy percent of the story's moved down.
It's almost entirely due to homelessness and the crime connected
to homelessness. John Alley's been on our show many times,
Santa Monica businessman, and now the latest we read a
(02:01):
story last week from the West Side Current is that
the libraries are uninhabitable because there's so many crazy drug
addicts and mental patients and vagrants in there. Let's get
John on. He was quoted in the story. How are
you good?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
It's an honor, John, It's good.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's good to have you on. Let's talk first about
that West Side Current story about the libraries, which I'm
sure most people in the world think are still sanctuaries
if you don't mind the term where children and everybody
else can come and read or learn to read, or
you know, engage in, you know, intellectual activities, right, peaceful activities,
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and what I've got in there now, the stories that
I've done on it, it's filled with creepy guys watching
pornography on computer screens. They're in the bathrooms bathing themselves.
They're using their needles and leaving the needles everywhere, and
they're just terrifying people. There's fights outside. Why are they
(03:05):
allowing this? Well, and I know it's been going on
for many years, and everybody keeps asking why.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, Jamie's peace was spot on. We think in the
media is hiding these stories often from the residents and
the businesses, and it's too bad. It's not only that
the boards and the commissioners and the city council people
are at fault, but the vendors are at fault. The
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vendors are getting contracts longer than the terms of the
city council members staff looks at them. Right now. We've
got a guard service we've talked about inside the libraries,
just outside getting in even on the day of a
special retreat on a Saturday, eight o'clock in the morning,
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when the city council was there, a city manager, all
department heads and residents and voters were asked to come
and listen, and it was impossible to enter from the
main entry doors. So what the staff did was open
the side stairwell and everybody went up that way and
(04:20):
sidetracked three homeless people who Jamie tagged in her in
her article. But that happens on a daily basis. There's
parking on the side and good guard security is the latest.
The last one was allied. Universal Time magazine did an
(04:41):
article about them. They interviewed me. I told them I
wasn't working. I told the city. So the city hired
a new group. And their cars are ghost cars. They're
getting out, they're not staying there, and they come back
at the end of their ships and leave. We're seeing
this as recently, John as yesterday we saw two guys
(05:05):
on meth in the parking lot. Given it to Sunday,
but two guys on meth, two people having a fight,
and we spoke to them and to it come. They're
cartel members. They work with their cartel, their vendors. They
come from the pier, they were finished for their job
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and they flat out told us that Sinaloa, that gang
and MS thirteen is deeply involved in Santa Monica, and
most of the people are from south of the border.
And you join or you have to watch your back.
And these people are coming from skid Row and they're
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coming from mccart's a park west Lake and you can
see him in various areas of Palastatees Park, sometimes Repark,
but on the pier with the rainbow coloredumbrellas selling everything
from fruits to.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Bake goods and and they're from the drug cartels.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
From the drug cartels. They've told us. We've had long
conversations with them, and they're not afraid to tell us
because that's how they're able to eat, and that's how
they're able to make money. They're not even buying food.
They're they're admittedly walking in to Trader Joe's target and
stealing what they need to get for that day.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And are they and they're reselling it under those umbrellas.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
No that that's that those items are given to them
by the cartel. There are warehouses around the city that
they're using, but they get paid their share and they
leave and most are on bikes, most are walking, so
they can't carry much. They've just got enough to last
for the rest of the day. Or evening. But we've
(07:02):
brought this up to the library board. You spoke about
the main librarian as far back as March and March
and April this year. We contacted them and we said
we'd like to speak at your meeting. We see your agendas.
The agendas are great, but nowhere on the agenda is
(07:22):
are there a topic of safety or crime. Safety and
crime are never mentioned. And you can't even get into
the library without seeing some sort of altercation. And we've
asked the guards there and they're very frank. There's guards
in the library lobby and forty five to fifty percent
(07:42):
of the people there coming during the day are men.
And those same men have told us they're coming to
charge their phones, charge their computer, charge your phone, usually
use the bathroom and stare forty five and fifty five
year old woman. Not really healthy for kids. And that's
what we're trying to to make.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
No, let me ask you something. I'm making a leap here.
Do the people in city government know everything that you're
telling me. The people at the libraries know, and they're
afraid of angering the drug cartels, So they've turned over
Santa Monica to the cartels because they can't fight them.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You'd believe that, we'd believe that we the librarians and
even the park maintenance people are afraid to speak up
because under our former city manager they would be reassigned,
put on leave, and in areas and expertise that they
weren't familiar with. So there was a lot of repercussion
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and a lot of retaliation under the former city manager,
and the city council said they couldn't do anything about it.
They needed five votes out of seven. So the Sana
Monica Coalition did something about it. Through pr we exposed
the fact that in one of his most recent last jobs,
the city manager had used illegally federal funds and he retired.
(09:08):
We did it. We did something the city council couldn't
get done. And this isn't the first time. This has
been going back for four or five years. Again under
the same librarian. About four years ago, there was a
porn shot at Ocean Park Library inside during the day,
(09:33):
in the children's section of all places, the city looked
the other way.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Come on, oh wait a second, they were shooting porn
videos and the city looked the other way.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Really, he looked the other way. We never found out
who gave him permission to shoot inside, how they got inside.
Police then under the former chief, promised to investigate, but
as usual, the public never was given any of the results.
Never There was an independent newspaper that did a freedom
(10:06):
of information request and much of what they got was redacted.
Names were oute. It was just very bland, very vanilla,
and it was forgotten. And this is how Santa Monica works.
It's a microcosm of a big city, LA.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
All right, can you hang on the line. I want
to continue with this in just a moment. By the way,
the director of the Santa Monica Library system is Erica.
Pay you again. And people should know that this woman
is allowing this to go on. She's allowing Porton to
be shot inside a Santa Monica library, among all the
other things that John Ally is talking about. He's with
(10:44):
Santa Monica Coalition. People just have no idea. And now
to know that the park that my wife and I
have been walking through for years is actually controlled by
Mexican drug cartels. This is so heartbreaking and overwhelming.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
We continue with John Alley Santa Monica businessman Santa Monica Coalition.
We were discussing first the story in the West Side
Current about the horrific conditions in the library with homeless
people and mental patients and drug addicts, and people shooting
pornography videos in the library and everybody looking the other way,
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and drug cartel members controlling Palisades Park and other areas.
John is and I only got a few minutes. It
Is there any response from the public. Are they all
cool with this? They must be afraid. There must be
a majority that's terrified and discussed and fed up with this.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, they recognize it. A portion of the grant money
that they received the library, for instance, comes from the Feds.
The Feds have the history museum in the main library.
They get money for that. They don't want this to
go public. That could be why there's nobody talking about it.
But the city council members, most of them, have truly
(12:19):
become agents of chaos, doubling down on stupid. Our Vice
mayor in December announced during a city council meeting the
necessity to trump proof the city. That's what we're dealing with.
We just don't demand accountability from leaders. So they did
these people.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
How did these people, assuming I'm assuming they were normal
at some point in their life, how did they start
to embrace all kinds of deviant, dangerous, sick behavior by
so many people in so many places that used to
be safe family spaces. How I mean, it's almost like
(12:59):
a that they've caught some kind of terrible viral disease
in their brain.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Selfish and political and financial. The city is run by SMUR.
That's what's that short for Santa Monica. For renters' rights.
It started forty five years ago, and that was when
rent control was the major issue. Rent control is not
going anywhere. It's like social security in Santa Monica at least,
(13:26):
it's not going anywhere. And every election they make that
the cornerstone of who they should vote for. So they
have the majority on the city council who goes on
these boards.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
But that's separate from allowing all the mental patients and
the drug addicts taking over the parks and the libraries
and the beaches. Why do they want that. It's got
nothing to do with rent control.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Well, it didn't seem to bother them when we lost
the beach. Volleyball didn't seem to bother them when we
lost the American Film Institute for three weeks millions and
millions of dollars. They just don't care.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
All right. At the inside, political people, I get it,
they got a winning organization there. They're probably all profiting
from from their group. What about just regular homeowners, just people.
I know a lot of people in Santa Monica who
are just normal people with families. There aren't enough of them.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Seventy one percent rent, and that's seventy one percent. Quite
a few come in for high tech jobs and leave.
We're making great gains by getting the attention of homeowners
who are seeing this go into their own backyards in
areas north of Montana and the leafy areas of Santa Monica,
(14:54):
and the area is a single family residences, we're seeing this.
They're being affected. Every home and every street in the
residential areas of Santa Monica interestingly has an alley. Most
of them don't go into the alleys at night, even
to them to their trash. And even the renters who
live in rent control departments, the landlords have to have guards.
(15:16):
Now many of them do, and you know that raises
the cost six hundred one thousand a month, So it's
not just on the promenade right now, the petty theft
thirty five four hundred dollars a day. It's in the
residential neighborhoods and it's spreading. So we're finally giving the
attention and the cooperation of more homeowners. We're going to
(15:37):
be having a meeting coming up soon. And one great
thing that I think we've done is we're limited in
city council meetings as to what we can discuss and
how long usually six minutes. They loath the city council
meeting with so many items that interested citizens that want
to come and voice their opinion are cut off. And
(16:00):
if there's more than a certain number in line and
they're willing to wait, they still can't talk or they're
limited to a minute. So we've done is something different.
We've created. We're calling it space on X at the
SMC Coalition, So we're hosting a public space on X
account beginning tomorrow prior to the council meeting and continuing
(16:25):
through the council meeting so engage citizens who have to
travel at dusk and then wait hours for the council
to hear items on the agenda. Most of which come
up after they go into closed session and enjoy a
great kitter dinner and come back two hours later. Most
of them have to wait to talk or go home
and come back. So as the line calls X the
(16:46):
public square, it only seems right that we have a
place for public comment through our public space on X
as people are prevented from getting their own comments out
there from time to time, and too many items are
placed on each council agenda period. So we're going to
all right, I'm gonna warre people be able to talk.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Okay, John Ally, thank you. We'll have you on again.
Got to run, got to do the news.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
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Speaker 1 (17:17):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. Then
after four o'clock John Cobelts show on demand on the
iHeart App. I had this scary stuff that John Alley
told us. He's with the Santa Monica Coalition. Just how
how how the drug cartels have have apparently taken over
the parks and they're supplying drugs to all the homeless
(17:39):
people and all the mental patients, and they're working on
the beaches, they're working in the parks.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
They have control of a large part of Santa Monica
and nobody's nobody's covering this.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
It's just it's just astounding. What's what's going on there? Uh?
The uh the US turn for central California, including the
city in County of Los Angeles, is Bill A. Saily.
And Bill's been a guest on our show many times
going back to his days as a legislator in Sacramento.
And the National Review had did a piece on Bill Assaily,
(18:16):
and he is trying to explain why California has had
as there's been so much resistance to enforcing federal law
which most other states accept. This really is a unique situation,
and we've talked about it on the air, and Assily
(18:36):
talks about it in the same way. Assaie, who's the
son of Lebanese immigrants who came to the US. He
came to the US legally. Here's the quote that jumped
out at me. You're seeing what I call a public
temper tantrum because they they like Bassi Newsom, conditioned people
(18:58):
to believe over the last few years that California is
special or really is exempt from federal law. It is not,
and that cuts to the heart of this. Newsome always
talks as if California is a nation state, a state,
(19:19):
and a nation at the same time. We chart our
own way, we lead the world. And he actually inhaled
his own gas and believed it. And now here comes
Trump and JD. Vance and Bill A. Salee and Tom
Homan to say, no, you're one of the fifty states,
and the way the law is constructed, the Constitution is constructed,
(19:43):
you must follow federal law. There's no exceptions here. So
the other forty United States are forced to follow federal law.
Some of them don't selectively, but the most resistance is
from California. And I realize people don't know any better.
It's been so many years of listening to idiots like
(20:06):
Newsom and Garcetti and Karen Bass Jerry Brown, like a
whole generation has grown up and they had no idea
that California cannot make its own federal law because it's
not its own nation. Sanctuary cities are not a thing.
They don't exist. It's like Newsom trying to claim the
(20:31):
National Guard that Trump can't control it. It's called the
national Guard. You calling National Guard troops. Every state has
its own contingent, which the governor can deploy if necessary
there's a problem within the state. But ultimately Donald Trump,
(20:56):
like Joe Biden, Barack Obama, they're the commander in chief.
Newsom is not commander in chief. The National Guard is
a subset of the US military. But he goes around
with the fiction that no, no, I'm in charge of
a federal government military unit. No you're not. I can
(21:18):
decide that California is a sanctuary from federal immigration law.
No you can't. But Obama and Biden allowed Newsom to
get away with it, and Trump, because of all the
chaos that was going on in the first term, never
seriously addressed it. And now he's coming better organized, better staffed,
(21:44):
and it's clear that they had a long term plan
to take over part of California, the part that was
not obeying federal law anymore, and a sale. He's got
it right. So now the toddlers that have enjoyed their
(22:06):
nation statehood are having the big tantrum. They can't believe it.
You mean we're not our own country. No you're not.
There's a Congress, there's a president, there's a US Constitution
that governs you. That supersedes what you want to do
in the state, and you could go ram your head
(22:28):
against the wall as many times as you want, just
like a little kid does. You can follow all the
lawsuits you want, but federal law superseded state law, period
full stop. Newsom says, We're still going out and doing
our enforcement operations. We have not stopped. We will not
be deterred. And the only thing that's going to happen
is you're going to see more resources come to our district.
(22:52):
If they don't like the number of National guardsmen that
are here now, they should see how many we get
if this continues. Yeah, they're gonna ship more National Guard
members to California, more marines. If they have to govern
this place from a federal law enforcement standpoint, they will.
(23:14):
The days of sanctuary cities are over. Like Newsom tried
to set his own emission standards and now Congress and
the President took that away. No, you can't do that.
That's not a thing. You can't have your own emission
standards and dictate how the auto industry manufactures its cars.
You can't do that. And you have to follow immigration law.
(23:41):
And Trump's in charge of the National Guard. Do you
have any other questions? And Asalia is filing federal charges
against any of the rioters who broke federal laws. Alejandro
Orolana is being charged with conspiracy to commit civil disorder,
aiding a betting civil disorder. He was passing out face
(24:02):
shields to violent rioters, as Sali said, the face shields
are designed to protect the writers from chemical splashes and
flying debris, which helps protect violent agitators from the less
than lethal weapons deployed by law enforcement. They executed a
(24:23):
search warrant the FBI at Arelana's home and they found
a wrist rocket style shing, a wrist rocket style slingshot, ammunition,
plastic goggles, and a notebook with abbreviations for all cops
or bastards and murder. They're also going after Adam Palermo
federal charges and attacking CHP officers, attempted arson of the
(24:47):
vehicle used in interstate or foreign commerce. You go on
his social media account, there was a collage of photographs
and videos depicting someone holding flying debris, HP patrol car
on fire, and other photos of damage to patrol cars.
And he took one shot at Alex Padilla because Bill
(25:10):
Saley was standing near Christy Nome when Padilla burst in
before he was tackled, and he said, I remember seeing
an extremely large, tall individual charging at us and screaming.
We had no idea it was there. I've never met
him before. I didn't know he was there. I wasn't
expecting him to be there. And so the security detail
did its job. Are we come back? Are you a
(25:37):
mother or are you a pregnant person?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
You're never supposed to ask.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Why. I think that's changing. One BBC anchor woman got
fed up with it and settled the issue live on
camera in the middle of a newscast. Yeah, play that
for you. We come back. And then after three o'clock,
how many of you knew that Gavin Newsom helped his
(26:04):
mother commits suicide. Yeah, there's a whole story on this.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
And she tried to reveal her decision to Newsom, but
he was too busy to answer the phone when she called.
And this was all publicized seven years ago, and a
story seemed to escape notice. And I bring this up
because Newsom tried to use his mother's breast cancer over
the weekend to excuse why he was drinking wine during
(26:35):
the riots at a fundraiser, and so people now have
dug up the background story on it all. Right after
three o'clock.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
We're on from one until four every day. In Great Britain,
they call the news anchors on television news presenters.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
I like that you can call me that.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
You are a radio presenter.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Well, I'm a new I'm a radio news.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Radio news presenter.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
This woman works for the BBC. Her name is Martine Croxel.
She's been there for over thirty years. And you know
sometimes you get bad copy written by a newswriter. Oh yeah, yeah,
sometimes you have to decode it on the fly, me too,
Yeah right, Well, she had one of these woke idiots
(27:30):
in the newsroom who gave her some copy with a
phrase that no normal person uses. You're going to hear
her correct the script live on the air.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine House released research
which says that nearly six hundred heat related deaths are
expected in the UK. Malcolm Mystery, who was involved in
the research, says that the aged pregnant people, women and
those with pre existing health can made to type precautions.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
The aged aged comma pregnant people, and then she corrected
it and called pregnant people women and rolled her eyes.
Might have been more obvious on video, but uh yes,
she she she got she got upset because she saw
the phrase pregnant people. What about aged, well, aged is
(28:25):
old people. It's like two separate categories. I know you
don't like aged.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
I don't, No, I don't know. It's just it sounded
very pregnant too, prong.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
Aged pregnant people, I mean aged pregnant women.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Whatever.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
It's it's weird. That was written, very strange.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
That is very bad, badly written by all counts. Uh
she she rolled her eyes and uh she she'd seen
this on the uh from the teleprompter. Uh it was
research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical The
British use the English language, but they don't use it
(29:10):
in the same way we do. And the newscast went
viral on social media, with most people happy that she corrected.
That is the worst phrase I've ever heard in my life.
Pregnant people. I don't think I've taken the like the
most sacred thing that women are capable of doing. I mean,
(29:32):
the just the single thing, the very top thing that
separates men from women. They have the ability to reproduce
and make a new human being in their womb. Yeah,
and they won't give it. Credit to the to the
to the sex, to the species that can pull this off.
There is no person who gives pregnant, who gives birth
(29:57):
to a child who's a man. That's another thing. It's
not a thing. Oh, I was giving a list of
stuff that's not a thing here in California. How California
thinks it's its own nation. No, it's not. You can't
violate all these laws, you can't violate the Constitution. This
is another one. Pregnant men not a thing, doesn't exist.
(30:25):
I started. You know, occasionally I look up stuff on
the internet, medical sites, big medical sites, you know, the
Male Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic. Right, might be some medical
issue I hear about my family, or there's a story
that has a medical issue, and I go to these
medical sites to see what they say, and I run
(30:45):
across these bizarre woke phrases like sex assigned at birth,
not not boy or girl whatever, sex assigned at birth.
That there's no such thing. You're born a certain sex.
It's not a sign to you. There isn't a committee
(31:07):
of sex assignment experts. And this is part of the
crap that that's are just like a sewage system of
garbage phrases and garbage concepts. That's total nonsense. You were
a pregnant woman, Yes.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
I'm still a woman. I'm no longer pregnant.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
That would have been a long overdue base.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Yes, it would. That story went somewhere. I never thought
it would.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
I thought it was going to be about you know,
when you're heavy and you ask somebody, hey, are you pregnant?
Speaker 4 (31:46):
You're not sure if they're heavy or they're pregnant.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yes, I thought anybody ever grabbed your your pregnant belly.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
I think there were people that that touched.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
It became like a public property.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Yeah, I didn't like that.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
At My wife was in a restaurant once in Malibu
and first baby, she looked really pregnant, right, and a
woman actually walked up to her and grabbed her belly
and shook it in said, God, are you having triplets?
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Oh geez? Yeah, Oh what'd your wife do? Did you
kick her?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
No? She might have tilted have tipped over.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
That's crazy. I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
I don't know. Apparently if you stick out far enough
people think that it's uh no, touch part of the
public space. All right, Debor Mark Ly, Oh we come back.
Did you know that Gavin Newsom helped his mother commit suicide?
Speaker 6 (32:37):
And you're not supposed to say commit suicide. You have
to say died by suicide. That's that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Where'd you get that one?
Speaker 4 (32:46):
The deed Hirsh Mental Health Center?
Speaker 6 (32:49):
And I mean, but it's it's it's definitely because when
you we used to say you commit suicide, and it
makes it seem like it's a crime.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
So they like, so it's not.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah, all right, we'll get into the Newsom situation coming up,
Debor Mark Liden the KFI twenty four Hour newser Hey,
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Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.