March 21, 2025 • 37 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (03/21) - Richie Greenberg comes on the show to talk about San Francisco installing speed cameras in the city and why LA is probably next. A man killed his wife during a conjugal visit. Pres. Trump is making cuts to the Dept. of Education. More on California's budget shortfall.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on every day from one until four o'clock and
after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the
iHeart app. Yes, everywhere you look, all you want to
do is drive to work, to the store, pick up
your kids from school, go on a trip, and there's
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always the government getting in the way.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
There's those parking enforcement agents.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
The police always seemed to be available to pull you
over on the freeway. When there were looters going through
my neighborhood, there was nobody around. In fact, I should
have just gone on the freeway and started speeding and
then maybe I could have led the police to my
neighborhood while the looters were having their way. Well, in
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San Francisco, because of a new state law, they're the
first city to deploy speed cameras, thirty three of them.
And if you go eleven miles an hour or more
and you do it in front of one of these
intrusive nanny state cameras, you immediately will have a ticket
issued to you. And let's talk to Richie Greenberg. He's
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the writer and commentator. We have him on frequently. He
tries to explain Sacramento. I'm San Francisco to us, all
of this order is from Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Welcome. How are you.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I'm doing great, don How are you so happy to
be here?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It's good to have you on all right, explain what
this speed camera program is in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Okay, So a couple of years ago up in Sacramento,
the legislatures there pass AB six forty five, AB six
forty five and Assembly bill which authorized a few of
the major cities of California to start a pilot program
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to install these speed cameras. And we are the first
city here in San Francisco of those I think San Francisco, Sacramento,
La San Diego, and perhaps San Jose the major cities
to try and find an automated way to deal with
this speeding phenomenon. Right, And I get it. I got
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to tell you, I understand why they need to do this,
at least in a city like San Francisco, because we
have such a shortfall of on duty officers or some
other deputized government officials who can pull over these speeders. Right.
We don't have that capability here. And so they want
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to use some automated license plate reading system, some service
that can track you if you go through the specific
areas that have been identified. And here in San Francisco,
they identified thirty three thirty three locations within this city
that have either a ponderance for people to speed through
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or high accident rates, and that's where they put to
thirty three. So if you starting yesterday actually is when
they went live online yesterday, and if you go through
them and for the first couple of months, this is
just going to be a a testing well, you'll receive
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like a notice in the mail to say you have sped,
but you're not subject to the penalty yet. They just
want to make sure the whole system is working before
they start actually finding you. But the thing is that
as this has come out and has gone public, now
that it is starting, we're all examining this to see
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how it works and how the penalty is, how the
fine will be levied, and how much they are and
we're finding that it really doesn't seem to be aimed
at public safety. It does not seem to be there's.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
A shock, of course, it's not. It's not about public safety.
It's about that that's I don't know if you heard.
We talked about the story earlier in in Los Angeles.
They're losing sixty five million dollars a year on parking tickets.
It seems the salaries and the pensions and the infrastructure
of the parking Enforcement Agency exceeds the revenue by sixty
five million a year. And this has been going on
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for eight years now.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
That's correct, yep, And so we're all looking at this
is just another way, it's another government money grab. They're
not even calling you when you go at least eleven
miles over the speed limit. The post is speed limit
eleven miles an hour. That triggers the first year of
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calculation of what you're going to be levied. It's not
not even calling it a fine. They're calling it a fee.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And yeah, oh, complete with the perversion of the language too.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
That is classic progressive, a classic progressive course. You start,
you start messing with the language to confuse people. It's
not a fee, it's a theft.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Why don't they call it what it is, it's a
theft exactly, It'll be a fifties or five hundred dollars theft.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
And add to that that, there's two other just characteristics
of this whole program. One is that this is more
of an administrative civil issue. It's not a where there's
points on your license if you go faster and faster.
This is not a replacement for any officers that have
pulled you over. So this is just similar to like
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the h ov lanes that are on the freeways, where
if you want to pay to go faster, right or
more convenient. That's what it seems to be.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Oh so really there's a with wait, there's no points
on your license for speeding.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
That that's correct because it's just it's not linked to
d m V in that way. It's just you go
faster than you're supposed to and they'll send you the bills.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Okay, it really is about theft, then about taking the money,
because you know, if they wanted to reform people, then
you know you'd threaten to take their license.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yes. And then there's the other added issue here, and
that has to do with the discount. If you qualify
for low income state assistance or and that's the thing too,
those who are making under their certain federal guidelines for
low income, then you pay only fifty percent of what
this fee would be across the board from all these
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So you could be someone who is working really hard,
someone that that that is is succeeding and has a
decent job, and you get a ticket, and the person
that lives right next door to you also gets this
speeding ticket for the in the same area, the same camera,
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the same speed. Let's say, really, but the person next
door only has to pay fifty percent of that because
they qualify for low income discount.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
This socialism thing has taken full route right down and
right down to the speeding fines. So it's less of
a problem if poor people speed and endangered children that
if a rich guy speeds and endangered children.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Right, So, what it's doing is it's calculating what this
she is going to be. I'm so tempted to say, fine,
it's not a fine, it's what the fee is going
to be. Is based less on someone who is driving
recklessly or dangerously or is distracted going through certain areas,
certain streets, right they're whatever they're doing. It's less on
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what how they're driving than how much make money you're making.
And then how we calculate the god set.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
They always make it like like incredibly complicated.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, exactly, And of course they are selling it though,
as if we need to cut down on speeding and
we need to make our sitters city safer.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
You know what's caused the increase in the pedestrian deaths
here in LA. It's homeless people sleeping in the street
in the dark, in bad neighbors. Yeah, because I looked
it up, Because where the increases are most pronounced in
Los Angeles is exactly where you have the most homeless
people wandering around. I've had several in my neighborhood wander
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in front of me while I'm driving down San Jacente Boulevard.
And when they had this huge encampment in front of
the VA for four years, some of them would wander
out holding a whiskey bottle in the dark and they
would just jump out in the lane in front of me,
and I'd think, well, if I hit him, he'd go flying,
the whiskey bottle would go flying, and I might end
up in prison.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, that's right, that's right. And it's not just the
homeless that are drunk. It's also those who were just
strung out on whatever, on so illicit drugs that happened
to be walking around standing in the middle of the
street just they have no idea where they are.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
They're the ones getting run down and that's why the
pedestrian death ray goes up. Ritchie Greenberg, thank you for coming.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
On my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Thanks so much. Good to have you.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Oh it reminds me the last ticket that my wife
got and I was there for it. She had her
license plate stolen in Los Angeles because you know, thieves
got carte blanche, right, so they steal a license plate.
Her plate is probably now on a car being used
in smash and grab robberies, okay, and she never got
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it replaced.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And so we're parking.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
We wanted to walk in a hiking area overlooking the
Malibu Beach, and we showed up and they had a
small parking lot parallel parking, and we're waiting because there's
a parking enforcement officer there in Malibu, and we're waiting
and waiting, and finally somebody moves. Okay, So we did
the thing. We didn't park in an illegal spot. We
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saw that there was a parking enforce she in fact,
she drove away. We backed into our spot, went on
our little hike. We come back. We have a ticket.
Why because of the missing license plate? Oh god, we
carefully waited so we'd have a legal parking space. And
then this this Malibu parking enforcement agent fifty eight dollars
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ticket for not having a license plate that was stolen
in Los Angeles because of the anything goes mentality.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Well, then don't you have a case. Can't you fight it?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I suppose we could, but you're not going to well,
because it's not worth it exactly. That's how they make
their money. It's it's not worth our time. Our time
is worth more than fifty eight dollars because they're going
to spend you.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
It's your fault that you didn't get you didn't get
it back, you didn't do something that you didn't expedite.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
It, you didn't get Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're just terrible.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
We just we just pay hundreds of thousands of dollars
in taxes. But other than that, we're terrible people.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, all right, we come back.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Did you hear well, you've probably heard about the the
murder of the wife of a prisoner. Yes, yes, yes,
I did, the conjugal visit. Did you also hear about
the fetish session that killed a man here in southern California.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Oh that I didn't hear about.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Oh well, we'll do both stories coming up, okay, okay,
and you're not going to believe the fetish. I've never
heard of this one, Okay, I.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Don't cannot wait.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
We'll see. Maybe you're familiar with it. I don't.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I seriously doubt it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
If you are, I'm not going to say that's going
to be a promo from the Ages.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
M six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I guess I should put out a warning that the
following segment is going to include sex and violence. So
if you're bothered.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
How many people do you think are actually going to
turn off their radio?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I just feel a moral obligation. I don't want to
blindside anybody. So if you don't want to hear sex
and violence being discussed, okay, all right, this one you
may have heard. This guy named David Brinson, fifty four
years old. He's been in prison for over thirty years.
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He murdered not one, not two, not three, four men
during a robbery in Los Angeles. He was sentenced in
nineteen ninety four and he's at the California healthcare facility
in Stockton right now at two in the morning in November.
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This news has just been released. He was allowed a
conjugal visit with his wife.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
At two in the morning.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Well, I guess the visit went long.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Oh okay, so she didn't show up a two No.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
It's a conjugal visit.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
How long are you allowed to have.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, the guy's been in prison thirty years.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
I would think it would be very short.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Then that's a good point. Think about about twenty seconds,
that's right. Just looks at her, right. Yeah, Well, something
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happened during the conjugal visit and he call contacted officers
and said, my wife had passed out.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Was he just too aggressive?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
They tried to They tried to revive her, but Stephanie
Brinson was pronounced dead at two fifty one am and
the District Attorney in Amador County, Todd Reebe, confirmed that
Stephanie was killed during a conjugal visit and he doesn't
have any more details to share.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
So I'm wondering if he actually meant to kill her
or you know, he was so excited.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
It's so crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
What's so crazy?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Poor woman?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, but you know, when a guy's in prison for
life because it was four consecutive life terms, so when
his first life was over, he'd have to serve a
full term for his second life. So he was even
in California, there was no way to parole him. And
when anything goes I mean, when you have nothing to lose,
then anything goes.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
So but I isn't it amazing that he had a
woman willing to come and have sex with him?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Baffling.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
You know, I know there's a lot of guys out
there and they struggle. They struggle getting dates, they struggle
with relationships.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
They don't understand.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
How they this got not this guy. This guy's been
in prison for thirty years.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Maybe that's the key.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
That's it's that old bad boy things.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I like bad boys. How bad four murders minimum?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Not bad enough for you?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Bad's got her going now here? This one's really weird.
I guess I should read the opening paragraph.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Here.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
There's a guy named Michael Well, let me just set
it up. Michael Dale is fifty six years old, and
he hired a woman named Mikayla rylers Dam, twenty nine
years old, to come over his house and his candido
and perform some sexual acts all right, and the opening
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paragraph says, as Michael Dale lay with a plastic bag,
saran wrap and duct tape sealed around his head, Mikayla
rollers Dam sat next to him with a vibrator and
a cell phone, filming him for her OnlyFans page.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
You want to hear more?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Sure so far that you know you don't identify now.
Michael had paid Michela eleven thousand dollars to come to
his home and perform bondage, domination and sato masochism acts.
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She arrived at six o'clock and Michael was already intoxicated,
but she spent several hours with him engaging in fetish acts.
He had several extreme and unusual requests. He wanted to
be wrapped up like a mummy in saran wrap.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
What's wrong with people?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
So she said okay and wrapped them up like a mummy.
He wanted her to gorilla glue a pair of women's
boots onto his feet.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
What Yeah, so she did, but that's not coming off.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Right.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
She wanted to She wanted to wear women's boots while
wrapped in saran wrap.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Because that gorilla g glue is really strong.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, Police and fire personnel. When they arrived at the scene,
they found Michael Dale unconscious Ryler's damn trying to revive him.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
She denied placing anything over his head and claimed it's
the first time she'd ever engaged in any of this.
According to the affidavit, Michael had duct tape over his mouth,
a plastic bag over his head, more saran wrap around
that than duct tape wrapped around his face and head,
securing all the layers. So it's duct tape, plastic bag,
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saran wrap, more duct tape. He also appeared to have
saran wrap wrapped around his neck tightly.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Are you going to say someplace else?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Okay, yeah, I'm surprised, and his head was sealed in
a plastic bag for at least eight minutes.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Eleven thousand dollars would cost for this.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Wow, and she has an OnlyFans page. You see how
easy it is to make money.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Though, I was thinking, Wow, no, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Going to do What are you getting for this?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
This?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
This girl's knocknna have eleven thousand dollars and what are
you getting.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Not this?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Her Instagram account has more than eleven thousand followers and
is still online. In case you want to go look
her up. She has a company called Sincount Entertainment, the
number one adult party entertainment service in California. She has
the company with her husband. She has three children. Permission
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is to offer intoxicating entertainment with a professional flare and
her husband egdor On. Her husband was encouraging her to
get more money out of Dale by increasing the amount
of fetishness.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Okay, now it's going to.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Bother me is every time I go into the drawer
and start to pull out some suran wrap, I'm gonna
think of this guy I know too.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to talk to
State Senator Tony Strickland. He's a Republican from Huntingtown, Huntington Beach,
and he put out a bill which asked Senate Democrats,
since they have a super majority, how about you defund
high speed rail and use the money to lower gas prices?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
And the Senate Democrats said no.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And this is two bills that we've discussed today, and
I will get into that second bill again later in
the three o'clock hour. Two bills where the legislature had
a chance to lower gas prices for us and said, no,
get to that.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
We're not paying enough, John, that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
No, we're gonna be paying sixty five cents more a
gallon very soon. All that I had in the three
o'clock hour, along the two rounds of the moistline. Now,
there has been a lot of noise and nonsense about
Elon Musk and Doge and Trump doing all these cuts.
And I always tell people I am not here to
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defend or explain or predict everything that Trump says or
does or Musk. I'll just tell you what things I
see that I like, and what things I see that
are probably not probably a bad idea. It's called like
telling the truth and not doing political propaganda. Kind of
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a lost art, but we got some people interested in
that that you've heard. You've heard obviously all the criticism.
Trump is cut the Department of Education drastically. He can't
put it entirely out of business. Congress has to do that,
but he could severely disable it. And one of the
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things he went after was the Department of Education research budget.
Now that's supposed to be something you don't touch. It's sacrilegious.
You can't touch research, especially with education. One thing that
most people don't know is our education system across the
country is a complete disaster.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Do you know what?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
We are number one when it comes to funding per
pupil in the world, number one, but in test scores
we're number forty.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Now, maybe we're screwing up here.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Maybe we're just spending money, but we don't teach our
kids intelligently. How could you be know? Because everybody's got
to spend more money. You got to spend more money,
more funding. Okay, we're number one, We are number one
by a lot. We're number forty in terms of output.
So we have this federal agency that Jimmy Carter created.
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I mean that was the first sign nineteen seventy nine,
forty six years ago. Do you know how much money
we have spent in forty six years federal education money?
Three trillion dollars three trillion. That's an astonishing amount of money.
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And we have lower test scores than we did thirty
years ago.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I'll give you an example.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Do you know what percentage of fourth graders read at
or above proficiency levels? No, only thirty one percent fourth
graders across the country. The numbers are even worse in California.
They're in the twenties. Percentage of eighth graders that read
at or above proficiency levels only thirty percent. So you
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have about seventy percent of all the children in America
who cannot read at their proficiently at their level seventy percent.
And in eighth grade reading a third of the students
scored below basic.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
But why is that? The teachers just are terrible?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I mean that I don't know. I don't know what
goes on in the classroom. I spent a fortune sending
the kids to private my kids to private school because
I saw that the La Unified School district was an
utter disaster. I was living out here almost ten years
before we had to make the decision, and when it
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came up a boy, that would have been a much
easier economic decision to send him to a public school,
and maybe there was one public school we could go
to till about fifth grade, but after that it was
a disaster, and I didn't want to risk not being
able to get into a good place. You know, it's
at sixth grade because they're mostly full.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
But private schools are so expensive, so not everybody can
afford those.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
No, no, people go to the Catholic schools even if
they're not Catholic, right, because that's some people homeschool which
wasn't going to work out in our house. I could
see you homeschooling or you know, get you get out
of the city because a lot of suburban school districts
are good. Right, But Los Angeles is mostly very poor
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kids mostly well, but I'd say huge percentage of immigrant
children who don't speak English. And then the teachers Union
is absurd and destructive and damaging. I mean, the way
they locked the kids out for a year and a half,
I mean, you could see they just hate the children.
I'm sorry the LA Teachers Union must hate children for
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the way it acted during the lockdown. Anyway, to get
my larger point here, if you wonder why they're eviscerating
the education department, Michael Schellenberger he's got a website called
public dot News, and he did an investigation and became
aware of a company called the American Institute for Research.
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It's a contractor with the Department of Education. It's supposed
to do research on education. I don't know specifically what
they claim to do, but he has the invoices. He
knows exactly what they charge, and he knows exactly what
the executives get they charged. They build the Department of Education,
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and I'll refer to them as Air America Institute for Research.
They built the Department of Education a total of ten million,
nine hundred and fifty seven thousand dollars, let's call it
eleven million dollars. And there was a large number of
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dollars spent on indirect fees. And nobody knows what indirect
fees means. And Schellenberger questioned Air and they went into
all these all this gobbledegook about how AAR's indirect rates
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are similar to those of other social and behavioral research organizations,
blah blah blah blah. But it's fifty percent in indirect fees.
Whatever that is is considered excessive. Well, here's a clue.
David Myers was the president and CEO. He earned two
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point two million dollars in twenty twenty two as the
president of Air. This was our educational tax funds two million,
two hundred thousand dollars the year before a million one,
So you put it together, he earned three point three
million dollars in two years doing educational research that nobody
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can explain. Jessica Heppin is the current president and CEO.
She earned six hundred and eighty five thousand dollars. The
executive vice president earned nine hundred and thirty one thousand.
The chief financial officer earned one point one million. You
get the idea. This is what I tell you about nonprofits.
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Nonprofits for for issues that people go, oh, well, yes, god,
I'm sure good work is being done. Children's education, homelessness,
you know, the stuff where people get emotionally manipulated, they're
made to feel good. You don't want to fund children's education,
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you don't want to help children learn. The people in
these nonprofits have zero interest in helping children learn. They
have a huge interest in getting wealthy. One guy's making
three million, another one's making a million one a year,
another one's making almost a million a year. And I
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can and again, seventy percent of students in the United
States are not reading or doing math at a proficient level.
They are illiterate and enumerate. They can't read and they
can't do math. And we spent three trillion dollars, and
so Trump says, maybe we should shut this down. Maybe
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this is a colossal scam. It is a colossal scam,
and it has been for forty five years. And that's
why everybody Washington is screaming and squealing because the gravy
train has been derailed.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I mean, people earn a huge living on our tax
money and they don't do anything useful.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
This was stunning.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
So I don't subscribe to a lot of things, and
I don't recommend many subscriptions. But Michael Schellenberger Public dot News,
it's like twelve dollars a month, and I read all
his stuff because he finds out things like this. And
this is of course not debated on This is not
discussed on the cable channels. You're not going to see
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this in the major newspapers because they would rather create
a an atmosphere for a food fight and between whatever
Democrats are popping off and whatever Musk and Trump say.
This is why it's a disaster. Million. These guys made
millions of dollars. They didn't improve any child's education at
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all with all their research. It was a racket. Good
for them, they pulled it off. It's not hard to
do with the way the government is in this country.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
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Line next hour and right after Debra's news at three o'clock.
State Senator Tony Strickland on from Huntington Beach. He had
a great idea and a bill. He asked the set
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of Democrats, why don't we defund high speed rail this
year and use the money to lower gas prices? I
bet you would love this idea, right, I would love
this idea. Who doesn't want lower gas prices and in
exchange no money spent on high speed rail? Anybody think
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we should spend high speed rail and leave the gas
prices that they are number one in the nation. There
were two chances for the legislature to lower gas prices
yesterday and they said no to both of them. We'll
talk about all that next hour. We've been talking about,
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you know, the well the budget cutting in Washington, and
a lot of stuff must be cut because there is
so much waste, like that Education Department contract we talked
about where you had several executives making millions of dollars
doing research and the research yielded nothing of value. We've
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got seventy percent, seventy percent of the kids in this
country do not read proficiently and they do not compute
math proficiently. Now, when you have a seventy percent failure
rate and you're spending millions of dollars on executive salaries
for these fake nonprofits that are running off with your money, yeah,
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we need a doge, We need a musk and a Trump.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
How else are we going to get rid of this? Now?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
We've got our own version of a financial disaster in
Los Angeles. We talked about this some yesterday. A billion
dollar budget deficit entirely self inflicted by the incompetence of
Karen Bass. And going back to Eric Arsetti, he set
the template here and the city council.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
You just have a bunch.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Of bozos who apparently are among the seventy percent who
are not proficient at math. I mean, I don't know
how many of them are public school graduates here at LA,
but wow, you can see what happens right when you
have like fifty years of bad education. Eventually, those little
stupid kids grow up and they become stupid adults and
they get elected into office. LA Times has a store
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no it' see. LA Daily News has a story on
the budget deficit and they ask, it's like a question
and answer piece. What are the primary factors contributing to
the shortfall? Well, LA has had slower than expected revenue growth.
Business taxes are short. Gee, why would that be? Maybe
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because you allowed all the criminals and homeless people to
run amock. A lot of businesses have closed in LA,
a shocking number of businesses.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
And I know this. Just drive down Willstrom Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Look at all the restaurants that have boarded up I
have on my side of town, which is a nice
part of town. I can't tell you how many shopping
centers are practically vacant, with dozens of empty storefronts, shops, restaurants.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Everybody's gone.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
So they're also the worried about the looting, too, worried
about people breaking in and taking all the stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
It was criminals looting, it was crazy people in mental patients.
And I know a lot of people who didn't want
to go out to dinner anymore, and they weren't going
to go walking around window shopping. Sales taxes are down
for the same reason. By the way, the business comment
in LA really sucks. You know what's glossed over because
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we have an incompetent media. We've had the second highest
unemployment rate in the country for years. In California, we
have a high unemployment rate. There aren't a lot of
good paying jobs. We have a lot of poverty. We
have a lot of people on Medicaid, a lot of.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Them are legal aliens.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
And by allowing all the crime and all the homeless people,
businesses going out of business. Customers are scarce. Business taxes down,
sales taxes down, hotel taxes down because why would you
vacation here? They saw what was going on on television.
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They see it's the homeless capital of America. We're just
known for our disasters like the latest is the fire,
and eventually everybody figures out, oh yeah, the fire was
far worse because the city really didn't have a functioning
fire department.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Did they.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Like we said before, fire hydrants were broken, reservoirs were empty,
engines were busted and not fixed. Firefighters are at fifty percent.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
By the way, John did you get any snitches that
want to co host with you to talk about what
really happened in Maribas's office when the fire broke out.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
We're short of snitches. Wow, it's a snitches draft. I
don't know. Nobody wants to come forward and tell the truth.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
John's going to pay you big bucks to do it.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Now we're getting little It's crazy. I can do this
job without paying for snitches. The truth will come out eventually. Apparently.
The costs that are rising include liability claims. Again, you
don't know how many people sue the city because they've
tripped over a city sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Labor agreements.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
They gave away huge contract increases in pension increases to
all the unions. And well, let's see when business taxes
are down, sales taxes down, hotel taxes down, liability claims
are up, more payroll, more pensions. In fact, Kenneth Mahea says, yeah,
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steep increases in payroll, coasts, costs surging, liability payouts, revenue
projections way down, mismanagement incompetence, Bowbery, Boobery. Deborah Mark is
up next, and then we're going to talk to State
Senator Tony Strickland. He'd like to defund high speed rail
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and use the money to lower gas prices. Deborhmark live
in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been
listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always
hear the show live on KFI Am six forty from
one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course,
anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on every day from one until four o'clock and
after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the
iHeart app. Yes, everywhere you look, all you want to
do is drive to work, to the store, pick up
your kids from school, go on a trip, and there's
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always the government getting in the way.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
There's those parking enforcement agents.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
The police always seemed to be available to pull you
over on the freeway. When there were looters going through
my neighborhood, there was nobody around. In fact, I should
have just gone on the freeway and started speeding and
then maybe I could have led the police to my
neighborhood while the looters were having their way. Well, in
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San Francisco, because of a new state law, they're the
first city to deploy speed cameras, thirty three of them.
And if you go eleven miles an hour or more
and you do it in front of one of these
intrusive nanny state cameras, you immediately will have a ticket
issued to you. And let's talk to Richie Greenberg. He's
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the writer and commentator. We have him on frequently. He
tries to explain Sacramento. I'm San Francisco to us, all
of this order is from Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Welcome. How are you.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I'm doing great, don How are you so happy to
be here?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It's good to have you on all right, explain what
this speed camera program is in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Okay, So a couple of years ago up in Sacramento,
the legislatures there pass AB six forty five, AB six
forty five and Assembly bill which authorized a few of
the major cities of California to start a pilot program
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to install these speed cameras. And we are the first
city here in San Francisco of those I think San Francisco, Sacramento,
La San Diego, and perhaps San Jose the major cities
to try and find an automated way to deal with
this speeding phenomenon. Right, And I get it. I got
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to tell you, I understand why they need to do this,
at least in a city like San Francisco, because we
have such a shortfall of on duty officers or some
other deputized government officials who can pull over these speeders. Right.
We don't have that capability here. And so they want
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to use some automated license plate reading system, some service
that can track you if you go through the specific
areas that have been identified. And here in San Francisco,
they identified thirty three thirty three locations within this city
that have either a ponderance for people to speed through
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or high accident rates, and that's where they put to
thirty three. So if you starting yesterday actually is when
they went live online yesterday, and if you go through
them and for the first couple of months, this is
just going to be a a testing well, you'll receive
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like a notice in the mail to say you have sped,
but you're not subject to the penalty yet. They just
want to make sure the whole system is working before
they start actually finding you. But the thing is that
as this has come out and has gone public, now
that it is starting, we're all examining this to see
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how it works and how the penalty is, how the
fine will be levied, and how much they are and
we're finding that it really doesn't seem to be aimed
at public safety. It does not seem to be there's.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
A shock, of course, it's not. It's not about public safety.
It's about that that's I don't know if you heard.
We talked about the story earlier in in Los Angeles.
They're losing sixty five million dollars a year on parking tickets.
It seems the salaries and the pensions and the infrastructure
of the parking Enforcement Agency exceeds the revenue by sixty
five million a year. And this has been going on
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for eight years now.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
That's correct, yep, And so we're all looking at this
is just another way, it's another government money grab. They're
not even calling you when you go at least eleven
miles over the speed limit. The post is speed limit
eleven miles an hour. That triggers the first year of
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calculation of what you're going to be levied. It's not
not even calling it a fine. They're calling it a fee.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And yeah, oh, complete with the perversion of the language too.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
That is classic progressive, a classic progressive course. You start,
you start messing with the language to confuse people. It's
not a fee, it's a theft.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Why don't they call it what it is, it's a
theft exactly, It'll be a fifties or five hundred dollars theft.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
And add to that that, there's two other just characteristics
of this whole program. One is that this is more
of an administrative civil issue. It's not a where there's
points on your license if you go faster and faster.
This is not a replacement for any officers that have
pulled you over. So this is just similar to like
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the h ov lanes that are on the freeways, where
if you want to pay to go faster, right or
more convenient. That's what it seems to be.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Oh so really there's a with wait, there's no points
on your license for speeding.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
That that's correct because it's just it's not linked to
d m V in that way. It's just you go
faster than you're supposed to and they'll send you the bills.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Okay, it really is about theft, then about taking the money,
because you know, if they wanted to reform people, then
you know you'd threaten to take their license.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yes. And then there's the other added issue here, and
that has to do with the discount. If you qualify
for low income state assistance or and that's the thing too,
those who are making under their certain federal guidelines for
low income, then you pay only fifty percent of what
this fee would be across the board from all these
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So you could be someone who is working really hard,
someone that that that is is succeeding and has a
decent job, and you get a ticket, and the person
that lives right next door to you also gets this
speeding ticket for the in the same area, the same camera,
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the same speed. Let's say, really, but the person next
door only has to pay fifty percent of that because
they qualify for low income discount.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
This socialism thing has taken full route right down and
right down to the speeding fines. So it's less of
a problem if poor people speed and endangered children that
if a rich guy speeds and endangered children.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Right, So, what it's doing is it's calculating what this
she is going to be. I'm so tempted to say, fine,
it's not a fine, it's what the fee is going
to be. Is based less on someone who is driving
recklessly or dangerously or is distracted going through certain areas,
certain streets, right they're whatever they're doing. It's less on
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what how they're driving than how much make money you're making.
And then how we calculate the god set.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
They always make it like like incredibly complicated.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, exactly, And of course they are selling it though,
as if we need to cut down on speeding and
we need to make our sitters city safer.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
You know what's caused the increase in the pedestrian deaths
here in LA. It's homeless people sleeping in the street
in the dark, in bad neighbors. Yeah, because I looked
it up, Because where the increases are most pronounced in
Los Angeles is exactly where you have the most homeless
people wandering around. I've had several in my neighborhood wander
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in front of me while I'm driving down San Jacente Boulevard.
And when they had this huge encampment in front of
the VA for four years, some of them would wander
out holding a whiskey bottle in the dark and they
would just jump out in the lane in front of me,
and I'd think, well, if I hit him, he'd go flying,
the whiskey bottle would go flying, and I might end
up in prison.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, that's right, that's right. And it's not just the
homeless that are drunk. It's also those who were just
strung out on whatever, on so illicit drugs that happened
to be walking around standing in the middle of the
street just they have no idea where they are.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
They're the ones getting run down and that's why the
pedestrian death ray goes up. Ritchie Greenberg, thank you for coming.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
On my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Thanks so much. Good to have you.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Oh it reminds me the last ticket that my wife
got and I was there for it. She had her
license plate stolen in Los Angeles because you know, thieves
got carte blanche, right, so they steal a license plate.
Her plate is probably now on a car being used
in smash and grab robberies, okay, and she never got
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it replaced.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And so we're parking.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
We wanted to walk in a hiking area overlooking the
Malibu Beach, and we showed up and they had a
small parking lot parallel parking, and we're waiting because there's
a parking enforcement officer there in Malibu, and we're waiting
and waiting, and finally somebody moves. Okay, So we did
the thing. We didn't park in an illegal spot. We
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saw that there was a parking enforce she in fact,
she drove away. We backed into our spot, went on
our little hike. We come back. We have a ticket.
Why because of the missing license plate? Oh god, we
carefully waited so we'd have a legal parking space. And
then this this Malibu parking enforcement agent fifty eight dollars
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ticket for not having a license plate that was stolen
in Los Angeles because of the anything goes mentality.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Well, then don't you have a case. Can't you fight it?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I suppose we could, but you're not going to well,
because it's not worth it exactly. That's how they make
their money. It's it's not worth our time. Our time
is worth more than fifty eight dollars because they're going
to spend you.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
It's your fault that you didn't get you didn't get
it back, you didn't do something that you didn't expedite.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
It, you didn't get Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're just terrible.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
We just we just pay hundreds of thousands of dollars
in taxes. But other than that, we're terrible people.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, all right, we come back.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Did you hear well, you've probably heard about the the
murder of the wife of a prisoner. Yes, yes, yes,
I did, the conjugal visit. Did you also hear about
the fetish session that killed a man here in southern California.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Oh that I didn't hear about.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Oh well, we'll do both stories coming up, okay, okay,
and you're not going to believe the fetish. I've never
heard of this one, Okay, I.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Don't cannot wait.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
We'll see. Maybe you're familiar with it. I don't.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I seriously doubt it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
If you are, I'm not going to say that's going
to be a promo from the Ages.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
M six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I guess I should put out a warning that the
following segment is going to include sex and violence. So
if you're bothered.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
How many people do you think are actually going to
turn off their radio?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I just feel a moral obligation. I don't want to
blindside anybody. So if you don't want to hear sex
and violence being discussed, okay, all right, this one you
may have heard. This guy named David Brinson, fifty four
years old. He's been in prison for over thirty years.
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He murdered not one, not two, not three, four men
during a robbery in Los Angeles. He was sentenced in
nineteen ninety four and he's at the California healthcare facility
in Stockton right now at two in the morning in November.
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This news has just been released. He was allowed a
conjugal visit with his wife.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
At two in the morning.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Well, I guess the visit went long.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Oh okay, so she didn't show up a two No.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
It's a conjugal visit.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
How long are you allowed to have.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, the guy's been in prison thirty years.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
I would think it would be very short.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Then that's a good point. Think about about twenty seconds,
that's right. Just looks at her, right. Yeah, Well, something
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happened during the conjugal visit and he call contacted officers
and said, my wife had passed out.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Was he just too aggressive?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
They tried to They tried to revive her, but Stephanie
Brinson was pronounced dead at two fifty one am and
the District Attorney in Amador County, Todd Reebe, confirmed that
Stephanie was killed during a conjugal visit and he doesn't
have any more details to share.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
So I'm wondering if he actually meant to kill her
or you know, he was so excited.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
It's so crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
What's so crazy?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Poor woman?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, but you know, when a guy's in prison for
life because it was four consecutive life terms, so when
his first life was over, he'd have to serve a
full term for his second life. So he was even
in California, there was no way to parole him. And
when anything goes I mean, when you have nothing to lose,
then anything goes.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
So but I isn't it amazing that he had a
woman willing to come and have sex with him?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Baffling.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
You know, I know there's a lot of guys out
there and they struggle. They struggle getting dates, they struggle
with relationships.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
They don't understand.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
How they this got not this guy. This guy's been
in prison for thirty years.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Maybe that's the key.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
That's it's that old bad boy things.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I like bad boys. How bad four murders minimum?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Not bad enough for you?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Bad's got her going now here? This one's really weird.
I guess I should read the opening paragraph.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Here.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
There's a guy named Michael Well, let me just set
it up. Michael Dale is fifty six years old, and
he hired a woman named Mikayla rylers Dam, twenty nine
years old, to come over his house and his candido
and perform some sexual acts all right, and the opening
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paragraph says, as Michael Dale lay with a plastic bag,
saran wrap and duct tape sealed around his head, Mikayla
rollers Dam sat next to him with a vibrator and
a cell phone, filming him for her OnlyFans page.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
You want to hear more?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Sure so far that you know you don't identify now.
Michael had paid Michela eleven thousand dollars to come to
his home and perform bondage, domination and sato masochism acts.
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She arrived at six o'clock and Michael was already intoxicated,
but she spent several hours with him engaging in fetish acts.
He had several extreme and unusual requests. He wanted to
be wrapped up like a mummy in saran wrap.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
What's wrong with people?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
So she said okay and wrapped them up like a mummy.
He wanted her to gorilla glue a pair of women's
boots onto his feet.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
What Yeah, so she did, but that's not coming off.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Right.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
She wanted to She wanted to wear women's boots while
wrapped in saran wrap.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Because that gorilla g glue is really strong.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah, Police and fire personnel. When they arrived at the scene,
they found Michael Dale unconscious Ryler's damn trying to revive him.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
She denied placing anything over his head and claimed it's
the first time she'd ever engaged in any of this.
According to the affidavit, Michael had duct tape over his mouth,
a plastic bag over his head, more saran wrap around
that than duct tape wrapped around his face and head,
securing all the layers. So it's duct tape, plastic bag,
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saran wrap, more duct tape. He also appeared to have
saran wrap wrapped around his neck tightly.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Are you going to say someplace else?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Okay, yeah, I'm surprised, and his head was sealed in
a plastic bag for at least eight minutes.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Eleven thousand dollars would cost for this.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Wow, and she has an OnlyFans page. You see how
easy it is to make money.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Though, I was thinking, Wow, no, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Going to do What are you getting for this?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
This?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
This girl's knocknna have eleven thousand dollars and what are
you getting.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Not this?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Her Instagram account has more than eleven thousand followers and
is still online. In case you want to go look
her up. She has a company called Sincount Entertainment, the
number one adult party entertainment service in California. She has
the company with her husband. She has three children. Permission
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is to offer intoxicating entertainment with a professional flare and
her husband egdor On. Her husband was encouraging her to
get more money out of Dale by increasing the amount
of fetishness.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Okay, now it's going to.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Bother me is every time I go into the drawer
and start to pull out some suran wrap, I'm gonna
think of this guy I know too.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to talk to
State Senator Tony Strickland. He's a Republican from Huntingtown, Huntington Beach,
and he put out a bill which asked Senate Democrats,
since they have a super majority, how about you defund
high speed rail and use the money to lower gas prices?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
And the Senate Democrats said no.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And this is two bills that we've discussed today, and
I will get into that second bill again later in
the three o'clock hour. Two bills where the legislature had
a chance to lower gas prices for us and said, no,
get to that.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
We're not paying enough, John, that's the problem.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
No, we're gonna be paying sixty five cents more a
gallon very soon. All that I had in the three
o'clock hour, along the two rounds of the moistline. Now,
there has been a lot of noise and nonsense about
Elon Musk and Doge and Trump doing all these cuts.
And I always tell people I am not here to
(20:40):
defend or explain or predict everything that Trump says or
does or Musk. I'll just tell you what things I
see that I like, and what things I see that
are probably not probably a bad idea. It's called like
telling the truth and not doing political propaganda. Kind of
(21:03):
a lost art, but we got some people interested in
that that you've heard. You've heard obviously all the criticism.
Trump is cut the Department of Education drastically. He can't
put it entirely out of business. Congress has to do that,
but he could severely disable it. And one of the
(21:24):
things he went after was the Department of Education research budget.
Now that's supposed to be something you don't touch. It's sacrilegious.
You can't touch research, especially with education. One thing that
most people don't know is our education system across the
country is a complete disaster.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Do you know what?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
We are number one when it comes to funding per
pupil in the world, number one, but in test scores
we're number forty.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Now, maybe we're screwing up here.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Maybe we're just spending money, but we don't teach our
kids intelligently. How could you be know? Because everybody's got
to spend more money. You got to spend more money,
more funding. Okay, we're number one, We are number one
by a lot. We're number forty in terms of output.
So we have this federal agency that Jimmy Carter created.
(22:22):
I mean that was the first sign nineteen seventy nine,
forty six years ago. Do you know how much money
we have spent in forty six years federal education money?
Three trillion dollars three trillion. That's an astonishing amount of money.
(22:43):
And we have lower test scores than we did thirty
years ago.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I'll give you an example.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Do you know what percentage of fourth graders read at
or above proficiency levels? No, only thirty one percent fourth
graders across the country. The numbers are even worse in California.
They're in the twenties. Percentage of eighth graders that read
at or above proficiency levels only thirty percent. So you
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have about seventy percent of all the children in America
who cannot read at their proficiently at their level seventy percent.
And in eighth grade reading a third of the students
scored below basic.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
But why is that? The teachers just are terrible?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I mean that I don't know. I don't know what
goes on in the classroom. I spent a fortune sending
the kids to private my kids to private school because
I saw that the La Unified School district was an
utter disaster. I was living out here almost ten years
before we had to make the decision, and when it
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came up a boy, that would have been a much
easier economic decision to send him to a public school,
and maybe there was one public school we could go
to till about fifth grade, but after that it was
a disaster, and I didn't want to risk not being
able to get into a good place. You know, it's
at sixth grade because they're mostly full.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
But private schools are so expensive, so not everybody can
afford those.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
No, no, people go to the Catholic schools even if
they're not Catholic, right, because that's some people homeschool which
wasn't going to work out in our house. I could
see you homeschooling or you know, get you get out
of the city because a lot of suburban school districts
are good. Right, But Los Angeles is mostly very poor
(24:55):
kids mostly well, but I'd say huge percentage of immigrant
children who don't speak English. And then the teachers Union
is absurd and destructive and damaging. I mean, the way
they locked the kids out for a year and a half,
I mean, you could see they just hate the children.
I'm sorry the LA Teachers Union must hate children for
(25:17):
the way it acted during the lockdown. Anyway, to get
my larger point here, if you wonder why they're eviscerating
the education department, Michael Schellenberger he's got a website called
public dot News, and he did an investigation and became
aware of a company called the American Institute for Research.
(25:44):
It's a contractor with the Department of Education. It's supposed
to do research on education. I don't know specifically what
they claim to do, but he has the invoices. He
knows exactly what they charge, and he knows exactly what
the executives get they charged. They build the Department of Education,
(26:10):
and I'll refer to them as Air America Institute for Research.
They built the Department of Education a total of ten million,
nine hundred and fifty seven thousand dollars, let's call it
eleven million dollars. And there was a large number of
(26:32):
dollars spent on indirect fees. And nobody knows what indirect
fees means. And Schellenberger questioned Air and they went into
all these all this gobbledegook about how AAR's indirect rates
(26:54):
are similar to those of other social and behavioral research organizations,
blah blah blah blah. But it's fifty percent in indirect fees.
Whatever that is is considered excessive. Well, here's a clue.
David Myers was the president and CEO. He earned two
(27:15):
point two million dollars in twenty twenty two as the
president of Air. This was our educational tax funds two million,
two hundred thousand dollars the year before a million one,
So you put it together, he earned three point three
million dollars in two years doing educational research that nobody
(27:37):
can explain. Jessica Heppin is the current president and CEO.
She earned six hundred and eighty five thousand dollars. The
executive vice president earned nine hundred and thirty one thousand.
The chief financial officer earned one point one million. You
get the idea. This is what I tell you about nonprofits.
(28:01):
Nonprofits for for issues that people go, oh, well, yes, god,
I'm sure good work is being done. Children's education, homelessness,
you know, the stuff where people get emotionally manipulated, they're
made to feel good. You don't want to fund children's education,
(28:23):
you don't want to help children learn. The people in
these nonprofits have zero interest in helping children learn. They
have a huge interest in getting wealthy. One guy's making
three million, another one's making a million one a year,
another one's making almost a million a year. And I
(28:46):
can and again, seventy percent of students in the United
States are not reading or doing math at a proficient level.
They are illiterate and enumerate. They can't read and they
can't do math. And we spent three trillion dollars, and
so Trump says, maybe we should shut this down. Maybe
(29:09):
this is a colossal scam. It is a colossal scam,
and it has been for forty five years. And that's
why everybody Washington is screaming and squealing because the gravy
train has been derailed.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I mean, people earn a huge living on our tax
money and they don't do anything useful.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
This was stunning.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
So I don't subscribe to a lot of things, and
I don't recommend many subscriptions. But Michael Schellenberger Public dot News,
it's like twelve dollars a month, and I read all
his stuff because he finds out things like this. And
this is of course not debated on This is not
discussed on the cable channels. You're not going to see
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this in the major newspapers because they would rather create
a an atmosphere for a food fight and between whatever
Democrats are popping off and whatever Musk and Trump say.
This is why it's a disaster. Million. These guys made
millions of dollars. They didn't improve any child's education at
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all with all their research. It was a racket. Good
for them, they pulled it off. It's not hard to
do with the way the government is in this country.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
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Line next hour and right after Debra's news at three o'clock.
State Senator Tony Strickland on from Huntington Beach. He had
a great idea and a bill. He asked the set
(30:57):
of Democrats, why don't we defund high speed rail this
year and use the money to lower gas prices? I
bet you would love this idea, right, I would love
this idea. Who doesn't want lower gas prices and in
exchange no money spent on high speed rail? Anybody think
(31:19):
we should spend high speed rail and leave the gas
prices that they are number one in the nation. There
were two chances for the legislature to lower gas prices
yesterday and they said no to both of them. We'll
talk about all that next hour. We've been talking about,
(31:41):
you know, the well the budget cutting in Washington, and
a lot of stuff must be cut because there is
so much waste, like that Education Department contract we talked
about where you had several executives making millions of dollars
doing research and the research yielded nothing of value. We've
(32:04):
got seventy percent, seventy percent of the kids in this
country do not read proficiently and they do not compute
math proficiently. Now, when you have a seventy percent failure
rate and you're spending millions of dollars on executive salaries
for these fake nonprofits that are running off with your money, yeah,
(32:24):
we need a doge, We need a musk and a Trump.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
How else are we going to get rid of this? Now?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
We've got our own version of a financial disaster in
Los Angeles. We talked about this some yesterday. A billion
dollar budget deficit entirely self inflicted by the incompetence of
Karen Bass. And going back to Eric Arsetti, he set
the template here and the city council.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
You just have a bunch.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Of bozos who apparently are among the seventy percent who
are not proficient at math. I mean, I don't know
how many of them are public school graduates here at LA,
but wow, you can see what happens right when you
have like fifty years of bad education. Eventually, those little
stupid kids grow up and they become stupid adults and
they get elected into office. LA Times has a store
(33:14):
no it' see. LA Daily News has a story on
the budget deficit and they ask, it's like a question
and answer piece. What are the primary factors contributing to
the shortfall? Well, LA has had slower than expected revenue growth.
Business taxes are short. Gee, why would that be? Maybe
(33:35):
because you allowed all the criminals and homeless people to
run amock. A lot of businesses have closed in LA,
a shocking number of businesses.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
And I know this. Just drive down Willstrom Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Look at all the restaurants that have boarded up I
have on my side of town, which is a nice
part of town. I can't tell you how many shopping
centers are practically vacant, with dozens of empty storefronts, shops, restaurants.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Everybody's gone.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
So they're also the worried about the looting, too, worried
about people breaking in and taking all the stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
It was criminals looting, it was crazy people in mental patients.
And I know a lot of people who didn't want
to go out to dinner anymore, and they weren't going
to go walking around window shopping. Sales taxes are down
for the same reason. By the way, the business comment
in LA really sucks. You know what's glossed over because
(34:33):
we have an incompetent media. We've had the second highest
unemployment rate in the country for years. In California, we
have a high unemployment rate. There aren't a lot of
good paying jobs. We have a lot of poverty. We
have a lot of people on Medicaid, a lot of.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Them are legal aliens.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
And by allowing all the crime and all the homeless people,
businesses going out of business. Customers are scarce. Business taxes down,
sales taxes down, hotel taxes down because why would you
vacation here? They saw what was going on on television.
(35:13):
They see it's the homeless capital of America. We're just
known for our disasters like the latest is the fire,
and eventually everybody figures out, oh yeah, the fire was
far worse because the city really didn't have a functioning
fire department.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Did they.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Like we said before, fire hydrants were broken, reservoirs were empty,
engines were busted and not fixed. Firefighters are at fifty percent.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
By the way, John did you get any snitches that
want to co host with you to talk about what
really happened in Maribas's office when the fire broke out.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
We're short of snitches. Wow, it's a snitches draft. I
don't know. Nobody wants to come forward and tell the truth.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
John's going to pay you big bucks to do it.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Now we're getting little It's crazy. I can do this
job without paying for snitches. The truth will come out eventually. Apparently.
The costs that are rising include liability claims. Again, you
don't know how many people sue the city because they've
tripped over a city sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Labor agreements.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
They gave away huge contract increases in pension increases to
all the unions. And well, let's see when business taxes
are down, sales taxes down, hotel taxes down, liability claims
are up, more payroll, more pensions. In fact, Kenneth Mahea says, yeah,
(36:47):
steep increases in payroll, coasts, costs surging, liability payouts, revenue
projections way down, mismanagement incompetence, Bowbery, Boobery. Deborah Mark is
up next, and then we're going to talk to State
Senator Tony Strickland. He'd like to defund high speed rail
(37:11):
and use the money to lower gas prices. Deborhmark live
in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been
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