July 22, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (07/22) - John saw a huge sign calling for Mayor Karen Bass to resign in Pacific Palisades this morning and the newest controversy in burn zones is squatters! Mayor Karen Bass doesn't think it is a problem that LA doesn't have a permanent fire chief as fire season begins. Encino residents are on high alert after more break-ins occurred following the murder of a couple in the area.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
What were they confused about.
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that they work. And I said, well, it's a podcast,
Oh yeah, how do those work? And I got to
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about the world eight seven seven Moist eighty six for
Friday eight seven seven Moist eighty six or usually talkback
feature on the iHeartRadio apps. So this morning, my wife
and I were going to take a walk in the
Pacific Palisades. There is a camion there with a hiking
path that we used to go to all the time
and then couldn't for six months. It's it's open down
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and we were driving through there and I suddenly yelled stop,
stop the car. I got to take a picture of this,
and if you want to see the picture, it's on
all our social media sites. I'm happen to be looking
at the one on the X for Twitter. And there
was a huge sign on an empty lot, black background,
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white littering, all capital letters, four words Karen Bass resigned now.
And this is a big sign. And there are smaller
signs placards popping up all over the palisades as well,
dozens of them, and I saw some of that, but this,
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this was a big one, and it's on an douth.
The people there are now fencing off their property. They're
put chain link fence up or other kinds of fencing
because here's a new problem. And there was a guy
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named Luke Melchior. He is a builder, he's in construction.
He has an Instagram account and he posts a lot
of what goes on in the burn zone and here
he explains Playton in just a second, squatters are taking
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over plots of land in the La fireburn zones. Yes,
I predicted this because Karen Bass is not providing the
police presence and the security that's necessary. So you have
all this wide open land, empty lots, and the homeless guys. Hey,
maybe it's the same guys who started the fire. The
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homeless guys are now building encampments on the lots. If
you live in the Palace Stades, you better go take
a ride and go see your property.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
And you apparently you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Have to spend some money and put up fencing because
the city is the city doesn't care.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Clearly. Here here is Luke Milchior on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Here is the latest insanity over here in the La
fire zones. Squatters are overtaking vacant lots that burn down
like this one right behind me. Here, this guy set
up a whole camp site and I guess actually went
down to the DMV listed this as his address on
his driver's license, and the property owner can't get them off.
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The police even showed up and they said, we can't
do anything about it. It's got to go to the courts.
Here's another one right behind me. This is two right
across the street from each other. Squatters who have overtaken
these properties and the homeowners cannot get them off.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Of the site.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
So if you're Pacific Palisades or Altadena, I'd get some
security fencing up right away, or you might lose your
property to a vagrant and the county isn't gonna do
anything to help you.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Neither the city nor the county. I saw this this
morning and I.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
How many indignities do you have to suffer at the
hands of this incompetent, stupid, do nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Karen Bass government.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
She's running around with her hair on fire over illegal
aliens getting deported. But you've got thousands of homes wiped
out in the Palisades. And because she doesn't provide enough
police protection or at least pay for private security something,
what do we got now? Squatters? And you know, at
first I thought, well, all right, squatters, the police are
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gonna have to go and rouse these guys and Jason away.
Then I actually listened to what he just said. You
can hint and the police won't help you. A guy
goes downtown and goes to the DMV and gets one
of these empty lots is his address. So he shows
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that to the police. It's like, no, this is my
legal address. Well, I don't think it works that way.
You have to show you have the deed. You can't
just falsify an address. And I remember when I went
to the DMV to get that new license. What are
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they calling it, the new the real ID license.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
You did this right, Yes, I did, long, long, long
time ago.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
But it's a pain in the ass. Yes it was
because you got to show them several forms of identification.
You have to show them that you have either a
utility bill or a bank account, things of that nature.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I think I had to go back because I didn't
have an information. This is many years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, it's it's the same. It's the same rules.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You got to show him a water bill, electricity bill,
a gas bill, a bank statement. You had to have
multiple identifiers where it's your name and your address. So
how does this guy go to the DMV and and
just say, uh, well here's my address with no proof.
How he how did he pull that off?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Because it's the stupid asses in the government. Right then
the police show up. We can't do anything. I'm sorry,
our hands are tied. This is the This is LAPD's
mantra in the sheriff's departments mantra. Our hands are tied.
Our hands are tied. Now, this doesn't smell right to me.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
This.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I don't know if this guy maybe got it wrong.
I don't think he did. But how I don't understand
how somebody is like stealing somebody's identity. How do you
steal somebody else's address and you have to go to
court now to prove that they're squatters? Seriously that the
police will not help you, The sheriff's department won't help you.
Nobody in the city will help you. Let's go through
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again the list of crimes here. I read today that
the National Weather Service put out its first fire weather
warnings on December the thirtieth, That would be nine days
before the fire. Nothing was done. Karen Bass claims she
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never knew of the warnings. I think she's lying. She
went to Africa instead. Nobody was designated to handle the
impending emergency in her place. In fact, the guy he
normally would was on leave because he called in a
bomb threat. That'd be Brian Williams. He was supposed to
be the deputy mayor in charge of police and fire.
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They didn't fill the reservoir. Chenese Kenonias didn't fill the reservoir.
Over a thousand hydrants robusted and fixed the The fire
department was not pre deployed the night before or the
morning of. They showed up way late. They never turned
off the electricity, never de energy energize the lines, and
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homes that could have been protected were starting to burn
at six that afternoon, and there is no fire recovery.
Chief Steve Sobaroff did a dance for about three months
and he's long gone, not been replaced. There is nobody
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to go to and say, hey, what's going on. So
they eventually took most of the security and the police
out of the area, and so now here come the squatters.
Here come the vagrants, and they're armed with paperwork, so
that the police.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Go, I don't know, I don't know what to do. Oh, yes,
you're gonna have to go to court. You gotta go
to court.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
These people are getting screwed over by the insurance companies
because the insurance companies pulled out of the area because
they saw what a huge fire has or it was.
So they have no insurance, they have no home, and
now the why is being inhabited by the squatters. How
long before the squatters claim, oh, I've been here so long.
I own this now, the squatters have rights now, I mean,
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none of this can be happening.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And Karen Bass says nothing does nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And all those vegetables on the city council they say nothing,
they do nothing.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
How can this be? How are they getting away with this?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
How come anybody outside the Palisades isn't noticing? I mean,
this is this is like crazy land, seriously crazy land.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
We come back. I'll play a clip.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Karen Bass was on Face the Nation over the weekend
on CBS, and on that show she was asked a
fire question and yeah, we still don't have a regular
fire chief. Six months later, we don't have a fire chief.
We got an acting guy. We'll talk about it coming up.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
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We are on every day from one until four, and
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on demand. As we told you yesterday, there's dozens of
Karen Bass resigned now signs appearing across the Palisades. And
there's one big banner sign that somebody hoisted up. I
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took a picture of it, and you could see that
picture on all our social media pages. Curiously, when she
went on ABC's news show, what does it called? I
Think this Week Martha Radditz, it seems it was mostly
about illegal aliens at ice. Margaret Brennan and Faced the
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Nation put Karen Bass on too, and she asked about
the fire and said, how come LA doesn't have a
permanent fire chief because this is roughly the start of
the peak fire season.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Let's go.
Speaker 8 (11:20):
We are now officially in fire season. It was just
six months ago we saw those blazes in La. You
fired the then fire chief for you said a failure
to prepare, But you still don't have a permanent fire
chief in that role. Isn't that a problem? Are you prepared?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (11:39):
No, I don't think that that's a problem at all.
Our interim fire chief has forty years of experience. In fact,
he had just recently retired. I called him in out
of retirement. During the fires, he was doing the emergency
operations center, so he stepped in, didn't miss a beat
by taking over the fire department. And you are prepared.
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We do know that it's fire season.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
So is your plan to keep him in place since
you brought him out of retirement.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
And put in a sorry, No, we're doing a national
search and he is certainly open to apply, but the
nation's second largest city needs to make sure that we
search the nation for the best talent. And I'm sure
that there will be people in the department that apply,
but we want to cast the net wide. We did
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the same type of search for our police chief. Okay,
in the meantime, he is more than capable of managing.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
How long is she going to take? We got a
new fire season here, and for her to say that
the Kristin Crowley was fired because she wasn't prepared, how
do you have the gall to say that? How do
you really have the gall to criticize somebody for not
being prepared When you were in Africa and you claim
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you never even heard the fire warnings. That is the
mark of sociopath there. She has no conscience, no self awareness,
no care at all. It's like, Wow, that woman over
there and she wasn't prepared, and you you you willingly
went to Africa National Weather Service put out the first
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warnings December thirtieth. They said, Now, I don't know about you,
but if I was mayor, and I saw extreme fire warnings.
I think we have all the main city administrators, including
the fire chief. We're having a meeting that night. We're
all going to sit in the conference room, right and
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you have the police chief and the fire chief and
the chief of reservoirs and I don't know how many
other people, And you say, okay, is are all the
reservoirs filled? Are all the hydrandts fixed? This is basic?
This is just basic. Do we have enough manpower? Oh? Yeah,
we only have half a fire department. Imagine to come
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to LA and you have half a fire department. I
saw a clip online today where somebody was talking about
the fire department and how they have to deal with
hundreds and hundreds of calls every day to deal with
homeless people because the police women show up, so the
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fire department paramedics show up to deal with all the
insane behavior in addition to all the fires they start,
because they start hundreds of fires, thousands of fires a year,
they start lots of fires. They're always overdosing, they're always
having mental breakdowns, and the fire department and the paramedics
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have to show up.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I wonder you do a nation to white search.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Are there going to be a lot of people, competent
people who are going to want to do this. You know,
Bass is gonna cut your legs out from under you
if you tell the truth. That's why Kristan Crowley got fired.
She told the truth. Bass is shameless, absolutely shameless. Meantime,
we're driving around Palisades this morning. Everything is vacant. There's
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Karen Bass resigned. Now signs pop it up and squatters
are taking over and squatters at least one guy showed
up with a driver's license, and the police say, oh
to the homeowner, jeez, nothing we can do. He's got
a driver's license with your address on it. Boy, that's
a tough break. Looks like you're gonna have to go
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to court to reclaim the land that Karen Bass's fire
department didn't protect because they're only at half staff. And
the fire chief sent a lot of people home that morning,
and there's dozens of fire trucks that are still busted.
By the way, this fire truck's fixed. What's the cause
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of the fire of us fire trucks fixed? How come
there was no meaning on December thirtieth to fill the reservoir.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
To fix the high. How come? How come? How come?
How come?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And nobody on these stupid news shows like this, Margaret
Brennan or Martha Radditt's, they never.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Ask any of this.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
She gets to go on, Karen Best gets to go
on and gets all self righteous about illegal aliens. Screw that,
these are people breaking the lawn, shouldn't be in the country.
And this is the neck, knockdown, drag out fight we're
having over people who just cost us lots of money,
while the people who pay a lot of the taxes,
like the Palisades residents, are giving a back of the
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hand to smack.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
In the face.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
What kind of insanity is this? What's with all this
illegal alien stuff? It's not Bass's call anyway. Trump's gonna
get rid of him, Home's gonna get rid of him.
And the story case closed on that dead issue. That's
what it's gonna happened. And she's trying trying to run
for reelection, ginning up progressive raids against ice. How about
your citizens who actually pay a lot of the taxes.
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Do you know what kind of tax money they get
out of the Palisades? And there's no fire department, and
now squatters are showing up and the police will throw
out the squatters. The police ought to jest, take out
their guns and start firing some warning shots until the
guys run away.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
That's what they ought to do.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Fire warning shots and if they don't leave those warning
shots drop a little lower and a little lower. They'll
go eventually. That's what the police ought to do. She's
all right.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
We come back.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Another atrocity going going on and Sino where that couple
was murdered, turns out with their own gun and the
the the residents there are angry. We'll talk more coming up.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
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Speaker 2 (18:07):
We're on from one until four and then after that
John Cobelt Show on demand. It's the podcast version of
the radio show Moistline is eight seven seven Moist eighty
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he's the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Stephen Klubec
is coming on. Stephen Klubek we had on the show
once before. He's a Democratic candidate for governor and he's
(18:32):
a very successful businessman. He was the CEO, chairman, founder
of Diamond Resorts International, timeshare Company of Leisure Resorts, ninety
two of them, and he sold it to Hilton for
almost two billion dollars. And he's now in California, back
in California, and he's running for governor, and we're going
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to talk to him after two o'clock. He'll be in
the studio looking for alternate of candidates. I don't I don't,
I don't think. I don't think we should be sitting
around debating the merits of Kamala Harris Jesus all right,
And we spent a lot of time on the fire
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because now there are squatters. There are squatters in the Palisades,
and at least one guy got somebody's address on his
motor vehicle license. I don't know how he did that.
And cops show up and they can't a victim. They're
saying that homeowner asked to go to court, which I
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think is absolutely atrocious. That can't possibly be the law.
And if it is law, the police ought to be
firing shots.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You know, we're gonna we're gonna have to take some
serious measures here. Then we have the murder of Robin Kay,
who is a music supervisor for American Idol, for many years.
Robin and her husband, Thomas de Luca, also musician. They
were killed when they walked in the local crazy guy
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had entered their house. His name is twenty two year
old Raymond Boudarian. Turns out that Boudarian somehow got a
hold of this couple's own gun and then shot them
both in the head and then used his own cell
phone to.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Call police to report the crime. Now he's got.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
A serious criminal record, And this is the point I
want to get to you here. Boodarian was booked last
year on suspicion of threat, weapons and battery charges. And
it's not the first time, but every time he got
arrested for committing some serious crimes. Well, in this case,
a judge dismissed his case after a mental health evaluation.
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Now I'm looking at a Channel four story, NBC, a
CBS Channel two story, and an ABC seven story. And
you know what I'm not reading in these stories. I'm
not reading who the judge is. Who's the judge who
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let this guy go so he could murder two people
in their home. This guy, this guy had a mental
health evaluation. What is the name of the mental health
professionals who signed off and said, yeah, this Raymond Bodoori,
and he's fine. Or are these people? They should be
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held on criminal charges. This judge should be this is
bad judging. Don't you think I mean the word judge.
So he looked at this guy, looked at the record,
looked at the crimes he committed, and said, oh, yeah,
sure you could let him go because these mental health
professionals say he's okay. But what the hell they.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Get away with it.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
They get away with sending a double murder around on
the street when they had caught him, when they agreed he.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Was out of his mind.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
And by the way, I don't care if somebody is
out of their minds put him in prison anyway. Put
him in prison, lock them up. Put you put him
in a mental health facility, lock them up and never
let them out. What is the point of this because
you're crazy, you get to kill people?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
What this this never went on before?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And who what are the names of the legislators who
wrote this bill and passed this bill?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
How can nobody does news stories in any of this.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Well I got to spend six months now was researching
the history of this bill and who voted for it,
and half those guys are probably out of office now,
maybe all of them are at a office. And good
luck finding the name of the mental health professionals who
treated this guy.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Good luck.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You can't get a hold of the records. And who's
who's the judge? And what's wrong with him? And shouldn't
he be uh, shouldn't he be investigated? Interrogated like a
live television It's like, what the hell's wrong with you?
Who else have you let go? Do you realize they're
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like no standards anymore? Everybody in the neighborhood said he
was crazy. He was always scaring people. He was constantly
getting arrested for this and that threatening. In fact, he
went after his own family members. He went after his
own family members with a weapon. And then let him out. Oh,
oh yeah, we gotta let him out. He's crazy, he's
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violently crazy. We got what do you mean, he's violently crazy?
You gotta let him out. Well, you're supposed to take
his medication. Oh okay, he didn't take his medication. Well
that's a big surprise. Can you imagine a mental patient
who didn't take their pill? Well, that hardly ever happens.
What is wrong with everybody? So the residents got to
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get other and they went to a meeting. We're going
to play this. What is this for?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Maybe s this story, let's play it.
Speaker 9 (24:08):
People in this community feel targeted because of these break ins,
and right now LPD is investigating two separate incidents that
took place in this community overnight, the first.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
One taking place in the home that you see behind me.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah, these are new crimes in the neighborhood. And then
sino okay and cinos be set by all these burglaries.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
So continue playing. Two separate incidents.
Speaker 9 (24:32):
That took place in this community overnight, the first one
taking place in the home that you see behind me.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Check out this video.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
This is video of the scene as LPD investigated and
attempted break in at the home on Havenhurst Avenue. There
is limited information, but officers were called out around ten
thirty last night and this a report. State of family
may have been home when two suspects made their way
into the home through a garage but ran away shortly after.
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We are still waiting to confirm those details with police.
Police half confirmed there was a break in at another
home in the area just a few hours later. These
incidents all come after more than two hundred insen of
residence packed the community center for a town hall last
night with LPD and LA County District Attorney. That town
hall was held in the wake of the shocking murders
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of American Idol executive and her husband inside their Encinate home.
Their bodies were discovered last Monday, and this morning LA
County District Attorney Nathan Hawkman revealing new information into the murders.
The suspect, Raymond Budrian, allegedly used the couple's own gun
to kill them. The DA says he then called police
and gave them his name, which helped track him down
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and senor. Residents say crime is out of control and
demand more protection.
Speaker 10 (25:47):
Criminals keep offending and offending, and they're back out on
the streets offending again.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
There's no consequence and that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
But law enforcement's hands.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Are tied because they don't have enough services to do
their job.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
So Mayor Karen, we beg.
Speaker 10 (26:00):
You to allow additional officers to protect your citizens.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
LPD says they've stuffed up patrols in these neighborhoods, but
add the department basis challenges but staffing. Hawkman promises they
are going after criminals and this time last year, there
were at least ten burglaries in the month of July
in the valley right now, but a majority of those
incidents to take place in the city of Encino.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Deborah Palace was the name of the resident who is
begging Karen Bass to do something, and she used the
phrase their hands are tied. They're severely understaffed because Karen
Bass defunded the police. Because the police, I believe by
the end of this year is going to be down
to eighty three hundred total officers, eighty three hundred. When
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via Gosa left about ten years ago, it was ten
thousand police. So we went from ten thousand to eighty
three hundred, seventeen percent cut because Bass defunded the police department,
like she defunded the fire department. Defund the police, defund
the fire department. I remember when she was running for office,
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people say, are you part of that defund the police movement?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Oh no, no, I've never said that.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Well yeah, she never said it, but when she became
mayor she did it. It's like everybody's chasing that. To
communist running for mayor in New York, it's like, well,
do you believe in this, and do you believe in that?
And oh no, no, I don't believe in that. I
never said that. Oh yeah, you wait till he gets in.
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They downplay, they deny, they pretend they never said it
to begin with. And then they get in, she's a
defund the police woman, she's a defund the fire department woman.
And so what happens. There's a gang of thieves running
around in the sinow and nobody can stop them. And
then there's a crazy person out on the loose and
he gets spun through by idiot mental health professionals and judges,
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and they just keep doing it, They keep just spading it.
There's more being released every day, and nobody stops them,
and nobody even prints their name. God forbid, the news
media in this town would print the name of the
judge who let this guy go. We'll talk more.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFII.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
We've got Stephen Klubeck coming on, the millionaire businessman who
is running as a Democrat for governor. We've talked with
him some months ago and he's coming in the studio
in just a moment. He also has a podcast, The
Stephen J. Klubec podcast. Now, we were discussing the murder
(28:44):
of the American Idol music supervisor Robin Kay and her
husband Thomas de Luca, shot with their own gun. As
it turns out, because a local nut, somebody's crazy son,
Raymond Boudarian, brooke into their house and they walked in
on him, and then he got their gun.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
They haven't published the details of how he got the
gun exactly. And then there was a meeting last night,
even seen her residence and it's you know, it's like
shouting into the wind. The police don't do anything, and
the police blame their bass. The police are way underfunded.
There's only gonna be eighty three hundred left by the
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end of the year, and they usually have ten thousand,
and they need twelve thousand at least. And here here's
one of the things that drives me nuts. ABC seven
David Gonzalez wrote this. He was the reporter we played.
But their online story is all about a real Housewives
(29:45):
of Beverly Hills star having their home broken into. Teddy Mellencamp,
who's Yah.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Her father is the singer.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
John Mellencamp, and she has some terrible cancer too from
what I've read. But because her home got broken into,
it became a big headline story. But there's all these
other non famous people who get broken into all the time,
and the stuff isn't covered at all. Like if all
the burglaries got this kind of treatment that Teddy Mellencamp's house, Scott.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
And the American Idol and the American executive, Yeah, then
every day we would be hearing about all the break
ins and Ensino and all the ones in Tarzana and
all the ones in Woodland Hills and everywhere else.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
But only the celebrity ones get noticed. Meantile, there's a
lot of burglaries going on, and the police, of course
or the city officials are back to lying actually crime
is down. It's like, would you stop it? We already
caught Dominic Choi, the interim chief, last year, lying about it,
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giving us a bogus phony set of numbers. We already
know that Karen Vass's homeless numbers are inside safe numbers
are phony. People on the inside have publicly admitted to
that all the numbers out of La government are phony numbers.
They're lies. It's bad. The homelessness is worse than they admit.
The crime is worse than they admit. The burglaries are worse, certainly,
(31:15):
and I mean everybody should be sick of this. Instead,
you got the Deputy Chief Maria SiO Fatelli. We are
having phenomenal numbers on crime reduction. That being said, when
two wonderful people end up dead in their own home,
those crime statistics fall kind of flat. Yeah, you think, so,
what's the first reaction all the people in the neighborhood had. Hey,
(31:37):
we've had a lot of crime here. There's been a
lot of break ins and the police don't do anything
about it. I wonder how often the police don't even
show up so it's not registered as a crime. And
then when there's a high profile burglary of Teddy Mellencamp's house,
high profile murder of Robin at Robin Kay's house, then oh,
we're gonna have round the clock patrols here.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
We got helicopters. Would we stop, you know, by by Thursday?
And that's going to be done.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
This is just to entertain the media and calm down
the angry savages who were yelling at the meeting.
Speaker 10 (32:10):
I said this to you off the air and I'm
just going to say it on the air. I wonder
how Karen Bass would feel if somebody I don't know
who would say, Okay, you know what, we're not going
to have the World Cup here, and we're not going
to have the Olympics until you clean up this city.
You need to do something about the crime, you need
to do something about more police officers, and you got
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to clean up the homeless, or you know what, say
goodbye to the dreams of the Olympics and the World
Cup and all the other events that are planned for la.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I wish that would happen too. That's the only thing
that would get her to clean it up. Absolutely, is
this somebody at the Olympic committee or the World Cup
committee said, you know what, this place is a hellhole.
We're not coming, We're not safe. Yeah, that's the only
thing that would do it. Barring that she's not gonna
do anything. I wish every person that ran into her
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would just say, why don't you resign?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Now?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Why don't you resign now? Does Karen Bass resigned now?
Concept that this is all she should hear, because I
think everybody should be done talking to her. She's a brick,
she's never going to respond properly. She shows no interest.
(33:24):
I mean, she's had zero days where she got in
front of the public and said, Okay, here's what we're doing,
here's the plan, here's how we're executing it, here's the
people in charge. Here is how you can measure us.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
But she has a lot to say about the ice rain.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Oh my god, she can't shut up about it. She
can't shut up. He was on that ABC show for
what probably half an hour.
Speaker 10 (33:45):
And I'm not saying that people that are upset about
the raids are wrong.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I'm not getting into that.
Speaker 10 (33:51):
But I'm saying that a lot of people are pretty
pissed off about crime and homelessness in our city. And
I will just say that I'd rather our city be
cleaned up from all that then have the Olympics and
the World Cup here.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I'm just gonna go out on a limb and say
that I'm with you on that. You're right.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I mean enough, they're all gonna do all this raw
ros stuff about the Olympics in the World Cup. In meantime,
we've got to live with with all the burglaries, the murderers,
the homeless people.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
It's our daily live that's our daily lives.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
All right, Well we come back Stephen Klubec. He's running
for governor on the Democratic side here in California. Deborah
Mark live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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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. After
four o'clock it's John Cobelt Show on demand, that is
the podcast version of the radio show. I have to
go through a lengthy explanation yesterday to somebody, Well they're
very confused.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
What were they confused about.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, they can't listen to the show because the time
that they work. And I said, well, it's a podcast,
Oh yeah, how do those work? And I got to
explain how they work? And I explained that the podcast
is just like the radio show. It's you know, not
everybody knows what's going on out there, is my point.
That's why you have to constantly explain these things. You
want to call us on the Moist line and rant
(00:44):
about the world eight seven seven Moist eighty six for
Friday eight seven seven Moist eighty six or usually talkback
feature on the iHeartRadio apps. So this morning, my wife
and I were going to take a walk in the
Pacific Palisades. There is a camion there with a hiking
path that we used to go to all the time
and then couldn't for six months. It's it's open down
(01:05):
and we were driving through there and I suddenly yelled stop,
stop the car. I got to take a picture of this,
and if you want to see the picture, it's on
all our social media sites. I'm happen to be looking
at the one on the X for Twitter. And there
was a huge sign on an empty lot, black background,
(01:27):
white littering, all capital letters, four words Karen Bass resigned now.
And this is a big sign. And there are smaller
signs placards popping up all over the palisades as well,
dozens of them, and I saw some of that, but this,
(01:49):
this was a big one, and it's on an douth.
The people there are now fencing off their property. They're
put chain link fence up or other kinds of fencing
because here's a new problem. And there was a guy
(02:10):
named Luke Melchior. He is a builder, he's in construction.
He has an Instagram account and he posts a lot
of what goes on in the burn zone and here
he explains Playton in just a second, squatters are taking
(02:31):
over plots of land in the La fireburn zones. Yes,
I predicted this because Karen Bass is not providing the
police presence and the security that's necessary. So you have
all this wide open land, empty lots, and the homeless guys. Hey,
maybe it's the same guys who started the fire. The
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homeless guys are now building encampments on the lots. If
you live in the Palace Stades, you better go take
a ride and go see your property.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
And you apparently you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Have to spend some money and put up fencing because
the city is the city doesn't care.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Clearly. Here here is Luke Milchior on Instagram.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Here is the latest insanity over here in the La
fire zones. Squatters are overtaking vacant lots that burn down
like this one right behind me. Here, this guy set
up a whole camp site and I guess actually went
down to the DMV listed this as his address on
his driver's license, and the property owner can't get them off.
(03:42):
The police even showed up and they said, we can't
do anything about it. It's got to go to the courts.
Here's another one right behind me. This is two right
across the street from each other. Squatters who have overtaken
these properties and the homeowners cannot get them off.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Of the site.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
So if you're Pacific Palisades or Altadena, I'd get some
security fencing up right away, or you might lose your
property to a vagrant and the county isn't gonna do
anything to help you.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Neither the city nor the county. I saw this this
morning and I.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
How many indignities do you have to suffer at the
hands of this incompetent, stupid, do nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Karen Bass government.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
She's running around with her hair on fire over illegal
aliens getting deported. But you've got thousands of homes wiped
out in the Palisades. And because she doesn't provide enough
police protection or at least pay for private security something,
what do we got now? Squatters? And you know, at
first I thought, well, all right, squatters, the police are
(04:51):
gonna have to go and rouse these guys and Jason away.
Then I actually listened to what he just said. You
can hint and the police won't help you. A guy
goes downtown and goes to the DMV and gets one
of these empty lots is his address. So he shows
(05:14):
that to the police. It's like, no, this is my
legal address. Well, I don't think it works that way.
You have to show you have the deed. You can't
just falsify an address. And I remember when I went
to the DMV to get that new license. What are
(05:35):
they calling it, the new the real ID license.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
You did this right, Yes, I did, long, long, long
time ago.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
But it's a pain in the ass. Yes it was
because you got to show them several forms of identification.
You have to show them that you have either a
utility bill or a bank account, things of that nature.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I think I had to go back because I didn't
have an information. This is many years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, it's it's the same. It's the same rules.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
You got to show him a water bill, electricity bill,
a gas bill, a bank statement. You had to have
multiple identifiers where it's your name and your address. So
how does this guy go to the DMV and and
just say, uh, well here's my address with no proof.
How he how did he pull that off?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Because it's the stupid asses in the government. Right then
the police show up. We can't do anything. I'm sorry,
our hands are tied. This is the This is LAPD's
mantra in the sheriff's departments mantra. Our hands are tied.
Our hands are tied. Now, this doesn't smell right to me.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
This.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I don't know if this guy maybe got it wrong.
I don't think he did. But how I don't understand
how somebody is like stealing somebody's identity. How do you
steal somebody else's address and you have to go to
court now to prove that they're squatters? Seriously that the
police will not help you, The sheriff's department won't help you.
Nobody in the city will help you. Let's go through
(07:09):
again the list of crimes here. I read today that
the National Weather Service put out its first fire weather
warnings on December the thirtieth, That would be nine days
before the fire. Nothing was done. Karen Bass claims she
(07:29):
never knew of the warnings. I think she's lying. She
went to Africa instead. Nobody was designated to handle the
impending emergency in her place. In fact, the guy he
normally would was on leave because he called in a
bomb threat. That'd be Brian Williams. He was supposed to
be the deputy mayor in charge of police and fire.
(07:52):
They didn't fill the reservoir. Chenese Kenonias didn't fill the reservoir.
Over a thousand hydrants robusted and fixed the The fire
department was not pre deployed the night before or the
morning of. They showed up way late. They never turned
off the electricity, never de energy energize the lines, and
(08:16):
homes that could have been protected were starting to burn
at six that afternoon, and there is no fire recovery.
Chief Steve Sobaroff did a dance for about three months
and he's long gone, not been replaced. There is nobody
(08:37):
to go to and say, hey, what's going on. So
they eventually took most of the security and the police
out of the area, and so now here come the squatters.
Here come the vagrants, and they're armed with paperwork, so
that the police.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Go, I don't know, I don't know what to do. Oh, yes,
you're gonna have to go to court. You gotta go
to court.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
These people are getting screwed over by the insurance companies
because the insurance companies pulled out of the area because
they saw what a huge fire has or it was.
So they have no insurance, they have no home, and
now the why is being inhabited by the squatters. How
long before the squatters claim, oh, I've been here so long.
I own this now, the squatters have rights now, I mean,
(09:24):
none of this can be happening.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And Karen Bass says nothing does nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
And all those vegetables on the city council they say nothing,
they do nothing.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
How can this be? How are they getting away with this?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
How come anybody outside the Palisades isn't noticing? I mean,
this is this is like crazy land, seriously crazy land.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
We come back. I'll play a clip.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Karen Bass was on Face the Nation over the weekend
on CBS, and on that show she was asked a
fire question and yeah, we still don't have a regular
fire chief. Six months later, we don't have a fire chief.
We got an acting guy. We'll talk about it coming up.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
We are on every day from one until four, and
anything you missed you can hear on the podcast posted
after four o'clock on the iHeartRadio app John Cobelt Show
on demand. As we told you yesterday, there's dozens of
Karen Bass resigned now signs appearing across the Palisades. And
there's one big banner sign that somebody hoisted up. I
(10:41):
took a picture of it, and you could see that
picture on all our social media pages. Curiously, when she
went on ABC's news show, what does it called? I
Think this Week Martha Radditz, it seems it was mostly
about illegal aliens at ice. Margaret Brennan and Faced the
(11:03):
Nation put Karen Bass on too, and she asked about
the fire and said, how come LA doesn't have a
permanent fire chief because this is roughly the start of
the peak fire season.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Let's go.
Speaker 8 (11:20):
We are now officially in fire season. It was just
six months ago we saw those blazes in La. You
fired the then fire chief for you said a failure
to prepare, But you still don't have a permanent fire
chief in that role. Isn't that a problem? Are you prepared?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (11:39):
No, I don't think that that's a problem at all.
Our interim fire chief has forty years of experience. In fact,
he had just recently retired. I called him in out
of retirement. During the fires, he was doing the emergency
operations center, so he stepped in, didn't miss a beat
by taking over the fire department. And you are prepared.
(12:01):
We do know that it's fire season.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
So is your plan to keep him in place since
you brought him out of retirement.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
And put in a sorry, No, we're doing a national
search and he is certainly open to apply, but the
nation's second largest city needs to make sure that we
search the nation for the best talent. And I'm sure
that there will be people in the department that apply,
but we want to cast the net wide. We did
(12:29):
the same type of search for our police chief. Okay,
in the meantime, he is more than capable of managing.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
How long is she going to take? We got a
new fire season here, and for her to say that
the Kristin Crowley was fired because she wasn't prepared, how
do you have the gall to say that? How do
you really have the gall to criticize somebody for not
being prepared When you were in Africa and you claim
(13:00):
you never even heard the fire warnings. That is the
mark of sociopath there. She has no conscience, no self awareness,
no care at all. It's like, Wow, that woman over
there and she wasn't prepared, and you you you willingly
went to Africa National Weather Service put out the first
(13:24):
warnings December thirtieth. They said, Now, I don't know about you,
but if I was mayor, and I saw extreme fire warnings.
I think we have all the main city administrators, including
the fire chief. We're having a meeting that night. We're
all going to sit in the conference room, right and
(13:45):
you have the police chief and the fire chief and
the chief of reservoirs and I don't know how many
other people, And you say, okay, is are all the
reservoirs filled? Are all the hydrandts fixed? This is basic?
This is just basic. Do we have enough manpower? Oh? Yeah,
we only have half a fire department. Imagine to come
(14:06):
to LA and you have half a fire department. I
saw a clip online today where somebody was talking about
the fire department and how they have to deal with
hundreds and hundreds of calls every day to deal with
homeless people because the police women show up, so the
(14:28):
fire department paramedics show up to deal with all the
insane behavior in addition to all the fires they start,
because they start hundreds of fires, thousands of fires a year,
they start lots of fires. They're always overdosing, they're always
having mental breakdowns, and the fire department and the paramedics
(14:49):
have to show up.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I wonder you do a nation to white search.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Are there going to be a lot of people, competent
people who are going to want to do this. You know,
Bass is gonna cut your legs out from under you
if you tell the truth. That's why Kristan Crowley got fired.
She told the truth. Bass is shameless, absolutely shameless. Meantime,
we're driving around Palisades this morning. Everything is vacant. There's
(15:16):
Karen Bass resigned. Now signs pop it up and squatters
are taking over and squatters at least one guy showed
up with a driver's license, and the police say, oh
to the homeowner, jeez, nothing we can do. He's got
a driver's license with your address on it. Boy, that's
a tough break. Looks like you're gonna have to go
(15:38):
to court to reclaim the land that Karen Bass's fire
department didn't protect because they're only at half staff. And
the fire chief sent a lot of people home that morning,
and there's dozens of fire trucks that are still busted.
By the way, this fire truck's fixed. What's the cause
(16:01):
of the fire of us fire trucks fixed? How come
there was no meaning on December thirtieth to fill the reservoir.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
To fix the high. How come? How come? How come?
How come?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And nobody on these stupid news shows like this, Margaret
Brennan or Martha Radditt's, they never.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Ask any of this.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
She gets to go on, Karen Best gets to go
on and gets all self righteous about illegal aliens. Screw that,
these are people breaking the lawn, shouldn't be in the country.
And this is the neck, knockdown, drag out fight we're
having over people who just cost us lots of money,
while the people who pay a lot of the taxes,
like the Palisades residents, are giving a back of the
(16:47):
hand to smack.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
In the face.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
What kind of insanity is this? What's with all this
illegal alien stuff? It's not Bass's call anyway. Trump's gonna
get rid of him, Home's gonna get rid of him.
And the story case closed on that dead issue. That's
what it's gonna happened. And she's trying trying to run
for reelection, ginning up progressive raids against ice. How about
your citizens who actually pay a lot of the taxes.
(17:11):
Do you know what kind of tax money they get
out of the Palisades? And there's no fire department, and
now squatters are showing up and the police will throw
out the squatters. The police ought to jest, take out
their guns and start firing some warning shots until the
guys run away.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
That's what they ought to do.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Fire warning shots and if they don't leave those warning
shots drop a little lower and a little lower. They'll
go eventually. That's what the police ought to do. She's
all right.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
We come back.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Another atrocity going going on and Sino where that couple
was murdered, turns out with their own gun and the
the the residents there are angry. We'll talk more coming up.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
We're on from one until four and then after that
John Cobelt Show on demand. It's the podcast version of
the radio show Moistline is eight seven seven Moist eighty
six for Friday eight seven seven moist eighty six. Or
he's the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Stephen Klubec
is coming on. Stephen Klubek we had on the show
once before. He's a Democratic candidate for governor and he's
(18:32):
a very successful businessman. He was the CEO, chairman, founder
of Diamond Resorts International, timeshare Company of Leisure Resorts, ninety
two of them, and he sold it to Hilton for
almost two billion dollars. And he's now in California, back
in California, and he's running for governor, and we're going
(18:53):
to talk to him after two o'clock. He'll be in
the studio looking for alternate of candidates. I don't I don't,
I don't think. I don't think we should be sitting
around debating the merits of Kamala Harris Jesus all right,
And we spent a lot of time on the fire
(19:14):
because now there are squatters. There are squatters in the Palisades,
and at least one guy got somebody's address on his
motor vehicle license. I don't know how he did that.
And cops show up and they can't a victim. They're
saying that homeowner asked to go to court, which I
(19:34):
think is absolutely atrocious. That can't possibly be the law.
And if it is law, the police ought to be
firing shots.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You know, we're gonna we're gonna have to take some
serious measures here. Then we have the murder of Robin Kay,
who is a music supervisor for American Idol, for many years.
Robin and her husband, Thomas de Luca, also musician. They
were killed when they walked in the local crazy guy
(20:06):
had entered their house. His name is twenty two year
old Raymond Boudarian. Turns out that Boudarian somehow got a
hold of this couple's own gun and then shot them
both in the head and then used his own cell
phone to.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Call police to report the crime. Now he's got.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
A serious criminal record, And this is the point I
want to get to you here. Boodarian was booked last
year on suspicion of threat, weapons and battery charges. And
it's not the first time, but every time he got
arrested for committing some serious crimes. Well, in this case,
a judge dismissed his case after a mental health evaluation.
(20:56):
Now I'm looking at a Channel four story, NBC, a
CBS Channel two story, and an ABC seven story. And
you know what I'm not reading in these stories. I'm
not reading who the judge is. Who's the judge who
(21:16):
let this guy go so he could murder two people
in their home. This guy, this guy had a mental
health evaluation. What is the name of the mental health
professionals who signed off and said, yeah, this Raymond Bodoori,
and he's fine. Or are these people? They should be
(21:40):
held on criminal charges. This judge should be this is
bad judging. Don't you think I mean the word judge.
So he looked at this guy, looked at the record,
looked at the crimes he committed, and said, oh, yeah,
sure you could let him go because these mental health
professionals say he's okay. But what the hell they.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Get away with it.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
They get away with sending a double murder around on
the street when they had caught him, when they agreed he.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Was out of his mind.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
And by the way, I don't care if somebody is
out of their minds put him in prison anyway. Put
him in prison, lock them up. Put you put him
in a mental health facility, lock them up and never
let them out. What is the point of this because
you're crazy, you get to kill people?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
What this this never went on before?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And who what are the names of the legislators who
wrote this bill and passed this bill?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
How can nobody does news stories in any of this.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Well I got to spend six months now was researching
the history of this bill and who voted for it,
and half those guys are probably out of office now,
maybe all of them are at a office. And good
luck finding the name of the mental health professionals who
treated this guy.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Good luck.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You can't get a hold of the records. And who's
who's the judge? And what's wrong with him? And shouldn't
he be uh, shouldn't he be investigated? Interrogated like a
live television It's like, what the hell's wrong with you?
Who else have you let go? Do you realize they're
(23:15):
like no standards anymore? Everybody in the neighborhood said he
was crazy. He was always scaring people. He was constantly
getting arrested for this and that threatening. In fact, he
went after his own family members. He went after his
own family members with a weapon. And then let him out. Oh,
oh yeah, we gotta let him out. He's crazy, he's
(23:35):
violently crazy. We got what do you mean, he's violently crazy?
You gotta let him out. Well, you're supposed to take
his medication. Oh okay, he didn't take his medication. Well
that's a big surprise. Can you imagine a mental patient
who didn't take their pill? Well, that hardly ever happens.
What is wrong with everybody? So the residents got to
(23:59):
get other and they went to a meeting. We're going
to play this. What is this for?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Maybe s this story, let's play it.
Speaker 9 (24:08):
People in this community feel targeted because of these break ins,
and right now LPD is investigating two separate incidents that
took place in this community overnight, the first.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
One taking place in the home that you see behind me.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah, these are new crimes in the neighborhood. And then
sino okay and cinos be set by all these burglaries.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
So continue playing. Two separate incidents.
Speaker 9 (24:32):
That took place in this community overnight, the first one
taking place in the home that you see behind me.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Check out this video.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
This is video of the scene as LPD investigated and
attempted break in at the home on Havenhurst Avenue. There
is limited information, but officers were called out around ten
thirty last night and this a report. State of family
may have been home when two suspects made their way
into the home through a garage but ran away shortly after.
(24:59):
We are still waiting to confirm those details with police.
Police half confirmed there was a break in at another
home in the area just a few hours later. These
incidents all come after more than two hundred insen of
residence packed the community center for a town hall last
night with LPD and LA County District Attorney. That town
hall was held in the wake of the shocking murders
(25:20):
of American Idol executive and her husband inside their Encinate home.
Their bodies were discovered last Monday, and this morning LA
County District Attorney Nathan Hawkman revealing new information into the murders.
The suspect, Raymond Budrian, allegedly used the couple's own gun
to kill them. The DA says he then called police
and gave them his name, which helped track him down
(25:43):
and senor. Residents say crime is out of control and
demand more protection.
Speaker 10 (25:47):
Criminals keep offending and offending, and they're back out on
the streets offending again.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
There's no consequence and that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
But law enforcement's hands.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Are tied because they don't have enough services to do
their job.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
So Mayor Karen, we beg.
Speaker 10 (26:00):
You to allow additional officers to protect your citizens.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
LPD says they've stuffed up patrols in these neighborhoods, but
add the department basis challenges but staffing. Hawkman promises they
are going after criminals and this time last year, there
were at least ten burglaries in the month of July
in the valley right now, but a majority of those
incidents to take place in the city of Encino.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Deborah Palace was the name of the resident who is
begging Karen Bass to do something, and she used the
phrase their hands are tied. They're severely understaffed because Karen
Bass defunded the police. Because the police, I believe by
the end of this year is going to be down
to eighty three hundred total officers, eighty three hundred. When
(26:48):
via Gosa left about ten years ago, it was ten
thousand police. So we went from ten thousand to eighty
three hundred, seventeen percent cut because Bass defunded the police department,
like she defunded the fire department. Defund the police, defund
the fire department. I remember when she was running for office,
(27:09):
people say, are you part of that defund the police movement?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Oh no, no, I've never said that.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Well yeah, she never said it, but when she became
mayor she did it. It's like everybody's chasing that. To
communist running for mayor in New York, it's like, well,
do you believe in this, and do you believe in that?
And oh no, no, I don't believe in that. I
never said that. Oh yeah, you wait till he gets in.
(27:34):
They downplay, they deny, they pretend they never said it
to begin with. And then they get in, she's a
defund the police woman, she's a defund the fire department woman.
And so what happens. There's a gang of thieves running
around in the sinow and nobody can stop them. And
then there's a crazy person out on the loose and
he gets spun through by idiot mental health professionals and judges,
(28:00):
and they just keep doing it, They keep just spading it.
There's more being released every day, and nobody stops them,
and nobody even prints their name. God forbid, the news
media in this town would print the name of the
judge who let this guy go. We'll talk more.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFII.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
We've got Stephen Klubeck coming on, the millionaire businessman who
is running as a Democrat for governor. We've talked with
him some months ago and he's coming in the studio
in just a moment. He also has a podcast, The
Stephen J. Klubec podcast. Now, we were discussing the murder
(28:44):
of the American Idol music supervisor Robin Kay and her
husband Thomas de Luca, shot with their own gun. As
it turns out, because a local nut, somebody's crazy son,
Raymond Boudarian, brooke into their house and they walked in
on him, and then he got their gun.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
They haven't published the details of how he got the
gun exactly. And then there was a meeting last night,
even seen her residence and it's you know, it's like
shouting into the wind. The police don't do anything, and
the police blame their bass. The police are way underfunded.
There's only gonna be eighty three hundred left by the
(29:24):
end of the year, and they usually have ten thousand,
and they need twelve thousand at least. And here here's
one of the things that drives me nuts. ABC seven
David Gonzalez wrote this. He was the reporter we played.
But their online story is all about a real Housewives
(29:45):
of Beverly Hills star having their home broken into. Teddy Mellencamp,
who's Yah.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Her father is the singer.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
John Mellencamp, and she has some terrible cancer too from
what I've read. But because her home got broken into,
it became a big headline story. But there's all these
other non famous people who get broken into all the time,
and the stuff isn't covered at all. Like if all
the burglaries got this kind of treatment that Teddy Mellencamp's house, Scott.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
And the American Idol and the American executive, Yeah, then
every day we would be hearing about all the break
ins and Ensino and all the ones in Tarzana and
all the ones in Woodland Hills and everywhere else.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
But only the celebrity ones get noticed. Meantile, there's a
lot of burglaries going on, and the police, of course
or the city officials are back to lying actually crime
is down. It's like, would you stop it? We already
caught Dominic Choi, the interim chief, last year, lying about it,
(30:52):
giving us a bogus phony set of numbers. We already
know that Karen Vass's homeless numbers are inside safe numbers
are phony. People on the inside have publicly admitted to
that all the numbers out of La government are phony numbers.
They're lies. It's bad. The homelessness is worse than they admit.
The crime is worse than they admit. The burglaries are worse, certainly,
(31:15):
and I mean everybody should be sick of this. Instead,
you got the Deputy Chief Maria SiO Fatelli. We are
having phenomenal numbers on crime reduction. That being said, when
two wonderful people end up dead in their own home,
those crime statistics fall kind of flat. Yeah, you think, so,
what's the first reaction all the people in the neighborhood had. Hey,
(31:37):
we've had a lot of crime here. There's been a
lot of break ins and the police don't do anything
about it. I wonder how often the police don't even
show up so it's not registered as a crime. And
then when there's a high profile burglary of Teddy Mellencamp's house,
high profile murder of Robin at Robin Kay's house, then oh,
we're gonna have round the clock patrols here.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
We got helicopters. Would we stop, you know, by by Thursday?
And that's going to be done.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
This is just to entertain the media and calm down
the angry savages who were yelling at the meeting.
Speaker 10 (32:10):
I said this to you off the air and I'm
just going to say it on the air. I wonder
how Karen Bass would feel if somebody I don't know
who would say, Okay, you know what, we're not going
to have the World Cup here, and we're not going
to have the Olympics until you clean up this city.
You need to do something about the crime, you need
to do something about more police officers, and you got
(32:31):
to clean up the homeless, or you know what, say
goodbye to the dreams of the Olympics and the World
Cup and all the other events that are planned for la.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I wish that would happen too. That's the only thing
that would get her to clean it up. Absolutely, is
this somebody at the Olympic committee or the World Cup
committee said, you know what, this place is a hellhole.
We're not coming, We're not safe. Yeah, that's the only
thing that would do it. Barring that she's not gonna
do anything. I wish every person that ran into her
(33:00):
would just say, why don't you resign?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Now?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Why don't you resign now? Does Karen Bass resigned now?
Concept that this is all she should hear, because I
think everybody should be done talking to her. She's a brick,
she's never going to respond properly. She shows no interest.
(33:24):
I mean, she's had zero days where she got in
front of the public and said, Okay, here's what we're doing,
here's the plan, here's how we're executing it, here's the
people in charge. Here is how you can measure us.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
But she has a lot to say about the ice rain.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Oh my god, she can't shut up about it. She
can't shut up. He was on that ABC show for
what probably half an hour.
Speaker 10 (33:45):
And I'm not saying that people that are upset about
the raids are wrong.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I'm not getting into that.
Speaker 10 (33:51):
But I'm saying that a lot of people are pretty
pissed off about crime and homelessness in our city. And
I will just say that I'd rather our city be
cleaned up from all that then have the Olympics and
the World Cup here.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I'm just gonna go out on a limb and say
that I'm with you on that. You're right.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I mean enough, they're all gonna do all this raw
ros stuff about the Olympics in the World Cup. In meantime,
we've got to live with with all the burglaries, the murderers,
the homeless people.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
It's our daily live that's our daily lives.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
All right, Well we come back Stephen Klubec. He's running
for governor on the Democratic side here in California. Deborah
Mark live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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