July 16, 2026 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (07/16) - John talks about the flooding on Sunset Strip. ABC News's Alex Stone calls in to talk about the new Cyclospora parasite. More about the corruption at LAX. Newsom's "donations" from PACs keep piling up.
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the podcast, and you listen to that in case you
missed anything or everything on the show. And no livestream today,
but it'll be back tomorrow. And you'd probably heard by
now about the water main break on Sunset Boulevard. It
was Sunset Boulevard and Holloway Drive and there's a huge
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sinkhole in the roadway near that intersection, and the water
was gushing out in the middle of the night. LEDWP
had to show up at four in the morning, which
is a good thing because that's after the bars close,
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so they were available. They might have still been playing poker.
I think they most of the guys have an overnight
poker game going on. So anyway, it was gushing and
gushing there for up. The league was shut down after
a few hours. Now, why did it take a few
hours to shut down the leak? It flooded all the
parking garages. Holloway Drive, which crosses Sunset Boulevard, is a
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hill that goes pretty steeply down to the south. And
Karen Bass shows up and this is just classic. She
shows up and she tells the world, well, these pipes
are one hundred years old, and this is classic for
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her and a lot of other of these political hacks.
They show up and they tell you they described the
obvious situation. Well they're one hundred years old. So Karen,
she's the person who appoints the head of the DWP.
Do you remember who the head of the DWP was
for the last several years, Yes, the infamous incompetent, the
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Dei Deluxe Jenise kimones Every clip that we could find
of Genie Kimonez, every person who has attended a DWP meeting,
who's come on our show says all she babbles about
is diversity, equity and inclusion. That that's why she took
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the job, that's what she was especially excited by. She's
out of office now, but this is her legacy, and
this is Karen Bass's legacy. Now. The Waterbeate break was
in West Hollywood, but West Hollywood, like a number of
the cities that are adjacent to or surrounded by Los
Angeles is at the mercy of the incompetent boobs who
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run Los Angeles. In this case, Karen Bass appointed Genice Konez.
And what I want to know is what I always
asked before the after the Palisades fire, was was there
a single meeting for even ten minutes? We're Bass sat
down with the fire chief and everybody else and said, Okay,
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we've got extreme wind warnings, extreme fire danger warnings. What's
the plan. Hey, there was a fire on January first
up in the Palisades, what's the status. That's what any
normal person would do. So I'm asked the same question here.
If you have pipes that are over one hundred years old,
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did Karen Bass, Genie Konez, anybody in the last hundred
years have a meeting and say, hey, maybe it's time
to replace these. Is there a schedule to replace one
hundred year old pipes, say after year eighty, year seventy five?
Do they ever talk about this if this hadn't happened,
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So this would I guess the strategy to keep the
pipes until they burst, whether they're eighty ninety years old,
one hundred and ten years old. Some of these pipes
date back to the original well they probably are the
original water infrastructure for modern Los Angeles. Now, you can't
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keep anything for one hundred years, especially the way, especially
since the way we badly maintain our infrastructure. So she's
standing there with that stupid smile on her face. Well
you know these pipes are one hundred years old. Yeah,
they're one hundred years old. So what did you do?
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Did you sit down with Kennas or anybody else and say, hey,
how how are we on upgrading the pipes? Is the
whole city one hundred years old? All the pipes? What's
the SkELL because so much. In fact, if you took
the billions of dollars blown on on on the vagrants
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and the drug addicts and the mental patients and spent
them on pipes because this stuff is not, well, what
do you expect? You know the pipes are old, Yes,
that's why they should have been replaced a long long
time ago. I this is just infuriating, and I'm looking
up to see who runs the DWP now because all
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these anonymous boobs get away with murder and incompetence. So
the new boob is David Hanson the interim general manager.
He replaced Denie Kimonez after she fled to just Stroy,
Puerto Rico. David Hanson, Oh, David Hanson had any meetings
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with Mayor Bass or the mayor of West Hollywood or anybody. Hey,
we've got to replace pipes. They're one hundred years old.
I remember. I remember it was some just a few
years ago. I forget exactly when. Maybe it was a
pre lockdown. In my mind, everything is pre lockdown in
post lockdown. Maybe the late twenty ten's where a huge
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waterman busted on Sunset Boulevard in front of UCLA, not
that far from this spot in West Hollywood, And I
heard the same Oh by the way, that that league
went on for hours too, before they roused up some
of the DWP workers from the Strip club. And I
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lived near there. I drove through the thing and it
did go on for hours, and at one point that
it was like, uh, Yellowstone, What's what's the name about? Waterfall?
And Yellowstone? The famous one? I know, faithful, old faithful,
you win, very good class, old faithful. That's what we
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had on on the West side of LA and nobody
showed up for hours, like for this one, nobody showed
up for hours, and then the same excuse. I think
our Citi was mayor of there. Pipes are one hundred
years old. Okay, okay, we know the pipes are one
hundred years old. Why aren't they getting replaced? I think
our water and electric bell are pretty high. Yeah, we
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come back. Somebody who's gotten very famous, very quickly, and
all for the wrong reasons, is you Sef rob who
uh is one of these political communication guys who's associated
with you with with Karen Bass, the Lineage Logistics company
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where that warehouse fire happened. And now it turns out
he's connected to something else that's controversial. We'll tell you
all about it when we come back.
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All right, we'll give you a name. You might have
heard it in recent days. You know, we were talking
last hour with several people, including former sheriff Alex Vannaweva,
about the huge web of interconnected corruption that goes on
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between politicians, nonprofit heads. And there's all these people that
are in the food chain there that keep the propacanda
machine going. That keep the corruption machine going. This is
one of those guys, and his name is Yousef Rob.
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Yousef Rob. You know, there's a whole class of professionals
and what they do is when a politician or corporate
leader goes out and lies, Uh, they help amplify the lie.
They help distribute the lie. Uh If if reporters or
anybody tries to challenge them, they confuse the issue with
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irrelevant facts and nonsense and counter accusations. And it's a whole,
it's a whole another racket, you know, the public relations
crisis consultant racket.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
They're they're they're spokesholes. So this guy, Yusef Rob, he
runs this company called t K Communications. He has been
an informal quote unquote advisor to Karen Bass, an unpaid spokesperson. Yeah, unpaid,
no other w it's Karen Bass's office doesn't pay him
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allegedly and neither does she. But there's a lot of
benefits when you're a quote unpaid spokesperson. And he's been
quoted many times in recent years running interference for Bass. Well,
you then had the big fire happened in Boyle Heights
Lineage Logistics. The refrigeration warehouse, and suddenly he's got a
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job with them too, And he continued to be Bass's
unpaid advisor while he was working as a paid advisor
for Lineage Logistics. And of course it was in both parties'
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best interests to have the same communications person running interference
with the press and the public.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Bass didn't want Lineage to turn on her. Lineage didn't
want Bass to turn on them, So they had this
same guy, usef Rob handling the crisis, handling the public relations,
handling the public statements. You see how it works. Well,
guess what else usef Rob's involved in. What did we
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talk about at length yesterday? The Los Angeles World Airports
and that that big racket with their people mover their
tram which is stuck and it's cost three and a
half billion dollars and there's no tram running, and now
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the contractor is suing LA World Airports because everything screwed
up and they're going to court. And the whole thing
was supposed to be two billion dollars that was gonna
include twenty five years worth of maintenance. Now it's three
and a half billion dollars including no years of maintenance.
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And Rob is working for LA World Airports and boy
are they paying him a lot of money. Six hundred
thousand dollars over three years. So the guy's working for
Bass allegedly unpaid. Yeah, see this is the deal. You
work for the mayor unpaid. Let's look at that. You
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get a six hundred thousand dollars contract with the LA
Airport Agency and Lineage Logistics. Who who's fouled and smoked
out Boyle Heights. Rob of course, says the airport contract
was unrelated to his work for the mayor, and Bass
(12:51):
says that because it was, Rob was unpaid for working
with her. It was for the bete benefit of the city.
It is not a gift. They say this from the
straight face. Wow. His contract involves executive media training as
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well as crisis communications. This is all about teaching executives
and government officials how to lie, how to confuse stupid reporters,
how to manipulate the truth, how to manipulate the news,
how to interfere with the story, how to confuse people
and get them bored. That's what this is all about.
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A report from LA World Airport in support of the
contract said executive management has benefited from successful professional media training.
I know media training. Okay, It's all about avoiding questions,
avoiding responsibility, changing the subject, creating confusion. That's what media
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training is. Because normally people naturally when they asked a question.
Right in your personal life or even your work life,
somebody asks you a question, you answer it just automatically.
You just give them a truthful answer. But in media,
politics and business, everybody lies in public compulsively all the time.
So they have to be trained to lie compulsively all
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the time. You know, you have to learn that skill.
And there's people who make hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I've known people who do media training. I know what
the whole racket's about. So there you are, Usuf Rob
getting a working for Bess, making money from a lineage
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and making money from La World airports. Of course, lineage
is absolutely ruined boil Heights. There is no tram at
the airport, even though we blew three and a half
billion dollars, and Bass is walking around telling us that
the uh, the water pipes are one hundred years old.
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All right, when we come back, we're going to talk
to Alex Stone about our favorite story of the week. Here,
and it's about that uh, that watery h flash diarrhea.
What's what's the good biases? Cyclospariasis, Yes, explosive diarrhea. Apparently
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the uh this parasite is spreading. There's more and more
people who are literally exploding. We'll talk to Alex Stone
from ABC News. Next.
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Can't find a sixty more stimulating talk radio. It's the
John Cobelt Show and we're on from three to six
after six o'clock. Whatever you missed you can get on
the podcast. John Cobelt's Show on demand, and we've been
talking about this for a few days now. The outbreak cyclosporiasis, right,
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I think that's how you say it. I remember it
was rhymes with rhymes with siasis, cyclospariasis. It's in lettus
and you know it can be another other vegetables. But
there's been seven thousand cases of this and you get
explosive watery diarrhea among other things. Taco Bell and other
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restaurants are getting let us off the menus. This doesn't
really bother me. I have three salads a year. However,
it has caused a lot of people to have extremely
uncomfortable symptoms all around the country. Seems to be a
centered in Michigan, but it's in many other places as well.
Let's talk with Alex Stone ABC News. He's at the
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diarrhea desk.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Alex, how are you reporting in from the diarrhea death.
Don't you love it when your doctor is saying don't
eat salads, come up with other things to eat, but
don't eat exactly, and then you know, something will come
up there and then we're we're trying to figure out
some about Yeah, this is it's growing. It's not pretty.
The symptoms are terrible. I mean you mentioned fatigue, fever, uh,
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the explosive diarrhea and over seven thousand cases numbers in
thirty four states. But the biggest thing is this is
a mystery still now of where it's coming from. That
they are guessing it's probably from a lettuce product or
a salad product of some kind. But the issue being
John that the incubation period is about two weeks. So
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if I said, all right, so tell me what you
had for lunch two saturdays ago, and don't just tell
me a salad, but tell me exactly what was in
that salad, and you know what were there beans in there?
Was their corn in there? What about celery? And they've
got to find the common denominator of what is in
the same thing that that everybody is eating and they
haven't gotten there. And so the belief is, well, typically
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this would spread the lettuce or spinach or something else.
But Michigan where Michigan and Ohio. Ohio today said they
jumped up to twelve hundred cases. Eighty eight have been hospitalized.
Michigan they typically see fewer than fifty cases of the
parasite every year. Now they're seeing about six hundred every day.
But the real California connection so far on this he
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is in the lettuce industry did about four billion dollars
in sale last tales last year, and they are in
a PR crisis right now, in PR crisis mode because
people either mentally don't want to buy lettuce. You know,
if you're thinking last night, I was one of them.
I had spinach in the fridge and thought, well, I'll
make a little salad with dinner, and then thought, m
doesn't sound appetizing when you're thinking there might be poop
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on there.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So not today, Yeah, that's not what I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Gonna do right now. So either people don't want to,
or their doctor has told them stay away from it
for now, or the whole well, you got to wash it,
even though if it's pre washed, wash it again or
cook it that that people want to don't want to
do that. But we talked to one emergency room doctor
today in Detroit and he said that they're hoping that
we're at the peak of this right now, and that
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these numbers are so high that they're just going to
go down from this point, But they don't know they
keep going up. They don't know are we at the
top of it and then it's going to get better
or is it just going to keep going up.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Well, there's so many people with it in so many states.
This must have come from a company that has a
wide distribution of their lettuce.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
That's what they're trying to figure out. And then if
it is that, how is it in You know, typically
it's in the irrigation water or in the cleaning water.
If they're sending it pre cleaned that it doesn't seem
like one farm would typically be able to supply this
many different people and restaurants and stores and everything else,
So you know what is If it's multiple farms, how
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is it getting from farm to farm? They don't know,
and so they're trying to decipher it. But those who
have gotten it, as we're talking to more people, one
guy saying he and his young kids got it and
that it got worse and worse for ten days. That
wasn't getting better. He said, it just got it was
more painful. They were kind of bent over and just
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in severe pain in their stomach and it just got
worse and worse.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
This is a parasite, this particular bug, and I guess
it doesn't dislodge easily out of the body. I mean normally,
if viruses, they'll pass through in three.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Days, right, and that incubation period that it doesn't just
pass through that you could eat something today and then
in almost two weeks you begin to get sick. That
that adds to all of this, and it's just made
it very, very tough for them to figure out what's
causing it. And they're working the CDC and the FDA
and individual states, and then in California they say that
(20:49):
that we still don't have any of the cases linked
to this outbreak. There are individual cases every now and then,
and there always are in California. But linked to this,
they don't see anything.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
You know, with something this huge. It could have been
a farm with animal waste that washed in, yeah, which.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
We've seen with the Coali and things in the past.
The concern being that, you know, it seems like what
it's the lettuce. It normally comes back to California being
the central Valley, the salad bowl for the country, and
so there's no connection at this point to California in
that way other than that the lettuce industry is feeling
this and farmers are worried about that they're gonna have
all these heads of lettuce that people aren't buying because
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they're staying away from buying it. It's mostly focused on
Michigan and Ohio, but it was it delivered from somewhere
else or was it a product maybe not even lettuce
that was grown in Michigan and Ohio or in that region,
And they haven't been able to pinpoint it yet.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
All right, Alex, thanks very much. I'm telling you stick
to me.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Sounds good toilet tonight MEA.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Eaters don't have these problems, but people still keep eating
vegetables and lettuce and things. No, I'm not eating lettuce now. Well,
there's stories uh in various news outlets. Uh. There's a
woman in uh, North Carolina, Adrian. She heard about this
lettuce issue and she purged her refrigerator because she and
(22:12):
her husband had about of an intestinal illness is the
way it's described. And she thinks it came from Romayne.
Hearts purchased, which is lettuce. I know, John, thanks, and
she goes on, I've avoided the produce section for now.
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And when this happens, it kills thee because things like spinach,
for example, that's an optional food. There's no reason to
eat spinach optional. You can, you can, you can live
without spinach. Nobody has to eat it. And I uh
sometimes for those of you who don't know, Debbah is
(22:53):
one of those weirdo vegans, and she's really militant. I'm
not I don't care what you eat. I do me,
you do you. Outbreaks, which are eventually traced back to
a specific food, can drag down demand across the industry
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for months. There was a famous case of E. Coli
outbreak with spinach back to two thousand and six, traced
to a single farm in California and spinach sales never
fully recovered. And I don't know if they meant never
fully recovered from that farm or never fully recovered for
twenty years in the whole spinach industry. It's not clear here.
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And here's a woman, Katie Hanson in Missouri. She ate
a chicken bowl last week with lettuce and guacamole. On Saturday.
She had lower back pain, then diarrhea, chills, cramping in sweats.
She suspects it was triggered by her Mexican meal. I
don't eat chicken either. She's taken antibiotic and is feeling
(24:00):
better now. Antibiotics would affect you if you had bacteria.
They say that if you if you get this explosive
diarrhea situation, you take antibiotics and you will be okay.
But I'm reading this might be a parasite, which is
different than bacteria. I know, but they say that it's treated.
This is treated by antibiotics.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
There's Cater and Company in Michigan, and because they're catered
weddings in banquets, they got a lot of calls because
who wants have their wedding wiped out with this cyclosporiasis
I'd say no lettuce, no salads. One manager, Bob Halerback said,
(24:44):
a frantic bride called asking to change her salad to
a cooked vegetable side dish. Yeah that makes sense. Well, yeah,
the bride has a white dress and you just can't
afford to have explosive and you don't want your guess
to be in the bathroom. They they know their guests
are going to avoid it like the rest of us.
So uh, he's preparing a list of non lettuce alternatives.
(25:08):
Think beef. Beef is an excellent non let us alternative.
Have a keen was out? Keema has never been explained
to me. I'll tell you off the air, all right.
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By the way, if you do listen to the podcast,
we had a really interesting first hour. Had three guests
in and including Sheriff Alex Vanueva, who's running his former
sheriff and he's running again against Robert Luna, and he
and two women, Rachel Darvish who's a Palisades activist, and
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Sheriff Scott Astroff, who's president of the Animal Rescue Mission.
They all toured They toured skid Rode today and they
have a lot of stuff to say about the whole
animal rights scam that goes on and also the homeless
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industry scam that goes on. They have spent a lot
of time trying to figure out why it is, why
things are the way they are here now in California,
and it's all one big racket, and the politicians and
the nonprofits are all on the same side, divvying up
(27:09):
our tax money. And there is zero interest among these
animal nonprofits and homeless nonprofits to make anything better for
us or for the homeless or the animals, because if
they did that, then their industry would die and they
wouldn't be able to make their huge six figure salaries.
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One of the most revealing moments, one of them said,
when you go when you go down to skid Row
and there's something called the Winegarten Company, and you know
they build homeless housing, Go there and count all the
Mercedes and the lexusus in the parking lot. That's what
it's about and why people are so This is one
(27:55):
of the things we discussed. You really should listen to
the whole hour on the podcast three o'clock hour. One
of the things we discuss, it's just how people just
don't want to believe it's this bad.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Maybe they don't care a loutum certainly don't know. Because
the juxtaposition between the voting patterns and the reality of
how this place is governed and the depth of the
corruption it is so enormous. It should be like ninety
(28:29):
nine to one to remove all these people, with the
one percent being those who are benefiting from the scam.
But it's not. We'll be talking a lot about that
in the next five months or so. Now. The chief
scammer is the California Governor, Gavin Newsom, and he's getting
(28:49):
investigated by the federal government. We've talked extensively about this,
and he went on a campaign blaming Trump, when in fact,
this came out of the Joe Biden administration dating back
to twenty twenty two. It was also instigated in part
by the Sacramento Irs Office, so this had nothing to
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do with the Trump administration. However, Newsom's nonsense and propaganda
worked to some extent. He raised two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars in campaign donations. He has a political action
committee called Campaign for Democracy, and in the first two
(29:33):
weeks his political action committee and two other accounts made
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Now, there are corrupt
people who work for companies, who work as lobbyists, who
are looking for influence, and they're gonna donate to Newsom
(29:54):
no matter what because on the off chance he gets
in power, you know, they they want they want the
financial benefits, and this is how they supply kickbacks. You know,
if Newsom sends grant money your way running a homeless nonprofit,
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that almost nonprofit is going to be sending money back
to Newsome in the form of campaign contribution. So it's this,
it's this circular cesspool. He's got fourteen and a half
million dollars to run for president, and his campaign has
(30:40):
actually spent a million and a half dollars to buy
his own book. You wonder how something like that piece
of trash can end up on a bestseller list. This
is how it's done. And they all do this. You
have political action committees, and you have political organizations buying
the books in bulk, and then they mail it to supporters,
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and then they go around saying, well, you know, my
New York Times best selling book. It's a total racket.
Even the New York Times bestseller list is just fabricated nonsense.
But for the corrupt people in California, the well connected,
corrupt people, they're gonna give you to two hundred and
(31:23):
fifty thousand dollars anyway, So why not do it? In
response to his pleas that Trump is unfairly targeting him
in an investigation, all right, we come back. We're going
to talk to David Tangipa. We've had him on the
show number of times as a California assembly man. Yeah,
we're gonna be talking about another nonprofit that this is
(31:45):
really the story of the decade is the billions of
billions and billions of dollars going to nonprofits, politically connected ones,
especially when it comes to homelessness and and illegal aliens.
David Tangepa, California assemblyman, says, the Democrats raised taxes in
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the middle of the night, and one of the benefits
was Surla Urla is that Hispanic civil rights organization that
spends a lot of money on illegal alien causes. They
instigated and started and staffed the Ice riots. We're gonna
talk to David Tangeepa when we come back. Deborah Mark
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missed anything or everything on the show. And no livestream today,
but it'll be back tomorrow. And you'd probably heard by
now about the water main break on Sunset Boulevard. It
was Sunset Boulevard and Holloway Drive and there's a huge
(00:47):
sinkhole in the roadway near that intersection, and the water
was gushing out in the middle of the night. LEDWP
had to show up at four in the morning, which
is a good thing because that's after the bars close,
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so they were available. They might have still been playing poker.
I think they most of the guys have an overnight
poker game going on. So anyway, it was gushing and
gushing there for up. The league was shut down after
a few hours. Now, why did it take a few
hours to shut down the leak? It flooded all the
parking garages. Holloway Drive, which crosses Sunset Boulevard, is a
(01:32):
hill that goes pretty steeply down to the south. And
Karen Bass shows up and this is just classic. She
shows up and she tells the world, well, these pipes
are one hundred years old, and this is classic for
(01:56):
her and a lot of other of these political hacks.
They show up and they tell you they described the
obvious situation. Well they're one hundred years old. So Karen,
she's the person who appoints the head of the DWP.
Do you remember who the head of the DWP was
for the last several years, Yes, the infamous incompetent, the
(02:20):
Dei Deluxe Jenise kimones Every clip that we could find
of Genie Kimonez, every person who has attended a DWP meeting,
who's come on our show says all she babbles about
is diversity, equity and inclusion. That that's why she took
(02:42):
the job, that's what she was especially excited by. She's
out of office now, but this is her legacy, and
this is Karen Bass's legacy. Now. The Waterbeate break was
in West Hollywood, but West Hollywood, like a number of
the cities that are adjacent to or surrounded by Los
Angeles is at the mercy of the incompetent boobs who
(03:09):
run Los Angeles. In this case, Karen Bass appointed Genice Konez.
And what I want to know is what I always
asked before the after the Palisades fire, was was there
a single meeting for even ten minutes? We're Bass sat
down with the fire chief and everybody else and said, Okay,
(03:32):
we've got extreme wind warnings, extreme fire danger warnings. What's
the plan. Hey, there was a fire on January first
up in the Palisades, what's the status. That's what any
normal person would do. So I'm asked the same question here.
If you have pipes that are over one hundred years old,
(03:56):
did Karen Bass, Genie Konez, anybody in the last hundred
years have a meeting and say, hey, maybe it's time
to replace these. Is there a schedule to replace one
hundred year old pipes, say after year eighty, year seventy five?
Do they ever talk about this if this hadn't happened,
(04:18):
So this would I guess the strategy to keep the
pipes until they burst, whether they're eighty ninety years old,
one hundred and ten years old. Some of these pipes
date back to the original well they probably are the
original water infrastructure for modern Los Angeles. Now, you can't
(04:38):
keep anything for one hundred years, especially the way, especially
since the way we badly maintain our infrastructure. So she's
standing there with that stupid smile on her face. Well
you know these pipes are one hundred years old. Yeah,
they're one hundred years old. So what did you do?
(05:01):
Did you sit down with Kennas or anybody else and say, hey,
how how are we on upgrading the pipes? Is the
whole city one hundred years old? All the pipes? What's
the SkELL because so much. In fact, if you took
the billions of dollars blown on on on the vagrants
(05:22):
and the drug addicts and the mental patients and spent
them on pipes because this stuff is not, well, what
do you expect? You know the pipes are old, Yes,
that's why they should have been replaced a long long
time ago. I this is just infuriating, and I'm looking
up to see who runs the DWP now because all
(05:45):
these anonymous boobs get away with murder and incompetence. So
the new boob is David Hanson the interim general manager.
He replaced Denie Kimonez after she fled to just Stroy,
Puerto Rico. David Hanson, Oh, David Hanson had any meetings
(06:05):
with Mayor Bass or the mayor of West Hollywood or anybody. Hey,
we've got to replace pipes. They're one hundred years old.
I remember. I remember it was some just a few
years ago. I forget exactly when. Maybe it was a
pre lockdown. In my mind, everything is pre lockdown in
post lockdown. Maybe the late twenty ten's where a huge
(06:28):
waterman busted on Sunset Boulevard in front of UCLA, not
that far from this spot in West Hollywood, And I
heard the same Oh by the way, that that league
went on for hours too, before they roused up some
of the DWP workers from the Strip club. And I
(06:50):
lived near there. I drove through the thing and it
did go on for hours, and at one point that
it was like, uh, Yellowstone, What's what's the name about? Waterfall?
And Yellowstone? The famous one? I know, faithful, old faithful,
you win, very good class, old faithful. That's what we
(07:13):
had on on the West side of LA and nobody
showed up for hours, like for this one, nobody showed
up for hours, and then the same excuse. I think
our Citi was mayor of there. Pipes are one hundred
years old. Okay, okay, we know the pipes are one
hundred years old. Why aren't they getting replaced? I think
our water and electric bell are pretty high. Yeah, we
(07:37):
come back. Somebody who's gotten very famous, very quickly, and
all for the wrong reasons, is you Sef rob who
uh is one of these political communication guys who's associated
with you with with Karen Bass, the Lineage Logistics company
(08:00):
where that warehouse fire happened. And now it turns out
he's connected to something else that's controversial. We'll tell you
all about it when we come back.
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All right, we'll give you a name. You might have
heard it in recent days. You know, we were talking
last hour with several people, including former sheriff Alex Vannaweva,
about the huge web of interconnected corruption that goes on
(08:42):
between politicians, nonprofit heads. And there's all these people that
are in the food chain there that keep the propacanda
machine going. That keep the corruption machine going. This is
one of those guys, and his name is Yousef Rob.
(09:04):
Yousef Rob. You know, there's a whole class of professionals
and what they do is when a politician or corporate
leader goes out and lies, Uh, they help amplify the lie.
They help distribute the lie. Uh If if reporters or
anybody tries to challenge them, they confuse the issue with
(09:25):
irrelevant facts and nonsense and counter accusations. And it's a whole,
it's a whole another racket, you know, the public relations
crisis consultant racket.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
They're they're they're spokesholes. So this guy, Yusef Rob, he
runs this company called t K Communications. He has been
an informal quote unquote advisor to Karen Bass, an unpaid spokesperson. Yeah, unpaid,
no other w it's Karen Bass's office doesn't pay him
(10:01):
allegedly and neither does she. But there's a lot of
benefits when you're a quote unpaid spokesperson. And he's been
quoted many times in recent years running interference for Bass. Well,
you then had the big fire happened in Boyle Heights
Lineage Logistics. The refrigeration warehouse, and suddenly he's got a
(10:27):
job with them too, And he continued to be Bass's
unpaid advisor while he was working as a paid advisor
for Lineage Logistics. And of course it was in both parties'
(10:49):
best interests to have the same communications person running interference
with the press and the public.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Bass didn't want Lineage to turn on her. Lineage didn't
want Bass to turn on them, So they had this
same guy, usef Rob handling the crisis, handling the public relations,
handling the public statements. You see how it works. Well,
guess what else usef Rob's involved in. What did we
(11:19):
talk about at length yesterday? The Los Angeles World Airports
and that that big racket with their people mover their
tram which is stuck and it's cost three and a
half billion dollars and there's no tram running, and now
(11:42):
the contractor is suing LA World Airports because everything screwed
up and they're going to court. And the whole thing
was supposed to be two billion dollars that was gonna
include twenty five years worth of maintenance. Now it's three
and a half billion dollars including no years of maintenance.
(12:04):
And Rob is working for LA World Airports and boy
are they paying him a lot of money. Six hundred
thousand dollars over three years. So the guy's working for
Bass allegedly unpaid. Yeah, see this is the deal. You
work for the mayor unpaid. Let's look at that. You
(12:24):
get a six hundred thousand dollars contract with the LA
Airport Agency and Lineage Logistics. Who who's fouled and smoked
out Boyle Heights. Rob of course, says the airport contract
was unrelated to his work for the mayor, and Bass
(12:51):
says that because it was, Rob was unpaid for working
with her. It was for the bete benefit of the city.
It is not a gift. They say this from the
straight face. Wow. His contract involves executive media training as
(13:16):
well as crisis communications. This is all about teaching executives
and government officials how to lie, how to confuse stupid reporters,
how to manipulate the truth, how to manipulate the news,
how to interfere with the story, how to confuse people
and get them bored. That's what this is all about.
(13:37):
A report from LA World Airport in support of the
contract said executive management has benefited from successful professional media training.
I know media training. Okay, It's all about avoiding questions,
avoiding responsibility, changing the subject, creating confusion. That's what media
(14:01):
training is. Because normally people naturally when they asked a question.
Right in your personal life or even your work life,
somebody asks you a question, you answer it just automatically.
You just give them a truthful answer. But in media,
politics and business, everybody lies in public compulsively all the time.
So they have to be trained to lie compulsively all
(14:25):
the time. You know, you have to learn that skill.
And there's people who make hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I've known people who do media training. I know what
the whole racket's about. So there you are, Usuf Rob
getting a working for Bess, making money from a lineage
(14:50):
and making money from La World airports. Of course, lineage
is absolutely ruined boil Heights. There is no tram at
the airport, even though we blew three and a half
billion dollars, and Bass is walking around telling us that
the uh, the water pipes are one hundred years old.
(15:12):
All right, when we come back, we're going to talk
to Alex Stone about our favorite story of the week. Here,
and it's about that uh, that watery h flash diarrhea.
What's what's the good biases? Cyclospariasis, Yes, explosive diarrhea. Apparently
(15:33):
the uh this parasite is spreading. There's more and more
people who are literally exploding. We'll talk to Alex Stone
from ABC News. Next.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
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Speaker 1 (15:52):
Can't find a sixty more stimulating talk radio. It's the
John Cobelt Show and we're on from three to six
after six o'clock. Whatever you missed you can get on
the podcast. John Cobelt's Show on demand, and we've been
talking about this for a few days now. The outbreak cyclosporiasis, right,
(16:15):
I think that's how you say it. I remember it
was rhymes with rhymes with siasis, cyclospariasis. It's in lettus
and you know it can be another other vegetables. But
there's been seven thousand cases of this and you get
explosive watery diarrhea among other things. Taco Bell and other
(16:36):
restaurants are getting let us off the menus. This doesn't
really bother me. I have three salads a year. However,
it has caused a lot of people to have extremely
uncomfortable symptoms all around the country. Seems to be a
centered in Michigan, but it's in many other places as well.
Let's talk with Alex Stone ABC News. He's at the
(16:58):
diarrhea desk.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Alex, how are you reporting in from the diarrhea death.
Don't you love it when your doctor is saying don't
eat salads, come up with other things to eat, but
don't eat exactly, and then you know, something will come
up there and then we're we're trying to figure out
some about Yeah, this is it's growing. It's not pretty.
The symptoms are terrible. I mean you mentioned fatigue, fever, uh,
(17:19):
the explosive diarrhea and over seven thousand cases numbers in
thirty four states. But the biggest thing is this is
a mystery still now of where it's coming from. That
they are guessing it's probably from a lettuce product or
a salad product of some kind. But the issue being
John that the incubation period is about two weeks. So
(17:41):
if I said, all right, so tell me what you
had for lunch two saturdays ago, and don't just tell
me a salad, but tell me exactly what was in
that salad, and you know what were there beans in there?
Was their corn in there? What about celery? And they've
got to find the common denominator of what is in
the same thing that that everybody is eating and they
haven't gotten there. And so the belief is, well, typically
(18:02):
this would spread the lettuce or spinach or something else.
But Michigan where Michigan and Ohio. Ohio today said they
jumped up to twelve hundred cases. Eighty eight have been hospitalized.
Michigan they typically see fewer than fifty cases of the
parasite every year. Now they're seeing about six hundred every day.
But the real California connection so far on this he
(18:25):
is in the lettuce industry did about four billion dollars
in sale last tales last year, and they are in
a PR crisis right now, in PR crisis mode because
people either mentally don't want to buy lettuce. You know,
if you're thinking last night, I was one of them.
I had spinach in the fridge and thought, well, I'll
make a little salad with dinner, and then thought, m
doesn't sound appetizing when you're thinking there might be poop
(18:46):
on there.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So not today, Yeah, that's not what I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Gonna do right now. So either people don't want to,
or their doctor has told them stay away from it
for now, or the whole well, you got to wash it,
even though if it's pre washed, wash it again or
cook it that that people want to don't want to
do that. But we talked to one emergency room doctor
today in Detroit and he said that they're hoping that
we're at the peak of this right now, and that
(19:11):
these numbers are so high that they're just going to
go down from this point, But they don't know they
keep going up. They don't know are we at the
top of it and then it's going to get better
or is it just going to keep going up.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Well, there's so many people with it in so many states.
This must have come from a company that has a
wide distribution of their lettuce.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
That's what they're trying to figure out. And then if
it is that, how is it in You know, typically
it's in the irrigation water or in the cleaning water.
If they're sending it pre cleaned that it doesn't seem
like one farm would typically be able to supply this
many different people and restaurants and stores and everything else,
So you know what is If it's multiple farms, how
(19:53):
is it getting from farm to farm? They don't know,
and so they're trying to decipher it. But those who
have gotten it, as we're talking to more people, one
guy saying he and his young kids got it and
that it got worse and worse for ten days. That
wasn't getting better. He said, it just got it was
more painful. They were kind of bent over and just
(20:13):
in severe pain in their stomach and it just got
worse and worse.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
This is a parasite, this particular bug, and I guess
it doesn't dislodge easily out of the body. I mean normally,
if viruses, they'll pass through in three.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Days, right, and that incubation period that it doesn't just
pass through that you could eat something today and then
in almost two weeks you begin to get sick. That
that adds to all of this, and it's just made
it very, very tough for them to figure out what's
causing it. And they're working the CDC and the FDA
and individual states, and then in California they say that
(20:49):
that we still don't have any of the cases linked
to this outbreak. There are individual cases every now and then,
and there always are in California. But linked to this,
they don't see anything.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
You know, with something this huge. It could have been
a farm with animal waste that washed in, yeah, which.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
We've seen with the Coali and things in the past.
The concern being that, you know, it seems like what
it's the lettuce. It normally comes back to California being
the central Valley, the salad bowl for the country, and
so there's no connection at this point to California in
that way other than that the lettuce industry is feeling
this and farmers are worried about that they're gonna have
all these heads of lettuce that people aren't buying because
(21:28):
they're staying away from buying it. It's mostly focused on
Michigan and Ohio, but it was it delivered from somewhere
else or was it a product maybe not even lettuce
that was grown in Michigan and Ohio or in that region,
And they haven't been able to pinpoint it yet.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
All right, Alex, thanks very much. I'm telling you stick
to me.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Sounds good toilet tonight MEA.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Eaters don't have these problems, but people still keep eating
vegetables and lettuce and things. No, I'm not eating lettuce now. Well,
there's stories uh in various news outlets. Uh. There's a
woman in uh, North Carolina, Adrian. She heard about this
lettuce issue and she purged her refrigerator because she and
(22:12):
her husband had about of an intestinal illness is the
way it's described. And she thinks it came from Romayne.
Hearts purchased, which is lettuce. I know, John, thanks, and
she goes on, I've avoided the produce section for now.
(22:33):
And when this happens, it kills thee because things like spinach,
for example, that's an optional food. There's no reason to
eat spinach optional. You can, you can, you can live
without spinach. Nobody has to eat it. And I uh
sometimes for those of you who don't know, Debbah is
(22:53):
one of those weirdo vegans, and she's really militant. I'm
not I don't care what you eat. I do me,
you do you. Outbreaks, which are eventually traced back to
a specific food, can drag down demand across the industry
(23:14):
for months. There was a famous case of E. Coli
outbreak with spinach back to two thousand and six, traced
to a single farm in California and spinach sales never
fully recovered. And I don't know if they meant never
fully recovered from that farm or never fully recovered for
twenty years in the whole spinach industry. It's not clear here.
(23:37):
And here's a woman, Katie Hanson in Missouri. She ate
a chicken bowl last week with lettuce and guacamole. On Saturday.
She had lower back pain, then diarrhea, chills, cramping in sweats.
She suspects it was triggered by her Mexican meal. I
don't eat chicken either. She's taken antibiotic and is feeling
(24:00):
better now. Antibiotics would affect you if you had bacteria.
They say that if you if you get this explosive
diarrhea situation, you take antibiotics and you will be okay.
But I'm reading this might be a parasite, which is
different than bacteria. I know, but they say that it's treated.
This is treated by antibiotics.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
There's Cater and Company in Michigan, and because they're catered
weddings in banquets, they got a lot of calls because
who wants have their wedding wiped out with this cyclosporiasis
I'd say no lettuce, no salads. One manager, Bob Halerback said,
(24:44):
a frantic bride called asking to change her salad to
a cooked vegetable side dish. Yeah that makes sense. Well, yeah,
the bride has a white dress and you just can't
afford to have explosive and you don't want your guess
to be in the bathroom. They they know their guests
are going to avoid it like the rest of us.
So uh, he's preparing a list of non lettuce alternatives.
(25:08):
Think beef. Beef is an excellent non let us alternative.
Have a keen was out? Keema has never been explained
to me. I'll tell you off the air, all right.
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(26:06):
By the way, if you do listen to the podcast,
we had a really interesting first hour. Had three guests
in and including Sheriff Alex Vanueva, who's running his former
sheriff and he's running again against Robert Luna, and he
and two women, Rachel Darvish who's a Palisades activist, and
(26:26):
Sheriff Scott Astroff, who's president of the Animal Rescue Mission.
They all toured They toured skid Rode today and they
have a lot of stuff to say about the whole
animal rights scam that goes on and also the homeless
(26:47):
industry scam that goes on. They have spent a lot
of time trying to figure out why it is, why
things are the way they are here now in California,
and it's all one big racket, and the politicians and
the nonprofits are all on the same side, divvying up
(27:09):
our tax money. And there is zero interest among these
animal nonprofits and homeless nonprofits to make anything better for
us or for the homeless or the animals, because if
they did that, then their industry would die and they
wouldn't be able to make their huge six figure salaries.
(27:31):
One of the most revealing moments, one of them said,
when you go when you go down to skid Row
and there's something called the Winegarten Company, and you know
they build homeless housing, Go there and count all the
Mercedes and the lexusus in the parking lot. That's what
it's about and why people are so This is one
(27:55):
of the things we discussed. You really should listen to
the whole hour on the podcast three o'clock hour. One
of the things we discuss, it's just how people just
don't want to believe it's this bad.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Maybe they don't care a loutum certainly don't know. Because
the juxtaposition between the voting patterns and the reality of
how this place is governed and the depth of the
corruption it is so enormous. It should be like ninety
(28:29):
nine to one to remove all these people, with the
one percent being those who are benefiting from the scam.
But it's not. We'll be talking a lot about that
in the next five months or so. Now. The chief
scammer is the California Governor, Gavin Newsom, and he's getting
(28:49):
investigated by the federal government. We've talked extensively about this,
and he went on a campaign blaming Trump, when in fact,
this came out of the Joe Biden administration dating back
to twenty twenty two. It was also instigated in part
by the Sacramento Irs Office, so this had nothing to
(29:12):
do with the Trump administration. However, Newsom's nonsense and propaganda
worked to some extent. He raised two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars in campaign donations. He has a political action
committee called Campaign for Democracy, and in the first two
(29:33):
weeks his political action committee and two other accounts made
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Now, there are corrupt
people who work for companies, who work as lobbyists, who
are looking for influence, and they're gonna donate to Newsom
(29:54):
no matter what because on the off chance he gets
in power, you know, they they want they want the
financial benefits, and this is how they supply kickbacks. You know,
if Newsom sends grant money your way running a homeless nonprofit,
(30:14):
that almost nonprofit is going to be sending money back
to Newsome in the form of campaign contribution. So it's this,
it's this circular cesspool. He's got fourteen and a half
million dollars to run for president, and his campaign has
(30:40):
actually spent a million and a half dollars to buy
his own book. You wonder how something like that piece
of trash can end up on a bestseller list. This
is how it's done. And they all do this. You
have political action committees, and you have political organizations buying
the books in bulk, and then they mail it to supporters,
(31:02):
and then they go around saying, well, you know, my
New York Times best selling book. It's a total racket.
Even the New York Times bestseller list is just fabricated nonsense.
But for the corrupt people in California, the well connected,
corrupt people, they're gonna give you to two hundred and
(31:23):
fifty thousand dollars anyway, So why not do it? In
response to his pleas that Trump is unfairly targeting him
in an investigation, all right, we come back. We're going
to talk to David Tangipa. We've had him on the
show number of times as a California assembly man. Yeah,
we're gonna be talking about another nonprofit that this is
(31:45):
really the story of the decade is the billions of
billions and billions of dollars going to nonprofits, politically connected ones,
especially when it comes to homelessness and and illegal aliens.
David Tangepa, California assemblyman, says, the Democrats raised taxes in
(32:09):
the middle of the night, and one of the benefits
was Surla Urla is that Hispanic civil rights organization that
spends a lot of money on illegal alien causes. They
instigated and started and staffed the Ice riots. We're gonna
talk to David Tangeepa when we come back. Deborah Mark
(32:31):
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