May 9, 2024 • 31 mins
Dave Packer comes on the show to talk about the latest developments in Trump's "Hush Money" trial. More on college protests. Blake Troli comes on the show to talk about the fire at Mike Thompson RVs in Sante Fe Springs. A new report from LA County says the death rate among homeless people is up 2%.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Hello,
and welcome to the show. And we have so many
things stacked up here. They're like planes stacked up at Lax.
So we're gonna we're gonna get right to it. First
thing up, there was another day of Trump and his trial.
(00:22):
Another day is stormy Daniels testimony, at least the first
half of the day. And let's go to Dave Packer,
ABC News reporting out of New York on the trial. Dave,
how are you.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yeah, we had another day, another stormy day in New York.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
But it's over.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
It's over now, finally passed the storms, the storms of
the past.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
She testified for all of the morning. They took a
break for lunch, and then a little bit after that
in Phils. He finally, after after testifying, cross examination and
redirect all of that all throughout the you know, her testimony,
there was some pretty aggressive questioning by Susan Necklace, who's
the one of the defense attorneys for Trump, and she
(01:10):
was Daniels oftentimes, you know, defiant in her responses. You know,
they were really trying to attack her credibility, basically saying
that you know, she she changed her story that she's
just in this for money. And then they talked about
how she was hawking merchandise online and you know, and
so this is this is kind of this back and forth.
(01:31):
Daniels didn't It's funny. At some times she seemed very forceful.
Other times she seemed like she was sort of on
the verge of tears. But I could imagine, you know,
this is sort of the the the crescendo of this,
you know, and a half long face.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, when you have a defense attorney across examining you
relentlessly down on you, after a while, it's you got
to feel like you're going to crack at some point, emotionally, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
And and so she finished her testimony and then the
Trump team they re reanimated her effort to get a mistrial,
and they've submitted that. And now so they broke at
four o'clock. They stopped witness testimony as the judge considers
this request. Again, this goes back to Tuesday's testimony, where
(02:17):
Stormy Daniels, understand was sort of making the implication that
the sexual tryst was not entirely consensual, and that she
sort of felt like she didn't have a choice, and
that the defense thought was, you know, a bridge too
far and sullied the reputation, if you will, former president
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at least in terms of this.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well yeah, I mean, I mean, she didn't quite come
out and say that, but that was I guess the
undertone of our testimony that she had blacked out, she
didn't know how she got there, and that.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
There was this power imbalance that you know, she she
was there, here's a guy who, you know, is this
celebt and at the time wasn't the president, but of
course he was, you know, a very rich man, and
there was security all outside the door, and she just
sort of didn't know what to do. And of course
the defense coming along and saying, well, hold on a second,
(03:13):
you're a porn star, aren't you sort of used to
this sort of thing. So that that's the kind of
testimony that was going back and forth.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Thought that hit me and maybe it's because OJ died
a few weeks ago, and so it was top of mind.
Is in the way that the OJ trial got derailed
and became a trial on Mark Furman for a while,
it seems like the.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Case about Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Making misapplying the entry into his business logs, calling it
a legal charge or a legal payment instead of a payout.
To store me Daniels that we've gotten derailed, and we
got on their bed, We got in the middle of
their tryst on the bed and this this really is
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not all that I realized. You have to set it
up right, you have to set up Okay, here was
the relationship, that's what led to the payment. But the
alleged crime is about the payment. It's not about how
they had sex and how they felt about it afterwards.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And I feel like it's just gotten off the rails.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, and there was there's always that danger. I mean,
the prosecution must have known that putting Stormy Daniels up
on the stand. I mean, you know, she's not an
expert on finance. She's an expert on something else, and
she's going to talk about what she knows, and that's
basically what she did up there. So the question is,
you know, it was too much to kind of set
that stage, like you're saying, you know, we started to
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know what happened. Yeah, you know, I don't know. They've
gone back, of course, you know now we've got medel
In Westerhouse, who was the gatekeeper for the president. She
was the last witness today before they adjourned the jury,
and she was talking about she saw checks going back
and forth that the president was signing.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
She was there seeing who was meeting.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
With the president. She had the short list of people
who were supposed to talk to the president, and Michael
Kohane was on that list. I think they're going to
want to get back to that, and certainly, you know,
but your point is definitely valid. I mean, how much
of that is relevant to the case. And maybe some
of that stuff, you know, turns off members of the jury.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well, it's kind of weird because the defense team is
asking one marich On for a mistrial now, and if
he granted a mistrial, he would be admitting an error.
I screwed up by allowing all this testimony into the
trial and not stopping it.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I think, yeah, well, I think that what he was
saying the first time they were calling for a mistrial,
he was saying, Look, it's your responsibility as a defense
to you know, object in court, and you certainly could
do that, and you didn't do that. And he sort
of kind of put it on them that that's what
they should have did. But you know, again, we're going
to have to see that if they have any new
(05:50):
arguments today for the mistrial, or if it's going to
be the same one they had on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
But this does give them a lot of material for
an appeal if he got convicted.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Absolutely, And you have to assume that this was going
to be appealed no matter what.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Right I mean, if if there was a guilty verdict.
I mean it right, Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You know, most appeals don't have any real, any real
point to them. It's appeal of just going through the motions.
But it looks like they they're building up a pretty
good case that the jury could have been inflamed by
describing Trump's sexual demeanor here.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, I think I think you're right.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
I think, you know, putting story on Daniels on the
on the stand, you're playing with fire, and.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
You know, she she's she just kind of went on.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Uh that, you know, very she talked very fast, She talked,
you know, very very explicitly about about what happened. And
you have to think that they must have had you know,
pre trial coaching and talking about how you know, what
was going to be set up there. I don't know
how much of it was unplanned or this is part
(06:56):
of their plan. I don't know, but you know, you
you know there's definitely a point to be made that
maybe it was too much.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
All right, Dave Packard, thanks very much, ABC News on
the Trump trial in New York City. I I just
I just couldn't help ye. I'm trying to like separate
and if you're going to look at this this trial fairly,
and most people are not going to there put aside
your feelings for Trump, whether you like him or not,
(07:22):
just look at look at the legal case here. It's
it's it's a paperwork crime, all right. He should have
written one thing to explain the one hundred and thirty
thousand dollars he paid to Michael Cohen, which was paid
to Stormy Daniel. He wrote another thing, and he wrote
it to cover it up, and that that is that
that's simply not a felony. And they made up this
(07:44):
pretext that well, he was trying to influence the election.
It's a federal election violation. No, it's not, all right.
He covered up a payment to a porn star because
it was a payment to a porn star, and so
otherwise the statute of limitations on the misdemeanor is gone.
(08:06):
It's already passed. The only reason they were allowed to
charge it is because they had to tie it to
a felony and not a state felony, a federal felony,
a federal election law violation that the federal government had
passed on. This is total nonsense. This is a total
political witch hunt. I think the sway Trump would put it,
(08:27):
and he's right on this. This this is a garbage trial.
But who knows what you get with the jury. Oj
got off. Ojai got off in part because judg Edo
was a weak judge and allowed the case to get
derailed and became a Mark Furman and merch On is
like a reincarnation of Edo, although I think Edo is
still alive, but it's the same thing. He's a weak judge,
(08:49):
talks tough to Trump, But when you've got a porn
star prattling on about a sex act she had with
Donald trump's completely irrelevant to what again, you have to
factually set up that. Okay, there wasn't a fair there
was a tryst, and that's why there was a reason
to pay her off. But once you've established that they
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were in the room together and they were up to
no good, now to go on and on for two days.
It's got nothing to do with what he filled out
on his business records. It doesn't. You wouldn't want to
be caught up in something like that where you put
the wrong notation in your checkbook and it turns into
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a federal felony because you're trying to cover up something
from your spouse.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's nonsense, all right. More coming up.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
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Speaker 1 (09:49):
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Tomorrow's the day. So we're taking last minute submissions here. Uh.
Some months ago, Uh, we talked about how a lot
of protesters and and not just with this Israeli Hamas war,
(10:10):
but just in general, all the woke protesters who are
screaming and ranting about whatever their issues are, whether it's race,
or it's gender, or it's climate change. What they all
have in common is what Michael Schellenberger and Christopher Ruffo,
and you should read their writings call the cluster B syndrome,
(10:33):
and cluster B is a collection of psychiatric disorders, uh,
psychiatric behaviors and conditions. And people who stand out in
public screaming incoherently shrieking about nonsense and and they're they're
wildly agitated. That is that's a mental disorder and it
(10:56):
comes look look up cluster B and UH and and
that kind of behavior. And an example of one of
one of the cluster B disorders is excessive narcissism. And
we're gonna play a clip here. This is a girl
at Princeton University, a student, and she's carrying on with
(11:17):
the other protesters against Israel, and they've gone on a
hunger strike. Now understand that these students decided to go
on a hunger strike right and until until Princeton divests
from Israel.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So what we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Play you is is really her narcissism and her Cluster
B personality disorder.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
See if you can believe what you're gonna.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Hear, this is absolutely upset my peers and I. We
are starving, we are physically exhausted.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I'm literally shaking right now. As you can see, we
are both cold and hot same time. We are all
im you know.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Compromised, and based on the university meeting yesterday with some
of our bargeting teams, they would love to continue physically.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Weakening us because they can't stand to say no to
unjust murder.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Sh they make drums, Todd drums.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
I'm all fair. I truly do not feel like I'm
doing anything special.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
This is my choice and I would not spend my birthday.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Doing anything other than being here and standing a solidarity with.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
You all, and standing a solidarity with our siblings.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
An innocent people in Gaza, DA.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Matter how physically weak, leave me united.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
We have never been stronger.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Hearts.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
What a bunch of losers, What a bunch of just psychas.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Okay, so we got this girl, and god, Princeton's expensive.
Maybe she's on a full scholarship. I don't know, but
hers her parents are probably throwing themselves into traffic. Now
in shame, she announces that she's chosen a hunger strike
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and says this is absolutely unfair. It's absolutely unfair that
she chose a hunger strike. It's the university's fault that
she's starving because they won't listen to her business advice
and divest their stocks and whatever companies do business with Israel,
(13:44):
so that's unfair. And then she says, my peers and
I we are starving. Well, then go and get something
to eat. What do you want anyone else to do?
You just announced that you chose, you chose willingly on
your birthday not to eat, and now you're starving.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
And she's immunal compromised, so probably not, she's probably not eating.
Doesn't make good for immunal compromise people. That was the
best immunal compromise. Now she's already immunal compermence. Well, she's
certainly mentally compromised. Or does she think the hunger is
making her immunal compromise, because yes, your immune system.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Takes a hit when you stop eating for days.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I mean, I'm listening to this. We are both hot
and cold at the same time. Go have a cheeseburger.
You'll feel better. Really, put down your Tom Tom drums
and go sit down at a restaurant and have a drink,
Have a few drinks. What a nitty How the hell
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they have no standards in the ivy leagues anymore. How
the hell does a bird brain bimbo like that get
into Princeton University. Really, how does that happen? She's screaming
that it's unfair that she's when she chose the hunger strike.
This is not something you could but do but stare
at him and shake your head. It's like, well, you're nuts.
(15:10):
They ought to get an ambulance and wrap her up
and take her away and lock her in a dark
room before she hurts yourself, we're all immune compromised. Based
on the university's meeting yesterday with some of our bargaining team,
our bargaining team, our bargaining team, they would love to
continually physically weakening us because they can't say no to
(15:33):
unjust murder.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I see.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
So anybody who doesn't do what you want them to
do is uh is physically weakening you. They're killing you.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
That is supremely manipulative.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And that's exactly the behavior of a toddler who says,
I'm gonna hold my breath and I'll until I turn
blue until you do what I say. Mommy, What the hell? Wow,
So you can go starve yourself to death? I mean
that's what she wants to do. Uh more, Coming up,
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Blake Trolley Mike Thompson's RV Superstore. Oh, you heard on
thousands of those commercials, many of them here in KFI
over the years. Well, they lost quite a few RVs
from a massive fire Santa Fe Springs. We're gonna talk
to Blake who's been on the scene. Blake Trolley from
KFI News.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
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Speaker 1 (16:37):
We're now going to talk with Blake Trolley. Big fire
last night. You probably have seen the video if you
watched any TV news and Santa Fe Springs, the famous
Mike Thompson's RV Superstore twelve thirty in the morning. Suddenly
fire broke out and it's consumed quite a few RVs.
And Blake's been there. How are you.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Hey, John?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Doing well?
Speaker 8 (17:01):
Yeah, a lot of RVs charred. In fact, this morning
I walked up against the fence line to this RV
park and it looked like a war zone. All these
RVs were just burnt to the ground, really just left
to a crisp. And when I spoke with the battalion
chief this morning with the Santa Fe Springs Fire Department,
he told me the chemicals that make up RVs are
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highly flammable, and that what they're suspecting is that this
fire began in one of the RVs and then just
spread to the others, and that firefighters were actually really
lucky in this situation, that the winds were really calm
this morning. The battalion chief told me this could have
been a much more serious situation if winds were blowing
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any harder than they were given the fact that there
was no wind. It took firefighters more than an hour
still to put out the fire, and this included an
aerial ladder to attack the fire. The battalion chief told
me he was working on this himself.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Do you have a clip here? Oh no, not of
the battalion chief.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
Sorry, that was just a wrap up, but yeah, I
get Oh I.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Thought you were leading into the battalion chief. Who's gonna
tell you how hard it was? That's okay. Well, what
I will no comment.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
That's well, what I will say is, you know, there
are some circumstances around this fire that investigators are looking into.
And one thing that we should mention is that somebody
was spotted on a surveillance camera before this fire. So
this took this broke out around twelve thirty this morning, because.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
They are just sitting there obviously uninhabited. So what would
cause a spontaneous combustion like that in the middle of
the night.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
Well, what I can tell you is that and we
can get into this. Let's start with this interview. This
time I will go to us to sound John. This
is Natalie Hacker. She's an executive assistant with the company.
But she told me and another manager on the scene
told me that just yesterday a homeless camp was cleared
near the RV park. Even this morning there were some
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homeless tents still really close to the RV park. This
RV park, the parking lot to this RV dealership backs
up to some train tracks and along those train tracks,
I was able to see two homeless tents, and I
guess there are some other ones that are right up
against the dealership. And Natalie Hacker, in fact, was telling
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me before we started the interview that people have been
have barbecued up against the fence with the RVs just
on the other side in the past.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And this would be County Land that or state Land.
I mean, who.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Santa Fe Springs is its own city, So I believe
they've reached out to the city of Santa Fe Springs.
But take a listen to this job. So I know yesterday, Well,
first of all, have you give us your name in title?
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Natalie Hacker, executive assistant.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
So I know yesterday that we're being told that yesterday
a homeless camp was cleared by law enforcement. What happened there?
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Yes, I'm not sure if it was law enforcement or
what jurisdiction it was. It appeared to be a hazmat
crew that cleared off the encampment right behind me. They
were there for quite a few hours in the morning
time and they left and haven't seen anything since.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
I know you say that you guys do have concerns.
I did see some remnants of a camp across the tracks.
You say, there's another one up against the the RV lot.
What over here on the other side of the property,
on the other side of.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
The property, there's actually homeless encounpments pretty much surrounding the well,
you know, on you know, behind the RV and on
on this side of the dealership. So there's always some concern.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
Yeah, you were saying a barbecue right up against the
property where.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
You have RVs.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Yes, So we are working on trying to stop that
as we speak.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Yes, that's got to be really concerning given the the
inventory here.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Oh, absolutely lot of money.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Have you guys reached out to the county or to
the city of Santa Fe Springs about this and if so,
what kind of action do they take?
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Yes, we have previously reached out to the city of
Santa Fe Springs about this, oh gosh, a few months ago,
and we planned to reach out again about the barbecuing
and cooking and anything that endangers the property.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
So you can see there was some sort of dialogue
that was already going on.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Like every other stupid city in La County, they don't
do anything about it. People wanted homeless people want a barbecue, Fine,
go ahead and barbecue.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh you start a big fire.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh well, I mean that's what almost brought down the
ten Freeway was a homeless campfire.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Yeah, and this can be really concerning, especially, I mean
as you hear the details there, it sounds like somebody
broke onto the property, So this could be an arson
case and John just maybe somebody I.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Was wanted revenge because they're the camp was broken up.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Well, I had that question in my head and I
heard that detail. But you know, there are a lot
of other businesses in the area. Santa Fe Springs has
a lot of industry. And today when I was moving
off the scene and driving back to the back to
the five Freeway, I was looking just outside the car
window and along those train tracks near a lot of
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these businesses.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
There's a much larger encampment.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
This is just down the road.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
A little ways. I saw a lot.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Of homeless people, a lot of tents set up this
So I'm wondering that the jurisdiction along the way, I
believe this would be the city of Santa Fe Springs.
I'm really curious to see exactly, you know, if they're
going to determine that this was somebody who broke onto
the property and you know, and started a fire. And
keep in mind, this is a huge blow to this
(22:50):
RV store. You know, these are covered by insurance, each
of these RVs, but think about this, in terms of sales,
these arevs cost anywhere between one hundred and a hundred
and eighty thousand dollars I was quoted today. Now they
are covered by insurance, but the problem is for this
company is they don't manufacture a lot of these, so
it's going to be really hard to replace that that inventory.
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They don't just print a bunch of RVs like pencils.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
You got any idea how many RVs are on the lot.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
A couple hundred, I would say a couple one hundred,
So this was probably And I saw one report. I
didn't get this update. I tried to get this update
that said twenty RVs. So I saw an updated number
about twenty, so i'd be about ten percent of the inventory.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah, no, that's bad. But again it's if what she's
saying is true. It's the idiots that run Santa Fe Springs,
unnamed idiots who they get a call saying, hey, we
got homeless people barbecuing. Police ought to be sent out immediately,
and those guys ought to be arrested and put in
jail and charged because there's way too many damaging fires
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coming out of these stupid barbecues. Or maybe it was arson,
maybe it was revenge. In any event, the police should
be showing up and clearing these people out immediately. They
should have twenty four hour sweeps going on to get
them all out away from the railroad tracks and no
more excuses that Blake. Thanks for coming on all right,
Thanks John, Blake Trolie with KFI News.
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Speaker 2 (24:20):
Coming up after two o'clock.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You know, these all these progressive experiments have got to
end and no further discussion because they're failures. And we're
going to talk about another failure coming up after two o'clock.
The You know, there was a teenager who got shot
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and killed at Washington Prep High School in South LA
a couple of weeks back, and it's because one of
the security guards that was assigned to the campus didn't
bother to intervene in a fight. In fact, there are
three security guards that did nothing. Parents are sick of
this security guard nonsense. They want armed police back on
(25:04):
the campuses. But part of the anti police, defund the
police movement is they got the cops off the campuses.
So at the bad schools, what do you think happened?
There's been more shootings, more students with guns, more stabbings,
more drugs. You can't live without police in cities like La.
It's impossible. You have you must have them otherwise, Yeah,
(25:27):
you're gonna get shootings and stabbings and deaths and drugs.
We're going to talk to the La La School Police
Association President Gil Gamez, who says flat out the experiment
didn't work. And we're going to talk about this because
a lot of parents are angry and upset. Normal people
want the police. Normal people want as much police as
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is necessary to keep things peaceful and safe. And it's
only these weird progressive fanatics who are really ruining, ruining everything,
and it's time. It's time to overwhelm them, overpower them.
We tried their experiments. Experiments are failures. They suck no good.
And another one of these experiments that have failed is
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indulging the homeless, having the vagrants live in the streets.
Because we've got a new new report from the La
County Health Department. This is Barbara Ferrer. I can't believe
Barbara Ferair still exists. How does he still exist? Good lord.
So they have a new death rate of homeless people
(26:38):
because homeless people don't live in the streets, they die
in the streets, and the death rate is up two percent.
Oh my god, these are all numbers twenty twenty two.
This is a new story that came out today. These
are there. This is the death rate in twenty twenty two.
(26:59):
How long does it take to count all the dead
bodies in the street? Does it really take two years? Anyway,
the death rate was up two percent, and they were
happy about it because the previous two years it had
gone up fifty six percent. And they go, well, it's plateauing.
It's platelling. Don't you now this? See the death rate
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is plateauing. It's getting better. It's like, wait a second,
you had over a fifty percent increase in two years
and it's still going up. Here's the leading cause of
death drug and alcohol overdose. Because why are people homeless
because there are drugs and alcohol? It's not because they
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it's not because a lack of housing in Los Angeles.
That's false. That's a lie. That's propaganda. It's nonsense. You
believe that you're brainwashed or you're stupid. I'll give you
the benefit of the doubt and say you were brainwashed
by some progressive It's it's false. Overdose is overwhelming. It's
the leading cause of death of men, women, white, Latino, black.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Homeless, all the homeless. Okay, so we've got diversity there.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Drugs and alcohol is killing homeless of all races and ethnicities.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
And sexualities.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Percentage of overdose deaths involving fentanyl rise rose in twenty
twenty two and proving another point while he was talking
about eight percent of deaths fourth leading cause transportation related injuries.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
What does that mean? They're run over by cars?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You know how they're trying to impose road diets in
the city of Los Angeles, calling out pedestrian deaths are
at an all time No, the homeless people keep getting
run over. Why because they're whacked out on drugs and alcohol,
so they stumble into the streets in the dark and
get run over, flattened, and they want they want road
diets on us, the rest of us who go to
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work every day. Now, all these people, I sound like
a broken record because I am all these people on drugs.
This is not my fault, This is not your fault,
It is not society's fault. It is their fault. They
took the drugs in the alcohol, and then we're being
beat on every day to give them a house. But
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they can't get a house until they get off the
drugs and alcohol. But they're not forced in treatment, so
they die in the streets, and then we're told it's
our fault.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
No, it's not. It's not.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
They might be able to get some kind of shelter
if they get off the drugs and alcohol. That's usually
one of the rules. This is just crazy. What are
they gonna give up on this? They're killing these we have,
Barbara fa Rare. She was prattling here. These are staggering
inequities and health outcomes between those who are housed and
those who are homeless. Inequity, yes, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
People who go.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
To work and pay for a house are going to
be in a better in a better healthy environment then
people who live out in the gutter and take drugs
all day. But the way she phrases it, it's our fault,
it's my fault, it's your fault.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
There's inequities. Yes, there's inequities.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Of course there is, because we are earning money and
we're trading the money for a house or an apartment.
They have chosen not to earn money or to take
their whatever government stipends they get and trade it in
for drugs and alcohol. Yes, we are going to live
healthier and they are not. It's nothing we can do
about it. We're busy working all day making money, and
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then we should be able to spend it on ourselves.
I don't want to spend it on them. I don't
We've given them enough, hasn't worked. All this stuff doesn't work.
Aren't we come back another thing that didn't work? Who's
never going to work? Taking the police off LAUSD campuses
(31:04):
had a death last week, a few week, a couple
of weeks ago, out of school, and a lot of
parents are saying, bring the cops back. Yeah, armed police,
no ambassadors, no security guards, police guys with uniforms and
guns who are trained to deal with bad guys. That's
next coming up, We're going to talk with the Gilkmanz,
the LA School I'm sorry, the LA School Police Association President,
(31:29):
and we got Deborah Mark live in the KFI twenty
for our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John
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You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Hello,
and welcome to the show. And we have so many
things stacked up here. They're like planes stacked up at Lax.
So we're gonna we're gonna get right to it. First
thing up, there was another day of Trump and his trial.
(00:22):
Another day is stormy Daniels testimony, at least the first
half of the day. And let's go to Dave Packer,
ABC News reporting out of New York on the trial. Dave,
how are you.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yeah, we had another day, another stormy day in New York.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
But it's over.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
It's over now, finally passed the storms, the storms of
the past.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
She testified for all of the morning. They took a
break for lunch, and then a little bit after that
in Phils. He finally, after after testifying, cross examination and
redirect all of that all throughout the you know, her testimony,
there was some pretty aggressive questioning by Susan Necklace, who's
the one of the defense attorneys for Trump, and she
(01:10):
was Daniels oftentimes, you know, defiant in her responses. You know,
they were really trying to attack her credibility, basically saying
that you know, she she changed her story that she's
just in this for money. And then they talked about
how she was hawking merchandise online and you know, and
so this is this is kind of this back and forth.
(01:31):
Daniels didn't It's funny. At some times she seemed very forceful.
Other times she seemed like she was sort of on
the verge of tears. But I could imagine, you know,
this is sort of the the the crescendo of this,
you know, and a half long face.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, when you have a defense attorney across examining you
relentlessly down on you, after a while, it's you got
to feel like you're going to crack at some point, emotionally, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
And and so she finished her testimony and then the
Trump team they re reanimated her effort to get a mistrial,
and they've submitted that. And now so they broke at
four o'clock. They stopped witness testimony as the judge considers
this request. Again, this goes back to Tuesday's testimony, where
(02:17):
Stormy Daniels, understand was sort of making the implication that
the sexual tryst was not entirely consensual, and that she
sort of felt like she didn't have a choice, and
that the defense thought was, you know, a bridge too
far and sullied the reputation, if you will, former president
(02:38):
at least in terms of this.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well yeah, I mean, I mean, she didn't quite come
out and say that, but that was I guess the
undertone of our testimony that she had blacked out, she
didn't know how she got there, and that.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
There was this power imbalance that you know, she she
was there, here's a guy who, you know, is this
celebt and at the time wasn't the president, but of
course he was, you know, a very rich man, and
there was security all outside the door, and she just
sort of didn't know what to do. And of course
the defense coming along and saying, well, hold on a second,
(03:13):
you're a porn star, aren't you sort of used to
this sort of thing. So that that's the kind of
testimony that was going back and forth.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Thought that hit me and maybe it's because OJ died
a few weeks ago, and so it was top of mind.
Is in the way that the OJ trial got derailed
and became a trial on Mark Furman for a while,
it seems like the.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Case about Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Making misapplying the entry into his business logs, calling it
a legal charge or a legal payment instead of a payout.
To store me Daniels that we've gotten derailed, and we
got on their bed, We got in the middle of
their tryst on the bed and this this really is
(03:55):
not all that I realized. You have to set it
up right, you have to set up Okay, here was
the relationship, that's what led to the payment. But the
alleged crime is about the payment. It's not about how
they had sex and how they felt about it afterwards.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And I feel like it's just gotten off the rails.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, and there was there's always that danger. I mean,
the prosecution must have known that putting Stormy Daniels up
on the stand. I mean, you know, she's not an
expert on finance. She's an expert on something else, and
she's going to talk about what she knows, and that's
basically what she did up there. So the question is,
you know, it was too much to kind of set
that stage, like you're saying, you know, we started to
(04:34):
know what happened. Yeah, you know, I don't know. They've
gone back, of course, you know now we've got medel
In Westerhouse, who was the gatekeeper for the president. She
was the last witness today before they adjourned the jury,
and she was talking about she saw checks going back
and forth that the president was signing.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
She was there seeing who was meeting.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
With the president. She had the short list of people
who were supposed to talk to the president, and Michael
Kohane was on that list. I think they're going to
want to get back to that, and certainly, you know,
but your point is definitely valid. I mean, how much
of that is relevant to the case. And maybe some
of that stuff, you know, turns off members of the jury.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well, it's kind of weird because the defense team is
asking one marich On for a mistrial now, and if
he granted a mistrial, he would be admitting an error.
I screwed up by allowing all this testimony into the
trial and not stopping it.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I think, yeah, well, I think that what he was
saying the first time they were calling for a mistrial,
he was saying, Look, it's your responsibility as a defense
to you know, object in court, and you certainly could
do that, and you didn't do that. And he sort
of kind of put it on them that that's what
they should have did. But you know, again, we're going
to have to see that if they have any new
(05:50):
arguments today for the mistrial, or if it's going to
be the same one they had on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
But this does give them a lot of material for
an appeal if he got convicted.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Absolutely, And you have to assume that this was going
to be appealed no matter what.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Right I mean, if if there was a guilty verdict.
I mean it right, Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You know, most appeals don't have any real, any real
point to them. It's appeal of just going through the motions.
But it looks like they they're building up a pretty
good case that the jury could have been inflamed by
describing Trump's sexual demeanor here.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, I think I think you're right.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
I think, you know, putting story on Daniels on the
on the stand, you're playing with fire, and.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
You know, she she's she just kind of went on.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Uh that, you know, very she talked very fast, She talked,
you know, very very explicitly about about what happened. And
you have to think that they must have had you know,
pre trial coaching and talking about how you know, what
was going to be set up there. I don't know
how much of it was unplanned or this is part
(06:56):
of their plan. I don't know, but you know, you
you know there's definitely a point to be made that
maybe it was too much.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
All right, Dave Packard, thanks very much, ABC News on
the Trump trial in New York City. I I just
I just couldn't help ye. I'm trying to like separate
and if you're going to look at this this trial fairly,
and most people are not going to there put aside
your feelings for Trump, whether you like him or not,
(07:22):
just look at look at the legal case here. It's
it's it's a paperwork crime, all right. He should have
written one thing to explain the one hundred and thirty
thousand dollars he paid to Michael Cohen, which was paid
to Stormy Daniel. He wrote another thing, and he wrote
it to cover it up, and that that is that
that's simply not a felony. And they made up this
(07:44):
pretext that well, he was trying to influence the election.
It's a federal election violation. No, it's not, all right.
He covered up a payment to a porn star because
it was a payment to a porn star, and so
otherwise the statute of limitations on the misdemeanor is gone.
(08:06):
It's already passed. The only reason they were allowed to
charge it is because they had to tie it to
a felony and not a state felony, a federal felony,
a federal election law violation that the federal government had
passed on. This is total nonsense. This is a total
political witch hunt. I think the sway Trump would put it,
(08:27):
and he's right on this. This this is a garbage trial.
But who knows what you get with the jury. Oj
got off. Ojai got off in part because judg Edo
was a weak judge and allowed the case to get
derailed and became a Mark Furman and merch On is
like a reincarnation of Edo, although I think Edo is
still alive, but it's the same thing. He's a weak judge,
(08:49):
talks tough to Trump, But when you've got a porn
star prattling on about a sex act she had with
Donald trump's completely irrelevant to what again, you have to
factually set up that. Okay, there wasn't a fair there
was a tryst, and that's why there was a reason
to pay her off. But once you've established that they
(09:10):
were in the room together and they were up to
no good, now to go on and on for two days.
It's got nothing to do with what he filled out
on his business records. It doesn't. You wouldn't want to
be caught up in something like that where you put
the wrong notation in your checkbook and it turns into
(09:34):
a federal felony because you're trying to cover up something
from your spouse.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's nonsense, all right. More coming up.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
If you want to get on the moist line eight
seven seven Moist eighty six, eight seven seven Moist eighty six.
Tomorrow's the day. So we're taking last minute submissions here. Uh.
Some months ago, Uh, we talked about how a lot
of protesters and and not just with this Israeli Hamas war,
(10:10):
but just in general, all the woke protesters who are
screaming and ranting about whatever their issues are, whether it's race,
or it's gender, or it's climate change. What they all
have in common is what Michael Schellenberger and Christopher Ruffo,
and you should read their writings call the cluster B syndrome,
(10:33):
and cluster B is a collection of psychiatric disorders, uh,
psychiatric behaviors and conditions. And people who stand out in
public screaming incoherently shrieking about nonsense and and they're they're
wildly agitated. That is that's a mental disorder and it
(10:56):
comes look look up cluster B and UH and and
that kind of behavior. And an example of one of
one of the cluster B disorders is excessive narcissism. And
we're gonna play a clip here. This is a girl
at Princeton University, a student, and she's carrying on with
(11:17):
the other protesters against Israel, and they've gone on a
hunger strike. Now understand that these students decided to go
on a hunger strike right and until until Princeton divests
from Israel.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So what we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Play you is is really her narcissism and her Cluster
B personality disorder.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
See if you can believe what you're gonna.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Hear, this is absolutely upset my peers and I. We
are starving, we are physically exhausted.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I'm literally shaking right now. As you can see, we
are both cold and hot same time. We are all
im you know.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Compromised, and based on the university meeting yesterday with some
of our bargeting teams, they would love to continue physically.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Weakening us because they can't stand to say no to
unjust murder.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Sh they make drums, Todd drums.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
I'm all fair. I truly do not feel like I'm
doing anything special.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
This is my choice and I would not spend my birthday.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Doing anything other than being here and standing a solidarity with.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
You all, and standing a solidarity with our siblings.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
An innocent people in Gaza, DA.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Matter how physically weak, leave me united.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
We have never been stronger.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Hearts.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
What a bunch of losers, What a bunch of just psychas.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Okay, so we got this girl, and god, Princeton's expensive.
Maybe she's on a full scholarship. I don't know, but
hers her parents are probably throwing themselves into traffic. Now
in shame, she announces that she's chosen a hunger strike
(13:23):
and says this is absolutely unfair. It's absolutely unfair that
she chose a hunger strike. It's the university's fault that
she's starving because they won't listen to her business advice
and divest their stocks and whatever companies do business with Israel,
(13:44):
so that's unfair. And then she says, my peers and
I we are starving. Well, then go and get something
to eat. What do you want anyone else to do?
You just announced that you chose, you chose willingly on
your birthday not to eat, and now you're starving.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
And she's immunal compromised, so probably not, she's probably not eating.
Doesn't make good for immunal compromise people. That was the
best immunal compromise. Now she's already immunal compermence. Well, she's
certainly mentally compromised. Or does she think the hunger is
making her immunal compromise, because yes, your immune system.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Takes a hit when you stop eating for days.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I mean, I'm listening to this. We are both hot
and cold at the same time. Go have a cheeseburger.
You'll feel better. Really, put down your Tom Tom drums
and go sit down at a restaurant and have a drink,
Have a few drinks. What a nitty How the hell
(14:47):
they have no standards in the ivy leagues anymore. How
the hell does a bird brain bimbo like that get
into Princeton University. Really, how does that happen? She's screaming
that it's unfair that she's when she chose the hunger strike.
This is not something you could but do but stare
at him and shake your head. It's like, well, you're nuts.
(15:10):
They ought to get an ambulance and wrap her up
and take her away and lock her in a dark
room before she hurts yourself, we're all immune compromised. Based
on the university's meeting yesterday with some of our bargaining team,
our bargaining team, our bargaining team, they would love to
continually physically weakening us because they can't say no to
(15:33):
unjust murder.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I see.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
So anybody who doesn't do what you want them to
do is uh is physically weakening you. They're killing you.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
That is supremely manipulative.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And that's exactly the behavior of a toddler who says,
I'm gonna hold my breath and I'll until I turn
blue until you do what I say. Mommy, What the hell? Wow,
So you can go starve yourself to death? I mean
that's what she wants to do. Uh more, Coming up,
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Blake Trolley Mike Thompson's RV Superstore. Oh, you heard on
thousands of those commercials, many of them here in KFI
over the years. Well, they lost quite a few RVs
from a massive fire Santa Fe Springs. We're gonna talk
to Blake who's been on the scene. Blake Trolley from
KFI News.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
We're now going to talk with Blake Trolley. Big fire
last night. You probably have seen the video if you
watched any TV news and Santa Fe Springs, the famous
Mike Thompson's RV Superstore twelve thirty in the morning. Suddenly
fire broke out and it's consumed quite a few RVs.
And Blake's been there. How are you.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Hey, John?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Doing well?
Speaker 8 (17:01):
Yeah, a lot of RVs charred. In fact, this morning
I walked up against the fence line to this RV
park and it looked like a war zone. All these
RVs were just burnt to the ground, really just left
to a crisp. And when I spoke with the battalion
chief this morning with the Santa Fe Springs Fire Department,
he told me the chemicals that make up RVs are
(17:22):
highly flammable, and that what they're suspecting is that this
fire began in one of the RVs and then just
spread to the others, and that firefighters were actually really
lucky in this situation, that the winds were really calm
this morning. The battalion chief told me this could have
been a much more serious situation if winds were blowing
(17:43):
any harder than they were given the fact that there
was no wind. It took firefighters more than an hour
still to put out the fire, and this included an
aerial ladder to attack the fire. The battalion chief told
me he was working on this himself.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Do you have a clip here? Oh no, not of
the battalion chief.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
Sorry, that was just a wrap up, but yeah, I
get Oh I.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Thought you were leading into the battalion chief. Who's gonna
tell you how hard it was? That's okay. Well, what
I will no comment.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
That's well, what I will say is, you know, there
are some circumstances around this fire that investigators are looking into.
And one thing that we should mention is that somebody
was spotted on a surveillance camera before this fire. So
this took this broke out around twelve thirty this morning, because.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
They are just sitting there obviously uninhabited. So what would
cause a spontaneous combustion like that in the middle of
the night.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
Well, what I can tell you is that and we
can get into this. Let's start with this interview. This
time I will go to us to sound John. This
is Natalie Hacker. She's an executive assistant with the company.
But she told me and another manager on the scene
told me that just yesterday a homeless camp was cleared
near the RV park. Even this morning there were some
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homeless tents still really close to the RV park. This
RV park, the parking lot to this RV dealership backs
up to some train tracks and along those train tracks,
I was able to see two homeless tents, and I
guess there are some other ones that are right up
against the dealership. And Natalie Hacker, in fact, was telling
(19:28):
me before we started the interview that people have been
have barbecued up against the fence with the RVs just
on the other side in the past.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And this would be County Land that or state Land.
I mean, who.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Santa Fe Springs is its own city, So I believe
they've reached out to the city of Santa Fe Springs.
But take a listen to this job. So I know yesterday, Well,
first of all, have you give us your name in title?
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Natalie Hacker, executive assistant.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
So I know yesterday that we're being told that yesterday
a homeless camp was cleared by law enforcement. What happened there?
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Yes, I'm not sure if it was law enforcement or
what jurisdiction it was. It appeared to be a hazmat
crew that cleared off the encampment right behind me. They
were there for quite a few hours in the morning
time and they left and haven't seen anything since.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
I know you say that you guys do have concerns.
I did see some remnants of a camp across the tracks.
You say, there's another one up against the the RV lot.
What over here on the other side of the property,
on the other side of.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
The property, there's actually homeless encounpments pretty much surrounding the well,
you know, on you know, behind the RV and on
on this side of the dealership. So there's always some concern.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
Yeah, you were saying a barbecue right up against the
property where.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
You have RVs.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Yes, So we are working on trying to stop that
as we speak.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Yes, that's got to be really concerning given the the
inventory here.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Oh, absolutely lot of money.
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Have you guys reached out to the county or to
the city of Santa Fe Springs about this and if so,
what kind of action do they take?
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Yes, we have previously reached out to the city of
Santa Fe Springs about this, oh gosh, a few months ago,
and we planned to reach out again about the barbecuing
and cooking and anything that endangers the property.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
So you can see there was some sort of dialogue
that was already going on.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Like every other stupid city in La County, they don't
do anything about it. People wanted homeless people want a barbecue, Fine,
go ahead and barbecue.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh you start a big fire.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh well, I mean that's what almost brought down the
ten Freeway was a homeless campfire.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Yeah, and this can be really concerning, especially, I mean
as you hear the details there, it sounds like somebody
broke onto the property, So this could be an arson
case and John just maybe somebody I.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Was wanted revenge because they're the camp was broken up.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Well, I had that question in my head and I
heard that detail. But you know, there are a lot
of other businesses in the area. Santa Fe Springs has
a lot of industry. And today when I was moving
off the scene and driving back to the back to
the five Freeway, I was looking just outside the car
window and along those train tracks near a lot of
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these businesses.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
There's a much larger encampment.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
This is just down the road.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
A little ways. I saw a lot.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Of homeless people, a lot of tents set up this
So I'm wondering that the jurisdiction along the way, I
believe this would be the city of Santa Fe Springs.
I'm really curious to see exactly, you know, if they're
going to determine that this was somebody who broke onto
the property and you know, and started a fire. And
keep in mind, this is a huge blow to this
(22:50):
RV store. You know, these are covered by insurance, each
of these RVs, but think about this, in terms of sales,
these arevs cost anywhere between one hundred and a hundred
and eighty thousand dollars I was quoted today. Now they
are covered by insurance, but the problem is for this
company is they don't manufacture a lot of these, so
it's going to be really hard to replace that that inventory.
(23:12):
They don't just print a bunch of RVs like pencils.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
You got any idea how many RVs are on the lot.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
A couple hundred, I would say a couple one hundred,
So this was probably And I saw one report. I
didn't get this update. I tried to get this update
that said twenty RVs. So I saw an updated number
about twenty, so i'd be about ten percent of the inventory.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah, no, that's bad. But again it's if what she's
saying is true. It's the idiots that run Santa Fe Springs,
unnamed idiots who they get a call saying, hey, we
got homeless people barbecuing. Police ought to be sent out immediately,
and those guys ought to be arrested and put in
jail and charged because there's way too many damaging fires
(23:53):
coming out of these stupid barbecues. Or maybe it was arson,
maybe it was revenge. In any event, the police should
be showing up and clearing these people out immediately. They
should have twenty four hour sweeps going on to get
them all out away from the railroad tracks and no
more excuses that Blake. Thanks for coming on all right,
Thanks John, Blake Trolie with KFI News.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Coming up after two o'clock.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You know, these all these progressive experiments have got to
end and no further discussion because they're failures. And we're
going to talk about another failure coming up after two o'clock.
The You know, there was a teenager who got shot
(24:42):
and killed at Washington Prep High School in South LA
a couple of weeks back, and it's because one of
the security guards that was assigned to the campus didn't
bother to intervene in a fight. In fact, there are
three security guards that did nothing. Parents are sick of
this security guard nonsense. They want armed police back on
(25:04):
the campuses. But part of the anti police, defund the
police movement is they got the cops off the campuses.
So at the bad schools, what do you think happened?
There's been more shootings, more students with guns, more stabbings,
more drugs. You can't live without police in cities like La.
It's impossible. You have you must have them otherwise, Yeah,
(25:27):
you're gonna get shootings and stabbings and deaths and drugs.
We're going to talk to the La La School Police
Association President Gil Gamez, who says flat out the experiment
didn't work. And we're going to talk about this because
a lot of parents are angry and upset. Normal people
want the police. Normal people want as much police as
(25:51):
is necessary to keep things peaceful and safe. And it's
only these weird progressive fanatics who are really ruining, ruining everything,
and it's time. It's time to overwhelm them, overpower them.
We tried their experiments. Experiments are failures. They suck no good.
And another one of these experiments that have failed is
(26:14):
indulging the homeless, having the vagrants live in the streets.
Because we've got a new new report from the La
County Health Department. This is Barbara Ferrer. I can't believe
Barbara Ferair still exists. How does he still exist? Good lord.
So they have a new death rate of homeless people
(26:38):
because homeless people don't live in the streets, they die
in the streets, and the death rate is up two percent.
Oh my god, these are all numbers twenty twenty two.
This is a new story that came out today. These
are there. This is the death rate in twenty twenty two.
(26:59):
How long does it take to count all the dead
bodies in the street? Does it really take two years? Anyway,
the death rate was up two percent, and they were
happy about it because the previous two years it had
gone up fifty six percent. And they go, well, it's plateauing.
It's platelling. Don't you now this? See the death rate
(27:20):
is plateauing. It's getting better. It's like, wait a second,
you had over a fifty percent increase in two years
and it's still going up. Here's the leading cause of
death drug and alcohol overdose. Because why are people homeless
because there are drugs and alcohol? It's not because they
(27:41):
it's not because a lack of housing in Los Angeles.
That's false. That's a lie. That's propaganda. It's nonsense. You
believe that you're brainwashed or you're stupid. I'll give you
the benefit of the doubt and say you were brainwashed
by some progressive It's it's false. Overdose is overwhelming. It's
the leading cause of death of men, women, white, Latino, black.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Homeless, all the homeless. Okay, so we've got diversity there.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Drugs and alcohol is killing homeless of all races and ethnicities.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
And sexualities.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Percentage of overdose deaths involving fentanyl rise rose in twenty
twenty two and proving another point while he was talking
about eight percent of deaths fourth leading cause transportation related injuries.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
What does that mean? They're run over by cars?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You know how they're trying to impose road diets in
the city of Los Angeles, calling out pedestrian deaths are
at an all time No, the homeless people keep getting
run over. Why because they're whacked out on drugs and alcohol,
so they stumble into the streets in the dark and
get run over, flattened, and they want they want road
diets on us, the rest of us who go to
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work every day. Now, all these people, I sound like
a broken record because I am all these people on drugs.
This is not my fault, This is not your fault,
It is not society's fault. It is their fault. They
took the drugs in the alcohol, and then we're being
beat on every day to give them a house. But
(29:27):
they can't get a house until they get off the
drugs and alcohol. But they're not forced in treatment, so
they die in the streets, and then we're told it's
our fault.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
No, it's not. It's not.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
They might be able to get some kind of shelter
if they get off the drugs and alcohol. That's usually
one of the rules. This is just crazy. What are
they gonna give up on this? They're killing these we have,
Barbara fa Rare. She was prattling here. These are staggering
inequities and health outcomes between those who are housed and
those who are homeless. Inequity, yes, no kidding.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
People who go.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
To work and pay for a house are going to
be in a better in a better healthy environment then
people who live out in the gutter and take drugs
all day. But the way she phrases it, it's our fault,
it's my fault, it's your fault.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
There's inequities. Yes, there's inequities.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Of course there is, because we are earning money and
we're trading the money for a house or an apartment.
They have chosen not to earn money or to take
their whatever government stipends they get and trade it in
for drugs and alcohol. Yes, we are going to live
healthier and they are not. It's nothing we can do
about it. We're busy working all day making money, and
(30:44):
then we should be able to spend it on ourselves.
I don't want to spend it on them. I don't
We've given them enough, hasn't worked. All this stuff doesn't work.
Aren't we come back another thing that didn't work? Who's
never going to work? Taking the police off LAUSD campuses
(31:04):
had a death last week, a few week, a couple
of weeks ago, out of school, and a lot of
parents are saying, bring the cops back. Yeah, armed police,
no ambassadors, no security guards, police guys with uniforms and
guns who are trained to deal with bad guys. That's
next coming up, We're going to talk with the Gilkmanz,
the LA School I'm sorry, the LA School Police Association President,
(31:29):
and we got Deborah Mark live in the KFI twenty
for our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John
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