October 1, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (10/01) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about the US government shutting down. More on the US government shutdown. More on the Iowa school superintendent who was arrested by ICE. The Brentwood Sinclair gas station dinosaur was stolen!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We are on every
day from one to four o'clock. After four o'clock it's
John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app, so
you can listen to what you missed. One thing you
should hear when we run it. At two o'clock, we
are going to talk to the Oklahoma Governor, Kevin Stitt.
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And you're probably saying, why is this. Well, Kevin Stitt
is coming to Los Angeles and he and others in
his party are going to be giving a presentation at
to Los Angeles Athletic Club on Friday morning, and it's
about luring California businesses to Oklahoma. And this is a
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big deal. This is happening all over the state, not
just Oklahoma obviously, but to Texas and Florida and Arizona,
Nevada and Oklahoma wants in on it. Already been getting
contacted by California businesses for quite some time. We lose
we have lost thousands and thousands of businesses here in
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California over the last ten years. The business situation in
this state outside of the mega tech companies is dire
and they are leaving. And we're going to talk to
Kevin Stitt coming up after two o'clock, and so you
could see what Oklahoma is offering and compare it to
what the back of the hand that businesses get from
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the news of administration, and which state do you think
is going to be in a better place in the
next five to ten years. But first, Alex Stone government shutdown,
and there is a whole lot that affects us know
on the first day of a shutdown. Although Deborah when
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yesterday when she heard the story, the first thing that
Debora wanted to know is what about the airline? What
about the TSA? And that's what Alex Stone is going
to tell us. Now, how is this going to affect
air travel? Well, yeah, so basically in the short term,
nothing when it comes to flying, But it depends on
how long this goes on. The TSA and FAA employees
are told that they still have jobs, and they have
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that job, they've got to show up for work, but
they're not going to get paid when the I guess
it would be this Friday and around the fifteenth when
their paydays would come. If the shutdown is still underway,
and we know in the last hour so there's been
some cracks among Democrats that maybe they're a little bit
closer to a deal, but but they've still failed on one.
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So the TSA says they've got fifty eight thousand of
their sixty one thousand workers who are considered to be
essential and they've got to come to work. But the
problem is if the shutdown drags on, people stop showing up,
they start calling in sick because they can't pay their
bills and they've got to have childcare and everything else.
So on day one, the TSA officers and the air
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traffic controllers are on the job. By day thirty, that
would be a totally different thing. Johnny Jones, he's a
TSA officer. He says, you can only go so long
without a paycheck that they want to work, but their
mind is somewhere else dealing with paying bills, and they
just can't pay the bills. Childcare does not take IOUs,
Gasoline does not take IOUs.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Your house payments do not take IOUs.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
And sometimes it becomes very difficult to maintain focused on
the mission whenever you're trying to figure out how you're
going to get to it. From work, and so that's
the thing John. In the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen shutdown
went on for thirty five days, longest in history, and
TSA officers began as the days went on. First couple
of days, no problem, but then they began calling out
sick and that led to long security checkpoint lines. Air
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traffic controllers they began calling out sick at the big
ATC centers that then created ground stops. In fact, the
air traffic controllers were credited with ending that shutdown because
once flights in New York and Florida were grounded because
they didn't have enough controllers. President Trump essentially ordered that
it be over and a deal was made and the
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shutdown ended. This woman flying out of Columbus, Ohio today,
she says that's what she worries about.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You can only ask people to do so much genuinely,
even if a service is very important. People are only
going to do things out of the goodness of their
heart for so long. And I'm, you know, genuinely worried
about what's going to happen in the future when air
traffic controllers decide like, no, I can't do this anymore,
when you know, even the TSA agents decide like, hey,
I need to be paid, so yeah, I am pretty
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worried about like flying in and out for now.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
And this guy also flying today, has a message for
lawmakers to get it over with. At the lowest level,
we know what to do. We know our job, We
do our job every day. Please do your job, so
you know everything today is going to be normal at airports.
But the longer it goes on, little by little, they
should declare air traffic controllers and TSA agents as essential. Well,
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they owe them, but well yeah, then yeah, yeah, they're
essential in the in the sense that they're being told
they got to come to work, but they're not getting paid. Yeah,
but you don't want grumpy, antagonized air traffic controllers or
no or distracted where they're thinking, how are you know
their child is at home alone right now, and how
are they gonna or they're hung gas And these aren't workers,
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especially the TSA officers. They're not making a ton of money,
so it's not like they have a lot of money
to live off of when they're not getting paid. So
very quickly you've got people who can't pay for gas,
who can't pay for food, and then they got to
go find another job or stay home with the kids.
They're hungry, they're distracted, they don't notice the guns or
the bombs being smuggled onto the planes anymore, or they
just don't care in general. You know, at the point
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where you're not getting paid, you're like, you're not not
like you're going to let a bomb go through. But still,
if you're not paying as much attention, well then yeah.
And then the air traffic controllers, a lot of them
seem to be having enough trouble these days. Well yeah,
you're reported on a lot of that. Yeah, so all right,
very good, thank you, you got it. Thanks John. All right,
that they should be paying the air traffic.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I told you that the other day, John, I warned you,
and you pooh poohed it.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You were okay, you were right. I was wrong?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Oh, thank you. Yes, yes, dear, Yeah, well that's youruth.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It didn't occur to me that they wouldn't be Oh,
it's truth. It didn't occur to me that that they
wouldn't be essential enough to pay during a shutdown.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yes, can you believe that?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
I think we went through that the last government shutdown,
and everybody's worried because everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Look, we're coming.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
We're it's the holidays are right around the corner. Lots
of people are going to be traveling.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
This isn't good because you know those those you've seen
some of the some of them.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
There is not a government shutdown.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
This isn't good. You you tapped into one of your
great one of your great fears.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Absolutely, yeah. I see some of these people and I
just really really.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
There.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Those people are keeping us from getting blown up.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Yeah, a lot of them aren't even paying attention.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
No, when we come back, why is the government shut down?
I'll explain this to you. It's actually more trivial than
you can imagine.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
We just had Alex Stone on because there seems to
be one thing that jumps to mind, well to Debor's
mind immediately in yours, Yes, the government shut down? Is
that going to shut down the airports or is that gonna?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I think that seriously should get a pass.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Most people should be paid because we're putting way too
many people at risk.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
TSA workers have to show up, but they're not getting paid.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Well, I'm not going to show up if I'm not
going to get paid.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And air traffic controllers have to show up, but they're
not getting paid. Yeah, and we've got fifty eight thousand
TSA employees, thirteen thousand air traffic controllers, and you know,
as Alex was saying, not everybody's got a month's worth
of savings. Not to mention, you have to deal with
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the childcare issues for example. It's it's this is because
cause you know, people are going to stop showing up
for work and there's not going to be a backup
staff to They're already way short on the night. This
happened back twenty seven years ago, twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen,
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thirty five days and TSA officers started calling out because
of financial problems. TSA lines closed, longer lines, air traffic
controllers started calling out sick, New York, Washington, Jacksonville. There
was a ground stop at LaGuardia Airport. That means all
the planes were not allowed to land or or or leave.
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Flight delays, especially in New York and Florida, and that
is what triggered the end of the shutdown. Trump finally
insisted that a deal be made, and a deal was made,
and Bernie Sanders credited the air traffic controllers with ending it. Now,
why they're at it, impass this is this is not
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this is not the biggest issue in the world. They
passed a bill that both sides agreed on, and the
Republicans want that deal to be extended for seven more weeks,
right with the country's obviously obviously been operating on a
specific budget for the last I don't know how many
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months because of this deal. And the Republicans say, you
know what, we need seven weeks more of negotiating time
to create the new deal. And it's apparently twelve separate
bills that can prize the budget. And because they're always
slow and because they're always inefficient, they couldn't get the
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twelve bills done for the deadline yesterday, September thirtieth, which
is the end of the fiscal year. So the Republican said,
let's extend the current terms seven more weeks, no increases,
no cuts. Democrats said, no, that's a simple way to
explain it. The Democrats then said, well, yes, maybe if
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and they had some demands, and the main demand centers
around benefits that were dramatically increased during COVID. You probably
don't know this, but COVID, well you probably know that
COVID unleashed trillions of dollars of extra spending, right, I mean,
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they went crazy, supposedly to prop up the economy. They
poured extra money into healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid, all that stuff.
They never they never ended those programs. Spending went from
four trillion to seven trillion like that. And so the
Republican said, it's like, okay, how about we put an
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end to these COVID spending programs. And the Democrats said no,
and Republicans said, well, you got to be kidding. No,
they're serious. They want some of the programs extended. And
it's complicated, stuff like Obamacare subsidies. Obamacare, whether you liked
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it or not, has a lot of problems when it
comes to financing it because it's just so freaking expensive.
And so the Democrats like overloaded the system the under
the cover of COVID. And now the Republicans say, we
got to cut back on this too much. Thirty seven
trillion in debt. It's not worth getting into the into
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into the weeds on this, but that's that's the root
of the problem. The Republicans also say that the Democrats
have snuck money in there for illegal alien healthcare, which
wouldn't surprise me. And now they've all said it. To see.
The House passed this thing, but the Senate needs sixty
votes because of the filibuster rule. They got three Democrats,
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they lost one Republican. So they're they're what are I
think they're fifty three plus three fifty they're five votes short.
They need five more Democrats. Well they don't have it,
So Senate, all those guys are on planes. Uh you
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know they're they're getting on the planes before the air
traffic controllers get tired and ordery and hungry. The rest
of us, we you know, those of you trying to
go somewhere this weekend Friday and Saturday. I'll be very hungry,
in ornery by then. Should I be worried about my
flight to Phoenix next week? Yeah? I would drive. I
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might have to. At this point. I don't know what
they and the TSA lines. I mean, some of those
guys look like they failed out of the McDonald's fry
basket school. So hag Seth wouldn't be happy with them. No, no,
they dad, Dad, I'd come up with a if there's
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a weight limit on TSA agents. We're gonna have nobody
at the airports.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I think that we need to postpone all this until
after the holidays.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Well why didn't you submit that, Senator.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Mark that's my recommendation. Yes, the.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I mean, these things have happened many times. Uh, it's
it's really stupid. They've got one job, they should they
get they get paid enough money. They have enough crooked
money coming in under the table. This is not that difficult.
And and you know, ultimately the Democrats have have caused
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this shutdown because they had agree the budget that the
Republicans want to impose for seven more weeks is the
same budget the Democrats already approved of that that governed
much of this year. So it's a seven a seven
week extension. So I I don't know how this how
this helps them, And I don't think giving away the
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store with billions and billions of more healthcare dollars and
legal alien healthcare dollars. I mean, every time they have
a little bit of leverage, they want to loude us
for more money. When we're thirty seven in trillion thirty
seven trillion debt, you can't ever say no. They never
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say no because by time the whole mess falls apart,
by the time we've borrowed too much money for the
economy to handle, they'll all be dead and gone. So
they don't care. All right, we come back. One of
those fascinating stories, doctor Ian Roberts, and I put the
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word doctor in quotes. He was the des Moines superintendent
to schools who was caught as an illegal alien. Remember
we talked about this earlier this week. It's been all
over the news. So much new crazy stuff has come
out about this character. It is astounding. This wasn't the
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first school district he was running. Des Moines is you know,
a city of over two hundred thousand people. It's the
largest city in Iowa. It's the state capital, and this
was running the place and nobody ever really did a
check on him. Wait till you find out all the
new stuff in his background. And this encompasses everything that
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is wrong with public education, even in a relatively sane
place like des Moines. But this is the DII monster.
Run a book. We'll talk about it.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I'm not getting a commission for this, but if you're
running a business and you want to get out of
the state. We're going to talk with Governor Kevin Stitt
of Oklahoma because he's coming here to Los Angeles on
Friday at the Los Angeles Athletic Club and they are
going to be presenting and pitching to California businesses that
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if you want to move, you can come to Oklahoma.
You know what personal income tax rate is in Oklahoma?
Four percent, top the top rank. Four percent. Uh, that's
that's just the beginning. I'm not going to I'm not
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going to do Governor Stitz pitch, but you want to
be listening top of the two o'clock hour Oklahoma Governor
Kevin Stitt, because there is apparently a lot of interest
in people moving to Oklahoma as there is to Texas
and Florida. I don't know if I mentioned this thing
here yesterday, but Texas now has more financial people than
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New York City. The financial industry part of it is
relocated to Texas. And I listened to some discussion on
the business channels this morning and major companies. Financial companies
has moved to Florida and Miami West, Palm Beach and
Saint Petersburg because New York City is going through the
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same garbage that California is. They're about to elect a
communist there. And so now all the major financial companies
are looking around saying, oh, parties really over now. Because
you work, you live and work in New York City,
your your tax rates are almost as high as California
because they have they have a state income tax and
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a city income tax, and so so these these communist
governments that we have in New York City and here
in California. Yeah, the business, uh, the businesses are getting
out of here as fast as they can. And uh,
Oklahoma is standing ready. So you're gonna want to hear
because this is because every time you know, you talk
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about this stuff, and you always hear these idiots in
government Newsom's crowd going, oh now, that's ridiculous. You know,
we've got the best weather, We've got the best climate here.
People aren't going to leave that, They're not going to
go to Oklahoma. Well, yeah, they are in Texas and
Arizona and uh the Nevada and Tennessee and North Carolina
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and South Carolina and Florida and Georgia. I mean they've
got their heads so far up their rear ends in Sacramento.
I know we have a lot of listeners in Sacramento.
I assume they're government people. Why are you so stupid?
There's no no way, there are other way to describe. Oh.
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In fact, next time we're gonna talk to Kevin Stanton,
I'm also going to go through the bed Bath Beyond story,
because more has come out on that where Beth bad
bed Beth and Beyond said, you know, we're going to
open up three hundred stories. We're going to recreate the
chain here in America except California. They're willing to open
up in forty nine out of the fifty states and
Newso his his press office responded with the nastiest, narkiest reply, Well,
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there's some pushback coming from at least one Democrat here
in the state who is saying enough is enough. All
right now, I want to get onto this story. You
may have heard about it, Des Moines, Iowa. The school superintendent.
His name is doctor Ian Roberts. He is a black
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man from Guyana, which I think we said was in
South America, right next to Venezuela. And they busted him
last week. He was an illegal alien and he was
on the run and they had to chase him into
the woods. He was hiding. He had weapons on him,
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and then all you know, all the people, the parents
of the administrators and the teachers in Des Moines came
out and supported him and thought this was horrible and ugly,
and you know the whole routine. Well, now Morris coming
out about this nut bag, it is going to shock you.
How he ever got hired. All right, let me go
through the timeline. Here. May sixteenth, twenty twenty three. Doctor
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Ian Roberts is the new super intended of the DesMoines
Public School District. He got the job. He started the
job on July first. By the end of the by
the end of July of twenty twenty three, the board
got some surprising news. He was named in a two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars settlement with an ex employee.
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At his old job, he was the head of the
Mill Creek Township School District in Pennsylvania. Melody Ellington was
the human resource director under doctor Ian Roberts, said she'd
been subjected to unlawful treatment. The nature of the treatment
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was not revealed. We don't know if he was spanking her.
We don't know what the issue is. Roberts wouldn't comment.
The officials at the Des Moines School Board said, oh,
we didn't know anything about this. It was a confidential settlement.
There's nothing we could have known. Well, there was more.
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Turns out, there was a second settlement, one for eighty
seven five hundred dollars, and then a third settlement for
sixty six thousand, two other school officials who were demoted
by doctor Ian Roberts. So he left the Mill Creek
system on the hook for four hundred thousand dollars plus
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in legal settlements, and the school board in Des Moines
knew nothing about it. Now Quickie on his background. He
came to the US from Guyana sometime in the nineteen nineties,
entered the US on a student visa in ninety nine.
He had a weapons possession charge against him in February
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of twenty twenty. Never became a permanent legal resident, never
became a citizen, He never left. Even after having the
weapons charge, his illegal status did not come to light,
at least not that the Des Moines Public School system noticed.
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He was ordered deported in maya, twenty twenty four, during
the Biden administration not part of the Trump action this year.
This was the Biden administration told him to get out.
He didn't. He still hadn't spent a year as the
Des Moines superintendent at this point. Then last week, des
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Moines ice agents arrested doctor Ian Roberts, criminal illegal alien
from Guyana. He was in possession of a loaded handgun
at the time that they arrested him, three thousand dollars
in cash, and a fixed blade hunting knife. There was
a final order of removal and there was no work authorization.
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But he was the superintendent of the Des Moines Public
School District. Now I keep mocking that he's called doctor. Well,
he got a bachelor's from Compon State University in ninety eight.
He had a master's degree from Saint John's in two thousand.
He claimed for many years that he had a doctoral
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degree from Morgan State. But if you called Morgan State said,
uh no, he can't. He attended here, but no doctorate.
He may have gone to something called Trident University, which
is one of those private, for profit online schools that
come on. That's not a doctorate online. Now, why was
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he hired? Well, it's obviously a DEI hire. And one
of the odd side stories involves the Obama because the
chairwoman at the time he was hired of the Des
Moines Public School System was Jackie Norris. Jackie Norris was
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a top staffer to Michelle Obama. Jackie Norris is now
running for the Democratic nomination for Senator, and somewhere along
the line, she was asked to explain how did Ian
Roberts become the superintendent with all that we know about
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him now? Well, she said, he sparked joy in our
kids and excitement in our kids. He brought in a
lot of enthusiasm and vibrancy in our community. He was
described in one story he walked around in a maroon
three piece suit, a candy cane striped bow tie, and
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matching Nike Air Force one sneakers. And they say just
simply bowled people over with his personality and his style.
Except he was a total fraud. He was a con man,
He had a dubious doctorate. He left behind three lawsuits
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in the last school district that he lived in that
he ran. He was an illegal alien, he never became
a resident. He had a gun charge, and when they
finally had a deportation order, that he ignored, and they
found him with a loaded handgun and a hunting knife
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hiding after he ditched his car. Nobody ever questioned him.
It was just an automatic hire. He was from Guyana
and he was kind of cool. And that was the
standard for hiring superintendents in Des Moines, Iowa that day.
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All right, we're coming up. Oh, I got to do
the dinosaur story.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I just put that in my newscast. It's so funny.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
You mind if I no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I think it's a great story. That's why I put
it in.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
That dinosaur is close to where I live and I
go to that gas station frequently, and I was very upset.
And the original video was posted a couple of nights ago,
and wait tell you who posted the video? And I
think we also have a piece from what Channel five
on this.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
I'm going to take it out of my newscast, John,
so you I didn't mean to know. I'm moving it
to a different, different time just so you can do that.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Well, it deserves like a full length treatment.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yeah, I know it does, because it's in your Because
it happened.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
In my neighborhood exactly your That.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Makes it more important.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Neighborhood. Yeah, please, oh please, don't get me started.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Live because you'll never end.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Coming up after two o'clock, the Governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt,
is coming on the show. He's making a pitch in
person this week in Los Angeles to business owners to
come to Oklahoma. It's a much much better place to
run a business. We'll hear from the Governor of Oklahoma
coming up in minutes. So yesterday morning, I wake up
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and my wife doesn't sleep all night, and she sends
me news stories and I can tell by the time
stamps how the night's sleep went. And she sent me
an Instagram video and it's of the gas station that
we sometimes go to about a mile and a half
from our house. It's on twenty sixth Street on the
border of Brentwood in Santa Monica. It's a Sinclair station.
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Sinclair has the dinosaur as it's icon, it's logo, right,
it's mascot. And the video is of a guy shambling
down the sidewalk in a hoodie of course, with a
blanket or some kind of claw, big cloth covering on
his shoulder, and he walks up to the Sinclair Dinosaur
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because they have one. You know. It's you know, just
maybe out of three feet high. I don't know what
it's made of, but it's the little welcome mascot. As
you pull up to the station, right, it's a happy
little dinosaur.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
It's happy, it's happy.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
And up comes a white pickup truck and this guy
picks up. He kidnaps the dinosaur. It throws it into
the back of the white pickup truck.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
That is just terrible.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
And then and it drives off. And you know who
posted this? Who Jamie Lee Curtis. I don't know if
she lives nearby, but she was angry with this guy.
Listen to this report from a KTL Channel five reporter
Sandra Mitchell.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
From his Bunny Ears to his Dodger Blue, the Sinclair
Dinosaur was a Brentwood favorite, so beloved.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Dinosaur from Brentwood. All the kids loved it. And here
it is come Saturday. Dinosaur's gone for six years.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
The four foot fiberglass dino stood at the Sinclair station
on San Vicente at twenty sixth Street, but now he's extinct.
This prehistoric prankster and a hoodie crept across the parking
lot with a power tool early Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
That's insane. I would have. That's commitment. Though.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
The thief cuts the bolts from the ground, wraps the
fifty pound brontosaurus in a blanket, and then loads it
into a pickup truck and pulls away.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
We get in phone calls.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
We're getting people coming over here and asking about it.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
It's being a whole deal.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
The service station has been flooded with phone calls and flowers.
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis and others posting about it on
social media.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
We loved it.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
We walked past it every day and every season he
would decorate to the owner would decorate it in different ways.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
It was so oh fine. I was so sad.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Keith Simon had the dinosaur in his office for thirty years.
It was read back then, but me wanted to share
the smiles, so he sold it to the gas station owner,
who painted a green and put it right out front.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
There's a big long red light there and I can
shoot a picture coming off Sandercente at the people. They're
always stopping there.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
And now LAPD has launched an investigation to find this
very long necked victim the.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Person who took it.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
If you see my message, just bring the dinosaur back
at two thirty in the morning and just leave it
there and walk away.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
This dino napping seems to be a trend across the nation.
Similar dinosaurs stole them from service stations in Utah, Texas,
and Colorado, and we checked. Some of them are on
sale on eBay for up to six thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Oh god, you know, John, I think you need to
offer an award for ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Then they won't put it on eBay.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I want to start a petition to get this guy
at the death penalty.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Death penalty.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yeah, I'm a little less forgiving than the guy who said, well,
just bring it back in the middle of the night
and no questions asked. I got questions, So I want
a trial. So no GoFundMe for one of these eBay dino's.
You can get a replacement for the community. John, I
just said, to be the hero.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
I said, John, you need to just that's a reward,
so then the guy will come to you.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I won't bother putting it on eBay.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yes, Oh, I should give him a reward to protest.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
I should drop it off outside the station at two
thirty in the morning, no questions asked, and I'll give
you a po box and you'll send it.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Jack. I have an idea. You're usually probably a two
in the morning, and so is my wife. You can
give her a call and try to sell her on
this idea. She says, yes, I hope she's not listening
every day. I hope she's not listening. And then there
are days she does listen and it's not good. When
we come back the governor of Oklahoma, he's given a
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major speech at the downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles Athletic
Club on Friday morning to entice more Oklahoma, more California
businesses to come to Oklahoma. That's next. Deborah Mark live
in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been
listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always
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hear the show live on KFI Am six forty from
one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of
course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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day from one to four o'clock. After four o'clock it's
John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app, so
you can listen to what you missed. One thing you
should hear when we run it. At two o'clock, we
are going to talk to the Oklahoma Governor, Kevin Stitt.
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And you're probably saying, why is this. Well, Kevin Stitt
is coming to Los Angeles and he and others in
his party are going to be giving a presentation at
to Los Angeles Athletic Club on Friday morning, and it's
about luring California businesses to Oklahoma. And this is a
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big deal. This is happening all over the state, not
just Oklahoma obviously, but to Texas and Florida and Arizona,
Nevada and Oklahoma wants in on it. Already been getting
contacted by California businesses for quite some time. We lose
we have lost thousands and thousands of businesses here in
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California over the last ten years. The business situation in
this state outside of the mega tech companies is dire
and they are leaving. And we're going to talk to
Kevin Stitt coming up after two o'clock, and so you
could see what Oklahoma is offering and compare it to
what the back of the hand that businesses get from
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the news of administration, and which state do you think
is going to be in a better place in the
next five to ten years. But first, Alex Stone government shutdown,
and there is a whole lot that affects us know
on the first day of a shutdown. Although Deborah when
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yesterday when she heard the story, the first thing that
Debora wanted to know is what about the airline? What
about the TSA? And that's what Alex Stone is going
to tell us. Now, how is this going to affect
air travel? Well, yeah, so basically in the short term,
nothing when it comes to flying, But it depends on
how long this goes on. The TSA and FAA employees
are told that they still have jobs, and they have
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that job, they've got to show up for work, but
they're not going to get paid when the I guess
it would be this Friday and around the fifteenth when
their paydays would come. If the shutdown is still underway,
and we know in the last hour so there's been
some cracks among Democrats that maybe they're a little bit
closer to a deal, but but they've still failed on one.
(02:40):
So the TSA says they've got fifty eight thousand of
their sixty one thousand workers who are considered to be
essential and they've got to come to work. But the
problem is if the shutdown drags on, people stop showing up,
they start calling in sick because they can't pay their
bills and they've got to have childcare and everything else.
So on day one, the TSA officers and the air
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traffic controllers are on the job. By day thirty, that
would be a totally different thing. Johnny Jones, he's a
TSA officer. He says, you can only go so long
without a paycheck that they want to work, but their
mind is somewhere else dealing with paying bills, and they
just can't pay the bills. Childcare does not take IOUs,
Gasoline does not take IOUs.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Your house payments do not take IOUs.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
And sometimes it becomes very difficult to maintain focused on
the mission whenever you're trying to figure out how you're
going to get to it. From work, and so that's
the thing John. In the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen shutdown
went on for thirty five days, longest in history, and
TSA officers began as the days went on. First couple
of days, no problem, but then they began calling out
sick and that led to long security checkpoint lines. Air
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traffic controllers they began calling out sick at the big
ATC centers that then created ground stops. In fact, the
air traffic controllers were credited with ending that shutdown because
once flights in New York and Florida were grounded because
they didn't have enough controllers. President Trump essentially ordered that
it be over and a deal was made and the
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shutdown ended. This woman flying out of Columbus, Ohio today,
she says that's what she worries about.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You can only ask people to do so much genuinely,
even if a service is very important. People are only
going to do things out of the goodness of their
heart for so long. And I'm, you know, genuinely worried
about what's going to happen in the future when air
traffic controllers decide like, no, I can't do this anymore,
when you know, even the TSA agents decide like, hey,
I need to be paid, so yeah, I am pretty
(04:33):
worried about like flying in and out for now.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
And this guy also flying today, has a message for
lawmakers to get it over with. At the lowest level,
we know what to do. We know our job, We
do our job every day. Please do your job, so
you know everything today is going to be normal at airports.
But the longer it goes on, little by little, they
should declare air traffic controllers and TSA agents as essential. Well,
(04:56):
they owe them, but well yeah, then yeah, yeah, they're
essential in the in the sense that they're being told
they got to come to work, but they're not getting paid. Yeah,
but you don't want grumpy, antagonized air traffic controllers or
no or distracted where they're thinking, how are you know
their child is at home alone right now, and how
are they gonna or they're hung gas And these aren't workers,
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especially the TSA officers. They're not making a ton of money,
so it's not like they have a lot of money
to live off of when they're not getting paid. So
very quickly you've got people who can't pay for gas,
who can't pay for food, and then they got to
go find another job or stay home with the kids.
They're hungry, they're distracted, they don't notice the guns or
the bombs being smuggled onto the planes anymore, or they
just don't care in general. You know, at the point
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where you're not getting paid, you're like, you're not not
like you're going to let a bomb go through. But still,
if you're not paying as much attention, well then yeah.
And then the air traffic controllers, a lot of them
seem to be having enough trouble these days. Well yeah,
you're reported on a lot of that. Yeah, so all right,
very good, thank you, you got it. Thanks John. All right,
that they should be paying the air traffic.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I told you that the other day, John, I warned you,
and you pooh poohed it.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You were okay, you were right. I was wrong?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Oh, thank you. Yes, yes, dear, Yeah, well that's youruth.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It didn't occur to me that they wouldn't be Oh,
it's truth. It didn't occur to me that that they
wouldn't be essential enough to pay during a shutdown.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yes, can you believe that?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
I think we went through that the last government shutdown,
and everybody's worried because everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Look, we're coming.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
We're it's the holidays are right around the corner. Lots
of people are going to be traveling.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
This isn't good because you know those those you've seen
some of the some of them.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
There is not a government shutdown.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
This isn't good. You you tapped into one of your
great one of your great fears.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Absolutely, yeah. I see some of these people and I
just really really.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
There.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Those people are keeping us from getting blown up.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Yeah, a lot of them aren't even paying attention.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
No, when we come back, why is the government shut down?
I'll explain this to you. It's actually more trivial than
you can imagine.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
We just had Alex Stone on because there seems to
be one thing that jumps to mind, well to Debor's
mind immediately in yours, Yes, the government shut down? Is
that going to shut down the airports or is that gonna?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I think that seriously should get a pass.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Most people should be paid because we're putting way too
many people at risk.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
TSA workers have to show up, but they're not getting paid.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Well, I'm not going to show up if I'm not
going to get paid.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And air traffic controllers have to show up, but they're
not getting paid. Yeah, and we've got fifty eight thousand
TSA employees, thirteen thousand air traffic controllers, and you know,
as Alex was saying, not everybody's got a month's worth
of savings. Not to mention, you have to deal with
(08:13):
the childcare issues for example. It's it's this is because
cause you know, people are going to stop showing up
for work and there's not going to be a backup
staff to They're already way short on the night. This
happened back twenty seven years ago, twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen,
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thirty five days and TSA officers started calling out because
of financial problems. TSA lines closed, longer lines, air traffic
controllers started calling out sick, New York, Washington, Jacksonville. There
was a ground stop at LaGuardia Airport. That means all
the planes were not allowed to land or or or leave.
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Flight delays, especially in New York and Florida, and that
is what triggered the end of the shutdown. Trump finally
insisted that a deal be made, and a deal was made,
and Bernie Sanders credited the air traffic controllers with ending it. Now,
why they're at it, impass this is this is not
(09:22):
this is not the biggest issue in the world. They
passed a bill that both sides agreed on, and the
Republicans want that deal to be extended for seven more weeks,
right with the country's obviously obviously been operating on a
specific budget for the last I don't know how many
(09:45):
months because of this deal. And the Republicans say, you
know what, we need seven weeks more of negotiating time
to create the new deal. And it's apparently twelve separate
bills that can prize the budget. And because they're always
slow and because they're always inefficient, they couldn't get the
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twelve bills done for the deadline yesterday, September thirtieth, which
is the end of the fiscal year. So the Republican said,
let's extend the current terms seven more weeks, no increases,
no cuts. Democrats said, no, that's a simple way to
explain it. The Democrats then said, well, yes, maybe if
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and they had some demands, and the main demand centers
around benefits that were dramatically increased during COVID. You probably
don't know this, but COVID, well you probably know that
COVID unleashed trillions of dollars of extra spending, right, I mean,
(10:57):
they went crazy, supposedly to prop up the economy. They
poured extra money into healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid, all that stuff.
They never they never ended those programs. Spending went from
four trillion to seven trillion like that. And so the
Republican said, it's like, okay, how about we put an
(11:19):
end to these COVID spending programs. And the Democrats said no,
and Republicans said, well, you got to be kidding. No,
they're serious. They want some of the programs extended. And
it's complicated, stuff like Obamacare subsidies. Obamacare, whether you liked
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it or not, has a lot of problems when it
comes to financing it because it's just so freaking expensive.
And so the Democrats like overloaded the system the under
the cover of COVID. And now the Republicans say, we
got to cut back on this too much. Thirty seven
trillion in debt. It's not worth getting into the into
(12:05):
into the weeds on this, but that's that's the root
of the problem. The Republicans also say that the Democrats
have snuck money in there for illegal alien healthcare, which
wouldn't surprise me. And now they've all said it. To see.
The House passed this thing, but the Senate needs sixty
votes because of the filibuster rule. They got three Democrats,
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they lost one Republican. So they're they're what are I
think they're fifty three plus three fifty they're five votes short.
They need five more Democrats. Well they don't have it,
So Senate, all those guys are on planes. Uh you
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know they're they're getting on the planes before the air
traffic controllers get tired and ordery and hungry. The rest
of us, we you know, those of you trying to
go somewhere this weekend Friday and Saturday. I'll be very hungry,
in ornery by then. Should I be worried about my
flight to Phoenix next week? Yeah? I would drive. I
(13:15):
might have to. At this point. I don't know what
they and the TSA lines. I mean, some of those
guys look like they failed out of the McDonald's fry
basket school. So hag Seth wouldn't be happy with them. No, no,
they dad, Dad, I'd come up with a if there's
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a weight limit on TSA agents. We're gonna have nobody
at the airports.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I think that we need to postpone all this until
after the holidays.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Well why didn't you submit that, Senator.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Mark that's my recommendation. Yes, the.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I mean, these things have happened many times. Uh, it's
it's really stupid. They've got one job, they should they
get they get paid enough money. They have enough crooked
money coming in under the table. This is not that difficult.
And and you know, ultimately the Democrats have have caused
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this shutdown because they had agree the budget that the
Republicans want to impose for seven more weeks is the
same budget the Democrats already approved of that that governed
much of this year. So it's a seven a seven
week extension. So I I don't know how this how
this helps them, And I don't think giving away the
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store with billions and billions of more healthcare dollars and
legal alien healthcare dollars. I mean, every time they have
a little bit of leverage, they want to loude us
for more money. When we're thirty seven in trillion thirty
seven trillion debt, you can't ever say no. They never
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say no because by time the whole mess falls apart,
by the time we've borrowed too much money for the
economy to handle, they'll all be dead and gone. So
they don't care. All right, we come back. One of
those fascinating stories, doctor Ian Roberts, and I put the
(15:27):
word doctor in quotes. He was the des Moines superintendent
to schools who was caught as an illegal alien. Remember
we talked about this earlier this week. It's been all
over the news. So much new crazy stuff has come
out about this character. It is astounding. This wasn't the
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first school district he was running. Des Moines is you know,
a city of over two hundred thousand people. It's the
largest city in Iowa. It's the state capital, and this
was running the place and nobody ever really did a
check on him. Wait till you find out all the
new stuff in his background. And this encompasses everything that
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is wrong with public education, even in a relatively sane
place like des Moines. But this is the DII monster.
Run a book. We'll talk about it.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I'm not getting a commission for this, but if you're
running a business and you want to get out of
the state. We're going to talk with Governor Kevin Stitt
of Oklahoma because he's coming here to Los Angeles on
Friday at the Los Angeles Athletic Club and they are
going to be presenting and pitching to California businesses that
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if you want to move, you can come to Oklahoma.
You know what personal income tax rate is in Oklahoma?
Four percent, top the top rank. Four percent. Uh, that's
that's just the beginning. I'm not going to I'm not
(17:08):
going to do Governor Stitz pitch, but you want to
be listening top of the two o'clock hour Oklahoma Governor
Kevin Stitt, because there is apparently a lot of interest
in people moving to Oklahoma as there is to Texas
and Florida. I don't know if I mentioned this thing
here yesterday, but Texas now has more financial people than
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New York City. The financial industry part of it is
relocated to Texas. And I listened to some discussion on
the business channels this morning and major companies. Financial companies
has moved to Florida and Miami West, Palm Beach and
Saint Petersburg because New York City is going through the
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same garbage that California is. They're about to elect a
communist there. And so now all the major financial companies
are looking around saying, oh, parties really over now. Because
you work, you live and work in New York City,
your your tax rates are almost as high as California
because they have they have a state income tax and
(18:17):
a city income tax, and so so these these communist
governments that we have in New York City and here
in California. Yeah, the business, uh, the businesses are getting
out of here as fast as they can. And uh,
Oklahoma is standing ready. So you're gonna want to hear
because this is because every time you know, you talk
(18:39):
about this stuff, and you always hear these idiots in
government Newsom's crowd going, oh now, that's ridiculous. You know,
we've got the best weather, We've got the best climate here.
People aren't going to leave that, They're not going to
go to Oklahoma. Well, yeah, they are in Texas and
Arizona and uh the Nevada and Tennessee and North Carolina
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and South Carolina and Florida and Georgia. I mean they've
got their heads so far up their rear ends in Sacramento.
I know we have a lot of listeners in Sacramento.
I assume they're government people. Why are you so stupid?
There's no no way, there are other way to describe. Oh.
(19:21):
In fact, next time we're gonna talk to Kevin Stanton,
I'm also going to go through the bed Bath Beyond story,
because more has come out on that where Beth bad
bed Beth and Beyond said, you know, we're going to
open up three hundred stories. We're going to recreate the
chain here in America except California. They're willing to open
up in forty nine out of the fifty states and
Newso his his press office responded with the nastiest, narkiest reply, Well,
(19:48):
there's some pushback coming from at least one Democrat here
in the state who is saying enough is enough. All
right now, I want to get onto this story. You
may have heard about it, Des Moines, Iowa. The school superintendent.
His name is doctor Ian Roberts. He is a black
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man from Guyana, which I think we said was in
South America, right next to Venezuela. And they busted him
last week. He was an illegal alien and he was
on the run and they had to chase him into
the woods. He was hiding. He had weapons on him,
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and then all you know, all the people, the parents
of the administrators and the teachers in Des Moines came
out and supported him and thought this was horrible and ugly,
and you know the whole routine. Well, now Morris coming
out about this nut bag, it is going to shock you.
How he ever got hired. All right, let me go
through the timeline. Here. May sixteenth, twenty twenty three. Doctor
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Ian Roberts is the new super intended of the DesMoines
Public School District. He got the job. He started the
job on July first. By the end of the by
the end of July of twenty twenty three, the board
got some surprising news. He was named in a two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars settlement with an ex employee.
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At his old job, he was the head of the
Mill Creek Township School District in Pennsylvania. Melody Ellington was
the human resource director under doctor Ian Roberts, said she'd
been subjected to unlawful treatment. The nature of the treatment
(21:40):
was not revealed. We don't know if he was spanking her.
We don't know what the issue is. Roberts wouldn't comment.
The officials at the Des Moines School Board said, oh,
we didn't know anything about this. It was a confidential settlement.
There's nothing we could have known. Well, there was more.
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Turns out, there was a second settlement, one for eighty
seven five hundred dollars, and then a third settlement for
sixty six thousand, two other school officials who were demoted
by doctor Ian Roberts. So he left the Mill Creek
system on the hook for four hundred thousand dollars plus
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in legal settlements, and the school board in Des Moines
knew nothing about it. Now Quickie on his background. He
came to the US from Guyana sometime in the nineteen nineties,
entered the US on a student visa in ninety nine.
He had a weapons possession charge against him in February
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of twenty twenty. Never became a permanent legal resident, never
became a citizen, He never left. Even after having the
weapons charge, his illegal status did not come to light,
at least not that the Des Moines Public School system noticed.
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He was ordered deported in maya, twenty twenty four, during
the Biden administration not part of the Trump action this year.
This was the Biden administration told him to get out.
He didn't. He still hadn't spent a year as the
Des Moines superintendent at this point. Then last week, des
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Moines ice agents arrested doctor Ian Roberts, criminal illegal alien
from Guyana. He was in possession of a loaded handgun
at the time that they arrested him, three thousand dollars
in cash, and a fixed blade hunting knife. There was
a final order of removal and there was no work authorization.
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But he was the superintendent of the Des Moines Public
School District. Now I keep mocking that he's called doctor. Well,
he got a bachelor's from Compon State University in ninety eight.
He had a master's degree from Saint John's in two thousand.
He claimed for many years that he had a doctoral
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degree from Morgan State. But if you called Morgan State said,
uh no, he can't. He attended here, but no doctorate.
He may have gone to something called Trident University, which
is one of those private, for profit online schools that
come on. That's not a doctorate online. Now, why was
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he hired? Well, it's obviously a DEI hire. And one
of the odd side stories involves the Obama because the
chairwoman at the time he was hired of the Des
Moines Public School System was Jackie Norris. Jackie Norris was
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a top staffer to Michelle Obama. Jackie Norris is now
running for the Democratic nomination for Senator, and somewhere along
the line, she was asked to explain how did Ian
Roberts become the superintendent with all that we know about
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him now? Well, she said, he sparked joy in our
kids and excitement in our kids. He brought in a
lot of enthusiasm and vibrancy in our community. He was
described in one story he walked around in a maroon
three piece suit, a candy cane striped bow tie, and
(25:55):
matching Nike Air Force one sneakers. And they say just
simply bowled people over with his personality and his style.
Except he was a total fraud. He was a con man,
He had a dubious doctorate. He left behind three lawsuits
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in the last school district that he lived in that
he ran. He was an illegal alien, he never became
a resident. He had a gun charge, and when they
finally had a deportation order, that he ignored, and they
found him with a loaded handgun and a hunting knife
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hiding after he ditched his car. Nobody ever questioned him.
It was just an automatic hire. He was from Guyana
and he was kind of cool. And that was the
standard for hiring superintendents in Des Moines, Iowa that day.
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All right, we're coming up. Oh, I got to do
the dinosaur story.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I just put that in my newscast. It's so funny.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
You mind if I no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I think it's a great story. That's why I put
it in.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
That dinosaur is close to where I live and I
go to that gas station frequently, and I was very upset.
And the original video was posted a couple of nights ago,
and wait tell you who posted the video? And I
think we also have a piece from what Channel five
on this.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
I'm going to take it out of my newscast, John,
so you I didn't mean to know. I'm moving it
to a different, different time just so you can do that.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Well, it deserves like a full length treatment.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yeah, I know it does, because it's in your Because
it happened.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
In my neighborhood exactly your That.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Makes it more important.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Neighborhood. Yeah, please, oh please, don't get me started.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Live because you'll never end.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Coming up after two o'clock, the Governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt,
is coming on the show. He's making a pitch in
person this week in Los Angeles to business owners to
come to Oklahoma. It's a much much better place to
run a business. We'll hear from the Governor of Oklahoma
coming up in minutes. So yesterday morning, I wake up
(28:30):
and my wife doesn't sleep all night, and she sends
me news stories and I can tell by the time
stamps how the night's sleep went. And she sent me
an Instagram video and it's of the gas station that
we sometimes go to about a mile and a half
from our house. It's on twenty sixth Street on the
border of Brentwood in Santa Monica. It's a Sinclair station.
(28:52):
Sinclair has the dinosaur as it's icon, it's logo, right,
it's mascot. And the video is of a guy shambling
down the sidewalk in a hoodie of course, with a
blanket or some kind of claw, big cloth covering on
his shoulder, and he walks up to the Sinclair Dinosaur
(29:13):
because they have one. You know. It's you know, just
maybe out of three feet high. I don't know what
it's made of, but it's the little welcome mascot. As
you pull up to the station, right, it's a happy
little dinosaur.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
It's happy, it's happy.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
And up comes a white pickup truck and this guy
picks up. He kidnaps the dinosaur. It throws it into
the back of the white pickup truck.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
That is just terrible.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
And then and it drives off. And you know who
posted this? Who Jamie Lee Curtis. I don't know if
she lives nearby, but she was angry with this guy.
Listen to this report from a KTL Channel five reporter
Sandra Mitchell.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
From his Bunny Ears to his Dodger Blue, the Sinclair
Dinosaur was a Brentwood favorite, so beloved.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Dinosaur from Brentwood. All the kids loved it. And here
it is come Saturday. Dinosaur's gone for six years.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
The four foot fiberglass dino stood at the Sinclair station
on San Vicente at twenty sixth Street, but now he's extinct.
This prehistoric prankster and a hoodie crept across the parking
lot with a power tool early Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
That's insane. I would have. That's commitment. Though.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
The thief cuts the bolts from the ground, wraps the
fifty pound brontosaurus in a blanket, and then loads it
into a pickup truck and pulls away.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
We get in phone calls.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
We're getting people coming over here and asking about it.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
It's being a whole deal.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
The service station has been flooded with phone calls and flowers.
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis and others posting about it on
social media.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
We loved it.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
We walked past it every day and every season he
would decorate to the owner would decorate it in different ways.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
It was so oh fine. I was so sad.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Keith Simon had the dinosaur in his office for thirty years.
It was read back then, but me wanted to share
the smiles, so he sold it to the gas station owner,
who painted a green and put it right out front.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
There's a big long red light there and I can
shoot a picture coming off Sandercente at the people. They're
always stopping there.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
And now LAPD has launched an investigation to find this
very long necked victim the.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Person who took it.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
If you see my message, just bring the dinosaur back
at two thirty in the morning and just leave it
there and walk away.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
This dino napping seems to be a trend across the nation.
Similar dinosaurs stole them from service stations in Utah, Texas,
and Colorado, and we checked. Some of them are on
sale on eBay for up to six thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Oh god, you know, John, I think you need to
offer an award for ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Then they won't put it on eBay.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I want to start a petition to get this guy
at the death penalty.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Death penalty.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yeah, I'm a little less forgiving than the guy who said, well,
just bring it back in the middle of the night
and no questions asked. I got questions, So I want
a trial. So no GoFundMe for one of these eBay dino's.
You can get a replacement for the community. John, I
just said, to be the hero.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
I said, John, you need to just that's a reward,
so then the guy will come to you.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I won't bother putting it on eBay.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yes, Oh, I should give him a reward to protest.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
I should drop it off outside the station at two
thirty in the morning, no questions asked, and I'll give
you a po box and you'll send it.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Jack. I have an idea. You're usually probably a two
in the morning, and so is my wife. You can
give her a call and try to sell her on
this idea. She says, yes, I hope she's not listening
every day. I hope she's not listening. And then there
are days she does listen and it's not good. When
we come back the governor of Oklahoma, he's given a
(33:03):
major speech at the downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles Athletic
Club on Friday morning to entice more Oklahoma, more California
businesses to come to Oklahoma. That's next. Deborah Mark live
in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been
listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always
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