July 7, 2026 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (07/07) - Sam Shane fills in for John. LA County voted on if landlords can sell their property to the open market or to an NGO first. What is the Bishnoi gang? DOGE is done. An American woman became the fastest person to row a boat from California to Hawaii. More on the building in Manhattan that is at risk of collapsing. More on the homeless in Seattle, LA and New York. Marjorie Taylor Greene is back in the news.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I Am six forty.
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App KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App.
I'm Sam Jane and for John Cobbolt. Good to have
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you here, appreciate it. We're going to talk a little
bit more about I don't know if you've heard about
the Bishnoid Gang. They're out of Indie in India, run
by a guy in jail in India, by the way,
and they are worldwide and they are, according to leading
investigators and prosecutors, an extraordinarily violent organization. So we're going
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to get into who they are and what took place
in California that is so important in just a moment.
But before we do that, I want to get into
a story that has a direct impact on what's going
on in Los Angeles, and it has to do with
apartments and apartment buildings being sold in particular locations and
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a vote that just took place today with the County
of LA. This actually was brought to my attention from
one of our listeners who left a voicema has been
listening on the iHeartRadio app. And I'll play for you
this short message. There's one correction to make on this.
I must note that before we play, and I'll give
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you the correction on the other side. But here's what
the listener to say.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Today, the Los Angeles City Council is voting on whether
landlords can sell their apartment buildings on the open market
or if they have to offer it to a city
NGO first, and the NGO has two hundred days to
scrape up their money before a landlord can put their
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building on an open market Communism.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
For the most For the most part, that's spot on.
It's not the LA City Council, however, it's the LA
County Board of Supervisors. So this is the latest development
via LAist in some of their reporting. In what has
been described as an effort to prevent more corporate landlords
from displacing Los Angeles renters, the LA County Board of
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Supervisors has decided now to move forward with plans to
require a new step in the process of selling certain
apartment buildings. The board has voted unanimously to develop Community
Opportunity to Purchase Act. If passed on a final vote,
the law would compel apartment owners to notify affordable housing
groups I e government when they put certain buildings up
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for sale in unincorporated parts of La County. We're talking
about nonprofits and NGOs getting the first crack at these
apartment buildings instead of the private sector, thereby giving the
deep state even more control. You have to run it
all through an NGO or a nonprofit before it even
hits the market. Now, these are bigger units, by the way.
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These are apartment buildings that would be more than five
housing units or more, and it would be in unincorporated
areas like East La City, Terrace, Alta, Dina, And it's
based on past property sales data. The rules would apply
anywhere from thirty to one hundred and thirty listings each year.
So those are some of the details. But this is
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exactly what we were talking about earlier in the program,
NGOs and nonprofits and how they have just grown in
their importance and numbers in California. And what are they
doing with all of this money sloshing around in an
Why can't you just put that on the market and
let the free market take care and bring the house
and prices down. I mean, it's a supplying demand issue.
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And when government has come in to run housing in
the past. How effective has that really been in creating
good quality housing number one? And keeping rents down number two.
I mean, when you go into some marketplaces like San Francisco,
when you look at the rents right now, they're not cheap.
They're not cheap. So that's the latest out of La County,
and that's what the Board of Supervisors. That's the vote.
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It's not the final vote, but the caller was right
in terms of offering it up to NGOs at least
for those bigger apartment complexes. I want to talk about
the Bishnoi gang. This is such an interesting story to me.
This is a very big story internationally, and it's getting
a little bit of attention. You know, we heard Debora
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Mark talk a little bit about it during the news Update.
But I want to give you just a little bit
more detail so you understand how big of an operation
investigation this was. Federal agents in California. They have crushed
an arm of this transnational organized crime syndicate a whole
bunch of raids today, at least eleven accused criminals in California,
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over a dozen more in the US, Canada and Europe.
That's how widespread this was. Geographically. Los Angeles federal agents
led the global takedown of the India based Bishnoi Gang,
a global mob blamed for extortion, drug dealing, in the
assassination of political figures, industrialists, actors, and musicians in North
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America and in India. These guys are violent, they're vicious.
As of early this morning, agents had concluded at least
fifty raids in the US, Canada, and Europe. They had
taken at least two dozen suspects into custody, twenty two
hundred pounds of cocaine and heroin, forty thousand dollars in cash,
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dozens of firearms. There were twenty three search warrants executed
in Sacramento area, eleven in the LA area. This gives
you the idea of the scope bill a sale you
heard briefly from him just moments ago, but he said
the defendant's charge in today's indicamond are alleged who have
engaged in some of the most violent and barbaric activities
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we have seen. There will be zero tolerance for violent
gangs in our communities, especially those from foreign nations who
are not legally present in our country. So the Bishnoi
Gang has been designated as a terrorist organization by the
Canadian government. And Patrick Brown is the mayor of Brampton,
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which is a city in Canada, and officials in Canada
have listed the Bishnoy Gang a terrorist organization. Less than
one year ago is when they did this. And here's
what Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown told CBC News in.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Peel Region, the Bishnoi Gang has terrorized our community with extortions,
with murder, homicides and violence that is frankly heinous. If
I'd say the most active transnational criminal organizations in the GTA,
we're probably looking at the Sonola Cartel and the Bishnoi Gang.
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And law enforcement was pleading for this tool, saying that
the Bishnoi Gang is extremely sophisticated, extremely well resourced, and
they needed these tools to combat them in our region.
And I've got great confidence in our local law enforcement
when they say they need this tool. It's why I
advocated for them.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
They called this operation Hardball. They said the Bishnoi Gang
has engaged in racketeering, targeted killing, shooting, extortion, large scale
drug trafficking, other crimes and it's led by thirty three
year old Lawrence Bishnoi, a gangster who's been in prison
in India for a long time and he's running the
entire operation from his jail cell. These guys are a
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big time and they took him down, and the Feds
took him down. Today I want to get into what
is I find to be a very heartwarming story of
a young woman who is celebrating for becoming the first
American woman and fastest person to successfully roll a boat
solo from California to Hawaii. So we're going to roll
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out audio on that straight ahead.
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K I AM six forty. We are alive everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. My name is Sam Chene and for
John Cobbolt, good to be here. Always a pleasure to
fill in when John's taken a little bit of time off.
And I want to thank the crew of the staff,
all the friends of John who have been so helpful
and so friendly, including the listeners. You guys have sent
me some very nice messages which I do really appreciate.
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Doze is done. I don't know if you're following, you
know the time work and the timeframe of DOGE. The
Department of Government Efficiency formally closed operations over the weekend
July fourth, investigating fraud government wide integral part of Trump's agenda.
So they posted on X far and away, the best
prize that life offers is the chance to work hard
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at work worth doing. That's what they wrote. The formal
mission of DOZE has come to an end. The mission
to eliminate waste, fraud and reduce will continue this it will.
That's just part of what they wrote. So how much
money do you think DOZE is saved? I mean, according
to some of the reports that are out there, DOSEE
has saved taxpayers in the neighborhood of two hundred and
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fourteen billion dollars in assets, sales, lease and grant cancelations, fraud,
improper payment deletion, savings on the Internet, regulatory savings, workforce reduction,
so on and so forth. You got to think that
it's probably even bigger than that. I mean, Elon Musk
get indicated as Kay Grimes joined us earlier in the program,
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and she's from the California Globe and she's been reporting
on this for quite some time. And Elon Musk, as
you were recall when you took over does said, well,
we found out pretty quickly that there was a lot
more fraud in corruption than we had any idea. Now
they're going to continue, apparently continue on with the mission
in the Trump administration. While DOZE itself may be formally closing,
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the Trump administration has continued its work to crack down
a waste, fraud and abuse across the federal government. And
they cite, by the way, what we were just talking about,
the US Department of Agriculture USDA. The secretary of that agency,
Brook Rollins, put out a post just yesterday about her
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department's efforts to crack down on that food stamp fraud
in Los Angeles and elsewhere. But a long skid row.
That was a big bust. That was a very big bust,
and was part of what they were doing in the
US Department of Agriculture USDA. And there's more investigations. There
are more investigations to come from them alone on SNAP.
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Snap needs a lot of cleaning up. When you look
at the amount of fraud just in California alone, estimated
to be about eleven percent of the entire budget, which
by the way, is more than twelve billion dollars. The
entire budget. So it's an excess of one billion dollars.
It needs to be cleaned up. Okay, this is I think,
just a great story. It really is. I don't know
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what's on your bucket list, but there are things on
people's bucket lists. They say, well, I'd like to skydive,
and you know that's never necessarily appealed to me. Don't
know why. I think you have to have a certain gene,
a certain chromosome to want to do some of these things.
And this is something that I can say I've never
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even given one thought about doing, but Kelsey Fendler has
done it. An American rower. Kelsey Fendler celebrating making history.
So Fendler is a river rafting guide, and she has
become the first American woman and the fastest person to
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successfully row a boat solo from California to Hawaii. That's
a long trip. Even with somebody, it's a longer trip solo,
I would imagine. Here's a portion of a report aired
by ABC seven in the Bay Area on her accomplishment.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
This morning, Kelsey Fendler is celebrating after making history the
Grand Canyon river rafting guide, becoming the first American woman
to row solo across the Mid Pacific.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
It was very surreal. I think it was hard to
like soak in that I had actually made it.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Hundreds gathering along Honolulu Harbor as the thirty two year
old pulled in completing the historic trip from California to Hawaii.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Because it was very intense and just that there were
so many people there and it was very wonderful.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
She began her twenty four hundred mile journey on May twenty, first.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Day one, becoming the first American woman to row solo
from California to Hawaiian.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Good for her, Good for her. Thirty two years old
finished on Friday, July third. Hundreds of people gathered along
the Hanolulu Harbor to greet her and cheer her on.
So congratulations, Kelsey Fendler. Every once in a while, we
have some good stories to share with you. Got some
feedback from a listener doesn't care for me. Yeah, I'm
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not gonna I'm not gonna actually play it, but I
will just kind of read portions of it because I've
got to kind of keep it clean. You're a stupid
a and a liar. Those didn't do nothing for nobody,
and they didn't say whatever so, uh, didn't do nothing.
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That's that's a double negative. You want to stay away
from that. It would be didn't do anything. If you're
gonna if you're going to write it properly, it's didn't
do anything for anybody, not didn't do nothing for nobody. Yeah,
they did. They did a lot. They did a lot.
They were instrumental in Americans for the very first time
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understanding how badly we've been getting ripped off. This has
been going on in America for a long long time,
a long time. There have been people profiting off of
our work. Our sweat are hard work when we pay
our taxes, and then it's funneled into NGOs and nonprofits
and contracts and there are kickbacks, and we just started
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to understand the level of it when Somalias go into
a place like Minnesota and are able to allegedly take
hundreds of millions of dollars when they get into this country.
And that's where it started, and then it expanded to
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California to New York, to Massachusetts to Ohio, one state
after another, and then it was in one agency after another.
It wasn't just the USDA, and it wasn't just in
healthcare though it was in healthcare, big time still continues
to be. The fraud in medicare is off the charts
here in California, and DOSEE was extremely instrumental in that
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they were the driving factor to get the ball rolling
to where we are today. Now. The challenge is to
keep it going. We need more of these investigations, we
need more court cases, we need to see evidence, and
if people are phone guilty, people need to go to jail.
The more that that happens, the sooner this gets cleaned up,
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and the less we get ripped off. So thanks for
the note. I'd work on your grammar and clean up
your language a little bit, but you're off base because
Doge did a whole lot, a whole lot, right all right,
Time for a quick break.
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six forty.
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This says KFI AM six forty. We are live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. My name is Sam Shane and
for John Cobolt. Good to be here today on this Tuesday.
Glad you could be part of the program. This midtown Manhattan,
I don't know if you want to call it a
high rise, because it's not like one of the tallest
buildings in Manhattan. It's thirty seven stories. I mean, it's
pretty good size. This has been a troubled building for
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quite some time. We're now learning. If you're just joining
us right now or you haven't heard the story, it's
a thirty seven story building. It's on the east side
of Manhattan, and they're concerned that it's on the verge
of collapsing. Some of the flooring seems to be buckling
right now between the twenty first and twenty six floors
or the remodeling project going on, and they're turning it
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into a residential building. So that said, they were called
out there this morning to see what's going on, and
then they discovered it's buckling and it may collapse, and
they've had to evacuate nearby buildings. Well, now we're learning
for the first time that it was previously cited for
twenty two violations, this one building, and according to the
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Department of Buildings database, the building's owner owes the city
thirty nine thousand dollars in fines tied to violations. It's,
according to a Fox News correspondent, to be Cotton at
least thirteen violations remain active, including one from August after
a metal panel fell from the thirty third floor and
landed on the sidewalk. Can you imagine having that thing
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land right next to you as you're walking down in
the streets of Manhattan. At any rate, that's the latest
on the building. They're still very concerned about it, and
it's a strength structurally interesting clip I want to roll
off for you right now. This has to do with
what's going on with the United States Supreme Court and
the Democrat Party. Members of the Democrat Party have been
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actively talking about making the United States Supreme Court bigger,
with more adding more justices. And there's even some discussion,
by the way, as I was getting ready for the
program today from some of the socialist Democrats who are
a rising in prominence in the Democrat Party talking about
expanding the size of the House of Representatives and having
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no limit to the number of representatives in the House
of Representatives. Isn't that amazing? That's radical capital are But
part of the active discussion with a lot of Democrats
has been about expanding the size of the US Supreme Court.
And Congresswoman Promela Jayapaul, she is the Democrat from Washington
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State says yes, Democrat lawmakers are absolutely talking about this,
expanding the US Supreme Court and implementing term limits on
the US Supreme Court. Here's a portion of what she
said on MS now.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Absolutely, it is absolutely. I mean, look, we need a
Supreme Court that is not beholden to corporate interests, to
any president, but is actually willing to interpret the law
and not reinterpret it and revisit settled decisions. And this
court has shown over and over again that it is
incapable of doing that. Need to expand the court. We
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need term limits, and we need an ethics and transparency
standard that matches other courts.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And we need more liberal justices. She didn't include that part.
That was the part she left out. That's what she wants.
That's what Democrats clearly want. They don't like the makeup
of the court. It's too conservative, and that's where they
want to go with that. She said that they're going
to talk about it. We'll see, of course, if they
win control of the House of Representatives and win the
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Crowle United States Senate. I mean, there could at least
be discussions on it. That's not something that can just happen.
There would take a lot of work for them to
achieve that goal of expanding the size of the US
Supreme Court. But it's part of what they have to say.
Speaking of Washington State, that's where she's from. Big game
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last night. That didn't go very well, now did it?
Lost four to one? That was pretty one side of
Belgium just took it to the US on that deal.
So Belgium will be playing out in so far and
that'll be quite a game. I guess. Ticket prices for
that game are already just soaring. They have been everywhere,
you know. Attendance records have just been they crushed, attendance
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records in the United States. TV ratings have been great.
It's really it's been a success. The World Cup in
the United States has been a success. We played a
clip yesterday from a guy from Germany who said, when
I was in Germany, I was afraid to come to
the United States because of all the reports of murder
and crime and so on. And then he got here
and he says, I like this place. You got a
good country. So this is in the Daily Mail. Outraged
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Seattle residents blast woke Democrats who cleaned up the city
just for World Cup. Visitors. Yeah, So Democrat leaders of
Washington State and Seattle are under fire by locals for
what they did downtown. For years, Seattle has struggled with
open drug use on their streets. I'm sure you've seen
the pictures of Seattle. It's too bad. I lived in
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Seattle for some time. It's a beautiful city, and it's
a shame of what they've allowed to happen in that city.
So the city has a total population of eight hundred
and twenty three thousand, homeless population of about seventeen thousand,
which is significantly lower than LA's numbers were at sixty
seven thousand, eight hundred homeless. That's the latest count in
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LA New York City one hundred and twenty five thousand.
But the percentage share of homeless in Seattle much higher
than both LA and New York, so percentage wise it's higher.
Well at any rate, the bottom line is they cleaned
up a lot of the downtown Seattle area because of course,
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the World Cup was there. And the last time I
heard a story like this was in San Francisco when
they cleaned up the streets of San Francisco. Because the
leaders from around the world, including China, Exigipang were in
San Francisco for a major conference, and all of a sudden,
the streets got clean. They look great. And now we're
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hearing the same thing about Seattle. We shall see. I
know someone who does business in downtown Seattle, and this
was a couple of years ago. I had talked with
him and he said to me, I have to hire
two security guards per day to be there together from
open to close, because they're being so overrun with the
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homeless crisis. This isn't right in the heart of downtown Seattle,
you know. And if you've been there, with the open
air fish market and so on, it's a great walking town. Great.
I mean, I've said, when the sun shines there, there's
no prettier place on the planet for my money. But
they've had a lot of fixing to do. So we'll
see what happens now with Seattle once the World Cup
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moves up moves on, which it will now and then
not too distant future. We're just weeks away from them.
So the time now is approaching forty two minutes past
the hour. I've got an interesting clip I want to
play for you in the final segment of the program,
and it's a from someone you might be familiar with,
actor and filmmaker Edward Norton, and he's talking a little
bit about energy in California, and so many people in
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California seem to appride themselves on what they believe is
innovation in energy in this state. And he did an
interesting interview he said that, yeah, not so much. No,
especially when it comes to solar energy. We're trailing some
other states. So we'll get into that with him and
we'll roll that clip for you straight ahead.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
This is KFI A six forty. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. My name is Sam Shane, sitting in
for John Coble today. It's been my pleasure to be
here spending some time with you. Appreciate your patience with
me and for spending some time with me. Every once
in a while you come across a story and you're like,
I don't know if I believe that. And this is
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just one of them. Being reported in the Daily Mail.
Former rep Resident of Marjorie Taylor Green She's Back, has
made the extraordinary claim that there is a quote one
hundred percent chance that Senator Mitch McConnell's wife, Elaine Chau,
is a Chinese communist spy, because she took a trip
to China while her husband is in the hospital. So
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she said, his wife flew to China and with the
Vice President of China just days after he basically died,
and they brought him back to life with CPR and
took him to the hospital. So he did apparently did
have CPR and likely suffered a cardiac arrest. We are
just beginning to learn that within the past few days,
and this happened about a month ago. You know, a
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lot of details about his health have been kept secret.
We have learned today that a number of people say
that they have been on the phone speaking with him
at length on some substantive issues, so that he is
he's doing well. There was this report floating around out
here that dobut there that he was quoting brain debt.
According to anonymous sources. In this one report, the debt
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does not sound like it's the case. That's not been
the reporting today. But for some reason, Marjorie Taylor Green
MTG thinks that his wife is a spy because she
left him while he's in the hospital to go meet
with top Chinese officials. So that's an interesting take. I
want to cover here quickly, our energy here in California.
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And there are so many people in California who would
tell you, well, you know, we are the center of innovation. Man,
We're just out front on just virtually everything, whether it's
high tech or energy or what have you. And that
may not be the case, especially when it comes to
solar energy. Especially when you hear the next clip that
you're about to hear from actor and filmmaker Edward Norton.
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He's talking about this in a recent interview and he
says California, despite its reputation as an innovative state when
it comes to energy, is actually trailing other states when
it comes to solar energy. And he says major power
companies in California are essentially running a cartel and are
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working to prevent solar power from taking over the power grid.
So he did an interview on Team Cocoa podcasts, and
I want you to listen to him talk specifically about
some of the commissions and the boards that are appointed
to oversee these companies, and he's concerned about that because
that's frankly been a concern of mine for quite some time.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
They do not want people off the crack pipe of
their product. They do not want people collecting energy behind
the meter. And you know, this is a state that
should be energy independent.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I mean this.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
You know, this is a state that could, should have,
should have giggle watts of residential distributed solar. But we
are shackled to these utility cartels and we allow them
to write our state policy. And I mean, you know,
I hate to say it, but like you know, when
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you see Texas and Florida under Abbot and DeSantis with
more progressive policy towards solar than the state of California,
then you're in the upside down world, do you know
what I mean?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
The upside down world. So let's just take up one
commission slash board as an example, the CPUC, and it's
the California Public Utilities Commission, and they oversee energy and
energy prices, and they're the ones who regulate you know,
the major southern medicine and the PGNE and the major
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power companies in California are regulated by them. They're supposed
to be a voice for us. There have been numerous
reports of extraordinarily cozy relationships between power companies and these
regulators for many, many, many years. They're appointed by the governor.
Often times these major power companies will be giving significant
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donations to the governor, and so we're a wash with
a money issue. And then the other aspect is this,
this is a very convenient way for lawmakers to run
a state so that they can avoid having to answer
directly to voters. See, all you do is you set
up a board or a commission, and then you can
appoint the members to the board or commission, and then
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they're going to make the tough decisions, but they don't
have to answer to the voters. But they're beholden to
you because you appointed them to that position. It's a great,
great relationship for them, not so much for the consumer.
And as Edward Norton appropriately pointed out here, that doesn't
serve us well at all, not at all, and we
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are now trailing places like Texas and Florida. We're not
that innovative when it comes to solar because they want
to keep selling us electricity and it's in their best
interest financially to do that. I thought it was a
great point. I really did Yep. Good point by actor
and filmmaker Edward Norton bringing us some information, bringing it
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to light about what's going on with our energy. We
had a listener who has been listening to the program
who left a quick message, you've been listening on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
So Mitch McConnell might be brain dere or was brain dead.
I think there was somebody higher than him in office
for four years and long before that in the Senate
and stuff, and his name was Joe Biden. Pretty much
brain dead.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
You know, on that topic. And I think that this
is really becoming a big, big issue as we approached
the midterms in November and the rise of young socialists
in the Democrat Party. This may very well play into
that in that we have a lot of lawmakers who
have been there for a long long time, and there's
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a growing number of Americans, especially young America, who feel
like these folks are completely out of touch with what
I'm dealing with in my life on a day to
day basis, And you could see a transformation more young Democrats,
more young Republicans in this midterm. I would not be
at all surprised if we see that there could be
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I remember way back in the day they used to
call it throw the bums out. I don't think they're
going to call it that, but I do think that
there's going to be a generational type of change that's
going to be taking place, not just in the midterms,
but in twenty twenty eight. I think we're kind of
at that cycle right now. I get that sense. We
shall see. So in Washington, d C. For quite some time,
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they were fixated on the ballroom, and then they became
fixated on the reflecting pool. And now you know what
might be next. The helicopter pad. Uh huh, a helipad.
President Trump has now confirmed that he is constructing a
granite helipad for Marine one on the White House South
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lawn right there. I think that's where they have the
big UFC fight. Pretty sure that's the location. He said
it's going to be paid for by Sikorski Aircraft, which
is a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin and Sikorski Aircraft makes
helicopters that transport the president. Uh huh. True story. So
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this is a direct quote, and can't you just you
can hear him say this. So now we're building a
helipad a beautiful helipad. It's got the seal of the
White House on it in granite, in carved granite. It's
really a beautiful thing. Trump said while taking reporters questions
at the Oval Office. I wonder how fixated now they'll become.
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Not on the reflecting pool, not on the ballroom, but
maybe the next one. The next target is going to
be the helipad. The granite helipad being built constructed as
we speak, on the south lawn of the White House.
It has been my absolute pleasure to be here with
you for the last three hours and filling in for
John Cobbelt. It's a real honor for me to fill
in on John's program. He is the staff and crew
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them enough, and I can't thank you enough. So with that,
I'll say maybe next time, whatever that might be. I'm
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I'm Sam Jane and for John Cobbolt. Good to have
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you here, appreciate it. We're going to talk a little
bit more about I don't know if you've heard about
the Bishnoid Gang. They're out of Indie in India, run
by a guy in jail in India, by the way,
and they are worldwide and they are, according to leading
investigators and prosecutors, an extraordinarily violent organization. So we're going
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to get into who they are and what took place
in California that is so important in just a moment.
But before we do that, I want to get into
a story that has a direct impact on what's going
on in Los Angeles, and it has to do with
apartments and apartment buildings being sold in particular locations and
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a vote that just took place today with the County
of LA. This actually was brought to my attention from
one of our listeners who left a voicema has been
listening on the iHeartRadio app. And I'll play for you
this short message. There's one correction to make on this.
I must note that before we play, and I'll give
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you the correction on the other side. But here's what
the listener to say.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Today, the Los Angeles City Council is voting on whether
landlords can sell their apartment buildings on the open market
or if they have to offer it to a city
NGO first, and the NGO has two hundred days to
scrape up their money before a landlord can put their
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building on an open market Communism.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
For the most For the most part, that's spot on.
It's not the LA City Council, however, it's the LA
County Board of Supervisors. So this is the latest development
via LAist in some of their reporting. In what has
been described as an effort to prevent more corporate landlords
from displacing Los Angeles renters, the LA County Board of
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Supervisors has decided now to move forward with plans to
require a new step in the process of selling certain
apartment buildings. The board has voted unanimously to develop Community
Opportunity to Purchase Act. If passed on a final vote,
the law would compel apartment owners to notify affordable housing
groups I e government when they put certain buildings up
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for sale in unincorporated parts of La County. We're talking
about nonprofits and NGOs getting the first crack at these
apartment buildings instead of the private sector, thereby giving the
deep state even more control. You have to run it
all through an NGO or a nonprofit before it even
hits the market. Now, these are bigger units, by the way.
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These are apartment buildings that would be more than five
housing units or more, and it would be in unincorporated
areas like East La City, Terrace, Alta, Dina, And it's
based on past property sales data. The rules would apply
anywhere from thirty to one hundred and thirty listings each year.
So those are some of the details. But this is
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exactly what we were talking about earlier in the program,
NGOs and nonprofits and how they have just grown in
their importance and numbers in California. And what are they
doing with all of this money sloshing around in an
Why can't you just put that on the market and
let the free market take care and bring the house
and prices down. I mean, it's a supplying demand issue.
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And when government has come in to run housing in
the past. How effective has that really been in creating
good quality housing number one? And keeping rents down number two.
I mean, when you go into some marketplaces like San Francisco,
when you look at the rents right now, they're not cheap.
They're not cheap. So that's the latest out of La County,
and that's what the Board of Supervisors. That's the vote.
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It's not the final vote, but the caller was right
in terms of offering it up to NGOs at least
for those bigger apartment complexes. I want to talk about
the Bishnoi gang. This is such an interesting story to me.
This is a very big story internationally, and it's getting
a little bit of attention. You know, we heard Debora
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Mark talk a little bit about it during the news Update.
But I want to give you just a little bit
more detail so you understand how big of an operation
investigation this was. Federal agents in California. They have crushed
an arm of this transnational organized crime syndicate a whole
bunch of raids today, at least eleven accused criminals in California,
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over a dozen more in the US, Canada and Europe.
That's how widespread this was. Geographically. Los Angeles federal agents
led the global takedown of the India based Bishnoi Gang,
a global mob blamed for extortion, drug dealing, in the
assassination of political figures, industrialists, actors, and musicians in North
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America and in India. These guys are violent, they're vicious.
As of early this morning, agents had concluded at least
fifty raids in the US, Canada, and Europe. They had
taken at least two dozen suspects into custody, twenty two
hundred pounds of cocaine and heroin, forty thousand dollars in cash,
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dozens of firearms. There were twenty three search warrants executed
in Sacramento area, eleven in the LA area. This gives
you the idea of the scope bill a sale you
heard briefly from him just moments ago, but he said
the defendant's charge in today's indicamond are alleged who have
engaged in some of the most violent and barbaric activities
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we have seen. There will be zero tolerance for violent
gangs in our communities, especially those from foreign nations who
are not legally present in our country. So the Bishnoi
Gang has been designated as a terrorist organization by the
Canadian government. And Patrick Brown is the mayor of Brampton,
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which is a city in Canada, and officials in Canada
have listed the Bishnoy Gang a terrorist organization. Less than
one year ago is when they did this. And here's
what Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown told CBC News in.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Peel Region, the Bishnoi Gang has terrorized our community with extortions,
with murder, homicides and violence that is frankly heinous. If
I'd say the most active transnational criminal organizations in the GTA,
we're probably looking at the Sonola Cartel and the Bishnoi Gang.
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And law enforcement was pleading for this tool, saying that
the Bishnoi Gang is extremely sophisticated, extremely well resourced, and
they needed these tools to combat them in our region.
And I've got great confidence in our local law enforcement
when they say they need this tool. It's why I
advocated for them.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
They called this operation Hardball. They said the Bishnoi Gang
has engaged in racketeering, targeted killing, shooting, extortion, large scale
drug trafficking, other crimes and it's led by thirty three
year old Lawrence Bishnoi, a gangster who's been in prison
in India for a long time and he's running the
entire operation from his jail cell. These guys are a
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big time and they took him down, and the Feds
took him down. Today I want to get into what
is I find to be a very heartwarming story of
a young woman who is celebrating for becoming the first
American woman and fastest person to successfully roll a boat
solo from California to Hawaii. So we're going to roll
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out audio on that straight ahead.
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And I want to thank the crew of the staff,
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and so friendly, including the listeners. You guys have sent
me some very nice messages which I do really appreciate.
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Doze is done. I don't know if you're following, you
know the time work and the timeframe of DOGE. The
Department of Government Efficiency formally closed operations over the weekend
July fourth, investigating fraud government wide integral part of Trump's agenda.
So they posted on X far and away, the best
prize that life offers is the chance to work hard
(09:01):
at work worth doing. That's what they wrote. The formal
mission of DOZE has come to an end. The mission
to eliminate waste, fraud and reduce will continue this it will.
That's just part of what they wrote. So how much
money do you think DOZE is saved? I mean, according
to some of the reports that are out there, DOSEE
has saved taxpayers in the neighborhood of two hundred and
(09:22):
fourteen billion dollars in assets, sales, lease and grant cancelations, fraud,
improper payment deletion, savings on the Internet, regulatory savings, workforce reduction,
so on and so forth. You got to think that
it's probably even bigger than that. I mean, Elon Musk
get indicated as Kay Grimes joined us earlier in the program,
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and she's from the California Globe and she's been reporting
on this for quite some time. And Elon Musk, as
you were recall when you took over does said, well,
we found out pretty quickly that there was a lot
more fraud in corruption than we had any idea. Now
they're going to continue, apparently continue on with the mission
in the Trump administration. While DOZE itself may be formally closing,
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the Trump administration has continued its work to crack down
a waste, fraud and abuse across the federal government. And
they cite, by the way, what we were just talking about,
the US Department of Agriculture USDA. The secretary of that agency,
Brook Rollins, put out a post just yesterday about her
(10:26):
department's efforts to crack down on that food stamp fraud
in Los Angeles and elsewhere. But a long skid row.
That was a big bust. That was a very big bust,
and was part of what they were doing in the
US Department of Agriculture USDA. And there's more investigations. There
are more investigations to come from them alone on SNAP.
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Snap needs a lot of cleaning up. When you look
at the amount of fraud just in California alone, estimated
to be about eleven percent of the entire budget, which
by the way, is more than twelve billion dollars. The
entire budget. So it's an excess of one billion dollars.
It needs to be cleaned up. Okay, this is I think,
just a great story. It really is. I don't know
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what's on your bucket list, but there are things on
people's bucket lists. They say, well, I'd like to skydive,
and you know that's never necessarily appealed to me. Don't
know why. I think you have to have a certain gene,
a certain chromosome to want to do some of these things.
And this is something that I can say I've never
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even given one thought about doing, but Kelsey Fendler has
done it. An American rower. Kelsey Fendler celebrating making history.
So Fendler is a river rafting guide, and she has
become the first American woman and the fastest person to
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successfully row a boat solo from California to Hawaii. That's
a long trip. Even with somebody, it's a longer trip solo,
I would imagine. Here's a portion of a report aired
by ABC seven in the Bay Area on her accomplishment.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
This morning, Kelsey Fendler is celebrating after making history the
Grand Canyon river rafting guide, becoming the first American woman
to row solo across the Mid Pacific.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
It was very surreal. I think it was hard to
like soak in that I had actually made it.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Hundreds gathering along Honolulu Harbor as the thirty two year
old pulled in completing the historic trip from California to Hawaii.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Because it was very intense and just that there were
so many people there and it was very wonderful.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
She began her twenty four hundred mile journey on May twenty, first.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Day one, becoming the first American woman to row solo
from California to Hawaiian.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Good for her, Good for her. Thirty two years old
finished on Friday, July third. Hundreds of people gathered along
the Hanolulu Harbor to greet her and cheer her on.
So congratulations, Kelsey Fendler. Every once in a while, we
have some good stories to share with you. Got some
feedback from a listener doesn't care for me. Yeah, I'm
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not gonna I'm not gonna actually play it, but I
will just kind of read portions of it because I've
got to kind of keep it clean. You're a stupid
a and a liar. Those didn't do nothing for nobody,
and they didn't say whatever so, uh, didn't do nothing.
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That's that's a double negative. You want to stay away
from that. It would be didn't do anything. If you're
gonna if you're going to write it properly, it's didn't
do anything for anybody, not didn't do nothing for nobody. Yeah,
they did. They did a lot. They did a lot.
They were instrumental in Americans for the very first time
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understanding how badly we've been getting ripped off. This has
been going on in America for a long long time,
a long time. There have been people profiting off of
our work. Our sweat are hard work when we pay
our taxes, and then it's funneled into NGOs and nonprofits
and contracts and there are kickbacks, and we just started
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to understand the level of it when Somalias go into
a place like Minnesota and are able to allegedly take
hundreds of millions of dollars when they get into this country.
And that's where it started, and then it expanded to
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California to New York, to Massachusetts to Ohio, one state
after another, and then it was in one agency after another.
It wasn't just the USDA, and it wasn't just in
healthcare though it was in healthcare, big time still continues
to be. The fraud in medicare is off the charts
here in California, and DOSEE was extremely instrumental in that
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they were the driving factor to get the ball rolling
to where we are today. Now. The challenge is to
keep it going. We need more of these investigations, we
need more court cases, we need to see evidence, and
if people are phone guilty, people need to go to jail.
The more that that happens, the sooner this gets cleaned up,
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and the less we get ripped off. So thanks for
the note. I'd work on your grammar and clean up
your language a little bit, but you're off base because
Doge did a whole lot, a whole lot, right all right,
Time for a quick break.
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This says KFI AM six forty. We are live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. My name is Sam Shane and
for John Cobolt. Good to be here today on this Tuesday.
Glad you could be part of the program. This midtown Manhattan,
I don't know if you want to call it a
high rise, because it's not like one of the tallest
buildings in Manhattan. It's thirty seven stories. I mean, it's
pretty good size. This has been a troubled building for
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quite some time. We're now learning. If you're just joining
us right now or you haven't heard the story, it's
a thirty seven story building. It's on the east side
of Manhattan, and they're concerned that it's on the verge
of collapsing. Some of the flooring seems to be buckling
right now between the twenty first and twenty six floors
or the remodeling project going on, and they're turning it
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into a residential building. So that said, they were called
out there this morning to see what's going on, and
then they discovered it's buckling and it may collapse, and
they've had to evacuate nearby buildings. Well, now we're learning
for the first time that it was previously cited for
twenty two violations, this one building, and according to the
(17:00):
Department of Buildings database, the building's owner owes the city
thirty nine thousand dollars in fines tied to violations. It's,
according to a Fox News correspondent, to be Cotton at
least thirteen violations remain active, including one from August after
a metal panel fell from the thirty third floor and
landed on the sidewalk. Can you imagine having that thing
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land right next to you as you're walking down in
the streets of Manhattan. At any rate, that's the latest
on the building. They're still very concerned about it, and
it's a strength structurally interesting clip I want to roll
off for you right now. This has to do with
what's going on with the United States Supreme Court and
the Democrat Party. Members of the Democrat Party have been
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actively talking about making the United States Supreme Court bigger,
with more adding more justices. And there's even some discussion,
by the way, as I was getting ready for the
program today from some of the socialist Democrats who are
a rising in prominence in the Democrat Party talking about
expanding the size of the House of Representatives and having
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no limit to the number of representatives in the House
of Representatives. Isn't that amazing? That's radical capital are But
part of the active discussion with a lot of Democrats
has been about expanding the size of the US Supreme Court.
And Congresswoman Promela Jayapaul, she is the Democrat from Washington
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State says yes, Democrat lawmakers are absolutely talking about this,
expanding the US Supreme Court and implementing term limits on
the US Supreme Court. Here's a portion of what she
said on MS now.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Absolutely, it is absolutely. I mean, look, we need a
Supreme Court that is not beholden to corporate interests, to
any president, but is actually willing to interpret the law
and not reinterpret it and revisit settled decisions. And this
court has shown over and over again that it is
incapable of doing that. Need to expand the court. We
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need term limits, and we need an ethics and transparency
standard that matches other courts.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And we need more liberal justices. She didn't include that part.
That was the part she left out. That's what she wants.
That's what Democrats clearly want. They don't like the makeup
of the court. It's too conservative, and that's where they
want to go with that. She said that they're going
to talk about it. We'll see, of course, if they
win control of the House of Representatives and win the
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Crowle United States Senate. I mean, there could at least
be discussions on it. That's not something that can just happen.
There would take a lot of work for them to
achieve that goal of expanding the size of the US
Supreme Court. But it's part of what they have to say.
Speaking of Washington State, that's where she's from. Big game
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last night. That didn't go very well, now did it?
Lost four to one? That was pretty one side of
Belgium just took it to the US on that deal.
So Belgium will be playing out in so far and
that'll be quite a game. I guess. Ticket prices for
that game are already just soaring. They have been everywhere,
you know. Attendance records have just been they crushed, attendance
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records in the United States. TV ratings have been great.
It's really it's been a success. The World Cup in
the United States has been a success. We played a
clip yesterday from a guy from Germany who said, when
I was in Germany, I was afraid to come to
the United States because of all the reports of murder
and crime and so on. And then he got here
and he says, I like this place. You got a
good country. So this is in the Daily Mail. Outraged
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Seattle residents blast woke Democrats who cleaned up the city
just for World Cup. Visitors. Yeah, So Democrat leaders of
Washington State and Seattle are under fire by locals for
what they did downtown. For years, Seattle has struggled with
open drug use on their streets. I'm sure you've seen
the pictures of Seattle. It's too bad. I lived in
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Seattle for some time. It's a beautiful city, and it's
a shame of what they've allowed to happen in that city.
So the city has a total population of eight hundred
and twenty three thousand, homeless population of about seventeen thousand,
which is significantly lower than LA's numbers were at sixty
seven thousand, eight hundred homeless. That's the latest count in
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LA New York City one hundred and twenty five thousand.
But the percentage share of homeless in Seattle much higher
than both LA and New York, so percentage wise it's higher.
Well at any rate, the bottom line is they cleaned
up a lot of the downtown Seattle area because of course,
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the World Cup was there. And the last time I
heard a story like this was in San Francisco when
they cleaned up the streets of San Francisco. Because the
leaders from around the world, including China, Exigipang were in
San Francisco for a major conference, and all of a sudden,
the streets got clean. They look great. And now we're
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hearing the same thing about Seattle. We shall see. I
know someone who does business in downtown Seattle, and this
was a couple of years ago. I had talked with
him and he said to me, I have to hire
two security guards per day to be there together from
open to close, because they're being so overrun with the
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homeless crisis. This isn't right in the heart of downtown Seattle,
you know. And if you've been there, with the open
air fish market and so on, it's a great walking town. Great.
I mean, I've said, when the sun shines there, there's
no prettier place on the planet for my money. But
they've had a lot of fixing to do. So we'll
see what happens now with Seattle once the World Cup
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moves up moves on, which it will now and then
not too distant future. We're just weeks away from them.
So the time now is approaching forty two minutes past
the hour. I've got an interesting clip I want to
play for you in the final segment of the program,
and it's a from someone you might be familiar with,
actor and filmmaker Edward Norton, and he's talking a little
bit about energy in California, and so many people in
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California seem to appride themselves on what they believe is
innovation in energy in this state. And he did an
interesting interview he said that, yeah, not so much. No,
especially when it comes to solar energy. We're trailing some
other states. So we'll get into that with him and
we'll roll that clip for you straight ahead.
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This is KFI A six forty. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. My name is Sam Shane, sitting in
for John Coble today. It's been my pleasure to be
here spending some time with you. Appreciate your patience with
me and for spending some time with me. Every once
in a while you come across a story and you're like,
I don't know if I believe that. And this is
(23:56):
just one of them. Being reported in the Daily Mail.
Former rep Resident of Marjorie Taylor Green She's Back, has
made the extraordinary claim that there is a quote one
hundred percent chance that Senator Mitch McConnell's wife, Elaine Chau,
is a Chinese communist spy, because she took a trip
to China while her husband is in the hospital. So
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she said, his wife flew to China and with the
Vice President of China just days after he basically died,
and they brought him back to life with CPR and
took him to the hospital. So he did apparently did
have CPR and likely suffered a cardiac arrest. We are
just beginning to learn that within the past few days,
and this happened about a month ago. You know, a
(24:42):
lot of details about his health have been kept secret.
We have learned today that a number of people say
that they have been on the phone speaking with him
at length on some substantive issues, so that he is
he's doing well. There was this report floating around out
here that dobut there that he was quoting brain debt.
According to anonymous sources. In this one report, the debt
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does not sound like it's the case. That's not been
the reporting today. But for some reason, Marjorie Taylor Green
MTG thinks that his wife is a spy because she
left him while he's in the hospital to go meet
with top Chinese officials. So that's an interesting take. I
want to cover here quickly, our energy here in California.
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And there are so many people in California who would
tell you, well, you know, we are the center of innovation. Man,
We're just out front on just virtually everything, whether it's
high tech or energy or what have you. And that
may not be the case, especially when it comes to
solar energy. Especially when you hear the next clip that
you're about to hear from actor and filmmaker Edward Norton.
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He's talking about this in a recent interview and he
says California, despite its reputation as an innovative state when
it comes to energy, is actually trailing other states when
it comes to solar energy. And he says major power
companies in California are essentially running a cartel and are
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working to prevent solar power from taking over the power grid.
So he did an interview on Team Cocoa podcasts, and
I want you to listen to him talk specifically about
some of the commissions and the boards that are appointed
to oversee these companies, and he's concerned about that because
that's frankly been a concern of mine for quite some time.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
They do not want people off the crack pipe of
their product. They do not want people collecting energy behind
the meter. And you know, this is a state that
should be energy independent.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I mean this.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
You know, this is a state that could, should have,
should have giggle watts of residential distributed solar. But we
are shackled to these utility cartels and we allow them
to write our state policy. And I mean, you know,
I hate to say it, but like you know, when
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you see Texas and Florida under Abbot and DeSantis with
more progressive policy towards solar than the state of California,
then you're in the upside down world, do you know
what I mean?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
The upside down world. So let's just take up one
commission slash board as an example, the CPUC, and it's
the California Public Utilities Commission, and they oversee energy and
energy prices, and they're the ones who regulate you know,
the major southern medicine and the PGNE and the major
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power companies in California are regulated by them. They're supposed
to be a voice for us. There have been numerous
reports of extraordinarily cozy relationships between power companies and these
regulators for many, many, many years. They're appointed by the governor.
Often times these major power companies will be giving significant
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donations to the governor, and so we're a wash with
a money issue. And then the other aspect is this,
this is a very convenient way for lawmakers to run
a state so that they can avoid having to answer
directly to voters. See, all you do is you set
up a board or a commission, and then you can
appoint the members to the board or commission, and then
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they're going to make the tough decisions, but they don't
have to answer to the voters. But they're beholden to
you because you appointed them to that position. It's a great,
great relationship for them, not so much for the consumer.
And as Edward Norton appropriately pointed out here, that doesn't
serve us well at all, not at all, and we
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are now trailing places like Texas and Florida. We're not
that innovative when it comes to solar because they want
to keep selling us electricity and it's in their best
interest financially to do that. I thought it was a
great point. I really did Yep. Good point by actor
and filmmaker Edward Norton bringing us some information, bringing it
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to light about what's going on with our energy. We
had a listener who has been listening to the program
who left a quick message, you've been listening on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
So Mitch McConnell might be brain dere or was brain dead.
I think there was somebody higher than him in office
for four years and long before that in the Senate
and stuff, and his name was Joe Biden. Pretty much
brain dead.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
You know, on that topic. And I think that this
is really becoming a big, big issue as we approached
the midterms in November and the rise of young socialists
in the Democrat Party. This may very well play into
that in that we have a lot of lawmakers who
have been there for a long long time, and there's
(29:57):
a growing number of Americans, especially young America, who feel
like these folks are completely out of touch with what
I'm dealing with in my life on a day to
day basis, And you could see a transformation more young Democrats,
more young Republicans in this midterm. I would not be
at all surprised if we see that there could be
(30:17):
I remember way back in the day they used to
call it throw the bums out. I don't think they're
going to call it that, but I do think that
there's going to be a generational type of change that's
going to be taking place, not just in the midterms,
but in twenty twenty eight. I think we're kind of
at that cycle right now. I get that sense. We
shall see. So in Washington, d C. For quite some time,
(30:38):
they were fixated on the ballroom, and then they became
fixated on the reflecting pool. And now you know what
might be next. The helicopter pad. Uh huh, a helipad.
President Trump has now confirmed that he is constructing a
granite helipad for Marine one on the White House South
(31:01):
lawn right there. I think that's where they have the
big UFC fight. Pretty sure that's the location. He said
it's going to be paid for by Sikorski Aircraft, which
is a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin and Sikorski Aircraft makes
helicopters that transport the president. Uh huh. True story. So
(31:23):
this is a direct quote, and can't you just you
can hear him say this. So now we're building a
helipad a beautiful helipad. It's got the seal of the
White House on it in granite, in carved granite. It's
really a beautiful thing. Trump said while taking reporters questions
at the Oval Office. I wonder how fixated now they'll become.
(31:45):
Not on the reflecting pool, not on the ballroom, but
maybe the next one. The next target is going to
be the helipad. The granite helipad being built constructed as
we speak, on the south lawn of the White House.
It has been my absolute pleasure to be here with
you for the last three hours and filling in for
John Cobbelt. It's a real honor for me to fill
in on John's program. He is the staff and crew
(32:05):
have been extraordinarily helpful and very friendly. And can't thank
them enough, and I can't thank you enough. So with that,
I'll say maybe next time, whatever that might be. I'm
Sam Chane in for John Coblt. This is KFI AM
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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