April 23, 2024 • 35 mins
Blake Troli comes on the show to talk about a stabbing at the Metro station near Universal Studios and the intruder who broke into the Getty House as Mayor Karen Bass and her family were inside. Santa Monica has approved $1 million units for homeless housing. Debra Mark is back and details her travel debacle as she got stuck in the Dubai floods!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Caf I Am six forty. You're listening to the John
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the radio show, and you could listen to anything that
you didn't hear the first time. There is a lot
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going on today in Los Angeles. We have Blake Charlie
coming on for two stories in a few minutes. We're
gonna hear about the intruder at Karen Bass's house. She
ended up running to She had to hide in the
panic room because this guy got loose in the house
early in the morning. Another thing that happened early in
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the morning today is a woman got stabbed to death.
She was getting off the Metro B Line at Universal
City station in Studio City. And first we'll see what
that's about with Blake Trolley caff I knew Blake.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, John. This happened about five am this morning. This
is on the Bee Line formerly the Red Line. This
runs from Union Station up to North Hollywood. Well sometime
between the stop, you know, from downtown LA and Universal
City unprovoked. The way the LAPD has described this, a
man stabbed a woman. Now we're not sure how many
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times that woman was stabbed. We do know that at
some point she was stabbed in the neck. LAPD Detective
Megan Aguilar here saying she doesn't want to speculate on
how much this woman was stabbed, but that it was
a very violent scene. As she describes, there was a
lot of blood.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
But not being a medical professional, I'd be guessing if
I were to answer that question.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And that was her responding to the question of how
many times was this woman stabbed and was she stabbed
in the neck? Now, this woman gets off the train
at the Universal Universal City platform, and so does the
accused killer. She gets off the multiple people start calling
this into nine one one. I've seen a report that
some of the people calling into nine to one one
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would they were actually refusing to get close enough to
this woman to verify her condition. So that just really
speaks to possibly how violent this actually was and how
gory it was that people didn't even want to get
up close to this woman. About a half hour later,
a police did find and arrest a man who matched
the description of the accused killer. He was at Violent
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Inventura in Studio City, about a half mile away. The
way that police are describing this attack again is completely unprovoked.
They are saying that they're you know, nothing that they
can see, and mind you, they are looking at security
footage from this train shows any sort of provocation for
this attack.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Do we know anything about her? Was she coming home
or going to work? Was she a drifter? What? What
was her story? Do we know? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
From the latest update that we were given, they did
not release her identity. Again, this is because her family
needs to be codified that she was killed. Now, the
person that police have taken into custody as well, we
haven't learned anything about him. Keep in mind that the
last update that we got they said we believe we
have the man responsible for this killing in custody, but
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detectives are still interviewing this man to complete the arrest,
if you will. So she is one time, he's a
person of interest.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
She's walking off the train and he starts stabbing at
her and gets her in the neck. I guess a
number of times.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
The way that it was described to us is he
actually stabbed her on the train. Then she gets off
the train and he follows her off the train onto
the platform. It must have been absolutely terrifying.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Oh, he did it on the train.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
He did it on the train. He then followed her
off the train, is what we were told. And then
he continued on and then they arrested him about a
half mile away. You know, John, This morning we were
talking to passengers. A lot of them were blocked from
even getting on the train because they had it taped off.
It was a crime scene. Obviously, for hours, this train
was blocked up. One of the people I talked to
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was a high school student. She takes this train into
La then shoots back out to Santa Monica, where she
goes to school. And she says, you know, while she's
really sad to hear this, she's not surprised. She says,
she's seen quite a bit on these trains. Take a
listen to this. What do you hope to see as
a passenger on these trains?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I mean more like cops or something like Sorry, that's
like shocking for me. I wouldn't have expected that at all.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
So, yeah, so you don't feel safe writing the train.
Can you just give us an example some of the
things you've seen riding the train.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I mean one time I was sitting on the chain
and a man came up to me. He said the
inward to me, and then he spit on me, and
then there was a Metri ambassador on the chain at
that point. I mean my brother, I have a twin brother,
and literally people have like thrown punches at him. Nothing's happened.
I mean, there's been like a lot of crime on
the chain. I've seen a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
But I talked to another one, you know, did she
say Metro ambassador was there and did nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Did nothing? And she said she's witnessed a lot of
crime on the trains and the ambassadors have done nothing.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And you know.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
One thing I heard today, John, and we know that
now Metro does say the ambassadors are not security, they're
not really interchangeable.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
There were things.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
One of the things I thought you'd find interesting is
I spoke to one passenger today and she said people
behave differently when there's an ambassador versus when they're security.
This was another woman who said we need more security
on these trains. She said there's a clear difference in
the way people behave in front of an ambassador versus
an actual security guard.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Does the security carry guns? Do the carry guns or
any kind of a weapon.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Is well, you have you have all sorts of security
on a Metro train, or you have police they have guns,
your deputies they have guns. Metro has armed security themselves
and they have guns as right.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So when you say security, you're talking about various police
forces exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Various police forces, including Metro's own security. Now what I
had asked too at this press conference, if an officer
was president on the train. I was told no, security
was also not president. It sounds like the woman came
off the train, security guards who were working at the
platform tried to help this woman. They tried to provide
medical aid to her until paramedics responded.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, but until they stop these guys from boarding the train,
until they throw them out of the train station, and
it's pretty clear who the lunatics are, then you're going
to get more of this ambassadors. I mean, when are
they going to drop that nonsense with the ambassadors. You've
got to have armed police everywhere. Of course, people act
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differently because they don't want to get a bullet in
the head. Even a crazed homeless person knows not to
act up around the cop but an ambassador.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, the general sentiment we got this morning from writers
was that they feel that they do not feel safe
riding this system. Now, of course this happened at Universal City.
As we said, this is a huge tourist destination. So
a couple of some of the people that were being
impacted by this. I spoke to one woman, she was
from France trying to get on. I also spoke to
this couple they were in town from Germany. Take a
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listen to This kind of paints a picture, a different
picture of how their system works versus ours as it
pertains to safety. Take a listen.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yes, of course I'm a little bit afraid.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
And you hear it on the news that something can happen,
but it's it's surprising that it happens on our first
day here, that the station is closed because of such
a such a thing.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
What part of Germany, you guys, from?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Which part in the Berlin?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Okay, So in Berlin, do you have a lot of
stabbings and stuff like this on your trains?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
No?
Speaker 5 (07:34):
No, I think, of course it happens sometimes, but not
not much often. You hear it maybe one time a
year or so.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Maybe, yes, Germany, Germans don't put up with that sort
of thing, but there's no way German type away taking
care of those kind of problems. What and the thing
is in in in France and in Germany, a lot
of European countries, they actually are more civilized than we are,
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and they have they have patrols, they have law enforcement,
and they enforce rules as to how people have to
behave and they keep the trains clean. You come to America,
we're the ones who have like disgusting train stations and
disgusting trains and buses, bad behavior, violent behavior. It's us,
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it's our culture in Europe. I feel sorry for this
tourist because they're probably used to very orderly, clean, safe
public transit. We don't have that here. It's it's it's
a hell. Can you hang on? Tell us what happened
with Karen Bass?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
All right? Bike Charlie with Cafie News on the poor
woman who got stabbed to death walk on a train
at Universal City station in Studio City. Yeah. Can you
mentioned how many people are gonna be vacationing in California
and hear this, they're planning to go to the Universal
Theme Park. And this is this is how you. I mean,
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this is intolerable. This is absolutely intolerable. But Karen Dass,
you could even have somebody break into her house. I
saw her happy, smiley, chirping in front of the news reporters.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
I'm safe, We're safe. I want to make this. I'm
gonna make all Angelino's as safe as possible.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Well, you've got to have an ironclad policy that goes
after all the insane people, all the vagrants, all the
drug addicts, all the criminals, to put them away and
keep them away. And she won't do that. None of
these progressions will do that. So this is what happens.
One day, the mayor has her house broken into. The
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next day someone else is getting stabbed to death on
the train. That's because that's their policies. Simple change the policies,
as will go away go German.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I say, you're listening to John Coebelt on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Part two of Blake Trolley, the sequel, And in this episode,
Blake is gonna tell us who busted into Karen Bass's
home yesterday early in the morning and made it pretty
far into the home. Blake what's this about? Is he connected?
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Did he pass out? All right?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Is that working?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yes? Okay, I started talking.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I didn't even coming into my own headphone, so I
unplugged and plugged back in. So yeah, this happened yesterday
early yesterday morning, John, about six forty am, a guy
named frame Hunter is accused of busting the back glass
door into Mayor Bass's mansion. This is the Getty Mansion
and this is the official home that any sort of
la mayor lives in. So the guy busts in about
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six forty am yesterday morning, and now we're finding that
the guy made it to the second floor of the home.
Mayor Bass and her family members were home during this time.
It's a little bit unclear as to what happened between
the time the guy got in and got up to
the second floor, but we do know that the mayor
and her family members went into a panic room and
called police. Police responded and arrested the guy. They found
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the guy in the second floor. The way they described
the arrest police is that the guy was walking through
the house. Now, this guy does have a violent criminal past.
He served seven years in a Massachusetts state prison from
an assault with a deadly weapon conviction, prosecutor saying twenty fifteen,
fraim Or Hunter and three other people beat a man
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with a hammer and a snowbrush inside a van. This
happened just outside of Boston. So detectives at this point
they do not think this was random. They do not
think this was just some crazy guy breaking into the
mayor's home. They think that there may have been some intent,
is what we're being told.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Intend to attack Bass specifically, you.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Know, that's what we're working to figure out. I mean,
at least intent to break into her home specifically. When
you hear that violent pass, this really starts to bring
up those kind of Nancy Pelosi notes, doesn't it. I mean,
it has a very similar kind of feel.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah, well that's what I'm They haven't said whether they
have any evidence that he had some kind of issue
with Bass and that he was going to take it
out on her personally.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
You know, that's all going to come out here the
next few days. Detectives are going to have to turn
this over to prosecutors and they're going to have to
present the case. I would imagine, just given the scope
of this case, we're going to see La County DA
gascone give a press conference on this and probably lay
out all of those details. What has them believing this
and it could simply just be his criminal past.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Was the charge that you listed? Is that the only
one he has? Because I have a won news report
that said he was charged with kidnapping an attempted murder
in Massachusetts? Is that the same crime or is this
something else? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
That's all under the same crime. And it looks like
he was convicted in that case of assault with a
deadly weapon.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Oh I see, So he was originally charged maybe with
attempted murder and it was bargained down.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, that's what appears to me. I mean, especially when
you think about the crime. You're beating up a guy
in the back of a van, that would be your kidnapping.
But again it's still a very serious crime. Oh yeah,
what is he was convicted with.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I'm wondering if there's anything else out there. I mean,
considering that what he did yesterday and what he did
in this particular crime, this has to be a lifetime
dad guy, So I wonder if he's got a record
anywhere else. I also think seven years is pretty cheap
sentence if they originally had charged him with attempted murder.
This was this is part of the problem here. Things
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get fled down and then they get out early.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Well, also, let's take a look at the facts. He
was convicted in twenty fifteen of these crimes, So seven
years means he came out in twenty twenty two minimally, Yeah,
And usually there's a little bit of a time gap there,
so he could have gotten out in twenty twenty three,
So he hasn't really been out all that long. And
here he is breaking into Maribasa's home, and you know,
I know this has sparked some questions about security around
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the mayor's home. That's definitely a question I have is
how much security is even at the mayor's mansion. You'd
think there would be at least some level of twenty
four to seven surveillance.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
She got broken into before, didn't she.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
She did, but I believe that was her personal home.
This time it's the mayor's mansion that was broken into.
I think her personal home was broken into in the past,
if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And who lives with her in the mayor's mansion.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Well, the way this police report was described as her
family members so I assume her family is all there
with her, although we're still waiting on the report of
how many family members were there, you know, John, I
think maybe this is because it is mayor baths. There's
just a lot of details here that were still wait.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Well, I just I just know reading the next door
app on my side of town, a lot of people
when they have some kind of crime in their neighborhood,
they don't get much police response, especially if it's just
a burglary, you know, they don't get an instant response.
So that's why I wondered what was called in on
the nine one one that got the police there immediately,
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because that's, yeah, something the general public gets out of LAPD.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
No, and the only experience, the only thing that I've seen.
I covered a protest at the mayor's mansion a few
years ago. And I don't know if this is a
twenty four to seven situation, but when I covered a
protest at her house a few months ago, maybe it
was late last year, there were LAPD officers monitoring her
home at the time, but I thought that was just
for the protest, and they were maybe a quarter mile
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away keeping an eye on her property. Well, you mentioned
I don't know if that's a constant surveillance. I was
trying to figure that out this morning.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Well, you mentioned Nancy Pelosi. As it turns out, there
was no security at her at her house in San
Francisco when her husband got whacked in the head with
the hammer by that crazy guy. And they had a
camera that supposedly sent a picture back to some security
office in Washington, d C. But there was nobody watching it.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
So and she was speaker at the time, right, yeah,
she was.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yes, that happened a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I think there would be a lot more. I mean,
Mayor of La speaker of the house.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Sometimes they say, oh we have security again, that means yeah,
we got a camera at the front door. But then
you need someone watching the monitor. And we know nobody
watches the monitor because it's too boring. Even if they
have a guy in a chair there, the guy's probably
falling asleep. So I don't know, all right, Blake, when
you find out more, let us know. Okay, all right,
sounds good, John, All right, like Charlie K if I
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knew this's on this and uh, oh you need you know,
you know, they're they're trying to whip up enthusiasm for
the twenty twenty eight Olympics, and they wanted to be
the first car free Olympics, right, and Metro is going
to play a major role in that. And they want
to introduce the La subway system to the whole world
because there's going to be so many upgrades and line
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extensions and just so so so many more easy ways
to get around to view the Olympics. And then what
happens with on a day when foreign tourists want to
go to Universal five in the morning, somebody gets stabbed
to death, a really bloody, gory stabbing on a Metro
train at Universal City station. So there has to be
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and this has got to come from Bass, everyone in
the City Council and absolute mandate. We are getting all
the crazy people off the street and we're putting the
criminals in prison. And if they don't say those two lines,
then they're faking it. They don't care, and they're not
going to change anything. We'll talk more coming up.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Coming up next segment, we welcome Deborah Mark back after
two weeks on a far flung trip went to Maldives
and she went to Dubai, and her streak is intact. Yes,
she was in Dubai when they had that huge storm
and the worst flood in recorded history, the most rain
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in recorded history.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Yes, in one shot, I have some bad traveling karma.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah, were Eric and I wanted to go through the
history of your recent travels just as a public service.
So in case anybody ever ends up on the same
plane as you. Oh, I know, they should consider disembarking immediately.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
It's ridiculous. I don't even understand it.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
You don't even want to get into a taxi with her,
right something, something bad is going to happen. So that's
the next segment. We'll get into it now. In the
first half hour was the Blake trolley Show. Because Blake
is covering two stories. That's really embarrassing to Karen Bass
because she is her whole stick, and I know she's
hiding something darker. It's like Garcetti, right, Garcedi had that
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very neat, suave, buttoned up look, and you know the
stories would leak out about him behind the scenes, and
he had a messy background life and mental patient and
the same thing here with Karen Bass. You know, all
these politicians they feel they have to project a public
persona in order to be popular and attractive and to
get to get elected and have people trust them. And
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so it's a stick. It's a persona that you create,
and it's fake. And so her thing is the happy, peppy,
smiley mom. You know, she always sounds like she's talking
to a little kids Jimbree class. And I just saw
her on the TV a little bit ago.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Oh I'm fine, my family's fine, and I'm going to
continue working hard to make life safe for all Angelinos.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
And it's a load of horsecrat because she and everybody
else running Los Angeles City and County only do things
that make it worse. They have such a hard ideology
about not putting people in prison, you know, because of
the race issues. That's that really is the bottom line.
I keep reading the same story about all these politicians,
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and if it means putting people in prison and there's
gonna be some disproportionate aspect to it, then they're not
going to do it. So what you end up with
is nobody going to prison, nobody really, you know, you know,
the whole routine. They're not caught. If they're caught, the
charges are light, the sentences are light, or maybe not
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at all. And the end of it means a lot
of bad people either don't go to prison or they're
let out early. They're working both ends, and they've done
this now for let's see how long thirteen years. It's
been thirteen years, and you got you know, Prop forty seven,
you got Prop fifty seven, you got that bill that
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emptied out the prisons in twenty eleven. And this says
had a cumulative effect. You also have so many people
coming from all over the country to take advantage of
the lawlessness, and they can go layout on the beach,
lay out in the parks, layout in the sidewalks, and
nobody's going to stop them, nobody's going to tell them
what to do. And so now what do you have.
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You have a crazy person breaking into Karen Vass's house
and it turns out he was a very serious criminal
from Massachusetts, Ephram Hunter. Kidnapping, attempted murder. Huh, that's what
he was really originally charged with, but it was pled
down to assault with the deadly weapons. So he got
out in seven years. That's what I'm talking about. And
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then you have the I'm assuming this is a homeless
guy on the metro line at the Universal City station
went berserk and viciously, viciously stabbed a poor woman to
death again five in the morning. I mean, she was
stabbed so viciously and there's so much blood pouring out
of her, nobody would go nearer to help her. Meantime,
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in Santa Monica, they have gotten they have gotten one
hundred and twenty three million dollars that they're going to
spend on homelessness, and do you know what they're doing
with it. They are going to build an apartment building
with one hundred and twenty two units. Do the math
on that. One hundred and twenty two apartments for one
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hundred and twenty three million dollars, which means homeless in
Los Angeles County is now going for a million dollars
a unit. If you're a vagrant who's whacked out on drugs,
or let's say it's meth fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, all of it, right,
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Or you're a mental patient who has you know, severe schizophrenia, bipolar,
anything related, we'll give you a million dollar We'll give
you a million dollar home, a million dollars and Santa
Monica officials approved it last week. This came the same
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week as the California audit from the state auditor, and
he found that the state had blown twenty four billion
dollars on homelessness without any idea what it was spent
on and if it had any effect. And what better
way to celebrate an announcement of extreme incompetence and corruption
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than to have the City of Santa Monica spend its
own one hundred and twenty three million dollars on one
hundred and twenty two homeless apartments. Let's see who's their
mayor now? I think it seems to rotate, Phil Brock
Phil Brockhead. Moving forward and bringing affordable and permanent support
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of housing to city owned land is a key step
in our strategy to fulfill our housing element requirements. I
have no idea what that means. What is affordable when
you're spending a million dollars per apartment? Why? Why do
why do vagrants? Why do drug addicts and mental patients
deserve a million dollar home paid for by by their
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by by tax money. You people in Santa Monica, there's
no end to your insanity, is there? You actually are
willing to pay a million dollars for an apartment for
crazy homeless person who's gonna end up sparing his feces
all over the walls. That's just fascinating. See there is
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some kind of California Interagency Counsel on Homelessness, and it
is supposed to coordinate all the agencies and supposed to
allocate resources. And they're blaming local governments for blowing the
twenty four billion dollars, local governments like Santa Monica, saying, well,
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you got to hold them to account. You can't hold
us to account. Of course, this cow icch agency hands
the money to places like Santa Monica, but they never
follow up and keep track. They don't even make a
phone call and say, hey, Santa Monica, what'd you do
with that money? Although in this case, I guess they'd
have an answer, right, it wouldn't be it would be, hey,
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we're going to blow it on one hundred and twenty
two apartments. God, can you imagine if we did that
for every homeless person in the county. We got seventy
thousand homeless people in the county. Seventy thousand, Let's give
each of them a million dollar apartment, Like, how much
would that cost? I'd do that on the calculator. I'll
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I'll do it on the calculator during the during the
commercial break. Whatever, seventy thousand is times times a million,
just to add another six zeros there. A city spokes
hole for Santa Mona Monica says, we're experiencing a housing
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and homelessness crisis. Thanks for that. All cities across the
state are required to d Oh, it's just gibber. They're
talking gibber. It's not even worth saying out loud anymore.
It's not worth repeating. Makes no sense. You people in
Santa Monica. You're the biggest suckers in a state of suckers.
I mean, you're actually spending a million dollars per unit
on these on those vagrants that are overdosing on your doorstep. Wow, well, hey,
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you work hard for the money. Nope, it cost seventy
billion to house every homeless person in La County. Seventy
billion dollars, and then what would they have. They would
have seventy thousand crazy people doing drugs and getting blasted
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inside those homes. All right, when we come back, Yes,
she's back.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Did you miss me, John, I.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Did miss you, Yes he did. But none of us
figured you were going to come back.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
I know. Between well you thought I'd end up in
a jail in Dubai.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yes, yeah, because you don't. You're not really good with authority,
So I have a big mouth when they were going
to start, you know, putting all kinds.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
Of oh, I kept my mouth shut.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Did you really so you can do that thing?
Speaker 6 (26:55):
I can?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
You can do it? So you choose not to exactly?
I said? Okay, anyway, she actually found another natural disaster.
This is incredible. We're gonna go through the last I
think four trips and you'll see why that she is
a danger. You don't want to be at the same
airport or bus stop, or taxi stand or hotel when
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Debora is traveling. She's up next.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Deborah Mark is back after two weeks in places you
probably never heard of. Maldives Island's out in the Indian Ocean, right,
and then you also stopped in Dubai on the way
there and on the way back, and Eric and I
were talking about all your trips the last few years.
You went to Mexico and caught COVID.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
You forgot about that.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
You went to England and the queen died.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Yes, well, no, I didn't go to England. I went
to Scotland. I was in Paris on the way to Scotland,
and I found out that the queen died in Scotland
where I was going, which means that everything that I
had planned had to.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Be canceled, right right, So, I mean killing off the
queen that's been on the throne for what sixty years?
That's something else I know. Then you go, you're supposed
to go to Israel. Current in Egypt, Yes, and war
breaks out just a few days before you were you
were traveling.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
War broke out on October seventh, Saturday, October seventh.
Speaker 8 (28:25):
We were leaving the very next Saturday, right.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Right, So just a week yes, okay, a major war,
worst war they've had in decades. There After killing off
the queen, yes, after catching COVID. Yes, And now you
go to Dubai and they end up with the worst
storm since they began measuring rain in Dubai.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
I can't believe it either.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
They had They only get about three inches three plus
inches a year. Right, and they had double the amount.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
They got a year and a half. I think the statistics.
I think it was a year and a half worth
of rain in one day.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Now were if somebody was to bet on you at
a casino and say, hey, Debri, you're gonna you're gonna
show up when the queen dies. You're going to show
up when they have another a reel Israeli war, not
one of those skirmishes, right, And then you were going
to show up when Dubai has its worst rainstorm in history.
I know what kind of money would you get at
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a casino for that?
Speaker 8 (29:22):
Yeah, well, but here's the here's the creepy kind of thing. Okay.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
So you mentioned that I was supposed to go to
I was going to Israel, Egypt and Jordan one week
before Hamas attacked Israel.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
Right, so I kind of dodged a bullet.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
If you will, Right, you can look at it that
way in a positive sense.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
So then with Dubai, So we started off in Dubai.
So we we started the trip two nights in Dubai.
Then we went to the Maldives. When we were coming back,
my flight was canceled and it said light's canceled.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
I said why, I asked.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
Somebody, and they said, oh, because of the flood in Dubai.
And I said, well, what flood? Because I was a
little checked out, I knew OJ Simpson died. I was
following the news a little bit so that I Google
and I said, oh my god, what in the world
is going on? So in a way, I dodged another
bullet because I was in the mal.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
D's when it was pouring rain.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
I could have had it happened different a few days earlier,
I would never have been able to go to the
Malde because flights were canceled, flights were delayed, I wouldn't
have made it to the main part of my trip.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
So the whole world should not travel within seven days
of wherever you're going, correct, Because I know.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
It's it's Chris. I can't explain it.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
There's eight billion people in the world. I don't think
anybody has the record you do. The last one.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
Well, I think that you and Conway both kind of
put a curse on this trip because Conway couldn't believe
that I was going, and uh, you gave me phone
numbers of bail bondsmen in Dubai just in case I
got in trouble.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I figure somebody would piss you off and you'd start
yelling at them, and they don't take kindly to that.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Dubai I know, but yes, I mean I had control
over my own mouth, right, I kept it shut so
I didn't end up in jail.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
That I had no control over the weather.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I thought that was the long shot, that you'd be
able to control your mouth.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
I know, but I did. But in the Dubai International Airport.
So first of all, that airport is the second busiest
in the world, and it's a silent airport.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
Have you ever heard of a silent airport before? Okay,
So it's called a silent airport.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
So they make no announcements at all, no announcements, really delays,
no cancelations. There were people in line to go to
Casa Blanca. It was the next gate over. I was
going from Dubai to Lex When I finally finally got
the act together to actually go home days later, I'm
telling you, I was about to get my phone and record.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
I thought that there was going to be a full
blown riot. These people are screaming.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
At each other, yelling. I mean, tensions were so high.
But I thought about you because I thought, Okay, if
I get my phone out, there's going to be some
security OFFICI they're going to throw me.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
In jail for recording.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
You're going to be confiscated.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
So I I didn't, But I saved you.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I saved you. You had my voice in your hands.
Speaker 8 (32:11):
You would have gotten a kick out of this. I
mean people, it was and I couldn't understand them. I
think they were speaking Arabic. I could not understand what
they were saying, but it was.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
He did.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
When you see a lot of people screaming Arabic, put
my phone away.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
My hand was itching.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
But seriously, I don't I really, I can't tell you
why this happens to me.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
No one's ever going to travel with you. Your husband
probably doesn't want to travel with you.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Oh yeah, he's burnt out on traveling.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
He said today, I'm sore on traveling. I said, well,
I still want to go. I want to see the world.
I'm gonna I don't think I want to stay positive.
Speaker 7 (32:52):
But I was watching something last night and it was
about a Russian spy and I said to my husband,
I said, well, I'm definitely not going to go to Russia.
I mean, forget what's happening now, But I could just
imagine if I go to Russia, what would happen? Right, yeah,
I mean just given I mean, can you imagine.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Oh yeah, nuclear bomb would go off.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
So I'm not going to rush us, So don't worry.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I don't want you coming to the West side of
LA You can't eat any restaurants anymore on my side
of town.
Speaker 8 (33:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
What I did in a former life wasn't good.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Now you're taking it out and everybody else I know,
other than that, you had a good time.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
I did. Dubai was fascinating.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
It was fascinating in the Maldives, definitely, you should have
it on your bucket list.
Speaker 8 (33:37):
The most beautiful, clear, warm water. It was magnificent. It
was it was great. It was the end of the
trip that kind of sucked. Not kind of.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
You're stuck on a plane for a while too.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
Oh yeah, I so camp days of cancelations and delays.
When we finally got on the plane to get to Dubai,
then the plane starts circling the Dubai airport.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
Because they didn't have the staff. That's the thing. People
were stuck in their homes because of floor.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
You're stuck up in the air.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
I'm stuck up in the air.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Then when we finally land, we had to sit on
that friggin plane for two hours because they didn't have
staff to bring.
Speaker 8 (34:16):
The staircase to the plane. So I said to the
flight attend I said, can we open the I did?
I said, can we open.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
The emergency exit and we could just slide down the slide?
Speaker 8 (34:25):
And she says, no, that's really for true.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
That's where I see. That's where I thought you were
going to get in trouble. You while you were sitting
on the plane.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
There's babies crying, everybody's agitated after all the travel cancelations.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I'd like to slide down, my staff. That's where I
thought you were going to get yourself in trouble. Yuh,
all right, we got to do the news. In fact,
you've got to do the news.
Speaker 8 (34:44):
They have to go in the other room, so you
can stop for a few seconds.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
All right, go ahead. That's Debora Mark. Do not travel
with her. There's a travel band when she's out there.
We got coming up. We're going to talk with from
ABC News, Peter Charlembau, Charlombau and oh, let me see
they got pronunciation here. Horr lombo harrlembo. All right, anyway,
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Peter harlem boose, Peter harrlm boose, I'll rehearse that in between. Anyway,
he was, uh, he's going to report on the Trump
trial because today they had opening arguments and also they
had the first witness, mister Pecker Debor Mark Lydon the
KFI twenty four Hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to
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going on today in Los Angeles. We have Blake Charlie
coming on for two stories in a few minutes. We're
gonna hear about the intruder at Karen Bass's house. She
ended up running to She had to hide in the
panic room because this guy got loose in the house
early in the morning. Another thing that happened early in
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the morning today is a woman got stabbed to death.
She was getting off the Metro B Line at Universal
City station in Studio City. And first we'll see what
that's about with Blake Trolley caff I knew Blake.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, John. This happened about five am this morning. This
is on the Bee Line formerly the Red Line. This
runs from Union Station up to North Hollywood. Well sometime
between the stop, you know, from downtown LA and Universal
City unprovoked. The way the LAPD has described this, a
man stabbed a woman. Now we're not sure how many
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times that woman was stabbed. We do know that at
some point she was stabbed in the neck. LAPD Detective
Megan Aguilar here saying she doesn't want to speculate on
how much this woman was stabbed, but that it was
a very violent scene. As she describes, there was a
lot of blood.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
But not being a medical professional, I'd be guessing if
I were to answer that question.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And that was her responding to the question of how
many times was this woman stabbed and was she stabbed
in the neck? Now, this woman gets off the train
at the Universal Universal City platform, and so does the
accused killer. She gets off the multiple people start calling
this into nine one one. I've seen a report that
some of the people calling into nine to one one
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would they were actually refusing to get close enough to
this woman to verify her condition. So that just really
speaks to possibly how violent this actually was and how
gory it was that people didn't even want to get
up close to this woman. About a half hour later,
a police did find and arrest a man who matched
the description of the accused killer. He was at Violent
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Inventura in Studio City, about a half mile away. The
way that police are describing this attack again is completely unprovoked.
They are saying that they're you know, nothing that they
can see, and mind you, they are looking at security
footage from this train shows any sort of provocation for
this attack.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Do we know anything about her? Was she coming home
or going to work? Was she a drifter? What? What
was her story? Do we know? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
From the latest update that we were given, they did
not release her identity. Again, this is because her family
needs to be codified that she was killed. Now, the
person that police have taken into custody as well, we
haven't learned anything about him. Keep in mind that the
last update that we got they said we believe we
have the man responsible for this killing in custody, but
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detectives are still interviewing this man to complete the arrest,
if you will. So she is one time, he's a
person of interest.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
She's walking off the train and he starts stabbing at
her and gets her in the neck. I guess a
number of times.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
The way that it was described to us is he
actually stabbed her on the train. Then she gets off
the train and he follows her off the train onto
the platform. It must have been absolutely terrifying.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Oh, he did it on the train.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
He did it on the train. He then followed her
off the train, is what we were told. And then
he continued on and then they arrested him about a
half mile away. You know, John, This morning we were
talking to passengers. A lot of them were blocked from
even getting on the train because they had it taped off.
It was a crime scene. Obviously, for hours, this train
was blocked up. One of the people I talked to
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was a high school student. She takes this train into
La then shoots back out to Santa Monica, where she
goes to school. And she says, you know, while she's
really sad to hear this, she's not surprised. She says,
she's seen quite a bit on these trains. Take a
listen to this. What do you hope to see as
a passenger on these trains?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I mean more like cops or something like Sorry, that's
like shocking for me. I wouldn't have expected that at all.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
So, yeah, so you don't feel safe writing the train.
Can you just give us an example some of the
things you've seen riding the train.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I mean one time I was sitting on the chain
and a man came up to me. He said the
inward to me, and then he spit on me, and
then there was a Metri ambassador on the chain at
that point. I mean my brother, I have a twin brother,
and literally people have like thrown punches at him. Nothing's happened.
I mean, there's been like a lot of crime on
the chain. I've seen a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
But I talked to another one, you know, did she
say Metro ambassador was there and did nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Did nothing? And she said she's witnessed a lot of
crime on the trains and the ambassadors have done nothing.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And you know.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
One thing I heard today, John, and we know that
now Metro does say the ambassadors are not security, they're
not really interchangeable.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
There were things.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
One of the things I thought you'd find interesting is
I spoke to one passenger today and she said people
behave differently when there's an ambassador versus when they're security.
This was another woman who said we need more security
on these trains. She said there's a clear difference in
the way people behave in front of an ambassador versus
an actual security guard.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Does the security carry guns? Do the carry guns or
any kind of a weapon.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Is well, you have you have all sorts of security
on a Metro train, or you have police they have guns,
your deputies they have guns. Metro has armed security themselves
and they have guns as right.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So when you say security, you're talking about various police
forces exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Various police forces, including Metro's own security. Now what I
had asked too at this press conference, if an officer
was president on the train. I was told no, security
was also not president. It sounds like the woman came
off the train, security guards who were working at the
platform tried to help this woman. They tried to provide
medical aid to her until paramedics responded.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, but until they stop these guys from boarding the train,
until they throw them out of the train station, and
it's pretty clear who the lunatics are, then you're going
to get more of this ambassadors. I mean, when are
they going to drop that nonsense with the ambassadors. You've
got to have armed police everywhere. Of course, people act
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differently because they don't want to get a bullet in
the head. Even a crazed homeless person knows not to
act up around the cop but an ambassador.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, the general sentiment we got this morning from writers
was that they feel that they do not feel safe
riding this system. Now, of course this happened at Universal City.
As we said, this is a huge tourist destination. So
a couple of some of the people that were being
impacted by this. I spoke to one woman, she was
from France trying to get on. I also spoke to
this couple they were in town from Germany. Take a
(07:05):
listen to This kind of paints a picture, a different
picture of how their system works versus ours as it
pertains to safety. Take a listen.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yes, of course I'm a little bit afraid.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
And you hear it on the news that something can happen,
but it's it's surprising that it happens on our first
day here, that the station is closed because of such
a such a thing.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
What part of Germany, you guys, from?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Which part in the Berlin?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Okay, So in Berlin, do you have a lot of
stabbings and stuff like this on your trains?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
No?
Speaker 5 (07:34):
No, I think, of course it happens sometimes, but not
not much often. You hear it maybe one time a
year or so.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Maybe, yes, Germany, Germans don't put up with that sort
of thing, but there's no way German type away taking
care of those kind of problems. What and the thing
is in in in France and in Germany, a lot
of European countries, they actually are more civilized than we are,
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and they have they have patrols, they have law enforcement,
and they enforce rules as to how people have to
behave and they keep the trains clean. You come to America,
we're the ones who have like disgusting train stations and
disgusting trains and buses, bad behavior, violent behavior. It's us,
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it's our culture in Europe. I feel sorry for this
tourist because they're probably used to very orderly, clean, safe
public transit. We don't have that here. It's it's it's
a hell. Can you hang on? Tell us what happened
with Karen Bass?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
All right? Bike Charlie with Cafie News on the poor
woman who got stabbed to death walk on a train
at Universal City station in Studio City. Yeah. Can you
mentioned how many people are gonna be vacationing in California
and hear this, they're planning to go to the Universal
Theme Park. And this is this is how you. I mean,
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this is intolerable. This is absolutely intolerable. But Karen Dass,
you could even have somebody break into her house. I
saw her happy, smiley, chirping in front of the news reporters.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
I'm safe, We're safe. I want to make this. I'm
gonna make all Angelino's as safe as possible.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Well, you've got to have an ironclad policy that goes
after all the insane people, all the vagrants, all the
drug addicts, all the criminals, to put them away and
keep them away. And she won't do that. None of
these progressions will do that. So this is what happens.
One day, the mayor has her house broken into. The
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next day someone else is getting stabbed to death on
the train. That's because that's their policies. Simple change the policies,
as will go away go German.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I say, you're listening to John Coebelt on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Part two of Blake Trolley, the sequel, And in this episode,
Blake is gonna tell us who busted into Karen Bass's
home yesterday early in the morning and made it pretty
far into the home. Blake what's this about? Is he connected?
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Did he pass out? All right?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Is that working?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yes? Okay, I started talking.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I didn't even coming into my own headphone, so I
unplugged and plugged back in. So yeah, this happened yesterday
early yesterday morning, John, about six forty am, a guy
named frame Hunter is accused of busting the back glass
door into Mayor Bass's mansion. This is the Getty Mansion
and this is the official home that any sort of
la mayor lives in. So the guy busts in about
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six forty am yesterday morning, and now we're finding that
the guy made it to the second floor of the home.
Mayor Bass and her family members were home during this time.
It's a little bit unclear as to what happened between
the time the guy got in and got up to
the second floor, but we do know that the mayor
and her family members went into a panic room and
called police. Police responded and arrested the guy. They found
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the guy in the second floor. The way they described
the arrest police is that the guy was walking through
the house. Now, this guy does have a violent criminal past.
He served seven years in a Massachusetts state prison from
an assault with a deadly weapon conviction, prosecutor saying twenty fifteen,
fraim Or Hunter and three other people beat a man
(11:31):
with a hammer and a snowbrush inside a van. This
happened just outside of Boston. So detectives at this point
they do not think this was random. They do not
think this was just some crazy guy breaking into the
mayor's home. They think that there may have been some intent,
is what we're being told.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Intend to attack Bass specifically, you.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Know, that's what we're working to figure out. I mean,
at least intent to break into her home specifically. When
you hear that violent pass, this really starts to bring
up those kind of Nancy Pelosi notes, doesn't it. I mean,
it has a very similar kind of feel.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah, well that's what I'm They haven't said whether they
have any evidence that he had some kind of issue
with Bass and that he was going to take it
out on her personally.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
You know, that's all going to come out here the
next few days. Detectives are going to have to turn
this over to prosecutors and they're going to have to
present the case. I would imagine, just given the scope
of this case, we're going to see La County DA
gascone give a press conference on this and probably lay
out all of those details. What has them believing this
and it could simply just be his criminal past.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Was the charge that you listed? Is that the only
one he has? Because I have a won news report
that said he was charged with kidnapping an attempted murder
in Massachusetts? Is that the same crime or is this
something else? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
That's all under the same crime. And it looks like
he was convicted in that case of assault with a
deadly weapon.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Oh I see, So he was originally charged maybe with
attempted murder and it was bargained down.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, that's what appears to me. I mean, especially when
you think about the crime. You're beating up a guy
in the back of a van, that would be your kidnapping.
But again it's still a very serious crime. Oh yeah,
what is he was convicted with.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I'm wondering if there's anything else out there. I mean,
considering that what he did yesterday and what he did
in this particular crime, this has to be a lifetime
dad guy, So I wonder if he's got a record
anywhere else. I also think seven years is pretty cheap
sentence if they originally had charged him with attempted murder.
This was this is part of the problem here. Things
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get fled down and then they get out early.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Well, also, let's take a look at the facts. He
was convicted in twenty fifteen of these crimes, So seven
years means he came out in twenty twenty two minimally, Yeah,
And usually there's a little bit of a time gap there,
so he could have gotten out in twenty twenty three,
So he hasn't really been out all that long. And
here he is breaking into Maribasa's home, and you know,
I know this has sparked some questions about security around
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the mayor's home. That's definitely a question I have is
how much security is even at the mayor's mansion. You'd
think there would be at least some level of twenty
four to seven surveillance.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
She got broken into before, didn't she.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
She did, but I believe that was her personal home.
This time it's the mayor's mansion that was broken into.
I think her personal home was broken into in the past,
if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And who lives with her in the mayor's mansion.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Well, the way this police report was described as her
family members so I assume her family is all there
with her, although we're still waiting on the report of
how many family members were there, you know, John, I
think maybe this is because it is mayor baths. There's
just a lot of details here that were still wait.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Well, I just I just know reading the next door
app on my side of town, a lot of people
when they have some kind of crime in their neighborhood,
they don't get much police response, especially if it's just
a burglary, you know, they don't get an instant response.
So that's why I wondered what was called in on
the nine one one that got the police there immediately,
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because that's, yeah, something the general public gets out of LAPD.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
No, and the only experience, the only thing that I've seen.
I covered a protest at the mayor's mansion a few
years ago. And I don't know if this is a
twenty four to seven situation, but when I covered a
protest at her house a few months ago, maybe it
was late last year, there were LAPD officers monitoring her
home at the time, but I thought that was just
for the protest, and they were maybe a quarter mile
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away keeping an eye on her property. Well, you mentioned
I don't know if that's a constant surveillance. I was
trying to figure that out this morning.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Well, you mentioned Nancy Pelosi. As it turns out, there
was no security at her at her house in San
Francisco when her husband got whacked in the head with
the hammer by that crazy guy. And they had a
camera that supposedly sent a picture back to some security
office in Washington, d C. But there was nobody watching it.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
So and she was speaker at the time, right, yeah,
she was.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yes, that happened a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I think there would be a lot more. I mean,
Mayor of La speaker of the house.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Sometimes they say, oh we have security again, that means yeah,
we got a camera at the front door. But then
you need someone watching the monitor. And we know nobody
watches the monitor because it's too boring. Even if they
have a guy in a chair there, the guy's probably
falling asleep. So I don't know, all right, Blake, when
you find out more, let us know. Okay, all right,
sounds good, John, All right, like Charlie K if I
(16:25):
knew this's on this and uh, oh you need you know,
you know, they're they're trying to whip up enthusiasm for
the twenty twenty eight Olympics, and they wanted to be
the first car free Olympics, right, and Metro is going
to play a major role in that. And they want
to introduce the La subway system to the whole world
because there's going to be so many upgrades and line
(16:47):
extensions and just so so so many more easy ways
to get around to view the Olympics. And then what
happens with on a day when foreign tourists want to
go to Universal five in the morning, somebody gets stabbed
to death, a really bloody, gory stabbing on a Metro
train at Universal City station. So there has to be
(17:10):
and this has got to come from Bass, everyone in
the City Council and absolute mandate. We are getting all
the crazy people off the street and we're putting the
criminals in prison. And if they don't say those two lines,
then they're faking it. They don't care, and they're not
going to change anything. We'll talk more coming up.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Coming up next segment, we welcome Deborah Mark back after
two weeks on a far flung trip went to Maldives
and she went to Dubai, and her streak is intact. Yes,
she was in Dubai when they had that huge storm
and the worst flood in recorded history, the most rain
(17:54):
in recorded history.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Yes, in one shot, I have some bad traveling karma.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah, were Eric and I wanted to go through the
history of your recent travels just as a public service.
So in case anybody ever ends up on the same
plane as you. Oh, I know, they should consider disembarking immediately.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
It's ridiculous. I don't even understand it.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
You don't even want to get into a taxi with her,
right something, something bad is going to happen. So that's
the next segment. We'll get into it now. In the
first half hour was the Blake trolley Show. Because Blake
is covering two stories. That's really embarrassing to Karen Bass
because she is her whole stick, and I know she's
hiding something darker. It's like Garcetti, right, Garcedi had that
(18:38):
very neat, suave, buttoned up look, and you know the
stories would leak out about him behind the scenes, and
he had a messy background life and mental patient and
the same thing here with Karen Bass. You know, all
these politicians they feel they have to project a public
persona in order to be popular and attractive and to
get to get elected and have people trust them. And
(19:00):
so it's a stick. It's a persona that you create,
and it's fake. And so her thing is the happy, peppy,
smiley mom. You know, she always sounds like she's talking
to a little kids Jimbree class. And I just saw
her on the TV a little bit ago.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Oh I'm fine, my family's fine, and I'm going to
continue working hard to make life safe for all Angelinos.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
And it's a load of horsecrat because she and everybody
else running Los Angeles City and County only do things
that make it worse. They have such a hard ideology
about not putting people in prison, you know, because of
the race issues. That's that really is the bottom line.
I keep reading the same story about all these politicians,
(19:45):
and if it means putting people in prison and there's
gonna be some disproportionate aspect to it, then they're not
going to do it. So what you end up with
is nobody going to prison, nobody really, you know, you know,
the whole routine. They're not caught. If they're caught, the
charges are light, the sentences are light, or maybe not
(20:08):
at all. And the end of it means a lot
of bad people either don't go to prison or they're
let out early. They're working both ends, and they've done
this now for let's see how long thirteen years. It's
been thirteen years, and you got you know, Prop forty seven,
you got Prop fifty seven, you got that bill that
(20:28):
emptied out the prisons in twenty eleven. And this says
had a cumulative effect. You also have so many people
coming from all over the country to take advantage of
the lawlessness, and they can go layout on the beach,
lay out in the parks, layout in the sidewalks, and
nobody's going to stop them, nobody's going to tell them
what to do. And so now what do you have.
(20:49):
You have a crazy person breaking into Karen Vass's house
and it turns out he was a very serious criminal
from Massachusetts, Ephram Hunter. Kidnapping, attempted murder. Huh, that's what
he was really originally charged with, but it was pled
down to assault with the deadly weapons. So he got
out in seven years. That's what I'm talking about. And
(21:11):
then you have the I'm assuming this is a homeless
guy on the metro line at the Universal City station
went berserk and viciously, viciously stabbed a poor woman to
death again five in the morning. I mean, she was
stabbed so viciously and there's so much blood pouring out
of her, nobody would go nearer to help her. Meantime,
(21:34):
in Santa Monica, they have gotten they have gotten one
hundred and twenty three million dollars that they're going to
spend on homelessness, and do you know what they're doing
with it. They are going to build an apartment building
with one hundred and twenty two units. Do the math
on that. One hundred and twenty two apartments for one
(21:55):
hundred and twenty three million dollars, which means homeless in
Los Angeles County is now going for a million dollars
a unit. If you're a vagrant who's whacked out on drugs,
or let's say it's meth fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, all of it, right,
(22:19):
Or you're a mental patient who has you know, severe schizophrenia, bipolar,
anything related, we'll give you a million dollar We'll give
you a million dollar home, a million dollars and Santa
Monica officials approved it last week. This came the same
(22:42):
week as the California audit from the state auditor, and
he found that the state had blown twenty four billion
dollars on homelessness without any idea what it was spent
on and if it had any effect. And what better
way to celebrate an announcement of extreme incompetence and corruption
(23:04):
than to have the City of Santa Monica spend its
own one hundred and twenty three million dollars on one
hundred and twenty two homeless apartments. Let's see who's their
mayor now? I think it seems to rotate, Phil Brock
Phil Brockhead. Moving forward and bringing affordable and permanent support
(23:28):
of housing to city owned land is a key step
in our strategy to fulfill our housing element requirements. I
have no idea what that means. What is affordable when
you're spending a million dollars per apartment? Why? Why do
why do vagrants? Why do drug addicts and mental patients
deserve a million dollar home paid for by by their
(23:49):
by by tax money. You people in Santa Monica, there's
no end to your insanity, is there? You actually are
willing to pay a million dollars for an apartment for
crazy homeless person who's gonna end up sparing his feces
all over the walls. That's just fascinating. See there is
(24:10):
some kind of California Interagency Counsel on Homelessness, and it
is supposed to coordinate all the agencies and supposed to
allocate resources. And they're blaming local governments for blowing the
twenty four billion dollars, local governments like Santa Monica, saying, well,
(24:34):
you got to hold them to account. You can't hold
us to account. Of course, this cow icch agency hands
the money to places like Santa Monica, but they never
follow up and keep track. They don't even make a
phone call and say, hey, Santa Monica, what'd you do
with that money? Although in this case, I guess they'd
have an answer, right, it wouldn't be it would be, hey,
(24:58):
we're going to blow it on one hundred and twenty
two apartments. God, can you imagine if we did that
for every homeless person in the county. We got seventy
thousand homeless people in the county. Seventy thousand, Let's give
each of them a million dollar apartment, Like, how much
would that cost? I'd do that on the calculator. I'll
(25:19):
I'll do it on the calculator during the during the
commercial break. Whatever, seventy thousand is times times a million,
just to add another six zeros there. A city spokes
hole for Santa Mona Monica says, we're experiencing a housing
(25:40):
and homelessness crisis. Thanks for that. All cities across the
state are required to d Oh, it's just gibber. They're
talking gibber. It's not even worth saying out loud anymore.
It's not worth repeating. Makes no sense. You people in
Santa Monica. You're the biggest suckers in a state of suckers.
I mean, you're actually spending a million dollars per unit
on these on those vagrants that are overdosing on your doorstep. Wow, well, hey,
(26:05):
you work hard for the money. Nope, it cost seventy
billion to house every homeless person in La County. Seventy
billion dollars, and then what would they have. They would
have seventy thousand crazy people doing drugs and getting blasted
(26:27):
inside those homes. All right, when we come back, Yes,
she's back.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Did you miss me, John, I.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Did miss you, Yes he did. But none of us
figured you were going to come back.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
I know. Between well you thought I'd end up in
a jail in Dubai.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Yes, yeah, because you don't. You're not really good with authority,
So I have a big mouth when they were going
to start, you know, putting all kinds.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
Of oh, I kept my mouth shut.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Did you really so you can do that thing?
Speaker 6 (26:55):
I can?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
You can do it? So you choose not to exactly?
I said? Okay, anyway, she actually found another natural disaster.
This is incredible. We're gonna go through the last I
think four trips and you'll see why that she is
a danger. You don't want to be at the same
airport or bus stop, or taxi stand or hotel when
(27:16):
Debora is traveling. She's up next.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Deborah Mark is back after two weeks in places you
probably never heard of. Maldives Island's out in the Indian Ocean, right,
and then you also stopped in Dubai on the way
there and on the way back, and Eric and I
were talking about all your trips the last few years.
You went to Mexico and caught COVID.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
You forgot about that.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
You went to England and the queen died.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Yes, well, no, I didn't go to England. I went
to Scotland. I was in Paris on the way to Scotland,
and I found out that the queen died in Scotland
where I was going, which means that everything that I
had planned had to.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Be canceled, right right, So, I mean killing off the
queen that's been on the throne for what sixty years?
That's something else I know. Then you go, you're supposed
to go to Israel. Current in Egypt, Yes, and war
breaks out just a few days before you were you
were traveling.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
War broke out on October seventh, Saturday, October seventh.
Speaker 8 (28:25):
We were leaving the very next Saturday, right.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Right, So just a week yes, okay, a major war,
worst war they've had in decades. There After killing off
the queen, yes, after catching COVID. Yes, And now you
go to Dubai and they end up with the worst
storm since they began measuring rain in Dubai.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
I can't believe it either.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
They had They only get about three inches three plus
inches a year. Right, and they had double the amount.
Speaker 7 (28:52):
They got a year and a half. I think the statistics.
I think it was a year and a half worth
of rain in one day.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Now were if somebody was to bet on you at
a casino and say, hey, Debri, you're gonna you're gonna
show up when the queen dies. You're going to show
up when they have another a reel Israeli war, not
one of those skirmishes, right, And then you were going
to show up when Dubai has its worst rainstorm in history.
I know what kind of money would you get at
(29:19):
a casino for that?
Speaker 8 (29:22):
Yeah, well, but here's the here's the creepy kind of thing. Okay.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
So you mentioned that I was supposed to go to
I was going to Israel, Egypt and Jordan one week
before Hamas attacked Israel.
Speaker 8 (29:33):
Right, so I kind of dodged a bullet.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
If you will, Right, you can look at it that
way in a positive sense.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
So then with Dubai, So we started off in Dubai.
So we we started the trip two nights in Dubai.
Then we went to the Maldives. When we were coming back,
my flight was canceled and it said light's canceled.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
I said why, I asked.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
Somebody, and they said, oh, because of the flood in Dubai.
And I said, well, what flood? Because I was a
little checked out, I knew OJ Simpson died. I was
following the news a little bit so that I Google
and I said, oh my god, what in the world
is going on? So in a way, I dodged another
bullet because I was in the mal.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
D's when it was pouring rain.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
I could have had it happened different a few days earlier,
I would never have been able to go to the
Malde because flights were canceled, flights were delayed, I wouldn't
have made it to the main part of my trip.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
So the whole world should not travel within seven days
of wherever you're going, correct, Because I know.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
It's it's Chris. I can't explain it.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
There's eight billion people in the world. I don't think
anybody has the record you do. The last one.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
Well, I think that you and Conway both kind of
put a curse on this trip because Conway couldn't believe
that I was going, and uh, you gave me phone
numbers of bail bondsmen in Dubai just in case I
got in trouble.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I figure somebody would piss you off and you'd start
yelling at them, and they don't take kindly to that.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Dubai I know, but yes, I mean I had control
over my own mouth, right, I kept it shut so
I didn't end up in jail.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
That I had no control over the weather.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I thought that was the long shot, that you'd be
able to control your mouth.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
I know, but I did. But in the Dubai International Airport.
So first of all, that airport is the second busiest
in the world, and it's a silent airport.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
Have you ever heard of a silent airport before? Okay,
So it's called a silent airport.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
So they make no announcements at all, no announcements, really delays,
no cancelations. There were people in line to go to
Casa Blanca. It was the next gate over. I was
going from Dubai to Lex When I finally finally got
the act together to actually go home days later, I'm
telling you, I was about to get my phone and record.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
I thought that there was going to be a full
blown riot. These people are screaming.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
At each other, yelling. I mean, tensions were so high.
But I thought about you because I thought, Okay, if
I get my phone out, there's going to be some
security OFFICI they're going to throw me.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
In jail for recording.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
You're going to be confiscated.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
So I I didn't, But I saved you.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I saved you. You had my voice in your hands.
Speaker 8 (32:11):
You would have gotten a kick out of this. I
mean people, it was and I couldn't understand them. I
think they were speaking Arabic. I could not understand what
they were saying, but it was.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
He did.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
When you see a lot of people screaming Arabic, put
my phone away.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
My hand was itching.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
But seriously, I don't I really, I can't tell you
why this happens to me.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
No one's ever going to travel with you. Your husband
probably doesn't want to travel with you.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Oh yeah, he's burnt out on traveling.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
He said today, I'm sore on traveling. I said, well,
I still want to go. I want to see the world.
I'm gonna I don't think I want to stay positive.
Speaker 7 (32:52):
But I was watching something last night and it was
about a Russian spy and I said to my husband,
I said, well, I'm definitely not going to go to Russia.
I mean, forget what's happening now, But I could just
imagine if I go to Russia, what would happen? Right, yeah,
I mean just given I mean, can you imagine.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Oh yeah, nuclear bomb would go off.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
So I'm not going to rush us, So don't worry.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I don't want you coming to the West side of
LA You can't eat any restaurants anymore on my side
of town.
Speaker 8 (33:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
What I did in a former life wasn't good.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Now you're taking it out and everybody else I know,
other than that, you had a good time.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
I did. Dubai was fascinating.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
It was fascinating in the Maldives, definitely, you should have
it on your bucket list.
Speaker 8 (33:37):
The most beautiful, clear, warm water. It was magnificent. It
was it was great. It was the end of the
trip that kind of sucked. Not kind of.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
You're stuck on a plane for a while too.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
Oh yeah, I so camp days of cancelations and delays.
When we finally got on the plane to get to Dubai,
then the plane starts circling the Dubai airport.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
Because they didn't have the staff. That's the thing. People
were stuck in their homes because of floor.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
You're stuck up in the air.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
I'm stuck up in the air.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Then when we finally land, we had to sit on
that friggin plane for two hours because they didn't have
staff to bring.
Speaker 8 (34:16):
The staircase to the plane. So I said to the
flight attend I said, can we open the I did?
I said, can we open.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
The emergency exit and we could just slide down the slide?
Speaker 8 (34:25):
And she says, no, that's really for true.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
That's where I see. That's where I thought you were
going to get in trouble. You while you were sitting
on the plane.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
There's babies crying, everybody's agitated after all the travel cancelations.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I'd like to slide down, my staff. That's where I
thought you were going to get yourself in trouble. Yuh,
all right, we got to do the news. In fact,
you've got to do the news.
Speaker 8 (34:44):
They have to go in the other room, so you
can stop for a few seconds.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
All right, go ahead. That's Debora Mark. Do not travel
with her. There's a travel band when she's out there.
We got coming up. We're going to talk with from
ABC News, Peter Charlembau, Charlombau and oh, let me see
they got pronunciation here. Horr lombo harrlembo. All right, anyway,
(35:08):
Peter harlem boose, Peter harrlm boose, I'll rehearse that in between. Anyway,
he was, uh, he's going to report on the Trump
trial because today they had opening arguments and also they
had the first witness, mister Pecker Debor Mark Lydon the
KFI twenty four Hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to
the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the
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