February 13, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (02/13) - The rain is here and surprisingly Mayor Bass and the LAFD made sure to tell everyone how prepared there are if any major emergency happens during the storm. RFK Jr. was confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services. The head of LAHSA signed a $2.1 million dollar contract with a homeless non-profit that her husband serves on the board of. Women talk more than men.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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you can listen to it. We've got Well, I'm driving in.
(00:23):
What I mean, it's obviously a miserable, miserable day today,
it really is, and it's gonna get worse.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Apparently the heaviest rain is coming.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
But we're driving home, John, I know.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So you drive to the left, all right, I'll drive
to the right, okay, okay, So if you go skidting off.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I mean, I'll be out of your way.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Oh thanks.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
So I'm driving in and I'm listening to your news,
which is you know, very un enough.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
No, I do every day.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
And the first thing you play, it's a clip of
Karen Bass going through the Warner for mud slides and
flooding and all that. Well, let's play little clips. This
is me driving down down the one on one and
I hear this cut number three.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
We expect these heavy rains to last through Friday morning,
which puts burn areas at particular risk for landslides, mud flows,
and debris flows.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Okay, and I'm listening, Oh wow, look at this.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
The mayor is giving out warnings in advance of a
possible disaster.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
And then she went on cut.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Three city crews have installed concrete barriers and sandbags to
stop mud flows. The fire Department has pre positioned swift
water rescue and urban search and rescue teams, bulldozers and
other resources.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
And I'm thinking that must have taken some time, right
because I hear they're putting up like preposition prepositioning, the
fire department is prepositioning, and then the barricades are going up.
Those are those heavy CEM k rails right that they
that they're used as highway dividers. And I'm thinking, wow,
that takes a long time, right, because we have a
lot of burn areas, right. You got all the Palisades,
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and then you've got that there was the Sunset fire
ut towards Hollywood and uh all the way to Manduville Canyon.
So there's there's there's a lot of heavy lifting that
has to be done in a very short time. And
and then she's got even more Cut five.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
There are risks all across Los Angeles, from mudflows in
our hills to our flooded streets, down trees, and fallen
power lines.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So it's a major weather event that's affecting everybody one
way or the other. Right, Yeah, you could have you
could have winds blowing down power lines, you could have
flooding anywhere. You got the burn areas with mud slides
and landslides. And she's not even done, like cut six.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Your l e f D is oh wait, crowded, stop stop, Okay.
So that's Karen Bass's statement.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And I'm thinking, you know, I was here on January
sixth and fifth, and fourth and third and second, and
I listened to the news every day, right, and I
don't remember any of the warnings about the extreme fire danger.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I don't remember any warnings only.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
The National I think the National Weather Service was talking
about this intense wind situation.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Right.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
I forgot the exact title of it, but basically, I
mean bad.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
She didn't go on the radio and TV and go
through the list of.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
She wasn't here.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh that's right, she wasn't here. Where was she again?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
She was in Africa.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Africa. That's right, she was in Africa. What was she
doing there? Oh she was drinking. Yes, that's why she
was drinking at the President of Ghana's inauguration a cocktail party.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Oh, that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
So that's why, even though the Weather Service had put
out warnings that there was gonna be one hundred mile
an hour winds, extreme fire danger, extremely low humidity, there
was no warnings from the government as to no prepositioning
of the fire department in the hilly areas. Huh, that's interesting. Now,
the l LA Fire Chief Kirsten Crowley up. She also
(04:14):
was on your news. I heard this too, she was
I was getting so informed. Now here's here's cut six.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Your LAFD is well prepared, fully prepared and ready to
respond to any emergency caused by this storm to protect lives, property,
and critical infrastructure from the potential impacts of these heavy rains, flooding,
and mud and debris flows.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
That the morning of the fire, the fire department was
nowhere to be found.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
In fact, she sent a thousand firefighters home when she
could have kept them on for a second shift. I
every few days, I have to remind you of all
this because it's going into that dreaded memory hall and
people forget.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
It just struck me.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's like, Wow, they sound confident, in charge, really well prepared.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
And that's what people are going to remember. Looks these
with the me major part of the storm. Look at
what we were prepared for mud and debrif flows.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Mud flows, debrief flows, landslides, were prepared for flooding. We're
prepared for power lines going down. Look at all the
preparation we got. We got fire crews prepositioned, we have
rescue crews.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Play cut seven helicopters are on standby for rapid reconnaissance
and aerial rescues if needed. Swift water teams strategically located
near high risk flood zones, Urban search and rescue teams
to respond to debrif flows and structural collapses. Additional fire
engines and crews assigned to high risk neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Sounds like a functioning city, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I was going to say, we have some amazing leaders.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
But they are amazing, aren't they. Wow? I mean they're
so well prepared and detailed.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I feel safe.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, don't you.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Feel like all right, whatever happens, you know, nature's going
to do it staying and sometimes you can't win. But
at least we're putting we're taking our best shot here
right where. Everybody's in the right place, We're fully staffed,
we're ready to go here. None of that on January second, third, fourth, fifth,
and especially the sixth, none of that because Karen Bass
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was in Africa.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I don't know where Kristin Crowley was.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But boy, after the fact, they had all kinds of
excuses and they would say, well, you know, it really
didn't I remember I heard this.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I couldn't believe this.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Whoever spends their life defending Karen Bass, But well, you know,
it really wouldn't have made a difference. Well if it
wouldn't make a difference, then why were they taking up
half of Deborah's newscast with all these public service announcements,
with all this detail on how well they're prepared to
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protect us from from nature today. Of course it makes
a difference. Of course it makes a difference. You preposition
the firefighters all over the hills might have been able
to snuff that stuff out that fire in twenty minutes.
That imagine they snuffed out the fire in twenty minutes
because they had firefighters and engines and helicopy the helicopters.
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I mean, this isn't good weather to fly it either,
this isn't good weather to travel in.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
John, Sometimes we need a tragedy to learn from so
that we can prevent another.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, apparently that's what it is. We just had to sacrifice.
I don't know, was have like eight thousand homes. I
mean I was actually getting mad while listening to your newscasts.
I'm sorry your your whole presentation was pissing me up.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I'm sorry I was. I was trying to be informative.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
I was trying to let people know that that our
city leaders have our backs.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah. Well, and that was good. You did, you did
your job.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Okay, good, you know, But in fact, it might be
might be fun to go back and listen to the
news of January sixth, the morning of the sixth.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I I don't even want to talk about fires.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Let's see what wasn't discussed the morning of January sixth.
Who did not appear on the Debor news on January sixth,
All right, when, oh, by the way, because the scandals
never end. Susan Shelley, who writes for the Long Beach Press, Telegram.
(08:12):
I guess she writes for all the Southern California News
Group papers, and she has a story about who donated
the seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to cover what
was going to be Steve Soberoff's salary and his real
estate executive friend Randy Johnson. The two of them were
(08:35):
hired to oversee the recovery at least for three months,
and they were in total going to get seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars five hundred big ones to sober Off,
two hundred and fifty thousand to Johnson. And the quickly said, hey,
this is not tax money. This is coming from three charities.
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And they didn't mention the charities, and but Susan Shelley
found out, and we're going to tell you who the
charities are. Susan's gonna explain the story and how they
became so generous. Why did they become so generous to
cover this? Now, of course, since the public found out
(09:19):
this is all done in secret, public rebelled and sober
Off allegedly is not getting a dime, and neither is Johnson.
So it's a fascinating story. I'll give you a key
I'll give you the headline. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass
has been busy shaking down businesses.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
But look, I I was kind to her for about
two minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I was very impressed. She's your new best friend.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I try to be fair.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Coming up after one pint thirty.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You know the theme of today, and I think the
theme of the last several weeks has been massive corruption
and massive wastes of money. And we've been talking a
lot about the federal government with what Elon Musk is doing,
but the cesspool in Los Angeles is vast. There's so
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much corruption in Los Angeles government and in Sacramento, overseen
by Bass and Newsom. And there is a public radio report. Well,
when public radio starts dumping on Bass and the homeless industry,
then you know it stinks to high heaven. And I'm
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going to tell you about the woman who manages the
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Billions of dollars passes through LASA,
as they call it. Her name is Lavicia Adams Callum,
and I'll just give you the headline here and after
one pint thirty. I'll explain more. The LAist, which is
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Public Radio, signed Leavicia Adams Kellum signed a two million
dollar contract to give the money to a nonprofit for homelessness.
Her husband is one of the executives. Her husband is
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in senior leadership. She's not supposed to do that, but
she did it. She signed the documents and this nonprofit
in Santa Monica got the two million dollars. Husband helps
run the place. Nonprofits, non government NGOs, non government organizations.
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This is a filthy, disgusting racket. We'll talk about our
local version of that coming up in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Nationally, Robert F. Kennedy was confirmed as Secretary of Health
and Human Services, and I think he's sworn in just
a short time ago, and the New York Post has
a story that Health and Human Services now they oversee
I believe, Medicare.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
And Medicaid, among many other things.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And they also have an Office of Refugee Resettlement known
as o r R. Well, they ramped up the spending
for illegal aliens over the last five years from since
twenty twenty, they gave illegal aliens and other migrants who
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were pre legalized maybe they were given some type of
temporary asylum, temporary protected status.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
You know, they came up.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
With all kinds of buzzwords, all kinds of fake categories
so they wouldn't kind of as illegal, but they're all illegal.
None of them went through the system. The Office of
Refugee Resettlement handed out twenty two and a half billion
dollars over the last five years. Twenty two and a
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half billion. Is this not stunning? And the money went
for it was They paid out cash so that the
illegal aliens could buy cars and homes and even build
up their credit for startup businesses. This is according to
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a Watchdog report. These non governmental groups builked taxpayers for
one point seven billion dollars cars, homes, college educations, and startups,
small business loans.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Loans to repair credit history.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
These migrants are here for ten minutes illegally and they've
already got credit issues, money for cultural orientation, money for
emergency housing support, legal assistance, Medicaid care. In case you're
wondering how we ended up thirty six trillion dollars in debt,
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this is what the government was doing with your money.
They were leaving the border wide open, guilting you. If
you objected, and then how many of you are struggling
to say for your college kids college education?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Did you get any.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Grant money, your tax money, your taxes went to give
college education money to illegal aliens over five years. They
also spent twelve and a half billion dollars on unaccompanied
migrant children. These are parents who abandoned their kids, sent
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them to the border.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
They showed up here, and we blew twelve.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And a half billion dollars instead of finding out who
they were and returning them back to their parents. There
are people in this country who've let their nine year
olds walk to the park a half mile from the house,
and the police have come and arrested the parents for
child endangerment. That happened just a couple of months ago. Again,
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so in America, if you tell your kid, hey, go
run down to the park and play this afternoon, if
some nosy neighbor sticks their beacon your business and calls
the police, you're getting a visit from Child Services. But
somehow it is wonderful and noble for hundreds of thousands
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of kids to be left unaccompanied at the border, to
wander around until government workers lavished them with so many
prizes and gifts like they won some kind of crazy
game show, and the Office of Refugee Resettlement placed two
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hundred and ninety one thousand kids, and often they placed
them with people who were unvetted and abusive. According to
this report, last year, the Office of Refugee Resettlement lost
track of thirty two thousand migrant kids. So they came
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here alone. Briefly the government became aware of their existence,
and then they disappeared again. When you went to the
government and said, well, where did this kid go, Oh,
we don't know. They spent two and a half billion
in twenty twenty two, and a quarter billion in twenty
twenty one, three and a half billion in twenty twenty two.
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Watched this go up twenty twenty three to ten billion,
ten billion dollars. The Office of Refugee Resettlement was paying
for legal counsel for illegal aliens. They were giving him
so much money that the migrants didn't have to worry
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about becoming self sufficient. Why try to become self sufficient
when the government is giving you checks, debit cards, I
don't know, maybe sending direct deposits to your bank accounts,
And all this money was funneled through these questionable nonprofits
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such as Church World Services International Rescue Committee. Church World
Services got three hundred and fifty five million dollars in
our tax money. What are to go for? Nobody knows?
The International Rescue Committee six hundred million dollars, you know,
and they have names that are supposed to be bulletproof.
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It's like it's Catholic Services. It's a religious organization. You know,
they're doing God's work. International Rescue Committee. I think that's
self evident right there. They're rescuing these poor children. Well
I don't know about that. According to this report, it
looks like they're being placed with a lot of abusive
people and a lot of them just get lost.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
In the system and nobody knows where they are.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
And this is the kind of stuff that's been going
on for years. You could go online if you want
to read about this. Open the Books is the organization
Open the Books, and they have published the report. But
it's twenty two and a half billion dollars for win
again legal aliens. Why why that's the best we could
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do with the money? Twenty two and a half billion
dollars and the money doesn't even exist. We have to
borrow it or I don't know the Federal Reserve prints it.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
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Speaker 1 (19:09):
Eight seven seven Moist d eighty six.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
The Moist line is coming back on Friday, eight seven
seven Moist eighty six. I'm working a five day week
this week. All right, I'm like, I'm like the government employees.
Now I'm showing up every day.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It's about time.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Eight seven seven sixty six four seven eighty eighty six.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Or go to the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app
the uh I read today that seventy five thousand people
have now taken the Trump Musk buyout. Seventy five thousand
government workers are taking the eight months severance. A judge
had temporarily paused that program, but he gave it to
go ahead because who would object this is this is
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a great deal. You get eight eight months of severance,
you go home, and then after eight months you're no
longer a drain on the taxpayer.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
All right.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Now, there's so much corruption going on.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
And when you hear.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
About nonprofits NGOs, non governmental organizations, these are the parasites
that attach themselves to large government agencies that have big
budgets and the agency known as LASA has a huge budget.
Los Angeles Human Homeless Services Authority, and they're a joint
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venture of LA City and LA County and they process
billions and billions of dollars. They take your tax money,
which so many people stupidly vote for these tax increases.
The money goes to LASA, and LASA then gives it
to nonprofits and NGOs, and these organizations swallow up the
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money and the homelessness increases.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
It's it's like a magic trick.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
It's like, Wow, let's pour billions of dollars to get
the homeless off the streets and get them off their addictions,
get their mental illness treated, and send them off to
work so that they could live in their own house
and not die in their own vomit in the streets.
But the more the more we put into homelessness, the
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more homeless we get HM And it makes you wonder,
maybe these nonprofits are not doing anything to help the homeless.
Maybe they're just taking the money. And what does one
nonprofit get money over another? Hmm, Maybe it's because you
know somebody. I'll leave it up to you to decide. Here,
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the chief executive of LASA is Lavichi Valicia.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I don't know how to pronounce this.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
First word is va vah, second word is l e
Cia to be Valicia, Felicia sends softer, and she's got
a middle name, Adams, and then she has a married
name Kellum.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
So Va Lsi Adams Kellum. That's one person.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
She is the CEO of Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority,
and her husband has just two names, and he works
for Upward Bound, which is one of those homeless services organizations.
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So the way it works is we pay the tax money,
LASA collects the tax money and then gives it to
these nonprofits who then sped it on homelessness and nothing works.
So Valicia works for LASA, is the CEO, and her husband,
Edward Kellam, works as one of the senior leaders of
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upward Bound. And I know this is going to stun you,
but Valicia Adams Kellum signed a two million dollar contract
with her husband's nonprofit, Upward Bound House.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah that can't be, can you?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I don't say? Okay?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
In case you wonder how these organizations get the money,
and what did I tell you? The organizations are set
up to enrich the friends, relatives, donors, a right and
and and the politically connected. And I've told the story
where I was approached to run for office and create
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one of these for my wife and family. My wife
and my kids would be on the board. I'd run
for office, and then they would all be.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Taking That's how it's done.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
That's how it's done. Okay, So Valicia Adams Kellum and
her husband have a good deal because her husband, uh,
you know, they got to get these government contracts.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Right.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
What's what's a homeless nonprofit going to do if they
don't have government money?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Well, who do you know? My wife? My wife runs
the place. Now for the record, here.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
The laws, and I'm going to quote here Sean mc morris,
who manages the ethics program for this group called California
Common Cause. And McMorris says, the laws are pretty specific
that you, meaning the CEO of LASA, can't have any
participation whatsoever in awarding the contract. You should not be
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putting your signature on any such contract. You have to
completely refuse yourself from the matter.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Okay, those are the rules.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
And uh, employees have to sign loss's Code of Ethics
that they agree to avoid any activities that could be
or appear to be conflicts of interest, and one of
the examples given is a mediately is immediate family relationships
with the agency's.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Vendors, rulesoths. It cares about rules.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Edward Kellam is running one of these vendors. In fact,
upward Bound House is a longtime vendor of LASA that
focuses on housing and services for unhoused families and young adults. Except,
as we keep telling you, homelessness has skyrocketed ever since.
We've been spending millions and millions of dollars on places
like Upward Bound actually billions of dollars. Now here's the
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key point. Valicia Adams Kellum. Her signature is on all contracts,
the UH signature sections of two contract amendments, and the
original two million dollar contract. Adams Kellum signed all those.
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Last obtained the documents through a public records request. It's
always been out there, you just had to ask. Now
they're saying that Valicia Adams Kellum mistakenly signed them, that
her staffers mistakenly mailed them or sent them to her,
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a lot of mistakes. Oh wow, the staffers send her
the contracts. I guess they don't read them. Hey, that's
Felicia's husband there and then she gets it and doesn't
recognize her husband's company.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Okay, so there's no conflict of interest there. It was
an error.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Even though where she signs her signature is very close
where it says upward Boundhouse.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
But that didn't jump out at her. Hey, isn't that
my husband is that nonprofit?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
We all make mistakes.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
John, Yeah, at the time that she at the time,
she was higher well at the time this happened. She
said the issue was disclosed when I was hired. Loss's
legal counsel has put in procedures in place that have
been followed, and these procedures walled me off from any
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involvement in matters concerning upward Bound I am completely recused
from matters that involve or impact upward Bound House. Except
her signature is on the contract in three different places.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Does somebody forge her signature?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I owed some mistake.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I think it is.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Now since they found these contracts. Valicia Adams Kellum is
not responded to any follow up questions and interview requests,
including questions about whether the conflict of interest laws have
been violated, and her husband, Edward, also did not respond
to any request for comment. So our two million dollars
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Valsia signed over to Edward and they don't want to
talk about it anymore.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I would say, until they talk about it, they don't
get paid.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, maybe the money ought to be deducted from their paychecks.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yeah, they're not going to discuss it. Right.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
If it's taxpayers money, then no pay for you until
you ask your question.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
She runs a budget of seven hundred million dollars, seven
hundred million dollars, so she signs a lot of contracts.
I wonder if she knows any of the other people
at any of the other nonprofits. Well, that's a great
term nonprofit. More coming up and after two o'clock, we
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are going.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
To talk to.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Oh, yes, from the Long Beach Press Telegram, the reporter
Susan Shelley, and we're going to talk to her about
Oh here's another one. Karen Bass shaking down businesses to
raise seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to pay Steve
sober Off and his buddy to manage the recovery.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
He's not packing, he's not taking any money now.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Right now, he's not. But a deal was done.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
This is all that goes on in Los Angeles, just
all kinds of sneaky deals.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Six forty coming up after two o'clock. Were you wondering
what were the alleged charities that coughed up seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars to pay Steve sober Off and
his partner Randy Johnson to work for ninety days heading
the recovery. Well, Susan Shelley from the Southern California News
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Group has found out, and we're going to talk to
her coming up. Let me see read the headline again.
Karen Bass has been busy shaking down businesses. All right, now,
did do you think it's a sexist stereotype to say
that talk significantly more than men?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
You do.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, well you're wrong. It's been scientifically proven that it's true.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Well, I'm a little sensitive to that because I told
you when I was five years old, I was told
to shut up that I talked too much.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Remember uh huh at a neighbor's father.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That doesn't surprise me, surprise you, Eric, and.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
My dad used to get annoyed with me every time
we'd watch movies. My husband still does too, because they
tell me to you know, stop talking, you talk to them,
ask questions. I will I try the movie. I yell
at the TV, and then I ask questions. I don't
like to be confused, and so I asked questions.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
You're confused by the movie?
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Yes, because a lot of it doesn't make sense. And
I don't want to wait.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I don't want to have to think.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I want to spoof that it's in foreign language. I mean,
why do you get confused?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
There's plenty But anyway, what does he have to.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Stop the movie and then answer your questions? Yes?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Annoyed?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
And now you paid to talk?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I know.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Well, I mean I'm telling you my dad just kind
of real quick.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
My dad, when I was in a sorority, he had
to come and talk about me, and he said, oh,
it doesn't surprise me that my daughter wants to be
a news anchor.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
She never stopped talking. Yeah, she wants to be paid
for this. Well.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
They did a study for thirteen years, and first of all,
they found out between two thousand and five and twenty eighteen,
the average number of spoken words dropped from sixteen thousand
to thirteen thousand because people started started spending so much
time texting on their phones that I wonder if in
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like a thousand years, we will have losed lost the
ability to speak at all.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Oh wow, because we'll be so immersed in.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Texting and social media now for decades. According to this report,
the idea that women talk more than men has been
treated like common knowledge.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Do you think it's sexist? A lot of women get
their backs up.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Okay, yeah, because you guys. It's just because of what
you guys said.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Well, look, we have to listen to all this so
and we have to listen to you, well, not as much.
They analyzed six hundred and thirty one thousand recordings from
twenty one hundred people across four countries. All right, they
gave everybody a device that recorded, I guess everything you
said all day, and then they analyzed, imagine this, twenty
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one hundred people, six hundred thirty thousand recordings, and they
found out that, yes, women do speak more than men,
and in fact, among adult adults twenty five to sixty four,
women speak almost twenty two thousand words a day and
the men speak eighteen thousand.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
We just have more to say, well, yes, more important
things to say.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
I don't know about that. I don't know about the content,
But I'm talking about volume.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
About volume, you easily beat us here, And you know,
because they don't know why it became, when it became
fashionball that we're supposed to pretend that men and women
are the same and we're clearly not.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
No.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
But I thought, ever since I was a kid that no,
women really do talk a lot, because my mother could
could talk right. My dad never spoke. He just sat
in his chair, he'd grunt, he'd go oh, And partly
was is because he didn't speak English very well, okay,
(33:26):
which which I didn't realize until I was well into
adulthood and one of my sons, because I'd mentioned to
my sons, you know, my grandpa doesn't talk very much,
and my son says, well, that's because he doesn't speak English.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Dad to speak you that long to figure that out?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, I was like, I was like forty years old,
and its wow, Oh that's why he was quiet.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
It didn't speak English. It's true.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
When he spoke publish to my mother, he could really
rattle off there, but no, my mother blew him away
when it came to words per day and at my house,
even even accounting for all the words here on the air,
I don't come close to.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Well because us women, I think I maybe I'll just
speak for myself. Sometimes we don't feel like we're being heard,
so we need to repeat ourselves. So that's why we
end up speaking.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
I see. Yes, you're right, we don't hear you.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
You don't listen. You don't listen.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Maybe it's because you repeat yourself so much.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
Have to repeat ourselves because we don't feel heard.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
You don't feel heard.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yes, I've heard that I'm not being heard. So I'm
going to say it again and again and again. Please, yes,
say it again?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
All right?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
We got coming up Karen Bass shaking down businesses to
get seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for Steve sober
Off and his partner to oversee the recovery. Well, sober
Off is no longer getting the money, but who what
were the organizations that were willing to cough this up,
and what methods of shakedown were being used by Bass.
We're going to talk to Susan Shelley from the Southern
California News Group. Next Deborah Mark live in the CAFI
(34:57):
twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the
John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show
live on KFI Am six forty from one to four
pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on
demand on the iHeartRadio app
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on from one until four, and then after four
o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app.
It's the same as the radio show. It gets posted
after four o'clock. So if you miss something, that's where
you can listen to it. We've got Well, I'm driving in.
(00:23):
What I mean, it's obviously a miserable, miserable day today,
it really is, and it's gonna get worse.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Apparently the heaviest rain is coming.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
But we're driving home, John, I know.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So you drive to the left, all right, I'll drive
to the right, okay, okay, So if you go skidting off.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I mean, I'll be out of your way.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Oh thanks.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
So I'm driving in and I'm listening to your news,
which is you know, very un enough.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
No, I do every day.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
And the first thing you play, it's a clip of
Karen Bass going through the Warner for mud slides and
flooding and all that. Well, let's play little clips. This
is me driving down down the one on one and
I hear this cut number three.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
We expect these heavy rains to last through Friday morning,
which puts burn areas at particular risk for landslides, mud flows,
and debris flows.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Okay, and I'm listening, Oh wow, look at this.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
The mayor is giving out warnings in advance of a
possible disaster.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
And then she went on cut.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Three city crews have installed concrete barriers and sandbags to
stop mud flows. The fire Department has pre positioned swift
water rescue and urban search and rescue teams, bulldozers and
other resources.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
And I'm thinking that must have taken some time, right
because I hear they're putting up like preposition prepositioning, the
fire department is prepositioning, and then the barricades are going up.
Those are those heavy CEM k rails right that they
that they're used as highway dividers. And I'm thinking, wow,
that takes a long time, right, because we have a
lot of burn areas, right. You got all the Palisades,
(02:09):
and then you've got that there was the Sunset fire
ut towards Hollywood and uh all the way to Manduville Canyon.
So there's there's there's a lot of heavy lifting that
has to be done in a very short time. And
and then she's got even more Cut five.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
There are risks all across Los Angeles, from mudflows in
our hills to our flooded streets, down trees, and fallen
power lines.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So it's a major weather event that's affecting everybody one
way or the other. Right, Yeah, you could have you
could have winds blowing down power lines, you could have
flooding anywhere. You got the burn areas with mud slides
and landslides. And she's not even done, like cut six.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Your l e f D is oh wait, crowded, stop stop, Okay.
So that's Karen Bass's statement.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And I'm thinking, you know, I was here on January
sixth and fifth, and fourth and third and second, and
I listened to the news every day, right, and I
don't remember any of the warnings about the extreme fire danger.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I don't remember any warnings only.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
The National I think the National Weather Service was talking
about this intense wind situation.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Right.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
I forgot the exact title of it, but basically, I
mean bad.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
She didn't go on the radio and TV and go
through the list of.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
She wasn't here.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh that's right, she wasn't here. Where was she again?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
She was in Africa.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Africa. That's right, she was in Africa. What was she
doing there? Oh she was drinking. Yes, that's why she
was drinking at the President of Ghana's inauguration a cocktail party.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Oh, that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
So that's why, even though the Weather Service had put
out warnings that there was gonna be one hundred mile
an hour winds, extreme fire danger, extremely low humidity, there
was no warnings from the government as to no prepositioning
of the fire department in the hilly areas. Huh, that's interesting. Now,
the l LA Fire Chief Kirsten Crowley up. She also
(04:14):
was on your news. I heard this too, she was
I was getting so informed. Now here's here's cut six.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Your LAFD is well prepared, fully prepared and ready to
respond to any emergency caused by this storm to protect lives, property,
and critical infrastructure from the potential impacts of these heavy rains, flooding,
and mud and debris flows.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
That the morning of the fire, the fire department was
nowhere to be found.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
In fact, she sent a thousand firefighters home when she
could have kept them on for a second shift. I
every few days, I have to remind you of all
this because it's going into that dreaded memory hall and
people forget.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
It just struck me.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's like, Wow, they sound confident, in charge, really well prepared.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
And that's what people are going to remember. Looks these
with the me major part of the storm. Look at
what we were prepared for mud and debrif flows.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Mud flows, debrief flows, landslides, were prepared for flooding. We're
prepared for power lines going down. Look at all the
preparation we got. We got fire crews prepositioned, we have
rescue crews.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Play cut seven helicopters are on standby for rapid reconnaissance
and aerial rescues if needed. Swift water teams strategically located
near high risk flood zones, Urban search and rescue teams
to respond to debrif flows and structural collapses. Additional fire
engines and crews assigned to high risk neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Sounds like a functioning city, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I was going to say, we have some amazing leaders.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
But they are amazing, aren't they. Wow? I mean they're
so well prepared and detailed.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I feel safe.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, don't you.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Feel like all right, whatever happens, you know, nature's going
to do it staying and sometimes you can't win. But
at least we're putting we're taking our best shot here
right where. Everybody's in the right place, We're fully staffed,
we're ready to go here. None of that on January second, third, fourth, fifth,
and especially the sixth, none of that because Karen Bass
(06:15):
was in Africa.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I don't know where Kristin Crowley was.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But boy, after the fact, they had all kinds of
excuses and they would say, well, you know, it really
didn't I remember I heard this.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I couldn't believe this.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Whoever spends their life defending Karen Bass, But well, you know,
it really wouldn't have made a difference. Well if it
wouldn't make a difference, then why were they taking up
half of Deborah's newscast with all these public service announcements,
with all this detail on how well they're prepared to
(06:46):
protect us from from nature today. Of course it makes
a difference. Of course it makes a difference. You preposition
the firefighters all over the hills might have been able
to snuff that stuff out that fire in twenty minutes.
That imagine they snuffed out the fire in twenty minutes
because they had firefighters and engines and helicopy the helicopters.
(07:07):
I mean, this isn't good weather to fly it either,
this isn't good weather to travel in.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
John, Sometimes we need a tragedy to learn from so
that we can prevent another.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, apparently that's what it is. We just had to sacrifice.
I don't know, was have like eight thousand homes. I
mean I was actually getting mad while listening to your newscasts.
I'm sorry your your whole presentation was pissing me up.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I'm sorry I was. I was trying to be informative.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
I was trying to let people know that that our
city leaders have our backs.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah. Well, and that was good. You did, you did
your job.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Okay, good, you know, But in fact, it might be
might be fun to go back and listen to the
news of January sixth, the morning of the sixth.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I I don't even want to talk about fires.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Let's see what wasn't discussed the morning of January sixth.
Who did not appear on the Debor news on January sixth,
All right, when, oh, by the way, because the scandals
never end. Susan Shelley, who writes for the Long Beach Press, Telegram.
(08:12):
I guess she writes for all the Southern California News
Group papers, and she has a story about who donated
the seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to cover what
was going to be Steve Soberoff's salary and his real
estate executive friend Randy Johnson. The two of them were
(08:35):
hired to oversee the recovery at least for three months,
and they were in total going to get seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars five hundred big ones to sober Off,
two hundred and fifty thousand to Johnson. And the quickly said, hey,
this is not tax money. This is coming from three charities.
(08:56):
And they didn't mention the charities, and but Susan Shelley
found out, and we're going to tell you who the
charities are. Susan's gonna explain the story and how they
became so generous. Why did they become so generous to
cover this? Now, of course, since the public found out
(09:19):
this is all done in secret, public rebelled and sober
Off allegedly is not getting a dime, and neither is Johnson.
So it's a fascinating story. I'll give you a key
I'll give you the headline. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass
has been busy shaking down businesses.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
But look, I I was kind to her for about
two minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I was very impressed. She's your new best friend.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I try to be fair.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Coming up after one pint thirty.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You know the theme of today, and I think the
theme of the last several weeks has been massive corruption
and massive wastes of money. And we've been talking a
lot about the federal government with what Elon Musk is doing,
but the cesspool in Los Angeles is vast. There's so
(10:20):
much corruption in Los Angeles government and in Sacramento, overseen
by Bass and Newsom. And there is a public radio report. Well,
when public radio starts dumping on Bass and the homeless industry,
then you know it stinks to high heaven. And I'm
(10:42):
going to tell you about the woman who manages the
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Billions of dollars passes through LASA,
as they call it. Her name is Lavicia Adams Callum,
and I'll just give you the headline here and after
one pint thirty. I'll explain more. The LAist, which is
(11:05):
Public Radio, signed Leavicia Adams Kellum signed a two million
dollar contract to give the money to a nonprofit for homelessness.
Her husband is one of the executives. Her husband is
(11:27):
in senior leadership. She's not supposed to do that, but
she did it. She signed the documents and this nonprofit
in Santa Monica got the two million dollars. Husband helps
run the place. Nonprofits, non government NGOs, non government organizations.
(11:53):
This is a filthy, disgusting racket. We'll talk about our
local version of that coming up in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Nationally, Robert F. Kennedy was confirmed as Secretary of Health
and Human Services, and I think he's sworn in just
a short time ago, and the New York Post has
a story that Health and Human Services now they oversee
I believe, Medicare.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
And Medicaid, among many other things.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And they also have an Office of Refugee Resettlement known
as o r R. Well, they ramped up the spending
for illegal aliens over the last five years from since
twenty twenty, they gave illegal aliens and other migrants who
(12:43):
were pre legalized maybe they were given some type of
temporary asylum, temporary protected status.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
You know, they came up.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
With all kinds of buzzwords, all kinds of fake categories
so they wouldn't kind of as illegal, but they're all illegal.
None of them went through the system. The Office of
Refugee Resettlement handed out twenty two and a half billion
dollars over the last five years. Twenty two and a
(13:12):
half billion. Is this not stunning? And the money went
for it was They paid out cash so that the
illegal aliens could buy cars and homes and even build
up their credit for startup businesses. This is according to
(13:37):
a Watchdog report. These non governmental groups builked taxpayers for
one point seven billion dollars cars, homes, college educations, and startups,
small business loans.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Loans to repair credit history.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
These migrants are here for ten minutes illegally and they've
already got credit issues, money for cultural orientation, money for
emergency housing support, legal assistance, Medicaid care. In case you're
wondering how we ended up thirty six trillion dollars in debt,
(14:20):
this is what the government was doing with your money.
They were leaving the border wide open, guilting you. If
you objected, and then how many of you are struggling
to say for your college kids college education?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Did you get any.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Grant money, your tax money, your taxes went to give
college education money to illegal aliens over five years. They
also spent twelve and a half billion dollars on unaccompanied
migrant children. These are parents who abandoned their kids, sent
(15:02):
them to the border.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
They showed up here, and we blew twelve.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And a half billion dollars instead of finding out who
they were and returning them back to their parents. There
are people in this country who've let their nine year
olds walk to the park a half mile from the house,
and the police have come and arrested the parents for
child endangerment. That happened just a couple of months ago. Again,
(15:29):
so in America, if you tell your kid, hey, go
run down to the park and play this afternoon, if
some nosy neighbor sticks their beacon your business and calls
the police, you're getting a visit from Child Services. But
somehow it is wonderful and noble for hundreds of thousands
(15:50):
of kids to be left unaccompanied at the border, to
wander around until government workers lavished them with so many
prizes and gifts like they won some kind of crazy
game show, and the Office of Refugee Resettlement placed two
(16:11):
hundred and ninety one thousand kids, and often they placed
them with people who were unvetted and abusive. According to
this report, last year, the Office of Refugee Resettlement lost
track of thirty two thousand migrant kids. So they came
(16:34):
here alone. Briefly the government became aware of their existence,
and then they disappeared again. When you went to the
government and said, well, where did this kid go, Oh,
we don't know. They spent two and a half billion
in twenty twenty two, and a quarter billion in twenty
twenty one, three and a half billion in twenty twenty two.
(16:56):
Watched this go up twenty twenty three to ten billion,
ten billion dollars. The Office of Refugee Resettlement was paying
for legal counsel for illegal aliens. They were giving him
so much money that the migrants didn't have to worry
(17:17):
about becoming self sufficient. Why try to become self sufficient
when the government is giving you checks, debit cards, I
don't know, maybe sending direct deposits to your bank accounts,
And all this money was funneled through these questionable nonprofits
(17:38):
such as Church World Services International Rescue Committee. Church World
Services got three hundred and fifty five million dollars in
our tax money. What are to go for? Nobody knows?
The International Rescue Committee six hundred million dollars, you know,
and they have names that are supposed to be bulletproof.
(17:59):
It's like it's Catholic Services. It's a religious organization. You know,
they're doing God's work. International Rescue Committee. I think that's
self evident right there. They're rescuing these poor children. Well
I don't know about that. According to this report, it
looks like they're being placed with a lot of abusive
people and a lot of them just get lost.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
In the system and nobody knows where they are.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
And this is the kind of stuff that's been going
on for years. You could go online if you want
to read about this. Open the Books is the organization
Open the Books, and they have published the report. But
it's twenty two and a half billion dollars for win
again legal aliens. Why why that's the best we could
(18:55):
do with the money? Twenty two and a half billion
dollars and the money doesn't even exist. We have to
borrow it or I don't know the Federal Reserve prints it.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Eight seven seven Moist d eighty six.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
The Moist line is coming back on Friday, eight seven
seven Moist eighty six. I'm working a five day week
this week. All right, I'm like, I'm like the government employees.
Now I'm showing up every day.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It's about time.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Eight seven seven sixty six four seven eighty eighty six.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Or go to the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app
the uh I read today that seventy five thousand people
have now taken the Trump Musk buyout. Seventy five thousand
government workers are taking the eight months severance. A judge
had temporarily paused that program, but he gave it to
go ahead because who would object this is this is
(19:48):
a great deal. You get eight eight months of severance,
you go home, and then after eight months you're no
longer a drain on the taxpayer.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
All right.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Now, there's so much corruption going on.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
And when you hear.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
About nonprofits NGOs, non governmental organizations, these are the parasites
that attach themselves to large government agencies that have big
budgets and the agency known as LASA has a huge budget.
Los Angeles Human Homeless Services Authority, and they're a joint
(20:31):
venture of LA City and LA County and they process
billions and billions of dollars. They take your tax money,
which so many people stupidly vote for these tax increases.
The money goes to LASA, and LASA then gives it
to nonprofits and NGOs, and these organizations swallow up the
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money and the homelessness increases.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
It's it's like a magic trick.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
It's like, Wow, let's pour billions of dollars to get
the homeless off the streets and get them off their addictions,
get their mental illness treated, and send them off to
work so that they could live in their own house
and not die in their own vomit in the streets.
But the more the more we put into homelessness, the
(21:25):
more homeless we get HM And it makes you wonder,
maybe these nonprofits are not doing anything to help the homeless.
Maybe they're just taking the money. And what does one
nonprofit get money over another? Hmm, Maybe it's because you
know somebody. I'll leave it up to you to decide. Here,
(21:48):
the chief executive of LASA is Lavichi Valicia.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I don't know how to pronounce this.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
First word is va vah, second word is l e
Cia to be Valicia, Felicia sends softer, and she's got
a middle name, Adams, and then she has a married
name Kellum.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
So Va Lsi Adams Kellum. That's one person.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
She is the CEO of Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority,
and her husband has just two names, and he works
for Upward Bound, which is one of those homeless services organizations.
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So the way it works is we pay the tax money,
LASA collects the tax money and then gives it to
these nonprofits who then sped it on homelessness and nothing works.
So Valicia works for LASA, is the CEO, and her husband,
Edward Kellam, works as one of the senior leaders of
(23:00):
upward Bound. And I know this is going to stun you,
but Valicia Adams Kellum signed a two million dollar contract
with her husband's nonprofit, Upward Bound House.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah that can't be, can you?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I don't say? Okay?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
In case you wonder how these organizations get the money,
and what did I tell you? The organizations are set
up to enrich the friends, relatives, donors, a right and
and and the politically connected. And I've told the story
where I was approached to run for office and create
(23:41):
one of these for my wife and family. My wife
and my kids would be on the board. I'd run
for office, and then they would all be.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Taking That's how it's done.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
That's how it's done. Okay, So Valicia Adams Kellum and
her husband have a good deal because her husband, uh,
you know, they got to get these government contracts.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Right.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
What's what's a homeless nonprofit going to do if they
don't have government money?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Well, who do you know? My wife? My wife runs
the place. Now for the record, here.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
The laws, and I'm going to quote here Sean mc morris,
who manages the ethics program for this group called California
Common Cause. And McMorris says, the laws are pretty specific
that you, meaning the CEO of LASA, can't have any
participation whatsoever in awarding the contract. You should not be
(24:37):
putting your signature on any such contract. You have to
completely refuse yourself from the matter.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Okay, those are the rules.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
And uh, employees have to sign loss's Code of Ethics
that they agree to avoid any activities that could be
or appear to be conflicts of interest, and one of
the examples given is a mediately is immediate family relationships
with the agency's.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Vendors, rulesoths. It cares about rules.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Edward Kellam is running one of these vendors. In fact,
upward Bound House is a longtime vendor of LASA that
focuses on housing and services for unhoused families and young adults. Except,
as we keep telling you, homelessness has skyrocketed ever since.
We've been spending millions and millions of dollars on places
like Upward Bound actually billions of dollars. Now here's the
(25:31):
key point. Valicia Adams Kellum. Her signature is on all contracts,
the UH signature sections of two contract amendments, and the
original two million dollar contract. Adams Kellum signed all those.
(25:56):
Last obtained the documents through a public records request. It's
always been out there, you just had to ask. Now
they're saying that Valicia Adams Kellum mistakenly signed them, that
her staffers mistakenly mailed them or sent them to her,
(26:18):
a lot of mistakes. Oh wow, the staffers send her
the contracts. I guess they don't read them. Hey, that's
Felicia's husband there and then she gets it and doesn't
recognize her husband's company.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Okay, so there's no conflict of interest there. It was
an error.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Even though where she signs her signature is very close
where it says upward Boundhouse.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
But that didn't jump out at her. Hey, isn't that
my husband is that nonprofit?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
We all make mistakes.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
John, Yeah, at the time that she at the time,
she was higher well at the time this happened. She
said the issue was disclosed when I was hired. Loss's
legal counsel has put in procedures in place that have
been followed, and these procedures walled me off from any
(27:15):
involvement in matters concerning upward Bound I am completely recused
from matters that involve or impact upward Bound House. Except
her signature is on the contract in three different places.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Does somebody forge her signature?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I owed some mistake.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I think it is.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Now since they found these contracts. Valicia Adams Kellum is
not responded to any follow up questions and interview requests,
including questions about whether the conflict of interest laws have
been violated, and her husband, Edward, also did not respond
to any request for comment. So our two million dollars
(27:57):
Valsia signed over to Edward and they don't want to
talk about it anymore.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I would say, until they talk about it, they don't
get paid.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, maybe the money ought to be deducted from their paychecks.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yeah, they're not going to discuss it. Right.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
If it's taxpayers money, then no pay for you until
you ask your question.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
She runs a budget of seven hundred million dollars, seven
hundred million dollars, so she signs a lot of contracts.
I wonder if she knows any of the other people
at any of the other nonprofits. Well, that's a great
term nonprofit. More coming up and after two o'clock, we
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are going.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
To talk to.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Oh, yes, from the Long Beach Press Telegram, the reporter
Susan Shelley, and we're going to talk to her about
Oh here's another one. Karen Bass shaking down businesses to
raise seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to pay Steve
sober Off and his buddy to manage the recovery.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
He's not packing, he's not taking any money now.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Right now, he's not. But a deal was done.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
This is all that goes on in Los Angeles, just
all kinds of sneaky deals.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Six forty coming up after two o'clock. Were you wondering
what were the alleged charities that coughed up seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars to pay Steve sober Off and
his partner Randy Johnson to work for ninety days heading
the recovery. Well, Susan Shelley from the Southern California News
(29:41):
Group has found out, and we're going to talk to
her coming up. Let me see read the headline again.
Karen Bass has been busy shaking down businesses. All right, now,
did do you think it's a sexist stereotype to say
that talk significantly more than men?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
You do.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, well you're wrong. It's been scientifically proven that it's true.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Well, I'm a little sensitive to that because I told
you when I was five years old, I was told
to shut up that I talked too much.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Remember uh huh at a neighbor's father.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That doesn't surprise me, surprise you, Eric, and.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
My dad used to get annoyed with me every time
we'd watch movies. My husband still does too, because they
tell me to you know, stop talking, you talk to them,
ask questions. I will I try the movie. I yell
at the TV, and then I ask questions. I don't
like to be confused, and so I asked questions.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
You're confused by the movie?
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Yes, because a lot of it doesn't make sense. And
I don't want to wait.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I don't want to have to think.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I want to spoof that it's in foreign language. I mean,
why do you get confused?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
There's plenty But anyway, what does he have to.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Stop the movie and then answer your questions? Yes?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Annoyed?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
And now you paid to talk?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I know.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Well, I mean I'm telling you my dad just kind
of real quick.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
My dad, when I was in a sorority, he had
to come and talk about me, and he said, oh,
it doesn't surprise me that my daughter wants to be
a news anchor.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
She never stopped talking. Yeah, she wants to be paid
for this. Well.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
They did a study for thirteen years, and first of all,
they found out between two thousand and five and twenty eighteen,
the average number of spoken words dropped from sixteen thousand
to thirteen thousand because people started started spending so much
time texting on their phones that I wonder if in
(31:37):
like a thousand years, we will have losed lost the
ability to speak at all.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Oh wow, because we'll be so immersed in.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Texting and social media now for decades. According to this report,
the idea that women talk more than men has been
treated like common knowledge.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Do you think it's sexist? A lot of women get
their backs up.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Okay, yeah, because you guys. It's just because of what
you guys said.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Well, look, we have to listen to all this so
and we have to listen to you, well, not as much.
They analyzed six hundred and thirty one thousand recordings from
twenty one hundred people across four countries. All right, they
gave everybody a device that recorded, I guess everything you
said all day, and then they analyzed, imagine this, twenty
(32:22):
one hundred people, six hundred thirty thousand recordings, and they
found out that, yes, women do speak more than men,
and in fact, among adult adults twenty five to sixty four,
women speak almost twenty two thousand words a day and
the men speak eighteen thousand.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
We just have more to say, well, yes, more important
things to say.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
I don't know about that. I don't know about the content,
But I'm talking about volume.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
About volume, you easily beat us here, And you know,
because they don't know why it became, when it became
fashionball that we're supposed to pretend that men and women
are the same and we're clearly not.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
No.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
But I thought, ever since I was a kid that no,
women really do talk a lot, because my mother could
could talk right. My dad never spoke. He just sat
in his chair, he'd grunt, he'd go oh, And partly
was is because he didn't speak English very well, okay,
(33:26):
which which I didn't realize until I was well into
adulthood and one of my sons, because I'd mentioned to
my sons, you know, my grandpa doesn't talk very much,
and my son says, well, that's because he doesn't speak English.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Dad to speak you that long to figure that out?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, I was like, I was like forty years old,
and its wow, Oh that's why he was quiet.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
It didn't speak English. It's true.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
When he spoke publish to my mother, he could really
rattle off there, but no, my mother blew him away
when it came to words per day and at my house,
even even accounting for all the words here on the air,
I don't come close to.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Well because us women, I think I maybe I'll just
speak for myself. Sometimes we don't feel like we're being heard,
so we need to repeat ourselves. So that's why we
end up speaking.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
I see. Yes, you're right, we don't hear you.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
You don't listen. You don't listen.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Maybe it's because you repeat yourself so much.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
Have to repeat ourselves because we don't feel heard.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
You don't feel heard.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yes, I've heard that I'm not being heard. So I'm
going to say it again and again and again. Please, yes,
say it again?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
All right?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
We got coming up Karen Bass shaking down businesses to
get seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for Steve sober
Off and his partner to oversee the recovery. Well, sober
Off is no longer getting the money, but who what
were the organizations that were willing to cough this up,
and what methods of shakedown were being used by Bass.
We're going to talk to Susan Shelley from the Southern
California News Group. Next Deborah Mark live in the CAFI
(34:57):
twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the
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