February 24, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (02/24) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about egg prices and beef prices being on the rise. There is leaked audio of Mayor Karen Bass on a phone call preemptively defending her trip to Ghana. More on the waves DOGE is making through the federal government. There is something that men do that gives women the "ick factor".
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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council member, Monica rod Rigaz.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
She's from the seventh district.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
She is trying to get city council support to reverse
the Christian Crowley firing. She thinks Crowley's getting scapegoated and
she is looking to get ten of the fifteen members
to support Crowley, and they can the way the law
is written reverse basses firing. So we will have Monica Rodriguez.
(00:40):
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Now we've got wow, egg prices up fifteen percent in
the last couple of weeks. It's a race between the
gas prices going up and the egg price is going up.
If you need gas and you like eating eggs, this
is this is a tough month. Alex No, Alex Stone,
(01:03):
right is It's Michael and Alex Stone. Okay, anyway, what
do you got ABC News and your egg correspondent?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, that's right. And cattle prices are going up as well.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So if you like steak and eggs and you want
to drive to get the steak and eggs, well then
you're out of luck. Turned someone vegan, you know, and
that's right. Well, I wonder if we know anybody around here. Yeah,
she doesn't have to worry about meat and egg don't care.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
About egg prices or meat not at all.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
She's happy with this. Do you drive an electric car too?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I do not.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, see then I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Like the gas prices.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So yeah, kind of like with oil prices and gas prices,
where when oil goes up, then gas prices slowly go
up afterwards. That today, wholesale egg prices they've gone over
eight bucks a dozen and ninety six percent higher than
the price in a year ago, fifteen percent last couple weeks.
So that indicates that the wholesale price, kind of like
with oil, that then with gas prices and in this
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case retail prices, that they're going to continue going up
because that's what stores are paying or the middleman is
paying to then sell to the stores, and then that
we may be paying more in the next couple weeks.
But stores do said their own prices for eggs. A
lot of them use them as lost leaders to get
you to come in, knowing that many people are buying eggs,
and they come in and then they buy other things.
But the average price right now, what we're paying, the
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retail price in the grocery store is a four to
ninety five a dozen as of today, but rising to
be more in line with that eight dollars. So this
woman blown away by what she had to go on
in Page was.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Literally shocked to see the dozen of eggs at nine
to twenty six, and Costco had him about twenty four
to twenty five dollars a four flat.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
So twenty six point eight million birds have been lost
in this outbreak of bird flow. Now nine states have
confirmed out breaks and the egg price impact is nationwide.
It wasn't everywhere before, was more regional, nowadays everywhere. This guy,
Dwayne Jones runs chicken farm, and Georgia's chickens are healthy.
But he used to sell to retailers into farmers' markets.
He says he can't do that anymore because he's so
(03:03):
overwhelmed with people trying to buy eggs directly from him.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
I was already doing a good business but I used
to have enough surplus eggs to sell to retailers who
resold them at farmers, markers and stuff like that. But
I have been selling out every day, and I've had
at least five new customers a week since this egg
shortage started, So I haven't had any extra to sell
to the retailers at all.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
So John and Dever, so far prices for chicken and
the grocery stores hasn't gone up substantially.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
The thinking is that it may same reason is the eggs.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
And then now you add on the cattle farmers that
they say beef prices are jumping not because of bird flu,
but because of drought in Oklahoma and Texas and Kansas
and Montana and elsewhere, higher supply costs as well, that
they're seeing those prices go up. They're all peel livestock
marketing specialists in Oklahoma.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Cattle prices or record levels that's working its way up
through the system.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Just like the wholesale the retail, he says, that will
eventually come up again, supplying demand less available cattle, a
shortage of beef cattle that has prices going up. And
then on the bird flu, the Trump administration is expected demphasize.
Kind of interesting here vaccinations for birds and the tighter
biosecurity to.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Vaccinations for the bird for the birds.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, so it may have been the members of the
Trump administration may have been against vaccinations for other things,
but for birds, it seems like that is what the White.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
House is going to put you.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
The birds have the right to opt out if they
sign a document. Yeah, so forced vaccinations don't. I'm guessing
that there's going to be some pushback to that of
eating eggs and birds that have the vaccinations. But that
seems like the only answer to this, as so many
of the birds are dying off, and when a flock
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gets it, the farmer eiler has to to kill off
all of their birds or their birds just die very quickly,
and it's been spreading out a bait.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Tough day to be a bird is another.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Answer, exactly. And there are many egg replacements don't.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, and they're actually restaurants now that are going to
the vegetable replacement for eggs because it's cheaper than getting
real egg.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I'm sure that tastes really good.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I didn't know that the wholesale cost can be three
dollars per dozen higher than the retail costs, and I didn't.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Know the stores take it as as a loss leader. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Well, but also over time it will come up that
they pay the wholesale price. It takes a while for
us to pay that in retail, and that for a
lot of them, it's like the chicken at Costco, the
rotisserie chicken, that it'll be a lost leader. But they
get you to go through the entire store to the
back to buy that rotistri chicken, and you pass by
other things and say, well, I do need an eight
inch TV, and.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I do need that.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I do not deal in impulse by ever. All right, Alex,
thank you very much. I actually think egg beaters tastes
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
What about you?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
You know, I don't like any fake anything, So I
just I know, have you seen her?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
She doesn't eat She's just like eighty two pounds, she
doesn't she doesn't eat fake food.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
I guess you.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Wouldn't like going to take whites. I think, right exactly,
it's gotta be like that. What's the thing the bottles.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Of Uh yeah, I know what you're talking about is
the problem.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
With eating eggs that that doesn't.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
I don't want to eat any animal products, John.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But it's you're not killing I didn't say you were.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That's just one of one of the things. You know
what I don't.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
I don't need to eat eggs or any kind of
egg replacement.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I don't need that.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Okay. Alex lomeloaded the Marriotte.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
It's thank you, you enjoy it's.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
A brick wall out. Bye guys. All right. Alex Stone
from ABC News cuckoo.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Uh, don't be talking about yourself like that.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
John, That's just I don't get that. I don't like
I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Know animal products.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
It makes it look I have said a million times
before people start emailing me.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I am email.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I am the critical vegan. I wear leather, but I'm
trying to phase out of that. I don't want to
eat any amazing. I'm not telling people not, I'm just
saying there are alternatives.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
All right.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I'm phasing out leather.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I'm trying not to buy so much.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Every much thing.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Is everything is leather.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Everything you like is leather.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Well I do wear pleth yes at times?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
At times, yes you do, and all kinds of interesting colors. Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
When we come back, I want to play now, the
leaked phone call of Karen Bass defending your trip to Ghana.
This is before the fires broke out, and she's trying
to explain to an anonymous person who's who's leaked this
to James O'Keeffe's operation, UH, that she's not going to
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be gone that long and it has to be done.
She also talks about MacArthur Park as well, because she's
under a lot of pressure to clean up that disgusting, horrific,
violent cesspool. And she whispers a lot, and twice she
uses the line read between the lines, and I don't
know what that means. It's very odd. I guess she
didn't know she was being recorded. But it's all over
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the internet and we'll play it for you coming up.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
A lot of audio came out over the weekend from
James O'Keefe. He is that crusading undercover journalist has been
around about fifteen years and he has a set of
clips where his staff secretly recorded a Bass, a Karen
Bass worker. He was an international relations specialist named Alexander Bose.
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We played that earlier and also Angel Luna works for DWP,
and from Boz we found out that Bass, he said,
Bass in the office didn't know that the fires were coming.
They knew about the warnings, and they blamed it on
the Palisades residents their homes being out of code. The
best part of the reason she went to Ghana not
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just to celebrate the inauguration of the president, but to
get a consulate in La because they thought it was
it was a strategic goal. It was very important to
integrate African countries. That's not what anybody's interested in Los Angeles.
Nobody cares about consulates at all for anybody. We want
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the fire department to be positioned and ready and funded
to put out big fires when the sant Ana wins come.
So I don't know what she thinks she was elected
to do. I guess she was on some international or
African relations committees in Congress and she thought that you
know that that she'll just continue that work. Well, No,
when you're mayor of Los Angeles twenty four to seven job,
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and it's about Los Angeles, it's not about your your
your your diplomatic abilities. I think she she apparently caught
the travel bug and her ego got inflated by being
a world traveler traveler and negotiating with other countries over
bringing consulates to la I don't know there was another
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person who was recorded as well by James O'Keefe's people.
This is an audiophone call between this unidentified source and
Karen Bass, and you'll hear her talking in a very soft,
low voice defending her trip to Ghana before she's even left,
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and also talking about the disgusting mess in MacArthur Park
with all the vagrants and the drugs and the crime
and the gangs. So we're going to play a cut
number two.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
If the situation is very dangerous and I would never
do I will take the criticism before I do a
publicity stunt and frankly a press conference. At this point
in time, this is.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
MacArthur's party publicity.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I think that I think my neighbors and property owners, Yeah,
and the residents. I mean forty one thousand people live
within a square mile here.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, two families share one bedroom apartment.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
But they want to hear that something is going to
be doneized if you want to know it's recognized exactly.
But if I have a choice between that and compromising
something I just have to go along with it.
Speaker 9 (11:26):
It's not my area of expertise. I want to make
sure that you are safe and hopefully you can read.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
In between the lines.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
But I would just appreciate just and it's hard for
me to.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Tell you this, but.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Hold tight, you will.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
You will understand.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
So okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
And when I am able to talk, I will be
happy to go into great detail.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
And you've got me on the street, and you're.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Welcome to call me at any time.
Speaker 9 (12:03):
I'll call you right back.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
No problem.
Speaker 9 (12:06):
In just in terms of my trip, just so you know,
I'm missing two workdays.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
That's it.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
And if President Biden extends me an invitation, I took it.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
If President Biden sends me an invitation, I take it.
Not missing two workdays, she missed five work days, and
only because she took an emergency. Playing back here, she
left on Saturday, Sunday. Saturday and Sunday's are workdays from mayor.
I guess she's not aware of that. This isn't this
is in congress. This is in Congress. You don't worry
about consulates for African nations or any other nation. You
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don't take Saturdays and Sundays off when you have extreme
fire warnings. And I don't know where all that was
in the middle there about MacArthur Park. She has completely
lost control of that section of town. It is beyond
a disaster. I mean Steve Lopez uh did a whole
piece on it just a week or two ago. I
think I saved it. I should I should go get it,
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and and and and and and it's so so bad there.
It's so crime ridden, it's so disgusting. There's so many
drug addicts and homeless people. There's so many criminals and
they're selling drugs and they're selling weapons. And the park
is uninhabitable. And that's what the owner of Languors Deli
was complaining about. And I, uh, it's it's actually such
(13:28):
a beautiful park visually, but she has, oh I mean
Garcetti let it go to hell, and Bass is ensuring
that it may never come back.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And I I don't, I mean a real real leader
would send in I don't know. I think it's like
National Guard stuff. MacArthur Park, I really do. I think
it's so filthy, so disgusting and so dangerous that there
should be you know, either the state, the California Highway Patrol,
come in the National Guard, the US military, I don't know,
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some some joint task force to go in there, because
it's really awful. And she's allowed to get worse over
the last two years. And when Langers made a big
deal about closing up shop unless something gets cleaned up,
you know, she she she still hasn't done anything about it.
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She's really bad at her job. I mean, everything is
just getting worse and worse and more dangerous, and I
everybody nobody knows what to do. I mean, because now
we're not we're not just bumbling along. We're in free
fall and everyone's lost confidence. And what I don't know
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is if there's a way, like in New York. You know,
the governor was thinking of removing the mayor of New York.
We don't have that option in California. Is there something
the city council can invoke, you know the way there's
the tw on fifth Amendment, and you know, the Cabinet
can can start a process to sideline a president at
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least temporarily, and it could be followed up on by
the House and Senate. And of course they have impeachment procedures.
I mean not that I'm expecting the city council to
do anything. They will even speak out against all her incompetence.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I'm a feeling that most of the city.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Council people feel like Alexander Boz does, Oh, there's nothing
we could have done about it, you know, the winter coming.
There's nothing we could have done about it. And that
is wrong, it's false. But I realized they really don't care.
When you listen to Boz talk and the DWP guy talk,
you realize don't care. They're very flippant, they're very cavalier.
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It's like, eh, you know whatever. It's really disturbing because
I know how painful it is for the people living
in the Palisades. It's extremely painful. It's completely changed their
lives forever. And you have these nini. I don't know
if they're millennials or gen zs, but they're they're they're
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kind of incoherent when they speak because they use the
word like about every three or four words, and they
just sound like immature little toddlers. Somehow given responsible, well
paying jobs. Uh, well, we're gonna we're gonna keep on
top of it because we can't. It's obviously an extreme
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danger in this city. I mean something else, something else
could happen really bad too. And you could see that
there is no infrastructure to respond. There was no infrastructure
ready to deal with the fire. What if we have
this massive earthquake, Well, you know what if the criminals.
You see what happens when the criminals get organized, like
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the smash and grab spree. It seems we're never prepared
for anything. All right, more coming up talk talk some
about Elon Musk turning everything upside down with one memo
asking people to just justify in the last week, name
five things you did in the last week on your job,
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and the squeals of protest coming out of the federal
government workers, just write down what you did?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
It said it to me, That's all he asked.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Gosh, I don't know what I would write down.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Well, you don't know what you're no.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I thought about that. I've been thinking about. I mean,
that's okay. So I do the news. That's okay. That's
what I did, right, That's it.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That's not five things.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
That's one thing I did.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
The news, your newscasts. You looked at the stock market numbers,
you looked at the weather. That's three things, right, there.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
That's what I do every single That's part of your
job though, right, But that's the job. So that's it
is that simple.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yes, that's all they're asking is like what you Okay,
I I feel like I have to Oh, you're complicating this.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
That's what it is. Okay, So you've dumbed it down, okay, because.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
It's just I didn't expect this.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Read the news, it seems so that just seems so simple.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
You write some of the news, you read the news,
you gathered the audio for the newscast.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
I just I felt that there was a trick question
there that I wasn't getting because that.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Just seems that just seemed too simple to me. Okay, Okay, well,
thank you for clarifying.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
I would have gotten fired John, and you'd have to
find somebody else to workhip.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
How do you blow that question?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
All?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Right?
Speaker 8 (18:30):
More coming up, you're listening to John Cobels on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to have a councilor,
Woman Monica Rodriguez from the seventh District. She is trying
to put together a group of city council members to
reverse the firing of the fire chief, Kristin Crowley.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
They can do that.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
The city council gets two thirds in line to support Crowley,
then Crowley is reinstalled as chief.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Didn't know that, but it's true.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
There's fifteen council members, so if there's a ten to
five vote or better, then it overrides basses firing. Wouldn't
that be something? By the way, Crowley is not leaving
the fire department. Under the rules, she's allowed to request
a transfer to another another post, so she wants to
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still keep working with Laft and we'll see where that
city council situation goes. We'll talk with Monica Roriguez coming
up after three o'clock. Elon Musk. This is so amusing,
you know, I notice, yeah, I usually refer to them
as deadwood government workers, but now I notice that they're
(19:52):
described in the media has devoted civil servants. They're constantly
referred to, not as government workers, but civil servants. Spare
me the servants part. Please stop. It makes me gag. Yes,
they're civil servants. They're sacrificing themselves for the good of
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the country. I cannot believe the propaganda that comes out
of much of the media. Three percent of the workforce
has accepted the government buyout. You know how many people
that is, seventy seven thousand civil servants. Seventy seven thousand
(20:36):
people are taking the buyout. And that's only three percent
of the federal workforce, three percent of the beloved, devoted
civil servants. So Elon Musk on Saturday sent out an email.
We're requiring that all federal government employees will have to
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share what they've been working on in the last week
or face dismissal. He wants approximately five bullet points of
what you accomplished last week.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Stop staring at me like I'm ding dong.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
Well, you were baffled by that because it just seems
too simple, and I was only looking at it from
my type of job.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
How would I answer that? That is an awful Why.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I would just say I did Monday show, Tuesday show,
Wednesday show, and here's a link on the podcast.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Okay, Well, somebody ever asks me that question, I'll know
how to answer to.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Say, I read the news on Monday, on Tuesday, on Wednesday, I.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Did the same thing over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, most jobs are like that.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
You only it told employees not to send any classified
information and the deadline for the response is by the
end of the day Monday, two days from when it
was sent, and everybody in government is squealing like he
just sacrificed their babies.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
He also said that a lack of response will be
taken as a resignation, which could have been a joke
because the Office of Personnel Management, another wing of the
federal government, has said today that you know, this is
a voluntary thing you do. You don't have to do this,
but it's like a lot of voluntary things at work.
If you don't do it, you can assume that the
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boss is noticing and that there's a big black mark
next to you that he now has a dark feeling
about you. That's why you always do when they say, oh,
it's voluntary, you know it's not voluntary exactly. He had
put out a fork in the road email some weeks ago,
and that was you know, either either take a buyout
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or take the risk that in a few months or
in a few hours you're going to get fired. And
that's where the seventy seven thousand people, and probably a
lot of them are older, and a lot of them
maybe didn't like their jobs and they wanted out. What's
astonishing is is the pushback still over the workforce, over
the over working at in the office versus working at home.
(23:11):
That that is a huge And I saw Jamie Diamond,
the head of JP Morgan, had issued a public denunciation
of the work at home policies, and there are still
people bitching about that at JP Morgan, and.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
The executives are beside themselves. Don't you shut up and
show up at work. That era is over. It's done.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
It's not coming back any times. You know why, because
it was a failure. You don't think these companies would
love for it to work on all cylinders and not
have to pay for all the buildings that they're renting,
all the real estate that they own. Man, if they
could sell off all their real estate and get all
that rent off the books and keep that as profit,
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you know how that they would boost their stock price.
You know, financially, it's a much better deal if they
don't have to employ thousands and thousands of people in
expensive real estate buildings and you know, pay for all
all the furniture and pay for all the amenities that
that people want at work. Of course they would rather
you work from home if that proved to be a
(24:25):
successful plan, which it's not.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I don't understand this.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Somehow during COVID everyone became a toddler. I don't know
what happened. It's like everyone just seems that they and
the way I told you that basses employees that were
secretly taped to come across like immature teenagers juveniles. It
seems the way middle aged adults and older adults are
(24:52):
acting now, if they're being forced to show up for work,
they're just very petulant and whiny. And I don't understand.
I don't recognize the country anymore. I really don't well.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
And so many bosses worked and continue to work from home, so.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I know, it's not just the employees, not just the employees.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
It's COVID changed so much and people just are not
they're not jumping back into going back to reality before
there was COVID.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I don't, I don't. I just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I mean, we certainly all worked for decades driving into
work and driving home, and I know it can be
a pain in the ass because of the traffic and all,
but that's where you decide.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Somewhere along the line.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
It's like maybe I've got to move, maybe I've got
to take a different job. Maybe I've got to move
to another city. Maybe I've got to do something else
for my family. But you just you make those decisions
because life isn't perfect and the world isn't set up
for you. So you have to decide whether you like
the job or you like to pay. And that's more
important than wasting so much time in traffic.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
And I think that if the job requires you to
be there in person, that's the job. So then you
just have to find another job where maybe maybe if
if working from home is so important to you, because
there are plenty of jobs that still allow people to
work from home, then go there.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
That's the thing people don't seem to grasp. It's like,
you don't have to take the job, you don't have
to stay at the job. Like seventy seven thousand people
in Washington, d c. Said, you know what, give me
the eight month severance. I'll take the buy out. I
don't want to do this for whatever reason. Maybe some
of it had to do with showing up at work,
or they realized they had one of these empty loaf jobs,
(26:41):
and yeah, you should have to justify your job I
mean to protest that you don't have five bullet points
to explain what you do.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Want it again, I said, I mean, look, I'm the
first to admit I wasn't baffled.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I just thought that I was missing something.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
This is going to hunt for a while. I know
it is.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I know, but I.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Mean, Okay, so you justify your job. I mean, but
shouldn't your boss know what.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Your job is?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
You would think, but I think a lot of them don't.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I mean, if you're I really do, especially these nebulous
government jobs where everybody's at a computer terminal and sitting
at a workstation and it's all about moving data around.
I don't know what everybody does. I don't know a
lot of people do here.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
No, it's true.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
I think with us it's obvious right on the air.
I'm your news anchor, you're the talk show hosts.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I mean, it's obvious, right, but.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Not to you.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
But that was too obvious.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
I have to justify my Okay, Yes, so I'm a
news anchor Monday through Friday, and I'm on these shows
and I do this, this and this. Yeah, I guess
I was just I was overthinking, which I do a lot.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yeah, I know. I know when we come back, you'll
like this. Have you ever heard about the ick Factor?
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Oh you I have. So you watch these reality TV
dating shows?
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Well, no, I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Watch this story over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
No I didn't, but I know I know all about it,
and there was a show.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Not a reality show, that talked about Okay, it's a
feeling of disgust with somebody that you're you're dating when
you realize I can't possibly date this person anymore or
live with this person because they just did something that's unforgivable.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
And I saw a list of things here, and there's
one of them that really stood.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Out to me.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Oh, really, do you do it?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I don't, And I know exactly why the women would
find it icky and why they would reject the man.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Oh why can't we do more?
Speaker 8 (28:45):
Coming up, you're listening to John Cobbels on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Right after three o'clock and Debra's News, We're going to
talk with LA Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez from the seventh district.
She's trying to get other council people together to reinstate
Kristin Crowley as fire chief. They can do it if
they get a two thirds vote in favor of Crowley.
That would be ten out of fifteen council people. We'll
talk with Monica Rodriguez coming up in minutes, and also
(29:16):
we're going to go through some of the some of
the latest on Bass. Her staff has been sarptitiously recorded
and real cavalier by these people don't give an f
They really don't. The people who the civil servants who
work in LA government.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yeah, there's a.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Reason nobody responded very well to the fire and the
aftermath because at heart, they don't care. I don't care
what happens to you. I'll talk more about that later. Okay.
The ick factor. There was a show reality show some
years back called Love Island, and I'd swear this whole
concept was popularized, the idea that if you're dating somebody
(30:00):
and they do one it could be just one thing
in one moment, it makes you go ick and you
decide there is no way I'm dating this guy, let
alone marrying him.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Right.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Apparently women are bothered by the ick factor way more
than men. Men will put up with almost anything.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
I think you guys do yes, but because men.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Are just looking ultimately for the sex. So as long
as you meet the minimum sexual attraction, well there is
no such thing. Okay, yeah, unless the woman brings us
forget it.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Forget I forget it.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
You don't want to get my imagination. Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
So here are some of the big turn offs, and
I'll start with the one of the biggies. And I
knew this, and we've actually had a debate about this.
It is it is is walking around with a reusable
grocery bag.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
That's not an for a lot of women. It is.
It's one of the top x.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Because it doesn't bother me.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
It looks it looks effeminate. That's what I've always told you.
That's why I don't want to do it. I feel effeminate.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
So you don't use the Leopard reusable bag that I
got you.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
My wife she actually she uses it a lot. Yeah,
so yeah, reusable bags. If you if you talk about astrology,
see that's another effeminate thing. Women don't want to marry
a guy's babbling about astrology.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Okay, I mean I haven't.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Guys will put up with that.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Yeah, I haven't had that experience of talking to a
guy about astrog right.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Because there are zero guys into astrology.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
I wouldn't say that. I'm sure there are some.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
If you have a guy who drives at exactly the
right speed all the time.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I've had an experience with that either, But.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
That's a turnoff for a lot of women's.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Issues or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Somebody who licks their finger before turning the page.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Oh I have experienced that grosses me up.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah, Okay, somebody who said who says things like perfecto.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Means means it means I don't have experience with that,
and I don't know if that would really be an
ick for me.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I think that's kind of like like a goofy stupid
person has expressions like that. See it says women are
more likely than men to experience the ick because they
have a rapid rejection mechanism, uh when they see low
mate quality being indicated. Because as much as we like
to think we're modern and enlightened, we are all programmed
(32:50):
to look for mates. Even if we don't want to
get married. Our systems are still looking for mates, and
we look at each other subconsciously as to whether always
is the somebody, Uh like like like. Women apparently either
unconsciously or consciously look at a man's health because if
a man is healthy, then more likely to produce healthy children.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Right, good genetics.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Right, So if he's healthy and strong, you love healthy,
strong kids, and women subconsciously look for that, even if
they wish they didn't. Okay, it's an evolutionary thing. According
to one researcher, is the zoos specific. So the ick
factor allows people to disengage from partners who display traits
associated with relationship risk. Other examples, if if a guy
(33:38):
awkwardly chases a ping pong ball, if he looks dorky
when he runs.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Who came up with these?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
This is a good test. It's like, you know these
are well you toss a ping pong ball and watch
the guy run after it.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
I'm going to try that with my husband.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
It's too late. Now I'm gonna say.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
What happens when you're married?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, licking the page it can trigger disproportionate discussed and uh.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
For men, there's not a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
It's mostly physical appearance, things like wearing too much makeup.
Oh you know what's another rejection sign that women don't
like if a guy. If a guy is looking at
his phone too much.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Well, all you guys do that, I mean.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Not as much as women. No, no, no, no, it's
not even closed.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Well you say that it's not a good mate material
he's if he's not looking, if he'd not engaged, if
he'd rather look at the screen than you. And depends
what's on the screen too, that's a that's a thing.
A guy who's overly trendy, like his clothes are like Mike,
all right, you see the avenue some the other day.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
But that silly jacket he was wearing, right, Yeah, that
doesn't bother me.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Well, you're easy.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
On this list.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
I would have thought a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
You need to come up with a better list.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Huh. I'm surprised.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
The licking of the fingers because I'm a germaphoe, right,
so that that really is the only right.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
If a guy's sucking on his finger.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
All day, Yeah, that's gross and touching, all.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Right, you see, so you have stuff, Yeah, but it's
just not your list. All right, when we come back,
I'll tell you my list. Some other times, Karen Bass
is misrepresenting the facts on Kristin Crowley's firing, so says
Monica Rodrigaz, the councilwoman, and she went on Channel five
and says Crowley's getting scapegoaded and she's trying to get
(35:33):
a super majority of council members to save Crowley's job.
We'll have Kristen, We'll we'll have Rodriguez on next. Debra
Mark Live and the Canfi twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Covelt 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 Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on every day from one until four and then
after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the
iHeart app. Next hour, we're going to talk to another
council member, Monica rod Rigaz.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
She's from the seventh district.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
She is trying to get city council support to reverse
the Christian Crowley firing. She thinks Crowley's getting scapegoated and
she is looking to get ten of the fifteen members
to support Crowley, and they can the way the law
is written reverse basses firing. So we will have Monica Rodriguez.
(00:40):
The cou Council will been coming up after three o'clock.
Now we've got wow, egg prices up fifteen percent in
the last couple of weeks. It's a race between the
gas prices going up and the egg price is going up.
If you need gas and you like eating eggs, this
is this is a tough month. Alex No, Alex Stone,
(01:03):
right is It's Michael and Alex Stone. Okay, anyway, what
do you got ABC News and your egg correspondent?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, that's right. And cattle prices are going up as well.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So if you like steak and eggs and you want
to drive to get the steak and eggs, well then
you're out of luck. Turned someone vegan, you know, and
that's right. Well, I wonder if we know anybody around here. Yeah,
she doesn't have to worry about meat and egg don't care.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
About egg prices or meat not at all.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
She's happy with this. Do you drive an electric car too?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I do not.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, see then I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Like the gas prices.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So yeah, kind of like with oil prices and gas prices,
where when oil goes up, then gas prices slowly go
up afterwards. That today, wholesale egg prices they've gone over
eight bucks a dozen and ninety six percent higher than
the price in a year ago, fifteen percent last couple weeks.
So that indicates that the wholesale price, kind of like
with oil, that then with gas prices and in this
(02:01):
case retail prices, that they're going to continue going up
because that's what stores are paying or the middleman is
paying to then sell to the stores, and then that
we may be paying more in the next couple weeks.
But stores do said their own prices for eggs. A
lot of them use them as lost leaders to get
you to come in, knowing that many people are buying eggs,
and they come in and then they buy other things.
But the average price right now, what we're paying, the
(02:23):
retail price in the grocery store is a four to
ninety five a dozen as of today, but rising to
be more in line with that eight dollars. So this
woman blown away by what she had to go on
in Page was.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Literally shocked to see the dozen of eggs at nine
to twenty six, and Costco had him about twenty four
to twenty five dollars a four flat.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
So twenty six point eight million birds have been lost
in this outbreak of bird flow. Now nine states have
confirmed out breaks and the egg price impact is nationwide.
It wasn't everywhere before, was more regional, nowadays everywhere. This guy,
Dwayne Jones runs chicken farm, and Georgia's chickens are healthy.
But he used to sell to retailers into farmers' markets.
He says he can't do that anymore because he's so
(03:03):
overwhelmed with people trying to buy eggs directly from him.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
I was already doing a good business but I used
to have enough surplus eggs to sell to retailers who
resold them at farmers, markers and stuff like that. But
I have been selling out every day, and I've had
at least five new customers a week since this egg
shortage started, So I haven't had any extra to sell
to the retailers at all.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
So John and Dever, so far prices for chicken and
the grocery stores hasn't gone up substantially.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
The thinking is that it may same reason is the eggs.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
And then now you add on the cattle farmers that
they say beef prices are jumping not because of bird flu,
but because of drought in Oklahoma and Texas and Kansas
and Montana and elsewhere, higher supply costs as well, that
they're seeing those prices go up. They're all peel livestock
marketing specialists in Oklahoma.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Cattle prices or record levels that's working its way up
through the system.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Just like the wholesale the retail, he says, that will
eventually come up again, supplying demand less available cattle, a
shortage of beef cattle that has prices going up. And
then on the bird flu, the Trump administration is expected demphasize.
Kind of interesting here vaccinations for birds and the tighter
biosecurity to.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Vaccinations for the bird for the birds.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, so it may have been the members of the
Trump administration may have been against vaccinations for other things,
but for birds, it seems like that is what the White.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
House is going to put you.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
The birds have the right to opt out if they
sign a document. Yeah, so forced vaccinations don't. I'm guessing
that there's going to be some pushback to that of
eating eggs and birds that have the vaccinations. But that
seems like the only answer to this, as so many
of the birds are dying off, and when a flock
(04:47):
gets it, the farmer eiler has to to kill off
all of their birds or their birds just die very quickly,
and it's been spreading out a bait.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Tough day to be a bird is another.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Answer, exactly. And there are many egg replacements don't.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, and they're actually restaurants now that are going to
the vegetable replacement for eggs because it's cheaper than getting
real egg.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I'm sure that tastes really good.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I didn't know that the wholesale cost can be three
dollars per dozen higher than the retail costs, and I didn't.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Know the stores take it as as a loss leader. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Well, but also over time it will come up that
they pay the wholesale price. It takes a while for
us to pay that in retail, and that for a
lot of them, it's like the chicken at Costco, the
rotisserie chicken, that it'll be a lost leader. But they
get you to go through the entire store to the
back to buy that rotistri chicken, and you pass by
other things and say, well, I do need an eight
inch TV, and.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I do need that.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I do not deal in impulse by ever. All right, Alex,
thank you very much. I actually think egg beaters tastes
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
What about you?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
You know, I don't like any fake anything, So I
just I know, have you seen her?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
She doesn't eat She's just like eighty two pounds, she
doesn't she doesn't eat fake food.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
I guess you.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Wouldn't like going to take whites. I think, right exactly,
it's gotta be like that. What's the thing the bottles.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Of Uh yeah, I know what you're talking about is
the problem.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
With eating eggs that that doesn't.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
I don't want to eat any animal products, John.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But it's you're not killing I didn't say you were.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That's just one of one of the things. You know
what I don't.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
I don't need to eat eggs or any kind of
egg replacement.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I don't need that.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Okay. Alex lomeloaded the Marriotte.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
It's thank you, you enjoy it's.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
A brick wall out. Bye guys. All right. Alex Stone
from ABC News cuckoo.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Uh, don't be talking about yourself like that.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
John, That's just I don't get that. I don't like
I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Know animal products.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
It makes it look I have said a million times
before people start emailing me.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I am email.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I am the critical vegan. I wear leather, but I'm
trying to phase out of that. I don't want to
eat any amazing. I'm not telling people not, I'm just
saying there are alternatives.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
All right.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I'm phasing out leather.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I'm trying not to buy so much.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Every much thing.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Is everything is leather.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Everything you like is leather.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Well I do wear pleth yes at times?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
At times, yes you do, and all kinds of interesting colors. Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
When we come back, I want to play now, the
leaked phone call of Karen Bass defending your trip to Ghana.
This is before the fires broke out, and she's trying
to explain to an anonymous person who's who's leaked this
to James O'Keeffe's operation, UH, that she's not going to
(07:45):
be gone that long and it has to be done.
She also talks about MacArthur Park as well, because she's
under a lot of pressure to clean up that disgusting, horrific,
violent cesspool. And she whispers a lot, and twice she
uses the line read between the lines, and I don't
know what that means. It's very odd. I guess she
didn't know she was being recorded. But it's all over
(08:07):
the internet and we'll play it for you coming up.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
A lot of audio came out over the weekend from
James O'Keefe. He is that crusading undercover journalist has been
around about fifteen years and he has a set of
clips where his staff secretly recorded a Bass, a Karen
Bass worker. He was an international relations specialist named Alexander Bose.
(08:43):
We played that earlier and also Angel Luna works for DWP,
and from Boz we found out that Bass, he said,
Bass in the office didn't know that the fires were coming.
They knew about the warnings, and they blamed it on
the Palisades residents their homes being out of code. The
best part of the reason she went to Ghana not
(09:04):
just to celebrate the inauguration of the president, but to
get a consulate in La because they thought it was
it was a strategic goal. It was very important to
integrate African countries. That's not what anybody's interested in Los Angeles.
Nobody cares about consulates at all for anybody. We want
(09:26):
the fire department to be positioned and ready and funded
to put out big fires when the sant Ana wins come.
So I don't know what she thinks she was elected
to do. I guess she was on some international or
African relations committees in Congress and she thought that you
know that that she'll just continue that work. Well, No,
when you're mayor of Los Angeles twenty four to seven job,
(09:48):
and it's about Los Angeles, it's not about your your
your your diplomatic abilities. I think she she apparently caught
the travel bug and her ego got inflated by being
a world traveler traveler and negotiating with other countries over
bringing consulates to la I don't know there was another
(10:11):
person who was recorded as well by James O'Keefe's people.
This is an audiophone call between this unidentified source and
Karen Bass, and you'll hear her talking in a very soft,
low voice defending her trip to Ghana before she's even left,
(10:33):
and also talking about the disgusting mess in MacArthur Park
with all the vagrants and the drugs and the crime
and the gangs. So we're going to play a cut
number two.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
If the situation is very dangerous and I would never
do I will take the criticism before I do a
publicity stunt and frankly a press conference. At this point
in time, this is.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
MacArthur's party publicity.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I think that I think my neighbors and property owners, Yeah,
and the residents. I mean forty one thousand people live
within a square mile here.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, two families share one bedroom apartment.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
But they want to hear that something is going to
be doneized if you want to know it's recognized exactly.
But if I have a choice between that and compromising
something I just have to go along with it.
Speaker 9 (11:26):
It's not my area of expertise. I want to make
sure that you are safe and hopefully you can read.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
In between the lines.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
But I would just appreciate just and it's hard for
me to.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Tell you this, but.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Hold tight, you will.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
You will understand.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
So okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
And when I am able to talk, I will be
happy to go into great detail.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
And you've got me on the street, and you're.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Welcome to call me at any time.
Speaker 9 (12:03):
I'll call you right back.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
No problem.
Speaker 9 (12:06):
In just in terms of my trip, just so you know,
I'm missing two workdays.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
That's it.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
And if President Biden extends me an invitation, I took it.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
If President Biden sends me an invitation, I take it.
Not missing two workdays, she missed five work days, and
only because she took an emergency. Playing back here, she
left on Saturday, Sunday. Saturday and Sunday's are workdays from mayor.
I guess she's not aware of that. This isn't this
is in congress. This is in Congress. You don't worry
about consulates for African nations or any other nation. You
(12:44):
don't take Saturdays and Sundays off when you have extreme
fire warnings. And I don't know where all that was
in the middle there about MacArthur Park. She has completely
lost control of that section of town. It is beyond
a disaster. I mean Steve Lopez uh did a whole
piece on it just a week or two ago. I
think I saved it. I should I should go get it,
(13:06):
and and and and and and it's so so bad there.
It's so crime ridden, it's so disgusting. There's so many
drug addicts and homeless people. There's so many criminals and
they're selling drugs and they're selling weapons. And the park
is uninhabitable. And that's what the owner of Languors Deli
was complaining about. And I, uh, it's it's actually such
(13:28):
a beautiful park visually, but she has, oh I mean
Garcetti let it go to hell, and Bass is ensuring
that it may never come back.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And I I don't, I mean a real real leader
would send in I don't know. I think it's like
National Guard stuff. MacArthur Park, I really do. I think
it's so filthy, so disgusting and so dangerous that there
should be you know, either the state, the California Highway Patrol,
come in the National Guard, the US military, I don't know,
(14:03):
some some joint task force to go in there, because
it's really awful. And she's allowed to get worse over
the last two years. And when Langers made a big
deal about closing up shop unless something gets cleaned up,
you know, she she she still hasn't done anything about it.
(14:25):
She's really bad at her job. I mean, everything is
just getting worse and worse and more dangerous, and I
everybody nobody knows what to do. I mean, because now
we're not we're not just bumbling along. We're in free
fall and everyone's lost confidence. And what I don't know
(14:47):
is if there's a way, like in New York. You know,
the governor was thinking of removing the mayor of New York.
We don't have that option in California. Is there something
the city council can invoke, you know the way there's
the tw on fifth Amendment, and you know, the Cabinet
can can start a process to sideline a president at
(15:07):
least temporarily, and it could be followed up on by
the House and Senate. And of course they have impeachment procedures.
I mean not that I'm expecting the city council to
do anything. They will even speak out against all her incompetence.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I'm a feeling that most of the city.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Council people feel like Alexander Boz does, Oh, there's nothing
we could have done about it, you know, the winter coming.
There's nothing we could have done about it. And that
is wrong, it's false. But I realized they really don't care.
When you listen to Boz talk and the DWP guy talk,
you realize don't care. They're very flippant, they're very cavalier.
(15:49):
It's like, eh, you know whatever. It's really disturbing because
I know how painful it is for the people living
in the Palisades. It's extremely painful. It's completely changed their
lives forever. And you have these nini. I don't know
if they're millennials or gen zs, but they're they're they're
(16:10):
kind of incoherent when they speak because they use the
word like about every three or four words, and they
just sound like immature little toddlers. Somehow given responsible, well
paying jobs. Uh, well, we're gonna we're gonna keep on
top of it because we can't. It's obviously an extreme
(16:30):
danger in this city. I mean something else, something else
could happen really bad too. And you could see that
there is no infrastructure to respond. There was no infrastructure
ready to deal with the fire. What if we have
this massive earthquake, Well, you know what if the criminals.
You see what happens when the criminals get organized, like
(16:51):
the smash and grab spree. It seems we're never prepared
for anything. All right, more coming up talk talk some
about Elon Musk turning everything upside down with one memo
asking people to just justify in the last week, name
five things you did in the last week on your job,
(17:12):
and the squeals of protest coming out of the federal
government workers, just write down what you did?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
It said it to me, That's all he asked.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Gosh, I don't know what I would write down.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Well, you don't know what you're no.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I thought about that. I've been thinking about. I mean,
that's okay. So I do the news. That's okay. That's
what I did, right, That's it.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That's not five things.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
That's one thing I did.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
The news, your newscasts. You looked at the stock market numbers,
you looked at the weather. That's three things, right, there.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
That's what I do every single That's part of your
job though, right, But that's the job. So that's it
is that simple.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yes, that's all they're asking is like what you Okay,
I I feel like I have to Oh, you're complicating this.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
That's what it is. Okay, So you've dumbed it down, okay, because.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
It's just I didn't expect this.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Read the news, it seems so that just seems so simple.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
You write some of the news, you read the news,
you gathered the audio for the newscast.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
I just I felt that there was a trick question
there that I wasn't getting because that.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Just seems that just seemed too simple to me. Okay, Okay, well,
thank you for clarifying.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
I would have gotten fired John, and you'd have to
find somebody else to workhip.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
How do you blow that question?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
All?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Right?
Speaker 8 (18:30):
More coming up, you're listening to John Cobels on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to have a councilor,
Woman Monica Rodriguez from the seventh District. She is trying
to put together a group of city council members to
reverse the firing of the fire chief, Kristin Crowley.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
They can do that.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
The city council gets two thirds in line to support Crowley,
then Crowley is reinstalled as chief.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Didn't know that, but it's true.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
There's fifteen council members, so if there's a ten to
five vote or better, then it overrides basses firing. Wouldn't
that be something? By the way, Crowley is not leaving
the fire department. Under the rules, she's allowed to request
a transfer to another another post, so she wants to
(19:28):
still keep working with Laft and we'll see where that
city council situation goes. We'll talk with Monica Roriguez coming
up after three o'clock. Elon Musk. This is so amusing,
you know, I notice, yeah, I usually refer to them
as deadwood government workers, but now I notice that they're
(19:52):
described in the media has devoted civil servants. They're constantly
referred to, not as government workers, but civil servants. Spare
me the servants part. Please stop. It makes me gag. Yes,
they're civil servants. They're sacrificing themselves for the good of
(20:14):
the country. I cannot believe the propaganda that comes out
of much of the media. Three percent of the workforce
has accepted the government buyout. You know how many people
that is, seventy seven thousand civil servants. Seventy seven thousand
(20:36):
people are taking the buyout. And that's only three percent
of the federal workforce, three percent of the beloved, devoted
civil servants. So Elon Musk on Saturday sent out an email.
We're requiring that all federal government employees will have to
(20:58):
share what they've been working on in the last week
or face dismissal. He wants approximately five bullet points of
what you accomplished last week.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Stop staring at me like I'm ding dong.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
Well, you were baffled by that because it just seems
too simple, and I was only looking at it from
my type of job.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
How would I answer that? That is an awful Why.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I would just say I did Monday show, Tuesday show,
Wednesday show, and here's a link on the podcast.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Okay, Well, somebody ever asks me that question, I'll know
how to answer to.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Say, I read the news on Monday, on Tuesday, on Wednesday, I.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Did the same thing over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, most jobs are like that.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
You only it told employees not to send any classified
information and the deadline for the response is by the
end of the day Monday, two days from when it
was sent, and everybody in government is squealing like he
just sacrificed their babies.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
He also said that a lack of response will be
taken as a resignation, which could have been a joke
because the Office of Personnel Management, another wing of the
federal government, has said today that you know, this is
a voluntary thing you do. You don't have to do this,
but it's like a lot of voluntary things at work.
If you don't do it, you can assume that the
(22:24):
boss is noticing and that there's a big black mark
next to you that he now has a dark feeling
about you. That's why you always do when they say, oh,
it's voluntary, you know it's not voluntary exactly. He had
put out a fork in the road email some weeks ago,
and that was you know, either either take a buyout
(22:47):
or take the risk that in a few months or
in a few hours you're going to get fired. And
that's where the seventy seven thousand people, and probably a
lot of them are older, and a lot of them
maybe didn't like their jobs and they wanted out. What's
astonishing is is the pushback still over the workforce, over
the over working at in the office versus working at home.
(23:11):
That that is a huge And I saw Jamie Diamond,
the head of JP Morgan, had issued a public denunciation
of the work at home policies, and there are still
people bitching about that at JP Morgan, and.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
The executives are beside themselves. Don't you shut up and
show up at work. That era is over. It's done.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
It's not coming back any times. You know why, because
it was a failure. You don't think these companies would
love for it to work on all cylinders and not
have to pay for all the buildings that they're renting,
all the real estate that they own. Man, if they
could sell off all their real estate and get all
that rent off the books and keep that as profit,
(24:01):
you know how that they would boost their stock price.
You know, financially, it's a much better deal if they
don't have to employ thousands and thousands of people in
expensive real estate buildings and you know, pay for all
all the furniture and pay for all the amenities that
that people want at work. Of course they would rather
you work from home if that proved to be a
(24:25):
successful plan, which it's not.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I don't understand this.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Somehow during COVID everyone became a toddler. I don't know
what happened. It's like everyone just seems that they and
the way I told you that basses employees that were
secretly taped to come across like immature teenagers juveniles. It
seems the way middle aged adults and older adults are
(24:52):
acting now, if they're being forced to show up for work,
they're just very petulant and whiny. And I don't understand.
I don't recognize the country anymore. I really don't well.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
And so many bosses worked and continue to work from home, so.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I know, it's not just the employees, not just the employees.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
It's COVID changed so much and people just are not
they're not jumping back into going back to reality before
there was COVID.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I don't, I don't. I just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I mean, we certainly all worked for decades driving into
work and driving home, and I know it can be
a pain in the ass because of the traffic and all,
but that's where you decide.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Somewhere along the line.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
It's like maybe I've got to move, maybe I've got
to take a different job. Maybe I've got to move
to another city. Maybe I've got to do something else
for my family. But you just you make those decisions
because life isn't perfect and the world isn't set up
for you. So you have to decide whether you like
the job or you like to pay. And that's more
important than wasting so much time in traffic.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
And I think that if the job requires you to
be there in person, that's the job. So then you
just have to find another job where maybe maybe if
if working from home is so important to you, because
there are plenty of jobs that still allow people to
work from home, then go there.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
That's the thing people don't seem to grasp. It's like,
you don't have to take the job, you don't have
to stay at the job. Like seventy seven thousand people
in Washington, d c. Said, you know what, give me
the eight month severance. I'll take the buy out. I
don't want to do this for whatever reason. Maybe some
of it had to do with showing up at work,
or they realized they had one of these empty loaf jobs,
(26:41):
and yeah, you should have to justify your job I
mean to protest that you don't have five bullet points
to explain what you do.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Want it again, I said, I mean, look, I'm the
first to admit I wasn't baffled.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I just thought that I was missing something.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
This is going to hunt for a while. I know
it is.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I know, but I.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Mean, Okay, so you justify your job. I mean, but
shouldn't your boss know what.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Your job is?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
You would think, but I think a lot of them don't.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I mean, if you're I really do, especially these nebulous
government jobs where everybody's at a computer terminal and sitting
at a workstation and it's all about moving data around.
I don't know what everybody does. I don't know a
lot of people do here.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
No, it's true.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
I think with us it's obvious right on the air.
I'm your news anchor, you're the talk show hosts.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I mean, it's obvious, right, but.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Not to you.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
But that was too obvious.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
I have to justify my Okay, Yes, so I'm a
news anchor Monday through Friday, and I'm on these shows
and I do this, this and this. Yeah, I guess
I was just I was overthinking, which I do a lot.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yeah, I know. I know when we come back, you'll
like this. Have you ever heard about the ick Factor?
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Oh you I have. So you watch these reality TV
dating shows?
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Well, no, I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Watch this story over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
No I didn't, but I know I know all about it,
and there was a show.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Not a reality show, that talked about Okay, it's a
feeling of disgust with somebody that you're you're dating when
you realize I can't possibly date this person anymore or
live with this person because they just did something that's unforgivable.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
And I saw a list of things here, and there's
one of them that really stood.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Out to me.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Oh, really, do you do it?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I don't, And I know exactly why the women would
find it icky and why they would reject the man.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Oh why can't we do more?
Speaker 8 (28:45):
Coming up, you're listening to John Cobbels on demand from
KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Right after three o'clock and Debra's News, We're going to
talk with LA Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez from the seventh district.
She's trying to get other council people together to reinstate
Kristin Crowley as fire chief. They can do it if
they get a two thirds vote in favor of Crowley.
That would be ten out of fifteen council people. We'll
talk with Monica Rodriguez coming up in minutes, and also
(29:16):
we're going to go through some of the some of
the latest on Bass. Her staff has been sarptitiously recorded
and real cavalier by these people don't give an f
They really don't. The people who the civil servants who
work in LA government.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yeah, there's a.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Reason nobody responded very well to the fire and the
aftermath because at heart, they don't care. I don't care
what happens to you. I'll talk more about that later. Okay.
The ick factor. There was a show reality show some
years back called Love Island, and I'd swear this whole
concept was popularized, the idea that if you're dating somebody
(30:00):
and they do one it could be just one thing
in one moment, it makes you go ick and you
decide there is no way I'm dating this guy, let
alone marrying him.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Right.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Apparently women are bothered by the ick factor way more
than men. Men will put up with almost anything.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
I think you guys do yes, but because men.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Are just looking ultimately for the sex. So as long
as you meet the minimum sexual attraction, well there is
no such thing. Okay, yeah, unless the woman brings us
forget it.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Forget I forget it.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
You don't want to get my imagination. Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
So here are some of the big turn offs, and
I'll start with the one of the biggies. And I
knew this, and we've actually had a debate about this.
It is it is is walking around with a reusable
grocery bag.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
That's not an for a lot of women. It is.
It's one of the top x.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Because it doesn't bother me.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
It looks it looks effeminate. That's what I've always told you.
That's why I don't want to do it. I feel effeminate.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
So you don't use the Leopard reusable bag that I
got you.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
My wife she actually she uses it a lot. Yeah,
so yeah, reusable bags. If you if you talk about astrology,
see that's another effeminate thing. Women don't want to marry
a guy's babbling about astrology.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Okay, I mean I haven't.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Guys will put up with that.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Yeah, I haven't had that experience of talking to a
guy about astrog right.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Because there are zero guys into astrology.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
I wouldn't say that. I'm sure there are some.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
If you have a guy who drives at exactly the
right speed all the time.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I've had an experience with that either, But.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
That's a turnoff for a lot of women's.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Issues or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Somebody who licks their finger before turning the page.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Oh I have experienced that grosses me up.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah, Okay, somebody who said who says things like perfecto.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Means means it means I don't have experience with that,
and I don't know if that would really be an
ick for me.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I think that's kind of like like a goofy stupid
person has expressions like that. See it says women are
more likely than men to experience the ick because they
have a rapid rejection mechanism, uh when they see low
mate quality being indicated. Because as much as we like
to think we're modern and enlightened, we are all programmed
(32:50):
to look for mates. Even if we don't want to
get married. Our systems are still looking for mates, and
we look at each other subconsciously as to whether always
is the somebody, Uh like like like. Women apparently either
unconsciously or consciously look at a man's health because if
a man is healthy, then more likely to produce healthy children.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Right, good genetics.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Right, So if he's healthy and strong, you love healthy,
strong kids, and women subconsciously look for that, even if
they wish they didn't. Okay, it's an evolutionary thing. According
to one researcher, is the zoos specific. So the ick
factor allows people to disengage from partners who display traits
associated with relationship risk. Other examples, if if a guy
(33:38):
awkwardly chases a ping pong ball, if he looks dorky
when he runs.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Who came up with these?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
This is a good test. It's like, you know these
are well you toss a ping pong ball and watch
the guy run after it.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
I'm going to try that with my husband.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
It's too late. Now I'm gonna say.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
What happens when you're married?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, licking the page it can trigger disproportionate discussed and uh.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
For men, there's not a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
It's mostly physical appearance, things like wearing too much makeup.
Oh you know what's another rejection sign that women don't
like if a guy. If a guy is looking at
his phone too much.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Well, all you guys do that, I mean.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Not as much as women. No, no, no, no, it's
not even closed.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Well you say that it's not a good mate material
he's if he's not looking, if he'd not engaged, if
he'd rather look at the screen than you. And depends
what's on the screen too, that's a that's a thing.
A guy who's overly trendy, like his clothes are like Mike,
all right, you see the avenue some the other day.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
But that silly jacket he was wearing, right, Yeah, that
doesn't bother me.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Well, you're easy.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
On this list.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
I would have thought a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
You need to come up with a better list.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Huh. I'm surprised.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
The licking of the fingers because I'm a germaphoe, right,
so that that really is the only right.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
If a guy's sucking on his finger.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
All day, Yeah, that's gross and touching, all.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Right, you see, so you have stuff, Yeah, but it's
just not your list. All right, when we come back,
I'll tell you my list. Some other times, Karen Bass
is misrepresenting the facts on Kristin Crowley's firing, so says
Monica Rodrigaz, the councilwoman, and she went on Channel five
and says Crowley's getting scapegoaded and she's trying to get
(35:33):
a super majority of council members to save Crowley's job.
We'll have Kristen, We'll we'll have Rodriguez on next. Debra
Mark Live and the Canfi twenty four our newsroom. Hey,
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