February 25, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (02/25) - CA State Senator Suzette Martinez Valladeres comes on the show to talk about Gov. Newsom not implementing Prop 36. The LA Times is upset a homeless man's house that he built in a flood channel was dismantled by officials. The mayor of Chicago has one of the worst approval ratings ever. There are fire victims in Altadena who had their cars towed by a company acting out on their own.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Prop thirty six passes in November and probably people think, oh, okay,
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this is great. Now the criminals are going to get arrested,
convicted and put in prison. You know, the thieves are
going to be put away because now theft is illegal
in California. And the public drug addicts, they're going to
be arrested and they're going to be given a choice.
You either go behind bars or you take drug treatment,
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which is the way it used to be until Prop
forty seven. Except Gavin Newsom and the Democratic leadership in
the legislature don't want to spend any money on mental
health and drug treatment for the people that we want treated.
I mean we when we passed Prop thirty six, we agreed, yes,
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we'd like these people treated if they choose that.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Newson won't do it. Neither will the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
We're going to talk now with State Senator Susette Martinez
Valderis from the Lancaster Santa Clarita District.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Susette, welcome, Welcome, John.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Thank you so much for having me and for being
a voice of reason. We need, we need more voices
like you that are calling this type of these type
of shenanigans out.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Explain what's going on here, what should be done, What
was the intent of Prop thirty six, what the public expected,
you know, a certain action after we passed this thing.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, you know, John, for over a decade, you've seen it.
I've seen it. The Public Safety Committee or the Anti
Public Safety Committee have passed or law after law pretty
much decriminalizing everything. We've spent a decade with policies coming
out of Sacramento that am bold in criminals. And last November,
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voters made it very clear that we're sick of this,
and we overwhelmingly passed Proposition thirty six, the Homeless Drug
Addiction and Best Production Act, by seventy percent. Seventy percent
of voters said enough is enough. You know, let's get
back to safe streets. And the governor and last year's
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leadership did not support Prop thirty six. And now that
we have a new legislature that's been elected after seventy
five or seventy six percent of voters said make our
seat streets safe, they've come back here and presented a
budget that does not fund Proposition thirty six, and voters
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were very clear. And Newsome is he says he wants
to be supportive of voters, but is doubling down on
not funding the thing they asked him to do.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Has he addressed this directly?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, So in January he was asked he was asked
if if he would be supportive of funding Prop thirty
six and his statement was let me read this year
he said that even though he opposed it, he claimed
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that he was committed to implementing the terms that were
established by the voters. But again, no dollars in his
budget to fund the things that are necessary in order
to make Proposition thirty six work. Right, it's supposed to
be in funding increased workloads for officers, housing inmates, court
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related workloads, and mental health services. This is money right
now that our local departments are paying out of their
local department budgets, when really the state needs to step
in because the voters asked us to.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
There was an online poll Fox twenty six news I
don't know what city that is. Ninety four percent of
the people responding to the online poll said that the
lack of funding for these programs in the governor's budget.
Believe that it's a betrayal to voters that it should
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be funded. So virtually everybody in the state thinks we
ought to be funding drug treatment and mental health treatment.
If these people get arrested and charged with crimes.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Absolutely, you know. What's also really frustrating is to fully
fund Proposition thirty six. It's roughly point zero zero five
percent of the general budget, and that point zero zero
five is going to go a long way to one
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make our communities more safe, but to two address the
epidemic of drug addiction and mental health that we have
on our streets. You see it, I see it. You
know the people that are living and dying on our streets.
It's heartbreaking. We have the resources in Sacramento to fund
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these services, there's just not the political will. And it's heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And this is Gavin Newsom's middle finger, because if that's
it's that tiny amount of money. Because the state budget's
almost three hundred billion dollars every year, and it's hard
to believe.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
What'd you say? It's point zero zero five percent correct, And.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Then we be able to treat all the drug addicts
that get arrested under this new proposition. So this is
them being angry that we pushed back on their stupid
reign over the last ten years of Prop forty seven.
They're angry and their punishment is okay, fine, no money
for the drug treatment.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
That's childish.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
It's childish, and really, you know, I think it's at
their own peril. I you know, personally know people with
drug addiction that struggle with drug addiction. I know many
people who have family members who are living and dying
on the streets because of their mental health conditions. The
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people Californians are actually compassionate. The compassionate thing to do
is to fund Prop thirty six to allow people the
services they deserve.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Why do you think these compassionate progressives and I've always
thought that they're fake. Why do you think they don't
care about treating the drug addicts and actually allowing them
to get their lives back on track. I've never understood
that They've never funded them. When we passed Prop forty seven,
they're supposed to be money for drug rehab, and they
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never spent any And now with Prop thirty six, they're
supposed to be money for drug rehab, drug treatment, and
they never spent it. What is it with them? Why
do they want these people to die in the streets?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You know, I can't answer that question because it's really
hard for me to relate to them when I see
what needs to be done and I know we have
the resources to do it. It's truly heartbreaking. But what
I will say is it's even more frustrating when they
go splurge our hard earned taxpayer dollars on projects like
the high speed rail. Right, they have so many pet
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projects that they're funding, and I would just rather than
fund people over pet projects.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
See.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I have like a unifying theory about this, and it's
really connected to what's going on in Washington, whether it's
high speed rail or these drug treatment ideas.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Is it all a racket?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Is it all set up just to enrich all these fake, corrupt,
criminal nonprofits. You have drug treatment nonprofits that don't work,
you have high speed rail that never gets built. But
there's all these parasites enriching themselves, and is that the
purpose of the California government, so all the parasites enriched themselves.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
These are really good questions, and I do know that,
you know, in previous years, some of my Republican colleagues
have called for and put forward bills that call for
greater accountability, greater transparency, and how our moneys are being spent,
whether it's on homelessness, whether it's on high speed rail.
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What I'm super excited about is now we have a
federal government that has said, wait a minute, We've given
you four billion dollars in federal funding for high speed
rail for a project that is a decade overdue and
over one hundred billion dollars over budget. What's going on here?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Right?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
We need immense transparency, accountability.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
That's what makes me think it was it was designed
to be a racket. Otherwise they would have been shouting
about this ten years ago. And nobody does nobody in California.
Well a few people do you are now, but most
of the ruling class in the Democratic legislature and new
some they never complain about any of this.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yeah, Sacramentos ran by elitists. That's that's true, but I
think voters are fed up. And again we saw this
past November, voters said enough is enough with passing Proposition
thirty six, with flipping three seats Republicans. Republicans flipped three
seats this past cycle, and again I'm not surprised that,
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to their own peril, they're going to continue to ignore
the will of the voters.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Can you imagine if we had a Doze like program
in California and Sacramento what they would find from.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Your lips to God's ears, that would be amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I just feel left out. I mean, the rest of
the country is rooting for it.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
So it's got like over sixty percent rooting for what
Musk and Trump are doing, and this whole Doge investigation,
and it's like, well, why can't we have this here
because we needed very badly in Sacramento and in Los
Angeles and probably everywhere everywhere else in the state.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
All Right, well, she said thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
For coming on, of course, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
All right, she's at Martinez valaderis state senator in the
Lancaster Santa Clarita area, a Republican.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Coming up. I think this was on Dever's News, But
we've got more detail.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
The La Times has done an extensive story on this
guy who had an elaborate encampment, homeless guy, elaborate encampment
in a Royo Seco for five years and now it's
been destroyed. And it's one of these classic La Times
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sob stories. He had had built in a flood channel. Well,
you can't live in a public flood channel. That's against
the law. And finally we're busting this thing up and
that The Times is hysterical over it.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
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Speaker 2 (11:18):
Well, this has been in Debra's news. There is a
guy named Alejandro Diaz, twenty nine years old. I suspect
he's an illegal alien. And he built an elaborate house
on parkland right next to a flood channel Arroyo Seiko
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in Highland Park and it's it's public parkland next to
a public waterway. And he was allowed to build this house,
you know, which had windows and a garden, bamboo fencing,
bright yellow siding, and you know, we're required in this
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in this state to go, oh, isn't that wonderful. It's like, no,
it's not wonderful. You can't have this in a public park.
It's it's it's for people to enjoy the park, not
deal with a guy who planted a a house right
in the middle of I mean it was right near
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the bike path. And so the La Times Nathan Solise
does a sob story because they came to dismantle Diaz's
house and he got really angry and he started tearing
it apart himself with his bare hands.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
It's an injustice, said Diaz.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
The city doesn't care about anything other than destroying our lives,
even though we don't bother anyone, and all my time,
none of us have bothered anyone. Well, you have an
encampment along a parkway and a flood channel and all
that's illegal. In fact, I'm sure he's here illegally. I
don't understand this, don't You don't have a right to
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come and live on our public land that our tax
money is used to care for. And finally they decided
to clear it out because it's in a high fire zone.
In fact, this rickety wood house makeshift house. Yeah, he
knocks a candle over. I don't know what he's using for.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
What is he using for heat? What's he using for
light and power.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'm sure there's something in there that could catch fire,
and then that whole wildland area catches fire. So the
city had to send out a crew to scrape the
flood channel floor with pitchforks, shovels and bulldozers to clear
out all the debris. After these homes were dismantled. Because
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his wasn't the only one they got noticed this last
week that the personal property could not be stored in
a public city park and you got seventy two hours
to remove it. It sits on the flood channel across
from the Arroyo Seco bike path and park. By the way,
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people who take hikes and bike, you don't want to
bike past homeless people.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I don't. Then we don't. We don't bike, we don't walk.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
When you know, we used to have a bike path,
my wife and I used, I think it was one
near the Bayona Wetlands. And then there were so many
tents popping up. It's like, well, we can't do this.
These are crazy people. They're living outside for years, whacked
on drugs, mentally ill, and of course you know, you
call the city and for years nothing was done. Like
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many others living next to the flood channel. It says
here Diaz worked in construction but couldn't find steady work. Well,
he come here illegally, and you don't have much of
an education, you don't have too many skills. You live
in poverty in a public park, and we're supposed to
put up with this. Maybe you should stay where where
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you came from. And then here's one of the one
of the lines. He's among tens of thousands of people
experiencing homelessness. Well, what do you mean he's experiencing homelessness
because he voluntarily left his country and he came here
with no real way to earn a steady living. And
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then I'm supposed to spend my tax money on him.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Why that's crazy. No, that's just nuts.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So he had this fit on Monday. He kicked down
his fence, smashed out the windows, rolled boulders from his
garden into the flood channel. Great, so he filled the
flood channel channel with all kinds of garbage, and his
girlfriend watched.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
This guy's got a girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
This guy lives in a shack built on the side
of a flood channel, doesn't have a steady job.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
He has a girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Think about that if you're a loser, sitting in your parents'
basement right now playing video games, and you bitch online
that you can't fight a girl.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
This guy out, did you?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
He?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Then he then destroyed his doghouse.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah, because he and his girlfriend have a German shepherd,
and he busted up his German shepherd's house till his
knuckles were bleeding. He hugged his dog. I guess he
felt sorry.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Well that's good. Where's the board dog to go?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Now? He's unhoused as well.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
And then, of course the La Times has to quote
a volunteer advocate, Elizabeth Gustafson, they had asked the city
to reconsider, not.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Only are sweeps disruptive to the unhoused people who have
created community, mutual support and neighborliness alongside the arroyo. Against
all odds, Angelino's are facing a staggering housing crisis.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
How many of the.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Homeless people came here illegally and are really squatting on
public land? Anybody do account on that? How many people
are here illegally and claim to be homeless? Of course
you're homeless. If I suddenly went to a foreign country
and I had no money and no job, I'd be
squatting on some public land, except there they'd arrest me
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and deport me in about five minutes. This is so stupid.
Even a seven year old can figure this out. I
tell you, these progressive people are in Chest are just stupid.
You don't go to a country without skills, without a job,
without money, and then expect to live in a public park,
even if you build your own shack.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
More coming up.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
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Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow, so I'm
just gonna make something up.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I just play the promos that are I know, I
know it's.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
So specific about the time.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, I know, it's a good idea. It's very clever.
All right, Conway will be here right after four o'clock.
I have to spend a couple of minutes because you know,
we've been saddled with Karen Bass, who is a disaster,
a designest disaster. Do you know she's actually not the
most unpopular mayor in America. There is someone who has
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approval ratings. I have never seen anyone with an approval
rating worse than this. And the National Review did a
story on the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, and the
headline is, Brandon Johnson is now less popular than most
communical diseases. Wow. And when you read it, and I've
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lived in Chicago for about a year and visited often
long long time ago, because I had friends who lived there,
and I really liked the city, A nice city. That
was the place I wanted to live. That was the
place I actually wanted to work in radio. Yeah. Well
back then there wasn't the crime, but there always was
the weather. And then this writer here where lived in
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Chicago where lives now?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
There?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
He says.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
A new poll is out, it's from M three Strategies,
and Brandon Johnson his approval rating is six point six percent.
Six point six percent, uh, the most unpopular in America.
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And he was just elected narrowly in early twenty twenty three.
But everything is collapsed. For one thing, the crime is
is crazy bad.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Yeah, there's there's murderers every weekend.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah there's.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I mean, yeah, it's almost a joke, like forty people
get killed in Chicago on a weekend, and it was hey,
it was pretty quiet.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
The other issue, well, when he got elected, he took
a lot of money from the teachers' union, so they
thought they were they were going to get a big payoff.
But the raises they wanted would have bankrupt in Chicago,
so he couldn't give them all the money. So much
of the public is angry over the crime. The part
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that votes union workers are upset that they didn't get
the big raises. His place, his base should be black voters.
He's black. They're among the angriest. Well, let me let
me go through some of the numbers in various ethnic categories.
The approval rating among black voters is sixteen percent, the
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approval rating among white voters is five percent, and the
approval rating among Latino voters two percent. Eighty eight percent
of Latinos disapprove. And what unites blacks, whites, and Latinos
is the crime and an overwhelming number of illegal aliens
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that poured in by the tens of thousands. And what
Brandon Johnson's Brandon Johnson did is he turned schools into
public shelters for the illegal aliens, and he also gave
away apartments to the illegals as well. And the angriest
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people show up at the meetings, they're black residents. There's
one clip black woman screaming at the mayor because they
get shelters, get they get apartments, they get nine thousand
dollars payouts, and she said it was at the expense
of the black citizens who helped elect him. I don't
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understand how they could give these immigrants thousands of dollars
in the state of Illinois. But look what they're doing
to her own effing people.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
She said.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Latinos arrive in her neighborhood in twelve foot box trucks.
They use government welfare checks to buy up everything and
price black residents out. The fact that they're here and
our government is giving them, is giving more to them
than the people who are born here, is really starting
to piss us off. Mayor Brandon, We're coming for your ass.
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He is ranked as the worst sanctuary city mayor in
the country by the Immigration Reform Law Institute. He spent
hundreds of millions of dollars on immigrants at the expense
of the voters, and many of the poor black voters
in his city.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
So that's why.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
And by the way, the legal Latino residents, whether they're
born here or they immigrated legally, take it. He's got
a two percent rate. I mean, he is he is terrible.
His policies are stupid. He's stupid. He fits right in
with everything that's gone. I mean, you know, he'd be perfect,
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be a perfect mate for Karen Bass. I mean, the
two of them are the biggest bunglers I've ever seen
in my life.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
And these are great cities other.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Than in La A long time, this used to be
a great place Chicago. I lived, It was a great place.
Why do they willfully destroy great cities?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
It's like what they did in San Francisco. Why why
are they doing this? It's it's gotta be on purpose.
It's god be that they're funded by by by groups
that want to destabilize, that want to create anarchy.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
It's got to be.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
If you were going to intentionally destroy a great American city,
what would you do differently? In Chicago, in San Francisco,
in La what would you do differently? They let all
the criminals out and didn't punish them. They let the
drug addicts, the mental patients run rampant. They allow illegal
aliens to pour in, and they're and they're living in
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the streets and in the parks. What would you do differently,
you bet. I mean La has broke, Chicago has broke.
So they blew through all the money, all this for
for for woke politics, and the public went along with this.
I mean the public voted for this Brandon Johnson like
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they did Karen Bass. And normal people now, well, like
we're Caruso and they had a normal guy running against
Brandon Johnson in Chicago, normal people look like freaks. We've
been dealing with all these stupid progressive politicians and their
wacko policies, destructive policies for so long that now a
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normal businessman or a normal government official can't run for office.
He's vilified as being something toxic and weird. I don't
know what you know that this is. This is going
to pass. I do think we're going to get more
normal people. I think this is the final We're passing
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this through our collective coll in here, all these all
these progressive politicians because because he's going to be out,
Brandon johnsaid, Bass is going to be out. We got
to start, we got to start electing and they have
to run. We have to have rational, intelligent people. Enough
with these stupid social experiment candidates. I mean, this is
just we're seriously, does it make you wonder? Doesn't it
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make you wonder if they're financed by crazy socialist left
wing groups who actually wanted to great American cities because
you know, we're capitalistic and racist and all that other
nonsense that they constantly preach about. I don't I just
don't know why the general public went along with this.
That has not been unraveled yet. There's some bizarre fail
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in the in people's brains. Something in human nature has
failed the last few years. All right, more coming up.
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talkback feature. We got two rounds to play on Friday. Oh,
this is the tow truck story. I wanted to get into.
My God, we have so many psychos wandering around that
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aren't put away.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
There are there were people in Alta, Dina, victims of
the fire who had their cars towed away. This wasn't
by order of police. This was a toe truck company
that showed up and just started towing people's cars, and
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they falsely claimed that they were contracted by Altadena officials,
and they would tow the cars to undisclosed locations and
then charge the driver's high fees to return them. Basically,
they took the cars hostage and they wouldn't return them
to their owners until the fee was paid and the
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cars were taken out in Riverside or San Bernardino. And
you had to show a photo of your driver's license
to the tow truck thieves because I guess they wanted
to steal your private information as well. They're called vehicle
hostage scams. I'd never heard of this. They show up
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on highways now. If you get charged, well not if
you get charged. If you get involved in an accident
right and you're pulled over to the side of the road,
these fake tow truck guys are driving around looking for accidents.
They see one and they target you and they offer
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to tow your vehicle to a particular body shop. When you
get to the body shop, you're forced to pay a
large amount of money, usually not covered by insurance. Otherwise
you can't get the car back. Here are the red flags.
You think this would be common sense and obvious. It's
like if a tow truck showed up next to me
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on a on the side of the road. So I
don't trust anything. I don't trust anything anybody. I don't
believe anything. So tow truck shows up at the side
of the road. These people feel like, oh, my god,
the luckiest day in the world. I got to an accident,
I got some damage, and look at that tow truck
guy just miraculously appeared. Yeah, there's no such thing. So
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they show up within minutes. If the driver insists on
bringing the car to a specific body shop the tow
truck driver. If the driver asks you to sign documents,
you're probably turning over all your rights. Or if the
tow truck driver requests a ride share on your behalf
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like they'll call you an uber to get you out
of there. Why they take your car to another county.
They had one of these tow truck scam investigations and
there was a ring. They found sixteen guys doing this.
They create fraudulent insurance claims. They collected more than two
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hundred thousand dollars holding people's vehicles hostage, purposely causing a collision.
So one guy rams into you on the freeway, and
then the next guy shows up and say, hey, look,
I'll tell your car.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
A lot of these guys were already charged in one
of these rackets in San Bernardino. I guess they weren't
put in jail, so they all showed up in Altadena
during the fire.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Conway and Thompson, Now, yeah, La throws a lot.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
At you, you know, every day. Yeah, and you get
a lot of crap thrown in your face.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Bye, bad guys, Bye, bad guys.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Well, the weather's great, the weather.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Is great, and you know you grew up here. You're
taking off for granted, but you don't know how lucky
you are. That's that's maybe. Would you like to go
where I grew up? Yes, yeah, on the rough mean streets?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Of what of Washington, DC?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Oh? Yeah, some some wealthy suburb in Virginia.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
No, I live right in the city.
Speaker 9 (30:58):
How dare you? I live right there? And the belly
of the Beast. Conway tell him he went to public school. Yeah,
I did in Washington, DC. Yeah, it was a tough,
tough neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Georgetown.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
My head. My dad had to deal drugs on the weekend,
you know, and all week he was seven days a week.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
Sure, right, Alex Stone's coming on with us to talk
about the there's a new rule change possibly in the
National Football League.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Oh yeah, this is I have a strong opinion on this.
You might as well.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I do too. It's called the the tush push. First
of all, they got to stop using that. It is
an awful sounds dirty, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
That sounds that's like, it doesn't sound football league.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
That should be like the thesh push, the discount at
at midnight at the strip bar, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
So much better.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Two minutes, all free for all. And then we have
fallout from something.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
You haven't read it through.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
You're gonna have to carry him today, Yeah, I was.
I was put it in gear.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
He's in neutral right now. He'll he'll, he'll pop the
clutch right a few minutes after.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
But we've got the whole Mayor Bass Kristin Crawley thing.
I'm getting a little tired of that, but we'll cover
it up. And then Denny's is going to add a
temporary surcharge not only to eggs, but quality search charge.
Do you want anythink good of Denny's, you gonna have
to pay a little more.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
I have to tell you the story when I did
a voiceover for Denny's for their commercial. Yeah, and can
I tell you this real quick? Yeah, okay, So it's
really hard to get you know, when you're beginning your career,
which I was just doing it. To get voiceover work
is really hard. You audition a lot you need. So
I finally got this good commercial for Denny's TV commercial.
And the way that at the time it worked is
you recorded in Hollywood with my voice. Obviously I'm living
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in Hollywood and it's on a satellite or something tied
to J Walter Thompson in Chicago. That they're the You
need to know that, because they are the You only
hear them and they say, hey, Mark, welcome you, blah
blah blah. You do the spot. They called me back
four weeks later because they changed the price of the
Grand Slam Breakfast. Okay, and they do like a pickup.
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It's a simple thing. You just go all through February.
Grand Slam Breakfast is whatever it is. Yeah, so they say, great,
so we'll play the spot back down the line for you.
These are the guys in Chicago, same group, and you're
watching it and you're listening, and you'll just will punch
you in just for that part. Okay, just a pick up.
And I'm listening down the line and I'm watching the
commercial and it's not my voice on the commercial. You
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know what is going on here? That's and I remember,
it's really hard to get this commercial. I usually I
got this commercial to begin with.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Did you try to bs and imitate the guy?
Speaker 4 (33:46):
So in a moment, like in an instant, I thought, well,
what do I do here? I don't even know so
exactly what Conway said. I'm listening and I'm thinking, okay,
I'll try to like match it. So I you know,
it was ridiculous. It was absurd. And they said, wow,
that doesn't even I'm like you. And then they did
the greatest thing ever. They said, let's just record the
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whole thing. Oh, that's that's the top to bottom. Let's
just do it again. Yeah. Yeah, I dodged a bullet.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
And those things pay a lot, those nationals.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
It was. It was a big deal for me. So
that's why I was like reluctant to say anything.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Right, Yeah, right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Here's somebody. I guess somebody else got the job, though
I don't know what happened.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
I did call the agent and say, hey, man, I
told him the story. He said, look made. They asked
for you, sir, He said, what do you want with them?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Grus.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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but you can listen to whatever you missed whenever you want. So.
Prop thirty six passes in November and probably people think, oh, okay,
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this is great. Now the criminals are going to get arrested,
convicted and put in prison. You know, the thieves are
going to be put away because now theft is illegal
in California. And the public drug addicts, they're going to
be arrested and they're going to be given a choice.
You either go behind bars or you take drug treatment,
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which is the way it used to be until Prop
forty seven. Except Gavin Newsom and the Democratic leadership in
the legislature don't want to spend any money on mental
health and drug treatment for the people that we want treated.
I mean we when we passed Prop thirty six, we agreed, yes,
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we'd like these people treated if they choose that.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Newson won't do it. Neither will the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
We're going to talk now with State Senator Susette Martinez
Valderis from the Lancaster Santa Clarita District.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Susette, welcome, Welcome, John.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Thank you so much for having me and for being
a voice of reason. We need, we need more voices
like you that are calling this type of these type
of shenanigans out.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Explain what's going on here, what should be done, What
was the intent of Prop thirty six, what the public expected,
you know, a certain action after we passed this thing.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, you know, John, for over a decade, you've seen it.
I've seen it. The Public Safety Committee or the Anti
Public Safety Committee have passed or law after law pretty
much decriminalizing everything. We've spent a decade with policies coming
out of Sacramento that am bold in criminals. And last November,
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voters made it very clear that we're sick of this,
and we overwhelmingly passed Proposition thirty six, the Homeless Drug
Addiction and Best Production Act, by seventy percent. Seventy percent
of voters said enough is enough. You know, let's get
back to safe streets. And the governor and last year's
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leadership did not support Prop thirty six. And now that
we have a new legislature that's been elected after seventy
five or seventy six percent of voters said make our
seat streets safe, they've come back here and presented a
budget that does not fund Proposition thirty six, and voters
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were very clear. And Newsome is he says he wants
to be supportive of voters, but is doubling down on
not funding the thing they asked him to do.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Has he addressed this directly?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, So in January he was asked he was asked
if if he would be supportive of funding Prop thirty
six and his statement was let me read this year
he said that even though he opposed it, he claimed
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that he was committed to implementing the terms that were
established by the voters. But again, no dollars in his
budget to fund the things that are necessary in order
to make Proposition thirty six work. Right, it's supposed to
be in funding increased workloads for officers, housing inmates, court
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related workloads, and mental health services. This is money right
now that our local departments are paying out of their
local department budgets, when really the state needs to step
in because the voters asked us to.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
There was an online poll Fox twenty six news I
don't know what city that is. Ninety four percent of
the people responding to the online poll said that the
lack of funding for these programs in the governor's budget.
Believe that it's a betrayal to voters that it should
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be funded. So virtually everybody in the state thinks we
ought to be funding drug treatment and mental health treatment.
If these people get arrested and charged with crimes.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Absolutely, you know. What's also really frustrating is to fully
fund Proposition thirty six. It's roughly point zero zero five
percent of the general budget, and that point zero zero
five is going to go a long way to one
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make our communities more safe, but to two address the
epidemic of drug addiction and mental health that we have
on our streets. You see it, I see it. You
know the people that are living and dying on our streets.
It's heartbreaking. We have the resources in Sacramento to fund
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these services, there's just not the political will. And it's heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And this is Gavin Newsom's middle finger, because if that's
it's that tiny amount of money. Because the state budget's
almost three hundred billion dollars every year, and it's hard
to believe.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
What'd you say? It's point zero zero five percent correct, And.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Then we be able to treat all the drug addicts
that get arrested under this new proposition. So this is
them being angry that we pushed back on their stupid
reign over the last ten years of Prop forty seven.
They're angry and their punishment is okay, fine, no money
for the drug treatment.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
That's childish.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
It's childish, and really, you know, I think it's at
their own peril. I you know, personally know people with
drug addiction that struggle with drug addiction. I know many
people who have family members who are living and dying
on the streets because of their mental health conditions. The
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people Californians are actually compassionate. The compassionate thing to do
is to fund Prop thirty six to allow people the
services they deserve.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Why do you think these compassionate progressives and I've always
thought that they're fake. Why do you think they don't
care about treating the drug addicts and actually allowing them
to get their lives back on track. I've never understood
that They've never funded them. When we passed Prop forty seven,
they're supposed to be money for drug rehab, and they
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never spent any And now with Prop thirty six, they're
supposed to be money for drug rehab, drug treatment, and
they never spent it. What is it with them? Why
do they want these people to die in the streets?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You know, I can't answer that question because it's really
hard for me to relate to them when I see
what needs to be done and I know we have
the resources to do it. It's truly heartbreaking. But what
I will say is it's even more frustrating when they
go splurge our hard earned taxpayer dollars on projects like
the high speed rail. Right, they have so many pet
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projects that they're funding, and I would just rather than
fund people over pet projects.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
See.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I have like a unifying theory about this, and it's
really connected to what's going on in Washington, whether it's
high speed rail or these drug treatment ideas.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Is it all a racket?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Is it all set up just to enrich all these fake, corrupt,
criminal nonprofits. You have drug treatment nonprofits that don't work,
you have high speed rail that never gets built. But
there's all these parasites enriching themselves, and is that the
purpose of the California government, so all the parasites enriched themselves.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
These are really good questions, and I do know that,
you know, in previous years, some of my Republican colleagues
have called for and put forward bills that call for
greater accountability, greater transparency, and how our moneys are being spent,
whether it's on homelessness, whether it's on high speed rail.
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What I'm super excited about is now we have a
federal government that has said, wait a minute, We've given
you four billion dollars in federal funding for high speed
rail for a project that is a decade overdue and
over one hundred billion dollars over budget. What's going on here?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Right?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
We need immense transparency, accountability.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
That's what makes me think it was it was designed
to be a racket. Otherwise they would have been shouting
about this ten years ago. And nobody does nobody in California.
Well a few people do you are now, but most
of the ruling class in the Democratic legislature and new
some they never complain about any of this.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yeah, Sacramentos ran by elitists. That's that's true, but I
think voters are fed up. And again we saw this
past November, voters said enough is enough with passing Proposition
thirty six, with flipping three seats Republicans. Republicans flipped three
seats this past cycle, and again I'm not surprised that,
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to their own peril, they're going to continue to ignore
the will of the voters.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Can you imagine if we had a Doze like program
in California and Sacramento what they would find from.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Your lips to God's ears, that would be amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I just feel left out. I mean, the rest of
the country is rooting for it.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
So it's got like over sixty percent rooting for what
Musk and Trump are doing, and this whole Doge investigation,
and it's like, well, why can't we have this here
because we needed very badly in Sacramento and in Los
Angeles and probably everywhere everywhere else in the state.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
All Right, well, she said thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
For coming on, of course, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
All right, she's at Martinez valaderis state senator in the
Lancaster Santa Clarita area, a Republican.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Coming up. I think this was on Dever's News, But
we've got more detail.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
The La Times has done an extensive story on this
guy who had an elaborate encampment, homeless guy, elaborate encampment
in a Royo Seco for five years and now it's
been destroyed. And it's one of these classic La Times
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sob stories. He had had built in a flood channel. Well,
you can't live in a public flood channel. That's against
the law. And finally we're busting this thing up and
that The Times is hysterical over it.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Well, this has been in Debra's news. There is a
guy named Alejandro Diaz, twenty nine years old. I suspect
he's an illegal alien. And he built an elaborate house
on parkland right next to a flood channel Arroyo Seiko
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in Highland Park and it's it's public parkland next to
a public waterway. And he was allowed to build this house,
you know, which had windows and a garden, bamboo fencing,
bright yellow siding, and you know, we're required in this
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in this state to go, oh, isn't that wonderful. It's like, no,
it's not wonderful. You can't have this in a public park.
It's it's it's for people to enjoy the park, not
deal with a guy who planted a a house right
in the middle of I mean it was right near
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the bike path. And so the La Times Nathan Solise
does a sob story because they came to dismantle Diaz's
house and he got really angry and he started tearing
it apart himself with his bare hands.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
It's an injustice, said Diaz.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
The city doesn't care about anything other than destroying our lives,
even though we don't bother anyone, and all my time,
none of us have bothered anyone. Well, you have an
encampment along a parkway and a flood channel and all
that's illegal. In fact, I'm sure he's here illegally. I
don't understand this, don't You don't have a right to
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come and live on our public land that our tax
money is used to care for. And finally they decided
to clear it out because it's in a high fire zone.
In fact, this rickety wood house makeshift house. Yeah, he
knocks a candle over. I don't know what he's using for.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
What is he using for heat? What's he using for
light and power.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'm sure there's something in there that could catch fire,
and then that whole wildland area catches fire. So the
city had to send out a crew to scrape the
flood channel floor with pitchforks, shovels and bulldozers to clear
out all the debris. After these homes were dismantled. Because
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his wasn't the only one they got noticed this last
week that the personal property could not be stored in
a public city park and you got seventy two hours
to remove it. It sits on the flood channel across
from the Arroyo Seco bike path and park. By the way,
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people who take hikes and bike, you don't want to
bike past homeless people.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I don't. Then we don't. We don't bike, we don't walk.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
When you know, we used to have a bike path,
my wife and I used, I think it was one
near the Bayona Wetlands. And then there were so many
tents popping up. It's like, well, we can't do this.
These are crazy people. They're living outside for years, whacked
on drugs, mentally ill, and of course you know, you
call the city and for years nothing was done. Like
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many others living next to the flood channel. It says
here Diaz worked in construction but couldn't find steady work. Well,
he come here illegally, and you don't have much of
an education, you don't have too many skills. You live
in poverty in a public park, and we're supposed to
put up with this. Maybe you should stay where where
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you came from. And then here's one of the one
of the lines. He's among tens of thousands of people
experiencing homelessness. Well, what do you mean he's experiencing homelessness
because he voluntarily left his country and he came here
with no real way to earn a steady living. And
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then I'm supposed to spend my tax money on him.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Why that's crazy. No, that's just nuts.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So he had this fit on Monday. He kicked down
his fence, smashed out the windows, rolled boulders from his
garden into the flood channel. Great, so he filled the
flood channel channel with all kinds of garbage, and his
girlfriend watched.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
This guy's got a girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
This guy lives in a shack built on the side
of a flood channel, doesn't have a steady job.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
He has a girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Think about that if you're a loser, sitting in your parents'
basement right now playing video games, and you bitch online
that you can't fight a girl.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
This guy out, did you?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
He?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Then he then destroyed his doghouse.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah, because he and his girlfriend have a German shepherd,
and he busted up his German shepherd's house till his
knuckles were bleeding. He hugged his dog. I guess he
felt sorry.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
Well that's good. Where's the board dog to go?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Now? He's unhoused as well.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
And then, of course the La Times has to quote
a volunteer advocate, Elizabeth Gustafson, they had asked the city
to reconsider, not.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Only are sweeps disruptive to the unhoused people who have
created community, mutual support and neighborliness alongside the arroyo. Against
all odds, Angelino's are facing a staggering housing crisis.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
How many of the.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Homeless people came here illegally and are really squatting on
public land? Anybody do account on that? How many people
are here illegally and claim to be homeless? Of course
you're homeless. If I suddenly went to a foreign country
and I had no money and no job, I'd be
squatting on some public land, except there they'd arrest me
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and deport me in about five minutes. This is so stupid.
Even a seven year old can figure this out. I
tell you, these progressive people are in Chest are just stupid.
You don't go to a country without skills, without a job,
without money, and then expect to live in a public park,
even if you build your own shack.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
More coming up.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow, so I'm
just gonna make something up.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I just play the promos that are I know, I
know it's.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
So specific about the time.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, I know, it's a good idea. It's very clever.
All right, Conway will be here right after four o'clock.
I have to spend a couple of minutes because you know,
we've been saddled with Karen Bass, who is a disaster,
a designest disaster. Do you know she's actually not the
most unpopular mayor in America. There is someone who has
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approval ratings. I have never seen anyone with an approval
rating worse than this. And the National Review did a
story on the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, and the
headline is, Brandon Johnson is now less popular than most
communical diseases. Wow. And when you read it, and I've
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lived in Chicago for about a year and visited often
long long time ago, because I had friends who lived there,
and I really liked the city, A nice city. That
was the place I wanted to live. That was the
place I actually wanted to work in radio. Yeah. Well
back then there wasn't the crime, but there always was
the weather. And then this writer here where lived in
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Chicago where lives now?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
There?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
He says.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
A new poll is out, it's from M three Strategies,
and Brandon Johnson his approval rating is six point six percent.
Six point six percent, uh, the most unpopular in America.
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And he was just elected narrowly in early twenty twenty three.
But everything is collapsed. For one thing, the crime is
is crazy bad.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Yeah, there's there's murderers every weekend.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah there's.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I mean, yeah, it's almost a joke, like forty people
get killed in Chicago on a weekend, and it was hey,
it was pretty quiet.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
The other issue, well, when he got elected, he took
a lot of money from the teachers' union, so they
thought they were they were going to get a big payoff.
But the raises they wanted would have bankrupt in Chicago,
so he couldn't give them all the money. So much
of the public is angry over the crime. The part
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that votes union workers are upset that they didn't get
the big raises. His place, his base should be black voters.
He's black. They're among the angriest. Well, let me let
me go through some of the numbers in various ethnic categories.
The approval rating among black voters is sixteen percent, the
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approval rating among white voters is five percent, and the
approval rating among Latino voters two percent. Eighty eight percent
of Latinos disapprove. And what unites blacks, whites, and Latinos
is the crime and an overwhelming number of illegal aliens
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that poured in by the tens of thousands. And what
Brandon Johnson's Brandon Johnson did is he turned schools into
public shelters for the illegal aliens, and he also gave
away apartments to the illegals as well. And the angriest
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people show up at the meetings, they're black residents. There's
one clip black woman screaming at the mayor because they
get shelters, get they get apartments, they get nine thousand
dollars payouts, and she said it was at the expense
of the black citizens who helped elect him. I don't
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understand how they could give these immigrants thousands of dollars
in the state of Illinois. But look what they're doing
to her own effing people.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
She said.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Latinos arrive in her neighborhood in twelve foot box trucks.
They use government welfare checks to buy up everything and
price black residents out. The fact that they're here and
our government is giving them, is giving more to them
than the people who are born here, is really starting
to piss us off. Mayor Brandon, We're coming for your ass.
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He is ranked as the worst sanctuary city mayor in
the country by the Immigration Reform Law Institute. He spent
hundreds of millions of dollars on immigrants at the expense
of the voters, and many of the poor black voters
in his city.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
So that's why.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
And by the way, the legal Latino residents, whether they're
born here or they immigrated legally, take it. He's got
a two percent rate. I mean, he is he is terrible.
His policies are stupid. He's stupid. He fits right in
with everything that's gone. I mean, you know, he'd be perfect,
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be a perfect mate for Karen Bass. I mean, the
two of them are the biggest bunglers I've ever seen
in my life.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
And these are great cities other.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Than in La A long time, this used to be
a great place Chicago. I lived, It was a great place.
Why do they willfully destroy great cities?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
It's like what they did in San Francisco. Why why
are they doing this? It's it's gotta be on purpose.
It's god be that they're funded by by by groups
that want to destabilize, that want to create anarchy.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
It's got to be.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
If you were going to intentionally destroy a great American city,
what would you do differently? In Chicago, in San Francisco,
in La what would you do differently? They let all
the criminals out and didn't punish them. They let the
drug addicts, the mental patients run rampant. They allow illegal
aliens to pour in, and they're and they're living in
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the streets and in the parks. What would you do differently,
you bet. I mean La has broke, Chicago has broke.
So they blew through all the money, all this for
for for woke politics, and the public went along with this.
I mean the public voted for this Brandon Johnson like
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they did Karen Bass. And normal people now, well, like
we're Caruso and they had a normal guy running against
Brandon Johnson in Chicago, normal people look like freaks. We've
been dealing with all these stupid progressive politicians and their
wacko policies, destructive policies for so long that now a
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normal businessman or a normal government official can't run for office.
He's vilified as being something toxic and weird. I don't
know what you know that this is. This is going
to pass. I do think we're going to get more
normal people. I think this is the final We're passing
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this through our collective coll in here, all these all
these progressive politicians because because he's going to be out,
Brandon johnsaid, Bass is going to be out. We got
to start, we got to start electing and they have
to run. We have to have rational, intelligent people. Enough
with these stupid social experiment candidates. I mean, this is
just we're seriously, does it make you wonder? Doesn't it
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make you wonder if they're financed by crazy socialist left
wing groups who actually wanted to great American cities because
you know, we're capitalistic and racist and all that other
nonsense that they constantly preach about. I don't I just
don't know why the general public went along with this.
That has not been unraveled yet. There's some bizarre fail
(26:19):
in the in people's brains. Something in human nature has
failed the last few years. All right, more coming up.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
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Speaker 1 (26:33):
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talkback feature. We got two rounds to play on Friday. Oh,
this is the tow truck story. I wanted to get into.
My God, we have so many psychos wandering around that
(26:58):
aren't put away.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
There are there were people in Alta, Dina, victims of
the fire who had their cars towed away. This wasn't
by order of police. This was a toe truck company
that showed up and just started towing people's cars, and
(27:29):
they falsely claimed that they were contracted by Altadena officials,
and they would tow the cars to undisclosed locations and
then charge the driver's high fees to return them. Basically,
they took the cars hostage and they wouldn't return them
to their owners until the fee was paid and the
(27:51):
cars were taken out in Riverside or San Bernardino. And
you had to show a photo of your driver's license
to the tow truck thieves because I guess they wanted
to steal your private information as well. They're called vehicle
hostage scams. I'd never heard of this. They show up
(28:16):
on highways now. If you get charged, well not if
you get charged. If you get involved in an accident
right and you're pulled over to the side of the road,
these fake tow truck guys are driving around looking for accidents.
They see one and they target you and they offer
(28:37):
to tow your vehicle to a particular body shop. When you
get to the body shop, you're forced to pay a
large amount of money, usually not covered by insurance. Otherwise
you can't get the car back. Here are the red flags.
You think this would be common sense and obvious. It's
like if a tow truck showed up next to me
(28:57):
on a on the side of the road. So I
don't trust anything. I don't trust anything anybody. I don't
believe anything. So tow truck shows up at the side
of the road. These people feel like, oh, my god,
the luckiest day in the world. I got to an accident,
I got some damage, and look at that tow truck
guy just miraculously appeared. Yeah, there's no such thing. So
(29:17):
they show up within minutes. If the driver insists on
bringing the car to a specific body shop the tow
truck driver. If the driver asks you to sign documents,
you're probably turning over all your rights. Or if the
tow truck driver requests a ride share on your behalf
(29:38):
like they'll call you an uber to get you out
of there. Why they take your car to another county.
They had one of these tow truck scam investigations and
there was a ring. They found sixteen guys doing this.
They create fraudulent insurance claims. They collected more than two
(30:00):
hundred thousand dollars holding people's vehicles hostage, purposely causing a collision.
So one guy rams into you on the freeway, and
then the next guy shows up and say, hey, look,
I'll tell your car.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
A lot of these guys were already charged in one
of these rackets in San Bernardino. I guess they weren't
put in jail, so they all showed up in Altadena
during the fire.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Conway and Thompson, Now, yeah, La throws a lot.
Speaker 8 (30:30):
At you, you know, every day. Yeah, and you get
a lot of crap thrown in your face.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Bye, bad guys, Bye, bad guys.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Well, the weather's great, the weather.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Is great, and you know you grew up here. You're
taking off for granted, but you don't know how lucky
you are. That's that's maybe. Would you like to go
where I grew up? Yes, yeah, on the rough mean streets?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Of what of Washington, DC?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Oh? Yeah, some some wealthy suburb in Virginia.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
No, I live right in the city.
Speaker 9 (30:58):
How dare you? I live right there? And the belly
of the Beast. Conway tell him he went to public school. Yeah,
I did in Washington, DC. Yeah, it was a tough,
tough neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Georgetown.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
My head. My dad had to deal drugs on the weekend,
you know, and all week he was seven days a week.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
Sure, right, Alex Stone's coming on with us to talk
about the there's a new rule change possibly in the
National Football League.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Oh yeah, this is I have a strong opinion on this.
You might as well.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I do too. It's called the the tush push. First
of all, they got to stop using that. It is
an awful sounds dirty, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
That sounds that's like, it doesn't sound football league.
Speaker 8 (31:37):
That should be like the thesh push, the discount at
at midnight at the strip bar, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
So much better.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Two minutes, all free for all. And then we have
fallout from something.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
You haven't read it through.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
You're gonna have to carry him today, Yeah, I was.
I was put it in gear.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
He's in neutral right now. He'll he'll, he'll pop the
clutch right a few minutes after.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
But we've got the whole Mayor Bass Kristin Crawley thing.
I'm getting a little tired of that, but we'll cover
it up. And then Denny's is going to add a
temporary surcharge not only to eggs, but quality search charge.
Do you want anythink good of Denny's, you gonna have
to pay a little more.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
I have to tell you the story when I did
a voiceover for Denny's for their commercial. Yeah, and can
I tell you this real quick? Yeah, okay, So it's
really hard to get you know, when you're beginning your career,
which I was just doing it. To get voiceover work
is really hard. You audition a lot you need. So
I finally got this good commercial for Denny's TV commercial.
And the way that at the time it worked is
you recorded in Hollywood with my voice. Obviously I'm living
(32:51):
in Hollywood and it's on a satellite or something tied
to J Walter Thompson in Chicago. That they're the You
need to know that, because they are the You only
hear them and they say, hey, Mark, welcome you, blah
blah blah. You do the spot. They called me back
four weeks later because they changed the price of the
Grand Slam Breakfast. Okay, and they do like a pickup.
(33:14):
It's a simple thing. You just go all through February.
Grand Slam Breakfast is whatever it is. Yeah, so they say, great,
so we'll play the spot back down the line for you.
These are the guys in Chicago, same group, and you're
watching it and you're listening, and you'll just will punch
you in just for that part. Okay, just a pick up.
And I'm listening down the line and I'm watching the
commercial and it's not my voice on the commercial. You
(33:38):
know what is going on here? That's and I remember,
it's really hard to get this commercial. I usually I
got this commercial to begin with.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Did you try to bs and imitate the guy?
Speaker 4 (33:46):
So in a moment, like in an instant, I thought, well,
what do I do here? I don't even know so
exactly what Conway said. I'm listening and I'm thinking, okay,
I'll try to like match it. So I you know,
it was ridiculous. It was absurd. And they said, wow,
that doesn't even I'm like you. And then they did
the greatest thing ever. They said, let's just record the
(34:06):
whole thing. Oh, that's that's the top to bottom. Let's
just do it again. Yeah. Yeah, I dodged a bullet.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
And those things pay a lot, those nationals.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
It was. It was a big deal for me. So
that's why I was like reluctant to say anything.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Right, Yeah, right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Here's somebody. I guess somebody else got the job, though
I don't know what happened.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
I did call the agent and say, hey, man, I
told him the story. He said, look made. They asked
for you, sir, He said, what do you want with them?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Grus.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
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