April 9, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (04/09) - Pres. Trump paused the tariffs and the stock market had major gains. More on the tariffs being paused by Pres. Trump. More on US Attorney Bill Essayli's new taskforce to investigate LA's wasteful homeless spending. A Waymo got stuck in a Chick-Fil-A drive-thru.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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on the iHeart app again after four o'clock. Well, just
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in the last three hours the whole financial world went
upside out again. I'm slightly distracted. I've got a couple
of TV screens on here and CNN is covering Trump
pausing the tariffs, which we'll talk about in a moment.
But one of their reporters is explaining how this happened,
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and they have a graphic on the screen that one
of the stock indexes today had its best day since
two thousand and eight. And I think the anchor is
one of those anti Trump people because she is glaring
the entire time the reporter is talking. She is glaring
angrily like she can't believe this has turned out to
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be a big positive today. I hope nobody Withdrew their
money from the stock market a few days ago, because
this was destined to be another short term hysterical period.
All like almost everything in the last five years or so,
it's one hysterical news story after another where everybody melts
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down predicts doom. And then what did I say on Monday?
I said, you know, we used to have a three
day rule on the show. For this one. It might
be a three week rule or a three month rule.
It's like, let it play out. Nobody can predict things.
But what I thought is, I didn't think whatever flaws
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Trump has, I don't think he got into the office
to tank the economy, to make millions of people that employed,
to destroy everyone's retirement funds.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I don't think that was one of the goals.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You could say whatever you want about him, but that's
when he gets up in the morning. It's not about
putting everybody out of work, ruining their savings, and wrecking
the economy. He plays a negotiating game in public that
nobody's ever seen before. But this is what goes on
behind the scenes in business all the time and in politics,
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but it's it's in a private office. And one of
the revealing things with that little dust up with Valdmer's Zelensky.
Remember the President of Ukraine is Trump and JD Vance
told Zelensky off and it happened in public, on live television,
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and everybody clutched their pearls and fainted. But that's what
goes on behind closed doors since the beginning of time, since.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
The creation of human being.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Lead corporate leaders, political leaders, business people. They scream and
yell at each other, and then you go out to
the cameras and you act fake and you say fake things,
and you do fake things, and it's all show, and
we have a media that reports it.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Literally all.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
They shook hands today, they made diplomatic statements to each other.
They could have been tearing each other's clothes off, ripping
their hearts out behind the scenes a few minutes ago,
but you wouldn't know. Yeah, maybe five years later, you know,
books come out and you get the truth. And what's
funny is is because reporters and anchors do the same thing.
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Inside newsrooms at newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, people are
yelling at each other, they're getting in their arguments. Debra's
in one.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Every day, and.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Then they go on camera and everybody's calm and professional
and measured. Since it's standard they're acting. Makes me crazy.
I always like to see reality, whether it's good or bad.
I want to know what's really going on.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know, put such a spin on things that that
everything is so fake, which is so disappointing.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I put it, well, what.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
You're saying is that when we do see people come
out and everybody's friendly. This is why everybody was so
upset with Zelensky and the Trump meeting, because, like you said,
this is what really happened, right, And so what you're
saying is that when people come out most of the time, right,
everybody's smiling, shaking hands, hugging everything. And so we all
think that that's the way it is. And but your spin,
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it's not a negative spin. But what you're saying, your
explanations like, wow, wow, nobody's honest.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I think that's yes, right, No, I hate that. I
hate that there's no nobody's genuine.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
No. No.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
For some reason, expressing negative emotions in public or in
a work situation is it is so frowned upon and criticized.
But I would rather know what the truth is, you know,
I'd rather somebody here walk in and yell, and then
(05:21):
I know exactly the people who are passive, aggressive backstabbers people.
Oh I know, and you know we've worked for those
kind of people, and they infuriate me. You walk in
and you got the big smile high how you're doing.
It's like you don't care. I remember you see, i'd
I've read books and articles on how you're supposed to
(05:42):
treat employees, right, and you're supposed to create a compliment sandwich. Right,
you call somebody into the office if you read this. No,
you call somebody to the office and say, John, I
just want to say, you know, I listened to the
show yesterday and it was really funny when you went
bh blah blah and then boom you hit him with
a criticism, right yeah, and then before they leave, you
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hit him with another compliment, so they walk away smiling
again supposedly.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
See.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I hate that there's a method that there. I hate that.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I'd rather come in and somebody just be honest and
frank with me. I don't want somebody to say that
I'm amazing if they don't think I'm amazing, And I
don't want somebody to say anything. I just I just
want the truth.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I know you can't get that, you can't get the.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Truth, but then you never know where you stand with
certain people.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And I don't like that, and I don't trust them
when I when I when I get that or I
get you, I get customer service responses. I always figured
I could tell when, uh, you know, some somebody in
a supervisory role had gone to a like to a seminar,
a training session, because suddenly you're telling him something. It's like, well,
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I hear you.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I'm sorry, mister Cobel.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I'm sorry you feel that way, but I hear you,
and I that I've I became a new phrase some
years ago and said, what does that mean? I hear you,
I know you hear me. That means I hear you.
I'm not going to do a damn thing about it
because I want to do this my way and I
disagree with you. It's like, well, just say that, just
say I think I'm right and you're wrong. And here's
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why I think you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Well, I don't like when they read a script and
I actually say that, please stop reading your script.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Oh on the phone, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Please stop reading your script. Just talk to me like
you would a normal person. Oh, I'm sorry, miss Mark,
I'm so sorry. You already said you're sorry. You don't
you're not sorry, So let's move on.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Oh it goes back. I'm like, please stop with the script.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Just stop.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
And this is why Trump unnerves people sometimes because he
manipulates people. He says things for effect, he keeps people
off balance. But much of the time he's also being
blunt and honest. And nobody, especially in the media, is
used to that. The use to everybody just reading from
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scripts and following protocol, adhering to norms. They have all
these raises and then when somebody just bluntly says, you know,
they like do Zelensky, you're being disrespectful here.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And by the way, everybody's forgotten about that moment, right,
including Trump and Zelinsky. You know, in the moment, everybody
act hysterically. Well, in the moment, his tariffs caused everyone
to react hysterically, as if those tariffs were going to
remain in effect for the rest of our lives and
all the world's trade would grind to a halt and
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companies would go bankrupt and we'd lose all our retirement savings.
It's like we you sit down, that's not going to happen.
But it's for effect, it's for negotiation.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yes, but it is scary for older people who do
rely on their stocks and then they see everything tumble it.
It's not somebody that has many, many years that can
go and deal with the roller coaster ride. And so
I think I understand why certain people were so freaked out.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, well they should know these things resolved themselves.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
They usually do.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Just it just depends on how long, right you say,
it could be three months, it could be whatever. I mean,
three months if you.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Only have three months to live, Like, why you get
all worked up? Anyway, I knew you were going to
say something like that.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I knew it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Right, we come back, we'll talk a little more about
Trump pausing the tariffs, uh, and exactly what's going on here.
But but I like, I like often to focus on
the psychology of the game that everybody plays publicly, because
too much of the media covers this stuff.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Literally you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from kf
I Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
We're on every day from one until four, and follow
us at John Cobelt Radio and social media at John
Cobelt Radio. Oh and I was on my wife's video
podcast this morning, Deborah coblt Live. That's the name of
her video podcast, and I was the guest. So if
you want to hear me talk about all the news,
(10:04):
a lot of stuff here in LA, some of the
stuff about Trump as well, Detmer cobelt Live and you
can get that on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
All right. I'm just I just spend all day talking.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I know you do. Don't you get tired of your
own voice?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I get I know, I get I do when they
ask me to do more stories, you know, for other
other anchors to run my stuff, I said, no one
wants to hear me.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
I'm want so much.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I hear you all day.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I know it's not my intention. I'm just doing what
I'm told to do.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
All right, you're a good employee. Uh so Trump he
pauses the tariff hikes for ninety days. Now, this was
bound to happen because people can't tell if he's crazy
or not. People can't tell if he if he means
it or not, and that creates uncertainty. When there is
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uncertainty at that grand escape, professional stock traders sell I
didn't sell anything.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You probably didn't sell anything.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Right, didn't No, I did not.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I don't do day by day trading or hour by
hour trading.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
But I wasn't thrilled. I'll be honest with you. I
also getting nervous.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I was no.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I thought, well, I always look what changed in the
world in terms of how much a company is worth.
The companies that exist are selling their products, they're making
their profits. Nothing has changed. We don't have some kind
of economic crisis in terms of a recession or a
depression yet where people are not buying goods, companies aren't
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selling goods. It's not that kind of thing. This was
a fear of the worst happening. What if we have
a trade war and suddenly there's one hundred percent tariffs
on everything, and then companies stop manufacturing because they stopped
selling because the prices are too high. Well, nobody was
going to let that happen. If you had a president
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who's truly out of control, you know what would happen.
Congress would convene into session and they would pass a
bill to regulate the tariffs because they're allowed to do that.
President has the power to regulate tariffs now, but Congress
could pass a bill and you'll say, wow, the president
will veto it, Yeah, but Congress could override the veto.
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So if you get to an extreme situation, our system
has those checks and balances to restore order. But he's
doing this because we are getting a raw deal from
a lot of countries. I don't have the time in
this venue to go into all the details, you know,
that's really what the business channels do better.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
But there is a lot of we do.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Trump is right, we get screwed, especially by China, in
tremendous ways with high tariffs that the other countries put
on our products. We have a huge trade in balance.
We buy way more products from China than they buy
from a other countries block out our products from their markets.
For example, you go to Japan, You're not going to
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see an American car anywhere on the streets of Japan.
And there's a reason for that. And there's a whole
basket of issues that Trump has, And so one of
the issues he has with China is like, you stop
sending the ingredients for fent in Delta Mexico. But you
stop doing that, and they claim they're trying to stop it.
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So he's got different grievances against one hundred different countries.
So he gave everybody a blanket tariff and said, if
you want to come to the table and negotiate my issues,
then I'll take the tariff away. Well, it looks like
anywhere from seventy to one hundred countries have said, you know,
will negotiate, so over the next ninety days. Because there's
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only so many people who work in the Trade Department
at the White House, they're going to have one to
one negotiations with seventy to one hundred different countries. Like
the European Union is one thirty two nation block, and
then there's seventy other countries besides that, and it's all
on specific products. This is why this is not like
a great radio topic. There's too many countries, there's too
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many products. You can have tariffs that change product to product.
It's it's you know, automobiles, it's pharmaceuticals, it's you know, steel, aluminum, alcohol, alcohol, everything.
Speaking of pharmaceuticals, we found out during COVID that China
manufactures a lot of our drugs. I don't know, if
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i'm president, that's got to change. We got to be
making drugs here. They have a lot of the rare
earth materials that we need for electronics that we need
for electric cars. For example, what if China decides to
declare an economic war on us and they can cut
off trade unilaterally. They have so many of our factories.
Every Apple phone in the world is manufactured overseas. We
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don't manufacture any Apple phones. You realize you let one
quasi enemy like China have control over so much of
our economy, The kind of damage they can do just
because they feel like it.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
To talk about a lack of diversity.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Say, he's right on a lot of this stuff, but
you got to take a big risk, and you got
to say, Okay, everybody's getting tariffed until you talk. Well,
most countries are saying, let's talk. Deals will be made.
That's what Trump does. China is holding out, but they
can't forever. We are their biggest source of income by far.
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No country buys as much China junk as we do.
So eventually, you know, everybody's got to climb down off
the tree. They got to save face. They got to
do the diplomatic dance. They got to say, oh, you know,
we're friends. They got to do the fake stuff right.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I just hope we're not pissing off any scientists in China.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
That's what I.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Worry about, and that's overlooked, that's not discussed. They're the
ones who unleashed the COVID epidemic. It's their fault. They
did it. Of course we financed it. But you know
it's the thinking. No down a lot of rabbit holes.
All right, we come back. We discussed this briefly. There
is yesterday, but there is Yesterday was a press release.
Here is more details and I got a lot of
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thoughts on this. The Homelessness, Fraud and Corruption Task Force
is being assembled by the new US Attorney for Los Angeles,
Bill A.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Saley.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
We have had him on frequently up until like five
days ago. He was an assemblyman from the England Empire.
Now he's the US Attorney and the first thing he's
done is put together this multi agency task force to
investigate all the corruption and fraud and theft that goes
on in the LA homeless industry. This is going to
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be rich.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Six forty coming up after two o'clock. Jake Steinfeld. You
know I'm his body by Jake, he has a whole
fitness Empire and he's a friend of mine. We were
dad's at the same school together for many years. And
he had a house in Pacific Palisades and it burned
to the ground. He's coming in just after two o'clock
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to talk about that experience. And he's considering running for governor.
And you know he's he's very well known in a
lot of circles, got a great personality. Interesting guy. We'll
have him on after two o'clock as we continue in
search of other people to run this state and city.
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We can't have these people run us anymore. There's got
to be others. So Jake Steinfeld coming up after two o'clock.
All right, I want to get back to something we
discussed yesterday. But yesterday it was just a press release.
Today there's much more detail. Hillas Saley is the new
US Attorney for Los Angeles. If you listen to our show,
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you've heard him many times. He has been an assemblyman
out of the Inland Empire for the last few years,
and he was leading the charge. I think he and
Carl Demio were about the only two Republicans who consistently
were loud and fought the one party dictatorship that we
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all suffer under and they push bills and they create mayhem,
and they give speeches and they get their MIC's cut
off or they get kicked off committees. Well, Bill, it
has been so impressive that the Trump administration selected him
to become the US Attorney in LA, which is a
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wide ranging district. I think it covers seven southern California counties.
There's ninety four districts in the country, and he's going
to have about three hundred attorneys. I think that he's
going to over see and they prosecute federal crimes. First
thing he's announced since taking over in the past week
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is a homeless fraud a Homelessness Fraud and Corruption task Force,
and they are going to investigate something that we have
talked about over and over and over again. I think
much of the homeless industry here in LA is absolutely crooked.
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It is filled with corruption, fraud, and theft. This is
centers around all the nonprofits who get supplied billions of
dollars in tax money. They also get a lot of
donations from individuals and companies.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And they are stealing the money.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
And I think a lot of politicians in this city
and county and state are in on it. It's their
friends and relatives and maybe themselves, because there is no
way you could spend this much money in a short
time and not have visible improvement.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I mean, for.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Years, things got worse and worse and worse. This is
the first year they claim there's a small drop. I
don't know if that's true, because they create the numbers,
they go around and they do account and I don't
trust their count because.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
They lie a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
You know, we're run by a lot of sociopathic liars,
pathological liars. So when they come out with with some
kind of survey of how many homeless bodies are lying
in the streets, I don't know about that. I don't
know if I believe their numbers. But even even so,
if I took their numbers at face value, it's a
tiny drop.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
There.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
All their policies defy common sense. None of them have worked,
and I think, I think a rational person would say, hmm,
they've spent billions of dollars on stupid policies that haven't worked.
They're doing it on purpose because their goal is not
to end homelessness. Their goal is to make a lot
of money off homelessness, because that's what's happening that I
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know for sure. Delicia Adams Kellum as an example, she
ran LASA, that's the city County agency, Los Angeles Homeless
Services Authority. She just resigned on Friday after the county
defunded her. We found out that not only was she
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making a salary of well over four hundred thousand dollars
double her predecessor, but she gave a two million dollar
contract to a nonprofit in Santa Monica, upward Bound, that
her husband benefited from because he's one of the he's
on the senior leadership, and suddenly they're up to She
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denied doing it until Public Radio of all places, they
found the contracts of their signature on it, and then
she claimed, well, my staff must have put there by mistake.
Well it says clearly upward Bound, that's your your husband's nonprofit. Well,
I guess I made a mistake. I didn't read it.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
She was like a little kid, one excuse after another. Anyway,
they defunded her. They cut off her microphone at a
meeting last week, and we threw her in the dumpster,
which was the final blow.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
And now there is no more. Valicia Adams Kellum running.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
LASA that a city wants to pull out a laser
and I thought last week, when all this was happening,
I said, Wow, the county is defunding LASA. She has
her MIC cut off. City is now pulling out. There
was an audit by a federal judge that found two
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billion dollars that they can't account for. Don't know if
it's missing or they spent it, but they're not sure
what they spent it on, or if they know what
it's spent on, they don't know if it worked or
it didn't work. There's probably several categories, but you total
it up, it's two billion dollars that was wasted. Now
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I'm going to assume I don't think these people are stupid.
I think they've been stealing the money. I'm talking about
people in the general industry. There's no way you could
spend this much money. All you have to do is
get a guy off the street and put him indoors.
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I'd give him some kind of treatment for his insanity
or his drug abuse.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
It's not that complicated. It reminds me of what Trump did.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
We had politicians from both parties on our show for
over twenty years who would tell us about, well, you know,
we've got to get to the root causes of illegal immigration.
It's very complicated. There's so many different factors in these contries.
Turns out all you have to do is follow the
log close the border. Trump shut the border in five minutes.
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Now there's virtually nobody coming over. There's no there's no
complex reasons, there's no root causes, there's no nothing. They
came over the border because they could they can, or
they could because it was wide open. All right, you
leave your door open. People are going to wander in
and steal your stuff, but they My point is Trump
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solved it in a day. You could solve this homelessness
crisis very quickly by saying it is illegal for you
to be sleeping on streets, on the sidewalk, on the park.
We find you, we arrest you, and we'll give you
a choice. You go to jail, or you go to drug,
alcohol rehab or mental health treatment.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Every time you find one of them, Hey, your choice.
Enough with this outreach nonsense. You could fix it quickly.
Stop with the complex reasons. Here's a simple thing. It's
against the law. So if they're breaking the law and
they don't want to move on their own. It's like,
all right, buddy, what do you want? You want to rest,
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you want a mental health clinic, you want drug wherehab.
There's your three choices, four choices. Really, because you can just.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Move on down the road. That's what you do. That's
what I would do if I was in charge. Wouldn't
it be what you would do?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
So I think the reason the homelessness thing hasn't been
solved over the last ten years is because we have
a bunch of criminals profiting from all the money, the
billions of dollars between the taxes, the private donations, the
corporate donations, it's huge cash cow.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
And these people are sites, they're criminals. Well, Bill Salley's
going to find out.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
You can follow us on social media at John Cobelt Radio.
And as I mentioned before, if you want to see
me on my wife's video podcast, Deborah Cobet Live on YouTube,
Deborah Cobelt Live on YouTube, and we talked about all
that's going on in Los Angeles and in Washington, and
that's I think posted already.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Deborah Cobelt Live.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Now in a few minutes, right after Deborah's news, we're
going to have Jake Steinfeld on Body by Jake.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
He's got the fitness Empire. He's been involved in.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
A lot of efforts to get Americans in healthier, fitter shape.
He's really devoted his life to it, and he's built
quite an empire. But you know, money doesn't predict you
from the incompetence of Karen Bass and the rest of
the LA government. Because his house burned to the ground
like so many others in the Palisades. And he's gonna
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come on with us. I've known him for years and
he's going to talk about his experience, and he's seriously
considering running for governor in California, and we need we
need choices.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
It can't be.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Somebody from Newsom's administration. Half the candidates that have announced
so far are some loser from either the administration or
from the California Legislature. And those people no, no more
of those. We'll talk to Jake Steinfeld coming up after
two o'clock. I hate wamos. I don't know if you
have a strong opinion on that.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I've never been in one, have you seen him though.
One time somebody pointed it out to me, but I
kind of missed it.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, they're big on the West Side, especially in Santa Monica.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
I'm a valley girl.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah, they freaked me out. They freaked me out too.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I have some visceral reaction, and if I was like seventeen,
I'd probably be pulling pranks on it or vandalizing them.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I don't know what it is. They really bother me.
I have to do a double take whenever I don't
see a driver in the driver's seat. It's like, wait,
how does that work? It freaks me out.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
One of these and these are driverless taxis if you
don't know, because if they're not Woodland Hills, they're probably
not in a lot of places.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
But might I mean they might be. I just haven't.
Haven't think there're too many, though.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
When I have seen three or four times them do
weird things. And this is the strangest I've heard of.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I think.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
A few weeks ago there was a story about one
of them started driving in circles, yeah, and couldn't get
out of it. This one somehow got in the middle
of a drive through entrance at Chick fil A on
Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica, and it's stalled out. So
if you were stuck behind the way mow you were
(29:00):
getting to the.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Chicken order, No, that would kiss off a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
And this Chick fil A is drive through, only they
don't have a sit down area. So there's video out
there and the Chick fil A workers are standing around
the stalled way.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Mo.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
It's hazard lights were on and it backed up for
just a moment and then stopped again.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yeah, there's nobody to yell at.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
There's nobody to hontcat can't walk up and shake your
fist at the empty window.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
I'm pretty sure the passenger also can't. Like right, Yeah,
I don't know. They said that it wasn't clear. You know,
if you're going to do a news report a bunch
of answer. The first question everyone would have was there
a passenger in the back seat. It's but if they're right,
it's unclear if anyone who was inside the vehicle, it's
(29:53):
unclear service.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
There's nobody.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
It's automatically gonna the window is going to go down
so that somebody can put.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
In the food.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, and then how do you pay the bill?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, that doesn't make sense, it says, or if the
taxi was directed to the Chick fil A as part
of a fair well, how does that work? But Wabo
confirmed to Channel five the vehicle got stuck and its
team had to recover, had to recover the way moo
(30:28):
from Chick fil A. Nobody else has explained it. This
is this particular thing has never happened before, No one has,
No Wabo's ever gotten stuck.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
So what did they do? They had to tow it?
Not clear?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I don't and it's not clear. It's a crappy report.
Channel five really could do better. What I mean, we
don't know how they eventually moved it, and we don't
know how it got there, and we don't know if there's.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
A person inside.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
And they took what There was only one line worthwhile
that the waimol got stuck in the Chick fil A line.
Then they added six seven more paragraphs and told us
nothing useful. The state of journalism here in Los Angeles
when we come back. Jake Steinfeld, you may know him
as Body by Jake. He's got a fitness empire. He
(31:20):
lost everything in the Palisades fire. He's gonna talk about that.
It's quite a story, and he's thinking of running for
governor in twenty twenty six, so that is next. Jake
Steinfeld on Oh we got debor Mark.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Look at that.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Oh wow, we're still here. I'm still here.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Live in the KFI 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
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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 one to four every day Monday through Friday,
and then after four o'clock, whatever you missed on the show,
maybe you missed it entirely, we posted as a podcast
John Cobelt's show on demand and you can catch up
on whatever it is you missed, and that is posted
on the iHeart app again after four o'clock. Well, just
(00:26):
in the last three hours the whole financial world went
upside out again. I'm slightly distracted. I've got a couple
of TV screens on here and CNN is covering Trump
pausing the tariffs, which we'll talk about in a moment.
But one of their reporters is explaining how this happened,
(00:48):
and they have a graphic on the screen that one
of the stock indexes today had its best day since
two thousand and eight. And I think the anchor is
one of those anti Trump people because she is glaring
the entire time the reporter is talking. She is glaring
angrily like she can't believe this has turned out to
(01:10):
be a big positive today. I hope nobody Withdrew their
money from the stock market a few days ago, because
this was destined to be another short term hysterical period.
All like almost everything in the last five years or so,
it's one hysterical news story after another where everybody melts
(01:32):
down predicts doom. And then what did I say on Monday?
I said, you know, we used to have a three
day rule on the show. For this one. It might
be a three week rule or a three month rule.
It's like, let it play out. Nobody can predict things.
But what I thought is, I didn't think whatever flaws
(01:55):
Trump has, I don't think he got into the office
to tank the economy, to make millions of people that employed,
to destroy everyone's retirement funds.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I don't think that was one of the goals.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You could say whatever you want about him, but that's
when he gets up in the morning. It's not about
putting everybody out of work, ruining their savings, and wrecking
the economy. He plays a negotiating game in public that
nobody's ever seen before. But this is what goes on
behind the scenes in business all the time and in politics,
(02:30):
but it's it's in a private office. And one of
the revealing things with that little dust up with Valdmer's Zelensky.
Remember the President of Ukraine is Trump and JD Vance
told Zelensky off and it happened in public, on live television,
(02:51):
and everybody clutched their pearls and fainted. But that's what
goes on behind closed doors since the beginning of time, since.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
The creation of human being.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Lead corporate leaders, political leaders, business people. They scream and
yell at each other, and then you go out to
the cameras and you act fake and you say fake things,
and you do fake things, and it's all show, and
we have a media that reports it.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Literally all.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
They shook hands today, they made diplomatic statements to each other.
They could have been tearing each other's clothes off, ripping
their hearts out behind the scenes a few minutes ago,
but you wouldn't know. Yeah, maybe five years later, you know,
books come out and you get the truth. And what's
funny is is because reporters and anchors do the same thing.
(03:47):
Inside newsrooms at newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, people are
yelling at each other, they're getting in their arguments. Debra's
in one.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Every day, and.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Then they go on camera and everybody's calm and professional
and measured. Since it's standard they're acting. Makes me crazy.
I always like to see reality, whether it's good or bad.
I want to know what's really going on.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know, put such a spin on things that that
everything is so fake, which is so disappointing.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I put it, well, what.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
You're saying is that when we do see people come
out and everybody's friendly. This is why everybody was so
upset with Zelensky and the Trump meeting, because, like you said,
this is what really happened, right, And so what you're
saying is that when people come out most of the time, right,
everybody's smiling, shaking hands, hugging everything. And so we all
think that that's the way it is. And but your spin,
(04:44):
it's not a negative spin. But what you're saying, your
explanations like, wow, wow, nobody's honest.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I think that's yes, right, No, I hate that. I
hate that there's no nobody's genuine.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
No. No.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
For some reason, expressing negative emotions in public or in
a work situation is it is so frowned upon and criticized.
But I would rather know what the truth is, you know,
I'd rather somebody here walk in and yell, and then
(05:21):
I know exactly the people who are passive, aggressive backstabbers people.
Oh I know, and you know we've worked for those
kind of people, and they infuriate me. You walk in
and you got the big smile high how you're doing.
It's like you don't care. I remember you see, i'd
I've read books and articles on how you're supposed to
(05:42):
treat employees, right, and you're supposed to create a compliment sandwich. Right,
you call somebody into the office if you read this. No,
you call somebody to the office and say, John, I
just want to say, you know, I listened to the
show yesterday and it was really funny when you went
bh blah blah and then boom you hit him with
a criticism, right yeah, and then before they leave, you
(06:04):
hit him with another compliment, so they walk away smiling
again supposedly.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
See.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I hate that there's a method that there. I hate that.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I'd rather come in and somebody just be honest and
frank with me. I don't want somebody to say that
I'm amazing if they don't think I'm amazing, And I
don't want somebody to say anything. I just I just
want the truth.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I know you can't get that, you can't get the.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Truth, but then you never know where you stand with
certain people.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And I don't like that, and I don't trust them
when I when I when I get that or I
get you, I get customer service responses. I always figured
I could tell when, uh, you know, some somebody in
a supervisory role had gone to a like to a seminar,
a training session, because suddenly you're telling him something. It's like, well,
(06:51):
I hear you.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I'm sorry, mister Cobel.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I'm sorry you feel that way, but I hear you,
and I that I've I became a new phrase some
years ago and said, what does that mean? I hear you,
I know you hear me. That means I hear you.
I'm not going to do a damn thing about it
because I want to do this my way and I
disagree with you. It's like, well, just say that, just
say I think I'm right and you're wrong. And here's
(07:15):
why I think you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Well, I don't like when they read a script and
I actually say that, please stop reading your script.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Oh on the phone, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Please stop reading your script. Just talk to me like
you would a normal person. Oh, I'm sorry, miss Mark,
I'm so sorry. You already said you're sorry. You don't
you're not sorry, So let's move on.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Oh it goes back. I'm like, please stop with the script.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Just stop.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
And this is why Trump unnerves people sometimes because he
manipulates people. He says things for effect, he keeps people
off balance. But much of the time he's also being
blunt and honest. And nobody, especially in the media, is
used to that. The use to everybody just reading from
(07:56):
scripts and following protocol, adhering to norms. They have all
these raises and then when somebody just bluntly says, you know,
they like do Zelensky, you're being disrespectful here.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And by the way, everybody's forgotten about that moment, right,
including Trump and Zelinsky. You know, in the moment, everybody
act hysterically. Well, in the moment, his tariffs caused everyone
to react hysterically, as if those tariffs were going to
remain in effect for the rest of our lives and
all the world's trade would grind to a halt and
(08:31):
companies would go bankrupt and we'd lose all our retirement savings.
It's like we you sit down, that's not going to happen.
But it's for effect, it's for negotiation.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yes, but it is scary for older people who do
rely on their stocks and then they see everything tumble it.
It's not somebody that has many, many years that can
go and deal with the roller coaster ride. And so
I think I understand why certain people were so freaked out.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, well they should know these things resolved themselves.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
They usually do.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Just it just depends on how long, right you say,
it could be three months, it could be whatever. I mean,
three months if you.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Only have three months to live, Like, why you get
all worked up? Anyway, I knew you were going to
say something like that.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
I knew it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Right, we come back, we'll talk a little more about
Trump pausing the tariffs, uh, and exactly what's going on here.
But but I like, I like often to focus on
the psychology of the game that everybody plays publicly, because
too much of the media covers this stuff.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Literally you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from kf
I Am six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
We're on every day from one until four, and follow
us at John Cobelt Radio and social media at John
Cobelt Radio. Oh and I was on my wife's video
podcast this morning, Deborah coblt Live. That's the name of
her video podcast, and I was the guest. So if
you want to hear me talk about all the news,
(10:04):
a lot of stuff here in LA, some of the
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can get that on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
All right. I'm just I just spend all day talking.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I know you do. Don't you get tired of your
own voice?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I get I know, I get I do when they
ask me to do more stories, you know, for other
other anchors to run my stuff, I said, no one
wants to hear me.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
I'm want so much.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I hear you all day.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I know it's not my intention. I'm just doing what
I'm told to do.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
All right, you're a good employee. Uh so Trump he
pauses the tariff hikes for ninety days. Now, this was
bound to happen because people can't tell if he's crazy
or not. People can't tell if he if he means
it or not, and that creates uncertainty. When there is
(10:57):
uncertainty at that grand escape, professional stock traders sell I
didn't sell anything.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You probably didn't sell anything.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Right, didn't No, I did not.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I don't do day by day trading or hour by
hour trading.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
But I wasn't thrilled. I'll be honest with you. I
also getting nervous.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I was no.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I thought, well, I always look what changed in the
world in terms of how much a company is worth.
The companies that exist are selling their products, they're making
their profits. Nothing has changed. We don't have some kind
of economic crisis in terms of a recession or a
depression yet where people are not buying goods, companies aren't
(11:39):
selling goods. It's not that kind of thing. This was
a fear of the worst happening. What if we have
a trade war and suddenly there's one hundred percent tariffs
on everything, and then companies stop manufacturing because they stopped
selling because the prices are too high. Well, nobody was
going to let that happen. If you had a president
(12:03):
who's truly out of control, you know what would happen.
Congress would convene into session and they would pass a
bill to regulate the tariffs because they're allowed to do that.
President has the power to regulate tariffs now, but Congress
could pass a bill and you'll say, wow, the president
will veto it, Yeah, but Congress could override the veto.
(12:24):
So if you get to an extreme situation, our system
has those checks and balances to restore order. But he's
doing this because we are getting a raw deal from
a lot of countries. I don't have the time in
this venue to go into all the details, you know,
that's really what the business channels do better.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
But there is a lot of we do.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Trump is right, we get screwed, especially by China, in
tremendous ways with high tariffs that the other countries put
on our products. We have a huge trade in balance.
We buy way more products from China than they buy
from a other countries block out our products from their markets.
For example, you go to Japan, You're not going to
(13:06):
see an American car anywhere on the streets of Japan.
And there's a reason for that. And there's a whole
basket of issues that Trump has, And so one of
the issues he has with China is like, you stop
sending the ingredients for fent in Delta Mexico. But you
stop doing that, and they claim they're trying to stop it.
(13:26):
So he's got different grievances against one hundred different countries.
So he gave everybody a blanket tariff and said, if
you want to come to the table and negotiate my issues,
then I'll take the tariff away. Well, it looks like
anywhere from seventy to one hundred countries have said, you know,
will negotiate, so over the next ninety days. Because there's
(13:49):
only so many people who work in the Trade Department
at the White House, they're going to have one to
one negotiations with seventy to one hundred different countries. Like
the European Union is one thirty two nation block, and
then there's seventy other countries besides that, and it's all
on specific products. This is why this is not like
a great radio topic. There's too many countries, there's too
(14:11):
many products. You can have tariffs that change product to product.
It's it's you know, automobiles, it's pharmaceuticals, it's you know, steel, aluminum, alcohol, alcohol, everything.
Speaking of pharmaceuticals, we found out during COVID that China
manufactures a lot of our drugs. I don't know, if
(14:32):
i'm president, that's got to change. We got to be
making drugs here. They have a lot of the rare
earth materials that we need for electronics that we need
for electric cars. For example, what if China decides to
declare an economic war on us and they can cut
off trade unilaterally. They have so many of our factories.
Every Apple phone in the world is manufactured overseas. We
(14:56):
don't manufacture any Apple phones. You realize you let one
quasi enemy like China have control over so much of
our economy, The kind of damage they can do just
because they feel like it.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
To talk about a lack of diversity.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Say, he's right on a lot of this stuff, but
you got to take a big risk, and you got
to say, Okay, everybody's getting tariffed until you talk. Well,
most countries are saying, let's talk. Deals will be made.
That's what Trump does. China is holding out, but they
can't forever. We are their biggest source of income by far.
(15:35):
No country buys as much China junk as we do.
So eventually, you know, everybody's got to climb down off
the tree. They got to save face. They got to
do the diplomatic dance. They got to say, oh, you know,
we're friends. They got to do the fake stuff right.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I just hope we're not pissing off any scientists in China.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
That's what I.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Worry about, and that's overlooked, that's not discussed. They're the
ones who unleashed the COVID epidemic. It's their fault. They
did it. Of course we financed it. But you know
it's the thinking. No down a lot of rabbit holes.
All right, we come back. We discussed this briefly. There
is yesterday, but there is Yesterday was a press release.
Here is more details and I got a lot of
(16:19):
thoughts on this. The Homelessness, Fraud and Corruption Task Force
is being assembled by the new US Attorney for Los Angeles,
Bill A.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Saley.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
We have had him on frequently up until like five
days ago. He was an assemblyman from the England Empire.
Now he's the US Attorney and the first thing he's
done is put together this multi agency task force to
investigate all the corruption and fraud and theft that goes
on in the LA homeless industry. This is going to
(16:51):
be rich.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Six forty coming up after two o'clock. Jake Steinfeld. You
know I'm his body by Jake, he has a whole
fitness Empire and he's a friend of mine. We were
dad's at the same school together for many years. And
he had a house in Pacific Palisades and it burned
to the ground. He's coming in just after two o'clock
(17:20):
to talk about that experience. And he's considering running for governor.
And you know he's he's very well known in a
lot of circles, got a great personality. Interesting guy. We'll
have him on after two o'clock as we continue in
search of other people to run this state and city.
(17:41):
We can't have these people run us anymore. There's got
to be others. So Jake Steinfeld coming up after two o'clock.
All right, I want to get back to something we
discussed yesterday. But yesterday it was just a press release.
Today there's much more detail. Hillas Saley is the new
US Attorney for Los Angeles. If you listen to our show,
(18:04):
you've heard him many times. He has been an assemblyman
out of the Inland Empire for the last few years,
and he was leading the charge. I think he and
Carl Demio were about the only two Republicans who consistently
were loud and fought the one party dictatorship that we
(18:27):
all suffer under and they push bills and they create mayhem,
and they give speeches and they get their MIC's cut
off or they get kicked off committees. Well, Bill, it
has been so impressive that the Trump administration selected him
to become the US Attorney in LA, which is a
(18:47):
wide ranging district. I think it covers seven southern California counties.
There's ninety four districts in the country, and he's going
to have about three hundred attorneys. I think that he's
going to over see and they prosecute federal crimes. First
thing he's announced since taking over in the past week
(19:10):
is a homeless fraud a Homelessness Fraud and Corruption task Force,
and they are going to investigate something that we have
talked about over and over and over again. I think
much of the homeless industry here in LA is absolutely crooked.
(19:31):
It is filled with corruption, fraud, and theft. This is
centers around all the nonprofits who get supplied billions of
dollars in tax money. They also get a lot of
donations from individuals and companies.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And they are stealing the money.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
And I think a lot of politicians in this city
and county and state are in on it. It's their
friends and relatives and maybe themselves, because there is no
way you could spend this much money in a short
time and not have visible improvement.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I mean, for.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Years, things got worse and worse and worse. This is
the first year they claim there's a small drop. I
don't know if that's true, because they create the numbers,
they go around and they do account and I don't
trust their count because.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
They lie a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
You know, we're run by a lot of sociopathic liars,
pathological liars. So when they come out with with some
kind of survey of how many homeless bodies are lying
in the streets, I don't know about that. I don't
know if I believe their numbers. But even even so,
if I took their numbers at face value, it's a
tiny drop.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
There.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
All their policies defy common sense. None of them have worked,
and I think, I think a rational person would say, hmm,
they've spent billions of dollars on stupid policies that haven't worked.
They're doing it on purpose because their goal is not
to end homelessness. Their goal is to make a lot
of money off homelessness, because that's what's happening that I
(21:17):
know for sure. Delicia Adams Kellum as an example, she
ran LASA, that's the city County agency, Los Angeles Homeless
Services Authority. She just resigned on Friday after the county
defunded her. We found out that not only was she
(21:37):
making a salary of well over four hundred thousand dollars
double her predecessor, but she gave a two million dollar
contract to a nonprofit in Santa Monica, upward Bound, that
her husband benefited from because he's one of the he's
on the senior leadership, and suddenly they're up to She
(22:00):
denied doing it until Public Radio of all places, they
found the contracts of their signature on it, and then
she claimed, well, my staff must have put there by mistake.
Well it says clearly upward Bound, that's your your husband's nonprofit. Well,
I guess I made a mistake. I didn't read it.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
She was like a little kid, one excuse after another. Anyway,
they defunded her. They cut off her microphone at a
meeting last week, and we threw her in the dumpster,
which was the final blow.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
And now there is no more. Valicia Adams Kellum running.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
LASA that a city wants to pull out a laser
and I thought last week, when all this was happening,
I said, Wow, the county is defunding LASA. She has
her MIC cut off. City is now pulling out. There
was an audit by a federal judge that found two
(22:58):
billion dollars that they can't account for. Don't know if
it's missing or they spent it, but they're not sure
what they spent it on, or if they know what
it's spent on, they don't know if it worked or
it didn't work. There's probably several categories, but you total
it up, it's two billion dollars that was wasted. Now
(23:21):
I'm going to assume I don't think these people are stupid.
I think they've been stealing the money. I'm talking about
people in the general industry. There's no way you could
spend this much money. All you have to do is
get a guy off the street and put him indoors.
(23:44):
I'd give him some kind of treatment for his insanity
or his drug abuse.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
It's not that complicated. It reminds me of what Trump did.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
We had politicians from both parties on our show for
over twenty years who would tell us about, well, you know,
we've got to get to the root causes of illegal immigration.
It's very complicated. There's so many different factors in these contries.
Turns out all you have to do is follow the
log close the border. Trump shut the border in five minutes.
(24:19):
Now there's virtually nobody coming over. There's no there's no
complex reasons, there's no root causes, there's no nothing. They
came over the border because they could they can, or
they could because it was wide open. All right, you
leave your door open. People are going to wander in
and steal your stuff, but they My point is Trump
(24:40):
solved it in a day. You could solve this homelessness
crisis very quickly by saying it is illegal for you
to be sleeping on streets, on the sidewalk, on the park.
We find you, we arrest you, and we'll give you
a choice. You go to jail, or you go to drug,
alcohol rehab or mental health treatment.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Every time you find one of them, Hey, your choice.
Enough with this outreach nonsense. You could fix it quickly.
Stop with the complex reasons. Here's a simple thing. It's
against the law. So if they're breaking the law and
they don't want to move on their own. It's like,
all right, buddy, what do you want? You want to rest,
(25:26):
you want a mental health clinic, you want drug wherehab.
There's your three choices, four choices. Really, because you can just.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Move on down the road. That's what you do. That's
what I would do if I was in charge. Wouldn't
it be what you would do?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
So I think the reason the homelessness thing hasn't been
solved over the last ten years is because we have
a bunch of criminals profiting from all the money, the
billions of dollars between the taxes, the private donations, the
corporate donations, it's huge cash cow.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
And these people are sites, they're criminals. Well, Bill Salley's
going to find out.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
You can follow us on social media at John Cobelt Radio.
And as I mentioned before, if you want to see
me on my wife's video podcast, Deborah Cobet Live on YouTube,
Deborah Cobelt Live on YouTube, and we talked about all
that's going on in Los Angeles and in Washington, and
that's I think posted already.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Deborah Cobelt Live.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Now in a few minutes, right after Deborah's news, we're
going to have Jake Steinfeld on Body by Jake.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
He's got the fitness Empire. He's been involved in.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
A lot of efforts to get Americans in healthier, fitter shape.
He's really devoted his life to it, and he's built
quite an empire. But you know, money doesn't predict you
from the incompetence of Karen Bass and the rest of
the LA government. Because his house burned to the ground
like so many others in the Palisades. And he's gonna
(27:04):
come on with us. I've known him for years and
he's going to talk about his experience, and he's seriously
considering running for governor in California, and we need we
need choices.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
It can't be.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Somebody from Newsom's administration. Half the candidates that have announced
so far are some loser from either the administration or
from the California Legislature. And those people no, no more
of those. We'll talk to Jake Steinfeld coming up after
two o'clock. I hate wamos. I don't know if you
have a strong opinion on that.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I've never been in one, have you seen him though.
One time somebody pointed it out to me, but I
kind of missed it.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, they're big on the West Side, especially in Santa Monica.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
I'm a valley girl.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah, they freaked me out. They freaked me out too.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I have some visceral reaction, and if I was like seventeen,
I'd probably be pulling pranks on it or vandalizing them.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I don't know what it is. They really bother me.
I have to do a double take whenever I don't
see a driver in the driver's seat. It's like, wait,
how does that work? It freaks me out.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
One of these and these are driverless taxis if you
don't know, because if they're not Woodland Hills, they're probably
not in a lot of places.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
But might I mean they might be. I just haven't.
Haven't think there're too many, though.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
When I have seen three or four times them do
weird things. And this is the strangest I've heard of.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I think.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
A few weeks ago there was a story about one
of them started driving in circles, yeah, and couldn't get
out of it. This one somehow got in the middle
of a drive through entrance at Chick fil A on
Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica, and it's stalled out. So
if you were stuck behind the way mow you were
(29:00):
getting to the.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Chicken order, No, that would kiss off a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
And this Chick fil A is drive through, only they
don't have a sit down area. So there's video out
there and the Chick fil A workers are standing around
the stalled way.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Mo.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
It's hazard lights were on and it backed up for
just a moment and then stopped again.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yeah, there's nobody to yell at.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
There's nobody to hontcat can't walk up and shake your
fist at the empty window.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
I'm pretty sure the passenger also can't. Like right, Yeah,
I don't know. They said that it wasn't clear. You know,
if you're going to do a news report a bunch
of answer. The first question everyone would have was there
a passenger in the back seat. It's but if they're right,
it's unclear if anyone who was inside the vehicle, it's
(29:53):
unclear service.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
There's nobody.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
It's automatically gonna the window is going to go down
so that somebody can put.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
In the food.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, and then how do you pay the bill?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, that doesn't make sense, it says, or if the
taxi was directed to the Chick fil A as part
of a fair well, how does that work? But Wabo
confirmed to Channel five the vehicle got stuck and its
team had to recover, had to recover the way moo
(30:28):
from Chick fil A. Nobody else has explained it. This
is this particular thing has never happened before, No one has,
No Wabo's ever gotten stuck.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
So what did they do? They had to tow it?
Not clear?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I don't and it's not clear. It's a crappy report.
Channel five really could do better. What I mean, we
don't know how they eventually moved it, and we don't
know how it got there, and we don't know if there's.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
A person inside.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
And they took what There was only one line worthwhile
that the waimol got stuck in the Chick fil A line.
Then they added six seven more paragraphs and told us
nothing useful. The state of journalism here in Los Angeles
when we come back. Jake Steinfeld, you may know him
as Body by Jake. He's got a fitness empire. He
(31:20):
lost everything in the Palisades fire. He's gonna talk about that.
It's quite a story, and he's thinking of running for
governor in twenty twenty six, so that is next. Jake
Steinfeld on Oh we got debor Mark.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Look at that.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Oh wow, we're still here. I'm still here.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
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