April 11, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (04/11) - Neil Saavedra fills in for John. LA City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez comes on the show to talk about the homeless problem in LA. Steve Soboroff is leaving his post as the head of the fire recovery efforts. A judge has ruled that Mahmoud Khalil can be deported.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't f I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
John Cobolt Show. Neil Savadra here, John is out today.
So much going on in city, in the city there
at City Hall, and none of it seems very good.
I have Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez from the seventh District with us.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Hi, Monica, Hi, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I am well, how are you?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I'm hanging in there.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Yeah, it seems a bit like a well. I can't
say the first word, but the second word is show.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
So yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I had a distinct memory, and I don't know if
it was back last year or before, of you coming
out to not a whole lot of fanfare saying something
doesn't smell right with the money that's going to the homeless,
and you were having problems tracking down it's whereabouts or accounting?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
That is correct? It's why About a year, a little
over a year ago, I introduced the first motion on
the city Council to create a department on homelessness, and
it's been a year. I'm hopeful that the report will
be released soon, but it actually long preceded even the
county making the move, but it just you know, there
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hasn't been a lot of data coming with the amount
of money that has been spent, and now we have
two audits that reflected that, and that has been a
big problem. I've searched on the Committee on Homelessness for
several years and have watched multiple changes in leadership at
the top of LASA, and I saw some incremental improvements
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around the last couple of leadership changes, but this recently
it's only gotten worse. We've gotten less outcomes associated with
the money that is being put forward by IT, and
there's been sadly a lot of co mingling of resources,
both by the operations that are being led out of
the Mayor's office along with what's been spent by LASSA.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
How did how does this happen? Well? How? Hey?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Where would it normally? Where would the checks and balances be?
Would it a treasury treasurer who is supposed to be
Is there a book somewhere, a digital book that's like, hey,
pull up those numbers right now?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Right?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
So so LASA, just so, because I know a lot
of folks don't really understand. LASA essentially was the regional clearinghouse.
If you will of where to place people in the housing.
After Measure H and UH it was passed, which was
a county measure, they got a ton of money to
start expanding all the outreach efforts that would have been
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related to the county. In fact, one of the initial
audits reflected how they a lot of the service providers
took advances from that money without any contracts or any
stated goals associated with that work, and that was LASA
actively doing that. I will also note that the current
CEO of LASA right now was also leading one of
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the agencies that received two million dollars of that front
funding and didn't return that money. So there's a lot
of deflection around that in terms of what people knew
or didn't know. She was leading one of the nonprofit
organizations that received money and never paid it back and
received it without any contracts. Now, the City of Los
Angeles also manages its own series of outreach contracts and services,
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and in addition to that, has provided money to LASA. Now,
when we would ask LASA or the service providers show
me your work, they would hide behind HIPPA rules. They
would hide behind every excuse because they many of these
service providers are holding down multiple contracts from multiple sources,
so there's a whole lot of gaming going on. That's
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been a really big problem and I've been calling it
out for some time, which is why back in November
I also then when my motion on Department on Homelessness
wasn't getting scheduled and reported back on, I introduced the
motion to say, okay, forget LASA. We're bringing all of
this in house and we're going to manage our own
contracts because as a manager of the contracts on our behalf,
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they're not giving us the data. So I said, let's
take our money out. I'm tired of this now. That
doesn't stop what the Mayor has been doing, which is
also leveraging LASA for her inside safe initiatives. So basically
what I'm telling you is who's in charge LASA. Too
many people are in charge, which sadly means no one's
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in charge, and that has been the failure that everyone
has enabled by continuing to provide them money, and that
when they see the failures to perform, no one is
willing to cut bait. In fact, what I've seen is
colleagues and the Mayor now defend protecting this institution of
LASSA and becoming an apologist for the failures rather than
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correcting it. And that's a really big problem.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Reacting to things is a powerful statement of who you are,
or in this case, the powers that be at city Hall.
I eat a mayor, and to brush this under or
to find a way to defend it to me as unconsortable.
I'm curious, and we're going to go up against a
break here in a second. I'm going to ask you
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to stick around for one more segment if you can,
but we come back. I want to know what you
were met with a year or so ago when you
brought this to the table, because it seems like a
very like people are on board right now, but I
remember that it didn't seem that way. So when we
come back, I'd like to hear how you were met
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in city Hall when you said, hey, something doesn't smell
right with where the money going for the homeless here
in Los Angeles. My guest right now is council Member
Monica Rodriguez seventh District. We'll be back with more, so
go no where. Neil Savedra happy to be here. John
Cobelt is out.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from kf I
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Hey everybody, John Cobelt Show, Neil savedra in happy to
be with you today, and then you've got Tim Conway
Junior coming up at four and then mister mo Kelly
at seven. All right, my guest right now is council
Member Monica Rodriguez from the seventh District. Gosh, year and
change ago, she came out pointing fingers at the lack
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of accountability for the monies that we're going towards.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Homeless issue.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I don't even want to call an issue, it's it's
really a fiasco at this point. We've got this, in
my words, not putting this in anybody else's mouth, but
feral humans or people who need, you know, much help
in circumstance that money. Just throwing money at it, and
certainly throwing money in different directions is going to help
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it out. But Councilwoman Rodriguez, when you came out and said, hey,
you know there's these issues going on, do you get
because you know they're mostly Democrats and stuff like that,
is it like, hey, tow the company line, we're all
together in this, or did people go wow, that's good
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that you said that, or were you ostracized at all?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Oh, I'm definitely. I don't get celebrated for saying the
quiet parts out loud, but I think it's really important
that we have accountability in this. I started an RV
to home pilot, as an example, with a three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars Children Foundation grant. With that money,
we removed two We were disposed of one hundred and
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eight RVs and housed two hundred and eight individuals that
we're living in those RVs, just in my district alone.
And I had colleagues who attempted to replicate it. Some
one individual, for example, who's no longer on the council,
he attempted to transfer two million dollars to the agency
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that was previously led by miss Adams, the Felicia ad
doctor Adams Kellum, who is now the head of LASA,
for two million dollars without specifics. So I stopped that
money from getting transferred back in twenty twenty gosh, I
think it was twenty two. And that is an example
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of you know, everyone just thinks that, oh, okay, well
we can just copy it, or we can do these
things you know, you have to work with very clear
outcomes goals, how you're going to do this so that
you have accountability. And it's amazing to me how many
times people have just attempted to send out millions of
dollars to nonprofits to different agencies without any understanding of
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how to actually do it on the street. And so, yes,
I don't get celebrated for seeing those things out loud,
because there's definitely an environment where a lot of people
are making money. There's clearly a lot of employment opportunities
that are happening. You've seen exorbitant salaries that are getting
paid out, and I just I, you know, I have
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zero tolerance for that. So I have been calling it
out for some time. But yes, it's I don't get
rewarded for doing so.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
That's a very nice way of saying it.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
People think you're mouthybroad my guess.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
My words, not yourself.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Council Member Monica Rodriguez with me from the seventh district.
You had mentioned that cities that you thought were doing
it right were Glendale and Long Beach. What do you
think they're doing right? That LA is missing?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
So what LA and Long Beach have a lot of
the smaller cities, they have their own what they call
coeoc's continuum of care. What they do is they are
able to do their own housing replacements. They have a
standard number of shelters, and they when they have those
available thresholds to place individuals and can provide those services.
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They're also able to legally, in some cases in force
some of the anti camping laws. Los Angeles still has
not done that. In fact, you saw a lot of
the individuals that were recently elected to the council, including
the mayor, they didn't want to they said publicly they
did not want to quote unquote criminalize or lead with
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quote unquote what they called sweeps. No one was trying
to criminalize it. People were just trying to make sure
that there was a rational approach. So for example, I
just introduced emotion after I clear an encampment, after I
go through the house, you know, the process of housing
people and then disposing of the RV. I'm not trying
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to roll out the red carpet for new repopulations. So
I want to be able to reasonably enforce any prohibitions
from repopulation and new encampments. It's going to be interesting
to see I just introduced this motion on Wednesday. It's
going to be interesting to see how long it takes
for it to get scheduled in my colleague, council Woman
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Ramon's committee, because, for example, just as I had introduced
that motion about separating using LASA to provide the contracts
for the outreach, she literally took four months before she
scheduled it in her committee. So ironically, there is a
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lot of slow walking, and you'll notice that a lot
of those same individuals are among those that are defending
this broken system or suggesting that there's progress, which audits
have reflected there's no progress. We're not seeing it.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah, we're seeing seeing a breakdown.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Sorry, we're seeing the breakdown or today with the fire
stuff as well, that they're you know, correct systems are
not you know, I was told a long time ago
you can put a label on a can, it doesn't
mean anything's in the can. And oftentimes we have these
really fun names inside safe and all these different things
and groups and organizations and they're not doing dick.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So my words, not yours. Sorry, So yeah, it just
seems that way.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
We have just a couple of minutes, and I know
this is a huge question to ask in a couple
of minutes. But if you were mayor, God, we can
only hope if you were mayor.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
What are what what are a couple?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
What are three things that you think are most important
about really making a dent in the hopeless situation in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Well, this idea that everything is about building permanent support
of housing is actually not the way to do this.
We can place housing that is for interim shelter that
can put get people off the street quickly. Now the
way inside Safe is operated, it's cost prohibitive because it's
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you know, the mayor's paying seventeen thousand dollars a month
for one person, with all the services, with all the housing,
with all the costs baked in on that, which is
I think absolutely obscene, and I have called it out
many many times. So I think that's number one. I
think we have to have reasonable expectations for protecting public space,
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whether it's part sidewalks, you know, you can't be allowed.
In fact, we've been given some of the tools to
do that. Unfortunately, there's still a lot of apprehension from
certain colleagues to do what many other cities are doing
around the county. And yet no one's questioning them. I
think we have to have one standard understanding about how
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we offer help, how we place people, the making sure
that people get placed in the appropriate setting given whatever
the acuity levels or conditions or needs they are. We
have to also have that collaboration with the county. The
county needs to ensure that they're helping to avail the
beds for those with severe mental illness and substance use disorder.
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And we've got to get those folks off the street.
But that is inherent to having safer streets in Los Angeles,
to having people feel just safe in their own neighborhoods,
because right now that's not what people are feeling, and
we have to really be aggressive and changing that.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Well said, I will tell you what my wife and
I have called. We're on the eastern side of Los Angeles,
have called to deal with homeless situation before, and we're
constantly told, you know, being homeless is not illegal all now,
but crapping and pissing on you know, people's doorsteps and
stuff is.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
It's like, sir, I don't like your tone. I don't
like poop on my doorsteps. So I guess we're both
going to leave today not very thrilled, but all right.
I appreciate your time, of course. That is council Woman
Monica Rodriguez from the seventh District. I appreciate your using
reason on all of this stuff. It seems like a
lost cause at times, but good to know that you're
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there at least sounding the alarm. So I will let
you off to the rest of your day and have
a good weekend.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Thank you, true take care.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
All righty, We'll be back with more. So go nowhere.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Neil Svader here, John Cobalt is out. You've got Tim
Comway Junior coming up at four, So go no where.
More issues coming out of city Hall, I said earlier.
You drive through LA with your windows down, you can
smell city Hall. It stinks so bad there. There is
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so mismanagement, so much mismanagement right now and chaos that
it can be nothing but rolling up hill to the
foot of the Mayor.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I have called it like I see it.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
There were times where I praised her for some of
the homeless issues in my neighborhood on the eastern side
of Los Angeles and how I saw it, some of
it dip and get cleaned up and stay cleaned for
longer than I had seen in the past. You know,
the gar cities that popped up everywhere under Eric Garcetti
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were horrific, I mean towns, and I live in the
middle of it. You know, I'm not in some place
where are you know, not far from downtown. And we
lived in the middle of it, Which is the choice
you make when you want to live, you know, with
different people, have diversity in your neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You know, to have.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Be close to the arts district and these things that
I find to be important, music districts and the arts
and the like. But more and more red flags. I mean,
if what's going on with our mayor right now, we're
a dating app, I wouldn't date. The red flags are
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just popping up right and left, and we keep doing
this to ourselves. We look at a man like Rick Caruso,
and in just to be open, I voted for him.
But I'm the type of person that I don't ever
vote against my city, I don't vote against my country.
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Whoever ends up being in that seat of power, I
root for them. I put my vote in in hopes
of getting someone that is closer to the way I
think or thinks she things should be done at the time.
Sometimes that's a Democrat, sometimes that's a Republican. I do
not sit on either side. I refuse to. I think
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when you have a two party system, we get broken
up and we assume one's right and one's wrong. It's
just human nature to do those things, and that's that
is bad thinking. So now we're looking at you know,
people that didn't look at Rick Caruso. All they heard was,
you know, former Republican, which I'm going to start referring
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to President Donald Trump as former Democrat because he was.
And then that's gonna, you know, piss off one side.
So anyways, all this to say that we continue to
see red flags, including you have the fire recoveries. Are
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Steve Soberoff.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Leaving?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I mean, this was this was the signal, This was
the he can of getting stuff done right. This was
someone that was trusted, someone that has been seen around town,
part of that area, a long time civic leader, someone
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who's as a penchant for speaking his mind, doesn't suffer
stuffed shirts, red tape, garbage protocols, and most of us.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Look, hey, that's a good choice.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I mean, there was garbage about being paid half a
million dollars. He comes out and says, okay, I will
do it for free. We can't even get free right
in Los Angeles. On one hand, we're misusing money, can't
figure out where it's going to on the homeless, and
then with the fires, we can't even get somebody who's
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willing to do it for free because apparently they don't
mix properly. He was tasked with creating a comprehensive strategy
for rebuilding, That's what we were told, and then you
know what ended up happening. His role kind of diminished.
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He came out and said they haven't asked him to
do anything in a month and a half. Nothing, And
even you know, before that, there was exclusion from inner
circle meetings with Bass and her people within just a
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couple of weeks of him being you know, appointed, even
her decision to reopen the Palisades, which was and has
been a mess. And then her office comes out and
makes some weird comment about how he you know, how
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they appreciate him and his work, but then a backhanded
compliment about something of you know, he sent confusing emails
to people and the homeowners and the like and all
of this. So more and more and more we're seeing
that at best, out of the mayor's office there's chaos
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and not even any The thing that blows me away
the most is the lack of transparency or the lack
of ownership to be able to feel comfortable in a
position like that, to not have the buck stop with
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you says more than anything any propaganda, any press conference,
anything clever that can be written, tweets, whatever it is.
It says more about who Bass is as a leader
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by her not coming out and say, and we're supposed
to bring the Olympics and everything else out here, they
better start knitting the world's largest rug for them to
brush all of this garbage underneath, because there is no
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time to actually do anything about it. Not the way
we continue to do this. And then you look at
someone like Rick Caruso, who's not only spent his own money,
spended Listen to my eight year old too much? How
much did we spend it on that who spent his
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own money on running for mayor? But this is someone
who puts his own money into building That guy could
live anywhere and chooses to stay here in southern California
and put his money into Los Angeles and beyond, and
we don't And then somebody that would spend their money
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or our money, I don't even know, do we know
what money was used for her to go to Donna
the mayor?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
And we continue to make.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
The same mistakes over and over again, and then wonder
why it's we have garbage to show for it. At
some point it's on us, I guess. All right, stick around,
Neil Savedra, John's out.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Neil Savandra here, John cobelt is out. You've got Tim
Conway Junior coming up at four, and then of course
Mo Kelly and his new YouTube channel as well.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Check that out.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You can see him because he's one of the very
few people worth looking at in radio. You don't want
to see.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I am gonna put John on there. No, no, not,
I'm offended. Yeah, bra No, I was. I was taught.
I'm thinking about the you know, fine behind the mic.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Here, Yeah, okay, all right you Shannon ballyo Ali is okay,
it's not gonna talk about you talking about people like
me and Cobalt handle, got it.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I don't want to see all that.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I think people want to see all of us.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
What do you mean naked? Oh I'm sure that's not
gonna happen. Duke looked straight up. Wait what what? What?
I don't want any part of this conversation.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, your big babies on a Friday, like
a little nudity is going to be a problem around here. Sheesh,
cru exactly what are you saying?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I'm boring?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Oh see, I can play that game too, little damsel
and distress over here.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Oh what, I'm not fun.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I'm not heaving enough.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I'm borrying.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
I'm I'm not raging against the machine.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I don't have John Cobalt money. I have to watch,
you know, heart attacks and stuff.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Not many of us. Do you know?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
He'd have a helicopter pick him up. He'd be straight
to the hospital. Me, I have a heart attack. I'm
dead right here. You can't carry me. I'm dead. Yeah
all right, so I just bitter, go, Judge, ruled the
Columbia activist.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I wanted to say, Mohammed Amud Khalil can be deported,
as you've heard.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
But you know, going through this, and I have.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
If you don't have complicated feelings, then you're thinking about
this just emotionally. Because emotionally, I'm telling you, I'm the
guy that it's like somebody burns the flag. It pisses
me off. It just I have a visceral reaction to something.
Somebody burning the American flag. Does that because I have
some affinity for the color red, white, or blue?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
No?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Does it mean that I have some affinity for the
design of the flag, not particularly other than the pride
that I have for the country I live, and even
more so for the people that are the real deal,
that go and have fought for this country or gone
into the military saying that our country is worth defending.
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But so I you know, I want to balance all
my thoughts and reason to the point where I'm thinking,
how does this affect the bigger picture?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And that means our rules.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
In the Constitution, I mean, how does that affect because
that protects all of it. And we start, you know,
weaseling around for one person. It eventually catches up, and
then somebody you don't vote for is in office, and
then all of a sudden you're going, well, wait, what's happening. However,
there's a point where where I see this convergence, like
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the the unintended consequences of people's beliefs. You know, at
some point point like do I think women should believe
if they make an accusation of rape?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
And these have absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
However they people come out and say women should always
be believed across the board doesn't matter. I'm like, well,
what if you have two lesbians and one says that
one raped her or what like, now they both got
to believe and one says they didn't. And it's like
there's a point where certain I know that's absurd, but
I was making it absurd for a reason, because there's
a point where two things meet. Reminds me of that
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where is that they have the Cape Horn? Cape Horn.
There's a place called Cape Horn. Okay, It's where the
Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean meet. It's a southernmost tip
of South America. The oceans meet, but they don't mix.
They have a hard time mixing temperatures, currents, things like that.
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I'm not a scientis scientist. I'm just saying that there's
this point in fatascinating. It's a great deep dive rabbit
hole if you want to go down. And there's a
point where you hear about a judge ruling against this activist,
Mahmood Khalil and saying that he can be deported and
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pardon me, goes hell yeah, you know, there there's a
point where.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
You can't have.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
People coming here to the United States and this is
this is beyond, this is beyond. Well, you know, women
and children are dying. I get that that's war. War
is ugly. And do I agree with everything that Israel's doing.
Hell no, I you know, I think net Yahoo's nuts. However,
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if somebody is coming here, gets a green Guard and
is protesting that in any way, shape or form, that
lends itself towards a terrorist known terrorist group of these
United States, I have a hard time making an argument
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against that. And then people and the reason why I
make that comment about where the oceans meet the Pacific
and the Atlantic meat and they have a hard time
mixing is because these are the unintended consequences.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
So people jump on a bandwagon and.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Say, if you want to stop immigration or you want
massive iration reform, then you're racist and you're against people
of color, because that's who's mostly trying to come in.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
But then you look at this and you.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Say maybe, because when you do things the wrong way,
and I know this was done the right way, but
when you do things the wrong way, you have a
massive influx of undocumented people. And now the cleaning process
is affecting others as well, the process of trying to
rectify try to, you know, whether you believe it's ugly
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or ham fisted or boorish or any of those things.
Put that aside for a second. Just looking at this logically,
not emotionally, there's a point where there's going to be
unintended consequences. So someone comes here, gets a green card,
falls in love's love, has an American wife, there's still
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leeway you can have that taken away. And so your actions,
if you take the action knowing, hey, I might be
able to be deported on this, then whatever that belief
is that you went out on a limb for means
more than your family here or more than that green.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Card here, And that's okay.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
But in this particular case, we'll have to see if
the you know, legal team for mister Khalil comes up
by April twenty third and kind of files that application
for relief or to stop the deportation. We'll see how
it goes. But we are now in new waters. Why
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because we've let it go on. It doesn't mean you
don't want I think we have to have legal immigration.
We have to We have to bring in new blood
that is excited to be here and not just sitting
fat on success, which is our issue right now. So
that's imperative, and I think it's important to our growth
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and who we are as a country. But man, you
come and you connect yourself with what is a known
terrorist organization organization by the country that you want to
be in, then you're basically picking aside and saying this
is more important to me than my Green card, than
my wife, than my family here, and those consequences are
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going to pay themselves off. Happy to be here, John
cobelt Out, We'll be back with more. This is KFI
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:06):
John Cobolt Show. Neil Savadra here, John is out today.
So much going on in city, in the city there
at City Hall, and none of it seems very good.
I have Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez from the seventh District with us.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Hi, Monica, Hi, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I am well, how are you?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I'm hanging in there.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Yeah, it seems a bit like a well. I can't
say the first word, but the second word is show.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
So yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I had a distinct memory, and I don't know if
it was back last year or before, of you coming
out to not a whole lot of fanfare saying something
doesn't smell right with the money that's going to the homeless,
and you were having problems tracking down it's whereabouts or accounting?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
That is correct? It's why About a year, a little
over a year ago, I introduced the first motion on
the city Council to create a department on homelessness, and
it's been a year. I'm hopeful that the report will
be released soon, but it actually long preceded even the
county making the move, but it just you know, there
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hasn't been a lot of data coming with the amount
of money that has been spent, and now we have
two audits that reflected that, and that has been a
big problem. I've searched on the Committee on Homelessness for
several years and have watched multiple changes in leadership at
the top of LASA, and I saw some incremental improvements
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around the last couple of leadership changes, but this recently
it's only gotten worse. We've gotten less outcomes associated with
the money that is being put forward by IT, and
there's been sadly a lot of co mingling of resources,
both by the operations that are being led out of
the Mayor's office along with what's been spent by LASSA.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
How did how does this happen? Well? How? Hey?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Where would it normally? Where would the checks and balances be?
Would it a treasury treasurer who is supposed to be
Is there a book somewhere, a digital book that's like, hey,
pull up those numbers right now?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Right?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
So so LASA, just so, because I know a lot
of folks don't really understand. LASA essentially was the regional clearinghouse.
If you will of where to place people in the housing.
After Measure H and UH it was passed, which was
a county measure, they got a ton of money to
start expanding all the outreach efforts that would have been
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related to the county. In fact, one of the initial
audits reflected how they a lot of the service providers
took advances from that money without any contracts or any
stated goals associated with that work, and that was LASA
actively doing that. I will also note that the current
CEO of LASA right now was also leading one of
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the agencies that received two million dollars of that front
funding and didn't return that money. So there's a lot
of deflection around that in terms of what people knew
or didn't know. She was leading one of the nonprofit
organizations that received money and never paid it back and
received it without any contracts. Now, the City of Los
Angeles also manages its own series of outreach contracts and services,
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and in addition to that, has provided money to LASA. Now,
when we would ask LASA or the service providers show
me your work, they would hide behind HIPPA rules. They
would hide behind every excuse because they many of these
service providers are holding down multiple contracts from multiple sources,
so there's a whole lot of gaming going on. That's
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been a really big problem and I've been calling it
out for some time, which is why back in November
I also then when my motion on Department on Homelessness
wasn't getting scheduled and reported back on, I introduced the
motion to say, okay, forget LASA. We're bringing all of
this in house and we're going to manage our own
contracts because as a manager of the contracts on our behalf,
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they're not giving us the data. So I said, let's
take our money out. I'm tired of this now. That
doesn't stop what the Mayor has been doing, which is
also leveraging LASA for her inside safe initiatives. So basically
what I'm telling you is who's in charge LASA. Too
many people are in charge, which sadly means no one's
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in charge, and that has been the failure that everyone
has enabled by continuing to provide them money, and that
when they see the failures to perform, no one is
willing to cut bait. In fact, what I've seen is
colleagues and the Mayor now defend protecting this institution of
LASSA and becoming an apologist for the failures rather than
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correcting it. And that's a really big problem.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Reacting to things is a powerful statement of who you are,
or in this case, the powers that be at city Hall.
I eat a mayor, and to brush this under or
to find a way to defend it to me as unconsortable.
I'm curious, and we're going to go up against a
break here in a second. I'm going to ask you
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to stick around for one more segment if you can,
but we come back. I want to know what you
were met with a year or so ago when you
brought this to the table, because it seems like a
very like people are on board right now, but I
remember that it didn't seem that way. So when we
come back, I'd like to hear how you were met
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in city Hall when you said, hey, something doesn't smell
right with where the money going for the homeless here
in Los Angeles. My guest right now is council Member
Monica Rodriguez seventh District. We'll be back with more, so
go no where. Neil Savedra happy to be here. John
Cobelt is out.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from kf I
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Hey everybody, John Cobelt Show, Neil savedra in happy to
be with you today, and then you've got Tim Conway
Junior coming up at four and then mister mo Kelly
at seven. All right, my guest right now is council
Member Monica Rodriguez from the seventh District. Gosh, year and
change ago, she came out pointing fingers at the lack
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of accountability for the monies that we're going towards.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Homeless issue.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I don't even want to call an issue, it's it's
really a fiasco at this point. We've got this, in
my words, not putting this in anybody else's mouth, but
feral humans or people who need, you know, much help
in circumstance that money. Just throwing money at it, and
certainly throwing money in different directions is going to help
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it out. But Councilwoman Rodriguez, when you came out and said, hey,
you know there's these issues going on, do you get
because you know they're mostly Democrats and stuff like that,
is it like, hey, tow the company line, we're all
together in this, or did people go wow, that's good
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that you said that, or were you ostracized at all?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Oh, I'm definitely. I don't get celebrated for saying the
quiet parts out loud, but I think it's really important
that we have accountability in this. I started an RV
to home pilot, as an example, with a three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars Children Foundation grant. With that money,
we removed two We were disposed of one hundred and
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eight RVs and housed two hundred and eight individuals that
we're living in those RVs, just in my district alone.
And I had colleagues who attempted to replicate it. Some
one individual, for example, who's no longer on the council,
he attempted to transfer two million dollars to the agency
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that was previously led by miss Adams, the Felicia ad
doctor Adams Kellum, who is now the head of LASA,
for two million dollars without specifics. So I stopped that
money from getting transferred back in twenty twenty gosh, I
think it was twenty two. And that is an example
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of you know, everyone just thinks that, oh, okay, well
we can just copy it, or we can do these
things you know, you have to work with very clear
outcomes goals, how you're going to do this so that
you have accountability. And it's amazing to me how many
times people have just attempted to send out millions of
dollars to nonprofits to different agencies without any understanding of
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how to actually do it on the street. And so, yes,
I don't get celebrated for seeing those things out loud,
because there's definitely an environment where a lot of people
are making money. There's clearly a lot of employment opportunities
that are happening. You've seen exorbitant salaries that are getting
paid out, and I just I, you know, I have
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zero tolerance for that. So I have been calling it
out for some time. But yes, it's I don't get
rewarded for doing so.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
That's a very nice way of saying it.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
People think you're mouthybroad my guess.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
My words, not yourself.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Council Member Monica Rodriguez with me from the seventh district.
You had mentioned that cities that you thought were doing
it right were Glendale and Long Beach. What do you
think they're doing right? That LA is missing?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
So what LA and Long Beach have a lot of
the smaller cities, they have their own what they call
coeoc's continuum of care. What they do is they are
able to do their own housing replacements. They have a
standard number of shelters, and they when they have those
available thresholds to place individuals and can provide those services.
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They're also able to legally, in some cases in force
some of the anti camping laws. Los Angeles still has
not done that. In fact, you saw a lot of
the individuals that were recently elected to the council, including
the mayor, they didn't want to they said publicly they
did not want to quote unquote criminalize or lead with
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quote unquote what they called sweeps. No one was trying
to criminalize it. People were just trying to make sure
that there was a rational approach. So for example, I
just introduced emotion after I clear an encampment, after I
go through the house, you know, the process of housing
people and then disposing of the RV. I'm not trying
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to roll out the red carpet for new repopulations. So
I want to be able to reasonably enforce any prohibitions
from repopulation and new encampments. It's going to be interesting
to see I just introduced this motion on Wednesday. It's
going to be interesting to see how long it takes
for it to get scheduled in my colleague, council Woman
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Ramon's committee, because, for example, just as I had introduced
that motion about separating using LASA to provide the contracts
for the outreach, she literally took four months before she
scheduled it in her committee. So ironically, there is a
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lot of slow walking, and you'll notice that a lot
of those same individuals are among those that are defending
this broken system or suggesting that there's progress, which audits
have reflected there's no progress. We're not seeing it.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah, we're seeing seeing a breakdown.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Sorry, we're seeing the breakdown or today with the fire
stuff as well, that they're you know, correct systems are
not you know, I was told a long time ago
you can put a label on a can, it doesn't
mean anything's in the can. And oftentimes we have these
really fun names inside safe and all these different things
and groups and organizations and they're not doing dick.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So my words, not yours. Sorry, So yeah, it just
seems that way.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
We have just a couple of minutes, and I know
this is a huge question to ask in a couple
of minutes. But if you were mayor, God, we can
only hope if you were mayor.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
What are what what are a couple?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
What are three things that you think are most important
about really making a dent in the hopeless situation in
Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Well, this idea that everything is about building permanent support
of housing is actually not the way to do this.
We can place housing that is for interim shelter that
can put get people off the street quickly. Now the
way inside Safe is operated, it's cost prohibitive because it's
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you know, the mayor's paying seventeen thousand dollars a month
for one person, with all the services, with all the housing,
with all the costs baked in on that, which is
I think absolutely obscene, and I have called it out
many many times. So I think that's number one. I
think we have to have reasonable expectations for protecting public space,
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whether it's part sidewalks, you know, you can't be allowed.
In fact, we've been given some of the tools to
do that. Unfortunately, there's still a lot of apprehension from
certain colleagues to do what many other cities are doing
around the county. And yet no one's questioning them. I
think we have to have one standard understanding about how
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we offer help, how we place people, the making sure
that people get placed in the appropriate setting given whatever
the acuity levels or conditions or needs they are. We
have to also have that collaboration with the county. The
county needs to ensure that they're helping to avail the
beds for those with severe mental illness and substance use disorder.
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And we've got to get those folks off the street.
But that is inherent to having safer streets in Los Angeles,
to having people feel just safe in their own neighborhoods,
because right now that's not what people are feeling, and
we have to really be aggressive and changing that.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Well said, I will tell you what my wife and
I have called. We're on the eastern side of Los Angeles,
have called to deal with homeless situation before, and we're
constantly told, you know, being homeless is not illegal all now,
but crapping and pissing on you know, people's doorsteps and
stuff is.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
It's like, sir, I don't like your tone. I don't
like poop on my doorsteps. So I guess we're both
going to leave today not very thrilled, but all right.
I appreciate your time, of course. That is council Woman
Monica Rodriguez from the seventh District. I appreciate your using
reason on all of this stuff. It seems like a
lost cause at times, but good to know that you're
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there at least sounding the alarm. So I will let
you off to the rest of your day and have
a good weekend.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Thank you, true take care.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
All righty, We'll be back with more. So go nowhere.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Neil Svader here, John Cobalt is out. You've got Tim
Comway Junior coming up at four, So go no where.
More issues coming out of city Hall, I said earlier.
You drive through LA with your windows down, you can
smell city Hall. It stinks so bad there. There is
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so mismanagement, so much mismanagement right now and chaos that
it can be nothing but rolling up hill to the
foot of the Mayor.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I have called it like I see it.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
There were times where I praised her for some of
the homeless issues in my neighborhood on the eastern side
of Los Angeles and how I saw it, some of
it dip and get cleaned up and stay cleaned for
longer than I had seen in the past. You know,
the gar cities that popped up everywhere under Eric Garcetti
(16:39):
were horrific, I mean towns, and I live in the
middle of it. You know, I'm not in some place
where are you know, not far from downtown. And we
lived in the middle of it, Which is the choice
you make when you want to live, you know, with
different people, have diversity in your neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You know, to have.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Be close to the arts district and these things that
I find to be important, music districts and the arts
and the like. But more and more red flags. I mean,
if what's going on with our mayor right now, we're
a dating app, I wouldn't date. The red flags are
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just popping up right and left, and we keep doing
this to ourselves. We look at a man like Rick Caruso,
and in just to be open, I voted for him.
But I'm the type of person that I don't ever
vote against my city, I don't vote against my country.
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Whoever ends up being in that seat of power, I
root for them. I put my vote in in hopes
of getting someone that is closer to the way I
think or thinks she things should be done at the time.
Sometimes that's a Democrat, sometimes that's a Republican. I do
not sit on either side. I refuse to. I think
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when you have a two party system, we get broken
up and we assume one's right and one's wrong. It's
just human nature to do those things, and that's that
is bad thinking. So now we're looking at you know,
people that didn't look at Rick Caruso. All they heard was,
you know, former Republican, which I'm going to start referring
(18:31):
to President Donald Trump as former Democrat because he was.
And then that's gonna, you know, piss off one side.
So anyways, all this to say that we continue to
see red flags, including you have the fire recoveries. Are
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Steve Soberoff.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Leaving?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I mean, this was this was the signal, This was
the he can of getting stuff done right. This was
someone that was trusted, someone that has been seen around town,
part of that area, a long time civic leader, someone
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who's as a penchant for speaking his mind, doesn't suffer
stuffed shirts, red tape, garbage protocols, and most of us.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Look, hey, that's a good choice.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I mean, there was garbage about being paid half a
million dollars. He comes out and says, okay, I will
do it for free. We can't even get free right
in Los Angeles. On one hand, we're misusing money, can't
figure out where it's going to on the homeless, and
then with the fires, we can't even get somebody who's
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willing to do it for free because apparently they don't
mix properly. He was tasked with creating a comprehensive strategy
for rebuilding, That's what we were told, and then you
know what ended up happening. His role kind of diminished.
(20:16):
He came out and said they haven't asked him to
do anything in a month and a half. Nothing, And
even you know, before that, there was exclusion from inner
circle meetings with Bass and her people within just a
(20:37):
couple of weeks of him being you know, appointed, even
her decision to reopen the Palisades, which was and has
been a mess. And then her office comes out and
makes some weird comment about how he you know, how
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they appreciate him and his work, but then a backhanded
compliment about something of you know, he sent confusing emails
to people and the homeowners and the like and all
of this. So more and more and more we're seeing
that at best, out of the mayor's office there's chaos
(21:24):
and not even any The thing that blows me away
the most is the lack of transparency or the lack
of ownership to be able to feel comfortable in a
position like that, to not have the buck stop with
(21:46):
you says more than anything any propaganda, any press conference,
anything clever that can be written, tweets, whatever it is.
It says more about who Bass is as a leader
(22:06):
by her not coming out and say, and we're supposed
to bring the Olympics and everything else out here, they
better start knitting the world's largest rug for them to
brush all of this garbage underneath, because there is no
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time to actually do anything about it. Not the way
we continue to do this. And then you look at
someone like Rick Caruso, who's not only spent his own money,
spended Listen to my eight year old too much? How
much did we spend it on that who spent his
(22:46):
own money on running for mayor? But this is someone
who puts his own money into building That guy could
live anywhere and chooses to stay here in southern California
and put his money into Los Angeles and beyond, and
we don't And then somebody that would spend their money
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or our money, I don't even know, do we know
what money was used for her to go to Donna
the mayor?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
And we continue to make.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
The same mistakes over and over again, and then wonder
why it's we have garbage to show for it. At
some point it's on us, I guess. All right, stick around,
Neil Savedra, John's out.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Neil Savandra here, John cobelt is out. You've got Tim
Conway Junior coming up at four, and then of course
Mo Kelly and his new YouTube channel as well.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Check that out.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
You can see him because he's one of the very
few people worth looking at in radio. You don't want
to see.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I am gonna put John on there. No, no, not,
I'm offended. Yeah, bra No, I was. I was taught.
I'm thinking about the you know, fine behind the mic.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Here, Yeah, okay, all right you Shannon ballyo Ali is okay,
it's not gonna talk about you talking about people like
me and Cobalt handle, got it.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I don't want to see all that.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I think people want to see all of us.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
What do you mean naked? Oh I'm sure that's not
gonna happen. Duke looked straight up. Wait what what? What?
I don't want any part of this conversation.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, your big babies on a Friday, like
a little nudity is going to be a problem around here. Sheesh,
cru exactly what are you saying?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I'm boring?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Oh see, I can play that game too, little damsel
and distress over here.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Oh what, I'm not fun.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I'm not heaving enough.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I'm borrying.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
I'm I'm not raging against the machine.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I don't have John Cobalt money. I have to watch,
you know, heart attacks and stuff.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Not many of us. Do you know?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
He'd have a helicopter pick him up. He'd be straight
to the hospital. Me, I have a heart attack. I'm
dead right here. You can't carry me. I'm dead. Yeah
all right, so I just bitter, go, Judge, ruled the
Columbia activist.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I wanted to say, Mohammed Amud Khalil can be deported,
as you've heard.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
But you know, going through this, and I have.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
If you don't have complicated feelings, then you're thinking about
this just emotionally. Because emotionally, I'm telling you, I'm the
guy that it's like somebody burns the flag. It pisses
me off. It just I have a visceral reaction to something.
Somebody burning the American flag. Does that because I have
some affinity for the color red, white, or blue?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
No?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Does it mean that I have some affinity for the
design of the flag, not particularly other than the pride
that I have for the country I live, and even
more so for the people that are the real deal,
that go and have fought for this country or gone
into the military saying that our country is worth defending.
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But so I you know, I want to balance all
my thoughts and reason to the point where I'm thinking,
how does this affect the bigger picture?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And that means our rules.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
In the Constitution, I mean, how does that affect because
that protects all of it. And we start, you know,
weaseling around for one person. It eventually catches up, and
then somebody you don't vote for is in office, and
then all of a sudden you're going, well, wait, what's happening. However,
there's a point where where I see this convergence, like
(26:53):
the the unintended consequences of people's beliefs. You know, at
some point point like do I think women should believe
if they make an accusation of rape?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
And these have absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
However they people come out and say women should always
be believed across the board doesn't matter. I'm like, well,
what if you have two lesbians and one says that
one raped her or what like, now they both got
to believe and one says they didn't. And it's like
there's a point where certain I know that's absurd, but
I was making it absurd for a reason, because there's
a point where two things meet. Reminds me of that
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where is that they have the Cape Horn? Cape Horn.
There's a place called Cape Horn. Okay, It's where the
Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean meet. It's a southernmost tip
of South America. The oceans meet, but they don't mix.
They have a hard time mixing temperatures, currents, things like that.
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I'm not a scientis scientist. I'm just saying that there's
this point in fatascinating. It's a great deep dive rabbit
hole if you want to go down. And there's a
point where you hear about a judge ruling against this activist,
Mahmood Khalil and saying that he can be deported and
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pardon me, goes hell yeah, you know, there there's a
point where.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
You can't have.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
People coming here to the United States and this is
this is beyond, this is beyond. Well, you know, women
and children are dying. I get that that's war. War
is ugly. And do I agree with everything that Israel's doing.
Hell no, I you know, I think net Yahoo's nuts. However,
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if somebody is coming here, gets a green Guard and
is protesting that in any way, shape or form, that
lends itself towards a terrorist known terrorist group of these
United States, I have a hard time making an argument
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against that. And then people and the reason why I
make that comment about where the oceans meet the Pacific
and the Atlantic meat and they have a hard time
mixing is because these are the unintended consequences.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
So people jump on a bandwagon and.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Say, if you want to stop immigration or you want
massive iration reform, then you're racist and you're against people
of color, because that's who's mostly trying to come in.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
But then you look at this and you.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Say maybe, because when you do things the wrong way,
and I know this was done the right way, but
when you do things the wrong way, you have a
massive influx of undocumented people. And now the cleaning process
is affecting others as well, the process of trying to
rectify try to, you know, whether you believe it's ugly
(30:05):
or ham fisted or boorish or any of those things.
Put that aside for a second. Just looking at this logically,
not emotionally, there's a point where there's going to be
unintended consequences. So someone comes here, gets a green card,
falls in love's love, has an American wife, there's still
(30:25):
leeway you can have that taken away. And so your actions,
if you take the action knowing, hey, I might be
able to be deported on this, then whatever that belief
is that you went out on a limb for means
more than your family here or more than that green.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Card here, And that's okay.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
But in this particular case, we'll have to see if
the you know, legal team for mister Khalil comes up
by April twenty third and kind of files that application
for relief or to stop the deportation. We'll see how
it goes. But we are now in new waters. Why
(31:10):
because we've let it go on. It doesn't mean you
don't want I think we have to have legal immigration.
We have to We have to bring in new blood
that is excited to be here and not just sitting
fat on success, which is our issue right now. So
that's imperative, and I think it's important to our growth
(31:31):
and who we are as a country. But man, you
come and you connect yourself with what is a known
terrorist organization organization by the country that you want to
be in, then you're basically picking aside and saying this
is more important to me than my Green card, than
my wife, than my family here, and those consequences are
(31:56):
going to pay themselves off. Happy to be here, John
cobelt Out, We'll be back with more. This is KFI
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Speaker 2 (32:08):
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