The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (01/08)

Published Jan 9, 2024, 12:12 AM

OC Supervisor Don Wagner comes on the show to talk about the OC animal shelter disaster that needs immediate reform! An 88-year-old woman was shot by an armed private security guard on New Year’s Eve. An update from the Tongue Bath Desk! The campaign to recall the Oakland mayor has begun.  

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You're listening to the John Coblt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on the radio from one until four after four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand and you could listen to what you missed. We're going to talk with Don Wagner about the state of the Orange County Animals Shelter. We got a bad report from an Orange County area State Senator Janet Wynn last week, and ultimately the shelter is everybody has to report to the Orange County Supervisor Board. I want to add something to the Alaska flight story with the door plug that blew out after liftoff in Portland and these people were headed to Ontario. When the National Transportation Safety Board investigators went to get the black box and the cockpit voice record, they found there was no audio. You know why the recording only goes two hours, and after two hours it starts to uh to tape over itself, a record over itself. They only have two hours of recording time in the black box of this Max nine Boweing seven thirty seven plane. Now you have more recording time on your iPhone. How could you have a real jet with only two hours of recording time.

That doesn't seem possible. That's what they're claiming.

So they don't have any voice recording of whatever the pilot was saying along with the control tower. Now I guess the control tower might have a recording some of that. But I looked at this and it's like, how could it says the cockpit voice recorder a black box was erased because it records over itself. Doesn't That doesn't sound possible. Well, Alex Stone's going to be on fair ABC News after three o'clock with more and maybe I'll have more information.

I want to get to Don Wagner.

Now, Don Wagner as Orange County Supervisor, he's been on with us many times. And Janet Wynn, who's a state senator from the area. He wrote, she wrote a piece in the Orange County Register that the Orange County Animal Shelter is an absolute disaster. They spent thirty five million dollars on this place. They've got one hundred and thirty seven employees and a twenty six million dollar budget, and yet she said, and she provided us with photos of dogs and cats with terrible injuries that were untreated. One kitten had half a leg missing, blood gushing from the wound of another dog, skin ripped off the leg of a poodle, and that these dogs and cats would lay there for days, and there's no venarian, there's no treatment, and that most of the time the animal shelter is closed, and it's very difficult to adopt a dog. The pens arev in theces in urine. The dogs are all anxious and crazy, and ultimately it's like, well, who's in charge? And obviously there's layers of the bureaucrats, various agencies, and we'll get to that, but let's go to the top. Let's go to Don Wagner, one of the Orange County supervisors. Don, how are you.

I'm good, John, good to be back with you on a tough subject. That good to have an opportunity to hopefully clear the air a little bit.

Well, Jennet Win. Is Jennet Wyn's account accurate?

Not at all. I am quite disappointed in my friend, the senator, who didn't reach out to me. She didn't reach out to anyone on the board to my knowledge, and more importantly, she didn't reach out to the professionals at the Orange County Animal Care Center to determine whether there was truth or not in the accusations being made by a number of activists. The truth is the shelter is not perfect by no means what anybody say that it is. But the situations she described are to my mind significant overstatements. We do have vet's on service on call at the animal shelter. We spend a lot of that money, that twenty six million is spent making sure that the animals have the care they need. We're not an animal hospital. We do triage for animals that come to us, and they can come to us in horrific conditions. Sometimes there were lawsuits that she talked about. A lawsuit. It's important to know the lawsuit was dismissed in favor of the Orange County Animal Care in its entirety. So while no one claims that it is perfect, I will tell you there is an election coming up, and I think my friend Senator when overstated the situation in the Orange tiny animals.

What's the context of the photos that she sent us the Well, you know, again, there's a cat missing a leg, there's a dog with a gaping wound, and I think he eventually died. And you could see this pool of blood left in his animal gauge, and another had you know, the skin ripped off, and I mean, how did they get these injuries that they came in that way.

I don't have those photos in front of me, and so I can't speak to any in particular. I don't believe Senator Wynn asked for the context of any of them in particular. But the truth is, yes, some of them do come to us in very very terrible situations. They come to us, hopefully not very often from abuse, but that happens out there. Animals that are hit by cars or you know, cats especially sometimes they'll escape the coyote. I do think that that happens. Those come to us and we are left to deal with them. I don't know the prominence of any one of those pictures, but I will assure you if you go through the Orange County Animal Care Shelter, you will not see pets in those conditions. We saved the numbers I was given just today over nine thousand dogs last year alone. And so again without saying everything's perfect there and we're making changes to it, but the story and the photos are not entirely.

With urine and feces are they not.

They they absolutely are not. The pens are deep cleaned, each pen once a day, spot cleaned throughout the day as they see particular issues. But the truth of the matter is, from my understanding and I've been through there, the that the the charges is false.

Well, so you're saying, she came on the air with us, and she wrote this piece for the Orange County Register, and a lot of this is made up. It's fictional. It's in her imagination.

It's not. No, no, no, I would not say that it is in her imagination. I will say that there are a number of activists out there who have different views as to how to run the shelter and the circumstances in the shelter. The truth is somewhere in the middle. I am not accusing her of making it up. I believe she has absolutely gotten reports and gotten pictures. What I don't believe is that those reports and those pictures are representative of the way the Orange County Animal Care Agency runs that shelter. And look our save rate at there now. She talked about a euthanasia rate, and I think her numbers were I know her numbers were wrong. In the industry, it's save rate. The save rate in Orange County is well over ninety percent. Surrounding communities, it's in the eighties. We are doing a better job than some of our surrounding communities. I will not say, though, that the shelter has never had a dog like you might see in those pictures come to us. And I won't say that Janet Senator Wynn is making things up. I absolutely do not believe that she is. I do believe that she would have been better served by getting those reports, contacting us, and actually having the opportunity to investigate herself. The shelter has offered to all of our state legislative delegation because these claims have been out there for a while.

Seen this Orange County.

Yeah, Orange County grand Jury did a report correct and I've read part of it, and they talk about a low staff morale, a lot of vacant positions. The hiring processes are burdensome, the kennel attendance are understaffed. The manual is that a date programs that they started during COVID as yet they have yet to be restarted. And euthanasia, I guess is uh the the the evaluation procedures for dogs undergoing possible euthanasia or without written guidelines, policies or procedures.

And uh, I mean it.

Looks it's not a positive report that the grand jury gave.

Correct and our response is are public as well, and we found significant concerns. I personally found considerent significant concerns with the grand jury report. They came at this, John, and I will tell you this, and I would testify to this in front of that grand jury. They came at this with a agenda. And I know that because there are correspondents between me and the foreman of the grand jury where they were asking us to waive the attorney client privilege so that they could send all of our materials to the attorney they had already contacted, who before seeing any of those materials, had a conclusion that was different than the professional But I just had.

One more question.

You raise the grand jury, and so I'm saying our responses are are there in public, but I am also telling you that we are in Orange County addressing very seriously the concerns that have been raised by the activists that Senator Win is channeling, and where they are accurate, are making improvements. We've now got the shelter open for walkthroughs in the afternoons, five days a week. They've always been open, but we were doing an appointment because that, to be honest with you, is better for the animals, it's better for the volunteers, and it's better for the public because the animals aren't stressed. If you don't have just people running through there constantly, there's less biting, and then they're more then they're better able to be adopted. But we are working with the public to open up.

Don I appreciate you coming on. I'm just I'm just out of time. Thank you for coming on, and we're going to keep on top of this to find out exactly.

What's going on in there. All right, Tom Wager, Orange County Supervisor.

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After three o'clock.

We're going to have Alex Stone from ABC News on to give us more information on that Alaska airplane.

It's they're calling it a door plug. It was.

It was part of the fuselage on the plane, left side of the plane where you could have a security door, but Alaska it was optional. Alaska did not have a door installed there because they had fewer passengers and they weren't required to have one. They didn't need it, so they it comes off the factory with an opening. They plugged that hole at at Boeing and that's it's very common.

Nothing unusual there.

It's just different airlines have different configurations that it need an exit door there. So they put in a plug like a like a fake door, I guess, and that should have held, and it didn't. As the plane took off, the pressurization blew out. And there's there's more and more strange details coming. Apparently pressurization lights were lighting up several times and it concerned Alaska Air enough that they said, okay, we're not going to fly this over the water.

We're not going to go.

Overseas with this plane. It just come off. It just got certified in November, you know, just in case there's trouble. We want to make sure the place the plane has somewhere to land. Can't do that over the water, which is really bizarre. If you're that worried, wouldn't you just ground the thing. Now it turns out United which has similar planes in its fleet. These are the Max eights for the Max nines the larger version of the Max eight. They're finding a lot of loose bolts and nuts and things along the door, or you know, the fake door plug. And then the cockpit recorder is blank because after two hours it records over itself and nobody got to the recorder in time. Well, how could you have only two hours of recording time on a cockpit recorder when it seems you have unlimited recording time on every other digital product that's out there in the world. So I don't get any of this. And it's a brand new plane, all right, it's a twenty twenty three model. All right, we'll get to that. This is a scary story. You know, there's private security guards everywhere now. Lots of neighborhoods pay for private security. Each homeowner throws in some money. Some neighborhoods have multiple security companies because different homeowners pick different companies. Well they On New Year's Eve, an eighty eight year old woman was shot and ended up in the hospital. She was shot by the armed private security guard that was trying to respond to what he thought was a burglary situation. The guard's name is Kayan Siego. They finally arrested him on Sunday, suspicion of negligent discharge of a firearm. So far they're not filing charges. Appears to be an well, not an accident. But he really thought his life was in danger because he responded to the alarm and he saw the eighty eight year old woman through the window, but he didn't know who it was. She was holding a silver object. He thought it was a gun. He thought the lady was a burglar, an armed burglar, so he fired a bullet at her, shot through the window and hit her in the torso. According to his attorney, he didn't have Jacqueline Sparagna. He didn't have a clear view. It was definitely dark. He thought it was a burglar and that the other person had a gun. He's got no criminal record, he's worked in security for more than a decade. And he ran to his car and called for backup. So his attorney said, total accident. But you can't I haven't seen any details as to I guess it was her house where the alarm went off. Happened at eight thirty at night on New Year's Eve, Well, on New Year's Eve. Who knows how many calls they get and how many weird people are wandering around and weird noises. The part they cracked me up, though, is they talked to the neighbors, and nobody seemed to upset that the old lady took the bullet. In fact, a few neighbors said they would continue to pay for private security. I think that the fact that theory is patrol makes it a little better. We constantly hear about burglaries, so it's like, hey, oh, well, you know, you win some, you lose some. We like having private security, all right, So they winged, they wing the old lady. I guess it's clear he didn't mean to do it intentionally, but that's you know, these things happen occasionally where an officer or a security guard see somebody holding something and in that moment they panicked because they don't know if a gun's pointed at them.

All Right, you wind you the tongue bath. I'd love to do it, you'd love to do it.

No, never mind, No, I that didn't sound Yeah. I know you were talking to Eric, and then just kind of came out of.

My mouth talking to me. I don't want a tongue path, not for me, either of you.

Okay, Well, somebody's somebody got a tongue bath, and it would be Kamila Harris and her husband. They got a massive two day tongue bath. From the Los Angeles Times. It is I could go on for an hour. We could all sit in the tub together for an hour. Wait till you hear this when we come back. It's been on the top of their website, the front page, and it's the most extensive pleasure session you'll ever read.

Or here you're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM six forty.

I'm gonna lick you. We have Kevin Newsom, who's doing a great job.

We have Arish I said he you'll get sleep, Covin Deleone, Wendy Krele.

Because it is a team effort.

Governor Pomo has become a national leader of garnering nickname America's governor.

And a very very special thank you to our governor.

No other than Gavin Uselm, because it is this partnership with Joe Biden that makes us come to reality.

You spoke to National Guard troops today and assuring speech that if I wasn't listening carefully, I thought you were sending soldiers off to war.

I'm gonna got to Jimmy Gomez in a second, a.

Good Christian find out.

Hey you, yeah, you, it's time for your tongue bath.

Rub a dub dub. So far, so good. Deborah, you wanted this.

So I did. Yeah, I know. I'm enjoying it.

Little what Los Angeles Times. God, how far it's fallen.

Real It used to be one of the premier newspapers in the country, and now it is just such an embarrassment.

Uh.

They have an article by Courtney sure mammonium and was assigned to uh tail Kamala Harris and her and her husband Douglas m Hooff for a number of days and and write everything down. This is this is like one of these fan magazine profiles. What did they eat, who did they hang out with?

How do they dress? Where do they travel?

Hey, it is so embarrassing considering, uh, the state of the Biden administration. No mention about the good work she did as the borders are like, that's that's.

Nowhere in this story.

This this you don't read this kiss ass kind of stuff in People magazine even uh So, Courtney Supramanian writes, She starts writing about the uh the traffic jam that Kamala Harris creates every time she lands, and she had come to town in mid October to celebrate the marriage of m Hoff's twenty nine year old son, Cole, to his longtime girlfriend Greenley, Greenley and Cole, like nobody has a normal name anymore.

That sounds like a law firm name, Greenley and Cole.

Two days after the wedding, the pair we're talking about, Kamala Harris and Douglas m Hoff, was snacking on guacamole, salsa and chips in a dimly lighted vinyl booth upstairs at one of their favorite Mexican haunts, El Cholo and Santa Monica.

That's it.

That's the story, is that they sat down and had some Mexican food, and m Hoff tells The Times this is the first joint interview that they've given anyone since she took office. It's just really an amazing thing for this town to have a vice president based here.

It's intense.

I'm from this area and I'm like, wow, this is incredible for our neighborhood. This guy is an attorney in his fifties and he sounds like he's fourteen years old. It's intense. I'm like wow. I'm like wow. Well, I don't live far from her, maybe a half mile or so. It's no fun when she comes to town because she has a big motorcade and they shut down Sunset Boulevard and you can't go anywhere, and it creates a lot of traffic. President Harrison's that's the only intense thing apart it is that the normal people can't carry on with their day because these two have landed here. For Harris, the impulse to escape Washington, where she faces Republican scorn and criticism with her own part within her own party. Yeah, because she stinks at her your job, she's the worst vice president since Dan Quayle, and they'd be neck and neck for the championship. Listen to this. Harris's trips home to la are often camouflaged with an event to celebrate a local small business or raise awareness about one of her policy focuses. Policy focus. She doesn't do anything, so she comes home, but she wants to pretend she's not really coming home, so they have some BS photo op news event. But the Brentwood Home has become a sanctuary form of the world's most visible figures. The four bedroom, thirty five hundred square foot house is off limits to reporters, and said one former advisor to Harris, Brian Brokaw, ask anybody who's ever worked in DC, or in Congress or the Senate or at the White House trip from California, it's not easy. It doesn't matter if you're an Air Force two or on a United flight. Oh I do think it does matter.

Yeah, wait, hold on, they got the amenities of air Force too, and I'm stuck in thirty five B going to New York.

How'd you like to be on the Alaskan air flight when the door plug blows out? No, thank you, I don't think that happens on air Force too. But they're surrounded by people who do the whole of the kiss ass thing. Oh it's not easy, Yeah all right? Can I have a ride on Air Force two for a week? See how terrible that is?

Good Lord.

When she's home, she wants to enjoy the comfort and to the extent that she sees a very small and tight circle.

Who the hell want to sit listen to her talk all day? Oh my god?

Now you remember our fake Senator Lafonza Butler who's actually from Maryland. But she used to be an advisor to I bet you've has one hundred people on the street. Who who's our senator? Who's the new senator? One hundred would have no idea. Well, Fonza Butler, this is one of the all time great trivia questions. But they interviewed her, and Butler said, at the end of the day, home is home. The mattress that hugs just right is a different kind of rest. The community that embraced you and trusted you to serve them as the first black woman as Attorney General, then as a US senator, and then there's their vice president. That's meaningful, but she's no good. She stinks at it. Why does their skin color matter? Yeah, visits Home Center on one of Harris's most sacred traditions, Sunday family dinner. Harris begins planning the meal midweek, staging a choreographed spread in which everyone has a role. This is a family sitting down for Sunday dinner. That's all it is. M Hoff is in charge of cocktails. His son Cole curates the music playlist. They they don't just play some music, they curate the music playlist in other words, he turns on his Spotify and his daughter Ella is tasked with making her signature guacamone, not just guacam only, but signature guacamone. Call's new wife. This Greenley takes on responsibility for dessert while the couple hosts a regular rotation of foreign dignitaries, lawmakers, reporters, and administration officials in Washington. Sunday dinner is strictly a private affair for Harris, who has the same core of friends for decades.

And they didn't.

Get into the details on how they clean the dishes at the end of dinner.

They use.

The group cleans up while cooking. They call their method Uncle Freddy, a shorthand for the process she picked up from her uncle Freddy in his tiny kitchen because he didn't have much space, he would clean any utensil as soon as he finished using it. This is but this is the point that this is like the third.

Page of the story, that's just called pre busting. Yeah, anybody who cooks does that.

So by the third page we're finding out the order that they clean their utensils and plates.

Ah yeah yeah uh.

Part two of this, which we will not get into, but It came out today, Fourteen of Kamala Harris and Doug em Hoff's beloved LA spots, And it's a list of all the places they like to eat at, with pictures from most of the places.

Have you been to any of them?

I have?

I mean I'm you know, in the same neighborhood there, including and the headline says, fourteen of their favorite LA spots, including yes, zenk how chicken?

Why is that significant?

Zangu chicken, sank kul, Yeah, z a n kou pretty good, pretty good spot.

It's good chicken. Yeah.

Why does it get in the headline? That's a good question. I didn't know it was headline worthy.

But it's like, oh, including yes zang u chicken.

I'm thinking because it's not expensive. It's one of those inexpensive.

Oh cheap chicken. I don't know if it's.

Cheap chicken, but it's it's not one of your hoity toity West Side restaurants.

It's like a Mediterranean olpoil loco.

I'd never heard of it. You two are up on chicken joints, all right, more coming up.

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On the radio one till four after four o'clock, John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app after three o'clock. This Alaskan air story is really wild. Not only the door plug goes fly off and there's a large sucking sound inside the plane as after they lifted off from Portland headed for Ontario. But now we're finding out that the pressure light and the door plug flying off had.

Something to do with the air pressure.

The pressure light had been going on several times in recent weeks. The plane is new, it was just approved certified in November, and they didn't fix it, but they did decide to restrict the flights of this particular plane to only domestic nothing over an ocean, nothing over water because there weren't shoo. They never fixed anything, but they just didn't want it to end up in a place where they couldn't turn back quickly enough to have an emergency landing. It's really curious stuff on the voice the cockpit voice recorder, nothing on it. It recorded over itself. It only has two hours of space. I believe that two hours of space, and I guess it was a couple hours before they got to the cockpit recorder to retrieve it, and they found it was blank. And now United Airlines is finding all sorts of loose nuts and bolts in there Max Max nine seven thirty seven planes. This is all from Boeing. So there's a bad story there somewhere. We'll get to that. Also, every hour or two, there's more disgusting details coming up in the Epstein case involving Trump and Clint Bill Clinton, along with details about specific sex acts that Trump and Clinton were involved with with the girls. Because apparently one of the girls gave a long detailed story to attorneys. She has since retracted the story. It's it's it's not that she's claiming it didn't happen the way I read it. It's just that she doesn't ever want to talk about it because she'll probably die. You know, she saw what happened. So we'll get to that weird story. But there is you know, it was the It's so detailed that you know it has to be true. That is all I'm saying. A lot of this stuff has to be true. And finally the lid was blown off. What really went on? And everybody can stop play and pretend. But Trump is front and center, not that I think it's gonna matter, but we'll talk about it after three. They're rebelling against the Oakland mayor. I don't know if you know this. Oakland has had some of the worst mayors imaginable. I mean they, I swear it would Oakland mayors make Garcettian Bass look like Mount Rushmore candidates. The place is a complete disaster area. The mayor's name is Sheng Thoo, and a notice of recall was sent by mail to sheng Thou by the retired Alameda County Superior Court judge Brenda Harbin Forte. That's a hyphenate there, Harbin dashed Forte, and she wrote, there have been too many lives that have been lost, too many cars stolen. Too many people have been robbed coming from a bank, followed home. Too many businesses have closed. This mayor has blood on her hands. You lack the competency, credibility, judgment, and ability to lead what was once a great American city. She said that Foul systematically dismantled the Oakland Police Department. Businesses were not leaving Oakland at the pace at this pace before she came into office. We can't pretend there's no correlation between her decisions and what is happening with the city now. The roads are horrible, the streets are so flighty and dirty, said another resident. I think the mayor is incompetent. She has to go. One city councilman said, as he's surprised by the recall because it's going to create more divisions in city hall. What a wiener. His name is Noel Gallup. People are frustrated, they're disappointed. They want immediate action to bring Oakland back to the level where it used to be.

What why is it see you may be saying, why is it so hard?

She's not incompetent. This is what progressives want to do. You're going to see if it's not stopped. Their mission. Their mission, this is what they got in the indoctrination school, is to destroy the American way of life, destroy capitalism, destroy our sense of safety and security, right by destroying the police department, the prison system, the school system. That this they're doing it on purpose, and it's working. They've destroyed San Francisco, they've destroyed Oakland. LA is halfway gone on. I don't know what everybody's waiting for. It's not a conspiracy theory. It's real. They really believe that America is evil and we have to we have to destroy it from the inside out. If you don't think I'm telling you the truth, just wait and see what happens. We told you this five ten years ago. All Right, we're coming up. We're gonna have Alex Stone on to explain what's going on with these with Alaska Air and the Boeing Max nine seven thirty seven airplane and what U dieded is found. It's it's it's quite a story that's developing. Debra Mark Live and the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on KFI Am six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.

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