April 14, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (04/14) - Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King and Katy Perry went to space. El Salvador is not going to send a Maryland man back to the United States. Sasha Pezenik comes on the show to talk about the Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's home being set on fire over the weekend. Steve Soboroff is stepping down as "Recovery Czar".
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Coming up at after one point thirty, we are going
to talk to Sarah Peaznik from ABC News. A bizarre
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story of governor Governor Joshapiro in Pennsylvania. His house broken
into and set on fire. The Governor's mentioned in Pennsylvania
by a guy who wanted to beat him with a hammer.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
When did beating people with hammers become a thing?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
That's what happened to Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's husband a
couple of years ago. Well, this guy, and have you
seen this? Have you seen this picture? The photo of
this whack job? I mean you have to look at
his face. His name is Cody Balmer. He looks like
he climbed out of hell. What a freak. And he
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must have a long record. He's got a weird, odd
shaped narrow head.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
He doesn't look a little creepy.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, weird, Like if you saw that guy walking alone
on the street.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'd go the other way.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Tell me, yeah, fast, all right, he looks like he's
killed people before. Creepy beard, creepy face eyes, the whole bit. Anyway,
we'll talk coming up after one thirty. So yeah, probably
everybody's heard. It's the biggest story of the day that
Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos' wife, Katie Perry, and Gail King
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from CBS. They were part of an all female crew
on Bezos' rocket ship. They went up in space for
eleven seconds eleven minutes, excuse me, and they were in
these really cool looking blue space suits. They looked like
some modern version of Charlie's Angels. You know, they're all posed.
(02:15):
And they went on TV and talked about how they
were going to be in full glam mode. Right, so
they had their hair done and their makeup done, and
this is them talking about it. So The New York
Post decided to speculate on what do you think happened
to Loretta? Loretta Lauren Sanchez's resting plans? Wait, John Botox
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and filler.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
You and I off the air, Remember I mentioned that
last week. I said, yeah, I said something about her chest,
how that's going.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
To work in space?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Oh you did say something, yes, and I was serious.
Do you want to repeat that?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I kind of just paraphrase, but I think everything's okay.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Uh. Well, yeah, that's what the post is wondering, like, well, really,
you know, could they explode? What could what? What kind
of sound would that make? She's had She's reportedly had
breast implants, botox, lip fillers, and a facelift. That that
is a lot of construction work there. So they talked
(03:25):
to an expert, some guy named Gerson and let me
see who this guy is and the uh because they said,
there's so much stress. It's called shearing stress. You're going
about six thousand miles an hour and that causes sheer
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stress and something might shift. Yeah, they talked to a
scientist who studies space travel affects human cells. So when
shearing stress occurs, causes uh, parts of a material to
slide past each other, and that could cause an implant
or lip fillers to uh to shift or burst or something.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
But didn't you don't you think she was warned about that?
Or do you think she doesn't care or she has
so much money. I mean, look, she's with Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
She has so much fun be done.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
But you don't want that to ruin the excitement of
the trip, you know, I wonder women. Yeah, I mean,
well she'd have to ad, wouldn't you ask?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yes, of course I would not. Botox.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Everybody gets botox. No, that's not a big deal. I'm
I was more concerned about the breast implants.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Oh I didn't.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I haven't gotten botox, So it's not everybody, but a
lot of people.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Botox is pretty cool, common, right, I told you I
have had botox before. Yes, yes, Yeah, you didn't tell
me that, Yes I did.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I don't remember that.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Ken was still here many years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I told you, guys, it's a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Then, well I've done it.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You have any now you've done it again?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, I have done it again.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
All it does is prevents it prevents some wrinkles. It's
it's pretty minor compared to what some people.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Do, what Lauren sand just does.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I didn't say her. I'm not calling her out specifically.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Well, they did a study at Yale found that women
with breast implants sometimes experience discomfort when flying at high altitudes.
It's caused by the accumulation of Perry implant gas.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
There's pressure changes.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And you might feel a sensation of tightness or discomfort
in the breasts. But moderate implants are made with cohesive
gels and stronger shells and are less likely to be
affected by this sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Oh, well, there you go. She's fine.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So apparently you know they It didn't explode and nobody
was hurt.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
But those lips, she those lips she hazard natural.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
You know some people like those duck lips. I to
each his own, John, h Yeah, you didn't do that.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
No, I told you. The only thing I have done
is the botox. I don't have dug.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
No, I know you don't. I've long forgotten that you
got the botox.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Now you'll never forget. I know you. It'll be brought
up numerous times.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Well does it make Does it make your your head freeze?
I mean no, it just doesn't affect your thinking process.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Maybe maybe it has I don't.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Could it have linked inside it?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Could it could happen? I get it very minor. I
don't get a lot.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
So that I still have movement in my forehead, right, people, No,
I okay, I'll keep a watch on that thing.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I wish I didn't bring it up.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You you volunteered that one.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah, I know, I'm too honest.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Problem did I know what did we talk about that?
Controlling your Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I know, John, I've been I've been on my best behavior.
I have, I really have.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Uh So anyway, it took eleven minutes, and there's audio
of them coming down and they were all screaming because
I I didn't know this, but you're in a free
fall for a while, to the parachute. Finally, finally, uh,
what's the word for it?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Expands?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
God, I think I got text in my head that's
going on, John, That's yeah, that's a tough word to remember.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Expands.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So so I heard audio of them screaming on the
way down. I had I've spent the I spent the
weekend in North Carolina because one of my sons is
temporarily there and I haven't been there very much. Years ago,
I went on a beach vacation for a week when
I was a team ager, and then he moved out
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there last year, so he had a trip in September.
But this weekend I did a lot, and every minute
or so it hit me what a much better environment
this is than Los Angeles, I mean the southeast cities,
the South and and Texas and Arizona. I mean, everything
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is thriving and expanding.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I sent you a photo of the gas costs.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Oh I paid two ninety nine for gallon of gas,
and the cheapest one that I saw was to eighty seven.
I'm looking at average in California, and now I was
four eighty nine. And to actually fill up your gas
tank at less than three dollars a gallon like puts
you in a whole different mood. And I was reading
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up on Charlotte and it's it's a major city now,
it's the fifteenth largest city by population, and it's got
a major metropolitan area around it, three and a half
million people. And they've got all these corporations that have
moved in. You know, the taxes are much lighter, and
the price for everything. I mean, we went out to
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you know, dinner and lunch, and all the prices are cheaper,
and it's so much more pleasant. I counted walking around
downtown over the course of three days, four days, maybe
maybe five homeless people, and three of them were all
sleeping in the doorway of a church. And then there
were two other randos that I noticed, and that was it.
I mean, it's virtually no homeless and there's two ninety
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nine Gas, and all these corporations have moved there here
with their headquarters, and these are like high paying jobs,
high paying industries, and I think about a Los Angeles.
It just really hit me like this, really, I saw
it with my own eyes. My god, Los Angeles is dying.
California is dying. This is where the action is. Carolina, Well, yeah,
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they have URC.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Well that's the reason I wouldn't live there.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It's always something's.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Acting like he's gonna leave us, and he's gonna go
move on North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
So I'm giving him a reason to stay.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
If you were there for three days, you'd say, wow,
this is a nice place to live. This is a
much better place to live. Don't tempt any It was
so there's no there's no garbage anywhere.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
That's one thing I noticed.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
There's no garbage, and there's no homeless people, and the
sun is shining, and it reminded me of when I
moved to California.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
It's like, wow, this is this looks like a great life.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And Charlotte had tons of restaurants, tons of shopping, and
it's a smaller city so you can navigate it easily.
And there's that two ninety nine gas and I'm thinking,
my god, and I.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Can't you know.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
The thing is in California, people voted for this. They
they went out of the way to vote for this.
That's what's shocking. There's another life out there that is
really great, and it's the life we used to have.
And for some reason, everybody's under hypnosis or they're in
some kind of a cult and they're just forking over
five bucks a gallon and they're stepping over bodies and
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I don't know, I.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Something is really really good.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
You have to get out of LA for a weekend
to realize just how how screwed up things are here.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
All right? More coming up.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Coming up after one point thirty, we're going to talk
with ABC News about the guy who's been arrested accused
of fire bombing the Governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro on passover.
It did extensive damage to fire bombing. It was a
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Molotov cocktail at two o'clock in the morning. His name's
Cody Balmer and he has been arrested on attempted murder charges.
He got inside the governor's mansion and the family was
living on the on the other side of the of
the home, and his plan was to beat Josh shot
beat Josh Shapiro with a hammer. Wild story, and that
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is coming up in just a few minutes. I don't
know if if you've been following this story. It's it's
been going on for weeks.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Trump deported hundreds of illegal aliens who were violent gang members,
many of them from Venezuela Trend Diragua. And also there
were some El Salvador and MS thirteen gang members, and
MS thirteen is an extremely vicious, bloodthirsty set of psychopaths. Well,
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there was one guy that was deported to El Salvador
and he was deported and he should not have been
because proper procedure wasn't followed. And in fact, the administration
admitted that they made an administrative error. I doubt they
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really made an error, but that's what they admitted to.
And so the Supreme Court, the US Supreme Court says
that you've got to bring him back to the country.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
And today Trump held a public.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Appearance with the President of Al Salvador, Naive Bukeley. Now
Bukeley is getting six million dollars a year to run
this well to how'se deported violent illegal aliens in his
Supermac's prison. That's the prison where you've seen the guys.
They're all dressed in tidy whiteies. They're all tattooed from
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the top of their head all the way down to
their toes, and they lay by the hundreds on the
floor and it is it is just the the most constricted,
brutal situation imaginable. But bu Kelly decided to round up
all the gang members and murderers and bad guys in L. Salvador,
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and I think the murderery drop by something like ninety
seven percent. See, this is what you do here in
this country. We had these Venezuela and L. Salvador and
gang members running around killing us. And when Trump finally
sends them out, then you get judges going. You know,
the proper procedures weren't followed, the paperwork was not in order.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
You know, in El Salvador. They just put guys away.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
You're done well, you're a violent gang member, you've killed
people out and I like that way better. I would
much rather live in a country where they they grabbed
murderers off the street put them away for good in
some supermacs prison. I don't care if they get tortured.
I don't care if they get fed. I really don't
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anymore here in this country.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
What do we do.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Remember that woman up in northern California, she went to
see her husband on a conjugal visit. We've got a guy,
a murderer in a California prison, sentenced to life. He
gets some conjugal visits, and what did he do? He
killed his wife. So anyway, the El Salvador president, naib Bukayley,
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he held a press conference with Trump and he said, look,
I have no ability to send this gang member.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Back to the US.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
He goes, I hope you are not suggesting that I
smuggled terrorists into the United States. That's what he said
to reporters. Of course, I'm not going to do it.
The question is preposterous. I don't have the power to
return into the United States. I just this is great.
The reporters are all aghast, right, because you had two guys,
Bukali and Trump. They're defying the US Supreme Court over
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a gang or a murderous gang member not getting his
proper his proper procedure. It's called the Terrorism Confinement Center.
It's known as SEACOTT in l Salvador, and it was
two hundred and sixty gang members. And this is when
Trump invoked the seventeen ninety eight Alien Enemies Act, which
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the courts have upheld that's that's okay to do that.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
But apparently this particular prisoner, his name.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Is what is his name, Kilar Abrego Garcia is his name,
and they said he there's been two court decisions that
tied him to MS thirteen. The first ruling was in
April twenty nineteen, they said he was a verified member,
and then that December, the Board of Immigration Appeals upheld
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of the ruling, and but an immigration judge barred the
government from removing Abrego Garcia because he had an asylum application.
This MS thirteen gang member was claiming he could face
persecution if he goes.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Back home from other gangs.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
And Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, said the foreign
policy of the United States is conducted by the President
of the United States, not by a court. I don't
understand what the confusion is. This individual is a citizen
of El Salvador. He was illegally in the United States
and returned to his country. That's where you deport people
back to their country of origin. The Wiener Washington reporters
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have been banging on this drum for weeks now that
this is the greatest civil rights and justice in the
history of man.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I just wanted you to know this.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
This guy really is a vicious MS thirteen gang member.
There's nobody that cares that he got deported to a
supermax prison and he's in his own country and the
president of that country doesn't want to release him. So
that's the real story. We come back Joshapiro, the governor
at Pennsylvania. His home is broken into a two in
the morning, and he's got a wife and kids, and
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this this guy, Cody Bomber, who looks like a super freak.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
He has set the mansion on fire.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
We'll tell you all about it, coming up with an
ABC News reporter.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I just heard the clips there when the earthquake kids
this morning. Yeah, yeah, like little cats running, the little
kittens running to hide in the closet.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
John, And we got our shake alert alert and you and.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Your phone started buzzing and beeping. Wow, that's dramatic.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Hey, listen.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
It only nothing happened.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
It only happens if it's a five or higher. So
the anticipation, I mean, I'm here in the morning, and
I was told that the alert was going off, and
then Shannon is on the air, where's Depera, Where's Jepper?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So I go running in.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
So fortunately sounds like Shannon was the one freaking out.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
This time, that she wasn't freaking out, but she knew
I was going to be freaking out. And I'm glad
that she thought I was going to be freaking out
because I would have been freaking out. But I didn't
feel it because I was running over her.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
She was hugging me.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
She was very sweet, scared, like I said, a bunch
of scared kittens.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Nothing happened. This was a non event. I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Anywhere, John, I'm talking about when it was happening.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
So it was an event.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
It wasn't a non event when it was shaking and
it was going on. Maybe now it's not an event.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
All right, Let's talk to Sasha Pezzinic. I'm sure Peznik
sorry about that. Sasha is with ABC News and he's
she's got the latest on Josh Shapiro at the Pennsylvania
Governor's mansion getting the mansion broken into last night, but
by some crazy guy at two in the morning who
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fire bombed the place. Let's talk to Sasha. Now, how
are you? Thank you for coming on?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Hey, John, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, what happened last night?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
So this was a Saturday night, actually the first night
of Passover, and police say and Arthnis tried to kill
Pennsylvania Governor Joshapiro by going in fire bombing his official residence.
That he used a Lolotov cocktail that he made from
beer bottles and gasoline that he took from a lawnmower.
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Shapiro and his family were actually inside the home at
the time. The fire was reported around two am Sunday morning,
out of Saturday night, after they had celebrated the first
night of Passover. Those swains absolutely and engulfed that that
very room where they had had their passover Sader. Now,
everybody's fine, Police day. They were evacuated safely and no
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one was injured, though those parts of the house were
left charred and part of the mansion was absolutely left
uninhabitable for now. So this guy who allegedly is responsible
for this, it's a thirty eight year old mechanic from
the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area. Cody Balmer is his name. Police
have now charged him with attempted murder, aggravated arson, and terrorism.
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They say that he breached part of the fence of
the governor's residence to hop over and make his way inside,
breaking a window with a hammer, where he allegedly set
the fire with those Molotov cocktails. And so, after turning
himself in, he allegedly admitted to police that he harbored hatred,
he hated Governor Shapiro, and asked what would happen if
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Governor Shapiro had happened upon him caught him in the
act that night, He said that he would have beaten
him with a hammer with his hammer that he used
to break through the windows there. So now investigators are
setting about the work of pouring over everything that could
possibly give them clues about why he allegedly did this
and why.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Now, well, Shapiro is Jewish and it was Passover. Did
did bomber say anything specifically about that angle.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
That's a great question and that's something that investigators are
going to be looking into. We do know, obviously, it
was the first night of Passover. We know that Governor
Shapiro had tweeted out a picture of his passover table
just hours before this alleged attack happened. And so police
are not ruling out whether Shapiro's face could have played
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a role in this, or whether Balmer, allegedly responsible for this,
had some mental troubles or some financial troubles that he
was grappling with at the same time. All of that
is part of the mix and the mosaics that they're
now putting together and trying to figure out how this
could have happened.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
So we don't know much about this guy's background.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
We know these mechanics from the area. We know that
police are looking into possible financial issues, foreclosure proceedings, and
otherwise they're pouring over everything that could give them any
any clues. They say he was really methodical in his
approach to the alleged attacking. He didn't hurry. He clearly
had a plan here one one lucky happenstance. I will
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say about this, as much as he may have allegedly
had planned out methodically this attack, the door from the
main dining room in the Governor's house was closed at
the time that these fires were were set, which kept
the flames from spreading into the rest of the house,
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into the living quarters.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
So that.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Stemmed the fire from from spreading as they could have
much further.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
All right, well, thanks very much for coming on with us.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Yeah, you bet.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Sasha Peesnik with the ABC News. This uh, this guy, uh,
I mean he's he's he's yeah, there's some four I'm
just looking at a story that came across like literally
one minute ago. They charged him with attempted homicide, aggravated arson, burglary,
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reckless endangerment, terrorism, loitering, and two counts of aggravated assault.
So that's what they do in Pennsylvania. Here, he would
have gotten a ticket to appear for a misdemeanor. And
I'm just looking to see if they found any more
details on the background of this guy because he looks
extremely scary. Oh, they were contacted by the investigators were
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contacted by a woman who identified herself as Bomber's ex girlfriend.
This guy had a girlfriend too. That's fascinating if you
saw him. Freaky looking guy. He has got a thin
oval face, frightening beard, scary eyes. And he had taken
gasoline from the lawnmower and poured it into of beer
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bottles to make Molotov cocktails. This is what he admitted to.
And they found They found his clothing that he used
to start the fire. They matched it with what was
on the surveillance footage, the black bag, the sledgehammer. Yeah,
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and he'd had some financial issues. He had a domestic
violence issue too in the past.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
More coming up.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
A moist sign right, that's coming back this Friday, eight
seven seven Moist eighty six, eight seven seven Moist eighty six.
Just in a few minutes after Deborah's news, Alex Stone
from ABC News coming on. The Menendez brothers are getting
a chance to argue to be released this Thursday and Friday.
(26:00):
They're going to claim that they've been rehabilitated after thirty
five years in prison. Also, you may have heard over
the weekend their aunt was found unresponsive and the family
is saying that it's because of the crime scene photos. Well,
then she shouldn't have gone to the hearing, right if
she's that sensitive to what her nephews did. All that
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coming up after two o'clock here over the weekend, they
tried to bury this news. Steve Soberoff is finally done
as the recoveries are to rebuild Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
You remember this guy. He dropped from sight.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Once he realized he wasn't going to make five hundred
and sixty seven thousand dollars for three months work. I
think he suddenly lost interest in rebuilding. He was well
known develop her. He's always been involved in city politics,
and Karen Bass hired him to oversee the first phase
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of the recovery, and she claimed, there is no one
better equipped to create our rebuilding plan, no one better equipped.
I mean, he'd lived in Pacific Palisades for thirty six years,
but he only lasted ninety days as the chief recovery
officer because he and Karen Bass have had a big
(27:32):
falling out because he wanted money and once it leaked
that he was going to get a fortune. She didn't
want to pay it anymore. First, The New York Times
even did a story on this. Steve sober Off at
the first meeting, told Bass he needed to be paid
now again. This guy is seventy six years old and
(27:54):
has made millions of dollars. He said the work was
so time consuming he'd have to step away from his
private business. I said, this is seventeen hours a day,
seven days a week.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I can't volunteer for this.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I thought I should make at least as much as
an average lawyer. So I figured that was going to
be three four hundred dollars an hour. And it comes
to what looks like a lot. Doesn't look like a lot.
It is a lot. Raise your hand if you think
five hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars for three months
work is a lot.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I take it.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
That's how much.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, exactly, that's how much money this guy is has.
He goes, yo, No, it looks like a lot. Yeah,
it looks like just the perception. Good lord. So he's
going to get five hundred and sixty seven grand. And
then they were going to rig this where some private
(28:48):
philanthropy outlets. We're going to supply the money would be
privately donated until I read there was a story that
those charities found out where the money was going. I
guess they thought the money was going for real fire recovery,
not to pay an old rich guy. And then they
bitched and complained and Bass had to call and say,
(29:10):
I can't do this because La Times reported on it.
In fact, they had the details, and Bass and sober
Off got blasted. After a series of increasingly awkward conversations,
Soberoff told her he would work without payment. One of
the few people speaking the truth these days is a
(29:31):
city council woman named Monica Rodriguez, who says, I thought
it was really poor judgment, and that's being kind talking
about compensation for sober Off. Then sober Off was excluded
from news conferences.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I mean he disappeared.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
She was hiding behind him because he's a big, loud,
blustering guy, and she couldn't deal with all the reporters'
questions as to why she ran off to Africa and
why she didn't know that there was a bad fire,
bad fire weather covering. Remember she claimed she wasn't even
aware of it, uh, And so she hid behind sober
(30:09):
Off and then sober Off became toxic because he wanted
to be paid so much money.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
To run interference for her.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
What a disaster. She can't hire people. You know, some
people just don't know how to do it. I mean
it was sober Off Genie Keinonias to run the d
w P. She's still there. She had to get rid
of the fire chief. Who's the other one? There was
like another really uh oh oh, the woman who runs LASA.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, that just quit.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Valicia Adams Kellum, she was the one of these, Yeah,
the one we put in the dumpster and then.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Then she quit. Couldn't take the stink of the dumpster.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
But these are all Bass hires, or or or Bass
retained them. In the case of Crowley's, she's not because
but you know why, because she never had the higher
people other than weasels to work in her legislative offices.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
She's never had the higher people. What does she know?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
What does she know about any of this stuff? What
does she know about water and power? And you know
homeless know anything. So there's a bunch of a bunch
of lazy grifters she hired.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I don't know. I just can't believe the people we
have in office here.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
When we come back, we are going to talk to
Alex Stone. He's on the Menendez brother's beat, and Alex
is gonna tell us about the hearing coming up where
the brothers are going to claim they have been rehabilitated.
Debora Mark is live in the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom.
They went on a part of The John Cobalt Show podcast.
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Coming up at after one point thirty, we are going
to talk to Sarah Peaznik from ABC News. A bizarre
(00:31):
story of governor Governor Joshapiro in Pennsylvania. His house broken
into and set on fire. The Governor's mentioned in Pennsylvania
by a guy who wanted to beat him with a hammer.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
When did beating people with hammers become a thing?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
That's what happened to Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's husband a
couple of years ago. Well, this guy, and have you
seen this? Have you seen this picture? The photo of
this whack job? I mean you have to look at
his face. His name is Cody Balmer. He looks like
he climbed out of hell. What a freak. And he
(01:12):
must have a long record. He's got a weird, odd
shaped narrow head.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
He doesn't look a little creepy.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, weird, Like if you saw that guy walking alone
on the street.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'd go the other way.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Tell me, yeah, fast, all right, he looks like he's
killed people before. Creepy beard, creepy face eyes, the whole bit. Anyway,
we'll talk coming up after one thirty. So yeah, probably
everybody's heard. It's the biggest story of the day that
Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos' wife, Katie Perry, and Gail King
(01:52):
from CBS. They were part of an all female crew
on Bezos' rocket ship. They went up in space for
eleven seconds eleven minutes, excuse me, and they were in
these really cool looking blue space suits. They looked like
some modern version of Charlie's Angels. You know, they're all posed.
(02:15):
And they went on TV and talked about how they
were going to be in full glam mode. Right, so
they had their hair done and their makeup done, and
this is them talking about it. So The New York
Post decided to speculate on what do you think happened
to Loretta? Loretta Lauren Sanchez's resting plans? Wait, John Botox
(02:37):
and filler.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
You and I off the air, Remember I mentioned that
last week. I said, yeah, I said something about her chest,
how that's going.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
To work in space?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Oh you did say something, yes, and I was serious.
Do you want to repeat that?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I kind of just paraphrase, but I think everything's okay.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Uh. Well, yeah, that's what the post is wondering, like, well, really,
you know, could they explode? What could what? What kind
of sound would that make? She's had She's reportedly had
breast implants, botox, lip fillers, and a facelift. That that
is a lot of construction work there. So they talked
(03:25):
to an expert, some guy named Gerson and let me
see who this guy is and the uh because they said,
there's so much stress. It's called shearing stress. You're going
about six thousand miles an hour and that causes sheer
(03:47):
stress and something might shift. Yeah, they talked to a
scientist who studies space travel affects human cells. So when
shearing stress occurs, causes uh, parts of a material to
slide past each other, and that could cause an implant
or lip fillers to uh to shift or burst or something.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
But didn't you don't you think she was warned about that?
Or do you think she doesn't care or she has
so much money. I mean, look, she's with Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
She has so much fun be done.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
But you don't want that to ruin the excitement of
the trip, you know, I wonder women. Yeah, I mean,
well she'd have to ad, wouldn't you ask?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yes, of course I would not. Botox.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Everybody gets botox. No, that's not a big deal. I'm
I was more concerned about the breast implants.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Oh I didn't.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I haven't gotten botox, So it's not everybody, but a
lot of people.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Botox is pretty cool, common, right, I told you I
have had botox before. Yes, yes, Yeah, you didn't tell
me that, Yes I did.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I don't remember that.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Ken was still here many years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I told you, guys, it's a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Then, well I've done it.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You have any now you've done it again?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah, I have done it again.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
All it does is prevents it prevents some wrinkles. It's
it's pretty minor compared to what some people.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Do, what Lauren sand just does.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I didn't say her. I'm not calling her out specifically.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Well, they did a study at Yale found that women
with breast implants sometimes experience discomfort when flying at high altitudes.
It's caused by the accumulation of Perry implant gas.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
There's pressure changes.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And you might feel a sensation of tightness or discomfort
in the breasts. But moderate implants are made with cohesive
gels and stronger shells and are less likely to be
affected by this sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Oh, well, there you go. She's fine.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So apparently you know they It didn't explode and nobody
was hurt.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
But those lips, she those lips she hazard natural.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
You know some people like those duck lips. I to
each his own, John, h Yeah, you didn't do that.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
No, I told you. The only thing I have done
is the botox. I don't have dug.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
No, I know you don't. I've long forgotten that you
got the botox.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Now you'll never forget. I know you. It'll be brought
up numerous times.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Well does it make Does it make your your head freeze?
I mean no, it just doesn't affect your thinking process.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Maybe maybe it has I don't.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Could it have linked inside it?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Could it could happen? I get it very minor. I
don't get a lot.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
So that I still have movement in my forehead, right, people, No,
I okay, I'll keep a watch on that thing.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I wish I didn't bring it up.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You you volunteered that one.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah, I know, I'm too honest.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Problem did I know what did we talk about that?
Controlling your Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I know, John, I've been I've been on my best behavior.
I have, I really have.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Uh So anyway, it took eleven minutes, and there's audio
of them coming down and they were all screaming because
I I didn't know this, but you're in a free
fall for a while, to the parachute. Finally, finally, uh,
what's the word for it?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Expands?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
God, I think I got text in my head that's
going on, John, That's yeah, that's a tough word to remember.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Expands.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So so I heard audio of them screaming on the
way down. I had I've spent the I spent the
weekend in North Carolina because one of my sons is
temporarily there and I haven't been there very much. Years ago,
I went on a beach vacation for a week when
I was a team ager, and then he moved out
(08:02):
there last year, so he had a trip in September.
But this weekend I did a lot, and every minute
or so it hit me what a much better environment
this is than Los Angeles, I mean the southeast cities,
the South and and Texas and Arizona. I mean, everything
(08:26):
is thriving and expanding.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I sent you a photo of the gas costs.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Oh I paid two ninety nine for gallon of gas,
and the cheapest one that I saw was to eighty seven.
I'm looking at average in California, and now I was
four eighty nine. And to actually fill up your gas
tank at less than three dollars a gallon like puts
you in a whole different mood. And I was reading
(08:53):
up on Charlotte and it's it's a major city now,
it's the fifteenth largest city by population, and it's got
a major metropolitan area around it, three and a half
million people. And they've got all these corporations that have
moved in. You know, the taxes are much lighter, and
the price for everything. I mean, we went out to
(09:13):
you know, dinner and lunch, and all the prices are cheaper,
and it's so much more pleasant. I counted walking around
downtown over the course of three days, four days, maybe
maybe five homeless people, and three of them were all
sleeping in the doorway of a church. And then there
were two other randos that I noticed, and that was it.
I mean, it's virtually no homeless and there's two ninety
(09:36):
nine Gas, and all these corporations have moved there here
with their headquarters, and these are like high paying jobs,
high paying industries, and I think about a Los Angeles.
It just really hit me like this, really, I saw
it with my own eyes. My god, Los Angeles is dying.
California is dying. This is where the action is. Carolina, Well, yeah,
(09:58):
they have URC.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Well that's the reason I wouldn't live there.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It's always something's.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Acting like he's gonna leave us, and he's gonna go
move on North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
So I'm giving him a reason to stay.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
If you were there for three days, you'd say, wow,
this is a nice place to live. This is a
much better place to live. Don't tempt any It was
so there's no there's no garbage anywhere.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
That's one thing I noticed.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
There's no garbage, and there's no homeless people, and the
sun is shining, and it reminded me of when I
moved to California.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
It's like, wow, this is this looks like a great life.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And Charlotte had tons of restaurants, tons of shopping, and
it's a smaller city so you can navigate it easily.
And there's that two ninety nine gas and I'm thinking,
my god, and I.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Can't you know.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
The thing is in California, people voted for this. They
they went out of the way to vote for this.
That's what's shocking. There's another life out there that is
really great, and it's the life we used to have.
And for some reason, everybody's under hypnosis or they're in
some kind of a cult and they're just forking over
five bucks a gallon and they're stepping over bodies and
(11:18):
I don't know, I.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Something is really really good.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
You have to get out of LA for a weekend
to realize just how how screwed up things are here.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
All right? More coming up.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Coming up after one point thirty, we're going to talk
with ABC News about the guy who's been arrested accused
of fire bombing the Governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro on passover.
It did extensive damage to fire bombing. It was a
(11:58):
Molotov cocktail at two o'clock in the morning. His name's
Cody Balmer and he has been arrested on attempted murder charges.
He got inside the governor's mansion and the family was
living on the on the other side of the of
the home, and his plan was to beat Josh shot
beat Josh Shapiro with a hammer. Wild story, and that
(12:22):
is coming up in just a few minutes. I don't
know if if you've been following this story. It's it's
been going on for weeks.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Trump deported hundreds of illegal aliens who were violent gang members,
many of them from Venezuela Trend Diragua. And also there
were some El Salvador and MS thirteen gang members, and
MS thirteen is an extremely vicious, bloodthirsty set of psychopaths. Well,
(12:51):
there was one guy that was deported to El Salvador
and he was deported and he should not have been
because proper procedure wasn't followed. And in fact, the administration
admitted that they made an administrative error. I doubt they
(13:12):
really made an error, but that's what they admitted to.
And so the Supreme Court, the US Supreme Court says
that you've got to bring him back to the country.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
And today Trump held a public.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Appearance with the President of Al Salvador, Naive Bukeley. Now
Bukeley is getting six million dollars a year to run
this well to how'se deported violent illegal aliens in his
Supermac's prison. That's the prison where you've seen the guys.
They're all dressed in tidy whiteies. They're all tattooed from
(13:49):
the top of their head all the way down to
their toes, and they lay by the hundreds on the
floor and it is it is just the the most constricted,
brutal situation imaginable. But bu Kelly decided to round up
all the gang members and murderers and bad guys in L. Salvador,
(14:10):
and I think the murderery drop by something like ninety
seven percent. See, this is what you do here in
this country. We had these Venezuela and L. Salvador and
gang members running around killing us. And when Trump finally
sends them out, then you get judges going. You know,
the proper procedures weren't followed, the paperwork was not in order.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
You know, in El Salvador. They just put guys away.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
You're done well, you're a violent gang member, you've killed
people out and I like that way better. I would
much rather live in a country where they they grabbed
murderers off the street put them away for good in
some supermacs prison. I don't care if they get tortured.
I don't care if they get fed. I really don't
(14:56):
anymore here in this country.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
What do we do.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Remember that woman up in northern California, she went to
see her husband on a conjugal visit. We've got a guy,
a murderer in a California prison, sentenced to life. He
gets some conjugal visits, and what did he do? He
killed his wife. So anyway, the El Salvador president, naib Bukayley,
(15:26):
he held a press conference with Trump and he said, look,
I have no ability to send this gang member.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Back to the US.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
He goes, I hope you are not suggesting that I
smuggled terrorists into the United States. That's what he said
to reporters. Of course, I'm not going to do it.
The question is preposterous. I don't have the power to
return into the United States. I just this is great.
The reporters are all aghast, right, because you had two guys,
Bukali and Trump. They're defying the US Supreme Court over
(16:03):
a gang or a murderous gang member not getting his
proper his proper procedure. It's called the Terrorism Confinement Center.
It's known as SEACOTT in l Salvador, and it was
two hundred and sixty gang members. And this is when
Trump invoked the seventeen ninety eight Alien Enemies Act, which
(16:24):
the courts have upheld that's that's okay to do that.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
But apparently this particular prisoner, his name.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Is what is his name, Kilar Abrego Garcia is his name,
and they said he there's been two court decisions that
tied him to MS thirteen. The first ruling was in
April twenty nineteen, they said he was a verified member,
and then that December, the Board of Immigration Appeals upheld
(16:57):
of the ruling, and but an immigration judge barred the
government from removing Abrego Garcia because he had an asylum application.
This MS thirteen gang member was claiming he could face
persecution if he goes.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Back home from other gangs.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
And Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, said the foreign
policy of the United States is conducted by the President
of the United States, not by a court. I don't
understand what the confusion is. This individual is a citizen
of El Salvador. He was illegally in the United States
and returned to his country. That's where you deport people
back to their country of origin. The Wiener Washington reporters
(17:42):
have been banging on this drum for weeks now that
this is the greatest civil rights and justice in the
history of man.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I just wanted you to know this.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
This guy really is a vicious MS thirteen gang member.
There's nobody that cares that he got deported to a
supermax prison and he's in his own country and the
president of that country doesn't want to release him. So
that's the real story. We come back Joshapiro, the governor
at Pennsylvania. His home is broken into a two in
the morning, and he's got a wife and kids, and
(18:14):
this this guy, Cody Bomber, who looks like a super freak.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
He has set the mansion on fire.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
We'll tell you all about it, coming up with an
ABC News reporter.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I just heard the clips there when the earthquake kids
this morning. Yeah, yeah, like little cats running, the little
kittens running to hide in the closet.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
John, And we got our shake alert alert and you and.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Your phone started buzzing and beeping. Wow, that's dramatic.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Hey, listen.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
It only nothing happened.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
It only happens if it's a five or higher. So
the anticipation, I mean, I'm here in the morning, and
I was told that the alert was going off, and
then Shannon is on the air, where's Depera, Where's Jepper?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So I go running in.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
So fortunately sounds like Shannon was the one freaking out.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
This time, that she wasn't freaking out, but she knew
I was going to be freaking out. And I'm glad
that she thought I was going to be freaking out
because I would have been freaking out. But I didn't
feel it because I was running over her.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
She was hugging me.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
She was very sweet, scared, like I said, a bunch
of scared kittens.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Nothing happened. This was a non event. I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Anywhere, John, I'm talking about when it was happening.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
So it was an event.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
It wasn't a non event when it was shaking and
it was going on. Maybe now it's not an event.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
All right, Let's talk to Sasha Pezzinic. I'm sure Peznik
sorry about that. Sasha is with ABC News and he's
she's got the latest on Josh Shapiro at the Pennsylvania
Governor's mansion getting the mansion broken into last night, but
by some crazy guy at two in the morning who
(20:03):
fire bombed the place. Let's talk to Sasha. Now, how
are you? Thank you for coming on?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Hey, John, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, what happened last night?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
So this was a Saturday night, actually the first night
of Passover, and police say and Arthnis tried to kill
Pennsylvania Governor Joshapiro by going in fire bombing his official residence.
That he used a Lolotov cocktail that he made from
beer bottles and gasoline that he took from a lawnmower.
(20:35):
Shapiro and his family were actually inside the home at
the time. The fire was reported around two am Sunday morning,
out of Saturday night, after they had celebrated the first
night of Passover. Those swains absolutely and engulfed that that
very room where they had had their passover Sader. Now,
everybody's fine, Police day. They were evacuated safely and no
(20:57):
one was injured, though those parts of the house were
left charred and part of the mansion was absolutely left
uninhabitable for now. So this guy who allegedly is responsible
for this, it's a thirty eight year old mechanic from
the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area. Cody Balmer is his name. Police
have now charged him with attempted murder, aggravated arson, and terrorism.
(21:19):
They say that he breached part of the fence of
the governor's residence to hop over and make his way inside,
breaking a window with a hammer, where he allegedly set
the fire with those Molotov cocktails. And so, after turning
himself in, he allegedly admitted to police that he harbored hatred,
he hated Governor Shapiro, and asked what would happen if
(21:42):
Governor Shapiro had happened upon him caught him in the
act that night, He said that he would have beaten
him with a hammer with his hammer that he used
to break through the windows there. So now investigators are
setting about the work of pouring over everything that could
possibly give them clues about why he allegedly did this
and why.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Now, well, Shapiro is Jewish and it was Passover. Did
did bomber say anything specifically about that angle.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
That's a great question and that's something that investigators are
going to be looking into. We do know, obviously, it
was the first night of Passover. We know that Governor
Shapiro had tweeted out a picture of his passover table
just hours before this alleged attack happened. And so police
are not ruling out whether Shapiro's face could have played
(22:34):
a role in this, or whether Balmer, allegedly responsible for this,
had some mental troubles or some financial troubles that he
was grappling with at the same time. All of that
is part of the mix and the mosaics that they're
now putting together and trying to figure out how this
could have happened.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
So we don't know much about this guy's background.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
We know these mechanics from the area. We know that
police are looking into possible financial issues, foreclosure proceedings, and
otherwise they're pouring over everything that could give them any
any clues. They say he was really methodical in his
approach to the alleged attacking. He didn't hurry. He clearly
had a plan here one one lucky happenstance. I will
(23:15):
say about this, as much as he may have allegedly
had planned out methodically this attack, the door from the
main dining room in the Governor's house was closed at
the time that these fires were were set, which kept
the flames from spreading into the rest of the house,
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into the living quarters.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
So that.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Stemmed the fire from from spreading as they could have
much further.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
All right, well, thanks very much for coming on with us.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Yeah, you bet.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Sasha Peesnik with the ABC News. This uh, this guy, uh,
I mean he's he's he's yeah, there's some four I'm
just looking at a story that came across like literally
one minute ago. They charged him with attempted homicide, aggravated arson, burglary,
(24:13):
reckless endangerment, terrorism, loitering, and two counts of aggravated assault.
So that's what they do in Pennsylvania. Here, he would
have gotten a ticket to appear for a misdemeanor. And
I'm just looking to see if they found any more
details on the background of this guy because he looks
extremely scary. Oh, they were contacted by the investigators were
(24:36):
contacted by a woman who identified herself as Bomber's ex girlfriend.
This guy had a girlfriend too. That's fascinating if you
saw him. Freaky looking guy. He has got a thin
oval face, frightening beard, scary eyes. And he had taken
gasoline from the lawnmower and poured it into of beer
(25:00):
bottles to make Molotov cocktails. This is what he admitted to.
And they found They found his clothing that he used
to start the fire. They matched it with what was
on the surveillance footage, the black bag, the sledgehammer. Yeah,
(25:21):
and he'd had some financial issues. He had a domestic
violence issue too in the past.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
More coming up.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
A moist sign right, that's coming back this Friday, eight
seven seven Moist eighty six, eight seven seven Moist eighty six.
Just in a few minutes after Deborah's news, Alex Stone
from ABC News coming on. The Menendez brothers are getting
a chance to argue to be released this Thursday and Friday.
(26:00):
They're going to claim that they've been rehabilitated after thirty
five years in prison. Also, you may have heard over
the weekend their aunt was found unresponsive and the family
is saying that it's because of the crime scene photos. Well,
then she shouldn't have gone to the hearing, right if
she's that sensitive to what her nephews did. All that
(26:23):
coming up after two o'clock here over the weekend, they
tried to bury this news. Steve Soberoff is finally done
as the recoveries are to rebuild Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
You remember this guy. He dropped from sight.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Once he realized he wasn't going to make five hundred
and sixty seven thousand dollars for three months work. I
think he suddenly lost interest in rebuilding. He was well
known develop her. He's always been involved in city politics,
and Karen Bass hired him to oversee the first phase
(27:10):
of the recovery, and she claimed, there is no one
better equipped to create our rebuilding plan, no one better equipped.
I mean, he'd lived in Pacific Palisades for thirty six years,
but he only lasted ninety days as the chief recovery
officer because he and Karen Bass have had a big
(27:32):
falling out because he wanted money and once it leaked
that he was going to get a fortune. She didn't
want to pay it anymore. First, The New York Times
even did a story on this. Steve sober Off at
the first meeting, told Bass he needed to be paid
now again. This guy is seventy six years old and
(27:54):
has made millions of dollars. He said the work was
so time consuming he'd have to step away from his
private business. I said, this is seventeen hours a day,
seven days a week.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I can't volunteer for this.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I thought I should make at least as much as
an average lawyer. So I figured that was going to
be three four hundred dollars an hour. And it comes
to what looks like a lot. Doesn't look like a lot.
It is a lot. Raise your hand if you think
five hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars for three months
work is a lot.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I take it.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
That's how much.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, exactly, that's how much money this guy is has.
He goes, yo, No, it looks like a lot. Yeah,
it looks like just the perception. Good lord. So he's
going to get five hundred and sixty seven grand. And
then they were going to rig this where some private
(28:48):
philanthropy outlets. We're going to supply the money would be
privately donated until I read there was a story that
those charities found out where the money was going. I
guess they thought the money was going for real fire recovery,
not to pay an old rich guy. And then they
bitched and complained and Bass had to call and say,
(29:10):
I can't do this because La Times reported on it.
In fact, they had the details, and Bass and sober
Off got blasted. After a series of increasingly awkward conversations,
Soberoff told her he would work without payment. One of
the few people speaking the truth these days is a
(29:31):
city council woman named Monica Rodriguez, who says, I thought
it was really poor judgment, and that's being kind talking
about compensation for sober Off. Then sober Off was excluded
from news conferences.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I mean he disappeared.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
She was hiding behind him because he's a big, loud,
blustering guy, and she couldn't deal with all the reporters'
questions as to why she ran off to Africa and
why she didn't know that there was a bad fire,
bad fire weather covering. Remember she claimed she wasn't even
aware of it, uh, And so she hid behind sober
(30:09):
Off and then sober Off became toxic because he wanted
to be paid so much money.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
To run interference for her.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
What a disaster. She can't hire people. You know, some
people just don't know how to do it. I mean
it was sober Off Genie Keinonias to run the d
w P. She's still there. She had to get rid
of the fire chief. Who's the other one? There was
like another really uh oh oh, the woman who runs LASA.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, that just quit.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Valicia Adams Kellum, she was the one of these, Yeah,
the one we put in the dumpster and then.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Then she quit. Couldn't take the stink of the dumpster.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
But these are all Bass hires, or or or Bass
retained them. In the case of Crowley's, she's not because
but you know why, because she never had the higher
people other than weasels to work in her legislative offices.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
She's never had the higher people. What does she know?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
What does she know about any of this stuff? What
does she know about water and power? And you know
homeless know anything. So there's a bunch of a bunch
of lazy grifters she hired.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I don't know. I just can't believe the people we
have in office here.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
When we come back, we are going to talk to
Alex Stone. He's on the Menendez brother's beat, and Alex
is gonna tell us about the hearing coming up where
the brothers are going to claim they have been rehabilitated.
Debora Mark is live in the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom.
They went on a part of The John Cobalt Show podcast.
(31:53):
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six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
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