April 14, 2025 • 27 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (04/14) - A pitbull in Santa Monica killed a toy poodle. John talks about his time in North Carolina over the weekend. Getting out of California will change your perspective. Should we have to pay for the bad health habits of other people?
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eighty six where he use the talkback feature on the
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iHeartRadio app. We had been promoting that we were going
to have Chris Dietrich on. Christopher Dietrich. He and his
partner Elissa Klug lost their Troy poodle Friday. They were
walking it near Maine and Strand Streets in Santa Monica
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when it was attacked by a pit bull and the
pit bull owner ran off. There's a lot of photos.
Let me start anyway, We're going to have Christopher Dietrick on,
but apparently he and Alison are just al Alisa rather
or just overwhelmed by what's gone on and they're grieving
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over the loss of their dog, and so they can't
be with us today. But I want to run this
story from ABC seven. Tim Pulliam, the couple.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Was just walking home when they say that their poodle
was fatally.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Attacked by a pit bull.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Now we want to warn you this video is not graphic,
but the sounds, the screams may be difficult for some
of you to hear. A ring camera capturing the sound
of frantic cries. The screams you hear behind this white
car is from Alyssa watching Dublin, her toy poodle, being
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savagely attacked.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Pitbull lunged at our dog, picked him up off the ground,
and sunk his teeth into him in an extremely violent way.
The other dog owner was slow to act, was not
paying attention.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Alyssa says her boyfriend Christopher tried to rescue Dublin and
was also bit. The horrific scene playing out in Santa
Monica Friday evening your main and strand. After the attack,
the man with the pit bull seen on this security
video dashing along with his pit bull, who appears to
be leashed.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It was pretty cowardly to runaway like that.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Meantime, a neighbor rushing the couple to a pet hospital
while the eleven year old pooch was bleeding. It's gonna
be okay. Buddy, It's going to be okay.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
And I knew he was gone in my arms, just
like how when I first picked him up, he sat
my arms and snuggled just like a baby. And he
died just like my baby.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Santa Monica police want you to take a good look
at this video, hoping you can identify the pit bull's owner.
They say the public safety is at risk.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I think i'd really like him to just take some
ownership right now.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
We want to know.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
We want somebody looking eyes and saying I'm messed up.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
That's what we're looking for right now.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
It's not going to bring our bubble back, but that's
what we're looking for.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Alyssa and Christopher are posting flyers like this one around
their Ocean Park neighborhood memories of taking Dublin on walks,
now scarred by tragedy, A precious member of their family
gone forever.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
He loved to prance, and he loved to snuggle, and
he was totally a people person.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
This is so heartbreaking. Santa Monica Animal Control is also investigating.
People can share any tips or video with police.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Who's this guy who ran off?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I just want to cry. That was heartbreaking to listen to.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That that did screaming. I feel so bad for them.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And so there's a photo or video this guy running
off in his stupid flip flops, wearing a T shirt,
dark colored T shirt, dark shorts. He looks like a
Wiener and a classic Santa Monica Wiener that you see
all over the place.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And he's got a pit bull who out of the blue.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Tried to have the toy poodle for a meal. And
then and the guy runs away. They should be treated
like a hit and run accident. He should be putting
jail for this. He's got this this this loaded weapon here,
this deadly loaded weapon, and he he doesn't even stand
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to help. He doesn't even react to the dog chewing
on the on the poodle.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Which makes me wonder if this wasn't the first time.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, I wonder when you have these killings, is that
the first time the dog went that crazy? Or were
you just lucky that there wasn't a murder?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Well, he knew that if animal control found him, or
he knows if animal control finds him, they're going to
take the dog, They're going to put it down, and
he's going to be in big trouble.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, So he gets to keep his dog. Although it's
I would think he's easy to identify here.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I think he's going to be found.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, and he ought to be jailed, jailed, I know.
It's it's just terrible.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
It makes you not I mean, it makes me scared
to walk my dogs. I mean, I have coyotes in
my neighborhood. And I thought about this the other day
before this story, and I thought, wow, I think I'm
more afraid of terrible, dangerous dogs than a coyote. And
that's pretty sad. And this dog was leashed. The pit
bull was leashed, and so is the poodle.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
The pit bull owners don't have a sense that their
dogs are time bombs and they can go off. You
shouldn't be taking your dog anywhere near other dogs or children.
I mean, i'd ban the stupid things entirely. Not that
you can force something like that, but I mean, what
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at least be aware that you've got a loaded weapon
here that could cause a lot of terrible tragedy.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
And takes some responsibility.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Man, Yeah, nobody does anymore. Everybody just runs. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
If you know anything about this, this weasel or the pitbull,
you call Santa Monica Animal control three ten four five
eight eight five nine five four five eight eight five
nine five Area code three ten. All right, well, we
got more coming up.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, but a lot of news coverage about the mayor
of San Francisco because they finally got rid of they
finally got sick in San Francisco of all the woke
progressive fools that they had in office. If you remember,
they dumped the district attorney chesaboudin a couple of years
ago now, and they got rid.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Of several.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
School board members San Francisco school board members who were
obsessed with removing the names of historical figures from the schools,
and they didn't seem concerned that the students weren't taught
anything for a year and a half because of their
idiotic COVID policies. Well, they recalled and kicked out some
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of the school board members. They also got rid of
some of the city council people, some of the wokest
and they finally dumped London Breed and replaced her with
a businessman.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
He's a moderate Democrat.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
His name is Daniel Lurie and Daniel Lurie is an
heir to the Levi Strauss fortune and he's one of
the most prominent families in San Francisco. I mean, the
family dates back to the gold Rush days. So he's
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very emotionally hied and motivated to revive San Francisco. And
he has spent much of the last twenty years on
a nonprofit called Tipping Point that has raised four hundred
million dollars for job training, housing, childhood education for poor families.
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His businessman seems like a reasonable guy and he's not
some woke whack job, and everybody likes him because he
wants to clean up the city, dismantle the tent cities.
And there's a story that came out a few days ago,
and this is big, and I just compare this to
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I had mentioned earlier in the show.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That I spent the weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, which
is one of the great up and coming cities in
this country.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
One of my sons is going to.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Be is living there for a time, and I'd never
fully explored it. It's like, Wow, it's the little things
that he used to take for granted. But when you
live in the in the filth of la for all
these years. When you walk into a decent sized city,
and Charlotte is like the fifteenth largest city in the country,
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you walk around there, there's no garbage in the streets,
which is you just notice it right away how clean
everything is, and there was a very little homeless Over
three or four days, I only saw five fours and
one old woman, and three of the four guys were
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all sleeping at the front door of a church away
from the street. There was there was there were high
up there were stairs that led to this church, and
perched at the top of the stairs were these three
guys in bedrolls, so they were they were kind of
out of sight. You have to go looking for him.
But other than those three guys, there were two others.
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One an old lady who was just cackling hysterically thought
it was Kamala Harris for a moment. And other than that,
it was just squeaky clean and lots of people out
on the street. You know, they are neighborhoods now where
most people are afraid to walk around on the city streets.
Like you know, nobody I know wants to go to
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downtown anymore. In La well, this downtown is thriving, lots
of restaurants, I mean, a lot of young energy.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It was fun.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Is the way you imagine cities ought to be. And
I'm thinking, oh my god, this place, like many other
cities that have been booming the last five to ten
to twenty years, this is where this is where the
America America strength is going to be centered economically, because
they are gaining.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Residents like Crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arizona. They're gaining residents. California
is losing them. I saw a story today and most
of the story was about demographic changes. There are way
more Chinese and Indian immigrants now coming to this country
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for tech jobs with these h one B visas. But
buried in the story is that in the last eighteen months,
California has lost about two hundred thousand people to other states.
Two hundred thousand more they've lost than have moved in.
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In the last year and a half, California's population grew
by forty eight thousand, but that was because of immigration
internal migration, in other words, people moving within the United States.
We lost to two hundred thousand people and in the
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southeast people are moving in every day from all the
failed states, including California. So go back to Rod Lourie. Uh,
you know, I'll talk more about this when we come back.
But he's announced a new policy. Uh, they're gonna they're
gonna force. They're gonna force drug addicts like street addicts,
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that if you want to clean needle, you got to
go for treatment and counseling. They're getting rid of that
harm reduction garbage that has killed so many addicts in
San Francisco and here in La. We'll talk to me.
It just seems even San Francisco is getting it and
they're climbing out of the abyss. I just get feel
like the whole country is thriving. And here in LA
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we've got Karen Bass hiding all her emails, hiding all
her text messages. You got these belligerent staff members refusing
to respond to reporters to explain what they all did
or didn't do during the fire. I'm telling you, get
out of the bubble of LA for three days and
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you'll get whiplash. Your head's gonna snap back seeing how
much fun, how clean, how well run other cities are,
how the gas is much cheaper talk More coming up.
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Speaker 4 (14:22):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I was talking about a couple of things because I'm
walking around. You know, getting out of California for a
weekend really changes your perspective because you just get numbed
to all the nonsense here.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And I go to Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
One of my with my wife, one of my sons
is temporarily living there and man, that is a beautiful city.
It is vibrant, it's alive, it's fun, it's young, it's growing.
And I started looking up Charlotte and they've got tons
of a company headquarters that have moved in over the years.
It's really one of the fastest growing cities, like the
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fifteenth largest. So this is this is no fluke they're getting.
You know, they got major league teams. And I was
just looking around and it just struck me because in
La you see lots of garbage and homeless people. And
I mean, I told the story last week about the
insane homeless person who chased us with a weapon down
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the street and then talking to some wieners in government
offices and they give me their stupid song and dance
about outreach. I don't know. Charlotte, they had almost no
homeless people. They had no garbage on the streets, and
all the neighborhoods were open late and I'm and it
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was just it was just clean and free and easy.
You're not looking over your shoulder to see if you're
going to get assaulted. They don't have a government who
worries about the rights of mental patients and drug addicts.
And vagrants, and it looks like San Francisco is climbing
out of the abyss because I got several articles in
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the last a week or so. But Daniel Lurie, and
again he's a business guy. When we had our shot
at a business guy, we elected Karen Bass, who really
is a terrible disaster, which is why she's hiding all
her text messages and emails about the fire because she's
really awful at her job. She's terrible. Well is Rod Lurie.
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I'd rather Daniel Lurie's taken over. And as I said,
he's part of the Levi Strauss family. He's running on
profit for twenty years and he knows what's wrong and
he's going to fix it. And one of the things
he's doing with drug addiction, he's cracking down on the
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fentanyl crisis. They're going to forcefully push drug treatment on
drug users who want clean needles.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Who was it we had on the.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Other day and they said, if you go downtown to
skid row, you don't see any treatment centers for all
the homeless people. There's no services at all except they
were handing out free needles. There was a black van
well in San Francisco. They're not gonna do that anymore.
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They see the ideas you sit out street workers and
you give them sterile syringes and clean smoking kits, foil
pipes and straws, so that they don't catch diseases, except
that they die of addiction. The strategy is said is
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said to be meeting addicts where they are. I hate
phrases like that. See go, you go meet the attic
where he is, you know, laying face down on the sidewalk,
and you shove clean needles and smoking paraphernalia so they
don't catch HIV or hepatitis. Meantime, they die of a
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drug overdose, and the strategy is to work. It's a failure.
It's been a failure for many years. And Laurie says,
we're seeing people die of overdoses.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
We have to make a change.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
He said, the days of San Francisco handing out drug
supplies without sending people to treatment are over.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
With all people.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Dying of fentael overdoses. They're not going to do it anymore.
And the Trump administration says it's revoking billions of dollars
in federal grants that help fund mental health at addiction
services across the country because all this stuff doesn't work.
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We're wasting money, and you got more drug addicts than ever,
more homeless people than ever.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
It's just all got to come to an end.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
But you and you know what he does. He walks around, Glorie,
He walks around the city, and he says things.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Like, why is there trash and a bus shelter?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And he finds out because of the bureaucracy, Well, we
don't do trash pickups on Saturdays and Sundays. And he says, well,
people still take the bus on Saturdays and Sundays. We
have tourists from all over the world coming here. We
have to be a twenty four to seven city, and
often we're a city that's nine to five Monday through Friday. See,
it's stuff like that, obvious stuff. Why aren't you picking
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up trash twenty four to seven? There should be three shifts.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Of trash. People work in the streets.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
And here in Los Angeles do we even have a
sanitation department anymore? I can't tell. So disgusting in so
many areas of the city. So he's not putting up
with it anymore. And I'm reading this, you know, after
spending the weekend in Charlotte and then reading this about
the San Francisco mayor, and everybody seems to be happy
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with him.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
He's got a long way to go, he's got a
lot of.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Work to do, but it seems like he wants to
do it, and he knows what kind of work is
supposed to be done. And it's not going to be
this coddling progressive nonsense anymore, which has failed.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
They had their run for ten years and it failed,
so no more. But there's another component to it, which
I suspect is really the root of the problem here
in LA and we've talked about it a lot, and
we're going to talk about it much more in the
coming months. Is all the corruption. It's like all these
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nonprofits know that none of this works. They're stealing the money,
and I think the people in government are getting kicked
back or they're engineering the theft because it's their relatives
and friends and political donors and everybody's brother and sister
and brother in law. And maybe the fever broken San
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Francisco now, but it hasn't broken here yet. We've got
an idiot mayor and an idiot city council President Marquise,
And between Bass and Marquise, they won't release any of
their they're breaking the law. They won't release their texts
and their emails from the fire days. So looks like
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we're going to be the last city in the country
that wakes up. I was just seeing a story in Seattle.
There's a resolution to admit that their policy of defunding
the police was wrong. All the progressive garbage filth feces
over the last five years, Most cities, most states are
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abandoning it. It's over except here in LA And you
think the fire would would be the breaking point?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
All right?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Coming up another controversial idea, and we've talked about this
for a long time. Should you pay for the healthcare
of people who have bad habits? Often they want to
ban certain kinds of foods or drink, or they want
to tax it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
How about if it's uh, it's.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Just hey, you know what, I'm not paying for your
I'm not paying for your health insurance. I'm not contributing
to your health insurance coverage. Why why should we pay
because you eat badly or you live badly.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
We'll talk about it. We come back.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI SI.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Robert Kennedy said something that I remember talking about a
long time ago. Why why should we pay for people
if they have really horrible habits and then they're gonna
get sick, and then my tax money has to go
and pay for their bills. So, Kennedy, you know who's
now the Secretary of Health and Human Services. He talked
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to a CBS News medical correspondent, the chief medical correspondent,
a doctor named John Lapouq. Lapouq and Kennedy said, if
you're smoking three packs of cigarettes a day, should you
expect society to pay when you get sick? Should you
expect society to care for you when you predictably get
very sick? Because he eat donuts all day or drinks
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sodas and he's not He made it clear he's not
talking about taking your choices away. Go ahead and do
it if you want, but you know what's coming is
they're going to have to cut Medicare and Medicaid because
it's extremely expensive and it eats up a huge section
of the budget. And I think he's throwing out a
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trial balloon here he goes when the I think what
he's saying is when the cuts come, how do we
cut the people who are costing us money because they
just can't control themselves. He didn't explicitly suggest limiting medicaid
benefits because you eat too many donuts, but West Virginia
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actually limited Medicaid about oh seventeen years ago if patients
did not follow healthy behaviors and signed a personal responsibility agreement.
But when Obama took over, he pulled the federal approval
for that. That's you know, it gives you free of them.
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At the same time, I don't want to pay for
it because we're going bankrupt. Something's got to get cuts
good way here, Yes, sir, yes, sir, nice to see it. Man.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 8 (25:02):
Oh man, that's loud in here, loud in here.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Hey.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
I got a lot going on today. Tons going on.
Speaker 9 (25:07):
First, we had the earthquake, which I don't know. It
was sort of nobody cared. If you lived in LA
you probably didn't even feel it. But I guess we
have a big enough audience. So we have talked about
that Alex Stone with that earthquake. And then we have
doctor Lucy Jones. She'll tell us she doesn't know if
this is the big one or not. And then we
have Stephen Coolbanck will be with us. I know you've
had him on your program.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Cool dude.
Speaker 9 (25:29):
George Nori is coming on with us. We're gonna check
out with George. We do that once a year. And
then Matt money Smith talk about Jed the Fish, who
was a great radio personality passed away. So we've got
a lot going on. And the Masters. Did you look
at the Masters? I saw one hole.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
The last one, hopefully the next to last one right
before the playoffs.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Oh I see, okay, all right, so on the eighteenth Yeah,
and then they did the eighteenth thing.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
Yeah, that was a great It was a great tournament. Man,
it was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
With the and we we're going to cover the women
who went to Space. And I have to be thinking
that most of them were all saying.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
Please don't sing, Katie, please don't sing, because.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
If Katie Perry singing in a small room, you have
to look at her.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
You know, you can't look out the window.
Speaker 9 (26:25):
You have twelve minutes of your life to look out
a window that nobody else will ever see. And Katie
Perry starts singing, you have to look at her and
you can't ignore her. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
She said, that's coming up, she said, she did. She did, Yeah, yeah,
I did. Stare at her. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 9 (26:44):
And by the way, they keep calling these women astronauts.
I don't know if that's fair to you know, to
guys who you know, were the first guys in space
or guys spent you know, a year in space.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Right, yeah, nobody knows the name of the real astronauts.
Speaker 8 (26:58):
Right when I fly to Vague, I'm not a captain
of that plane. I'm a pack I sit on it.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
You know.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
All Right, lots going on today.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
John all right, kN way's next. He's gong with you.
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We have the Moist line back in action this Friday
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eighty six where he use the talkback feature on the
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iHeartRadio app. We had been promoting that we were going
to have Chris Dietrich on. Christopher Dietrich. He and his
partner Elissa Klug lost their Troy poodle Friday. They were
walking it near Maine and Strand Streets in Santa Monica
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when it was attacked by a pit bull and the
pit bull owner ran off. There's a lot of photos.
Let me start anyway, We're going to have Christopher Dietrick on,
but apparently he and Alison are just al Alisa rather
or just overwhelmed by what's gone on and they're grieving
(01:07):
over the loss of their dog, and so they can't
be with us today. But I want to run this
story from ABC seven. Tim Pulliam, the couple.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Was just walking home when they say that their poodle
was fatally.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Attacked by a pit bull.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Now we want to warn you this video is not graphic,
but the sounds, the screams may be difficult for some
of you to hear. A ring camera capturing the sound
of frantic cries. The screams you hear behind this white
car is from Alyssa watching Dublin, her toy poodle, being
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savagely attacked.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Pitbull lunged at our dog, picked him up off the ground,
and sunk his teeth into him in an extremely violent way.
The other dog owner was slow to act, was not
paying attention.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Alyssa says her boyfriend Christopher tried to rescue Dublin and
was also bit. The horrific scene playing out in Santa
Monica Friday evening your main and strand. After the attack,
the man with the pit bull seen on this security
video dashing along with his pit bull, who appears to
be leashed.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It was pretty cowardly to runaway like that.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Meantime, a neighbor rushing the couple to a pet hospital
while the eleven year old pooch was bleeding. It's gonna
be okay. Buddy, It's going to be okay.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
And I knew he was gone in my arms, just
like how when I first picked him up, he sat
my arms and snuggled just like a baby. And he
died just like my baby.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Santa Monica police want you to take a good look
at this video, hoping you can identify the pit bull's owner.
They say the public safety is at risk.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I think i'd really like him to just take some
ownership right now.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
We want to know.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
We want somebody looking eyes and saying I'm messed up.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
That's what we're looking for right now.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
It's not going to bring our bubble back, but that's
what we're looking for.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Alyssa and Christopher are posting flyers like this one around
their Ocean Park neighborhood memories of taking Dublin on walks,
now scarred by tragedy, A precious member of their family
gone forever.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
He loved to prance, and he loved to snuggle, and
he was totally a people person.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
This is so heartbreaking. Santa Monica Animal Control is also investigating.
People can share any tips or video with police.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Who's this guy who ran off?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I just want to cry. That was heartbreaking to listen to.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That that did screaming. I feel so bad for them.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And so there's a photo or video this guy running
off in his stupid flip flops, wearing a T shirt,
dark colored T shirt, dark shorts. He looks like a
Wiener and a classic Santa Monica Wiener that you see
all over the place.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And he's got a pit bull who out of the blue.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Tried to have the toy poodle for a meal. And
then and the guy runs away. They should be treated
like a hit and run accident. He should be putting
jail for this. He's got this this this loaded weapon here,
this deadly loaded weapon, and he he doesn't even stand
(04:23):
to help. He doesn't even react to the dog chewing
on the on the poodle.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Which makes me wonder if this wasn't the first time.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, I wonder when you have these killings, is that
the first time the dog went that crazy? Or were
you just lucky that there wasn't a murder?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Well, he knew that if animal control found him, or
he knows if animal control finds him, they're going to
take the dog, They're going to put it down, and
he's going to be in big trouble.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, So he gets to keep his dog. Although it's
I would think he's easy to identify here.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I think he's going to be found.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah, and he ought to be jailed, jailed, I know.
It's it's just terrible.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
It makes you not I mean, it makes me scared
to walk my dogs. I mean, I have coyotes in
my neighborhood. And I thought about this the other day
before this story, and I thought, wow, I think I'm
more afraid of terrible, dangerous dogs than a coyote. And
that's pretty sad. And this dog was leashed. The pit
bull was leashed, and so is the poodle.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
The pit bull owners don't have a sense that their
dogs are time bombs and they can go off. You
shouldn't be taking your dog anywhere near other dogs or children.
I mean, i'd ban the stupid things entirely. Not that
you can force something like that, but I mean, what
(05:56):
at least be aware that you've got a loaded weapon
here that could cause a lot of terrible tragedy.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
And takes some responsibility.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Man, Yeah, nobody does anymore. Everybody just runs. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
If you know anything about this, this weasel or the pitbull,
you call Santa Monica Animal control three ten four five
eight eight five nine five four five eight eight five
nine five Area code three ten. All right, well, we
got more coming up.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, but a lot of news coverage about the mayor
of San Francisco because they finally got rid of they
finally got sick in San Francisco of all the woke
progressive fools that they had in office. If you remember,
they dumped the district attorney chesaboudin a couple of years
ago now, and they got rid.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Of several.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
School board members San Francisco school board members who were
obsessed with removing the names of historical figures from the schools,
and they didn't seem concerned that the students weren't taught
anything for a year and a half because of their
idiotic COVID policies. Well, they recalled and kicked out some
(07:19):
of the school board members. They also got rid of
some of the city council people, some of the wokest
and they finally dumped London Breed and replaced her with
a businessman.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
He's a moderate Democrat.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
His name is Daniel Lurie and Daniel Lurie is an
heir to the Levi Strauss fortune and he's one of
the most prominent families in San Francisco. I mean, the
family dates back to the gold Rush days. So he's
(07:58):
very emotionally hied and motivated to revive San Francisco. And
he has spent much of the last twenty years on
a nonprofit called Tipping Point that has raised four hundred
million dollars for job training, housing, childhood education for poor families.
(08:19):
His businessman seems like a reasonable guy and he's not
some woke whack job, and everybody likes him because he
wants to clean up the city, dismantle the tent cities.
And there's a story that came out a few days ago,
and this is big, and I just compare this to
Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I had mentioned earlier in the show.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That I spent the weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, which
is one of the great up and coming cities in
this country.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
One of my sons is going to.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Be is living there for a time, and I'd never
fully explored it. It's like, Wow, it's the little things
that he used to take for granted. But when you
live in the in the filth of la for all
these years. When you walk into a decent sized city,
and Charlotte is like the fifteenth largest city in the country,
(09:12):
you walk around there, there's no garbage in the streets,
which is you just notice it right away how clean
everything is, and there was a very little homeless Over
three or four days, I only saw five fours and
one old woman, and three of the four guys were
(09:33):
all sleeping at the front door of a church away
from the street. There was there was there were high
up there were stairs that led to this church, and
perched at the top of the stairs were these three
guys in bedrolls, so they were they were kind of
out of sight. You have to go looking for him.
But other than those three guys, there were two others.
(09:54):
One an old lady who was just cackling hysterically thought
it was Kamala Harris for a moment. And other than that,
it was just squeaky clean and lots of people out
on the street. You know, they are neighborhoods now where
most people are afraid to walk around on the city streets.
Like you know, nobody I know wants to go to
(10:14):
downtown anymore. In La well, this downtown is thriving, lots
of restaurants, I mean, a lot of young energy.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It was fun.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Is the way you imagine cities ought to be. And
I'm thinking, oh my god, this place, like many other
cities that have been booming the last five to ten
to twenty years, this is where this is where the
America America strength is going to be centered economically, because
they are gaining.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Residents like Crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arizona. They're gaining residents. California
is losing them. I saw a story today and most
of the story was about demographic changes. There are way
more Chinese and Indian immigrants now coming to this country
(11:11):
for tech jobs with these h one B visas. But
buried in the story is that in the last eighteen months,
California has lost about two hundred thousand people to other states.
Two hundred thousand more they've lost than have moved in.
(11:33):
In the last year and a half, California's population grew
by forty eight thousand, but that was because of immigration
internal migration, in other words, people moving within the United States.
We lost to two hundred thousand people and in the
(11:58):
southeast people are moving in every day from all the
failed states, including California. So go back to Rod Lourie. Uh,
you know, I'll talk more about this when we come back.
But he's announced a new policy. Uh, they're gonna they're
gonna force. They're gonna force drug addicts like street addicts,
(12:25):
that if you want to clean needle, you got to
go for treatment and counseling. They're getting rid of that
harm reduction garbage that has killed so many addicts in
San Francisco and here in La. We'll talk to me.
It just seems even San Francisco is getting it and
they're climbing out of the abyss. I just get feel
like the whole country is thriving. And here in LA
(12:49):
we've got Karen Bass hiding all her emails, hiding all
her text messages. You got these belligerent staff members refusing
to respond to reporters to explain what they all did
or didn't do during the fire. I'm telling you, get
out of the bubble of LA for three days and
(13:11):
you'll get whiplash. Your head's gonna snap back seeing how
much fun, how clean, how well run other cities are,
how the gas is much cheaper talk More coming up.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Sixty Moistline eight seven seven Moist eighty six for Friday
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after four o'clock. He'll be coming in for a visit.
Next segment. All right, Oh, oh, big deal. We just
(13:51):
gave away one thousand dollars. We had the contest at
about three twenty. And you know that's part of a
national contest. When you text the word, you're texting against
the whole country. A KFI listener named Vicki one.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
She just won the.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Three twenty content got a thousand dollars for listening to
our show. So congratulations to Vicki. She beat out the
rest of the nation. It's excellent we'd have a winner.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I was talking about a couple of things because I'm
walking around. You know, getting out of California for a
weekend really changes your perspective because you just get numbed
to all the nonsense here.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
And I go to Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
One of my with my wife, one of my sons
is temporarily living there and man, that is a beautiful city.
It is vibrant, it's alive, it's fun, it's young, it's growing.
And I started looking up Charlotte and they've got tons
of a company headquarters that have moved in over the years.
It's really one of the fastest growing cities, like the
(15:00):
fifteenth largest. So this is this is no fluke they're getting.
You know, they got major league teams. And I was
just looking around and it just struck me because in
La you see lots of garbage and homeless people. And
I mean, I told the story last week about the
insane homeless person who chased us with a weapon down
(15:21):
the street and then talking to some wieners in government
offices and they give me their stupid song and dance
about outreach. I don't know. Charlotte, they had almost no
homeless people. They had no garbage on the streets, and
all the neighborhoods were open late and I'm and it
(15:43):
was just it was just clean and free and easy.
You're not looking over your shoulder to see if you're
going to get assaulted. They don't have a government who
worries about the rights of mental patients and drug addicts.
And vagrants, and it looks like San Francisco is climbing
out of the abyss because I got several articles in
(16:03):
the last a week or so. But Daniel Lurie, and
again he's a business guy. When we had our shot
at a business guy, we elected Karen Bass, who really
is a terrible disaster, which is why she's hiding all
her text messages and emails about the fire because she's
really awful at her job. She's terrible. Well is Rod Lurie.
(16:26):
I'd rather Daniel Lurie's taken over. And as I said,
he's part of the Levi Strauss family. He's running on
profit for twenty years and he knows what's wrong and
he's going to fix it. And one of the things
he's doing with drug addiction, he's cracking down on the
(16:49):
fentanyl crisis. They're going to forcefully push drug treatment on
drug users who want clean needles.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Who was it we had on the.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Other day and they said, if you go downtown to
skid row, you don't see any treatment centers for all
the homeless people. There's no services at all except they
were handing out free needles. There was a black van
well in San Francisco. They're not gonna do that anymore.
(17:21):
They see the ideas you sit out street workers and
you give them sterile syringes and clean smoking kits, foil
pipes and straws, so that they don't catch diseases, except
that they die of addiction. The strategy is said is
(17:45):
said to be meeting addicts where they are. I hate
phrases like that. See go, you go meet the attic
where he is, you know, laying face down on the sidewalk,
and you shove clean needles and smoking paraphernalia so they
don't catch HIV or hepatitis. Meantime, they die of a
(18:10):
drug overdose, and the strategy is to work. It's a failure.
It's been a failure for many years. And Laurie says,
we're seeing people die of overdoses.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
We have to make a change.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
He said, the days of San Francisco handing out drug
supplies without sending people to treatment are over.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
With all people.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Dying of fentael overdoses. They're not going to do it anymore.
And the Trump administration says it's revoking billions of dollars
in federal grants that help fund mental health at addiction
services across the country because all this stuff doesn't work.
(19:00):
We're wasting money, and you got more drug addicts than ever,
more homeless people than ever.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
It's just all got to come to an end.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
But you and you know what he does. He walks around, Glorie,
He walks around the city, and he says things.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Like, why is there trash and a bus shelter?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And he finds out because of the bureaucracy, Well, we
don't do trash pickups on Saturdays and Sundays. And he says, well,
people still take the bus on Saturdays and Sundays. We
have tourists from all over the world coming here. We
have to be a twenty four to seven city, and
often we're a city that's nine to five Monday through Friday. See,
it's stuff like that, obvious stuff. Why aren't you picking
(19:46):
up trash twenty four to seven? There should be three shifts.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Of trash. People work in the streets.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
And here in Los Angeles do we even have a
sanitation department anymore? I can't tell. So disgusting in so
many areas of the city. So he's not putting up
with it anymore. And I'm reading this, you know, after
spending the weekend in Charlotte and then reading this about
the San Francisco mayor, and everybody seems to be happy
(20:17):
with him.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
He's got a long way to go, he's got a
lot of.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Work to do, but it seems like he wants to
do it, and he knows what kind of work is
supposed to be done. And it's not going to be
this coddling progressive nonsense anymore, which has failed.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
They had their run for ten years and it failed,
so no more. But there's another component to it, which
I suspect is really the root of the problem here
in LA and we've talked about it a lot, and
we're going to talk about it much more in the
coming months. Is all the corruption. It's like all these
(20:52):
nonprofits know that none of this works. They're stealing the money,
and I think the people in government are getting kicked
back or they're engineering the theft because it's their relatives
and friends and political donors and everybody's brother and sister
and brother in law. And maybe the fever broken San
(21:15):
Francisco now, but it hasn't broken here yet. We've got
an idiot mayor and an idiot city council President Marquise,
And between Bass and Marquise, they won't release any of
their they're breaking the law. They won't release their texts
and their emails from the fire days. So looks like
(21:37):
we're going to be the last city in the country
that wakes up. I was just seeing a story in Seattle.
There's a resolution to admit that their policy of defunding
the police was wrong. All the progressive garbage filth feces
over the last five years, Most cities, most states are
(21:58):
abandoning it. It's over except here in LA And you
think the fire would would be the breaking point?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
All right?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Coming up another controversial idea, and we've talked about this
for a long time. Should you pay for the healthcare
of people who have bad habits? Often they want to
ban certain kinds of foods or drink, or they want
to tax it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
How about if it's uh, it's.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Just hey, you know what, I'm not paying for your
I'm not paying for your health insurance. I'm not contributing
to your health insurance coverage. Why why should we pay
because you eat badly or you live badly.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
We'll talk about it. We come back.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI SI.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Robert Kennedy said something that I remember talking about a
long time ago. Why why should we pay for people
if they have really horrible habits and then they're gonna
get sick, and then my tax money has to go
and pay for their bills. So, Kennedy, you know who's
now the Secretary of Health and Human Services. He talked
(23:21):
to a CBS News medical correspondent, the chief medical correspondent,
a doctor named John Lapouq. Lapouq and Kennedy said, if
you're smoking three packs of cigarettes a day, should you
expect society to pay when you get sick? Should you
expect society to care for you when you predictably get
very sick? Because he eat donuts all day or drinks
(23:45):
sodas and he's not He made it clear he's not
talking about taking your choices away. Go ahead and do
it if you want, but you know what's coming is
they're going to have to cut Medicare and Medicaid because
it's extremely expensive and it eats up a huge section
of the budget. And I think he's throwing out a
(24:07):
trial balloon here he goes when the I think what
he's saying is when the cuts come, how do we
cut the people who are costing us money because they
just can't control themselves. He didn't explicitly suggest limiting medicaid
benefits because you eat too many donuts, but West Virginia
(24:28):
actually limited Medicaid about oh seventeen years ago if patients
did not follow healthy behaviors and signed a personal responsibility agreement.
But when Obama took over, he pulled the federal approval
for that. That's you know, it gives you free of them.
(24:48):
At the same time, I don't want to pay for
it because we're going bankrupt. Something's got to get cuts
good way here, Yes, sir, yes, sir, nice to see it. Man.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 8 (25:02):
Oh man, that's loud in here, loud in here.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Hey.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
I got a lot going on today. Tons going on.
Speaker 9 (25:07):
First, we had the earthquake, which I don't know. It
was sort of nobody cared. If you lived in LA
you probably didn't even feel it. But I guess we
have a big enough audience. So we have talked about
that Alex Stone with that earthquake. And then we have
doctor Lucy Jones. She'll tell us she doesn't know if
this is the big one or not. And then we
have Stephen Coolbanck will be with us. I know you've
had him on your program.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Cool dude.
Speaker 9 (25:29):
George Nori is coming on with us. We're gonna check
out with George. We do that once a year. And
then Matt money Smith talk about Jed the Fish, who
was a great radio personality passed away. So we've got
a lot going on. And the Masters. Did you look
at the Masters? I saw one hole.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
The last one, hopefully the next to last one right
before the playoffs.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Oh I see, okay, all right, so on the eighteenth Yeah,
and then they did the eighteenth thing.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
Yeah, that was a great It was a great tournament. Man,
it was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
With the and we we're going to cover the women
who went to Space. And I have to be thinking
that most of them were all saying.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
Please don't sing, Katie, please don't sing, because.
Speaker 9 (26:19):
If Katie Perry singing in a small room, you have
to look at her.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
You know, you can't look out the window.
Speaker 9 (26:25):
You have twelve minutes of your life to look out
a window that nobody else will ever see. And Katie
Perry starts singing, you have to look at her and
you can't ignore her. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
She said, that's coming up, she said, she did. She did, Yeah, yeah,
I did. Stare at her. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 9 (26:44):
And by the way, they keep calling these women astronauts.
I don't know if that's fair to you know, to
guys who you know, were the first guys in space
or guys spent you know, a year in space.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Right, yeah, nobody knows the name of the real astronauts.
Speaker 8 (26:58):
Right when I fly to Vague, I'm not a captain
of that plane. I'm a pack I sit on it.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
You know.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
All Right, lots going on today.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
John all right, kN way's next. He's gong with you.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Curge has got the news live in the CAFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John
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