April 7, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (04/07) - Va Lecia Adams Kellum resigned as the head of LAHSA on Friday right after we got off the air. John has been dealing with a homeless person near his house. There was a scandal in Cambridge, MA involving a high end brothel and politicians.
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Today's a momentous day. I don't know how many people
we have thrown in the dumpster over the last ten years,
A dozens and dozens and dozens, probably into the triple figures.
And this is the first time I can remember that.
As soon as we threw somebody in the dump dumpster,
the next business day they resigned. Apparently that's the ultimate humiliation,
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is to be thrown in the dumpster on our show.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I don't realize you had so much power.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I didn't either, but I think I'm gonna start using it.
I mean, this is the way to get rid of
bad government workers, bad politicians.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, you have a few still on your lists.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It's a long list. But it is a momentous day
because Vlicia Adams Kellum, the head of the Los Angeles
Homeless Services Authority, announced her resignation. Oh look at that
on Friday. Now this was not news. Let me see. Yeah,
here's right. Updated seven to fourteen pm Pacific time. Michael
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Monks literally right after you left, came running down the
hall and saw me and Ray and was like, did
John already leave? Did he hear what happened? So as
soon as we threw her in the dumps, literally as
soon as you got off the airs when he told
us it happened, So just as she was hitting the
bottom of the dumpster. Basically, she decided to resign as
soon as Deborah spitt all over her.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yes, it was my spittle.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, she said, Oh, I've had it. I'm at the
bottom of a dumpster and I got this crazy woman
spitting all over me. Vlicia Adams Kellum, Yeah, she resigned
on Friday, and on Thursday, the LA County Board of
Supervisors defunded her by three hundred and forty eight million dollars.
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If you don't know how this works, the Los Angeles
Homeless Services Authority, known as LASA, is a joint county
city venture. County gives your tax money if you live
in La County, the city gives La City tax money.
And the county said, enough of this. This is a disaster.
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And what sunk her was the audits that have been done,
most recently by the federal judge David o'carter. He commissioned
an audit that found out that there were billions, b
billions of dollars unaccounted for, like two over two million
dollars I think two and a half two and a
half billion, and it was spent, but they don't know
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if where it went exactly and if it did any good.
And they had released homeless numbers just a few days ago.
The annual homeless count was in January, and they were
claiming that the homeless numbers were down five percent, and
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it's like, whooah, we've got we've got over seventy I
think seventy five thousand homeless people in the county and
it's down five percent, so we still have seventy thousand plus.
And then they were waving the flag like this, this
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is time for a great celebration, a great success because
the number went down five percent, although at this rate,
it would take until the year twenty forty five to
get all the homeless people off the streets. But you
know they'll be replaced by a new generation because they
don't enforce the law here. And I have a story
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about that coming up. I've had to deal with that
just today, about the city not enforcing the law. Delicia
Adams Kellam resigned and the thing is, all these political
hacks were saying nice things about her on the way out.
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Wendy Gruel, who's such a terrible politician, and if you
remember her, she used to be a city council woman.
She was so bad she lost to Eric Arcetti for mayor.
That's how bad. She described Adam Kellam's departure as a
loss for the agency because she brought down homelessness. You
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know that five percent according to their numbers, if you
believe you can count all the homeless people in the county.
We brought her to be a change agent, and she's
been a change agent. Notice, Weddy Grill does not address
the two and a half billion dollars that's unaccounted for.
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Adams Callum has been running the agency for only two
years as it underwent According to the Times, a historic
growth spurt, new funds flowing into homelessness programs, but faced
heightened criticism for disjointed services, poor account poor accounting. I'd say,
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can you imagine not knowing where two and a half
billion dollars went, and ultimately the inability to reduce the
number of people on the streets. Yeah, claiming two weeks
before you're defunded that things are down five percent and
not providing any proof. That's why I didn't believe that number,
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because the came out and they had to counter with something,
Oh no, no, but the numbers went down. Yeah, okay,
sure they did so in the last five months. The
two audits found lacks accounting procedures, poor financial oversight, loss
of millions of dollars. What they also didn't mention in
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all those first paragraphs that a story that came out
in February, and this was from Public Radio las dot com,
is that Valicia Adams Kellum signed a two million dollar
contract to send that money to a nonprofit where her
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husband works, Edward Kellem. He's one of the senior leaders
Upward Boundhouse is the name of the nonprofit since Santa
Monica Adams Kellum, Valicia Adams them signed the two million
dollar payout. Now that breaks the law because California has
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conflict of interest laws that banned public officials from any
involvement in contracts in which they have a financial interest,
including agreements that benefit their spouse or any group that
pays their spouse. So Luisi Adams Kellum signs the contract
and then told everybody that she stuck to the rules,
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that she had been walled off and completely recused herself
from business relating to Upward Bound, where her husband works
as one of the leaders. That's where she claimed publicly.
And then LASD which is a news service, investigated and
found the contracts, and they printed the contracts and I'm
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looking at him right now, and I see her signature.
Look at that one two three times. She signed a
contract on May the on March the twelfth of twenty
twenty four. Here's another one March twelfth, another one on
May twenty second, So she actually signed three times on
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two different days. It was a main contract and two amendments.
And then she tried to claim that she had inadvertently
signed the contracts three times, that you know, somebody accidentally
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put them on her desk and she didn't read that
it was going to upward Bound. In fact, I'm looking
at the contract and at the top it says for
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, and the attom half says
for Upward Boundhouse. In other words, she's signing it for LASSA.
And then someone named Christine miraor C. Glasgow. What is
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with all the multiple names Felicia Adams Kellum and Christine
Mira C. Glasgow. That is seven names for two women.
Oh excuse me, Felicia Adams Kellum is a doctor, not
a medical doctor. Seven names for two people, two point
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one million dollars for her husband's nonprofit. And then she
said she didn't break any rules her signatures all. How
come she wasn't forced to resign immediately, so she lied.
There's billions of dollars that have disappeared. She claims right
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before she got defunded that she lowered the UH homeless
rate by five percent, which I flat out don't believe
because hey, she also said she didn't break any rules.
Now we come back, I want to tell you about
this homeless situation that's dealing with not far from my house.
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I think it's getting resolved, but we'll see you're.
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twenty five thousand. So today we've got great news. I
guess as soon as we threw the head of LASA
into the dumpster, within minutes, Felicia Adams Callum said, Okay,
that's enough. That is enough. I have now been thrown
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in the dumpster and the ultimate humiliation, and she quit
as the head of Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. It's
a few days after the bort of supervisors stripped her
out of three hundred and fifty million dollars. Hundreds of
workers are going to be transferred out now because she
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was really bad at her job. She's stunk at her job.
And I cannot stand going through the Times and reading
all these hacked politicians, including the idiot Karen Bass praise her.
Homelessness is still horrible in this county. They've blown billions
of dollars. They don't know where the money's gone. And
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she gave away millions of dollars to her husband's nonprofit
and lied about it. Broke the law and then lied
about it. She didn't think anybody would look for the contracts,
and she got caught. Now, I'm especially animated today because
I had been dealing with a homeless guy in my
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town and he's been living on Santa Sante Boulevard on
the west side. And a couple of saturdays ago, my
wife and I are driving east on the stand of
the Scente Boulevard and we look over to the other
side and there's a crazy homeless guy. And my wife said, oh,
he's been there a few days. She has friends who
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notified her. She looked over, slowed down the car. My
wife took the guy's photo. He saw it, and he
charged us. He ran across the westbound lanes and ran
across the median, and he was carrying a huge stick
or a pipe. He had a weapon. See, this guy
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had set up double sized camp. Wasn't just a tent,
wasn't a bedroll. This was a structure. I don't know
what the hell it was made of, but it was
like a double size structure. And he had shelves filled
with various goods or he had trays or blankets out.
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It was like it was like collection, and it was
stuff he's stolen, maybe from our neighborhood. This wasn't far
from our neighborhood. So he has all this stolen stuff out.
I don't know if he's carrying it around or he's
trying to sell it to other homeless people. But he
was crazy, angry, and turns out he's one of these
guys that they can't seem to put away because he's uncooperative.
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And so this is a guy who you know, Valicia
Adams Kellam or now these these county supervisors with their
new agency, you have to come and get this guy
off the street and put him in a mental institution,
forced drug treatment, forced mental institution. I talked to Tracy
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Park today, or councilwoman who's maybe the only sane person
in LA government, and she's now on the case to
get this guy finally removed. But he tried, all right,
So I interrupt to my own story. He's running across
two lanes of traffic on the other side of the boulevard,
runs across the median, and we're driving east. Well, he
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takes a turn with the big stick or the pipe
and starts running after our car and we hit the
gas and I'm looking ahead thinking, well, should we blow
the light, you know, because he's running hard, because you know,
if they're on meth or something, they have superhuman capabilities.
Or maybe he's got a gun. Maybe he's going to
start shooting at us. This is absolutely insane, and he's
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camped out on a sidewalk, so first of all, it's
an ADA violation. Secondly, he's got a lot of stolen
garbage and he's blocking the sidewalk that leads to the
business district on San Vacente. There's a major drug store
just three lots away from him. There's a well known
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gift shop two lots away from him. He perched in
front of the empty lot that's owned by a former
billionaire named Charles Munger who died he was ninety eight
years old. Billionaire, and he couldn't build anything on the
empty lot because the neighborhood always complained that there's too
much traffic or not enough parking. So now we've got
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a big empty lot, excellent for homeless people. Always. You
either can climb the fence and start camping on the
grass area, or you can set up shop in front
and there's nobody who's going to complain and this is
why am I dealing with this? The Supreme Court said,
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these guys have no right to live in public places.
They don't. There's no constitutional right. They're cray z. They're
mentally ill. This guy's deeply mentally ill, and he's violent.
What's the if you chase somebody with a with a
stick or a pipe and it looks like you want
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to hit them? Is that assault with the deadly weapon?
I think it is. Anyway, hopefully it's being taken care of.
But uh yeah, And then I read about you know
this Vlicia Adams Kellum. You know, she's she's making a
double what the old homeless director is making. She's given
two million dollars to her husband. She's got all these idiot,
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idiot politicians. Oh here here's the Karen Bass quote. She
praised Adams Kellum for her bold vision. What bold vision?
They couldn't pick up one violent, insane person on my street.
And Adam's Kellum is Karen Bass's buddy. It's like Denise
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KEINONEZ with Karen Bassi's buddy. This is this is just
just a whole group of incompetent, awful, incompetent politicians and bureaucrats.
She said, despite knowing that LASA was broken, she answered
the call of service to service CEO because she knows
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that above all else, we must work to save lives.
The call of service. She's making hundreds of thousands of dollars,
and she gave her husband's nonprofit two million the call
of service, and they lost track of billions of dollars.
The Call of Service Times actually prints this crap. She
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helped us move the needle to save lives, restore neighborhoods,
and show homelessness can be solved, can be solved. All
she's claiming is five percent, And I think that's a lie.
Am I crazy? All right? We're coming up and then
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after after two o'clock this other nutty story. LA County
settle the sex abuse lawsuit four billion dollars, seven thousand claims,
four billion, and we are going to talk to Patrick McNicholas,
whose law firm is representing twelve hundred of the plaintiffs.
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That's coming up after two o'clock.
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the brothels still going in Boston. Shockingly, it has to
do with the politicians, among others. This is something else.
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It is Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard is in Cambridge, isn't it. Yes,
this was an elite, high end brothel that charged up
to six hundred dollars an hour for sexual encounters. What
do you get for six hundred dollars? I couldn't tell
you I mean, what more can they do, I don't know,
luxury apartments and it was right near Harvard University, and
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they got biotech executives, doctors, lawyers, and politicians. You had
to fill out applications and handover IDs, work badges and
personal references to get in the brothel, to become a
member of the club. Yet to show that you're connected
to some high tech company or you're you're a doctor
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or a.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Lawyer, because those guys need it.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
They're under a lot of pressure. You know, there's but
there's and a lot of desire builds up over the
course of the day. Okay, six hundred dollars an hour,
and uh so, anyway, the the federal prosecutors got in
and they have all the records, so they know who
these people are, and they're releasing names.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
There's no privacy anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
No now, you know, if you think if you think
you can enjoy a private brothel and that the records
are going to kept secret, not if the federal government
gets involved. This is what the federal government's doing though. Okay, yeah,
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all the thing's going on. Here's a bunch of horny
guys take a in the middle of the day, drop
six hundred, they're dropping a lot more than six hundred.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Are they going to be taxed?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
The Cambridge City Councilman Paul Turner is among the alleged
sex buyers, and now everybody wants him to resign. Oh,
and it says he's been stripped of committee assignments. That's
a clever writer there at the Wall Street Journal. It's
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called the Cambridge Brothel hearings. Others have quit their jobs
in business and medicine without explanation. So far, thirty names
have been released. And the brothel they had these young
Asian women who had names like Tulip and Tiki. They
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chose these locations because they were trying to attract rich
and power, powerful man who wanted to buy sex. Oh yeah,
they had a Washington office and that's where they lured
some wealthy people, like next time you're in Boston, you
might want to come to our private club. So they've
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also arrested people in Virginia. Now here's now. You know,
I'm reading about these guys, and some of these guys
have done really good work that might be useful for society.
And I wonder, and I'm serious about this, I wonder
is it worth bringing him down for having like a
weird sexual proclivity when there's so many other good things
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they're doing. Now they're going to be forced out of
their job. So I'm going to explain a couple of
these guys. You can tell me what you think. Jonathan
land Fear, he's fifty six. He's the CEO of Hybersell,
a biotech firm focused on novel cancer therapies. They found
his ideas from an old company he worked for, a
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named Taquida Pharmaceuticals, and his driver's license and credit card
and even a selfie we're all found on the brothel phone. Now,
they had records that land Fear arranged for sex at
least ten times, and he was interested, particularly about a
woman named Wren. You like the bird? Yes. The brothel
confirmed Wren's availability, but warned only GF E services no
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BB services. GFE stands for the Girlfriend Experience, which a
prosecutor said is a more intimate experience BB which they
said no BB services is H stands for a bareback.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Okay, can I ask a question?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yes, real quick?
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Anybody under age? I'm trying to be trying to figure
out the legalities here.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
It's it's they call it young Asian women, but it
didn't say that they were under age, under age, were
they trafficked, it's not, it's it's not clear. Well, because if.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
They're not underage and they're not traffic then I don't
really care what these people do in their downtime, their
private time.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Right, Yeah, I mean it says you're anti sex trafficking
groups are are happy with with what's going on here.
They usually and the police usually target sex traffickers and workers,
so it could be, but they're saying specifically, but.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
If they are traffic trafficking, well then yeah, they shouldn't
be doing that.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah, they should be fired. Yeah they're they're bad people.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
But if they're consenting adults, then that's a whole different story.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah, the madam, they still use that.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
It's just so crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
The madam. She was very picky about clients. She wanted
clients to provide information like the work ideas and the
references from existing customers or other brothels. Wow, we're not
gonna let you come in here and screw anybody. Okay,
we want to hear from other people you've screwed, right, Okay,
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they said. She vetted clients to screen out law enforcement
because her attorneys say she cared about the safety of
her workers. Born into poverty in South Korea, she was
a sex worker for years until becoming a madam. She
let the women keep more than half the proceeds and
allowed them to decline to perform certain services if they chose. Now.
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Going back to land Fear, he arranged for sex ten times,
and the woman named Wren Landfear agreed to pay three
hundred and forty dollars an hour. He didn't know that
the FEDS had installed hallway cameras in the complex, and
he was stopped by detectives on the way out. One questioned,
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Landfear said he was visiting a friend. I guess that's true,
visiting a come if you've been with someone ten times,
I guess at some point they become a friend. His
attorney is saying, well, there's a lot of conclusions that
are being drawn. That's not sufficient evidence to back up
those conclusions. But the thing is, if he's working on
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sex therapies, I mean, maybe you know, we need him.
We need to give m a pass here. You know,
he needs to do whatever he needs to do.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
They're fine, that's fine, as long as as long as
they are consenting adults.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Yeah, I guess he wouldn't know though, if they were
trafficked or not.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Well, he could ask, and he could ask the women
the girls, Yeah, are you here because you want to
be here?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I'm probably not going to tell the truth. Oh here
here's another guy, Uh, Honor rog bush Pey trained at
MIT Mechanical Engineer. His innovations earned him a spot on
Scientific American's annual Top ten World Changing ideas. Well, it's
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a brilliant mind. Yeah, he's probably alone a lot, and
he needs the girlfriend experience once in a while.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
He needs that.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
But I'm saying, if we've got we've got one guy's
literally changing the world.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Get it, I get it.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
And then another one is uh has cancer therapies that
no one's ever heard of before. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Again, I don't care what kind of sexual experiences people
are into, as long as the people that they're into
are consenting and not they're not trafficked.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Well, I've heard about your taste in television shows. I
know nobody these sexual experiences bother you as well as
you could watch.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Actually that's not true.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
There's a new a new show out that I was
talking to with with Shannon that I not my deal?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Oh what is it?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Dying for Sex? It stars Michelle Williams.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
It's brand new, It's on Hulu, and I'll just quickly
give you.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
A sex with dead people.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
No, she has cancer, terminal cancer, and there's certain things
sexually that she wants to experience before she dies, and
some of those things I cannot relate to at all.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
That's all I'm going to be saying.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Okay, network is that Hulu?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Can I tell you what one thing? Spoiler alert? Okay,
spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Well you do watch anything that No. I just I've
heard you probably have two dozen conversations with Shannon on
the air about this stuff. I know.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
A guy dresses up as a dog and barks. Okay,
I'm sorry, but that.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
No doesn't turn you on.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
No, it does the exact opposite.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Trying to think if I came home my wife.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Wanted me, Well, yeah, your wife, debris is John.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Here's a dog outfit.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Okay, put it on and then sit and stay and
heal and lay down.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
And roll over.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Where do I get in return? Whenever she was we
can negotiate.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
And somebody's filming it.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
After you got a screw loose.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Yeah, and now I'm working with Shannon, so I have.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
No help for me your damage.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
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am sixty.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
What is that that name of that show again with
the woman and the guy who dresses up as a dog,
And I should, I.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Really should get some kind of promotetional fee out of
this dying for such on Hulu and it starts Withchelle Williams.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
It's a good cast. See Spasic is in there. I mean,
it's a very good cast, but it's.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
It's it's it's cool things I don't want to see.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
You know, Yeah, you would not want to see some
of these.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I don't think it was the stomach for that. Coming
up after two o'clock, Patrick McNicholas. He represents twelve hundred
of the victims at a seven thousand who got this
massive settlement with LA County, which is, if you're living
in LA County, it's you the taxpayer. You're going to
be paying out four billion dollars or your children will,
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your grandchildren will because they're going to have to borrow
billions of dollars that will not be paid off till
the year twenty to fifty one. Seriously, and this is
a tentative settlement between the county and the lawyers representing
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the victims. Again, one of those lawyers, Patrick McNicholas, is
coming on our show. This seems to be the largest
settlement ever in a sex abuse case. It involved children
teenagers who were in the juvenile facilities of La County
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and the foster homes. In fact, one of the cases,
some of the cases go back to nineteen fifty nine. Now,
I understand that if you've been sexually attacked, raped when
you were very young by government employees, the only thing
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left is to give you some money. But how come
I have to pay for some sexual attack that happened
in nineteen fifty nine. Why are we paying for stuff
that happened before we were born? Why not? I don't understand.
Why not all the all the employees who did these acts,
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make them pay, liquid date them, and the supervisors who
knew about it and were complaint to, and the political officials,
anybody who's still alive, they should pay this because this
is not something as a taxpayer we can control. I mean,
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I wasn't around here for decades, that for many of
the decades this lawsuit covers, and I I have I
have to pay for this. It's one thing. It's like, well,
look who you voted for. It's like I did. Even
if I voted for somebody twenty years ago. I don't
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know who was hired to run a particular agency, or
who that director hired to do all the normal jobs
in a prison system. Or I didn't pick the parents
in foster care who were sexually abusing and raping the children.
I didn't do any of this. I didn't have control.
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It's one thing to, you know, blame voters, and voters
are often guilty. But this is administrative stuff. You know.
This is like blaming me for sexual abuse going on
to McDonald's because I was a customer. This is ridiculous.
Four billion dollars and we must know the names of
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the government workers or these foster families who did all
the abuse. How come they're not released. I don't know.
I don't understand any of four billion dollars. And we're
paying till twenty fifty one. And it says this is
going to seriously a significant impact on the county's budget
for years to come. Well, we already got enough problems
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that can't be fixed. I mean, we can't fix the home. Oh,
this place is really going to hell. They don't have
the money to get the homeless people off the street
and set up mental health clinics. And now we got
to spend four billion dollars for the next twenty six years.
I don't know. We're gonna talk to Patrick McNicholas, the
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Today's a momentous day. I don't know how many people
we have thrown in the dumpster over the last ten years,
A dozens and dozens and dozens, probably into the triple figures.
And this is the first time I can remember that.
As soon as we threw somebody in the dump dumpster,
the next business day they resigned. Apparently that's the ultimate humiliation,
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is to be thrown in the dumpster on our show.
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I don't realize you had so much power.
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I didn't either, but I think I'm gonna start using it.
I mean, this is the way to get rid of
bad government workers, bad politicians.
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Well, you have a few still on your lists.
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It's a long list. But it is a momentous day
because Vlicia Adams Kellum, the head of the Los Angeles
Homeless Services Authority, announced her resignation. Oh look at that
on Friday. Now this was not news. Let me see. Yeah,
here's right. Updated seven to fourteen pm Pacific time. Michael
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Monks literally right after you left, came running down the
hall and saw me and Ray and was like, did
John already leave? Did he hear what happened? So as
soon as we threw her in the dumps, literally as
soon as you got off the airs when he told
us it happened, So just as she was hitting the
bottom of the dumpster. Basically, she decided to resign as
soon as Deborah spitt all over her.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yes, it was my spittle.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, she said, Oh, I've had it. I'm at the
bottom of a dumpster and I got this crazy woman
spitting all over me. Vlicia Adams Kellum, Yeah, she resigned
on Friday, and on Thursday, the LA County Board of
Supervisors defunded her by three hundred and forty eight million dollars.
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If you don't know how this works, the Los Angeles
Homeless Services Authority, known as LASA, is a joint county
city venture. County gives your tax money if you live
in La County, the city gives La City tax money.
And the county said, enough of this. This is a disaster.
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And what sunk her was the audits that have been done,
most recently by the federal judge David o'carter. He commissioned
an audit that found out that there were billions, b
billions of dollars unaccounted for, like two over two million
dollars I think two and a half two and a
half billion, and it was spent, but they don't know
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if where it went exactly and if it did any good.
And they had released homeless numbers just a few days ago.
The annual homeless count was in January, and they were
claiming that the homeless numbers were down five percent, and
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it's like, whooah, we've got we've got over seventy I
think seventy five thousand homeless people in the county and
it's down five percent, so we still have seventy thousand plus.
And then they were waving the flag like this, this
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is time for a great celebration, a great success because
the number went down five percent, although at this rate,
it would take until the year twenty forty five to
get all the homeless people off the streets. But you
know they'll be replaced by a new generation because they
don't enforce the law here. And I have a story
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about that coming up. I've had to deal with that
just today, about the city not enforcing the law. Delicia
Adams Kellam resigned and the thing is, all these political
hacks were saying nice things about her on the way out.
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Wendy Gruel, who's such a terrible politician, and if you
remember her, she used to be a city council woman.
She was so bad she lost to Eric Arcetti for mayor.
That's how bad. She described Adam Kellam's departure as a
loss for the agency because she brought down homelessness. You
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know that five percent according to their numbers, if you
believe you can count all the homeless people in the county.
We brought her to be a change agent, and she's
been a change agent. Notice, Weddy Grill does not address
the two and a half billion dollars that's unaccounted for.
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Adams Callum has been running the agency for only two
years as it underwent According to the Times, a historic
growth spurt, new funds flowing into homelessness programs, but faced
heightened criticism for disjointed services, poor account poor accounting. I'd say,
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can you imagine not knowing where two and a half
billion dollars went, and ultimately the inability to reduce the
number of people on the streets. Yeah, claiming two weeks
before you're defunded that things are down five percent and
not providing any proof. That's why I didn't believe that number,
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because the came out and they had to counter with something,
Oh no, no, but the numbers went down. Yeah, okay,
sure they did so in the last five months. The
two audits found lacks accounting procedures, poor financial oversight, loss
of millions of dollars. What they also didn't mention in
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all those first paragraphs that a story that came out
in February, and this was from Public Radio las dot com,
is that Valicia Adams Kellum signed a two million dollar
contract to send that money to a nonprofit where her
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husband works, Edward Kellem. He's one of the senior leaders
Upward Boundhouse is the name of the nonprofit since Santa
Monica Adams Kellum, Valicia Adams them signed the two million
dollar payout. Now that breaks the law because California has
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conflict of interest laws that banned public officials from any
involvement in contracts in which they have a financial interest,
including agreements that benefit their spouse or any group that
pays their spouse. So Luisi Adams Kellum signs the contract
and then told everybody that she stuck to the rules,
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that she had been walled off and completely recused herself
from business relating to Upward Bound, where her husband works
as one of the leaders. That's where she claimed publicly.
And then LASD which is a news service, investigated and
found the contracts, and they printed the contracts and I'm
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looking at him right now, and I see her signature.
Look at that one two three times. She signed a
contract on May the on March the twelfth of twenty
twenty four. Here's another one March twelfth, another one on
May twenty second, So she actually signed three times on
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two different days. It was a main contract and two amendments.
And then she tried to claim that she had inadvertently
signed the contracts three times, that you know, somebody accidentally
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put them on her desk and she didn't read that
it was going to upward Bound. In fact, I'm looking
at the contract and at the top it says for
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, and the attom half says
for Upward Boundhouse. In other words, she's signing it for LASSA.
And then someone named Christine miraor C. Glasgow. What is
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with all the multiple names Felicia Adams Kellum and Christine
Mira C. Glasgow. That is seven names for two women.
Oh excuse me, Felicia Adams Kellum is a doctor, not
a medical doctor. Seven names for two people, two point
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one million dollars for her husband's nonprofit. And then she
said she didn't break any rules her signatures all. How
come she wasn't forced to resign immediately, so she lied.
There's billions of dollars that have disappeared. She claims right
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before she got defunded that she lowered the UH homeless
rate by five percent, which I flat out don't believe
because hey, she also said she didn't break any rules.
Now we come back, I want to tell you about
this homeless situation that's dealing with not far from my house.
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I think it's getting resolved, but we'll see you're.
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twenty five thousand. So today we've got great news. I
guess as soon as we threw the head of LASA
into the dumpster, within minutes, Felicia Adams Callum said, Okay,
that's enough. That is enough. I have now been thrown
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in the dumpster and the ultimate humiliation, and she quit
as the head of Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. It's
a few days after the bort of supervisors stripped her
out of three hundred and fifty million dollars. Hundreds of
workers are going to be transferred out now because she
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was really bad at her job. She's stunk at her job.
And I cannot stand going through the Times and reading
all these hacked politicians, including the idiot Karen Bass praise her.
Homelessness is still horrible in this county. They've blown billions
of dollars. They don't know where the money's gone. And
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she gave away millions of dollars to her husband's nonprofit
and lied about it. Broke the law and then lied
about it. She didn't think anybody would look for the contracts,
and she got caught. Now, I'm especially animated today because
I had been dealing with a homeless guy in my
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town and he's been living on Santa Sante Boulevard on
the west side. And a couple of saturdays ago, my
wife and I are driving east on the stand of
the Scente Boulevard and we look over to the other
side and there's a crazy homeless guy. And my wife said, oh,
he's been there a few days. She has friends who
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notified her. She looked over, slowed down the car. My
wife took the guy's photo. He saw it, and he
charged us. He ran across the westbound lanes and ran
across the median, and he was carrying a huge stick
or a pipe. He had a weapon. See, this guy
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had set up double sized camp. Wasn't just a tent,
wasn't a bedroll. This was a structure. I don't know
what the hell it was made of, but it was
like a double size structure. And he had shelves filled
with various goods or he had trays or blankets out.
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It was like it was like collection, and it was
stuff he's stolen, maybe from our neighborhood. This wasn't far
from our neighborhood. So he has all this stolen stuff out.
I don't know if he's carrying it around or he's
trying to sell it to other homeless people. But he
was crazy, angry, and turns out he's one of these
guys that they can't seem to put away because he's uncooperative.
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And so this is a guy who you know, Valicia
Adams Kellam or now these these county supervisors with their
new agency, you have to come and get this guy
off the street and put him in a mental institution,
forced drug treatment, forced mental institution. I talked to Tracy
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Park today, or councilwoman who's maybe the only sane person
in LA government, and she's now on the case to
get this guy finally removed. But he tried, all right,
So I interrupt to my own story. He's running across
two lanes of traffic on the other side of the boulevard,
runs across the median, and we're driving east. Well, he
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takes a turn with the big stick or the pipe
and starts running after our car and we hit the
gas and I'm looking ahead thinking, well, should we blow
the light, you know, because he's running hard, because you know,
if they're on meth or something, they have superhuman capabilities.
Or maybe he's got a gun. Maybe he's going to
start shooting at us. This is absolutely insane, and he's
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camped out on a sidewalk, so first of all, it's
an ADA violation. Secondly, he's got a lot of stolen
garbage and he's blocking the sidewalk that leads to the
business district on San Vacente. There's a major drug store
just three lots away from him. There's a well known
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gift shop two lots away from him. He perched in
front of the empty lot that's owned by a former
billionaire named Charles Munger who died he was ninety eight
years old. Billionaire, and he couldn't build anything on the
empty lot because the neighborhood always complained that there's too
much traffic or not enough parking. So now we've got
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a big empty lot, excellent for homeless people. Always. You
either can climb the fence and start camping on the
grass area, or you can set up shop in front
and there's nobody who's going to complain and this is
why am I dealing with this? The Supreme Court said,
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these guys have no right to live in public places.
They don't. There's no constitutional right. They're cray z. They're
mentally ill. This guy's deeply mentally ill, and he's violent.
What's the if you chase somebody with a with a
stick or a pipe and it looks like you want
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to hit them? Is that assault with the deadly weapon?
I think it is. Anyway, hopefully it's being taken care of.
But uh yeah, And then I read about you know
this Vlicia Adams Kellum. You know, she's she's making a
double what the old homeless director is making. She's given
two million dollars to her husband. She's got all these idiot,
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idiot politicians. Oh here here's the Karen Bass quote. She
praised Adams Kellum for her bold vision. What bold vision?
They couldn't pick up one violent, insane person on my street.
And Adam's Kellum is Karen Bass's buddy. It's like Denise
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KEINONEZ with Karen Bassi's buddy. This is this is just
just a whole group of incompetent, awful, incompetent politicians and bureaucrats.
She said, despite knowing that LASA was broken, she answered
the call of service to service CEO because she knows
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that above all else, we must work to save lives.
The call of service. She's making hundreds of thousands of dollars,
and she gave her husband's nonprofit two million the call
of service, and they lost track of billions of dollars.
The Call of Service Times actually prints this crap. She
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helped us move the needle to save lives, restore neighborhoods,
and show homelessness can be solved, can be solved. All
she's claiming is five percent, And I think that's a lie.
Am I crazy? All right? We're coming up and then
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after after two o'clock this other nutty story. LA County
settle the sex abuse lawsuit four billion dollars, seven thousand claims,
four billion, and we are going to talk to Patrick McNicholas,
whose law firm is representing twelve hundred of the plaintiffs.
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That's coming up after two o'clock.
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the brothels still going in Boston. Shockingly, it has to
do with the politicians, among others. This is something else.
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It is Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard is in Cambridge, isn't it. Yes,
this was an elite, high end brothel that charged up
to six hundred dollars an hour for sexual encounters. What
do you get for six hundred dollars? I couldn't tell
you I mean, what more can they do, I don't know,
luxury apartments and it was right near Harvard University, and
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they got biotech executives, doctors, lawyers, and politicians. You had
to fill out applications and handover IDs, work badges and
personal references to get in the brothel, to become a
member of the club. Yet to show that you're connected
to some high tech company or you're you're a doctor
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or a.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Lawyer, because those guys need it.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
They're under a lot of pressure. You know, there's but
there's and a lot of desire builds up over the
course of the day. Okay, six hundred dollars an hour,
and uh so, anyway, the the federal prosecutors got in
and they have all the records, so they know who
these people are, and they're releasing names.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
There's no privacy anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
No now, you know, if you think if you think
you can enjoy a private brothel and that the records
are going to kept secret, not if the federal government
gets involved. This is what the federal government's doing though. Okay, yeah,
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all the thing's going on. Here's a bunch of horny
guys take a in the middle of the day, drop
six hundred, they're dropping a lot more than six hundred.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Are they going to be taxed?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
The Cambridge City Councilman Paul Turner is among the alleged
sex buyers, and now everybody wants him to resign. Oh,
and it says he's been stripped of committee assignments. That's
a clever writer there at the Wall Street Journal. It's
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called the Cambridge Brothel hearings. Others have quit their jobs
in business and medicine without explanation. So far, thirty names
have been released. And the brothel they had these young
Asian women who had names like Tulip and Tiki. They
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chose these locations because they were trying to attract rich
and power, powerful man who wanted to buy sex. Oh yeah,
they had a Washington office and that's where they lured
some wealthy people, like next time you're in Boston, you
might want to come to our private club. So they've
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also arrested people in Virginia. Now here's now. You know,
I'm reading about these guys, and some of these guys
have done really good work that might be useful for society.
And I wonder, and I'm serious about this, I wonder
is it worth bringing him down for having like a
weird sexual proclivity when there's so many other good things
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they're doing. Now they're going to be forced out of
their job. So I'm going to explain a couple of
these guys. You can tell me what you think. Jonathan
land Fear, he's fifty six. He's the CEO of Hybersell,
a biotech firm focused on novel cancer therapies. They found
his ideas from an old company he worked for, a
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named Taquida Pharmaceuticals, and his driver's license and credit card
and even a selfie we're all found on the brothel phone. Now,
they had records that land Fear arranged for sex at
least ten times, and he was interested, particularly about a
woman named Wren. You like the bird? Yes. The brothel
confirmed Wren's availability, but warned only GF E services no
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BB services. GFE stands for the Girlfriend Experience, which a
prosecutor said is a more intimate experience BB which they
said no BB services is H stands for a bareback.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Okay, can I ask a question?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yes, real quick?
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Anybody under age? I'm trying to be trying to figure
out the legalities here.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
It's it's they call it young Asian women, but it
didn't say that they were under age, under age, were
they trafficked, it's not, it's it's not clear. Well, because if.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
They're not underage and they're not traffic then I don't
really care what these people do in their downtime, their
private time.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Right, Yeah, I mean it says you're anti sex trafficking
groups are are happy with with what's going on here.
They usually and the police usually target sex traffickers and workers,
so it could be, but they're saying specifically, but.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
If they are traffic trafficking, well then yeah, they shouldn't
be doing that.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah, they should be fired. Yeah they're they're bad people.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
But if they're consenting adults, then that's a whole different story.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah, the madam, they still use that.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
It's just so crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
The madam. She was very picky about clients. She wanted
clients to provide information like the work ideas and the
references from existing customers or other brothels. Wow, we're not
gonna let you come in here and screw anybody. Okay,
we want to hear from other people you've screwed, right, Okay,
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they said. She vetted clients to screen out law enforcement
because her attorneys say she cared about the safety of
her workers. Born into poverty in South Korea, she was
a sex worker for years until becoming a madam. She
let the women keep more than half the proceeds and
allowed them to decline to perform certain services if they chose. Now.
(25:48):
Going back to land Fear, he arranged for sex ten times,
and the woman named Wren Landfear agreed to pay three
hundred and forty dollars an hour. He didn't know that
the FEDS had installed hallway cameras in the complex, and
he was stopped by detectives on the way out. One questioned,
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Landfear said he was visiting a friend. I guess that's true,
visiting a come if you've been with someone ten times,
I guess at some point they become a friend. His
attorney is saying, well, there's a lot of conclusions that
are being drawn. That's not sufficient evidence to back up
those conclusions. But the thing is, if he's working on
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sex therapies, I mean, maybe you know, we need him.
We need to give m a pass here. You know,
he needs to do whatever he needs to do.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
They're fine, that's fine, as long as as long as
they are consenting adults.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Yeah, I guess he wouldn't know though, if they were
trafficked or not.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Well, he could ask, and he could ask the women
the girls, Yeah, are you here because you want to
be here?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I'm probably not going to tell the truth. Oh here
here's another guy, Uh, Honor rog bush Pey trained at
MIT Mechanical Engineer. His innovations earned him a spot on
Scientific American's annual Top ten World Changing ideas. Well, it's
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a brilliant mind. Yeah, he's probably alone a lot, and
he needs the girlfriend experience once in a while.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
He needs that.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
But I'm saying, if we've got we've got one guy's
literally changing the world.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Get it, I get it.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
And then another one is uh has cancer therapies that
no one's ever heard of before. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Again, I don't care what kind of sexual experiences people
are into, as long as the people that they're into
are consenting and not they're not trafficked.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Well, I've heard about your taste in television shows. I
know nobody these sexual experiences bother you as well as
you could watch.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Actually that's not true.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
There's a new a new show out that I was
talking to with with Shannon that I not my deal?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Oh what is it?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Dying for Sex? It stars Michelle Williams.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
It's brand new, It's on Hulu, and I'll just quickly
give you.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
A sex with dead people.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
No, she has cancer, terminal cancer, and there's certain things
sexually that she wants to experience before she dies, and
some of those things I cannot relate to at all.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
That's all I'm going to be saying.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Okay, network is that Hulu?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Can I tell you what one thing? Spoiler alert? Okay,
spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Well you do watch anything that No. I just I've
heard you probably have two dozen conversations with Shannon on
the air about this stuff. I know.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
A guy dresses up as a dog and barks. Okay,
I'm sorry, but that.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
No doesn't turn you on.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
No, it does the exact opposite.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Trying to think if I came home my wife.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Wanted me, Well, yeah, your wife, debris is John.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Here's a dog outfit.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Okay, put it on and then sit and stay and
heal and lay down.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
And roll over.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Where do I get in return? Whenever she was we
can negotiate.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
And somebody's filming it.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
After you got a screw loose.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Yeah, and now I'm working with Shannon, so I have.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
No help for me your damage.
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am sixty.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
What is that that name of that show again with
the woman and the guy who dresses up as a dog,
And I should, I.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Really should get some kind of promotetional fee out of
this dying for such on Hulu and it starts Withchelle Williams.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
It's a good cast. See Spasic is in there. I mean,
it's a very good cast, but it's.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
It's it's it's cool things I don't want to see.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
You know, Yeah, you would not want to see some
of these.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I don't think it was the stomach for that. Coming
up after two o'clock, Patrick McNicholas. He represents twelve hundred
of the victims at a seven thousand who got this
massive settlement with LA County, which is, if you're living
in LA County, it's you the taxpayer. You're going to
be paying out four billion dollars or your children will,
(30:42):
your grandchildren will because they're going to have to borrow
billions of dollars that will not be paid off till
the year twenty to fifty one. Seriously, and this is
a tentative settlement between the county and the lawyers representing
(31:02):
the victims. Again, one of those lawyers, Patrick McNicholas, is
coming on our show. This seems to be the largest
settlement ever in a sex abuse case. It involved children
teenagers who were in the juvenile facilities of La County
(31:24):
and the foster homes. In fact, one of the cases,
some of the cases go back to nineteen fifty nine. Now,
I understand that if you've been sexually attacked, raped when
you were very young by government employees, the only thing
(31:46):
left is to give you some money. But how come
I have to pay for some sexual attack that happened
in nineteen fifty nine. Why are we paying for stuff
that happened before we were born? Why not? I don't understand.
Why not all the all the employees who did these acts,
(32:09):
make them pay, liquid date them, and the supervisors who
knew about it and were complaint to, and the political officials,
anybody who's still alive, they should pay this because this
is not something as a taxpayer we can control. I mean,
(32:33):
I wasn't around here for decades, that for many of
the decades this lawsuit covers, and I I have I
have to pay for this. It's one thing. It's like, well,
look who you voted for. It's like I did. Even
if I voted for somebody twenty years ago. I don't
(32:54):
know who was hired to run a particular agency, or
who that director hired to do all the normal jobs
in a prison system. Or I didn't pick the parents
in foster care who were sexually abusing and raping the children.
I didn't do any of this. I didn't have control.
(33:15):
It's one thing to, you know, blame voters, and voters
are often guilty. But this is administrative stuff. You know.
This is like blaming me for sexual abuse going on
to McDonald's because I was a customer. This is ridiculous.
Four billion dollars and we must know the names of
(33:37):
the government workers or these foster families who did all
the abuse. How come they're not released. I don't know.
I don't understand any of four billion dollars. And we're
paying till twenty fifty one. And it says this is
going to seriously a significant impact on the county's budget
for years to come. Well, we already got enough problems
(33:58):
that can't be fixed. I mean, we can't fix the home. Oh,
this place is really going to hell. They don't have
the money to get the homeless people off the street
and set up mental health clinics. And now we got
to spend four billion dollars for the next twenty six years.
I don't know. We're gonna talk to Patrick McNicholas, the
(34:20):
Plain off Saturney. That's next on The John Cobelt Show.
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