Clash At SFV Homeless Encampment Cleanup (07/31)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (07/31) - Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about protesters and cops clashing at a homeless encampment cleanup operation in Van Nuys this morning. More on the homeless encampment cleanup in Van Nuys today as Mayor Karen Bass showed up and showed a side of her that can only be seen during election season. More on the ridiculous high-speed rail spending in CA. The LA City Council voted to ban the N-word and C-word during meetings.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | KFI AM 640. |
| 0:06.5 | You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the IHeart Radio app. |
| 0:10.5 | We're on every day from one until 4 o'clock. |
| 0:13.3 | And then after 4 o'clock, you go to the podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | Same as the radio show. |
| 0:18.4 | John Cobalt's show on demand and you pick up whatever you missed. |
| 0:21.8 | But since you're here now, you're not going to miss this. |
| 0:24.7 | Michael Monks is here because the big story of the day is an actual cleanup of a fairly large homeless encampment. |
| 0:33.0 | It must be Karen Bass entering election season now. |
| 0:38.2 | They're actually cleaning up encampments. |
| 0:40.8 | It's along Oxnard Street near the 405, near the Burbank Boulevard exit. |
| 0:46.8 | And not only were homeless people being dragged away, but protesters showed up. |
| 0:52.3 | And there was a little bit of mayhem. |
| 0:53.9 | Michael, what was going on? You know, never a day goes by in Los. And there was a little bit of mayhem. Michael, what was going on? |
| 0:55.5 | You know, never a day goes by in Los Angeles without at least a little bit of mayhem. Today, |
| 1:00.1 | no exception, of course. As you noted, this was a homeless camp in Van Nuys near the 405 freeway |
| 1:05.8 | described as the largest homeless camp in the San Fernando Valley. And the cleaning of this site was part of Mayor Bass's Inside Safe program. |
| 1:15.3 | This is her program that she monitors, that she created as part of her election. |
| 1:19.9 | It's in her office where homeless camps are remediated. |
| 1:23.4 | And the folks who are living there can voluntarily agree to receive temporary housing. |
| 1:28.2 | So it's not like their tents and supplies are just taken from them and they're left to rummage |
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