Warner Bros./Paramount Merger (02/27)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (02/27) - Mark Thompson fills in for John! More on LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho being placed on paid administrative leave. Lucid is struggling to turn a profit. Michael Schneider from Variety comes on the show to talk about the Warner Bros. and Paramount merger.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | KFI AM-640. |
| 0:06.5 | You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the I-Heart Radio app. |
| 0:10.4 | Trying to see if I could find anything more out on this Carvalo thing, sort of watching local news coverage of it. |
| 0:19.0 | Everybody's elbowing their way into the Clinton thing, you know, the entire Epstein |
| 0:26.1 | Clinton stuff that went down the end of this week. |
| 0:30.0 | After so long negotiating and navigating, that went down. |
| 0:33.6 | We talked to Royal Oaks about that last hour. |
| 0:36.5 | The big news is the superintendent of L-D, Alberta Carvalo, paid leave. |
| 0:43.2 | I mean, the FBI raided his home, and that's never a good thing, but there haven't been any charges yet. |
| 0:51.5 | So here we are two days after that FBI raid and now he gets the paid leave. |
| 0:59.1 | Not clear exactly where this investigation sits. |
| 1:06.0 | The FBI hasn't accused him of anything specific, |
| 1:18.4 | but it does appear that it's linked to this bot that they worked, |
| 1:22.3 | this AI, all here is the name of the company and this kind of cute bot that they were using. |
| 1:25.9 | Again, the company's gone under, but this chat bot was going to be something that would |
| 1:32.9 | lift LAUSD and it was functional in all these different ways. |
| 1:38.0 | They unveiled it in March of 2024 and then they took it down. |
| 1:45.7 | I mean, it was just not successful. |
| 1:47.5 | And the company, all here, they're called, |
| 1:51.7 | collapsed financially. |
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