1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: And we continue at one five in the afternoon on 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: The John Phillip Show, mister Randy Weggs in Culver City. 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 2: John, I don't know if you believe in the law 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 2: of attraction, but yesterday we did that segment on how 5 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 2: Sandyegan's on average pay three thousand dollars a year in 6 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 2: car repairs and maintenance to their cars because of the 7 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 2: horrible conditions of the roads. And yesterday, when I was 8 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 2: driving home, I hit a pothole and screwed up my 9 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 2: tire and had to get it replaced. Uh oh, I 10 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 2: think I brought that into my life just by talking 11 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:36,599 Speaker 2: about it. 12 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:39,639 Speaker 1: How many words did you use that you can't use 13 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: on this program. 14 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,239 Speaker 2: Well, I didn't notice. I knew I hit something, but 15 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 2: I didn't notice that it screwed up my tire till 16 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 2: this morning when I'm driving to Pilates and I get 17 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 2: a warning that the PSI on my right front tire 18 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 2: is down to twenty. And that's when the bleeps started, 19 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 2: and I turned around and I took my wife's car 20 00:00:58,280 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 2: to Pilates. 21 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 22 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two 23 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our next 24 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:14,320 Speaker 1: guest to the program. He is the host of the 25 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: Evil Thoughts podcast. You can get him online at Joecrummy 26 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: dot com and follow him on x at Joe Crummy 27 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: Joe Crummy Welcome. 28 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 3: Hey John, you're telling me I drive through this for 29 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 3: Randy Tim. I drive through Worl Canyon almost five days 30 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 3: a week, and I can tell you that you got 31 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 3: to get real good at avoiding the potholes and the 32 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 3: misaligned manhole covers, because it'll be worse than Randy. You know, 33 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,279 Speaker 3: you'll leave your front tire right there. 34 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: Well, I mean, some of these roads are so ridiculous. 35 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: I saw one pothole near the radio station the last 36 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: time I was there that was so big you could 37 00:01:55,520 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: fit not half, not three quarters, not eighty percent, not 38 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: ninety five percent, but one hundred percent of Rosie O'Donnell's 39 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: ass inside It. 40 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 4: Evil. 41 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 3: You know, it's it's weird because it's kind of like what, 42 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 3: you know, the late great Spencer Pratt said, you know, 43 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:16,799 Speaker 3: with the amount. 44 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 4: Of money that we spend on you. 45 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:20,919 Speaker 3: Know, whatever, you want to be able to eat off 46 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 3: the streets, and not only should you be or off 47 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 3: the sidewalks or whatever it is, but they ought to 48 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 3: be at least at one piece. 49 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 1: Well, I don't think we've paved a road here, Randy. 50 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,959 Speaker 2: And what the last year, ever since we passed Measure 51 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 2: h LA, we have not paved a road because it 52 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 2: is now city law that if you pave a road, 53 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 2: you have to put in a road diet. 54 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, see that. 55 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 3: You know that doesn't surprise me at all. What surprises me, 56 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 3: if I may, is that people voted for that stupid 57 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 3: sales tax. I'm surprised by that. I'd like to get 58 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 3: your take on that. 59 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 4: I am sure. 60 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 3: I think the the scandal everybody, I'm assuming we're still 61 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 3: counting voats here in Los Angeles for Karen Bass and 62 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 3: Anthia Rahman, assuming we're still counting a win until the 63 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 3: second week of July. 64 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it goes on for a month and a half. 65 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 3: Right, I don't expect anything to change, you know. But 66 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 3: you know, real scandal everybody talks about, you know, I 67 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 3: don't know the scandal is that the late voting drops 68 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 3: or you know, for one particular candidate. You know, I mean, 69 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 3: that's a pretty big scandal. But you know what, I 70 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 3: think the biggest scandal of all is and it's actually 71 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 3: the saddest one of all is that in reality, the 72 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 3: majority of people really did vote for these morons. 73 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 4: They really did. 74 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 3: That to me is a very sobering reality, and it's 75 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 3: really sad. That's the scandal. 76 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: Well, I don't understand what they expect these people to do. 77 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: That's different because go back to the Palisades. We had 78 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: a fire. The mayor was out of town at a party, 79 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: at a cocktail hour. That was in Ghana. We had 80 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: another fire in Boyle Heights. This time where was the mayor. 81 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: She was going to a party at a cocktail party 82 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: at the Obama Library. Nothing has changed. That fire is 83 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: still burning and the fire chief said maybe they'll have 84 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: it out by the end of the week. And the 85 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: people in the neighborhood say they can't breathe. 86 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 3: Right, and the governor declared a state of emergency, etc. 87 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 3: I woke up, was it like Saturday morning, Friday, Saturday morning, 88 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:40,159 Speaker 3: whatever it is. I walk outside, I smelled smoke. I 89 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 3: googled it. I realized what it was. And then the 90 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 3: next day I woke up in my house, I could 91 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 3: smell the smoke. We kind of do fires now the 92 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 3: way we do elections. 93 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 4: You know, it takes weeks to figure it out. 94 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: It really does. Nothing happens in a reasonable amount of 95 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: time here. Nothing the counting of votes, the putting out 96 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: of fires, you name it. We can't do it. 97 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:08,280 Speaker 4: Rebuilding the Palisades, how long do you think it's going 98 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:08,799 Speaker 4: to be? 99 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 3: And you could say the same thing. You know about 100 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 3: the Eating fire too as well. They're the one, you know, 101 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 3: on the other side of town, that's you know, I 102 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 3: have friends of lost of their homes there. How long 103 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 3: is it going to be before those scars are erased 104 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 3: in this city? The Palisades fire fire on the opposite end. 105 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 4: Of town, I'm afraid to say. 106 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,720 Speaker 3: And a lot of it has to do with regulations 107 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:31,280 Speaker 3: and red tape that they claim they were going to 108 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 3: do something about that. 109 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 4: It is going to be multiple decades. It will be 110 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 4: decades before all those scars are erased. 111 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,600 Speaker 3: And it's really amazes me that that you could have 112 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 3: me through Rahman and I've gotten to know her a 113 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 3: lot better, John, I know you guys follow these guys 114 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 3: really closely. 115 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 4: I started to do it. 116 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 3: I listened to her interviews on NPR that she I 117 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 3: couldn't believe when I saw it when I listened to 118 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 3: that interview that what they get away with that anybody 119 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,359 Speaker 3: would vote for these people and expect anything to get 120 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 3: any better. 121 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 4: That's what really shocks me is that there's not much 122 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 4: difference between the two of those candidates, and now we 123 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 4: have a runoff between tweedl D and tweedled dumb and 124 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 4: people are expecting something to change. It's not. Nothing is 125 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 4: going to change. 126 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 3: And it's weird to me that the questions that you know, 127 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:29,239 Speaker 3: Evil Spends the Pratt brought up in the debate about 128 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:31,159 Speaker 3: and these people really want to bed if you're just 129 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 3: talking about homeless, we talk about fire stuff in this amount, 130 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 3: but you know they don't want to bed. You know, 131 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,679 Speaker 3: they want they want drugs. I mean, if we can't 132 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:42,840 Speaker 3: be honest about that or talk about how important that 133 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 3: is as a reason why we're having this problem. And 134 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,279 Speaker 3: it's weird that people continue to vote for this stuff. 135 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 3: Or some of these people voted for measure er, which 136 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 3: again amazes me that you would want to raise your 137 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 3: sales tax. These are people that always claim, you know, 138 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 3: that they're all for affordability, and yet they're the people 139 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 3: that are raising the taxes. And people don't seem to 140 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 3: notice it and I am. To me, that's the thing 141 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 3: that really cracks me up about it. I'm sure there 142 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 3: aren't really that many votes on skid roll that actually 143 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 3: turned the election. You may think otherwise, you know, I mean, 144 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 3: how many people do you think they really rounded up 145 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 3: on skid roll, paid them three bucks, you know, for 146 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 3: their vote and whatever it is. And that's ironic too, 147 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 3: because that's you know, the party is always screaming about 148 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 3: the you know, how important democracy is, but they're not 149 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 3: above paying for your vote. 150 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 4: You know. 151 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 3: I don't even think that that's enough to switch the election. 152 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 3: I think that you and I live in a town 153 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 3: where people actually vote for these bucks. And to me, 154 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 3: that's what cracks me up. 155 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: Well, I think you're right. And if you look at 156 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: what's going on nationally, the same thing happened in New York. 157 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: They ended up with Mom Donnie. The same thing happened 158 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: in Chicago. There was an incumbent Democrat mayor running for reelection. 159 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 1: She lost to a socialist. There's that woman in Seattle 160 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 1: who is the elevator to the top floor. She beating 161 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: the incumbent Democrat. She's now the mayor of Seattle. She's 162 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: a socialist and then there's an election going on today 163 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: in New York where you have a bunch of socialist 164 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: candidates who are running against incumbent Democrats, and it looks 165 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: like the socialists are going to have a really good night. 166 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 3: Yeah. 167 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 4: Well, you know, at what point, you know, do people 168 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 4: actually wake up? And you and I've been here before, 169 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 4: I'm not sure they do. You know. Hl Menkin was an. 170 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 3: American writer and I've been quoting him in my podcast recently. 171 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 3: You know, he was out of here before you and 172 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:43,439 Speaker 3: I were around, but he was one of these newspaper 173 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 3: guys in Baltimore, you know, back in the day. Was 174 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 3: born in the late eighteens and stuff. And he had 175 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 3: a famous quote which I think is still apropos today 176 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 3: and he's been out of here since nineteen fifty six, 177 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 3: but he said something like this. He said, democracy is 178 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 3: the theory that the you know, the public votes for 179 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 3: and gets what it wants, and they deserve to get 180 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 3: it good and hard, you know. And I keep coming 181 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:10,439 Speaker 3: back to that because. 182 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 4: He got it. 183 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 3: I mean that was fifty nineteen fifty six, you know, 184 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 3: he figured that out. 185 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: Do you think that the Democrats are becoming socialist or 186 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 1: do you think that they are just so reflexively against 187 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 1: anything that Trump is for. Because Trump is a businessman, 188 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: because Trump is a capitalist. They are now saying they 189 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 1: are socialist and they want the government to own the 190 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: means of production. And when Trump goes away, they'll start 191 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: voting for the partisan Democrats again and not the socialist candidates. 192 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: Or do you think that they've just gone totally off 193 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: the deep end? The wine moms and people who vote Democrat. 194 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 3: Well, you know you got mom, Donnie, you you know you. 195 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 4: Nathan Rahman has supposedly looked at us the new. 196 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 3: Mom Donnie, and people who actually look on her. You know, 197 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 3: I don't know. I think they're the disliding to the left. 198 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 3: And you know, it's weird because when I was a kid, 199 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 3: they used to talk about Russia and that they were 200 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 3: communists and the state was everything and there was no God. 201 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 3: And the more I think about it, the left is 202 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:16,679 Speaker 3: still worshiping it that same alter because you mentioned it. 203 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 3: You know that the government is the great savior and 204 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 3: will level that playing feel for you, and it's almost 205 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:24,839 Speaker 3: like selling your soul to the devil. You know, you've 206 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 3: got to give up a little freedom and a little 207 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 3: bit of your autonomy, and of course they're going to 208 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 3: take their cut right off the top, but they will 209 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 3: supposedly save you from all of these these horrible things. 210 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 4: The state is the great, is the god to. 211 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 3: The left, and so it makes sense to me they're 212 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 3: going to slide more into the state. The state will 213 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 3: take care of you. The state will do this for you. 214 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:50,079 Speaker 3: The state's the great equalizer. The state during COVID, I mean, 215 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 3: if that wasn't a lefty flex, you know, I don't 216 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 3: know what was. It was all about the state. And 217 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 3: of course the state didn't like you saying stuff the 218 00:10:57,520 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 3: state didn't like, so they came down on you hard 219 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 3: on your first Amendment. 220 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:02,199 Speaker 4: I mean really hard. 221 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,599 Speaker 3: The state was really picky about where you stood in elevators. 222 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 3: It was really picky about an awful lot of stuff. 223 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 3: It was so picky that you could go into a 224 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:12,320 Speaker 3: restaurant but you had to have your mask on and 225 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 3: then when you sat down then you could take it 226 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 3: off and eat and all this crazy stupid stuff that 227 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 3: we did. But it was all cool because the state 228 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 3: was telling you they're saving you from this threatening virus, 229 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:25,840 Speaker 3: and all you have to do is just do what 230 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 3: they say, and there is another thing that cracks me 231 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 3: up about all of this. I just said, it's weird 232 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 3: that people will actually vote for these people, but it's 233 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 3: weird that people really embraced that. They really liked the control, 234 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 3: they really liked thinking the state had their back. People 235 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 3: loved it. There's something about human nature, and that's what 236 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 3: cracks me up about politics. You know, it's so predictable. 237 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 3: You were talking about how people have to hate, you know, 238 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 3: because if it's Trump and reflexively hate, you know, cleaning 239 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 3: up the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. 240 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:57,599 Speaker 4: They're funny. They have guys. 241 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 3: Standing around with those signs saying Team Algae and stuff. 242 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 3: I got to give them pretty funny, but I mean 243 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,319 Speaker 3: that's funny, you know. But I mean it's like they 244 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,080 Speaker 3: just have to hate it. And that's what weirds me 245 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 3: out about politics. It's in one way, it's so boring. 246 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,679 Speaker 4: Because it's so you know, corrupt, and it's so predictable 247 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 4: that you know that, you know, Spencer Pratt didn't have 248 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 4: a prayer's chance, you know, so Bull's chance in the 249 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 4: LA It's so predictable, so you know, and it's so boring. 250 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 3: And on the other hand, I'm fascinated by it because 251 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 3: I see that people actually respond to it, and I 252 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 3: guess it gets down the human nature on some level, 253 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 3: and maybe that's what intrigues me about it. But I'm 254 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 3: stuck between being incredibly bored with it, disgusted with it, 255 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 3: and yet I'm also at the very same time, I'm 256 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 3: fascinated that people actually do it. 257 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: Well. I just can't understand it because you have these 258 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: people who think, Okay, we need to give all of 259 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: this power to the government. We need to tax all 260 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: the billionaires out of existence, we need to push Silicon 261 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 1: Valley out of California, and we need to give the 262 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: government a lot more power. We need to put the 263 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 1: government in charge of the grocery stores, We need to 264 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: put the government in charge all kinds of different things, 265 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 1: your healthcare. And I say to them, you realize you're 266 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:22,199 Speaker 1: talking about the same government that made sure that there 267 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 1: wasn't any water in the fire hydrants. Yeah, and you 268 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: think they could do a better job than Ralphs. 269 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 4: Right the Palisades Reservoir right now is empty. Again. 270 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 3: I hate to bring it up, but it is hopefully 271 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 3: there'll be some water in it to buy you know, 272 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 3: fire season. But then again, it's always fire season in 273 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 3: La again. We got one burning for six days in 274 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 3: Boyle Heights. But yeah, it just amazes me that we 275 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 3: continue to do these things over and over again. I'm 276 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 3: fascinated by human nature and that, you know, this is 277 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 3: just fine with people. 278 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 5: You know. 279 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 3: Again, part of me is bored out of my mind, 280 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 3: and you know, part of me is like, you know, 281 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 3: a fascinated that this stuff flies. 282 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 1: Let's assume for one minute that Nythia Raman gets elected. 283 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: As if bass would be any better, I guess it. 284 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:15,560 Speaker 3: I think, isn't that's leading comfortably right now? 285 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 1: No? No, no, the last pole I saw, I had 286 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: Ramen up by three. Imagine what the world will be 287 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 1: like if the Olympics come to town and we have 288 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: this woman as mayor. 289 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 3: You know, it was funny because you know, I mentioned 290 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 3: I heard her. I was pulling into ralph Speaking of rals, 291 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 3: I was pulling into Ralphs like a week ago, and 292 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 3: I had to you know, NPR on. I love it 293 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 3: because it's so funny to listen to them. I find 294 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 3: it a music. You know, my girlfriend can't stand it, 295 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 3: but I think it's funny. When I listened to them 296 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 3: and they said that our special guest on all things considered, 297 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 3: and she goes. The lady says Nithra Laman, I go, 298 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 3: oh my god, I can't go into the market. 299 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 5: I got to hear this. 300 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 4: It's entertainment for me. 301 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's the funniest stuff on the radio, 302 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 3: almost as funny as you know, but you know, for 303 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 3: different reasons. And you know, and they were asking about 304 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 3: homeless and the lady was trying to make and I 305 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 3: love that that fake veneer of intellectual that you know, 306 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 3: they have, this veneer of intellectual that's slapped on everything 307 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 3: they do out there, just a little bit too smart 308 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 3: for you, you know. And they were asking Nita Ramin 309 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 3: about the homeless. And it was so funny because I 310 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 3: listened to the interview and I even went back the 311 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 3: next day and listen to it again. And after all 312 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 3: this all things considered and all this stuff, they never 313 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 3: really got to the one question that we all want, 314 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 3: that conversation that we need to have in LA is that, 315 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 3: you know, what is to deal with the homeless people? 316 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 3: And do they actually even want a bed in the 317 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 3: first place? Why are we spending six hundred and eighty 318 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 3: million dollars to house thirty people that you know, we 319 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 3: never get to those questions, and yet it's. 320 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 4: Passed off like this was some great interview and that 321 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 4: is how the machine works, and somehow it flies with 322 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 4: the public. 323 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 3: I'm shocked. 324 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 1: How nasty do you think it's going to get between 325 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: those two? 326 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 3: You know? 327 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 2: Uh? 328 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 4: You know, I hope. 329 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 3: I don't know, for entertainment purposes, I hope, but you know, 330 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 3: for entertainment purposes, I hope that Spencer Pratt Reley does 331 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 3: have a dirty claims he does, but if he does, 332 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 3: he's certainly waiting, keeping the you know, his powder dry. 333 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 3: I don't do you think he has anything he said 334 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 3: a week or two ago I got some dirt. I 335 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 3: haven't heard a damn thing about it, and I just 336 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 3: checked again today. 337 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 4: If he does, where is it? 338 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: Okay? So here's my prediction. I think he does have dirt. 339 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: I think it's on bass, and I think it's something 340 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: that she said or sent to the lesbian fire chief 341 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: that she fired. 342 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, who that could be juicy. 343 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 3: Well, you know, see, now we're getting to the whole fire. 344 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 3: The we talk about the homeless, now we talk about fire. 345 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 3: You know what's weird about LA is that there's no 346 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 3: accountability at all. You had billions of dollars of damage, 347 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 3: multiple thousands of homes are gone, and then there's an 348 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 3: after action report. The La Times gets into it. It's 349 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:12,159 Speaker 3: kind of cool and it's like, did the mayor you know, 350 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 3: change the after action report? And people are talking about 351 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 3: it for like twenty four hours and then the damn 352 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 3: thing is still bored. Then it stops. 353 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 4: There is no investigation. I looked it up a couple 354 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 4: of weeks ago. Is there any ongoing investigation? You know? 355 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 4: I don't know. Maybe the fence are gonna get involved 356 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:29,159 Speaker 4: with so I'd like to know. 357 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 3: But I mean, there's there's no accountability that you can 358 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 3: have a fire like that and you can have you know, 359 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 3: the mayor skate on top of that again gets back 360 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,119 Speaker 3: to like, you know, that's the scandal to me that 361 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 3: maybe we're just in LA We're too fat and happy. 362 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 4: It's too nice outside. 363 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 3: I think I'll go out and sit by the pool. 364 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:53,959 Speaker 1: All right, We're gonna have to leave it there. Joe Krummy, 365 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,479 Speaker 1: host of the Evil Thoughts podcast. 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For more, here is ABC 421 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:51,879 Speaker 2: seven in the Bay. 422 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:54,919 Speaker 6: We begin tonight with a shocking story out of the 423 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 6: South Bay, a crime that as of right now is unsolved. 424 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 6: Part of a giant statue at the Vietnamese Heritage Garden 425 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 6: in San Jose was stolen. The statue is worth about 426 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 6: half a million dollars in honors of the Vietnamese. 427 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:11,120 Speaker 1: Oh my, how do you steal a statue? You put 428 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:11,880 Speaker 1: it under your coat. 429 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 2: Probably need a big old saw these community. 430 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 6: While recognizing the connection to the United States, police did 431 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 6: find the statue today, but the thief or thieves are 432 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 6: still out there. ABC seven I win this News. 433 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 1: Reporter j R. 434 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:28,439 Speaker 6: Stone has the story. 435 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 7: A statue that once looked like this now looks like 436 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:36,640 Speaker 7: this half of it is gone. After thieves literally tore 437 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:40,120 Speaker 7: off and then stole the fifteen hundred pound bronze South 438 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 7: Vietnamese soldier from this platform. 439 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 2: It looks like they stole a gigantic army man toy. 440 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: Okay, so let's just say that you are the criminal 441 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: that successfully stole half a statue. Everyone in town knows 442 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 1: that the statue has been stolen. What are you gonna 443 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 1: do it your front yard? Put it on display for 444 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:04,880 Speaker 1: everyone in the neighborhood to see. 445 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 2: Maybe they thought they were going to melt it down 446 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,479 Speaker 2: for the bronze. Who knows meth makes you do some 447 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 2: real dumb things? 448 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,959 Speaker 1: What melted down to the bron so that you can 449 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: tell people you came in third place. 450 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 7: Along with several flags. 451 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 8: Very upset, Yeah, because don't represent the you know, it 452 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 8: honors the veterans and both Americans and Vietnamese. 453 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 9: It's very sad for me personally and the Vietnamese community 454 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 9: as well. 455 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 7: Anger and sadness from those in the community, including San 456 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 7: Jose City Council Member Bien Douan, who says one hundred 457 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 7: and forty thousand Vietnamese Americans live in San Jose. This 458 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 7: statue represents American and South Vietnamese soldiers who fought side 459 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,199 Speaker 7: by side. It is called Thank You America as a 460 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 7: display of gratitude for the many Vietnamese refugees who are 461 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 7: welcomed by the United States. 462 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 2: And I can't tell if they he stole the American 463 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 2: soldier or the Vietnamese soldier. 464 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: Now I am from Garden Grove and that city has 465 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: a very large Vietnamese population, and I can tell you 466 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:16,160 Speaker 1: this about the Vietnamese. They take this sort of thing 467 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:21,360 Speaker 1: very seriously. I remember there was a guy who had 468 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 1: a video rental store somewhere in Little Saigon and he 469 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 1: used to hang up a picture of Ho Chi Minh. 470 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 1: I guess he sided with the enemy. And word got 471 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 1: out in Little Saigon that this guy had a picture 472 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 1: of Ho Chi Minh hanging in the video rental place, 473 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: and they tried to burn it down. 474 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 2: My goodness, Oh yeah, no. 475 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 1: There were protests outside of that video rental shop that 476 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 1: went on for days, and I guess the guy said 477 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: that people were threatening to kill him. The whole thing. 478 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 9: It took us eleven years to put that monument together, 479 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 9: about half a million dollars. My understanding, the. 480 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: Monument was found at the. 481 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,120 Speaker 9: Old what you call the homeless encampment called the Jungle. 482 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 1: Okay, so you're right. They were going to melt it 483 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: down so they could buy math. 484 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 2: This is why you can't have these massive homeless encampments. 485 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 2: And good on Mayhen for actually clearing it out. But 486 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 2: this is the kind of stuff you find in the 487 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 2: Jungle or in Columbus Park or all these massive encampments, 488 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 2: all kinds of stolen goods, including a statue. 489 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 7: It looks like the statue was dragged out of here. 490 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 7: You can see tracks coming from the garden. 491 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 1: They come through this field. There's even debris here. 492 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,880 Speaker 7: Police have not made any arrest or said exactly when 493 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,159 Speaker 7: the statue was taken. Those in the community. 494 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,360 Speaker 2: We don't have security video that can tell when there 495 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,120 Speaker 2: were two people and now there's just one. 496 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,640 Speaker 1: Well, if it's at the Jungle, it could be any of. 497 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 7: Them attended this event last Friday here called Republic of 498 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 7: Vietnam Armed Forces Day Commemoration. The statues were intact at 499 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 7: that point. 500 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:13,119 Speaker 10: I'm pretty upset, yeah, because it's normal on Friday, and 501 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 10: right now is the dem. 502 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 7: Like that, Duan say. San Jose police did a fine 503 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 7: job in locating the stolen statue. Now it's about getting 504 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 7: it back up. 505 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 9: I know it will take some time and funding in 506 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 9: order to put it back together, but we would love 507 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 9: to have it complete by the fourth of July, so 508 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,679 Speaker 9: that way we can celebrate the two hundred and fifty 509 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 9: years anniversary of United States and for the country that 510 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,960 Speaker 9: gave us our second opportunity in life. 511 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 7: J R. Stone ABC seven Eyewitness News. 512 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 2: Okay, now, from looking at the video, they stole the 513 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 2: Vietnamese soldier. Okay, the American one still standing, which makes 514 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:56,199 Speaker 2: the memorial just a little different. Here's a tribute to 515 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,160 Speaker 2: the Vietnam War with just the American soldier. 516 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,880 Speaker 1: I thought Mayheon was cleaning that encampment up. 517 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,200 Speaker 2: Well he is that. How do you think they found 518 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 2: the statue. They're clearing it out, They're getting everyone out 519 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 2: of there. Otherwise statute would have still been in there. 520 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 2: But yes, this is what happens. The homeless like to 521 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,439 Speaker 2: steal things, they like to sell them, and someone got 522 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 2: a great idea that they were going to sell the 523 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,120 Speaker 2: statue of the Vietnamese soldier. 524 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,399 Speaker 1: I just want to know how the homeless got it down. 525 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 2: Well, sometimes certain drugs can give you superhuman strength or 526 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:37,919 Speaker 2: it was more than one bum. 527 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: You think they were on PCP. 528 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 2: Anything's possible. 529 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 1: I understand when it's professional criminals how they can pull 530 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,879 Speaker 1: something like this off, But you deal with three guys 531 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: on math, I don't know how three guys on meth 532 00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 1: turn a doorknob. 533 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 4: M M. 534 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,360 Speaker 1: All right, Randy, it's time to reopen the blodder. 535 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 5: It's happened yet again. This Wow, Wow, what's happen here? 536 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 3: Dun Dun dun dunk, dundun dun dun dunk preached a 537 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 3: Califonia crime blodder with John. 538 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: D and this edition takes us to Sacramento. 539 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:28,920 Speaker 2: In Sacramento, there was a crazy standoff between a guy 540 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 2: who was high on a bunch of drugs in the 541 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 2: back of what looks like a U haul and the 542 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 2: Sacramento Sheriff's deputies. And they didn't want to close in 543 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,959 Speaker 2: on him because they knew they had he had a knife. 544 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 2: So after he took a whole bunch of drugs and 545 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 2: effectively passed out, they sent in a drone attached with 546 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 2: a magnet to take the knife away. 547 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 1: This is twenty first century policing. 548 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 2: For more on the drone that disarmed a standoff suspect, 549 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:06,440 Speaker 2: Here is Casey R. Three. 550 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 11: This is the drone video from the South Sacramento standoff 551 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 11: last week. The pilot found this suspect, Austin Carter, hiding 552 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,400 Speaker 11: in a corner of the garage. They could see one 553 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,640 Speaker 11: of his hands was hidden under his body, the other 554 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 11: holding a knife. 555 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 2: And at this point this guy has completely passed out 556 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 2: from some kind of drug. But they don't want to 557 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,160 Speaker 2: go in there because what if he comes back to life. 558 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what if he was having a real good dream, 559 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 1: maybe even sexual in nature, and then you wake him 560 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: up and he is really angry. 561 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 11: He wasn't responding to negotiators in. 562 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 5: Such a confined space. 563 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 2: If he were to wake up and suddenly get in 564 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 2: a fight with one of our guys, it would be 565 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 2: very bad, especially in that close proximity with a knife. 566 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 11: So the pilot, Deputy Tom Lee, attached a magnet to 567 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 11: the drone and was able to pick up the knife 568 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 11: and fly away with It's so great. 569 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 1: Imagine if that woke the guy up and he sees 570 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: a robot in there taking his knife and flying away. 571 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 1: I wonder if that is crazier than whatever the math, 572 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 1: what kind of hallucinations he's getting from the math. 573 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 12: Ultimately, he did reanimate after his copious use of drugs. 574 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 2: That's a new one. He reanimated. 575 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 1: That sounds like almost to Barbara Ferrarism, like toileting, exactly 576 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 1: like toileting. 577 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 12: Yeah, And we continued to try to talk him out, 578 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 12: but now at least he no longer had the knife 579 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 12: in his hand. Because of that, we were able to 580 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 12: send in a canine. Canine Bow was able to go 581 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 12: in and successfully apprehend him. 582 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 2: And you know what that means, someone's askot bit. 583 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:04,160 Speaker 12: Oh yeah, none of our personnel were injured. 584 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 11: The Sheriff's office says they don't see this kind of 585 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:11,160 Speaker 11: scenario happening ever again, but that they'll always look for 586 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,960 Speaker 11: creative solutions in these difficult situations. 587 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 4: I don't know. 588 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 2: I think it's very possible that you'll be in another 589 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 2: standoff situation with someone high on drugs who passes out 590 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 2: and you use a magnet to steal their weapon. 591 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 1: Not only do I think that's going to happen again, 592 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: I think it'll happen before noon tomorrow. 593 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 11: In Sacramento Petenheadley case. 594 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 5: Are three News. 595 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 8: The swat team also used a robot dog to get 596 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 8: a good view inside the garage. 597 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 2: Wait, we have robot canines now, okay, So we had 598 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 2: a robot drone that went in, took the knife and 599 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 2: flew away, and then we had a robot dog that 600 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,840 Speaker 2: went in to get a good view of the whole situation. Yes, 601 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 2: the future is here. The robots are going to be 602 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 2: doing the policing from now on. 603 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 1: It's the John Phillips Show. It's the John Phillips Show. 604 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 605 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 1: a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five 606 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 1: two two two. If you'd like to email the show, 607 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 1: you can do so at Johnny Don't like show at 608 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 1: gmail dot com. That's Johnny Don't like show at gmail 609 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 1: dot com. And right now it's time to reopen the 610 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: California Crime Bladder. 611 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 5: It's happened yet again. 612 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 2: Nice see. 613 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 5: Time for the California Crime Blodder and. 614 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 2: This edition takes us to Eagle Rock where we had 615 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,720 Speaker 2: a big old string of business burglaries. For more on this, 616 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 2: we go to k t LA. 617 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,640 Speaker 4: A string of recent burglaries rattled small business owners in 618 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,480 Speaker 4: Eagle Rock and beyond, and they believe the break ins 619 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 4: could be connected. 620 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 8: Ktail is Rachel mentov Is live in Eagle Rock with 621 00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:00,760 Speaker 8: more Rachel share Mica. Some of the business owned uploaded 622 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,520 Speaker 8: their surveillance video to social media. They compared and contrasted them, 623 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 8: noticed similarities and believed it's likely the same group of 624 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 8: people responsible each time. 625 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,520 Speaker 2: That's some crack detective work right there. 626 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 1: I'm telling you now that people can communicate with one another. Well, 627 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 1: there's a lot of fighting about Trump and fighting over 628 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 1: politics and those sorts of things on nextdoor. When they 629 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 1: wanted us to wear the masks, everyone fought over the masks. 630 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 1: But now, if you're not doing that, it's an excellent 631 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 1: tool to share information with your neighbors. If there's something 632 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,760 Speaker 1: like a bunch of robbers hitting a particular street. 633 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 8: In the early hours of Wednesday, June seventeen, three burglars 634 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 8: wearing hoodies and masks smashed. 635 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,200 Speaker 2: At least they're not getting COVID. 636 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 1: Well, they pay very close attention to the fake doctor. 637 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,960 Speaker 2: So do you think they made sure that they brought 638 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 2: Narcan to the World Cup as well? 639 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:05,160 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Narcan and all the condoms they could fit 640 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:06,240 Speaker 1: in their glove compartment. 641 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:07,000 Speaker 2: No, thank you. 642 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:11,040 Speaker 8: The front door of Fica Fica Coffee and Arcadia, the 643 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,200 Speaker 8: cashless business says this, can we air that? 644 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 1: I think it's okay. 645 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,960 Speaker 2: I'm very curious now as to why it's called that. 646 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: Well, the coffee place I used to go to in 647 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 1: Garden Girve. You definitely can't air on the air. 648 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 2: Oh boy, we'll save that one for the Accountability podcast. 649 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,600 Speaker 8: This is their fifth time targeted and uploaded the video 650 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 8: of the Brazen thieves to Instagram. YEA was like this, Actually, 651 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,440 Speaker 8: little did they realize the same suspects likely made their 652 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:47,080 Speaker 8: way west, hitting shopping centers In Eagle Rock. The criminals 653 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,080 Speaker 8: did the exact same thing. They're caught on camera smashing 654 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 8: the doors of Cafe eighty six, Fat Burger and Hadori 655 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 8: Korean Cuisine. 656 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,080 Speaker 2: They Wow, they must have been real hungry. They had 657 00:33:58,160 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 2: fat Burger and still had room for some career. 658 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:05,520 Speaker 1: I'm surprised they didn't hit a marijuana dispensary first before. 659 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:09,240 Speaker 2: Guys wearing the same type of shirts shoes. 660 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,440 Speaker 8: In each case, the guys go right for the cash register. 661 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 8: Sometimes they rummage for valuables in the back room and 662 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,839 Speaker 8: within seconds they're out and onto the next one. They're 663 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 8: pretty coordinated. 664 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:21,400 Speaker 5: Like how like as soon as they makeing they already 665 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:21,800 Speaker 5: know what to do? 666 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,319 Speaker 8: Elaine and Andrew Linga own cay. 667 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,400 Speaker 2: All right, all those glass repair places in Oakland that 668 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:31,319 Speaker 2: are losing money, you might need to relocate to la. 669 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, you need a satellite business down south. 670 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,480 Speaker 8: HAFA eighty six. And say, when you look closely, you 671 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,560 Speaker 8: can see that one of the men is wearing the 672 00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:43,760 Speaker 8: same graphic sweatshirt in the various surveillance tapes they notice 673 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,040 Speaker 8: the suspects coordination. 674 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:49,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, most people wear a black, nondescript hoodie. This guy's 675 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:53,760 Speaker 2: wearing a hoodie with a very easy to spot logo. Okay, 676 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:58,720 Speaker 2: and how about this, it's one hundred degrees outside. Who's 677 00:34:58,800 --> 00:34:59,600 Speaker 2: wearing a hoodie? 678 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:04,720 Speaker 8: In j Agility and timing is also similar. Across the board, 679 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:05,840 Speaker 8: two people. 680 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,239 Speaker 10: Will come get the safe or the register, and one 681 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,560 Speaker 10: people will go on the back because I think they 682 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,160 Speaker 10: know that people also put money in the back. 683 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,120 Speaker 2: Aside, Johnny, what have we said for many years about saves? 684 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:18,880 Speaker 1: Saves aren't safe. 685 00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:23,280 Speaker 2: If saves were safe, Karen Bass would still have two guns, 686 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:25,600 Speaker 2: but she doesn't. 687 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,760 Speaker 8: From the three people perpetrating the crimes. There also seems 688 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,920 Speaker 8: to be a familiar getaway driver in a white sedan. 689 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,239 Speaker 8: Most of these businesses say the culprits didn't take much 690 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,080 Speaker 8: because they don't leave much cash around, but they do 691 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:40,239 Speaker 8: have to deal with the hassle and the expense of 692 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,520 Speaker 8: cleaning up the mess they leave behind. 693 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,560 Speaker 10: Well, we're retired, we're exhausted, and then when you wake 694 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:50,240 Speaker 10: up and you see that did your window, you feel 695 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 10: like violated and traumatized. 696 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,680 Speaker 4: Nobody carry any kind of casholl evaluating the restaurant, so 697 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,400 Speaker 4: we just have to pay for it towage, just extra 698 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:01,520 Speaker 4: money out of our pocket. 699 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,120 Speaker 2: So and of course you're not reporting this to insurance 700 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,440 Speaker 2: because then you'll get dropped. So you're paying for it 701 00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 2: out of pocket, which means you're going to have to 702 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,920 Speaker 2: raise your prices on your coffee because now you've got 703 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,160 Speaker 2: to build in the cost of break ins to the establishment. 704 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,279 Speaker 1: And because it was never reported, the government's going to 705 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,480 Speaker 1: go and crime is down. You know, at what point 706 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,320 Speaker 1: do we just assume that all the all the glass 707 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,600 Speaker 1: that you buy is going to be broken? Do we 708 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:27,960 Speaker 1: just say screw it? 709 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,680 Speaker 2: And you call Universal Studios in their prop department and 710 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,040 Speaker 2: get that fake glass that they used to use for 711 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,080 Speaker 2: the Westerns that's made out of sugar. That's got to 712 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:38,319 Speaker 2: be way cheaper. 713 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,040 Speaker 1: Imagine being a shop that has to call the glass 714 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:45,080 Speaker 1: company about every two weeks. They go, you live on 715 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,000 Speaker 1: a golf course, right, Yeah, we'll. 716 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:48,320 Speaker 2: Go with that. 717 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:56,520 Speaker 8: And Arcadia Police says it arrested four people likely connected 718 00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,399 Speaker 8: to the initial break in. They can't officially connect them 719 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,520 Speaker 8: to the burg here in Northeast LA, but they're certainly 720 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,239 Speaker 8: looking into it. That's the latest from Eagle Rock. I'm 721 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,360 Speaker 8: Chel Menotov, share Micah back to you. 722 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,280 Speaker 2: So there you go, yet another string of break ins, 723 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,680 Speaker 2: all happening back to back to back, this time in 724 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:20,440 Speaker 2: Eagle Rock, also in Arcadia, dumbasses in hoodies and masks 725 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:25,360 Speaker 2: breaking in, not actually taking much, but causing thousands and 726 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,160 Speaker 2: thousands of dollars worth of damage, and they're going it, 727 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,439 Speaker 2: doing it over and over and over again. 728 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,320 Speaker 1: Let's go to John on the East Bay. John. 729 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:38,239 Speaker 4: Hello, Hey, when I was in high school, some of 730 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,920 Speaker 4: my buddies stole a statue. It was quite a caper. 731 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,000 Speaker 4: They did it right under the nose of two off 732 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:49,640 Speaker 4: duty Los Angeles Sheriff's officers and Randy and John. You'll 733 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,840 Speaker 4: probably be familiar with this statue. It was a statue 734 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,840 Speaker 4: of Bob Bob at the Bob's big Boy. Thanks stole 735 00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,799 Speaker 4: they stole the. 736 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:01,560 Speaker 12: It was. 737 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,480 Speaker 4: It was quite a caper with that big boy. He 738 00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,200 Speaker 4: was out right out front and he was on an 739 00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,560 Speaker 4: elevated platform and we used to go up there. That 740 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,200 Speaker 4: was a hangout. You get one hundred to two hundred kids. 741 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,520 Speaker 4: So I don't know who got the bright idea. But 742 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:21,440 Speaker 4: when the officers were in front of the restaurant, somebody 743 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,040 Speaker 4: ran in from the parking lot and said, there's a 744 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,680 Speaker 4: fight in the parking lot. A fight in the parking lot. 745 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,759 Speaker 4: They ran out back. Well, these kids sitting around the 746 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,200 Speaker 4: base of the Big Boy had already unbolted him up. 747 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,720 Speaker 4: Came a pickup truck, loaded the Big Boy in the truck, 748 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:42,200 Speaker 4: and last scene eastbound headed towards you seated with the 749 00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:42,719 Speaker 4: Big Boy. 750 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,000 Speaker 1: Now, out of curiosity, what did they do with the 751 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:47,560 Speaker 1: big Boy? 752 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,480 Speaker 4: You want to know what? I didn't ask. It was 753 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,440 Speaker 4: quite a scene when the officers came back and everybody 754 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:59,480 Speaker 4: was standing outside snickering. It took him about five minutes 755 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:04,560 Speaker 4: to figure out out what went on. And my philosophy was, 756 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,960 Speaker 4: I don't know anything. If there's any questions asked, I 757 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:09,080 Speaker 4: don't want to know what happened. 758 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:09,759 Speaker 5: As a big boy. 759 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,480 Speaker 4: But I will tell you I was up in northern California, 760 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,719 Speaker 4: way up north above Auburn, by some kind of a 761 00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,879 Speaker 4: place where they sold all kinds of odds and ends, 762 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,960 Speaker 4: you know, as an antique shop. And I could have 763 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,080 Speaker 4: bought that exact big boy for twenty five hundred dollars. 764 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,240 Speaker 4: The guy had one. I was very, very tempted. 765 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,520 Speaker 1: That's what you call life coming full circle. Thank you 766 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:37,120 Speaker 1: for the call, John, we appreciate it. We've got one 767 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,480 Speaker 1: more hour coming up on the John Phillips Show. Don't 768 00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:40,160 Speaker 1: You Go Anywhere