WEBVTT - The High Speed Rail Business Plan Makes No Sense 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.200 And we continue at two five in the afternoon on 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:06.720 the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.640 John, if everyone's really, really, really good at the end 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:14.600 of this hour, you might get an ed Lasco's crime 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:15.600 blodder story. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:22.200 Enough already, oh, Randy, we all watch the gooblnatorial debate 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:25.960 this week. We've eaten our vegetables, we've brushed our teeth 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:28.440 before bed I think we're all deserving. 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:30.960 It's a man all set up. He's posing as a 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.519 child online, lures in the suspected child predator. That predator 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:36.080 shows up thinking he's going to have a date with 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:37.080 a fifteen year old. 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:38.400 It's a date, all right. 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:40.120 With a law that's my favorite. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:46.680 One eight hundred two two two five two two two 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.080 is telephone number one eight hundred two two two five 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:50.839 two two two. 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.200 Well, just when you think the high speed Rail is 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.280 about as screwed up as it can get, you find 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.480 new wrinkles to the story that lets you know we 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:01.040 haven't hit rock bottom yard. 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.920 A new business plan by the High speed Rail Authority 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:09.360 isn't even legal and is completely changing the parameters about 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.480 what people voted on all the way back in two 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.440 thousand and eight. From more on this, we go to 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:20.520 KCRA three and of course they're political director though wonderful 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:21.760 Ashley Zavalla. 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:23.759 Listen, a lot to unpack here, as you said, we're 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:24.440 talking about the. 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.280 Hut, they cut off, or sang Golston. 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:31.640 Listen, a lot to unpack here, As you said, we're 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.560 talking about the High Speed Rail Authorities twenty twenty six 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.759 business plan. This is required under state law to provide 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:41.080 specific information about the project and money moving forward. 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.800 And they put this out every single year, and every 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.920 single year it just has the greatest projections that never 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:49.560 come true. 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.120 But some state officials task if. 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.680 We keep doing it, rinse and repeat over and over. 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.560 But some state officials tasked with independent oh sight of 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:01.600 the project, say. 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:03.040 This plan falls short. 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.640 The plan claims the Baker's Field to Merced line will 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:10.080 cost thirty six billion dollars, with the goal of completing 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.280 that segment of the track by twenty thirty three. 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:18.840 And remember it's not really Bakersfield, it's Wasco, which is 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.720 about thirty miles outside of Bakersfield. So how do you 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:24.160 get to Baker's Field? 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.720 And keep in mind that Gavin Newsom and the Theater Kids 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.000 that portray him on the internet. All regard this as 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:34.400 a smashing success. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.120 But this plan does not say how exactly the state 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.440 plans to pay for that line in full, as it 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.000 is expected to be short billions of dollars. 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.359 We're only getting a billion dollars a year of funding 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.280 from cap and Invest. So how exactly are you going 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.560 to raise thirty three billion dollars in the next eight 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.600 years to just complete a portion of the train that 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.040 very few people would actually use. 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.520 I think what they're relying on is a Democrat to 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:06.000 be elected president next time around. Who's going to go 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.520 all in on the high speed rail project? 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.079 Well, the only way that's happening is if they vote 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:12.200 another eighty year old in. 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.440 It also says the original plan for a bullet train 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.600 between San Francisco to Los Angeles could cost between one 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.640 hundred and twenty six billion dollars to two hundred and 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.760 thirty one billion dollars, with no money identified for that. 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.080 What was the original cost estimate on Prop one A 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:36.040 in two thousand and eight? Wasn't it like thirty billion 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:40.640 dollars for the entire thing from LA to San Francisco? 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.560 A little more to go from Sacramento to San Diego 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:48.360 and it was supposed to be completed in twenty twenty. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.800 How is this even legal when the finished project isn't 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:57.400 even remotely similar to what voters passed when they went 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.480 to the ballot box in two thousand and eight, and 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:04.520 they're continuing to move forward with this as if there's 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:05.840 no guardrails at all. 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.200 I feel like we could get a class action suit 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:14.440 going for false advertising. Voters were sold in La to 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:18.440 San Francisco train and we're not getting that ever. 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:21.160 No money identified for that. 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.440 So the specific problems pointed out by the state's Inspector 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:25.480 General this week. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.200 The plan does not provide clear. 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.760 Details required under state law related to the costs and timeline. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.360 The plan also assumes California lawmakers and the governor will 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.640 make big changes to state law when it comes to 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.400 permitting and regulations. 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.479 It also, well, it hasn't done it yet, so why 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.600 would they do it now? You think of all the 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.560 things they would dismantle SEQUA for. They would have dismantled 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.960 it for the high speed rail, and they didn't. And 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.039 part of what held this project up for over a 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.480 decade is they didn't own any of the land. They 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.920 were trying to go through Eminent Domain and they got 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.640 sued over Siqua every single go parcel they were going after. 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.600 And it's one thing to try to psycho analyze someone 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.000 who's in the office now as to what they'll do. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.800 But Gavin is a lame duck. We're going to have 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.560 a new governor coming up next year and we don't 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.000 even know who that person will be. 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:20.560 Well, if it's Bakaia, Bakaia loves the rail, he says, 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.680 don't you worry, We're gonna build it better. 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.640 It also states there could be significant changes to the 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:30.520 project that have not been authorized. Those changes include a 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.440 plan to move the location of one of the very 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:37.360 first bullet train stations from downtown Merced to the suburbs 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:38.000 of Merced. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:39.520 This could shave off. 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.440 Nine miles from the project, but place the line in 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:46.320 a more suburban part and let instead of a busier downtown. 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.640 So it doesn't even really go to Mercedes. 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.200 Boy, it just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it. 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.880 What is the estimated writer? Like, who is the demographic 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.919 of somebody that lives in the suburbs of said that 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:05.760 wants to stop in Fresno and end up in wasco what. 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.480 Well, I think it's people going from the county jail 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.320 in Merced to the prison INSCO. 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.880 The plan also changes the project from a double track 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.159 high speed rail system to a single track system, which 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.920 some lawmakers worry may not actually make this train high speed. 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.559 So it's now we're just building a regular train. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:30.440 Talk about a bait and switch. 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.719 We already have that, we already have Amtrak. Yeah, it 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:37.160 doesn't go all the way to San Francisco, but what 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:38.160 are we doing? 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:41.040 Overall? 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.240 State officials say the plan lacks transparency around these big 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:45.839 changes that I just laid out. 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.880 And that could end up meaning less track for more money. 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.880 The California High Speed Rail Authority Board was expected to 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.880 approve this draft business plan today. They had it on 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.680 their agenda for the meeting in Sacramento. The board chairman 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.640 Tom Richards announced at the start of the meeting that 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.080 they delay that vote and move it to their meeting 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:02.560 in May. 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:07.320 That's because the plan leaked and the plan is obscene. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.480 But they don't seem to care though nothing really slows 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:13.000 their role. 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.760 Well, everyone on that authority is getting paid. A lot 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.760 of them ex legislators that are termed out. All of 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.320 the unions that are sitting around doing nothing, waiting for 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.920 the project to start, or still getting paid. They've created 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.120 thousands and thousands of jobs, and what exactly do we 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.600 have to show for any of it outside of we 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.040 created thousands and thousands of jobs. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.000 At this meeting today, the board did get a lot 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.200 of public comment and opposition of that plan. 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.080 Wlailemaker's from both sides. 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.480 Of the aisle and the State Senate also had big 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.400 issues with the plan, airing out frustration during a hearing 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.080 at the state capitol earlier this week. I checked in 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.520 with Republican State Senator Tony Strickland about the board's decision 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:55.120 to hold. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.560 Off strict I'm gonna guess he's not for the project. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:00.160 I would hope not. 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:04.200 Strickland is the vice chairman of the Senates Transportation Committee. 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.559 Well, I'm not surprised. After we have the informational hearing 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:13.160 on Monday. Clearly this plan is unrealistic. There's many facets 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.920 we can tackle, from the shortage of cash flow to 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:17.400 the lack of financing. 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.320 And they keep saying that they're going to get private investment. 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.600 What private investment firm is going to put a dollar 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.560 towards this thing. They're going to sell advertising on the 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.760 non existent train cars. What's the plan here? 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.720 Here's my prediction, Nancy Pelosi won't be investing in this 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:37.080 to the. 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.680 Lack of financing, the lack of thought process, to just 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:45.520 totally ignoring bills and legislation that we put here in 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:49.200 the legislature that they just totally ignored going from a 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.760 double track to single track. So now you have to 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:56.440 share that train with freight and also metrolink. How does 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.600 that become high speed rail? There's more questions that came 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.720 out of this informational hearing. 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.839 Then answers time to point out, as you have to 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.360 do every single time that this story comes up, Japan 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.640 built one of these things in nineteen sixty five. 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.480 Who was it? It was somewhat associated with the high 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.680 speed rail project said, and I'm not kidding, and you 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.040 can look this up. I forget who it was that 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.120 said it, so I'm not going to attribute it to 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.360 anyone in particular. But they said that Japan had an 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:32.880 advantage because they just had the bomb dropped on them. 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.920 And that is the first time I've ever heard of 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.640 anyone saying that you have an advantage if there is 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:41.959 a bomb that's dropped on your country. 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.200 I mean, sure you could say that. But part of 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:49.040 the thing was they created a pathway to go through 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:53.080 the Central Valley because the Obama administration said, we want 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.160 you to do something about the asthma. So if you 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.640 want our federal dollars, have this train go through Fresno. 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.280 And you know how many the cases have gone down 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.720 since they started this thing. At the same time that 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.120 they were doing that, they could have done a very 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:12.240 simple line on land they already own, where the five 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:16.959 Freeway is connecting a bunch of parts of California where 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.760 there's absolutely nothing. You drive up the five Freeway to 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.040 get out of the San Fernando Valley up towards Sacramento, 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:28.000 then eventually to the Bay Area, there's nothing there. You 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.400 wouldn't have had to do a whole bunch of viaducts 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.560 and land rights and easements. This thing has been a 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:37.200 disaster from the beginning California. 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.040 And as bad as the state people are, you're one 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:42.000 hundred percent right. A lot of the blame lies on 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:43.640 the shoulders of Barack Obama. 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:48.160 California's high Speed Rail CEO Ian Chldre told lawmakers this 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.360 week he's working to be more transparent. We tried to 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:55.240 interview him today, but through his spokesperson, Chldre, tried to 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.520 limit the questions that we and other journalists could ask. 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.840 He did not want a asking about personal issues that 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:03.520 we reported on back in February. 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.240 He didn't want to answer questions about whatever the heck 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.360 was going on with that domestic. 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:12.880 I love the Party of Democracy once again telling the 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:16.000 press that they're only allowed to ask and report on 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.800 certain things. Ask questions and report on certain things. 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.000 That forced him to go on administrative leave and launched 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.400 a state investigation into him. He has obviously been cleared 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.400 since he's back to work, but we would not agree 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.520 to those terms to limit questions, so the interview did 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:33.360 not happen. 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.800 Yes, I'm open to an interview, but don't ask anything 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.200 about that really bizarre situation that I'm trying to keep secret. 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.760 In what sane world is that appropriate? Like, I get it. 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.120 If you're going to be a guest on a program, 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.160 if I'm going on CNN or I'm going on Fox 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.600 News to comment on whatever, I can ask them what 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.880 the topic is. So I show up prepared, but I'm 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.640 not going to go on and go, well, you can't 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.280 ask me about I don't know issue X, but I'll 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:08.000 talk about everything, but that the moment you say that 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.120 there's a red flag and guess what they're going to 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:11.359 ask you about immediately. 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.960 Well, those questions aren't going to go away, that's for sure. Yeah, 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:16.880 So what are the next steps here? 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:20.080 So at this point, the Authority expects the board to 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.840 consider the plan and probably vote on it at their 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.959 next meeting on May twentieth. Official say this gives them 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.800 time to make adjustments based on the feedback, but they're 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.240 working up against a budget deadline that's coming up in 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.439 late June, so a lot to unpack, a lot more 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.480 questions than answers today on the high speed rail. 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:38.679 I was just thinking too, I remember when I first 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:40.959 got here in two thousand and eight, that's when voters 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:42.920 approve high speed rail, and we're here's where we are 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:43.280 today in. 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.280 Twenty twenty six and back to Shadri. 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.960 I mean, when you're working with it has been a 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.400 very I mean, we're going to be coming up in 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:54.040 just a couple of years on the twentieth anniversary of 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.760 the high speed rail vote and there's going to be 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:58.439 no train to show for it. 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.680 And this is one of these issues where if California 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.320 was still a two party state, there would have been 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:10.120 oversight hearings on this. There would have been certainly very 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.720 direct questions that would have been asked to the people 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.560 in charge of the project. There would have been a 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:20.520 more unified, structured opposition. But given the fact that we're 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.200 a one party state, it's just been allowed to go 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.440 on like this for since two thousand and eight. 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:28.000 And back to Shadri. 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.000 I mean, when you're working with public funds and there 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.079 it may be have been a personal situation that caused 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:35.240 you go on administrative leave. 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:37.720 We definitely have the right to ask questions. Well, right, 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:38.320 because there's you. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.040 Know, and he'd be a conflict of ent sure, and 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.040 he has the right to say no comment. But mister 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.200 Chadry makes more than half a million dollars a year 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.000 on the California taxpayer time. 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:48.640 Of of course he does. 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:51.480 It seems like everyone does. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:56.760 By the way, the director of the high speed rail 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.240 project still makes less than Barbara Ferrair. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:05.920 Next side, public officials are expected to answer questions from 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.080 journalists who are working on behalf of taxpayers. 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.120 Yeah, especially because it was about a potential conflict of interest, right, 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:12.800 would be very concerning to taxpayers. 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:13.880 Yeah, thank you, Ash, Oh. 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:17.120 Yeah, that's right. It wasn't just the fact that there 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:21.320 was a domestic going on, but apparently the girlfriend is 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.960 serving on the board of a company that has contracts 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:26.640 with high speed rail. But no, no, no, no no, 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:27.800 you can't ask about that. 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.360 Of course, because that's the California Way. 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:37.240 There you go. That is the latest on the never ever, ever, never, 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:42.560 never Gonna happen high speed Rail. It's The John Phillips Show. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.480 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.720 the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.680 two two two. If you'd like to email the show, 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.800 you can do so at Johnny Don't Like show at 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.400 gmail dot com. That's Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:58.600 dot com. 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.040 And Randy. If you you want to listen to us 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.560 after we sign off at three, that's easy to do. 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.760 Just search for the John Phillips Show wherever you get 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:09.080 your podcast. That could be the Apple podcast app, iHeart Spotify, 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.520 search for the John Phillips Show, hit subscribe. You could 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.120 download all the episodes. 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.200 And right now it's time to open up the California 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:20.000 Crime Blodder. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.560 It's happened yet again. 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:31.560 Nice see time for the California crime blodder. And we 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.520 promised Ed Laskos and Randy We're going to deliver. 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.960 Ed Laskos on the scene at a Hermosa Beach restaurant 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.880 that got trashed by a dining dasher that wanted revenge 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.400 after he got arrested for dining and dashing. Here is 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.840 Fox eleven and Ed Lasko's. 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.200 Popular Amosa Beach Peer restaurant is closed after an accused 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:56.160 dine and dasher return for revenge and smash the place up. 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.040 Fox Alaskos has a story. 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.720 Start to grabbing here and just started try I think 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.600 the third one. I think he finally. 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:10.120 Broke it, broke out the window. Maybe he had indigestion, broke. 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.640 Out the window and broke in plywood now covering up 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.880 the door. But there is no covering up this. Look 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:15.720 at it, huh. 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.000 So you know a lot of people break a window 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.720 to enter a business with a rock or a crowbar. 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:26.040 He went Wwe style and threw a chair at it. 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:27.920 Oh my, look at it. Huh. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.760 The sea of beer and bottles and dismay, what a mess. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.040 It's just really kind of tragic. It's hard to deal with. 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.280 So he got in. He did a lot of damage. 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.840 He was only here about nine ten minutes. He got 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:41.800 tons of video footage. 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.560 Upstairs, not related to the story, but the owner of 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.680 this business, and I feel for him. How many packs 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:48.200 a day. 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:50.920 Two? 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.000 We got tons of video footage upstairs and it's kind 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.120 of Harden crazy to see what he did. 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.680 It has to ply a Hermosa Fish and Oyster Company. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.680 Popular restaurant here on the homosap here closed for now 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.159 after the dirty work by this man, a diner and 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.359 dasher as they call him. He ate here a week ago, 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.200 ran out without paying, is arrested, and now he's back 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:17.080 for revenge. 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:21.720 He's like Pamela Price, out for revenge, tearing up the joint. 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.119 Huh, first the patio and wait until you see what 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.240 he does once he gets inside, guzzling whiskey and throwing 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:28.440 the bottles everywhere. 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.240 He takes a little sample first and then he chucks 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:31.960 it at the wall. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:36.800 He just opened the wine fridge, was just taking bottle 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.520 after bottle. I kind of like thirty one bottles he 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.520 tossed like he was at the fair, just mowing down 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.800 My backbar has suddenly, you know, on my back top 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:47.560 rail clap stz her. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.439 Shadows the back bar. Look at it. 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:58.879 No happy hour here, the unhappy hour after just broken bottles, 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:01.440 booze beer all over the floor. And then you have 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.479 the glasses, the shelves, the mirror all smashed up. 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:05.680 Do you resist. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:17.040 Sometimes even like grabbing it and like with two hands, like. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:16.520 Moving it around. 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.640 Damage. You're probably one hundred thousand dollars or more. It's 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:21.920 all replaceable except for this. 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:23.480 And now I don't feel safe. 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.879 And I have a family, have a young daughter and wife. 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:28.359 And I just you know, I don't feel safe. 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.639 They if they're causing these problems, especially down here in Hermosa, like, 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.119 they need to be incarcerated, and they need to stay 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:36.680 incarcerated for now. 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:40.440 Ed Lasco's fucks eleven yus so guy dined to dash, 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:44.119 got arrested. When he got out, decided to get revenge 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.560 by breaking into the same restaurant and trashing the place, 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:51.679 including destroying all of those beautiful bottles of bows. I 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:53.560 kind of drinking that bowze. 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:58.160 What I'm not. If you'd like to email the show, 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:00.600 you can do so it Johnny don't like Show Gmail 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:06.000 dot com. That's Johnny don't like Show. At gmail dot com. Well, 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.760 the cruise ships are back in the news, and for once, 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:15.040 it doesn't involve neurovirus, binge drinking or girl brawls for 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:19.080 mediocre pizza. This time, Randy, it's very different. 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.360 Well, that's because this isn't a carnival story. Now. This 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:28.439 is a cruise ship that was going around the Panama Corral, 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:31.280 a twenty one day cruise that started in Florida went 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:35.080 through the Panama Canal. When Up California was supposed to 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:38.760 end in Seattle, they were stopping off for a day 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.639 and a half in San Francisco, and I'm sure the 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.720 cruise passengers wanted to go to Fisherman's War for the 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:49.960 Embarcadero or get some pizza in North Beach. And it 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:54.960 took them nine hours to go through customs to get 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:55.840 off the ship. 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:00.080 Nine hours. 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:03.399 What's the longest you've ever had to wait to go 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.199 through customs as you're getting off the cruise ship. 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:12.240 I have global entry and they typically have facial recognition, 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:16.160 so normally I don't even break stride. 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:19.600 I got to imagine you'd be pretty irritated if you're 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:24.000 sitting in line for nine hours to get off the ship. 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:26.360 Oh, to say the least. 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.440 For more on this, we go to NBC in the bay. 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:34.720 No sight seeing, just waiting. Passengers on board a Norwegian 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.560 cruise ship at dockt in San Francisco this morning say 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:38.960 they endured a nightmare today. 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.720 Instead of spending the day during the city, they were 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:45.320 stuck on the ship waiting for hours. 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:48.199