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Speaker 6: next guest to the program. He is the publisher of Soowdoesitmatter?
Speaker 6: Dot com, which covers California government and politics. You can
Speaker 6: get him online at Sowdoesitmatter dot com. John Fleischman, welcome.
Speaker 3: Hey, thank you for having me on the show. Who
Speaker 3: who knew you had a face for Rideo.
Speaker 6: Hey, I'm just happy you're wearing a hat that's not
Speaker 6: a Dodger hat, because you know, us angel fans don't
Speaker 6: have a lot to hang on to This year.
Speaker 3: It was tough. I went to Chavez Ravine last night
Speaker 3: to watch the final game and the sweep. Boston's on
Speaker 3: a tear and they just tore right through the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: It actually reminds me of the previous season where the
Speaker 3: Dodgers went on to win the World Series, but lost
Speaker 3: all six games against the Angels.
Speaker 1: I was there for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you can never tell what's going on, So
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens.
Speaker 6: There was a guy who was giving me a hard
Speaker 6: time for wearing an Angel's hat at Dodger Stadium, and
Speaker 6: I said, listen, dude, when October rolls around, you're going
Speaker 6: to be watching baseball and I'm gonna be watching reruns
Speaker 6: of Judge Judy.
Speaker 1: Give me something that's perfect, all right.
Speaker 6: So let's get to the top story here in the
Speaker 6: state of California, which is the California Governor. Gavin Newsom
Speaker 6: made his taxes available to select reporters for a select
Speaker 6: amount of time, with very specific rules that they had
Speaker 6: to abide by if they were allowed to look at
Speaker 6: his taxes. He is now patting himself on the back
Speaker 6: and doing a victory lap for allowing this to take place.
Speaker 6: I look at it, and I say, okay, there's no
Speaker 6: law that requires him to release his taxes as California governor.
Speaker 1: He can keep them private if he wants to.
Speaker 6: He's doing this for political reasons because he knows as
Speaker 6: a candidate for president it's not a good look for
Speaker 6: a Democratic candidate, in particular after they went after Donald
Speaker 6: Trump for as long as they did about not releasing
Speaker 6: his tax returns to keep their own tax returns secret.
Speaker 6: But when you add all of these rules into the mix,
Speaker 6: I don't think he's going to get the bounce out
Speaker 6: of this that he thinks he is.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I think? It's what here's what I think.
Speaker 3: I think that Gavin Newsom staked out this territory because
Speaker 3: everything's about running for president, right, So he staked out
Speaker 3: this territory that he was going to be the anti
Speaker 3: Trump guy, and that got him a big boost for like,
Speaker 3: you know, six eight months where he was the troll
Speaker 3: to Trump. Now Trump is kind of his own troll, right.
Speaker 3: Trump's brought his numbers down. More people are attacking Trump
Speaker 3: from both sides of the aisle, so it's he's not
Speaker 3: like the only anti Trump guy in the room. So
Speaker 3: in the meantime, people are now looking at him and saying, well,
Speaker 3: what is there beyond the fact that he wants to
Speaker 3: take on Donald Trump? And you know a lot. I mean,
Speaker 3: the FED are investigating him now, the DJ's investigating and
Speaker 3: so we had had to deal with that, then move
Speaker 3: along to Oh, I'm going to It turns out he
Speaker 3: whitewashed his affair with you know Rippy that he had,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure you've talked plenty about that on your show,
Speaker 3: because nobody gets more into salatious detail them. But the
Speaker 3: broader point is that he opened that up by publishing
Speaker 3: his memoir and by you know, understating what happened to
Speaker 3: the point where she was compelled by either a suddenly
Speaker 3: need to tell the truth combined with who knows what
Speaker 3: kind of a check from from from Vanity Fair and boom.
Speaker 3: Now that opens up a keg of worms. And now
Speaker 3: chapter three he who releases their taxes but doesn't release
Speaker 3: their taxes And the answer is somebody with something to hide,
Speaker 3: because you don't go through that kind of an exercise.
Speaker 3: What you do is you say, hey, you know what,
Speaker 3: go TOGAVINEUSOM dot com. Anybody who wants to. I don't
Speaker 3: care if you're in the media, I don't care. If
Speaker 3: you're a constituent, you can go there. My tax return
Speaker 3: is there for anybody to see, which, by the way,
Speaker 3: that is the state of affairs for the tax return
Speaker 3: of Steve Hilton. That is even the State of Affairs
Speaker 3: for the tax returns of Bessarah. Now they had a
Speaker 3: law they had to follow, but it doesn't change the
Speaker 3: fact that where you know, when you do what you
Speaker 3: just described, come on into this secret room. No no, no,
Speaker 3: not you, and come on in here and we're going
Speaker 3: to open it up. And you've got a number two pencil.
Speaker 3: I need that. And you have a smart smartphone. No no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: no no no, there's no smartphones anywhere near my tact
Speaker 3: So my broader point, and I think it was your point,
Speaker 3: is that this is just one more narrative that Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 3: who has been used to being a combination of softballed
Speaker 3: by the California Press Corps plus the California Press Court,
Speaker 3: just isn't what it was in terms of its size
Speaker 3: and depth or anything like that. You end up with
Speaker 3: a situation where he's now running for president and it's
Speaker 3: the big leagues, and I think he's now demonstrating week
Speaker 3: over week over week that he's not ready to play
Speaker 3: at that level. And I don't think he's prepared for
Speaker 3: the critique he's going to get. And this is just
Speaker 3: amateur hour. So that's my ten cents on video on
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 6: Well, and you look at his situation, and he's going
Speaker 6: to turn into a pumpkin at the end of the
Speaker 6: year because he turns out as governor and he's not
Speaker 6: going to be a somebody. He's going to be a
Speaker 6: former somebody. And you look at Cable News, which is
Speaker 6: littered with former somebodies. Every former senator, every former governor,
Speaker 6: every former congressman has a contributorship to one of the
Speaker 6: channels on cable.
Speaker 1: And he's going to find it, I think, very.
Speaker 6: Difficult to be able to make news and make noise
Speaker 6: the way he was able to do so as governor
Speaker 6: of California. And I almost see abudding John Cox on
Speaker 6: the horizon where I could totally picture Gavin riding a
Speaker 6: bear around county fairs in Iowa.
Speaker 3: Well, it's even going to be worse for him because
Speaker 3: you can see the news now, I mean, CNN comes
Speaker 3: on and says, and now for some counterpoint to what's
Speaker 3: going on with the Trump administration, we turn to our
Speaker 3: voice in California and it's not Gavin Newsom. It's Congressman
Speaker 3: Garcia of Long Beach, the new chairman of the House
Speaker 3: Oversight Committee, and he will become the new California talking
Speaker 3: head when it comes and because that, if you know,
Speaker 3: Democrats are likely to take the House, and if they do,
Speaker 3: you could be sure that how you know, think think
Speaker 3: back with those of you who've been on this program
Speaker 3: and have been around a bit a bit when Barack
Speaker 3: Obama was president, dere Elisa kind of changed that House
Speaker 3: Oversight Committee role into really pitbull, a tack dog. And Garcia,
Speaker 3: I'll give credit where credit is due. That guy's a
Speaker 3: pit bull and that guy's be an attack dog. And
Speaker 3: he will have a committee, he will have subpoena power.
Speaker 3: It's going to be happening all of the time. And
Speaker 3: the context here is that no one's going to care
Speaker 3: about Gavin Newsom, not even as the guy from California.
Speaker 3: And by the way, whatever oxygen in the room Garcia
Speaker 3: isn't is not taking up. He's got to, you know,
Speaker 3: Newsom's got to share it with with Harris, who is
Speaker 3: going to be out there prognosticating about you know, her bid,
Speaker 3: which is a whole other topic of discussion.
Speaker 6: Well, and don't forget about Rocanna, who is the darling
Speaker 6: of the DSA who might run for president too, right.
Speaker 3: And so I think that, you know, I think that
Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom is going to wake up and start to
Speaker 3: realize that his biggest challenge to becoming the next president
Speaker 3: of the United States is looking back at him in
Speaker 3: the mirror. I think he's just not ready for prime time.
Speaker 3: And he's you know, he he's been advantaged by being
Speaker 3: the you know, kind of pretty boy from California. He
Speaker 3: waltzed into the lieutenant governorship by being mentored by the
Speaker 3: Pelosi Organization and all, you know, again when we get
Speaker 3: into the networks of who's supporting who, I'm talking to
Speaker 3: the expert, but you know, he and then as lieutenant governor,
Speaker 3: he just turns around as the quote unquote he was
Speaker 3: still in that weird phase where he was calling himself
Speaker 3: the pro business Democrat before he made the complete one
Speaker 3: eighty and so he started raising money everywhere. He couldn't
Speaker 3: even walked into being governor. The guys really had no
Speaker 3: real challenge. Well, you don't walk into the White House,
Speaker 3: and you don't walk into the nomination for the Democrat
Speaker 3: Party for the White House. It's hard thought and it's
Speaker 3: real and he is not remotely up for this challenge,
Speaker 3: not even remotely. AOC is better prepared than he is.
Speaker 6: Let's talk about Boyle Heights for a second, because we
Speaker 6: have a public health disaster, we have an environmental disaster
Speaker 6: that's going on right now in an area that is
Speaker 6: very densely populated, just outside of downtown Los Angeles. Steve Hilton,
Speaker 6: when he ran for governor, announced that he was running
Speaker 6: for governor, had the press conference outside of Ground zero
Speaker 6: at Boyle Heights with Glory Romero, the candidate for lieutenant governor,
Speaker 6: right beside him. So far, Gavin Newsom has not shown
Speaker 6: up so far. Javier Bessera, who represented that area in
Speaker 6: both the California Assembly and the House of Representatives, has
Speaker 6: not shown up to my knowledge. They certainly don't want
Speaker 6: any pictures of themselves in a situation like that that'll
Speaker 6: be used against them at some point in the future.
Speaker 6: But you had a public health director who went on
Speaker 6: TV and a mayor of Los Angeles and told the
Speaker 6: population that it was perfectly safe to breathe in the
Speaker 6: smoke of this chemical fire that burned for a week.
Speaker 6: Now you have people with fluid in their lungs who
Speaker 6: are going to these public health clinics and being told
Speaker 6: to take aspirin and go home, or tile it all
Speaker 6: and go home. Apparently they're bleeding from the nose, they
Speaker 6: have rashes all over their body. This seems like a
Speaker 6: ticking time bomb to me, and the attitude of the
Speaker 6: powers that be in this one party state, which include
Speaker 6: Gavin Newsom and Javier Bisera, are taking the position if
Speaker 6: you just ignore it, it's not that big a deal.
Speaker 6: Your thoughts on how they're handling that, well.
Speaker 3: I guess I would say a couple of things. One
Speaker 3: you certainly left out as we as we do this
Speaker 3: kind of walking dead walk through, you've left out now
Speaker 3: this stinky roddy food phase where everything just the stench
Speaker 3: is overwhelming and you literally can't make it up. They're
Speaker 3: handling it poorly, but they're handling it poorly for a reason,
Speaker 3: which is that when you have single party rule for
Speaker 3: so long in so many places, they've moved away from
Speaker 3: actual any need to perform anything substantively. It's all performative
Speaker 3: because you know, basically, as long as the unions keep
Speaker 3: electing them and they give the unions raises, there's nobody
Speaker 3: sorting for competence anymore. And they're quickly moving all of
Speaker 3: the money away from like in the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: The Los Angeles the resources that you would want to
Speaker 3: bring to bear to deal with a crisis like this
Speaker 3: aren't available for because it's all being resourced to giving
Speaker 3: raises to the SEIU, to providing funding for illegal immigrants,
Speaker 3: and money for NGOs that are, you know, the passion
Speaker 3: projects of the left, and so you don't have the
Speaker 3: money that's in place, the resources in place to really
Speaker 3: deal with practical problems, whether it's a fire in the
Speaker 3: Palisades or whether it's this stinky, horrible disaster in the
Speaker 3: center of Los Angeles. And then what happens is they
Speaker 3: elect leaders like Karen Bass who are dumb dabbed down
Speaker 3: to that level. Karen Bass wouldn't know what to do
Speaker 3: with the resources if she had the resources, which is
Speaker 3: kind of the whole point. She's willing to trade all
Speaker 3: of the money away for her reelection to all these
Speaker 3: political groups because she wouldn't use resources anyway. She was
Speaker 3: never qualified to be the mayor. She's not qualified to
Speaker 3: be the mayor now, and you know, there you go.
Speaker 3: So I feel bad for all of the people in
Speaker 3: this very awkward situation. These are people in very real pain.
Speaker 3: These are people that have had a very real trauma
Speaker 3: take place, and frankly, right now, there ought to be
Speaker 3: an awful lot of deployment going on there sorting out
Speaker 3: the situation, and there should be not a single person
Speaker 3: who's a victim of this tragedy who is not saying
Speaker 3: I don't know. They may be saying I don't know
Speaker 3: how it's going to go, but you know what, I'm noticed,
Speaker 3: I'm part of a process. There's a system, I'm being
Speaker 3: taken care of. There's been an intake process, and in
Speaker 3: the meantime, we can all see. You know, when was
Speaker 3: the do you recall John seeing Karen Bass in front
Speaker 3: of a camera with her responders behind her with a
Speaker 3: timeline saying, this is what happens in week one, week two,
Speaker 3: week three. Now we're bringing our triage director to come forward.
Speaker 3: Here's the number of cases we've identified, Here's what we
Speaker 3: brought in. Here's what's being treated. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 3: here's our experts to talk about why this has affected
Speaker 3: them this way. None of what you'd expect anywhere else
Speaker 3: but here in California.
Speaker 6: Nothing, which is sad because for people who haven't been
Speaker 6: here a long time. I try to explain to them
Speaker 6: how when the Northridge quake hit, the rebuilding process worked
Speaker 6: like a Swiss clock, where, for example, the freeway got
Speaker 6: knocked down and we were told that the freeway would
Speaker 6: be back up and running the ten Freeway in a
Speaker 6: certain amount of time.
Speaker 1: They beat the timeline.
Speaker 6: Because you had competent people in charge at the time,
Speaker 6: where you had all the shot callers.
Speaker 1: Don Knabi came on.
Speaker 6: This program and told the story as to how that worked,
Speaker 6: where you had Pete Wilson, the Governor, Dick Reared, the Mayor,
Speaker 6: Don Knabi, who I think was in charge of the
Speaker 6: Board of Supervisors at the time, the Secretary of Transportation
Speaker 6: flight to Los Angeles. They all sat in the room
Speaker 6: person in charge of caltrans, and it was what are.
Speaker 1: You doing today? What are you doing today? What are
Speaker 1: you doing today?
Speaker 6: And it wasn't like, oh, I need to talk to
Speaker 6: the boss, because the boss was in the room, and
Speaker 6: there was this open line of communication and the expectation
Speaker 6: that no one would drop the ball. And because all
Speaker 6: the shot callers were there, they held each other accountable
Speaker 6: to borrow a word and it worked. But we don't
Speaker 6: have that anymore here, God forbid, if we get hit
Speaker 6: by the big one. With these people in charge, we'll
Speaker 6: go back to the Stone Age.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. Hey, John, am I allowed to
Speaker 3: break news on your show.
Speaker 1: You can break news.
Speaker 3: It's even stuff we were going to kind of talk
Speaker 3: about anyway. But I just found out through four different
Speaker 3: sources that the Assembly Republican Caucus has dumped their leader,
Speaker 3: he Flora, and the new leader is assembly Woman Ali Mercedo,
Speaker 3: who hails from out of the Central Valley. And that literally,
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, you talk about breaking news on
Speaker 3: the John Phillip Show. I don't even think they this
Speaker 3: is like announcing what the cardinal the College of Cardinals
Speaker 3: does before the smoke blows, because I don't even think
Speaker 3: they'd come out of the room to make the announcement yet.
Speaker 3: And the best part is somebody in a room but
Speaker 3: going who tipped off Weischman, not knowing that half the
Speaker 3: room probably did. Right. So it's but it's it's but
Speaker 3: if we're going to there's plenty to talk about about
Speaker 3: why Flora was a problem. Uh And and actually I
Speaker 3: think that may have been on our conversational list anyway,
Speaker 3: but apparently it all bubbled over and well actually came
Speaker 3: down apparently he'll be able to cheat on his wife
Speaker 3: and drink at will, at nausea, without any without any
Speaker 3: without any any fear of reprofession.
Speaker 6: Right, all right, we're running out of time, So let
Speaker 6: me ask you this one question, because a lot of
Speaker 6: people in the audience probably don't know who Heath Flora is.
Speaker 6: It seems like in a one party state, the party
Speaker 6: that is out of power just kind of accepts the
Speaker 6: fact frequently that life is just set up in a
Speaker 6: way to where they're always going to be the losers
Speaker 6: and the other side are always going to be the winners.
Speaker 6: And we have these leaders that constantly capitulate to the
Speaker 6: majority and almost acts as if they work for them.
Speaker 6: We had that with Christian Olsen, had from Marie Waldron.
Speaker 3: This will be the biggest distinction. Flora was part of
Speaker 3: the surrender caucus.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 3: He wouldn't even get like when the when the governor
Speaker 3: would give speeches, James Gallagher, the former leader, would give
Speaker 3: the opposition speech. Flora is a creature of Sacramento. Who
Speaker 3: and by the way, probably the least of James Gallagher's
Speaker 3: things was to leave us with this guy on his
Speaker 3: way out the door, who is unimpressive and is a
Speaker 3: back room dweller. He prefers to not be in the
Speaker 3: spotlight and he's not a fighter. I will tell you
Speaker 3: we will be pleasantly surprised. Ali Mascedo understands that the
Speaker 3: most powerful weapon you have in the super Minority is
Speaker 3: your voice. So we're going to see a big upte
Speaker 3: upta uptick on, an aggressive posture from Assembly Republicans taking
Speaker 3: on the corruption and all the stuff going on. So
Speaker 3: this will be good. This is going to be a
Speaker 3: lot more for us to cover on the show because
Speaker 3: she's going to do a great job and I'm sure
Speaker 3: you'll have her on soon enough.
Speaker 6: Well, this is great eight news and breaking news courtesy
Speaker 6: of John Fleischmann. If you want more from John Fleischman,
Speaker 6: more breaking news like this and excellent excellent analysis, including
Speaker 6: one of Katie Porter. You explain why Katie Porter is
Speaker 6: getting out of politics. That was a humdinger. You can
Speaker 6: get it online at sodes itmatter dot com that so
Speaker 6: does Itmatter dot com for excellent content on all things
Speaker 6: California govern government and politics. John Fleischmann, thanks so much
Speaker 6: for stopping by.
Speaker 3: Thank you, sir.
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Speaker 2: It's happened yet again.
Speaker 5: Oo nice see. Time for the California crime.
Speaker 1: Blodder and Randy.
Speaker 6: The first edition of Today's Blotterer takes us to Vallejo.
Speaker 7: And it's Valleyjo that is full of straight takeovers this
Speaker 7: last weekend. For more, here is k TVU Fox two.
Speaker 9: In the bay I Valayo neighborhood says it has had enough.
Speaker 10: That's right. Residents ay illegal sideshows have brought dangerous activity,
Speaker 10: late night noise, property damage, and plenty of crowds. We
Speaker 10: do have video of a sideshow taking.
Speaker 4: Over an interest dumb asses.
Speaker 10: Section in the city.
Speaker 7: Like if you know, there are a lot of people
Speaker 7: that try to wonder if like this generation is dumber
Speaker 7: than the last one.
Speaker 4: We have video proof.
Speaker 6: Well in their defense, if you do that too often,
Speaker 6: you are gonna have traumatic brain injuries.
Speaker 10: This past weekend here the gathering attracting dozens of people.
Speaker 10: Ktvus Betty, you live tonight.
Speaker 7: How about the fact that they're shooting fireworks at the
Speaker 7: cop cars.
Speaker 10: In the city of Leo with more on the story, Betty.
Speaker 11: Mike Cludy. Neighbors say that this latest side show is
Speaker 11: not an isolated incident. They say they happen nearly every month.
Speaker 11: Now behind me, you can still see fresh skid marks.
Speaker 7: In the ear every intersection up and down the state
Speaker 7: of California. You see this so often and it looks like, oh,
Speaker 7: there must have been a devastating accident there.
Speaker 1: Nope, Nope. They're more donuts there than a Krispy Kreme intersection.
Speaker 11: And residents here say they worry it's only a matter
Speaker 11: of time before someone gets injured.
Speaker 3: Yah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, there's spreadful people gotta go.
Speaker 5: To work.
Speaker 10: Down.
Speaker 1: That is a woman who's had enough.
Speaker 7: I love her and I love that she came out
Speaker 7: in her nightgown to scream at these people, not her husband, her, you.
Speaker 2: Know alone, what the sounds of another.
Speaker 7: That was her telling him go deal with that. He's
Speaker 7: been like, NA, what are we going to do? And
Speaker 7: then she's like, fine, I'll deal with it.
Speaker 1: Well, she's sick and tired of having bags under her eyes.
Speaker 11: They're a legal sideshow and another sleepless night for neighbors
Speaker 11: in this Valleto neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Yes, sounds like a war zone.
Speaker 4: It is a war zone.
Speaker 11: You can see if firework explode near her patrol car.
Speaker 11: As officers tried to break up this latest side show
Speaker 11: around two am Sunday at Columbus Parkway and Georgia Street.
Speaker 3: How about camera.
Speaker 7: Get I think that's the woman of the nightgown. The
Speaker 7: PLV shot.
Speaker 6: Wow, she wants to go back to counting sheep, not
Speaker 6: counting people at a sideshow. Okay, okay, if you've ever
Speaker 6: wondered what it would look like if residents were to
Speaker 6: snap after having this go on over and over and
Speaker 6: over again, there you have it.
Speaker 7: She has had enough. Maybe we need to do something
Speaker 7: about it. Enforce the laws on the books, and if
Speaker 7: the laws aren't strong enough, toughen them up. There are
Speaker 7: counties where you don't see this because they tow every
Speaker 7: car and don't give any of them back. Tell the
Speaker 7: cases are adjudicated.
Speaker 4: Let's do that.
Speaker 11: Since including Luquistia, Naps say the takeovers bring chaos to
Speaker 11: the neighborhood. She says, hundreds of people pour into the area,
Speaker 11: spilling onto front yards and blocking driveways.
Speaker 12: You're very disrespectful, and I desire you find a different
Speaker 12: place to have your activities.
Speaker 7: It's very sad that her name is Naps because she
Speaker 7: never gets to have any Now.
Speaker 1: Is Shaw the woman that was snapping at them at night?
Speaker 4: I believe so.
Speaker 6: So that's what she looks like out of the nightgown. Yes,
Speaker 6: I feel for this woman now since we found out
Speaker 6: that Shang sleeps in the nude. If this were to
Speaker 6: go on in her neighborhood, how do you think that
Speaker 6: would look?
Speaker 4: That's right, I like that. That is amazing, complete non sequitur.
Speaker 4: But I'm here for it.
Speaker 12: You're disturbing the peace, You're disturbing the neighborhood.
Speaker 11: My sleep, Lucuisha woke up to find fresh graffiti outside
Speaker 11: her home. She says people also climbed onto her roof.
Speaker 4: After my god, these are animals.
Speaker 7: We are dealing with actual human animals at this point.
Speaker 1: It's poor woman.
Speaker 11: He recently paid to have it repaired from damage caused
Speaker 11: during previous side shows.
Speaker 7: You know, when the insurance companies want to charge you
Speaker 7: through them, one charge you through the roof because of
Speaker 7: your roof. One of the things they probably don't cover
Speaker 7: is jackass teens jumping up and down on it during
Speaker 7: a side show.
Speaker 2: I'm fed up.
Speaker 12: I just wanted to stop, find a different location. There's
Speaker 12: plenty of empty parking lots that you guys can go
Speaker 12: and tear up the street. But why there's so many
Speaker 12: people that live in this community.
Speaker 7: Well that's part of the reason they want to disturb you.
Speaker 7: They're little monsters and.
Speaker 6: It's too hot for her to spend her Saturday painting
Speaker 6: of fence.
Speaker 11: One more many Valeo police eventually disperse the crowd, HP
Speaker 11: assisted and later appeared to pursue at least one vehicle
Speaker 11: leaving the area.
Speaker 6: One.
Speaker 7: I guess that's better than zero, but still, the response
Speaker 7: to this is so pathetic, Like the way they make
Speaker 7: this happen is they have their cars block all the
Speaker 7: streets so they can do this. Well, maybe you need
Speaker 7: to block all the streets outside of them and then
Speaker 7: trap them all in there and then take every single car.
Speaker 11: Neighbors believe the intersection has become a popular spot for
Speaker 11: sideshows because of its freeway access, making it easier for
Speaker 11: drivers to scatter when law enforcement arrives.
Speaker 13: We're scared because what if these people come into our
Speaker 13: houses or something, or what if they're shooting their guns or.
Speaker 4: Sometimes they are.
Speaker 1: You think the realtor told Laquisha about that.
Speaker 7: Neighborhood's a hotbed for street takeovers. I don't think that
Speaker 7: was disclosed.
Speaker 13: What if a car crashes into someone's house, like we
Speaker 13: fear that every single time.
Speaker 8: They just destroy things. Yeah, they don't, they don't last
Speaker 8: that long and the police show up.
Speaker 7: But now, I don't want to overgeneralize, but if your
Speaker 7: name is White Cotton, were you born at the age
Speaker 7: of eighty? I just can't imagine a guy in his
Speaker 7: twenties walking around what's your name, Kay, white Cotton?
Speaker 1: You know, if this.
Speaker 6: Were a play, you were trying to put this on
Speaker 6: Broadway and you have an eighty year old white male
Speaker 6: character and you give the fellow the name White Cotton.
Speaker 6: And then you have a thirty something year old black
Speaker 6: woman and you name her Laquisha. My guess is you'd
Speaker 6: be sent back to the edit room.
Speaker 4: Unless the play was called on the nose.
Speaker 10: After.
Speaker 8: It's just at the end, because there's no way I
Speaker 8: guess that the police can block them in and stop them.
Speaker 7: No, there are plenty of ways, there is no will
Speaker 7: to do it, and Gavin could surge the CHP.
Speaker 4: He ain't doing that right now.
Speaker 7: Other counties deal with this, not La County, not Alameda County,
Speaker 7: certainly not where Vallejo is.
Speaker 1: He kind of looks like Colonel Sanders too.
Speaker 7: Someone said he look like Fred Mertz. All right, we're
Speaker 7: back to Laquishia Aquisha.
Speaker 11: The biggest concern is safety.
Speaker 12: They shoot with gunshots, not just fireworks, police gunshots as well.
Speaker 12: So mind you, My daughter stations with me as well,
Speaker 12: So I feel very unsafe.
Speaker 11: And neighbors here say they want stronger enforcement before the
Speaker 11: next side show rolls into the neighborhood. Now, we reached
Speaker 11: out to Valeo Police and HP multiple times today.
Speaker 10: We have not yet heard back.
Speaker 6: Mike Shocker, you think Laquisha and White Cotton have ever
Speaker 6: crossed pass before.
Speaker 7: Hey, this is a bonding event for them. They might
Speaker 7: need to have tea.
Speaker 10: All right, Betty, you live to night in Valeo. Betty,
Speaker 10: thank you.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 7: The Vallejo Shine side shows that are getting out of control.
Speaker 6: And Laquisha has not had a good night's sleep in
Speaker 6: a very long time.
Speaker 7: Listener Ground Noise rights in. I feel bad for Laquisha.
Speaker 7: I do too.
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Speaker 6: Right now it's time to reopen the California Crime Blodder.
Speaker 4: E's cashier's dummy.
Speaker 1: We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.
Speaker 4: I said, hell no, baby boy, let me get up one.
Speaker 3: Out of here.
Speaker 5: It's the California Crime Blodder.
Speaker 6: And this edition takes us to the Fairfax District in
Speaker 6: Los Angeles.
Speaker 7: Somebody broke into a pet store. Seriously, what is wrong
Speaker 7: with you people?
Speaker 1: What are they going to do? Steal a snake?
Speaker 7: For more, here is Fox eleven and of course Los Angeles.
Speaker 9: Time Fairfax District pet store. A thief targeted the Urban
Speaker 9: Pet before dawn, getting away with cash and more. Foxsvenxandra
Speaker 9: Scoutiers is live there tonight for us. What's the story?
Speaker 2: Andres well susan.
Speaker 14: One of the front windows out here completely gone boarded up.
Speaker 14: Now after reviewing surveillance footage, one of the man.
Speaker 4: The kid on this cooter.
Speaker 1: You break a window like that, the puppies could get away.
Speaker 14: Just told me that the burglar moved inside the store
Speaker 14: like someone who knew the layout. For eighteen am, a
Speaker 14: burglar smashes through the front window of the Urban Pet
Speaker 14: on Beverly Road. Hoodie up backpack on a phone flashlight
Speaker 14: guiding the way. Manager Taylor Jacob walked us through what's gone,
Speaker 14: starting near the front counter.
Speaker 15: You know, they took our credit card terminal seemed to not,
Speaker 15: you know, screw with it too much.
Speaker 4: A light disconnect.
Speaker 10: Why they'd take that? You don't know.
Speaker 7: That is la laid back in a nutshell, even when
Speaker 7: you're the victim of robbery.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. They decided to take our stuff. Whatever.
Speaker 2: Then there's what the burglar didn't touch.
Speaker 15: They walked right past our registers in our cash box
Speaker 15: that we put upstairs every night.
Speaker 2: Upstairs. The thief went straight for this.
Speaker 6: Well, now they know about it, they're definitely coming back.
Speaker 7: Well, they figured they just go for the safes because
Speaker 7: Johnny are safe safe.
Speaker 1: No, they're not.
Speaker 2: Stairs.
Speaker 14: The thief went straight for the safe, emptying cash from
Speaker 14: one and taking the other.
Speaker 2: The owner believes the suspect knew exactly where to go.
Speaker 4: It's with the corona Rita's upstairs. Guys.
Speaker 1: I know what they do at quit in time or
Speaker 1: at eight in the morning.
Speaker 4: Those are the little bottles.
Speaker 7: Typically, what you do with those is you pour a
Speaker 7: beer into a glass like a PACIFICA. No you pour
Speaker 7: the Corona rita into a glass, then you had a
Speaker 7: little tomato juice. Make yourself a Mita Lada.
Speaker 2: Even disconnecting the surveillance system, we.
Speaker 15: Have no window, so that's a little inconvenience.
Speaker 6: I would like to see this guy do the play
Speaker 6: by play of the Hindenburg going down.
Speaker 7: Well, it looks like we all crash going on over there.
Speaker 7: He's a positive guy. Wouldn't we all like to have
Speaker 7: his outlook?
Speaker 15: No, it's more just like this stress, you know, and
Speaker 15: we can deal with tiny, you know, things missing even
Speaker 15: like the cash is not going to destroy the business,
Speaker 15: but you know, we want to feel safe.
Speaker 2: Larry Clark is a longtime customer.
Speaker 16: Really is hardly any crime here. No, usually up at Melrose, but.
Speaker 1: That's not very far away.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but people who live on Beverly like to think
Speaker 7: they're better than everybody else.
Speaker 16: Just saying if you go up there, we've had some problems,
Speaker 16: but usually around Beverly we're I mean, we're fine. I mean,
Speaker 16: this is a really we happened in the middle of
Speaker 16: the night, So I don't know.
Speaker 14: This is a strange crime, a crime that leaves him
Speaker 14: with one big question.
Speaker 3: But look at this to rob a pet store.
Speaker 16: They demolished this entire window. I mean, from on how
Speaker 16: much money is in a pet store?
Speaker 4: Enough?
Speaker 6: I love the fact that he's trying to stand up
Speaker 6: for his friend. He just takes every opportunity to detigrate
Speaker 6: the business.
Speaker 4: Again.
Speaker 7: He doesn't like this on Beverly. He likes to drive
Speaker 7: past Melrose and say that's where the riff raff is.
Speaker 7: All those people that get hopped up on Pink's hot
Speaker 7: dogs and then they go a smashing.
Speaker 2: Right, it's pretty bizarre.
Speaker 14: Right, that's a bizarre robbery and a message for whoever
Speaker 14: did it.
Speaker 7: We're Beverly, we have largo. We're better than you.
Speaker 1: You're an idiot.
Speaker 16: You're an idiot. What are you doing better ways of
Speaker 16: making what a few thousand dollars?
Speaker 14: Now, LAPD is expected to come back out to dust
Speaker 14: for fingerprints and process the scene.
Speaker 4: I'm sure they'll be there any day now.
Speaker 1: What about paup prints.
Speaker 14: Recording live tonight in the fear Facts District? I'm on
Speaker 14: rescued here is bucks eleven.
Speaker 9: Years so how much optimism is there? Hondrous that they
Speaker 9: will be able to identify a suspect?
Speaker 4: Susan, I love you, but you know the answer to
Speaker 4: that question.
Speaker 6: Okay, if this was in Orange County, maybe they'd catch him.
Speaker 14: Well, they're hoping that the clothing that he was wearing
Speaker 14: and that backpack will be distinctive enough that someone out
Speaker 14: there and releasing these surveillance images will recognize him and
Speaker 14: perhaps go ahead and pick up the phone and call police.
Speaker 9: Very good, I'm just good, Tiers. Thank you so much.
Speaker 7: The statistic that you have to remember, and the person
Speaker 7: that was actually putting this out there a lot when
Speaker 7: he was running for his ill fated reelection was Georgie Gascone.
Speaker 1: On YouTube, which.
Speaker 7: By the way, we got to ask the next time
Speaker 7: we do our accountability podcast, we're gonna reveal what his
Speaker 7: nickname was that we can't say on the radio.
Speaker 1: You're gonna say it, not me.
Speaker 4: You can say it on a podcast.
Speaker 6: I know you can, but I don't know. I still
Speaker 6: feel like i'd get canceled.
Speaker 7: Maybe I'll get an AI to say it, but we'll
Speaker 7: reveal it anyway. George Gascone put out this statistic and
Speaker 7: it should really make you understand why these things are
Speaker 7: so common. When you come in a burglary in Los Angeles,
Speaker 7: whether it's a residential burglary or a commercial burglary, eighty
Speaker 7: five percent of the time you will get away with it.
Speaker 6: Well, this is also part of the reason that people run,
Speaker 6: because you know, the cops have every incentive not to
Speaker 6: chase you, and because so many crimes don't get solved,
Speaker 6: what does it matter if one more doesn't. And it
Speaker 6: just kind of snowballs into this attitude of anything goes
Speaker 6: in Los Angeles County where if you're a criminal, you
Speaker 6: have all the rights, and if you're a victim, you
Speaker 6: need to check your privilege. And that is the attitude
Speaker 6: that Gascone had. That is the attitude that the La
Speaker 6: City Council certainly has the mayor of Los Angeles, and
Speaker 6: you go, okay, well, they're not technically in charge of
Speaker 6: fighting crime, well kind of, but the LAPD works for them.
Speaker 6: They're the ones that hire the police chief, They're the
Speaker 6: ones that tell the cops to back off when they
Speaker 6: want them to. They're the ones that appoint members of
Speaker 6: the police Commission who goes after them.
Speaker 1: And you look at.
Speaker 6: This attitude in Los Angeles of no one who commits
Speaker 6: a crime expects to get arrested, no one who's the
Speaker 6: victim of a crime expects the crime to be solved,
Speaker 6: and no one who works in the criminal justice system
Speaker 6: expects them to solve the crime, and you go, okay, Well,
Speaker 6: what you end up with is the perfect storm for
Speaker 6: criminals to do whatever it is that they want to do.
Speaker 6: And what eventually happens is when the law abiding citizens
Speaker 6: can't take it anymore, they move.
Speaker 4: As George Gascunn would say
Speaker 1: We Gotolanese allies.