Speaker 1: And we continue at two five in the afternoon on
Speaker 1: the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Wggs in Culver City.
Speaker 2: Well, Johnny, we got to start out this hour with
Speaker 2: a big thanks to this audience, not just in southern California,
Speaker 2: but in northern California, the Central Valley as well. Susan
Speaker 2: Shelley from the Howard Jarvis Tax Bear Association announced yesterday
Speaker 2: that the Save Prop thirteen Act has made the November ballot.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: We were doing those drives at big events at the
Speaker 2: beginning of this year to get the signatures. The signatures
Speaker 2: were verified, and this thing's going to be on the
Speaker 2: November ballot and it does two things. One, it would
Speaker 2: restore the two thirds majority for all these tax increases
Speaker 2: that we've seen over the last few years. And this
Speaker 2: is the really interesting one. It would ban real estate
Speaker 2: transfer taxes, which means that if the HJTA measure passes,
Speaker 2: Measure ULA in the City of la is null and void,
Speaker 2: and the government of the City of Los Angeles will
Speaker 2: have to refund everybody that paid that tax over the
Speaker 2: last four years.
Speaker 1: So what you're saying is we get to keep our
Speaker 1: homes until Karen Bass goes back to Ghana.
Speaker 2: Yes, eight hundred.
Speaker 1: Two two two five two two two is a telephone
Speaker 1: number one eight hundred two to two five two two two.
Speaker 1: It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to
Speaker 1: the program. He is the founder of Morgan and Morgan.
Speaker 1: He is also the author of a new book called
Speaker 1: Life Is Luck, available online at Amazon dot com. You
Speaker 1: can get them online at Fourthepeople dot com. John Morgan, Welcome,
Speaker 1: how are you. I am great, Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for stopping by. And last time you were on, you
Speaker 1: made everyone in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Fresno, and all
Speaker 1: points in between jealous because right after the interview you
Speaker 1: were getting off the phone and you were going to
Speaker 1: have a monkey Pod my tie in Maui and the
Speaker 1: rest of us are sitting here at work.
Speaker 4: And guess what I did after that? After that monkey
Speaker 4: Pod my Tie, I had dinner one night with Peter Merriman,
Speaker 4: who owns the Monkey Pod and Merryman's and a bunch
Speaker 4: of other restaurants. And I said, Peter, you owe me
Speaker 4: a lot of my ties. And he said why. I said,
Speaker 4: I was on one of the most popular radio shows
Speaker 4: in California, and I plugged the monkey Pod, and I
Speaker 4: had the tape and I sent it to him. So
Speaker 4: I got extra my ties for free as a result
Speaker 4: of plugging the my Ties at the monkey Pod.
Speaker 3: Extra my Ties and extra Lily Coy foam. You can't
Speaker 3: go wrong with that. Oh yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: So you got a new book out that's called Life
Speaker 1: is Luck. And I love the premise of this, and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. I am a huge fan of athletics.
Speaker 1: I love sports ever since I was a little kid.
Speaker 1: I watched the Showtime Lakers. I've watched the Angels lose
Speaker 1: for decade after decade after decade. I'm all in. And
Speaker 1: I like to gamble too. I like to play blackjack,
Speaker 1: I like to play poker. I like all of those games.
Speaker 1: And anyone who follows sports closely, or anyone who really
Speaker 1: truly does enjoy gambling, will tell you that in gambling,
Speaker 1: for example, there's a book, and there's a certain way
Speaker 1: you're supposed to play blackjack, and if you play by
Speaker 1: the book, you will win more often than if you
Speaker 1: don't play by the book. But it doesn't matter how
Speaker 1: much you study it. It doesn't matter how familiar you
Speaker 1: are with the rules, and with the statistics and with
Speaker 1: the odds. If the cards don't go your way, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna win. And you need a certain amount of
Speaker 1: luck in addition to the skill of being a player
Speaker 1: who knows what they're doing to win at blackjack or
Speaker 1: any other game.
Speaker 4: Well, that's exactly right, and it's the cards that are dealt.
Speaker 4: So the book is kind of like this, Look, we're
Speaker 4: all dealt certain cards, but it's not necessarily the cards
Speaker 4: we're dealt, but how we play those cards in blackjack.
Speaker 4: If you're sitting on sixteen and you hit on sixteen,
Speaker 4: you really deserve to lose, because that's not what the
Speaker 4: book says. And so I take I spend a whole
Speaker 4: chapter on casino gambling and the odds of luck and
Speaker 4: the house's edge. By the way, the worst luck for
Speaker 4: any game is keno, which is you're just.
Speaker 3: Going to lose.
Speaker 4: But I spend a lot of time talking about the
Speaker 4: cards we're dealt. And in life, you know, luck comes
Speaker 4: in all forms or fashion, and it doesn't come just
Speaker 4: sitting there. The way you get luck is you look
Speaker 4: for luck, you look for opportunities. And so what I
Speaker 4: did is last year they had me on the cover
Speaker 4: of Forbes Magazine as a billionaire. And when I thought,
Speaker 4: when I saw it, it was like stunning, like how did
Speaker 4: this happen? And I started going back through my life
Speaker 4: and I was like, it's really nothing but a series
Speaker 4: of one thousand left turns, a thousand right turns, a
Speaker 4: thousand U turns, and all of a sudden you wake
Speaker 4: up in your here and one different turn, everything's different.
Speaker 4: I'll bet you if I was to ask you, what
Speaker 4: was the one moment in your career, what was the
Speaker 4: left or right turn in your career that brought you here,
Speaker 4: it would be a lucky day, a lucky call.
Speaker 3: You went here instead of there.
Speaker 4: Something happened, and it's a whole series of life. Now,
Speaker 4: when I looked at my life, the thing that really
Speaker 4: struck me the most is I was born in Lexington, Kentucky,
Speaker 4: but I was a paper boy, and I have found
Speaker 4: in life that paper boys had an entrepreneurial seed. Early on,
Speaker 4: in a paper route's very hard. It's every day it's rain, sleet,
Speaker 4: and snow, except in California, and it start that lucky seed,
Speaker 4: that entrepreneurial seed that Warren Buffett calls the Ovarian lottery
Speaker 4: comes early and where you're born. Hey, there's eight billion
Speaker 4: people in the world, but where would you want to
Speaker 4: be born? Right here? Right here in the United States
Speaker 4: of America. We had nothing to do with it. We
Speaker 4: weren't born in Cameroon or Karen Basgana. We were born
Speaker 4: in America. That it's lucky. And so the whole book
Speaker 4: is kind of taking luck, not saying that we're everything
Speaker 4: we did was lucky, but saying a lot of it
Speaker 4: came from luck. But with luck comes looking for opportunity.
Speaker 4: So it's not my life story, but it's stories from
Speaker 4: my life, from my businesses, my attractions, my hotels, my
Speaker 4: law firm, shopping centers. And I think it's a practical
Speaker 4: book for people. It's kind of a how to book
Speaker 4: to be successful. One of the things that the same time,
Speaker 4: go ahead, no, go ahead, go ahead and finish. I
Speaker 4: was gonna say, but at the same time, because what
Speaker 4: I say to people, you know, ninety nine percent of
Speaker 4: what happened to me is luck. They don't want to
Speaker 4: hear that, especially successful people. They want to say, I
Speaker 4: did it all on my own. But if you really
Speaker 4: look at what happened, a lot of it was luck,
Speaker 4: not not necessarily blind luck, because there's luck and practice luck.
Speaker 4: But for example, you like sports, how many times do
Speaker 4: you think Villanova beats Georgetown if they play that game
Speaker 4: one hundred times? Again, how many times do you think
Speaker 4: Duke loses this year if they play that game one
Speaker 4: hundred There's just a lot of balls. That about the
Speaker 4: immaculate reception with Frank co Harris. You go through life
Speaker 4: and there's been a lot of lucky breaks. There's bad luck,
Speaker 4: there's good luck, and this book is how to enhance
Speaker 4: and find luck and turn failure into your friend.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I've learned from you appearing
Speaker 1: on this show and other programs is that you are
Speaker 1: a very good listener. There's not a lot that gets
Speaker 1: by you. When someone's talking, You're paying attention to what
Speaker 1: they're saying, and if they answer a question that you're
Speaker 1: thinking of, you make a mental note of it. If
Speaker 1: they present an opportunity that you were unaware of before,
Speaker 1: you acknowledge that opportunity and you know that that's on
Speaker 1: the table.
Speaker 3: It seems to me that a lot of the people.
Speaker 1: Out there who have bad luck are people who are
Speaker 1: awful listeners, and sometimes the answers to their questions are
Speaker 1: right in front of their face. But if you don't
Speaker 1: stop talking and running people over all around you, you're
Speaker 1: unaware that all of these lucky situations have prevented, have
Speaker 1: presented themselves to you, or the answers to your questions
Speaker 1: are right there in front of you. You don't even
Speaker 1: see it because you're running everyone over.
Speaker 4: Right and and you and you're all you're doing is talking.
Speaker 4: And when all you're doing is talking, you're not learning.
Speaker 4: You can't learn talking. You can only learn by listening.
Speaker 4: And the more you listen, the more you learn, and
Speaker 4: the more you learn, the more oppertunity tunities come your way.
Speaker 4: And the more opportunities that come your way, the more
Speaker 4: luck falls into your lap.
Speaker 1: It's funny when you think about people who are truly
Speaker 1: successful in whatever industry you're talking about, they're listeners. John Wooden,
Speaker 1: the basketball coach. I was fortunate enough to be able
Speaker 1: to spend some time around him before he passed away.
Speaker 1: He was a man of few words, but man, there
Speaker 1: was nothing that got by him. That guy picked up
Speaker 1: on everything that went on at that table, and the
Speaker 1: next time you saw him, he would remember everything that
Speaker 1: was said.
Speaker 4: And he had it all built in that pyramid. You know,
Speaker 4: he had that John Wooden pyramid of to do's and don'ts.
Speaker 4: And the great thing about John Wooden, if you look
Speaker 4: at all the players, they all loved him. Loved him. Kareem,
Speaker 4: who's the most prickly played ever, loved John Wooden because
Speaker 4: he listened and that's why he was and is the
Speaker 4: Wizard of the Westwood What.
Speaker 1: Advice would you give people who regard themselves as storm clouds?
Speaker 1: Because there are people who don't do regard themselves as
Speaker 1: storm clouds where they think that if there's a fork
Speaker 1: in the road, they're going to take the wrong road
Speaker 1: every single time. What advice would you give them to
Speaker 1: get out of that rut.
Speaker 4: Well, first I would tell them you have no choice
Speaker 4: but to take one of the roads. Wayne Gretzky said,
Speaker 4: you know, if you never take a shot, you never
Speaker 4: make a goal. I would tell him, tell them, don't
Speaker 4: take one fork in the road, take a hundred. It's
Speaker 4: like the lottery. The more lottery balls you have, the
Speaker 4: better chance you have to win the lottery. What happens
Speaker 4: is people go down that one road and it turns
Speaker 4: out to be a bad road, and that's the end
Speaker 4: of the road for them. When you get to a
Speaker 4: bad place in the road, you got to back up,
Speaker 4: turn around, come back out, go back down the road,
Speaker 4: pick yourself up, and try again, because if you don't
Speaker 4: try again, you never win ever. And so what I
Speaker 4: would tell the storm clouds is this focus on the positive,
Speaker 4: not on the negative. You meet people all the time
Speaker 4: the glass is half full, the glass is half empty.
Speaker 4: For me, the glass is always half full. And it's
Speaker 4: because I believe in me. I believe in me, And
Speaker 4: so I would tell these people when you have a
Speaker 4: black cloud over yourself, it's because you don't believe in yourself.
Speaker 4: And if you don't believe in yourself, nobody's going to
Speaker 4: believe in you.
Speaker 1: What you just said is so similar to advice that
Speaker 1: William Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco or Ayatola
Speaker 1: of the California State Legislature, gave at a talk when
Speaker 1: I was an undergraduate in college. And the advice that
Speaker 1: he gave was in life plan A very rarely works out,
Speaker 1: and the secret sauce to success is to have nine
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two plan bs because the likely scenario
Speaker 1: is that it's going to be one of your plan
Speaker 1: BS that takes always.
Speaker 4: My children know this. I have a thing in my
Speaker 4: with my family and I call it ABC. They know
Speaker 4: what that means and what ABC means. And the Morgan
Speaker 4: family is this. When somebody says you know, sometimes I well,
Speaker 4: they they'll.
Speaker 3: Say ABC, which means.
Speaker 4: If A goes wrong, what's your B? And if B
Speaker 4: goes wrong, what's your C. The Morgan children always have
Speaker 4: an A, A B, and a C because things don't
Speaker 4: always go right. And if you don't have a plan
Speaker 4: for B, then you don't have a plan. And if
Speaker 4: you don't have a plan for C, you don't have
Speaker 4: a plan. And what I write in my book Life
Speaker 4: is Luck is this. Hope is not a plan. A
Speaker 4: plan is a plan, and a lot of people start
Speaker 4: off without a plant. Look, the most successful people in
Speaker 4: the world have goals. The most successful people in the
Speaker 4: world usually write those goals down. Every year. I write
Speaker 4: three goals down of what I want to accomplish during
Speaker 4: the year, and I go back to them over and
Speaker 4: over and over again during the year. When you have
Speaker 4: real goals. A lot of people don't have goals. You know,
Speaker 4: they don't have a plan and they're just hoping that
Speaker 4: it's gonna that it's going to work out for them. Well,
Speaker 4: that's not how it works. It only works for you
Speaker 4: if you are working and and like one of my
Speaker 4: chapters has called, never eat alone. If you're eating at
Speaker 4: your desk every day, if you're not getting out there
Speaker 4: and mingling, whether you're at a clee or at convention
Speaker 4: or a lunch, then your lunch is going to be
Speaker 4: eating you. If you're eating peanut butter and jelly in
Speaker 4: the office every day, you're you are not going to
Speaker 4: be as successful as the guy or gal out there
Speaker 4: networking and hustling. Because remember this, everybody out there hustling,
Speaker 4: they're trying to take your lunch. They're trying to take
Speaker 4: your business every day, and you're sitting in the office,
Speaker 4: you know, eating peanut butter and jelly and playing solitaire.
Speaker 1: Of all of the politicians that you've worked with and
Speaker 1: gotten to know over the years, which one has been
Speaker 1: the best at finding luck?
Speaker 4: Of Bill Clinton? Bill Clinton, he's you know, he's resilient.
Speaker 4: To be to have luck, you got to have a
Speaker 4: lot of things. You have to be resilient, you have
Speaker 4: to be tenacious, you have to have grit, you have
Speaker 4: to have ambition, you have to be teflon. I mean
Speaker 4: Clinton can also compartmentalize like nobody else. I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't even know how he was walking during the Monica
Speaker 4: Lewinsky thing. I had dinner with him and my boys
Speaker 4: had dinner three or four months ago here in Orlando.
Speaker 4: And this guy has gone through life looking for luck,
Speaker 4: and I think he's been the luckiest one of everybody.
Speaker 4: And even now in this political system, you'll find that
Speaker 4: Republicans probably like Bill Clinton as their as the Democrat
Speaker 4: they like the most by and large. I mean, you
Speaker 4: say Kamala, they vomit. But when you say Bill Clinton,
Speaker 4: well you say Clinton, They're like, well, I liked him.
Speaker 4: And so when you can start getting Republicans like you
Speaker 4: as a Democrat, that's pretty lucky because there because Republicans
Speaker 4: don't Mike, don't like me Democrats at all.
Speaker 1: Is it true that he's on some crazy diet now
Speaker 1: and won't eat meat and will only eat certain things
Speaker 1: and won't consume.
Speaker 4: You're the funny thing he's eating. He's eating meat now.
Speaker 4: We had a steak at play called Chathams. We were
Speaker 4: having I said, do you want some wine? And uh,
Speaker 4: his hands his left hand kind of his left hand.
Speaker 4: His handshakes and it's not it's not, it's not Parkinson's.
Speaker 4: And he said to me, he said, at dinner, he says,
Speaker 4: my doctor said, if I have a glass of wine,
Speaker 4: my hand will stop shaking for three hours. I said, well,
Speaker 4: why don't you have four and let's stay for twelve
Speaker 4: dollars and get drunk. But he stopped eating meat for
Speaker 4: a while, and he had the heart problems. He went
Speaker 4: totally vegan or vegan or however you say it. I'm
Speaker 4: from Kentucky. But he's now said that his doctor and
Speaker 4: he had a steak that night. He had a steak
Speaker 4: that night, and he had wine, and he had porked
Speaker 4: and we had a hell all the time. The dinner
Speaker 4: started at seven point thirty and we left at midnight.
Speaker 3: Oh my, oh yeah, I'll tell you. I don't know
Speaker 3: how it happened.
Speaker 1: But there's a clip of George Burns on the Tonight
Speaker 1: Show from the Old Days with Johnny Carson that showed
Speaker 1: up in one of my feeds, and I just clicked
Speaker 1: on the video and I watched it, and he's sitting
Speaker 1: there smoking a cigar during the interview, and Johnny Carson
Speaker 1: goes to him and says, those things are going to
Speaker 1: kill you. What is your doctor say to you when
Speaker 1: you're sitting here just chain smoking these cigars, and Burns
Speaker 1: just looked at him and goes, my doctor's been dead
Speaker 1: for a long time.
Speaker 4: Hey, I'll tell you what. Here's one for you. I'm
Speaker 4: watching years ago, Johnny Carson. You remember Chee Chee Rodriguez.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, the golfer.
Speaker 4: So he's on first and he's doing this Puerto Rican
Speaker 4: golfer had this big thing he did, like a sword,
Speaker 4: and so he moves down the couch and they bring
Speaker 4: in this runway model or some beautiful girl and they're
Speaker 4: talking about diets and the Johnny says. The girl says,
Speaker 4: do you ever eat meat? And she goes, no, I
Speaker 4: never eat meat. It's so bad for you. It's so
Speaker 4: terrible for you. And Johnny says, to Chee Chee, Chee chee,
Speaker 4: do you eat meat? He said? He said, Johnny, I
Speaker 4: had steak for breakfast, I have steak for lunch, and
Speaker 4: I have a steak for dinner every single day. And
Speaker 4: the girl looks said to him. He goes, She goes,
Speaker 4: you're going to kill yourself. And he said, sweetheart, let
Speaker 4: me ask you a question. You ever seen a Sikh tiger?
Speaker 4: And I never forgot that. You know, you know?
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen all.
Speaker 2: Right tiger up against the heartbreak?
Speaker 1: You'll have it, John, I gotta run.
Speaker 3: The book is Life Is Luck?
Speaker 1: Available online at Amazon dot com.
Speaker 3: John Morgan, thanks so much for stopping by.
Speaker 4: All right, Thank you man.
Speaker 5: Bye.
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Speaker 3: And Randy.
Speaker 1: With the end of the show quickly approaching, if you
Speaker 1: want to continue listening to us after we sign off
Speaker 1: at three, that's easy to do.
Speaker 2: I want to tell you right now, if you're just
Speaker 2: tuning in right now and you and hear that last
Speaker 2: interview with John Morgan, which we've gotten a ton of emails.
Speaker 2: People loved that interview. If you didn't get to hear
Speaker 2: the entire thing, it's pretty fantastic. So I will have
Speaker 2: that podcast posted at like three o two three oh three,
Speaker 2: But if you're subscribed to the podcast, it automatically goes
Speaker 2: to your phone as soon as I posted, but uh,
Speaker 2: subscribe just for that interview. It was very fun, It
Speaker 2: was very inspiring. Great job.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I could talk to that guy all
Speaker 1: day long. Always a fascinating interview. Got me thinking about
Speaker 1: my ties, you bastard. All right, Well, let's get you
Speaker 1: thinking about something else. Let's open up the California Crime Blodder.
Speaker 6: It's happened yet again.
Speaker 2: This wow, Wow, what's up here?
Speaker 3: Dun Dun dunk Dunn, dundun Dun reads the Califonia Crime Blodder.
Speaker 4: With John.
Speaker 3: And Surprise, Surprise.
Speaker 1: The first edition of today's californ and Your Crime Bladder
Speaker 1: takes us to the city of Oakland.
Speaker 4: Come out of Crime Now.
Speaker 2: Copper wire theft is plaguing the Oakland Hills. For more,
Speaker 2: here is Crime four.
Speaker 5: Our top story this half hour. Copper wire thieves are
Speaker 5: targeting a neighborhood in the Oakland Hills, triggering repeated internet
Speaker 5: outages for residents. Crown four is Sarah Stinson. How's the story, Copper.
Speaker 2: It's got to be so frustrating if you're working from home,
Speaker 2: or even doing something as simple as streaming us online
Speaker 2: on KSFO.
Speaker 3: Or how about this trying to drive in the dark.
Speaker 7: Copper has been stolen from these power pools several times
Speaker 7: in the last week, resulting and frustrating outages for people
Speaker 7: who live nearby in the Oakland Hills. Cruise with AT
Speaker 7: and T spent Tuesday afternoon repairing damage from yet another
Speaker 7: round of copper theft.
Speaker 2: Now I know my cell phone bill is so expensive.
Speaker 3: Reach out and touch someone.
Speaker 7: The company says. Thieves targeted cables along a walk path
Speaker 7: on Skyline Boulevard near Keller Avenue, cutting both copper and
Speaker 7: fiber lines. An AT and T spokesperson confirming at least
Speaker 7: two separate outages triggered by the cuts on April fifteenth
Speaker 7: and sixteenth, each lasting about five hours.
Speaker 8: That also affects my TV because I use the internet
Speaker 8: service for my TV, for my streaming, and obviously my
Speaker 8: computer service.
Speaker 2: Okay, of those five hours that the internet and the
Speaker 2: TV was out, how many of those five hours did
Speaker 2: he spend constantly trying to connect to the Wi Fi
Speaker 2: and be like it's not working.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: He was definitely on the line with someone from India
Speaker 1: going have you tried unplugged?
Speaker 3: And good?
Speaker 2: You don't realize how addicted to this crap you are
Speaker 2: until the Internet gets shut off for an extended period
Speaker 2: of time and you're like, I don't know what to
Speaker 2: do with myself.
Speaker 3: Now, people get the shakes.
Speaker 8: That also affects my TV because I use the internet
Speaker 8: service for my TV, for my streaming, and obviously my
Speaker 8: computer service.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I was out for a while.
Speaker 9: Definitely for my works, I work from home and my
Speaker 9: daughter is online for her master's degree.
Speaker 2: There's an old Simpsons joke where the dog rips out
Speaker 2: the cable line for the whole neighborhood, so everyone loses
Speaker 2: their TV and this emergency alert signal goes out and says,
Speaker 2: your cable line has been cut. Don't try to do
Speaker 2: any sexual activity with your partner because the years and
Speaker 2: years and years of television radiation has left your genitals withered.
Speaker 9: Definitely for my work because I work from home and
Speaker 9: my daughter is online for her master's degree. So yeah,
Speaker 9: it was interrupted.
Speaker 7: For neighbors like Nancy Taylor, it's not just an inconvenience
Speaker 7: but also a safety concern that these.
Speaker 9: Are right right in my backyard. Yeah, so that does
Speaker 9: make me very nervous.
Speaker 7: At and t says. Police reports have been filed and
Speaker 7: its global security team is now working with Oakland Police
Speaker 7: property crimes investigators. Meanwhile, the most maybe simple copper is
Speaker 7: currently selling for about four dollars and fifty cents a pound.
Speaker 2: Doesn't sound like a lot, does it.
Speaker 3: Nope, but meth is expensive.
Speaker 2: Well that's the problem. Meth is actually cheap. Two pounds
Speaker 2: of that, I'll get you a teenth.
Speaker 7: Meanwhile, the motive may be simple. Copper is currently selling
Speaker 7: for about four dollars and fifty cents a pound. This,
Speaker 7: according to scrap Monster, cameras have been.
Speaker 2: In Wait, there's a website called scrap Monster.
Speaker 3: There's a website for everything.
Speaker 2: Well, and here's the thing. Every single time. The thing
Speaker 2: that drives me crazy about this story is unlike every
Speaker 2: other commodity. If you steal deodorant at write Aid, well, no,
Speaker 2: right a went out of your business. If you steal
Speaker 2: deodorant at Walgreens, you go sell it in the mission
Speaker 2: at some stand We know that's happening. But if you're
Speaker 2: stealing copper wire, there are very specific businesses you have
Speaker 2: to sell it to. So why is it so hard
Speaker 2: for city attorneys or the attorney general or the Secretary
Speaker 2: of state to shut down the businesses that are buying
Speaker 2: stolen copper wire. For as much as we say you
Speaker 2: got to have a permit for everything in this state,
Speaker 2: shouldn't you have to have a permit to be a
Speaker 2: licensed seller of copper seems easy enough to me.
Speaker 7: This According to scrap Monster, cameras have been installed on
Speaker 7: the power poles to catch potential thieves in the act,
Speaker 7: but for many in the area, confidence in a long
Speaker 7: term fix is low, as copper thefts have continued to
Speaker 7: plague the Bay area for years.
Speaker 8: Well, it's a problem, yeah, and I don't know what
Speaker 8: you can do about it. Police in the city has
Speaker 8: an issue on the hands, and I don't know.
Speaker 3: How to deal with it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That sounds pretty defeatist, but sounds pretty on point.
Speaker 1: Sounds like just about every man on the street interview
Speaker 1: in the Blotterer stories.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I would love something to be happening to fix this
Speaker 9: problem so that way we can all live in a
Speaker 9: peaceful community and not worry about.
Speaker 3: These thiefs.
Speaker 7: We reached out to the City of Oakland and police,
Speaker 7: but did not hear back in time for this report.
Speaker 7: AT and T is offering a twenty thousand dollars reward
Speaker 7: for specific information that leads to an arrest and conviction
Speaker 7: of a copper wire thief.
Speaker 2: You know who we need on this. If AT and
Speaker 2: T is offering twenty k is dog the bounty hunter
Speaker 2: still doing his thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, but they give the twenty thousand dollars reward, we
Speaker 1: catch the person and then the judge in Alameda County
Speaker 1: lets them out immediately.
Speaker 2: Well, there is that, and this is not considered any
Speaker 2: kind of a serious crime or a violent crime. And
Speaker 2: because they value not on the damaged cause, but on
Speaker 2: the actual value of the copper, which as you heard,
Speaker 2: is pretty minimal, this does not qualify. This is still
Speaker 2: is under Prop forty seven nonsense of this is a misdemeanor,
Speaker 2: even though these thefts can cause millions and millions of
Speaker 2: dollars worth of damage, because the copper isn't actually that
Speaker 2: expend CIV. They're getting nine hundred and fifty dollars or
Speaker 2: less in the fact that they're causing.
Speaker 7: Or information that leads to someone trying to buy or
Speaker 7: sell these stolen cables. I'm Sarah Stinson, reporting in Oakland,
Speaker 7: KRAWN for News.
Speaker 2: It would be so maybe I'm wrong, but it seems
Speaker 2: that it would be pretty easy to crack down on
Speaker 2: the junkers and the smelters and the recyclers. Maybe the
Speaker 2: dogs are buying stolen copper wire.
Speaker 3: It's possible.
Speaker 1: All right, Randy, it's time to reopen the California Crime Blodder.
Speaker 6: It's happened yet again.
Speaker 3: Nice see. Time for the California Crime Blodder and this
Speaker 3: edition takes us to San Jose.
Speaker 2: Typically, when you go to a store, like, let's say,
Speaker 2: a bakery in a city like San Jose, the way
Speaker 2: that the system is set up is that you want
Speaker 2: to buy something and you give them money. A crazy
Speaker 2: man walks into a San Jose bakery, not wanting to
Speaker 2: buy something, but wanting to sell something. What that something was,
Speaker 2: we don't know. And when the bakery said, no, we
Speaker 2: don't want to buy that, he decided to trash the place.
Speaker 3: That's not nice.
Speaker 2: For more, here's KTVU Fox two in the Bay.
Speaker 10: San Jose police announce the arrest of a man who
Speaker 10: they say terrorized workers and customers at a longtime bakery
Speaker 10: just before the holidays last year. And it was all
Speaker 10: caught on video. And the suspect was recently located halfway
Speaker 10: across the country in the state of Arkansas. KTV is
Speaker 10: South Bay reporter Mark Sera. That's the story from San Jose.
Speaker 6: Peter's Bakery has been a staple on Alamrock Avenue in
Speaker 6: East San Jose for ninety years. First established in nineteen
Speaker 6: thirty six, Customer Sheila Lamel says she has been coming
Speaker 6: here for nearly her entire life.
Speaker 11: It tastes good.
Speaker 9: They make a product, you know, and everybody loves it.
Speaker 9: There's nothing. I've never had a bad cake from.
Speaker 2: There, but now forty four, I don't want to judge anybody,
Speaker 2: but sometimes you can just tell in somebody's voice that
Speaker 2: they have had too much cake. I mean, you do you.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, as somebody that used to be one
Speaker 2: hundred pounds heavier, fat is a sound.
Speaker 1: You think she's a chocoholic, huh.
Speaker 6: But now, forty four year old Eugene Morgan is under
Speaker 6: arrest for a rampage at the bakery, which occurred on
Speaker 6: December seventeenth of twenty twenty five. It was all caught
Speaker 6: on security video as the person identified as Morgan began
Speaker 6: to damage items inside the business after employees declined to
Speaker 6: purchase some products that he was apparently trying to sell.
Speaker 2: What was he trying to sell the bakery.
Speaker 3: We probably don't want to know.
Speaker 6: A customer who was inside at the time was also
Speaker 6: assaulted when she was trying to record the incident.
Speaker 12: The suspect like the scene, hired a police arrival, and
Speaker 12: the Daulphinal victim received medical attention on site.
Speaker 6: Santase police said detectives were aware that Morgan may have
Speaker 6: been in Arkansas, but it was a chance arrest on
Speaker 6: unrelated trespassing charges when Arkansas authorities discovered the outstanding warrant
Speaker 6: from San Jose.
Speaker 12: No matter where you flee, you can flee out of city,
Speaker 12: in this case, out of state. We are able to
Speaker 12: find you and hold you accountable and make sure you
Speaker 12: come back to face the consequences.
Speaker 6: In a statement, Kat Peters, the owner of the bakery, said,
Speaker 6: this situation has always been about much more than a
Speaker 6: single small business or a specific individual. It is about
Speaker 6: the fundamental safety of every community member, patron, and neighbor
Speaker 6: who shares our public spaces. Our deepest hope now is
Speaker 6: that the District Attorney's office and the judges will do
Speaker 6: their part in the next steps of this process.
Speaker 2: I'm glad they shouted out the judges because they got
Speaker 2: a good da out there in Santa Clara County, but
Speaker 2: it's the judges that throw the hammer into all of this.
Speaker 3: Maybe he told the baker.
Speaker 1: That he could help them cut down on their labor
Speaker 1: costs if he sold them some kebler elves. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: what he was trying to do, or who knows, maybe
Speaker 1: he was sex trafficking little Debbie.
Speaker 6: It is crucial for the safety of our entire community
Speaker 6: that individuals who commit acts of violence are held fully
Speaker 6: accountable and that they are not simply released back into
Speaker 6: the populace. When you heard that the police arrest of
Speaker 6: the guys, that good.
Speaker 9: News for Yes, that is good news for customers.
Speaker 3: Who makes us feel safe too.
Speaker 6: Morgan has already been extradited back to California and is
Speaker 6: now facing charges of felony vandalism and felony intimidation of
Speaker 6: a witness with violence reporting in San Jose. Mark Sayer
Speaker 6: k TVU Fox two News.
Speaker 2: There's the story of the crazy guy that tried to
Speaker 2: destroy a bakery because they weren't buying what he was selling.
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Speaker 1: right now it's time to reopen the California Crime Blaters.
Speaker 2: To catch its dummy.
Speaker 3: We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.
Speaker 4: I said, hell, no, bad boy, let me get up
Speaker 4: one out of here.
Speaker 3: It's the California Crime Bloater and Randy.
Speaker 1: This one takes us to the San Fernando Valley yet again.
Speaker 1: There was one neighborhood and I was thinking about it
Speaker 1: yesterday when we were doing all those stories where Selmar
Speaker 1: got hit and North Hollywood got hit and Teluca Light
Speaker 1: got hit, and you got so many different neighborhoods that
Speaker 1: were getting hit from these things.
Speaker 2: Granada Hills. I'm like, you know, the only one they
Speaker 2: haven't said is Tarzana. Welcome this morning. Woman in Tarzana
Speaker 2: got burglarized and now she wants to move. Here's Katla.
Speaker 13: Residents who live in the San Fernando Valley are living
Speaker 13: in fear as burglaries and break ins spike.
Speaker 2: And to by that crackdown that Karen Bass and police,
Speaker 2: Jim McDonald announced a few days ago is really working,
Speaker 2: isn't it like a Swiss clock.
Speaker 13: Another victim, this time in Tarzana, is speaking out, telling
Speaker 13: KTLA she plans to move after being victimized multiple times.
Speaker 10: KTLA's Chris Wolf Live in Tarzana with more on the
Speaker 10: growing problem in the valley.
Speaker 3: Chris, that's right.
Speaker 11: Micah Share, the victim we spoke with exclusively tonight, says
Speaker 11: that the City of Los Angeles must funnel more money
Speaker 11: into the police department and law enforcement resources.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can't do that.
Speaker 3: Oh no, we have the social workers to pay for.
Speaker 2: Karen Bass did in her budget announced that, Okay, we've
Speaker 2: got five hundred police officers budgeted to meet up with attrition,
Speaker 2: which means we're still going to be at the lowest level.
Speaker 2: But I've also funded the Circle program, which is the
Speaker 2: ambassador program, and of course the crisis response program. And
Speaker 2: then she was asked, well, which one of these people
Speaker 2: would you send out to the guy that lit somebody
Speaker 2: on fire last night, and she said, oh no, that
Speaker 2: would be the police.
Speaker 14: It's impacting everybody now, it's everywhere, and we don't want
Speaker 14: to live in fear like this anymore. We don't want
Speaker 14: to feel like we can't be safe in our own homes.
Speaker 11: As a model and actress, appearing on magazine covers, in movies,
Speaker 11: and on The Price Is Right, Gabrielle.
Speaker 1: Too, that's an interesting list of credits. Wait as a
Speaker 1: model or a contestant.
Speaker 11: Good question, Gabrielle to Itt is accustomed to being in
Speaker 11: front of the camera, but never like this, as a
Speaker 11: victim of home burglaries three within the last couple of years,
Speaker 11: involving two different properties and neighborhoods.
Speaker 1: What do you think would be your best game on
Speaker 1: The Price Is Right? The Showcase Showdown, Baby, Showcase Showdown,
Speaker 1: not planco It goes too much luck. You know what
Speaker 1: Lewis told me, I'm afraid to ask. He said, Katie
Speaker 1: Hill cannot be beat at a hole in one or two.
Speaker 2: I'm proud of yourself.
Speaker 14: I'm asking these people to stop stop harming the people
Speaker 14: that are here, loving and supporting everybody.
Speaker 2: In true well, whether it's the local gangs of the
Speaker 2: transnational gangs. They don't care about hurting people.
Speaker 3: No, they don't.
Speaker 11: Intruders hit her home in Sherman Oaks twice. The most
Speaker 11: recent break in happened at her new house in Tarzana
Speaker 11: another upscale community in the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I would call Tarzana upscale. It's fine,
Speaker 2: but I would not call it upscale. Well compared to
Speaker 2: Van Eys, it is well. There is that.
Speaker 11: On Wednesday, April eighth, thugs smashed a glass.
Speaker 2: Door to get you know what, I actually think this
Speaker 2: is going to be brilliant. There was a big push
Speaker 2: in the seventies and eighties to change a lot of
Speaker 2: the names in the neighborhood in the valley to up
Speaker 2: property values. So parts of Van Eyes became like Balboa,
Speaker 2: parts of North Hollywood became Studio City and Valley Village.
Speaker 2: Maybe what we need to do in order to deter
Speaker 2: the criminals from going to these neighborhoods is change those
Speaker 2: names back.
Speaker 11: On Wednesday, April eighth, thugs smashed a glass door to
Speaker 11: gain entry and then pride open a bolted closet door
Speaker 11: to snatch her belongings.
Speaker 14: Obviously they just used a crowbar and just crank this piece.
Speaker 11: Off to it tells kt LA she's lost more than
Speaker 11: one million dollars in heirlooms, jewelry, and other valuables following
Speaker 11: the three crimes.
Speaker 3: Whoa getting expensive.
Speaker 14: Has to do something.
Speaker 11: This is outrageous to It speaks for countless others. The
Speaker 11: San Fernando Valley has become a hotbed of home break
Speaker 11: ins in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: But don't you worry crime is down?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, if you were smart enough to understand the statistics,
Speaker 1: you would know that.
Speaker 11: This week alone, thieves tried to break into a home
Speaker 11: in Sherman Oaks overnight but were unsuccessful. A short time earlier,
Speaker 11: across town in Westwood, criminals were able to force their
Speaker 11: way inside a home that was occupied at the time.
Speaker 2: Well, at least I can feel good that the crime
Speaker 2: is still happening on the other side of the hill.
Speaker 11: No one was injured and items were stolen. Kt LA
Speaker 11: has covered similar crimes in Silmar, Porter Ranch and Valley
Speaker 11: Glen within recent days, with security cameras often capturing menacing
Speaker 11: figures wearing hoodies, masks and gloves. LA Mayor Karen Bass
Speaker 11: says she wants to hire more police officers and of
Speaker 11: course provide funding for that police chief Jim mc
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's lip service, one hundred percent.