1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Can't I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: app our. One of the podcast is an hour long 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: interview in studio with Spencer Pratt running for Mayora Los Angeles, 5 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 2: and he is second in the polls, and Karen Dass 6 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 2: is wildly unpopular. Nobody's buying her act anymore. You listen 7 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 2: to a Spencer Pratt because he explains everything that he 8 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 2: wants to do. He's not just running on the Palisades fire. 9 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 2: He's got a lot he wants to fix here in 10 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 2: LA all right. You know, a few weeks ago he 11 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 2: played doctor Oz, who's running Medicare and Medicaid in the 12 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,520 Speaker 2: Trump administration. He got all over Van Nys, pointing out 13 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:50,599 Speaker 2: all the fake hospices that were draining us of Medicare 14 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 2: and medical money, and Newsome responded by accusing him of 15 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 2: attacking Armenians. Remember that bizarre incident. Well then CBS News 16 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 2: this week had a really lengthy investigative report on hundreds 17 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 2: of fake hospices here in Los Angeles. We are the 18 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 2: fake hospice capital of the world. And now here's another investigation. 19 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 2: We're going to talk with an assembly woman Alexandra Messito. 20 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 2: She's a Republican from tlaure and she has worked with 21 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 2: a journalist named Christian Heartsock, and they found that the 22 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 2: hundreds of possible fake hospices and it could be three 23 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 2: and a half billion dollars of medical fraud here just 24 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 2: in La County. Let's talk to Alexandra Messito. Assembly Woman Alexandra, 25 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:44,760 Speaker 2: how are you. 26 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 3: I'm doing great, it's good to be back again. 27 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 2: Tell me about this investigation that you were connected to 28 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 2: with this investigative reporter, Christian Heartsock. 29 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 3: So this actually started all the way back in early 30 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 3: January for me when the state auditor put out reports 31 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 3: of vulnerable programs that we have in California and really 32 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 3: where we need to kind of take a deeper look 33 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 3: of where we are not doing our job to make 34 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 3: sure that we're preventing fraud, waste and abuse. And I 35 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 3: started looking at other audit reports and what was consistently 36 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 3: coming up was, you know, medical and particularly hospice. And 37 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 3: mind you, I'm a farm girl from the valley, so 38 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 3: this is not my area of expertise. And I just 39 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 3: started researching and studying and trying to figure out, you know, 40 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,639 Speaker 3: why is hospice of having these issues. And then I 41 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 3: kept finding articles, you know, from like twenty twenty where 42 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 3: this was already kind of identified. So then I got 43 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,239 Speaker 3: my hands dirty and thought, you know, what publicly available 44 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 3: information is there? So that's when I started going to 45 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 3: the California Department of Health and Human Services and downloaded 46 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,679 Speaker 3: their data of all their hospice programs, just trying to 47 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 3: see if there was any anomalies. I guess, and yeah, 48 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 3: there was because I kept seeing the same address over 49 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 3: and over and over again. And so then I organized 50 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 3: the data by address and I found one hundred and 51 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 3: ninety seven hospices all registered to the same address, only 52 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 3: to be followed by another address that was like a 53 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 3: half mile away that had eighty one. There wait an. 54 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 2: Hold on a second, and you just did this from 55 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 2: your computer on your own, accessing the public information the 56 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 2: California government has, and you found all this. 57 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 3: Correct? I simple Google search and you know, using some 58 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 3: AI to help direct me and organize my information. But yeah, 59 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 3: I mean any citizen could have done this. I'm kind 60 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 3: of curious why Gavin Newsom and his folks haven't done it. 61 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 3: They're too busy on X saying they have claimed victory 62 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 3: because they stopped licensing. Well, the truth is is the 63 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 3: bad guy found a loophole and they're still doing this. 64 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 3: LA County alone has thirty one percent of the nation's 65 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 3: hospices and home health care companies, but only two percent 66 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 3: of the nation's aging seniors. So the math ain't mathing. 67 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 3: It's not real. Yeah, it's crazy when I'm talking to 68 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 3: some of these legitimate hospices that are saying their businesses 69 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 3: are undersubscribed, they're struggling to keep their doors open, and 70 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 3: I'm thinking, well, how the heck do we have one 71 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 3: hundred and ninety seven at one address? And so I 72 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 3: took it upon myself to go down there. But what 73 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 3: was crazy is this was kind of before doctor Oz 74 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 3: had even said anything. So I wanted to go down 75 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,479 Speaker 3: there and visit for myself to verify it. And I 76 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 3: kept watching doctor Oz's footage, thinking, oh, he found it, 77 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 3: and then I watched and I said, oh, my gosh, 78 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:34,159 Speaker 3: he didn't. He wasn't in front of the one that 79 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 3: had one hundred and ninety seven. And so I went 80 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 3: down there and I did. I saw crazy, crazy things. 81 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 3: I mean, this building is in the middle of the 82 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 3: ghetto that it's a dilapidated rundown building. 83 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: And where is it exactly? 84 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,559 Speaker 3: This is nice and danies, this is in Van E's. Yes, 85 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 3: And there's you know, an empty lot next to it. 86 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 3: And then oddly enough, I see string lights in like 87 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 3: a party space up top. When you look into it, 88 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 3: apparently it is an event venue that you can rent. 89 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 3: And then there's all these signs on the outside that 90 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 3: aren't hospice companies. And when you get inside you see 91 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 3: every it's empty. There's no administrators, there's no doctors, there's 92 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,599 Speaker 3: no nurses, there's no patients. But even if there was, 93 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 3: the patients and wheelchairs couldn't get in because it's not 94 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 3: eighty A compliant. There was no handy Cheff parking. 95 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 2: And how many companies are how many companies are supposed 96 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 2: to be in this building doing hospice. 97 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 3: One hundred and ninety seven, Oh my god, one hundred 98 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 3: and ninety seven fake companies. Well, you know that's what's 99 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,359 Speaker 3: funny is then I started making phone calls because for 100 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 3: my research I saw that as of January first, they 101 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 3: had to have an administrative office with business hours, and 102 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 3: they had to have a working telephone number. And almost 103 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 3: I would say about ninety percent of the ones that 104 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 3: I called that it had this call cannot be completed 105 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 3: as dialed, and and there was a ton of Google numbers, 106 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 3: which means they weren't real numbers. And then the few 107 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 3: that answered answered hello, like they were so irritated that 108 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 3: I called, but they didn't answer, like, Hello, this is 109 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 3: XYZ Hospice. How can I help you? I mean, far 110 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 3: from what I would consider a high quality service business 111 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 3: that I would trust putting, you know, grandmar or grandpa 112 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 3: on their hospice. 113 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: Yeah. Did you see the CBS report this week? 114 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 2: I did? 115 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 3: I did? I mean, And that's what you know when 116 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 3: we're digging into how they're doing this, this is what 117 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 3: they're doing. They're stealing people's information and enrolling them in 118 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 3: hospice care, and once they reach their max benefit, they're 119 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 3: kicking them off. And there's literally hospices that have a 120 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 3: zero percent death rate, meaning people are not dying on hospice. 121 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 3: That's insanity, I mean, and it's it's so glaringly obvious, 122 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 3: and I just can't believe. I mean, these people are 123 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 3: not operating in the dark. They are not afraid, and 124 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 3: they should be because I am really optimistic that the DJ. 125 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: Is going to get involved in the CBS story. 126 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 2: They talked to Rob Bonta and he goes, oh, yeah, 127 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 2: well I'm frustrated too. Like everybody else. You're not doing anything. 128 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 2: You just have to do the Google search that you did. 129 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 2: You'd find hundreds of them. Can you hang on the line, disolutely? 130 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: This is so great? So doctor Oz finds. 131 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 2: Dozens of hospices, CBS finds hundred, and now you have 132 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 2: this assembly Woman Alexandra Messito and an investigative reporter, Christian Hartsock. 133 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 2: They find hundreds of these hospices and it's all in 134 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 2: Van Nice, and it's billion dollars worth of fraud, one 135 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 2: hundred and ninety seven phony companies in one building and 136 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 2: all these people signed up for hospices and nobody's dying. 137 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 2: Must have some miracle cure. 138 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 139 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 4: six forty. 140 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 2: We are talking with assembly Woman Alexandra Mossito, Republican from Toulare. 141 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 2: She worked with a investigative reporter Christian Hartsock, and they 142 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 2: discovered hundreds of hospices in then Nis again and it's 143 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 2: millions of dollars of medical fraud. And in fact, there 144 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 2: might be three and a half billion dollars in medical fraud. 145 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 2: All told, we have thirty one percent of all US hospices, 146 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 2: thirty one percent registered in La County, with only two 147 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 2: percent of the senior population. And doctor Oz had found 148 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 2: a similar situation back in January, and then CBS News 149 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 2: and in between. Gavin Newsom has been mocking this. But 150 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 2: this is what's going on, and he refuses to do 151 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 2: anything about it. Let me let's talk. Well, we've got 152 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:56,839 Speaker 2: a few minutes left with Alexandre Alexandra Mercida. Look, I 153 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 2: know you've written a letter to Newsom. I wonder if 154 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:02,559 Speaker 2: you have any insight is why are they so resistant 155 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 2: to cleaning up all his fraud and redirecting the money 156 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:10,439 Speaker 2: to people who really need the medical treatment. 157 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 3: I have no idea. We have been calling incessantly to 158 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 3: the you know, where are these regulations. He has had 159 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 3: multiple extensions by the way of providing these regulations that 160 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 3: are supposed to make sure that fraud is not happening 161 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 3: within the hospice system. And his answer is that he 162 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 3: just instituted a moratorium and stopped new licenses from coming. Well, 163 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 3: what's happening is these licenses are essentially being flipped and 164 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 3: still being used, so the fraud is still happening. Like 165 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:43,680 Speaker 3: it's so insane to me, And I wish I could 166 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 3: peek into his brain of what the motivation was to 167 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 3: not fix this, because we all know he's trying to 168 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:52,079 Speaker 3: run or run for president. So if you figure it out, 169 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 3: let me know. 170 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 2: If you peaked in his brain, I don't think you'd find. 171 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 3: Anything very true. I'm a good hair product. 172 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 1: I just don't get the most sometimes. 173 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 2: I got to understand the motivation for some of these 174 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 2: ridiculous policies or these frauds, But I don't understand the 175 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 2: motivation here for allowing this to happen and then mocking 176 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 2: people who find it and publicize it, or Rob Bonta 177 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 2: going on TV and saying, yeah, yeah, I'm frustrated just 178 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 2: like you are as well. This is your responsibility, this 179 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 2: is your office. He's filed fifty lawsuits against Trump. Meantime, 180 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 2: you've got one hundred thousands of people looting medical but 181 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 2: for the for billions of dollars, and he can stop it. 182 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 3: To add in that, as a state, we have an 183 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 3: eighteen billion dollar deficit in our three hundred and fifty 184 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 3: billion dollar budget and we don't know where our money's going, 185 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 3: so no wonder we have a deficit because we spend 186 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,680 Speaker 3: billions of dollars, but we don't really ask questions once 187 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 3: that leave their bank account of where it's going. It's 188 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:54,959 Speaker 3: insane and it is a travesty. We are treating California 189 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 3: taxpayers like ATMs and it's ridiculous. And now Democrats are 190 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 3: finding creative new ways to try to Californians even more 191 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 3: and they're sick of it. I don't care if you're 192 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 3: a Democrat, Republican, or independent. We are all tired of 193 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 3: the taxes in California. We are tired of the cost 194 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 3: of living crisis. But instead of fixing it, you have 195 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 3: Rob Bonta saying we should do something about it, and 196 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom, who's too busy on X and doing his 197 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 3: United States World Tour to do anything about it. 198 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 2: This building that you wed to, you know, that's supposed 199 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 2: to have one hundred and ninety seven hospices, right and 200 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 2: it's all empty on the inside. Is this one guy 201 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 2: working from his home and just filling out thousands and 202 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 2: thousands of forums and getting all these medical checks sent 203 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 2: maybe to a post office box. Could it be just 204 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:43,680 Speaker 2: one guy who created one hundred and ninety seven fake hospices? 205 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 3: So there's a right I called probably you know, upwards 206 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 3: of one hundred of these and they all have a 207 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 3: different registered agent. There might be a master puppeteer, if 208 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 3: you will, that's leading the charge. And these are just strawmen. 209 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 3: But they have you know, various numbers, don't work most 210 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 3: of them, and then some of them, if they have emails, 211 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 3: they're like just normal Yahoo or Gmail accounts. They're not 212 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 3: like professional accounts that you would have, you know, at 213 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 3: a legitimate business. And you know, that's where I'm really 214 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 3: hoping the DOJ steps in because I only have access 215 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:20,439 Speaker 3: to publicly available information as a state elected So the 216 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 3: DJ are the ones that can subpoena these documents and 217 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 3: subpoena you know, communications and financial records, and they can 218 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 3: get to the bottom of how this is happening and 219 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,199 Speaker 3: who's doing it and where it's happening. Like I said, 220 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 3: this was just publicly available information in a laptop essentially 221 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 3: that I was able to find that all of these 222 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,839 Speaker 3: hostesses are registered to the same address. And if that's 223 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,320 Speaker 3: you know, not something that causes a red flag. I'm 224 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 3: not sure what will but why was I the one 225 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:48,680 Speaker 3: that found it or why was it allowed to happen? 226 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 3: Or are state documents out of date? I mean, there's 227 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 3: got to be somebody somewhere that's saying this is this 228 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:54,319 Speaker 3: shouldn't have happened. 229 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 2: I don't know what the motivation is. Uh, listen, keep 230 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 2: at it. If you find out more, please come back 231 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 2: on with us. 232 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 3: All right, Thank you so much, John, I appreciate your time. 233 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:08,319 Speaker 2: All right, it's Assembly women Alexandra Messito, Republican from Julaure 234 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 2: and she and a journalist, Christian Hartsock, they found a 235 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 2: tremendous amount of hundreds of fake companies, fake hospices, and 236 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 2: it looks like there's about three and a half billion 237 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 2: dollars in medical fraud going on in Los Angeles County. 238 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:30,560 Speaker 2: Thirty one percent of all the hospices in America are 239 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 2: in LA County, got two percent of the nation's seniors, 240 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 2: thirty one percent of the hospices, and most of them 241 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 2: are fake and they're they're sucking up billions of dollars 242 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 2: of our tax money. And Bonte was presented with the 243 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 2: evidence on CBS just kind of shrugged and said, yeah, 244 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,960 Speaker 2: I'm frustrated, and Newsom denies it's happening. Well, doctor Oz 245 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,200 Speaker 2: brought it up. He started mocking. Doctor Oz threatened it 246 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 2: with the civil rights complaint. I all right, we're coming up. 247 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 248 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 4: six forty. 249 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 2: Our number one of the podcasts. We had Spencer Pratt 250 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 2: here alive in studio for the whole hour. You want 251 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 2: to listen to that. He's running for mayor. He's doing 252 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 2: well second in the polls. Over half of the likely 253 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 2: voters have no idea who they want to vote for. 254 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 2: Karen Vash has very little support, only nineteen percent of 255 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 2: the vote and only a twenty four percent approval rating. 256 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 2: So she can be taken out and Spencer Pratt can 257 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 2: do it. And you listen to him because he talked. 258 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 2: He didn't just talk about the fire. That was only 259 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 2: a little piece. Much of it was about all the 260 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 2: obvious stuff that's wrong in the city and what any 261 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 2: competent mayor could do about it. And he's going to 262 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 2: be a formidable candidate here over the next ten weeks. 263 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 2: All right, the gas prices right now, let's see California's 264 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 2: at five thirty six according to a five point thirty 265 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 2: six national average is three fifty nine. All right, so 266 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 2: on average, which includes California three fifty nine, California by 267 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 2: itself five thirty six. And I was talking about this 268 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 2: on the air with somebody who mentioned, like, well, you know, 269 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 2: the money is supposed to go for road repair, which 270 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 2: is the biggest joke and the biggest lie. I'm driving 271 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 2: home last night after after the show, I went to Hollywood, 272 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 2: met up with my wife. She had to attend an event, 273 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 2: and so I was there just for a short time, 274 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 2: and then we went home in separate cars, and I 275 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 2: took the freeway home and I took the one oh 276 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 2: one to the four h five. I got on the 277 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 2: four or five south and I don't know what I hit. 278 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 2: I didn't notice anything, but I must have hit something 279 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 2: along the way because there have been uncredible amounts of 280 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 2: nasty potholes, not to mention that there is road debris 281 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 2: all over the West Side because of hundreds of trucks 282 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 2: that are rumbling into the Palisades and back. But I'm 283 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 2: driving down the four or five second lane from the left, 284 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 2: and suddenly the car starts to vibrate. 285 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 5: Oh that's good noise. 286 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 2: And yeah, I can do a car with a flat tire. 287 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: Got a flat tire. 288 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 2: Now I'm running on an allegedly smooth road in the 289 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 2: middle of the four h five going downhill. 290 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: I'll go like seventy miles an hour and go. 291 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 2: And I'm looking on my dashboard and it's flashing that 292 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 2: the tire pressure, which is supposed to be about forty 293 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 2: in my tires. I'm watching it go down in front 294 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 2: of my eyes and it goes down to four two. 295 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 2: Now it's at zero. Now I'm really getting the and 296 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 2: I'm north the Getty Center. I'm not exactly near an exit. 297 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 2: I'm a couple of miles away, but I do want 298 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 2: to get over to the shoulder at least and putter 299 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:07,880 Speaker 2: my way down. Nobody, nobody, nobody would let me over, 300 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 2: of course not. 301 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: They're flying by me at seventy miles an hour. I 302 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 1: got the flashers going. 303 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 2: I'm going really slow, clearly in distress, and you know 304 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 2: they're coming up over the hill and they got momentum 305 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 2: coming downhill real fast, headed towards me. And it's like, well, 306 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 2: obviously I'm going to die. 307 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 5: Well you didn't, and John, would you have pulled over 308 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 5: for somebody in that position. 309 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 2: I would if they were trying to get out of 310 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:35,880 Speaker 2: the way, yeah, or I would, or I would get 311 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 2: way out of the way, give them some. 312 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 1: Space, Okay, I would. Okay, I don't want them to die. No, 313 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 1: I understand. 314 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 5: But you know, you drive in the carpool lane when 315 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:46,919 Speaker 5: you're by yourself and you do other things, and so 316 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 5: I didn't know if you would be courteous. 317 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:49,680 Speaker 1: Like that, yeh for the carpool lean. 318 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 4: I don't know. 319 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: I was just asking. 320 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 2: So I, I mean, this thing like really started to 321 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:01,119 Speaker 2: shred by time I got to the service station. I 322 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 2: took the Getty Center Getty drives. What is Getty Center Drive? 323 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 3: Is that what it is? Yes? 324 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: I eventually got to a gas station. 325 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:12,199 Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, you were able to get to a 326 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 5: gas station with your tire like. 327 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 1: I had no choice. 328 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 2: I wasn't going to stop on the four or five 329 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 2: on the shoulder because clearly the mood of the. 330 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,119 Speaker 1: Public was we'll just kill them. 331 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 2: Will either run them over, and you get those stories 332 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 2: every once in a while. But some poor sap who 333 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 2: had car trouble or was trying to change a tire 334 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,400 Speaker 2: or I and he gets out of the car room. 335 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 2: He gets flattened, and then a second car comes room 336 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 2: and it's like a cartoon. The guy's a pancake and 337 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 2: a bloody pancake. So I thought, well, I'm not risking this. 338 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:44,119 Speaker 2: And it's and it's dark. Oh and they don't have 339 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:46,680 Speaker 2: they don't have street lights anymore. On the four or five, 340 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 2: I mean, it is really dark. So I go down 341 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 2: some pulvit a boulevard. I find the gas station. I 342 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:58,360 Speaker 2: pull in. By this time it's just the most helpless 343 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:01,680 Speaker 2: feeling and I get out of the car and the 344 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 2: tire is leaving clumps of black mounds of black rubber dust. 345 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:12,679 Speaker 2: I had ground the tire literally into dust, mounds of 346 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 2: it trailing me. 347 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 1: I hope he even breathe that in I didn't even 348 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 1: think of that. 349 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 2: Thanks for that. Well, there was a bad smell because 350 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 2: it was burning. Yeah, and there were holes like in fact, 351 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 2: I saw so many holes in the tire. I thought 352 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 2: maybe somebody shot my tires out, because I'm trying to 353 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 2: figure out. 354 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 1: How this happened, like what did I hit? And the 355 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:38,679 Speaker 1: guy goes, oh. 356 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 2: You probably Well, actually I have to wait for Triple A. 357 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:45,360 Speaker 2: I've been a member of Triple A for a very 358 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 2: long time. Triple A used to show up in a 359 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 2: half an hour? 360 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 5: Well was it two hours? 361 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 2: I it was an hour and a half. H huh, yeah, 362 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 2: I think I called in at about eight ten. It 363 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:00,040 Speaker 2: was nine forty and the command. That's what I I 364 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 2: was afraid of is I'd be sitting on the side 365 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:04,399 Speaker 2: of the road for an hour and a half in 366 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 2: the dark, downhill on the four h five when nobody cares. 367 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 2: If they kill you, I either get flattened or they 368 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,640 Speaker 2: they crash rear in me and I burst into flames. 369 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 5: Made decision. 370 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's my choice, be steamrolled or burst into flames. 371 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 2: And I'm thinking, you know what if I destroy the RIM, 372 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:23,479 Speaker 2: I guess you know that's a good trade off, right 373 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:24,360 Speaker 2: I could buy a new Rim. 374 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 5: Yes, can't buy a new John. 375 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 1: They'd be too expensive. 376 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 2: And it's like, okay, you know what in Karen Bass's 377 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom's Allite, What did I run over? What garbage? 378 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 2: Did I debris? I run over that they didn't pick up? 379 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:44,679 Speaker 2: What potholes? I'm hitting potholes on Sunset Boulevard like you 380 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 2: wouldn't believe. I mean it is, you know, it is 381 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 2: like the Middle East. It's like the Middle East after 382 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 2: the Iranians had gotten through. It's just craters everywhere. Oh, 383 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,360 Speaker 2: speaking of Oran, see what they're doing to do Bui. 384 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: Yes, the airport. 385 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 5: I've been to that airport and it's a silent airport. 386 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 5: So when when that airport's getting hit, I don't think 387 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 5: anybody is announcing anything. 388 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 1: The people in the airport. 389 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 5: It is a it's seriously, it's called a silent airport. 390 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: But they don't make any announcements to the public. No, 391 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:16,959 Speaker 1: they do not. You're supposed to figure it out on 392 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: your own. Yes, that was not fun. I don't know 393 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: why this is. 394 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 2: But Iran has fired two thirds of its missiles at Dubai. 395 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 2: I don't think Dubai even has a military. I mean, 396 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 2: I don't think the UAE even has much of a military. 397 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,399 Speaker 5: I think there's a base there. There was something I 398 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 5: read of the US space. 399 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:37,160 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, the US base. 400 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 2: But they're they're they're flooding Dubai with missiles and it's 401 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 2: it's hitting, it's hitting buildings. 402 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 1: And apparently all the people. 403 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 2: Because you know that that city is full of fraudsters, 404 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 2: and and so all the fraudsters they call them. You 405 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 2: know expats, expatriots, they moved from other countries. They're hiding 406 00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 2: out in the UAE. They're involved in all kinds of 407 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,719 Speaker 2: fen ancil crimes and worse, and now they're fleeing like 408 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 2: it's shake. It's shaken out all the cockroaches who came 409 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,879 Speaker 2: there to commit all their frauds. They probably had a 410 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:14,440 Speaker 2: lot of our unemployment money probably got sent to Dubai. 411 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 2: But I saw that two thirds of missiles. I thought, 412 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,120 Speaker 2: maybe you'd gone there, you've taken another trip. 413 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:20,879 Speaker 1: No, I did not. 414 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:26,640 Speaker 4: On staying away, you're listening to John Cobels on demand 415 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 4: from KFI AM sixty. 416 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 2: You know signature gatherers and they get their paid signature gatherers. 417 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 2: They set up tables and they call you over. You're 418 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 2: supposed to sign petitions. Well, in San Francisco, these signature 419 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 2: gatherers were offering to pay people to sign. That's not 420 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 2: the way it works. The people who gather signatures get paid, 421 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 2: but the signature gatherers were giving a cut to people 422 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 2: walking by if they'll sign. 423 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: Well, that's illegal. 424 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 2: We got a port here from kgra A Channel three, Sacramento, 425 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:03,400 Speaker 2: Ashley Zabawa. 426 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, and what is it? 427 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 2: Yeah? 428 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,879 Speaker 1: You ready now, my prist name is going to be Carol. 429 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 6: San Francisco street videographer JJ Smith capturing what appears to 430 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 6: be a crime on camera, paid signature gatherers offering people 431 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 6: five dollars to sign ballot initiative petitions using other people's 432 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 6: names and information. Smith's shot and posted this video on Monday. 433 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 1: What I've seen shocked me. 434 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 7: It surprised me because it was literally coaching people, telling 435 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:39,680 Speaker 7: them what name to sign and what address to put 436 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:45,199 Speaker 7: down there in. What was more shocking than that is 437 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 7: they had that information printed out already on an official document. 438 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 6: We've learned the signature collectors in Smith's video were doing 439 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 6: so for ballot initiatives backed by billionaires fighting a proposed 440 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 6: wealth tax. The measures include proposals to invalidate the tax, 441 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 6: require audits and other tax transparency tools. The campaigns for 442 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,640 Speaker 6: that are known as Building a Better California and Californians 443 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:12,439 Speaker 6: for a More Transparent and Effective Government. Another petition was 444 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 6: for a separate campaign for a proposed Retirement and Personal 445 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 6: Savings Protection Act. All three campaigns acknowledged their petitions were 446 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 6: being carried by these signature gatherers. Today, I spoke with 447 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 6: representatives for each campaign all said they were made aware 448 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 6: of the video. They're demanding the firm identify these circulators 449 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:34,719 Speaker 6: seen in the video and reject their petitions. Campaign officials 450 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 6: said the circulators are not directly affiliated with them. They 451 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 6: also said they've contacted the appropriate authorities. Smith said none 452 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 6: of the proposals were explained to the people in line. 453 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 7: All these people that was lining up for their down 454 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 7: only lup. 455 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 1: I've sat there for two hours and it was like 456 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: May one. Hundreds of people just came in wait. 457 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 6: To be clear, that's not the first time you've seen 458 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 6: those signature collectors out there or in the area. 459 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,120 Speaker 1: No, I've seen it like four days ago. Prior to that, 460 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 1: it was out there. 461 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,120 Speaker 6: Smith told me, as of this moment, the campaigns involved 462 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 6: have not reached out to him directly. 463 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 7: But to take a. 464 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 6: Step back, campaigns higher signature gathering firms, I'm told for 465 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,880 Speaker 6: anywhere between fifteen to seventeen dollars a signature. Those firms 466 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,719 Speaker 6: then hire people to collect the signatures. We still obviously 467 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 6: have several questions tonight, such as why do those signature 468 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 6: collectors have voter information and where exactly did they get 469 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 6: the extra money to pay people on the street for 470 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,159 Speaker 6: the apparently forged information. 471 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 5: So of course the Secretary of State overseas elections, what 472 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:39,640 Speaker 5: is that off the same. 473 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 6: Yeah, so we know that she's definitely investigating, because right 474 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 6: before our interview with Smith, he told us he had 475 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,159 Speaker 6: just gotten off the phone with their chief investigator and 476 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 6: a statement a spokesperson for the Secretary of State's office 477 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 6: told us, in part that the signature gathering process is 478 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,919 Speaker 6: an important part of our democracy and those who abuse 479 00:25:55,960 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 6: our system will be held accountable, held information and George 480 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,480 Speaker 6: intact again the Secretary of States office. 481 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 3: They have a form. 482 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 2: Online that's Ashley's a welakahi a Channel three in Sacramento. 483 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 2: It seems like everything is fraudulent. I mean you follow 484 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 2: these are street people. These are drug addicts, mental patients, homeless, lunatics, 485 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 2: people on meth and crack and sentinel. And they're given 486 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 2: five bucks to buy more drugs, and then they're given 487 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:31,959 Speaker 2: a name to sign on the petition. They're given somebody's 488 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 2: a real voter's name and a real voter's address to 489 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 2: sign on the petition. They get five bucks and then 490 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 2: go around the alley and then shoot up again. And 491 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,920 Speaker 2: this is some signature grabhic group trying to get signatures 492 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:50,679 Speaker 2: for the to try to repeal or to try to 493 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 2: block the anti billionaire attacks, because you know, they want 494 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 2: to take five percent of all the billionaire's wealth. So 495 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,200 Speaker 2: the billionaires have got together with their own prop is 496 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:05,240 Speaker 2: to try to somehow newter that idea. I don't know 497 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 2: exactly how it works, so I don't know if the 498 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 2: billionaire this is the billionaire's idea or it was the 499 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,680 Speaker 2: signature gathering company's idea. They figured, all right, we're getting 500 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 2: seventeen dollars the signature, we'll get five dollars to the street. 501 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 2: People have those drug addicts line up and we'll give 502 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 2: them five dollar bills and then then they can go 503 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 2: snort some new myth And where did they where did 504 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 2: they steal the identities from? And they'll tell you that 505 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:36,879 Speaker 2: our whole voting system is is clean, it's sanctified. Don't worry, 506 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 2: we don't need voter ID. There's no such thing as 507 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 2: voted fraud. Right all right, first hour of the podcast, 508 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:45,679 Speaker 2: we're going to release that in a matter of minutes. 509 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,919 Speaker 2: Spencer Pratt running for mayor of Los Angeles. He can 510 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:54,399 Speaker 2: beat Karen Bass because her approval rating and voting percentage 511 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 2: is really low. You listen to Spencer Pratt, He's got 512 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 2: a lot going on. That's next. Hey, I've been listening 513 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 2: to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear 514 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 2: the show live on KFI AM six forty from one 515 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 2: to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, 516 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,119 Speaker 2: anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.