1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: I Am six forty. You're listening to the John coblt 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: podcast on the iHeartRadio app. John Cobelt Show. Yes, I 3 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, and 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: we're on from one until four every day. You probably 5 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: know that by now, and if you don't, well, we are. 6 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 1: And then after four o'clock the same show gets transformed 7 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:25,319 Speaker 1: into a podcast, John Cobelt Show on demand on the 8 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: iHeart app posted a little bit after four o'clock at 9 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Radio if you want to access us on 10 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: social media. And the moistline is eight seven seven Moist 11 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:38,160 Speaker 1: staighty six eight seven seven Moist eighty six. We have vacancies. 12 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 1: It's already Tuesday. Now, there's plenty to be mad at, 13 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:45,919 Speaker 1: so you could call that number and start venting. We'll 14 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: play it on Friday. The desert out east of Los 15 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: Angeles fascinating place, high desert, especially Mohave. There's all kinds 16 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: of horrible things going on there, and there's a lot 17 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: of drug manufacturing and drug distribution going on, a lot 18 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: of myths fentanyl, marijuana, and marijuana was the center of 19 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: some kind of wild gunfight up in the Mojave Desert. 20 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: Six men shot to death and four of them were 21 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: severely burned. This happened last Tuesday, and for days there 22 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:28,119 Speaker 1: was no details on what that was about. And now 23 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:32,839 Speaker 1: the San Berdino County Sheriff's Department is revealing some details. 24 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 1: It's quite a story. Blake Trolley from KFI News is 25 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: on the case. Blake, Yeah. 26 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 2: So sheriff's investigators are expected to release more information about 27 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 2: this as soon as the DA has a chance to 28 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 2: look at this case, and as soon as this case 29 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 2: gets a preliminary hearing. But what we're hearing is that 30 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 2: this was some sort of meetup that may have turned 31 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 2: into an ambush. As you remember, John, these murders happen 32 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 2: in an extremely remote desert area, more than ten miles 33 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 2: out of Atlanto, at the cross section of two desert 34 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 2: dirt roads, and one of the big questions was who 35 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 2: called this in. Well, last night we learned that the 36 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:10,799 Speaker 2: caller was actually one of the six people shot. And 37 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,919 Speaker 2: if you'll remember John, they found five bodies, initially one 38 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 2: in the car, four near the cars. That sixth person 39 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 2: found was actually the person who called in the shooting, 40 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 2: so it sounds like he was able to make some 41 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 2: sort of run for it before he ended up dying. 42 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:27,959 Speaker 2: We learned last night that one person again was found 43 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,119 Speaker 2: in the two SUVs four found near it. Last night. 44 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 2: Investigators hinted that this may have been a meeting. They 45 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 2: also hinted that this may be cartel related, but they 46 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 2: wouldn't go as far as to actually confirm that this 47 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 2: was cartel related. Sheriff Shannondykas did tell reporters, however, that 48 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 2: this case did draw some similarities between cartel cases. After 49 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:55,239 Speaker 2: this shooting, after they initially responded to this shooting, multiple 50 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 2: search warrants were served in the High Desert. All of 51 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 2: these were near illicit marijuana grove. They found and located 52 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 2: the suspected shooters at a compound near a marijuana gro 53 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 2: that was being developed, and the rest of them Sunday. 54 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 2: We're not exactly sure where this compound was, but what 55 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 2: I can tell you is they served search warrants in 56 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 2: Apple Valley, Atlanto, and it's still in the High Desert, 57 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 2: but now we cross over to La County and Pinion Hills, 58 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 2: So in one of those locations, we're guessing this is 59 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 2: where they were able to find an apprehend thee shooters. 60 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:29,559 Speaker 1: These guys possibly maybe from Honduras. 61 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, so two of the victims last night. Sheriff Shannon 62 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 2: Dyke has told us that two of the victims were 63 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 2: from or possibly from from Honduras, but that investigators right 64 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 2: now are working with the consulate to verify their nationality status. 65 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: What you said about possibly being drug cartel behavior, what 66 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: struck me was shooting them dead wasn't enough. They also 67 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: had to burn the bodies and that kind of the 68 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: top psychotic violence is a hallmark of the cartels. 69 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 3: Yeah. 70 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 2: You know what, John, I actually went out on a 71 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 2: ride along two years ago in the High Desert and 72 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 2: I was told that cartels from all over the world 73 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 2: are actually operating the pot farms out there. And just 74 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 2: to give you some numbers that sheriffdykeas got into last night, 75 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 2: illegal pot farms in the High Desert. Last year, investigator 76 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 2: served more than four hundred search warrants, Fourteen honey oil 77 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 2: labs were busted, six hundred and fifty five plants were seized. 78 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 2: But on top of all that, three hundred and seventy 79 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 2: five million dollars cash was also seized as part of 80 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 2: these As part of these busts, I mean, this is 81 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 2: the kind of money that the cartel is definitely after, 82 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:43,599 Speaker 2: and when I did a ride along, I was told 83 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 2: that there are Asian gangs, Mexican gangs, South American gangs 84 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 2: all operating out there, essentially because of the way the 85 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 2: laws are structured in California, and this is something that 86 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 2: Sheriff Dikeas took aim at last night, saying we need 87 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 2: to have changes to the laws. When I looked into this, 88 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 2: there was a multitude of issues that have kind of 89 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 2: bred these farms all over the desert, and what it 90 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 2: comes down to is a few things. One of them 91 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 2: is that a consumer in California right now is paying 92 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 2: up to forty percent in taxes to buy marijuana. So 93 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,799 Speaker 2: there's still a heavy demand for the illegal stuff because 94 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 2: it's not taxed. So the industry has actually been advocating 95 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 2: to lower the taxes. One of the interesting things, and 96 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:25,919 Speaker 2: one reason you might not see this in the news 97 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 2: a lot. It was explained to me because the industry 98 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 2: is struggling financially, they don't actually have a lot of 99 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 2: lobby power to get those taxes down. So the illegal 100 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 2: market has taken off, and the legal industry, who's trying 101 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 2: to lower taxes so they can compete doesn't really have 102 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 2: enough money to lobby for lower taxes. 103 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: So all of California's taxes on legal marijuana has created 104 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: an even more violent illegal industry. 105 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,919 Speaker 2: Exactly. And what's happened is the legal industry now doesn't 106 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 2: have enough money to lobby for changes. 107 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 1: Now. 108 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 2: On top of that, the way that the laws are structured, 109 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 2: the criminal laws are structured as it pertains to cultivating marijuana, 110 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 2: the punishments are relatively weak. Essentially, I went out on 111 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 2: a bust and it was guns drawn. They seized guns 112 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 2: at the property that I was at. This was a 113 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 2: huge property john and it had I mean, the people 114 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 2: that were working at this cultivation site were living in 115 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 2: these little like wood huts when a bagos, They had 116 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 2: a complex water system, plants. I mean, it was almost 117 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 2: like a tiny village. It almost looked like one of 118 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 2: those small military simulation cities. This is the one that 119 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 2: I went out on and it was one of a 120 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 2: few that day. And what shocked me was that this 121 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 2: bust was so almost Hollywood. But then all the people 122 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 2: there were just sighted on scene and we took off 123 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 2: and I thought wow, And so I had asked the 124 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 2: sar I was leading this task for they were arrested, 125 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 2: they were sighted and released, and so I asked the sergeant, 126 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 2: So you're not going to take these guys downtown. He said, 127 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 2: the way the laws are written in this state, all 128 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:04,359 Speaker 2: we do is take their picture and they'd be on 129 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 2: their way. 130 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: So there's there's no reason not to not to grow 131 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: lots of illegal marijuana. There's no reason not to sell 132 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: it and distribute it. 133 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, they get this land for cheap that or 134 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 2: they just show up on somebody else's land. You know, 135 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 2: a lot of the land that's owned out there as investors. 136 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 2: They bought this land a long time ago, and they 137 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 2: don't go visit it. They're just hoping that all the 138 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:30,679 Speaker 2: strip malls finally make it out to their little peace. 139 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 2: So a lot of that land, it's it's kind of 140 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 2: the wild West out there, right. 141 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: So there's no deterrent to doing this other than you know, 142 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: you might get you your money and or your marijuana 143 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: grow seized from time to time. But it's pretty quick. 144 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: It's pretty easy to quickly start up again. 145 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 2: Yeah. I talked to a former prosecutor today. He looked 146 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 2: into this for me, and he said, you know, if 147 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 2: you're caught illegally cultivating it. You face up to three 148 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 2: years in prison and a ten thousand dollars fine, and 149 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 2: we know how prison sentences go in this state. 150 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: All right, dev Blake, very good, stay out of danger. There. 151 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 1: That's a Blake Desert reporting about the six guys shot 152 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: to death. Four of them were then severely burned and 153 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 1: the body scattered all over the desert, the Mohave Desert 154 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: in San Bernardino County. This was up off US three 155 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: ninety five. I've driven, We've driven over the years up 156 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: and down that route for various reasons, and I've known 157 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: that there's a lot of bad things going on. There's 158 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: a lot of meth being cooked in the trailers, a 159 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 1: lot of fentadel, and also you know the marijuana is 160 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:40,959 Speaker 1: being grown. And we would drive by and I'd look 161 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: over at these these these I don't know these huts 162 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: as Blake described them, where the trailers can go. I 163 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 1: know there's bad stuff going on in there. You can 164 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 1: just feel it, right because it's so remote, and these 165 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 1: buildings would be clustered together and there are no strip malls. 166 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 1: There's no reason to live there because there's no town 167 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: there to live in those little boxes you must be 168 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: up to no good. And I mean sure enough. I 169 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: mean I have heard from let's say sources. All right, 170 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna betray anybody. But there are a lot 171 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:18,560 Speaker 1: of meth labs in the trailers, for example, and the 172 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: people who live there and run the labs guard there 173 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: because what they do is they drive out to the 174 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: desert and they're squatters. They don't own the land, but 175 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 1: they put down their trailers or groups of trailers, and 176 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 1: they decide, Okay, this perimeter is our land. And even 177 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: the government agents won't cross it because the meth guys 178 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: in the trailers just start firing at you. And there 179 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,439 Speaker 1: is well armed as any law enforcement, and there's no 180 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:44,199 Speaker 1: need to have an unnecessary shootout. So everybody in the 181 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: area just knows you don't cross certain lines. Let those 182 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: guys cook their math, sell it, distribute it, whatever they're doing. 183 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: Same thing with the pot. And you can see with 184 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: the pot there's not even any penalties citation, you know 185 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: what citations aren't like parking tickets. 186 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 2: So ye may. 187 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 1: And you have the drug cartels part over the border, 188 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: coming from countries all over the world, and this is 189 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: the industry in southern California, out in a high desert. 190 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 1: That's that's the prevailing industry, and we don't do anything 191 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: about it. Still a wild West, still completely lawless, and 192 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: they've created the industry because they have over taxed legal marijuana. 193 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't do pot, but forty of what 194 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: you pay for is taxes. Ace no wonder, there's a 195 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: big black market. 196 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 197 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 3: six forty. 198 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 1: It's getting easy to fill our daily segment. Time to 199 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: scare Debra. It's more United Airlines news or more Boeing news. 200 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 4: You just don't want me to go on vacation. 201 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: I get it, that's right, because I miss you so bad. 202 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: Another United Airlines flight in a plane manufactured by Boeing 203 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 1: had to be diverted to Denver on Sunday because it 204 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: had a cracked windshield. It was flying from Las Vegas 205 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 1: to Washington, d C. When it had suddenly made a 206 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 1: sharp turn and stopped in Denver cracked windshield. The United 207 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: said it was a maintenance issue. One hundred and sixty 208 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:32,319 Speaker 1: six passengers, seven crew members, not a Max eight or 209 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: a Max nine. This is one of the older Boweings, 210 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: the seven thirty seven, eight hundred and the United CEO 211 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 1: in the past week is fed up with Boeing because 212 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: United has more planes, more of Max nine planes than 213 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 1: any other carriers, really just United in Alaska that has 214 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 1: the vast majority of these Max nine planes. And he 215 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: said that the Max nine grounding is probably the last straw, 216 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: the straw that broke the camel's back for us. And 217 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 1: he says that they are probably not going to buy 218 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: the new Max ten planes that are coming out Max ten, 219 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 1: Max ten because Max eight and Max nine went so well. 220 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: This one comes with secure door plugs. The Max ten 221 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:22,079 Speaker 1: they put in the bolts. 222 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:25,839 Speaker 4: I think before we start manufacturing new planes, we need 223 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:27,719 Speaker 4: to check the old ones and make sure we can 224 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:29,680 Speaker 4: still fly those that they're safe to fly. 225 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: And I found out there today there's a Max seven. 226 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: In fact, we got an audio clip of this. I'll 227 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:40,200 Speaker 1: get to it, get to it a few minutes. But 228 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 1: there's a Max seven And there's something funky with the 229 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: Max seven and United petition the FAA for a waiver. 230 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 1: In other words, yeah, we should take care of this, 231 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 1: but would you look the other way? Yeah? How articulous 232 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:54,079 Speaker 1: is that? 233 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 4: How could again, this is not just an ordinary job. Hey, 234 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 4: I made a little mistake. Can you not tell the 235 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 4: boss I file something incorrectly? 236 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: Right? Yeah? The uh so we got we got the 237 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: Max eights. Those were falling out of the sky. We 238 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: got the Max nines. That's the problem with the bolts 239 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: and the door plug. The Max tens. United says we're 240 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: not touching them. And now there's some problem with the 241 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: Max seven that Boeing wants a waiver. Now Here is 242 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: some quotes from Boeing employees. These are people putting their 243 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:29,880 Speaker 1: name to the quotes. One is from Ed Pearson, a 244 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:34,719 Speaker 1: former Boeing senior manager. I would absolutely not fly a 245 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:37,840 Speaker 1: Max airplane. This is in the La Times today. I've 246 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: worked in the factory where they were built, and I 247 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 1: saw the pressure employees were under to rush the planes 248 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 1: out the door. I tried to get them to shut 249 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: down before the first crash. The these people have to 250 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: go to go public before the planes crash. I would tell, oh, 251 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: here's another guy, Joe Jacobson, a former engineer at Boeing. 252 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:03,680 Speaker 1: I would tell my family to avoid the Max. I 253 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:09,199 Speaker 1: would tell everyone, really the here's something new I hadn't heard. 254 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 1: But last year the Seattle Times reported that the Maxes 255 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 1: have another serious defect in the engine anti ice system, 256 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: and the FAA has warned pilots to limit the use 257 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 1: of the system to five minutes or debris could break 258 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 1: off that would result in the loss of control of 259 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: the airplane. And that's what Boeing was seeking an engineering 260 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 1: exemption for the anti ice system on the Max seven, 261 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: but they agreed to withdraw. 262 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 4: Oh that's how nice of the company. 263 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: So they have a problem that if you keep the 264 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 1: de icing system on for more than five minutes, something 265 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 1: starts to break off and you could lose control of 266 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: the plane. And Boeing said, hey, could you look the 267 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: other way on this? How do these. 268 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 4: People still have their jobs? John, I don't understand that. 269 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 4: Can you imagine. 270 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 1: People have to stop flying these planes and they're not 271 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: doing it? They and now we're told we're told, right, no, 272 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: we've been told. 273 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 4: But now we're told by people behind the scenes that 274 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 4: are watching and seeing how stressed out these engineers are. 275 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're not going to fly. 276 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 4: They're telling their family members not to fly and everybody 277 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 4: that they know. 278 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: If the people making the planes in the factory are saying, 279 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: don't fly this thing, I'll take their word for it. 280 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 1: I know, I don't think we're going to go on 281 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: Max eight's or Max nine's anymore. I don't know if 282 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: I've ever been on one, but you can check. 283 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 4: I don't want to go on any plane anymore. 284 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: I don't panic easily because I always go by math right, 285 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: and I don't think we've had a major jet crash 286 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: with that killed people since two thousand and nine. I read, 287 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 1: so that's fifteen years of every plane taken off landing 288 00:15:55,120 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: nobody died. And that's a good statistical, uh reality, But 289 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: you know, these Max things, there's too many stories now 290 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: and too many different stories. It's a dort plug here, 291 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 1: it's a windshield, it's it's uh what what was the 292 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: other thing? Oh yeah, the de icing system now and 293 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 1: the Max sevens. 294 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 4: Don't you think that these people, that these former Boeing employees, 295 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 4: if they know some more things, they need to say 296 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 4: it now, don't wait, don't wait until we have a crash. 297 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 4: I know that they're probably worried, but look, they're former 298 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 4: employees already, right, so they don't have to worry about 299 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 4: losing their jobs. 300 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 1: They're not working there anyway. That's the thing Boeing because 301 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 1: it's a monopoly. If these people say anything, they get fired. 302 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: Where they're going to go there's not another airline to 303 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: go to, and maybe you get blackballed. Maybe you know, 304 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: the industry standard is you don't. You don't air dirty laundry, 305 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: you don't. I get that. 306 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 4: But in a case like this, again, this is just 307 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 4: not some ordinary job. This people's lives are at stake here, 308 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 4: so this is totally different. So if somebody wants to 309 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 4: blackball because you're warning about a potential situation that could 310 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 4: kill people, well then screw those people that don't want 311 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:07,199 Speaker 4: to hire you. 312 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, got Bone's in a lot of trouble here 313 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: and their stock is way down. We'll talk more coming up. 314 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: John Coblt's showed. 315 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 316 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 3: six forty. 317 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. If 318 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:30,879 Speaker 1: you want to hear the podcast version of the show 319 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 1: goes by quicker. It's John coblt on demand on the 320 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 1: iHeart app and otherwise we're on from one to four. 321 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 1: We post the podcast version after four o'clock. Millions of 322 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 1: people have listened to the podcast, downloaded the podcast over 323 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: the last year. So it's it's great late at night. 324 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 1: We can put you to sleep every night. Sometimes we 325 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 1: put you to sleep during the day. 326 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 4: Oh, maybe that's what I should do. 327 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: You should try that since you don't sleep at all. 328 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: So yeah, listening to the show and that I'll knock 329 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:06,880 Speaker 1: you right out, I'm told coming up after two o'clock. 330 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: We talked about this yesterday with John had Tommy. John 331 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 1: was in here. He is one of the top candidates 332 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:16,119 Speaker 1: to replace George Gascon as La County DA and he 333 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,879 Speaker 1: had some information on this really strange story. It's a 334 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 1: Beverly Hills mansion that was seized by a court because 335 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 1: the owner is this scam doctor is doctor Muneer Waida. 336 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: And this doctor is, among other things, accused of hiring 337 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:47,640 Speaker 1: a hit woman to kill his model girlfriend. Also he's 338 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:52,880 Speaker 1: involved in insurance scams. He's on the run. His house 339 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:56,640 Speaker 1: is left behind and it's worth four and a half 340 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:01,639 Speaker 1: million dollars. The house is out in receivership for a 341 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 1: criminal court, so the state is responsible. Somehow squatters got 342 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 1: in and squatters are making thirty thousand dollars a month 343 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: renting rooms and hosting huge house parties. You have to 344 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 1: pay one hundred dollars to get into the party. This 345 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:23,919 Speaker 1: is in Beverly Hills. This is a state owned house. 346 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: George Gascone could shut this thing down. He has a 347 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 1: unit that's empowered to do it, as so Tommy explained. 348 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: But according to Gascone's office quote this is an exact quote, 349 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:46,680 Speaker 1: squatters have rights. Squatters have rights, says Gascon. So everybody 350 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: in the neighborhood it's on Beverly Grove, is out of 351 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 1: their minds and they're getting no help, no help from 352 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: the court, no help from Gascone. We're going to talk 353 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 1: with John Woodward. He's listing agent for this property, and 354 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 1: he will explain what's going on here. It's really strange. 355 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 1: Squatters have rights. We've been covering the the electric vehicle fiasco, 356 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 1: and it really is a fiasco. And one of the 357 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: central components is to why why this is such a 358 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 1: bust of a technology is there are very few working 359 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 1: EV chargers. There's not enough EV chargers to begin with, 360 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 1: but a large percentage of those that exist flat out 361 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:46,200 Speaker 1: don't work. There is a writer for the Wall Street Journal, 362 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 1: Joanna Stern, and she bought a Ford Mustang mach E 363 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: and She's written a number of stories on how difficult 364 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 1: it is like to go on log road trips with 365 00:20:56,440 --> 00:21:01,440 Speaker 1: an electric vehicle. She also so came to Los Angeles, 366 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 1: La County because we have more public EV chargers fast 367 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 1: ones than any other in the country. And you may 368 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: have noticed that they're popping up in parking lots, parking garages. 369 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:20,479 Speaker 1: They're taking up a lot of space. Often they're empty, 370 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: and maybe one of the reasons they're empty is a 371 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: lot of them don't work. So she and her video 372 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:33,920 Speaker 1: producer visited thirty different fast charging stations. They had a 373 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:39,159 Speaker 1: Rivian R one T pickup truck, and at thirteen of 374 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: the thirty, over forty percent there were problems. So, according 375 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 1: to her unscientific survey, you stop at a fast EV 376 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 1: charger and there's a forty percent chance it's not going 377 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:57,959 Speaker 1: to work. And there's all kinds of reasons, three categories 378 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 1: of problems, and she's tried to talk to the companies 379 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 1: to see if they're going to fix it. I have 380 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: a feeling they don't care. You know what convinced me 381 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: that this is really a racket. It was the story 382 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 1: we did last week the UH the California Air Resources 383 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 1: Board which is the source of everything dark and evil 384 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:22,919 Speaker 1: with all these horrible environmental laws in California. It's a 385 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: bunch of electric car fans. They're screaming at the executives 386 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 1: of Electrifier America because so many of their chargers don't work, 387 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 1: and they have been on the road, members of the board, 388 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 1: on the road trying to get their cars charged, running 389 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,119 Speaker 1: into all kinds of trouble. Well, what I didn't know 390 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 1: is Electrify America was financed by Volkswagen. This was Volkswagen's 391 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 1: penance for faking emission tests on their cars and uh 392 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: and polluting the Earth's atmosphere. They got caught and they 393 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,919 Speaker 1: had to they had to as their penance, they had 394 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: to build electric vehicle charging stations. So they created a 395 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: company to install the stations, and a lot of their 396 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 1: EV chargers don't work because Volkswagen doesn't care. This is 397 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: like the middle finger back at back at Gavin Newsom 398 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,400 Speaker 1: and the Air Resources Board. It's like, hey, you're gonna 399 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 1: find us. Fine, we'll set up your EV charging stations. 400 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 1: They don't work. I don't believe it's an accident. Anyway. 401 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 1: Here's what she found. She goes Problem number one is 402 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: a lot of them are just out of order. There's 403 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 1: Electrify America, EVgo and EVCs operate most of the charging stalls. 404 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 1: They're in shopping malls, parks next to a gas pump. 405 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 1: Out of one hundred and twenty six stall, twenty seven 406 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 1: percent were out of order. They either had a sign 407 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 1: that said out of order, or they had a dead screen, 408 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:13,880 Speaker 1: or they had a message on the screen that said 409 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 1: charge are unavailable or out of service. Now, she called 410 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 1: up the companies and each company said, well, we have 411 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 1: network operators and we monitor the chargers twenty four to 412 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: seven and when the problem pops up, technicians are deployed 413 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:33,920 Speaker 1: to assess and fix the issues. Except apparently not. That's 414 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 1: what they say they do, that's how they answer the question. 415 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: That's what gets printed in the news story. But in effect, 416 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: in reality, they don't. Sometimes parts are broken, sometimes there's 417 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: a power issue, sometimes there's a defective connector. And these 418 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 1: things I think are made cheaply and badly. Nobody's heart 419 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:01,680 Speaker 1: is really in this. There's a company called Charger Help 420 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 1: that provides repair services for charging stations, and one of 421 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,680 Speaker 1: the technicians his method to get a charger back online. 422 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: It's what you do with your with your WiFi at home, 423 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 1: turn it off and turn it back on. Apparently that 424 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 1: occasionally works. I let your five America rolled out these 425 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,679 Speaker 1: chargers five years ago, and now they're replacing most of 426 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:36,120 Speaker 1: the original chargers because they stunt. Now in the meantime, 427 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: we're getting all these incentives and this pressure. We got 428 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 1: a law that's going to require us to run electric vehicles, 429 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 1: to buy electric vehicles. The other story I saw was 430 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 1: that California officials are admitting that they do not have 431 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 1: an electrical grid to handle this. And they'll give you 432 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,879 Speaker 1: a blueprint about one hundred and fifty things that need 433 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 1: to need to be done really fast, and it'll be 434 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: very expensive. But the truth is it's not being done. 435 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: It's not going to get done. There is zero chance 436 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: an electrical grid will be built big enough. You have 437 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 1: no idea how much more electric capacity we would need 438 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: to satisfy this mandate that we all must own electrical 439 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:27,680 Speaker 1: vehicle someday. It is a staggering amount of electricity, and 440 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 1: we're at a little tiny fraction, and we're moving slowly, 441 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 1: and there's really no practical plans out there, So I 442 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 1: don't know how this is going to end, they're going 443 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: to have to back off. But you should see in 444 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal it's Joanna Stern and you could 445 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,920 Speaker 1: you could see the whole story. But it's it's it's 446 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: just another racket because so many of these companies they 447 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 1: got a lot of federal subsidy money. So the executives 448 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: are making out well, the stockholders are making out out well. 449 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 1: This was propped up by the taxpayers. These these were 450 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: it was an industry that was in vented in part 451 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,880 Speaker 1: by government subsidies. So everybody jumped on board. They came 452 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 1: up with their green company, their their EV charger company, 453 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,119 Speaker 1: their electric car company, and most of them are going 454 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,159 Speaker 1: to go down in flames because there's no market for it. 455 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 1: There's no infrastructure support. The technology doesn't work in a 456 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 1: lot of the cases, as people found out this winter 457 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,640 Speaker 1: up north right doesn't work in the cold weather, very cold. 458 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,400 Speaker 1: We doesn't work in the hot weather. We'll continue. 459 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 460 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 3: six forty co Belt Show I. 461 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 1: Am six forty live everywhere on the iheartradiof and coming 462 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 1: up at two o'clock. The case of this Beverly Hills 463 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,640 Speaker 1: mansion Worth four and a half million dollars that's been 464 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: taken over by it's described as a very sophisticated criminal 465 00:27:54,880 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: ring of squatters. Yes, the government seized these from a 466 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,360 Speaker 1: doctor who not only was involved in an insurance scam, 467 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 1: but he's accused of hiring a hit woman to kill 468 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 1: his model girlfriend. His name is doctor munir Awada. Well, 469 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 1: he's on the loose now, he's run off. The government 470 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:19,880 Speaker 1: has seized the mansion. It's become well, it's in receivership 471 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,879 Speaker 1: with criminal court and they're trying to sell it. In 472 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,680 Speaker 1: the meantime, these squatters took over and they're renting out 473 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: rooms for thirty thousand dollars a month in income. They're 474 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 1: hosting huge house parties. The neighbors are insane, they're so angry. 475 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: George Gascon could stop all this, he's got this jurisdiction, 476 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: but he said that the squatters have rights. Squatters have rights. 477 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 1: So we are now paying the bill. We're paying the 478 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 1: utility bill to keep the lights on and the pool running, 479 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: and the squatters have been here since October and Gascon 480 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: refuses to do anything about it because squatters have rights. Anyway, 481 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk with John A. Woodward. He is the 482 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 1: listing agent for this property. It's a wild story and 483 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 1: you're living on that block. Why is that bad luck? Huh? 484 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 1: That's what I'm always worried about, is that some knucklehead 485 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 1: in the neighborhood is going to do in Airbnb and 486 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 1: suddenly there's gonna be civil war breaking out. We were 487 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 1: just talking about all the electric vehicle chargers that don't work, 488 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 1: and a Wall Street journal writer came to La County 489 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: and found that forty percent of the public electric vehicle 490 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: chargers don't work. And she just looked at the fast ones. 491 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,280 Speaker 1: Nobody pays attention to the slow ones. Because hes got 492 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 1: to plug your car in for a week and a half, 493 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 1: you got a full charge. She looked at the fast ones. 494 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:55,880 Speaker 1: Forty percent are broken. The one of the other green 495 00:29:56,160 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 1: energy initiatives, if you remember, in February of last year year, 496 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: about one year ago, the Department of Energy proposed new 497 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 1: energy efficiency standards for gas stoves that would have prohibited 498 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 1: the sale of gas stoves about half of all existing models. 499 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: And it was a big uproar. It was going to 500 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 1: ban The regulations would have banned the sale of stoves 501 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 1: that consumed a certain amount of BTU energy. They got 502 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: such an intense blowback from the public. Over nine thousand 503 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: comments were reviewed by USA Today reporters, and the anger 504 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: was so palpable that the government has backed off. We 505 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 1: actually won around. The federal government has backed off and 506 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: created a standard that's going to only apply to three 507 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 1: percent of currents. Three instead of over half of the 508 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: gas stoves being declared illegal, only three percent. So for now, 509 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 1: the gas stoves are sife and what they do in 510 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: both categories, whether it's cars or stoves. I don't care 511 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 1: if you drive an electric car. I don't care if 512 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: you have an electric stove. Yeah, some people think gas 513 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 1: stoves make better food. Some people love their electric cars, 514 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 1: especially if they're Tesla. That's great. This is about something 515 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: basic that's not disgusting anymore. In fact, if you say 516 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,959 Speaker 1: it out loud, people think you're being corny, old fashioned, silly. 517 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 1: It's freedom. I want to drive a gas powered car period. 518 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 1: I don't have to explain to you why. I don't 519 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 1: have to defend it. I don't have to feel ashamed 520 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 1: I have a gas stove. I want to keep my 521 00:31:54,920 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: gas stove. I don't care if you think looks better 522 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 1: on an electric stop. It doesn't matter to me. And 523 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,760 Speaker 1: I don't believe, I do not believe that my stove 524 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 1: and my car is harming anything. And I don't think 525 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 1: all the banning that they've done already and all the 526 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 1: regulating they've done already has lowered the temperature in the 527 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: atmosphere at all zero, and it never will, primarily because 528 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,800 Speaker 1: China and India are going to continue doing whatever they 529 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,440 Speaker 1: want because they have to. They have two and a 530 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 1: quarter billion people. We have a small fraction of that, 531 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,760 Speaker 1: So they are going to keep burning coal and oil 532 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 1: and natural gas, and they are not going to listen 533 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 1: to our silly, stupid scolding. So there's no reason that 534 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,080 Speaker 1: I can't drive a gas powered car, especially considering the 535 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,719 Speaker 1: state of electric cars and those chargers, And there's no 536 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 1: reason I have to get an electric stove. I don't 537 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: want to. Not your business, get out of my life. 538 00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,360 Speaker 1: And if there's like if I had one wish, is 539 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,719 Speaker 1: for everyone to rise up and say get out of 540 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 1: my life. Apparently thousands of people did that in the 541 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 1: gas stove debate, and that caused the Biden administration to 542 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 1: back off because it's not their business. Freedom does sound 543 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,280 Speaker 1: old fashioned and courty. But boy, without it, this is 544 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 1: what happens. We come back, We're going to talk to 545 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 1: John A. Woodward. He's the listing agent for this Beverly 546 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:34,520 Speaker 1: Hills mansion that is turned into a nightmare for neighbors 547 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:39,280 Speaker 1: because a criminal ring of squatters has taken over and 548 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 1: they're making thirty thousand dollars a month renting rooms and 549 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 1: hosting huge house parties, the sordid Tail. George Gascon's office 550 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 1: says squatters have rights, so they won't do anything about it, 551 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:54,000 Speaker 1: and they could. That's next. Hey, you've been listening to 552 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,600 Speaker 1: the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the 553 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,360 Speaker 1: show live on KFI AM six forty from one to 554 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,320 Speaker 1: four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime 555 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,520 Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app.