1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app ron from one to 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: four after four o'clock. If you missed the show, you 4 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: can pick it up on the John Cobelt to on 5 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 1: demand podcast, which is also on the iHeartRadio app And 6 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:19,319 Speaker 1: the moistline is eighty seven seven Moist eighty six eight 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: seven seven Moist eighty six And in fifteen minutes we're 8 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 1: gonna give away another thousand dollars. So there you're all 9 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: caught up. When it rained again today too, We're going 10 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: to talk now with Brian Jones. He's the Republican Senate 11 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: Minority leader, and he's put together something interesting. It's a 12 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:42,919 Speaker 1: collection of Democratic and Republican politicians and the plan is 13 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: a Senate Bill ten eleven, which is called, well, it's 14 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: titled Compassionately Clear Encampments. It is modeled after the San 15 00:00:55,720 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: Diego program, and it is to yet all the encampments 16 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: off the streets and sidewalks, parks, all the public areas. 17 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 1: This destructive progressive experiment about having drug addicts and mental 18 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: patients living in the streets, and then we've got to 19 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: deal with the garbage and the needles and the feces. 20 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: It's got to come to an end. I mean, it's 21 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: been going on now for way too many years, and 22 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:25,199 Speaker 1: I think most people are sick of seeing it, sick 23 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: of hearing about the excuses and the reasons, sick of 24 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: being told that they're supposed to live with it or 25 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: there's something wrong with them. So let's talk with Brian Jones, 26 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: the Senate Minority leader. 27 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 2: Brian, how are you good afternoon? John's good being on 28 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 2: with you. Thanks for covering this very important issue. 29 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: Well, explain what would the bill do if it gets past. 30 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:58,559 Speaker 2: Very simply, it would prohibit encampments in public spaces such 31 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 2: as open space, transit centers, and schools. 32 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:08,519 Speaker 1: So most public uh, most public areas then well. 33 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's specific public areas and we're targeting 34 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 2: uh these areas in particular because we you know, the 35 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 2: bottom line is here with this uh. This is a 36 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 2: small bill. This is a uh, you know, a very 37 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 2: basic uh solution to some aspects of homeless. This is 38 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 2: not an overall, overarching, you know, grand pancea uh solutions. 39 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 2: So we're trying to just keep families, elderly and our 40 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 2: children safe in the areas that they need to be 41 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 2: to go through their daily lives. And as you've pointed out, 42 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 2: many of these homeless encampments have become drugged ins. There's 43 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 2: uh all kinds of illegal illicit activity, lots of criminal 44 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 2: activity that we just need to protect the public from. 45 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 2: And I think that this is a basic step that 46 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 2: my colleagues on the other side of the aisle should 47 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 2: be able to join me in fixing. It is a 48 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 2: bipartisan effort at this point in time. We do have 49 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 2: several Democrat co authors in the Senate, and we're hopeful 50 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 2: that as it progresses we'll get more co authors as 51 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 2: we go through the committee process. 52 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: So prohibits encampments within five hundred feet of what you 53 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: described as sensitive community area such as schools, open spaces. 54 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: What does that mean? To find an open space? 55 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 2: An open space under current laws basically an undeveloped piece 56 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 2: of property that a government agency could own. It might 57 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 2: even be private property too, but there's already you know, 58 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 2: regulations regarding private party. But an open space undeveloped space 59 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 2: that is either for recreation, preservation or health and public 60 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 2: health and safety. So it's a pretty broad sweeping definition 61 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 2: of government owned land that isn't already in some kind 62 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 2: of use. 63 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: That would include the parks then, right, the. 64 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 2: Parksure is a little iffe on the parks because those 65 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 2: are developed and have a specific use. So, but the 66 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 2: areas around the parks, Let's say a canyon, like for instance, 67 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 2: in San Diego, we have lots of canyons next to 68 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 2: our parks. That would be an open space that could 69 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 2: be enforced. 70 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,720 Speaker 1: And this would prohibit camping on sidewalks if there's a 71 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: homeless shelter available. 72 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:22,160 Speaker 2: Correct, If there's a homeless shelter space available, then the 73 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 2: cities and counties could clear homeless encampments on sidewalks. 74 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: Now, how what's the mechanism for clearing because often these 75 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: people don't want to go, So how would it work? 76 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: I mean, who would This would be a state law, 77 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: but it would empower obviously the local police and the 78 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: local officials to do the clearing. Sure. 79 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:45,720 Speaker 2: So one of the requirements that I think makes this 80 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 2: bill particularly special is it requires a seventy two hour 81 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 2: notification to the people living in the encampment. So if 82 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 2: it's law enforcement or if it's public health or another 83 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:03,159 Speaker 2: social services, wo agencies going to come through and do 84 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 2: the enforcement and clear the encampment seventy two hours before that, 85 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,599 Speaker 2: they have to notify the people in the encampment, and 86 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 2: then they also, in addition to the notification, have to 87 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 2: provide information on where else they can go that's legal 88 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 2: and hopefully a shelter, what services are available, what you know, 89 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 2: whatever else they need so that we can compassionately clear 90 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 2: the encampment and then also hopefully get them on the 91 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 2: road to return. 92 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:33,479 Speaker 1: Okay, so you're going to offer them everything that a 93 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: city has, right where else they can sleep, if they 94 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 1: need mental health treatment, drug treatment, shelters, They're going to 95 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: be given all the information. Now, what are you going 96 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: to do if they say no? What happens as a 97 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: last resort here? If they say no, I'm not moving, 98 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: I don't want all your help yep. 99 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 2: So on the seventy third hour, at that point in time, 100 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 2: they can be sided with a misimeter earn from action 101 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 2: is up to determine what they do. And then at 102 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 2: that point in time, however the local agency wants to 103 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 2: escalate it. As far as forcibly removing them, that would 104 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 2: be up to the local agency. My bill is silence 105 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 2: on that and doesn't prescribe those actions. 106 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: You know, it's shocking. In the rundown of your bill, 107 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: you provide some background information and the state of California 108 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 1: has spent twenty two billion dollars on homelessness in six 109 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 1: years and it's gone up forty percent. There's now one 110 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,280 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty one thousand homeless people. Twenty two billion 111 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 1: dollars increased homelessness by forty percent. 112 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 2: Right, yeah, and there's this California is doing everything wrong. 113 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 2: We think that we can solve this from and I say, 114 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 2: we think the governor and the leadership on hither side 115 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 2: of the aisle think we can solve this problem just 116 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 2: by throwing more money at it. And that's not a solution. Obviously, 117 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 2: we're going to have to put some money towards it, 118 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 2: but you also have to accountability and some enforcement on 119 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 2: this issue as well. 120 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 3: Well. 121 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, is it really that they 122 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: think all this money is going to work, because after 123 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: six years, clearly it doesn't. Are they that stupid? Or 124 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: is this all a big racket to enrich these nonprofits 125 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 1: who are politically connected. I mean, and I don't know 126 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: if you saw, but in New York they arrested seventy 127 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: New York City Housing Authority workers seventy who took two 128 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: billion dollars worth of bribes. These workers were allowed to 129 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: hand out ten thousand dollars contracts to various agencies and nonprofits. 130 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: The ten thousand Oh, no, you should see this. So 131 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: let's say that they had a ten thousand dollars contract. 132 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: It was a no bid process, right, they could just say, Okay, 133 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 1: you win a contract ten thousand dollars, but you have 134 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: to give me two thousand dollars. And this collection is 135 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: seventy city workers stole over a ten year period two 136 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: billion dollars. It was bribes and extortion. And now they're 137 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 1: they're federal indictments. And I'm starting to wonder there's got 138 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: to be a lot of that here, because that's I mean, 139 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: why why would everybody agree we should we should keep 140 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: spending money on something that increases homelessness. Well, maybe everybody's 141 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: on the take here. 142 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 2: I think that comes down to the accountability aspect of this. 143 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 2: And the good news is right now, there is an 144 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 2: audit that was approved last year that's underway by the 145 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 2: state auditor auditing a lot of these homeless programs to 146 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 2: find out where the money is going, how it's being spent. 147 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 1: So we're going to. 148 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 2: Find out if that. You know, obviously, in every government, 149 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 2: in most government situations, there's waste and abuse and then 150 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 2: oftentimes fraud. What you're pointing out there, Sure, I would 151 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 2: not be surprised if that's happening in California the specifics. 152 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, if there's waste and abuse and it's happening behind 153 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: closed doors, that's one thing. But if it leads to 154 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 1: you know, seventy thousand people in La County living on 155 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: the streets and they're living on the streets because there's 156 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,839 Speaker 1: money in it for all these agencies and nonprofits, that's 157 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 1: an entirely different situation. 158 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,319 Speaker 2: Sure, And I think a part of the ideology of 159 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 2: the left on this thing is that, you know, just 160 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 2: let people do what they want to do, spend the 161 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 2: money to say that you're offering rehabilitary services, which really 162 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 2: the government isn't, and just feel good about being a 163 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 2: do gooder and giving away other people's money. Obviously, you 164 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 2: and I that's not a solution. So we need to 165 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 2: accountabiit from the person who's receiving the help, But we 166 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 2: also need accountability on the organizations that are offering the 167 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 2: help and doing help. And there's I want to be 168 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 2: clear that they're in California. There are some stand up 169 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,439 Speaker 2: organizations that are doing good work and using the money 170 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 2: properly and helping people get well and get off the streets, 171 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 2: and that's those are the organizations we want to expand 172 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 2: their influence. And the ones, like you pointed out, that 173 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 2: are either just being dumb about it or actively being 174 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 2: corrupt about it, the ones that we need to shut down. 175 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: What are the chances of getting this through? I know 176 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: you have some Democrats on your list supporting this and 177 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: co sponsoring it, but that's a huge Democratic majority they have. 178 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 1: Are you think you're going to get most of the 179 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: Democrats to go on with this? 180 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 2: I think we've got a good shot at it. We 181 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 2: really listened to and if you remember from last year 182 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 2: the bill I introduced last year on the Public Safety Committee, 183 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 2: none of the Democrats voted no. They just didn't vote yes, 184 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 2: so they they know there's a problem. They just weren't 185 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 2: convinced yet that this was moving in the right direction. 186 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 2: So we took We listened to what they had to 187 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 2: say in the committee and private conversation outside of that, 188 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 2: what some of the advocates that opposed the bill last year. 189 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 2: Have had to say, we feel like we've incorporated that 190 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 2: into this bill. We've lessened the distance from one thousand 191 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 2: feet to five hundred feet. We removed libraries because that 192 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,440 Speaker 2: was a big concern from one of the sensitive areas. 193 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 2: And we have more co authors this year than last year. 194 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 2: And I think the political mood this year my Democrat 195 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 2: colleagues are you know, they're catching on. Not all of them, 196 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 2: but all I don't need all of them. I just 197 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 2: need half of Democrats to agree with me and we'll 198 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 2: get this out out of the Senate and over to 199 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 2: the Assembly. 200 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 1: Well, Brian, keep us in the loop on what happens 201 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: with this thing. 202 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 2: We'll do that. 203 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 1: And if you need more publicity, put some pressure on 204 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: some of these legislators let us know, right, Okay, Well. 205 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 2: Let me share my Instagram page real quick to It's 206 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 2: at se and Brian Jones. Your listeners are welcome to 207 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 2: follow me on Instagram. Will be giving updates on this 208 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 2: on Twitter and Facebook. Also at SCN Brian Jones. 209 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: SCN Brian Jones. All right, thanks Brian, thanks for coming 210 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 1: on you bet you and more coming up. 211 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 4: John Coblts showed you're listening to John Cobelt on demand 212 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:53,959 Speaker 4: from KFI AM six forty. 213 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: Just to follow up on the conversation we had with 214 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 1: Brian Jones. He's the Republican Saminardi leader who as a 215 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 1: bill with suport of Democrats to what he says, compassionately 216 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: clear encampments. And this would get the encampments away from schools, 217 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: away from open spaces, away from transit stops, prohibit them 218 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 1: on the sidewalks, give them seventy two hours to get out, 219 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 1: and give them all the alternatives homeless shelter, mental health, 220 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 1: drug whatever it is, stuff that you know local cities 221 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 1: have done. This would make it a statewide issue. But 222 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,959 Speaker 1: you know, I've got to insist at this point. You know, 223 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: I do not believe. I mean, there's a few whack 224 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: job progressives, but I've got to believe that these people 225 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: know that their stupid ideology doesn't work, but they don't 226 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: care because everyone they're connected with in the network is 227 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: making a lot of money. And I'll just briefly run 228 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: down the story we opened with seventy seventy employees of 229 00:12:56,080 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: the New York City Housing Authority. We're busted today for 230 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 1: taking two million dollars in bribes over ten years. This 231 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: is the New York City Housing Authority. These are people 232 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 1: who had control over ten thousand dollars or less contracts. 233 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: If it's ten thousand dollars or less in New York City, 234 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: it's a no bid process and they would award you 235 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: the contract, but you'd have to pay them somewhere between 236 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 1: five hundred and two thousand dollars as a kickback as 237 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: a bride. So a ten thousand dollar contract would end 238 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: up costing twelve thousand dollars. These seventy employees got away 239 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: with this over the course of ten years, and they 240 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 1: were all arrested by the FEDS. There's a couple of 241 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 1: housing complexes in Harlem, Taft House and King House, and 242 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 1: that's where many of these employees were hauled off in handcuffs. 243 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 1: And that's what I suspect all this is about. Now, 244 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 1: whether it's bribery and extortion in this case, or it's 245 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: just a great flow of money coming from the city 246 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 1: to the nonprofits. Nonprofits are often politically connected and they 247 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: pay themselves six figure salaries. I've looked up the records 248 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 1: of these nonprofits. It's absolutely true. You go read Michael 249 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 1: Schellenberger's book San Francico, where you know he used to 250 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: be part of that progressive establishment there and basically he 251 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: switched sides and he talked to a lot of his 252 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 1: old friends in contacts and it said, hey, this isn't working, right, 253 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 1: you know it's not working. And they agreed, Yeah, it's 254 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: not working. But look at all the money that's coming 255 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: in for us. They know it's not working. They don't 256 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: believe in the cityology anymore. Maybe they did some years ago, 257 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: but not today. It's clearly a failure. And all I 258 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 1: got to do is repeat what Brian Jones had and 259 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: is public his release today is that they've spent California 260 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: spent twenty two billion, twenty two billion, and amelessness has 261 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: gone up forty percent in the life six years. Twenty 262 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: two billion in six years. Increase of forty percent in 263 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: six years. All right, uh a, Debora, there's a there's 264 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 1: a health alert on cheese, yogurt and sour cream. 265 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 5: Well, I don't eat any of those. 266 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 1: You don't do yogurt, No, I'll. 267 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 6: Do vegan yogurt that's made with coconut milk or almond milk. 268 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 1: What's in regular yogurt? That's a day. It is milk, Yeah, 269 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: I guess it is. I don't know. I never I've 270 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 1: never had yogurt. 271 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 5: You've never had yogurt? 272 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 3: No. 273 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: I heard it's made with bacteria, So that turned me 274 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: off when I was a kid. 275 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 5: Well it is, right, yeah, well it's it's yes. 276 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: Okay, then I don't want it. 277 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 5: It also has a lot of probiotics. 278 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: That's yeah, I hear probiotics. But that that bothers me too. 279 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 1: That sounds like organisms. Okay, but that sounds like something like. 280 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 6: You don't think there's anything in your meat that you 281 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 6: consume in. 282 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 5: All those burgers. 283 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, there's nothing in there. 284 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 6: Okay, all right, okay, just want to check yogurt. 285 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: Anyway, This stuff is sold in Whole Foods, which is 286 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 1: why I bring it up. Of course, sixty one products cheese, yogurt, 287 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: and sour cream. I think this was aimed at the 288 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 1: Hispanic market because eighty five percent of the victims are Hispanic. Anyway, 289 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 1: it's put twenty three people in the hospital and killed 290 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: two why listeria lasteria outbreak, and it's sold in major 291 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 1: chains like Food City and Whole Foods. Two deaths have 292 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: been reported there's eight people sick in California. They're thirteen 293 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: brand names, including three sixty five Whole Foods market. So 294 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: it sounds like one of those generic dairy companies that 295 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 1: produces the same stuff under all these different brand names. 296 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 1: It's targeted at the Hispanic market, and it's killing people. 297 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 3: This isn't good ahead of the super Bowl with all 298 00:16:58,240 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 3: these super Bowl parties coming up, think of how man 299 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 3: dips are about to be at these parties. 300 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 1: That's right, there's a lot of sour cream. 301 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 5: Well then you can just make walk them only instead, 302 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 5: fine with me. 303 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, well I don't eat that either, So you're supposed 304 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: to throw everything out. 305 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 5: I would hope. 306 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 1: So yeah, the uh I forgot? Oh let me want 307 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 1: the symptoms. I had the symptoms listed here. 308 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:28,400 Speaker 5: Diarrhea that's one, yes. 309 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: Vomiting very good, okay, yeah, diary vomiting, fever, muscled inches, headache, 310 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: stiff neck, confusion, yeah, a COVID fog. Yeah, and you 311 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 1: get long term COVID too on top of it, loss 312 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 1: of balance and seizures. So that's that's all bad stuff. 313 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 1: It's they Patients have ranged from a year old to 314 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:56,639 Speaker 1: eighty eight years old. See you think you're feeding your 315 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: kid healthy food and. 316 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 6: Okay, well I don't and I could be wrong, but 317 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 6: I'm not sure there's been such an outbreak in the 318 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 6: v and yogurts. 319 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 5: To be wrong. 320 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 4: Hsteria is bacteria, yes, right, So you're listening to John 321 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 4: Cobels on demand from KFI Am six forty. 322 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:17,959 Speaker 1: We're on from one to four and then after four 323 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,439 Speaker 1: o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. Whatever you missed you 324 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 1: can listen to online. And the moistline is eighty seven 325 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 1: seven Moist eighty six, So get to that. It's the 326 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 1: only time you're going to be heard. Eight seven seven 327 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: Moist eighty six. One of the frustrating things I deal 328 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 1: with this every day, and it wasn't this way just 329 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: a few years ago, is that it's very difficult to 330 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 1: get accurate information from any source. There is not one 331 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:50,680 Speaker 1: single news site, newspaper network that I trust anymore. It's 332 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: because the vast majority of the vast majority of newsrooms 333 00:18:56,560 --> 00:19:01,640 Speaker 1: are are just so infiltrated with progressive lunatics that they 334 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: intentionally distort it and lie about the news. Now and 335 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 1: they're in all the big newsrooms LA Times, New York Times, 336 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: the whole bit. Some of the right wing sites obviously 337 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 1: are completely nuts too. And I sit here and it 338 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 1: sometimes takes days to understand a story because I can't 339 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: get and I just know it when I see it. 340 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 1: I just can't get the straight answer. Here's an example, 341 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 1: and this really affects dramatically public perception of an issue. 342 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 1: So many politicians lie now, and so many news outlets 343 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 1: are willing to amplify the lies. And you wonder why 344 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: what you see doesn't match what you're hearing or reading. 345 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: Like I think we all see that there is a 346 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: lot of retail theft going on because there are a 347 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,640 Speaker 1: lot of stores closing and they're announcing and saying, hey, 348 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 1: it's because of retail theft. And you a lot of 349 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:03,199 Speaker 1: things locked up in grocery and drug drug stores now, 350 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:06,399 Speaker 1: especially in certain neighborhoods, And you know they wouldn't be 351 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:10,200 Speaker 1: doing that except that people are stealing things. Right. He 352 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,360 Speaker 1: saw the other day, Gavin Newsom with that stupid story 353 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:16,880 Speaker 1: he told about somebody walking out right in front of him, 354 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 1: and he gets mad at the clerk because the clerk 355 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: blamed the governor. She didn't know she was talking to 356 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,880 Speaker 1: the governor. But he's upset and challenging her, well, why 357 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 1: don't you do something about it? In other words, why 358 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: don't you go chase the thief down? No, your goose, 359 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,719 Speaker 1: why don't you chase the thief down? The reason he's 360 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:40,159 Speaker 1: running away is your laws allow him to steal with 361 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:44,680 Speaker 1: our consequence. Gavin Newsom is a lot of bad has 362 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 1: had a lot of bad moments. That was one of 363 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:51,959 Speaker 1: his worst. Here's a story though, in the National Review 364 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,120 Speaker 1: by Caleb BArch and this illustrates what I'm getting at here. 365 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 1: And she goes she's talking about particular pole, aetitician, one 366 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 1: of those squad members, a congresswoman named Diana Presley in 367 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 1: Massachusetts who is angry because a Walgreens shut down its 368 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 1: store in Roxbury, Massachusetts, near Boston. And basically, she said 369 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 1: this was a racist act against the good people of Roxbury, 370 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: except Roxbury's crime rate is ninety three percent higher than 371 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:28,400 Speaker 1: the national average, and if you go to the store, 372 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: you have about a one to twenty one chance of 373 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:36,919 Speaker 1: being a crime victim. But Presley screams racism because you 374 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: know that that's her game, that's her stick. Well, it 375 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 1: turns out that the amount of stuff being stolen has 376 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:51,919 Speaker 1: grown to unimaginable levels. The National Retail Federation said in 377 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:56,360 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two that it's one hundred billion dollar problem. 378 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 1: Now one hundred billion dollars worth of stuff is being stolen. 379 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 1: Retailers report a twenty six percent increase in organized retail 380 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 1: crime that was in twenty twenty two, and most over 381 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:15,239 Speaker 1: eighty percent said violence and aggression is now connected with 382 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 1: organized retail crime. So violent, aggressive people are walking into 383 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: retail shops and grocery stores, drug stores and taking whatever 384 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:26,880 Speaker 1: they want and if you get in the way, they'll 385 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 1: beat the crap out of you. But this is the 386 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: story in the New York Times from November opposite world 387 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 1: lying is shoplifting really surging, And they had data saying 388 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:45,640 Speaker 1: that a shoplifting wave in the United States is exaggerated. 389 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: Retail theft has not spiked nationwide in the past several years. 390 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 1: If anything, it appears less common in most of the country. 391 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: And they claim to have a report by the Council 392 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: and Criminal Justice claiming that New York City's actually shoplifting 393 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: is down seven percent. And this is the big laugh. 394 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,239 Speaker 1: San Francisco apparently had one of the largest decreases in 395 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 1: shoplifting in twenty twenty three. Now we all know how 396 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 1: many stores have left San Francisco. And they've left San 397 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 1: Francisco because in part of the theft, if not the theft, 398 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 1: just the overall criminal activity in the streets and all 399 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: the crazy vagrants. And the National Review explains, what is 400 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: the Why is it that our eyes are telling us 401 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: that there's a lot of theft going on, but the 402 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:46,120 Speaker 1: data says otherwise. Well, the fatal flaw in such studies 403 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,399 Speaker 1: on shoplifting as they rely on the number of reports 404 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 1: that are made, not the actual number of incidents which occur. 405 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: In other words, a lot of shoplifting is not reported anymore. 406 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,359 Speaker 1: It doesn't do the retail shops any good to it, 407 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 1: so they don't bother. The California District Attorney's Association says 408 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: eighty percent of retail theft goes unreported. Eighty percent. Oh 409 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:17,159 Speaker 1: my god. So take every official report of retail theft 410 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:23,360 Speaker 1: and multiply it by four, and that's the real retail 411 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:28,919 Speaker 1: theft rate, four times what you're hearing. But the New 412 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: York Times doesn't talk to the California District Attorney's Association. 413 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 1: They don't investigate that most retail theft is unreported, but 414 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 1: I go by the data. Gascon pulls that scam too. 415 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,920 Speaker 1: Every time Gascon opens his mouth he talks about data. 416 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:50,679 Speaker 1: The data is fake. And Greg Totten is the CEO 417 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 1: of the California District Attorney's Association, and he says there's 418 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,680 Speaker 1: very good and compelling reasons for retailers not to report 419 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,120 Speaker 1: the theft. They've got major risk management issues for their 420 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: employees and their customers. If they try to stop somebody 421 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:09,359 Speaker 1: that's committing theft, they risk potential assault or worse if 422 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: the person is armed. So retailers have made a conscious decision. 423 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: Our theft rates are going to go up. We're going 424 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,119 Speaker 1: to have more issues, but we're just going to have 425 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,119 Speaker 1: to take the losses. And they have found that they 426 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: could reduce store hours, minimize the points of exit, lock 427 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: products behind plastic barriers, and hasn't stopped the shoplifting target stores. 428 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,639 Speaker 1: The CEO said Target Stores last summer had one hundred 429 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: and twenty percent increase in theft incidents involving violence or 430 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:48,920 Speaker 1: threats of violence. They don't want to tell their customers. 431 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: Target doesn't want to tell their customers or their employees 432 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 1: that violence on their properties on the rise. So they 433 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 1: don't They don't tell the police. They have to protect 434 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,679 Speaker 1: the brand. You don't want people to be afraid to 435 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: walk into Target or Walmart. They're supposed to be family 436 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 1: shopping places. They don't want parents of the young people 437 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: that work in the stores to know that it's risky 438 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 1: for them. They don't want to tell their customers that 439 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 1: it's risky to shop there. So the theft is simply unreported. 440 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 1: You report a theft, it becomes part of the public record. 441 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: Somebody is going to find out and count it up. 442 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,920 Speaker 1: So the retailers are refusing to talk about it, refusing 443 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 1: to report it, and the rate maybe eighty percent higher. 444 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,879 Speaker 1: But the New York Times lies about it. George Gascon 445 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,679 Speaker 1: and the La Times lies about it. But we know, 446 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 1: we know because stories are disappearing and they're issuing press releases. 447 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,159 Speaker 1: They're very cleverly worded, so it sort of seems like 448 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 1: it's about crime, but they don't say it outright, and 449 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 1: we see that it's a You go to some drug 450 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,679 Speaker 1: stores and you have to call for an employee to 451 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 1: un lock the Oh I had this, I had this 452 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 1: actually happened Sunday. I got some batteries, you know, because 453 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 1: we were fearing Armygeddin and we need batteries for the 454 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,879 Speaker 1: flashlights in case the power went out. So I'm squatting 455 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 1: in front of the battery rack in front of me, 456 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 1: right the battery and they have the batteries on hooks, 457 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: and I'm trying to pull off these double A batteries. 458 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,479 Speaker 5: Well that's a fine motor skill you don't have. 459 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 1: I don't. And you know they have these little red 460 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: plastic locks, so you can't pull the battery packs off 461 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 1: the hook. And there's no employees at this drug store 462 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 1: to help me. So I just tore them off. I 463 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: just tore the cardboard right off. You did it, Yeah, 464 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 1: and other people did too, because all these battery packages 465 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 1: were lying on the ground in front of me. 466 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 5: No one's going to do anything anyway. 467 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:51,640 Speaker 1: No, no, nobody is. But this is what makes life difficult. 468 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 1: I just want to buy some batteries and get out, right. 469 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 1: I can't. I'm supposed to call somebody and they don't 470 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,120 Speaker 1: show up. You know, you got to wander around, look 471 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,679 Speaker 1: for an employee, look for a manager or something, and 472 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: there's hardly anyone available. The line is long at the 473 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 1: cash registry. You can't bother the cashier depressed the little 474 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,199 Speaker 1: red button that doesn't do any good, So I just 475 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: tore it off. Come and get me. I knew they wouldn't. 476 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:17,120 Speaker 1: I paid for it though. 477 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,679 Speaker 6: Oh well, that's good. You did something that some others 478 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,399 Speaker 6: don't do, because. 479 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 1: I'm not a criminal. 480 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:28,159 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 481 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 4: six forty. 482 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,879 Speaker 1: We were mentioning this early on. We got a TV 483 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 1: report that fleshes it out. Kaiser has told its employees 484 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 1: in Oakland crime is so bad, don't leave for lunch. 485 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 1: Really play this from KTVU and the reporter Henry Lee. 486 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 1: It's just kind of scary in general, not even just 487 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: to go to work, but just kind of coming outside. 488 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 7: Aeriel Crenshaw works for Kaiser Permanente, Oakland's largest private employer. 489 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,720 Speaker 7: The health plan has directed workers in Oakland to stay 490 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 7: in their offices for work and lunch because of concerns 491 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 7: over crime. Workers are being told to bring their own 492 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 7: food or have it delivered. 493 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 5: I do agree. 494 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 2: Why because just their safety for their employees. 495 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 8: You know, if you can work at home, work at home, if. 496 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 5: You have to come in, just be safe about it. 497 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,719 Speaker 7: In a memo issued last month and obtained by KTVU. 498 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 7: Kaiser also tells workers not based in Oakland don't have 499 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 7: any meetings downtown, move them elsewhere or have them online, 500 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 7: and also says the Claremont Hotel in the Hills is 501 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 7: the only hotel approved for business lodging. In a statement, 502 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 7: Kaiser said, in part, those recommendations remain in place for now. 503 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 7: Kaiser Permanente is committed to ensuring the safety and security 504 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 7: of our employees and physicians across all of our locations. 505 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 7: We continually monitor our environments for concerns, review our practices, 506 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 7: and strengthen them whenever possible. Many downtown merchants and other 507 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 7: people who live and work in the area are taking 508 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 7: issue with these directives. 509 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 8: And it is a little exciting to hear that, you know, 510 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 8: because you know everyone's trying to thrive, everyone's trying to, 511 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 8: you know, make business. 512 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 1: You know, it is pretty slow as it is. 513 00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 8: I don't think you want to discourage people from walking 514 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 8: aroun own and kind of give in to the bad 515 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 8: elements that are running around. 516 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 1: I think quite the opposite. 517 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 2: I think if there are more people on the streets, 518 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 2: there will be less incidents. 519 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 5: I think it's overkilled. 520 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 7: Trauma's trauma, but to live under a rock because something 521 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 7: bad might happen. 522 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,680 Speaker 5: Yeah, traumatizing as well. 523 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: Stop it. It would be a policy to destroy Oakland. 524 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 4: Having a large corporation tell them to sustain the building 525 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 4: and being lunched from home is atrocious. 526 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,720 Speaker 7: So it's clear safety is in the eye of the beholder. 527 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 7: It's not clear these directions to Kaiser will be permanent 528 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 7: or not in Oakland. Henry ly KTVU, Box two, etc. 529 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 9: We don't receive a response from the Mayor of Oakland 530 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 9: about Kaiser's decision to warn its employees. Mayor Shang Tao 531 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 9: saying Kaiser is a valued employer and partner in addressing 532 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 9: community safety. Oakland is making progress and addressing community safety 533 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 9: in our business districts where many of Kaiser's facilities are located. 534 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: So lonacrat all the crime is way up in Oakland, 535 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 1: way way up. And if you have a company like 536 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: Kaiser telling its employees don't go out for lunch and 537 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 1: don't stay at any local hotels, Conway's here ding dong 538 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,440 Speaker 1: with you, you know, because of all the rain we missed. 539 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 1: Is it Toby Keith that passed away? 540 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 8: I think it was right Tobe Keith you know that 541 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 8: song red solo cup I fill you up. 542 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,719 Speaker 1: Let's have a pody. He passed away yesterday. I know 543 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 1: seven people picked him in the Google Oh no, really 544 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 1: well because he was very ill. Yes, but what a 545 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 1: great career. 546 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:35,680 Speaker 8: I mean, just a really cool sweet man that everybody enjoyed. 547 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 8: And we need more of that, those guys around not less. 548 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 8: I'm going to try to pick up the slack there 549 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 8: rain of course, you know it's raining. 550 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:50,040 Speaker 1: Yes, I have nothing to say. 551 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,080 Speaker 8: Right, and I have a message for the rain clouds. 552 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,720 Speaker 8: So if you're not a rain cloud, right, you can 553 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 8: go on the rest of your day and do whatever 554 00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 8: you're doing, but just for the rain clouds. 555 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 1: Stop. We get it. 556 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,720 Speaker 8: Yeah, we get it. It's raining. You brought rain, We 557 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 8: get it. Park Thompson joins us as usual. Nice to 558 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:10,120 Speaker 8: see you, buddy. 559 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 3: I've been pouring over the maps for you. 560 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 1: Conway. Oh good, Okay, did your house slide down the hill? 561 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 3: It did not, However many houses around me did No. 562 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,840 Speaker 1: Is that right? Must have been a flashback to the fires? 563 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, dad, right on the last neighborhood house standing. 564 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 1: So are you ever going to live in the flats? 565 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 3: H and might have to? Yeah, maybe living in the 566 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:33,600 Speaker 3: slap flats. 567 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 1: By the time I get home tonight, you can meet 568 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,600 Speaker 1: your house crazy. That's wild, bottom of the hill. 569 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 3: Pretty crazy. Your place is okay? 570 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,960 Speaker 8: Huh Conway, Yeah, I mean I got a little flood 571 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,720 Speaker 8: in the backyard, but everything, why, it's okay. It's like 572 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 8: John John had a flood in his backyard as well. 573 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 3: Oh, but the basement's okay for you, Yes, because you 574 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 3: have a finished basement. Put a lot of money into 575 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:52,160 Speaker 3: that basement. 576 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,640 Speaker 1: It's all the sand bags, forty sand bags. What do 577 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 1: you have in your basement? Is it like a like 578 00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 1: a man cave. 579 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:05,040 Speaker 8: There's uh, there's I don't play fall paraphernalia, there's like, uh. 580 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,280 Speaker 1: Just clippings of the La Times. There's a gain there. 581 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 1: There's a game room that also functions as a studio. 582 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,680 Speaker 8: Okay, hey, I don't want to get into politics, But 583 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 8: what if somebody on the station endorsed George Gascon wouldn't 584 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 8: they get a lot of heat for that from who? 585 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:25,760 Speaker 1: From from the listeners? From the listeners? Yes, a lot, 586 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 1: like almost terminable. 587 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:27,680 Speaker 3: Uh. 588 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: Well, I I. 589 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:33,240 Speaker 8: If somebody on the station said, I like a trap here, 590 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 8: the La Times just endorsed them, or they did. 591 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 1: Yes, they did. Well, that's what they do. They're the editorial, 592 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,920 Speaker 1: their editorial. We should look at the list of people 593 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: that they've endorsed. Yeah, that's where that's where they go lefty. 594 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 8: They endorsed George Gascon while they were firing one hundred 595 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:47,480 Speaker 8: and seventy people. 596 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:51,000 Speaker 1: Yes, they endorsed Gascne twice and Garcetti twice. Wow. I 597 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:54,280 Speaker 1: don't know why anybody would would listen to them. It's odd. 598 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's again, that's the editorial page. Because I 599 00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:58,840 Speaker 3: get the I don't see anything any other part. But 600 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 3: you turn that ditory o page, you're definitely in the 601 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:02,640 Speaker 3: progressive ville. 602 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, that is the twilight zone. All right, Robin, what 603 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 1: you got a break? 604 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:06,520 Speaker 2: Oh? 605 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:11,839 Speaker 1: Sorry I didn't. You're done? No, you're done? Oh I'm done? Sure. 606 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:12,359 Speaker 8: Uh. 607 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:17,080 Speaker 1: We got Crocer with the news live in the KFI. 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