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Don't ask how this got started yesterday, 11 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 1: but it's too far gone. Now we've got photos of 12 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: Deborah's two dogs versus Raise Dog, and your vote will 13 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: determine who is officially the cutest Deborah's dogs or Raised Dog. 14 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: And last I checked, last I checked, Deborah was winning 15 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: right on Twitter. Yeah on Twitter, Yeah, where you were 16 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: losing the Instagram vote. 17 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: I think so, yeah, yeah, that's what I said yesterday, 18 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 2: but that was yesterday. 19 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: All right, Well, anyway you could go vote, because what 20 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: else do you have to do? Right, They're all cute, 21 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: they're all We're going to talk now to John Woodward 22 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: John A. Woodward, the fourth. He is the listing agent 23 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:24,639 Speaker 1: for an estate at thirteen sixteen Beverly Grove in Beverly Hills. 24 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: It's four and a half million dollars if you're interested, 25 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,479 Speaker 1: and it's got quite a history. It was seized as 26 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: an asset from a doctor named Mounir Uwada. Doctor Uwada 27 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: is on the loose now. He was accused of hiring 28 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: a hit woman to kill his model girlfriend. Also, he 29 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: was involved in some kind of insurance scam. So the 30 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: state sees the house. It's in receivership for the court, 31 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: so we the taxpayers, are paying to maintain this thing. 32 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: Somewhere along the way, it got invaded by squatters who 33 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: are making a load of money renting it out. They're 34 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 1: renting out rooms and hosting parties, which is driving the 35 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: neighborhoods insane. The the neighbors insane, and uh George Gascone 36 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 1: his office can stop this nonsense. We talked with John 37 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: Hatami yesterday about that he's running to replace Gascone, and 38 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: Gascone's office claims that squatters have rights, so they're doing nothing. 39 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: So we're going to get the listing agent on here 40 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: John A. Woodward, the Fourth John, how are you welcome 41 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: to John Cobelt Show. 42 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 3: Hey, John, how are you? 43 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 1: I'm all right? This is uh a wild story. Uh? 44 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: How did you end up being the listing agent for this? 45 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 3: I have worked for the administrator for the court before. 46 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 3: When there's a fraud in Medicare, and I've sold property 47 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 3: for the state of California when doctors rip off Medicare. 48 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 3: And this doctor this is the biggest hit Medicare's ever take. 49 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 3: And this doctor ripped off Medicare for one hundred and 50 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 3: fifty million dollars. Oh, so this is house is in 51 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 3: receivership to go, you know, pay back some of the 52 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 3: funds of Medicare to the state of California. 53 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:17,079 Speaker 1: One hundred and fifty million. Yes, that is staggering. And 54 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: they say you put out a hit on his girlfriend 55 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: he killed her. 56 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know much about that. It was a 57 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 3: successful hit, that's what I understand. Oh, I've never met 58 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 3: the man. He fled the country and I think either thirteen, 59 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:36,119 Speaker 3: twenty thirteen or twenty fifteen. Wow, and I think he's 60 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 3: in Lebanon right now. 61 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: So you're like, you go ahead. 62 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 3: I'm just the administrator knows me and used me before. 63 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 3: And you know, I've been in the business for forty 64 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 3: you know, forty plus years and a top broker in 65 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 3: LA and anyway, Yeah, this is probably one of the 66 00:03:55,240 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 3: most uh, one of the most interesting, wild and saying 67 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 3: listenings I've ever had with a situation. 68 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: So, uh, when did the squatters take over? 69 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 3: Well, the squatters took over in October. The pool man, 70 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 3: who you know we're paying for the taxpayers you and 71 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 3: I are the state of California, called me up and said, 72 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 3: you know, what do you do? You do you want 73 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 3: to keep me on? I said, what are you talking about? Yeah, 74 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 3: we want to keep you on. We want to keep 75 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:27,720 Speaker 3: the property maintained. He goes, well, there's people moving in. 76 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 3: I said what So I said, I'll be right up there, 77 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 3: and there's sure enough, there's people moving in. So I 78 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 3: called the police. The police show up, they take an 79 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 3: ID number, they take a report, and the squatters to 80 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 3: produce a fake leaf and said, here, we leased the property. 81 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 3: And I said, no, they didn't lease it. I'm the broker. 82 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 3: We didn't lease it to these guys. It's not for sale. 83 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 3: I mean, it's not for lease. It's for sale. And 84 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 3: Once the police saw that, they kind of go, hey, 85 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 3: believe you, but this is a civil matter. So you know, 86 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 3: I've told the attorneys for the court, why don't you 87 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 3: just cut off the utilities? And their response was, you know, hey, 88 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:15,720 Speaker 3: squatters have rights, and it's like, they're right, what about us, 89 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 3: We've got rights? And anyway, it's been a complete disaster 90 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 3: up there. The neighbors are fit to be tied. You know, 91 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 3: they thought I leased it to these people and they 92 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,280 Speaker 3: were furious at me till they've learned that I was 93 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 3: the first one to call the police. And the police 94 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 3: have probably been up there fifty times and they know 95 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 3: all about that. 96 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: What's the point of what's the point of the police 97 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,559 Speaker 1: showing up every night because they have some crazy party 98 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 1: going on? Have you heard? Because john had Tommy who 99 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: was running for DA said on our show yesterday that 100 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: he's a gascon Because Johnny's a deputy DA. Gascone has 101 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: a department where they could shut this down. They have 102 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 1: over I don't know, a certain oversight for cases like this, 103 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: and they could send their investigators and clear those people out. 104 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, they could do that today. I could do it yesterday. 105 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 3: It's in court. The judge s could you know, make 106 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 3: a ruling, set out as deputies or set out the marshal, 107 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 3: and this thing would be over with. I don't know 108 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 3: why it's just been in limbo and no one's doing 109 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 3: anything on this because I've heard. 110 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: I've heard of this fake leaf scam. All you have 111 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 1: to do is, you know, create something on your computer, 112 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: print it out and show it to the cops. And 113 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: they're supposed to turn around and leave. 114 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 3: Yep, they say it's a civil matter. They can't take 115 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 3: my side over their side. And even though they said, hey, 116 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 3: John Woodward, I believe exactly what you're telling me, but 117 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 3: our hands are tied. This is now a civil matter. 118 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,159 Speaker 3: What if it's already in court right now. I don't 119 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 3: understand whether the judge doesn't take care of this so 120 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 3: the DA doesn't shut this down. I mean I told her, 121 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 3: I told someone, hey, the administrator, to tell her, let's 122 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 3: just cut off the utilities and you know, have the 123 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 3: problem to be solved right there, there's no water, there's 124 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 3: no electricity. Uh, you know, it's shuts down. Their their 125 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 3: their fun. 126 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: Well if the guests going doctrine is the squatters have rights. 127 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: You see what's going on here. What, by the way, 128 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: is this in l because I know there's areas that 129 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 1: are called Beverly Hills but are technically in Los Angeles, 130 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 1: which police. 131 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 3: Department this is in Beverly is called Beverly Hills po Yeah, 132 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 3: and so it's in l A. 133 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: And so yeah Hills. 134 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 3: If this isn't Beverly Hills proper it's Beverly Hills, police 135 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 3: would have shut this down right right first. 136 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's the nine O two one oh uh 137 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: post uh postal code, and there's there's there's some of 138 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: Los Angeles in that postal code. But you put Beverly 139 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:53,119 Speaker 1: Hills on your on your mail. 140 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 4: Uh. 141 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: What kind of parties are going on there? 142 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 5: What? 143 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: What kind of behavior is being seen? 144 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 3: Well, it's been all over the news, you know. They 145 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 3: they start about midnight and they go to six seven 146 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,239 Speaker 3: in the morning, big grave parties. They charge one hundred 147 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 3: dollars to get in and they have about one hundred 148 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 3: people up there. And if you talk to any of 149 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 3: the neighbors, the neighbors are the neighbors are beyond and 150 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 3: they're beyond upset. They're they're infuriated, they are they are 151 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 3: so angry, and they're very angry at the DA's office 152 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 3: for not taking care of this. 153 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:32,199 Speaker 1: Well, that's it's so obvious. This is not in dispute, 154 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: and and and the judge is dragging his heels and 155 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: what's the reason for that? Do you know? 156 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 3: I don't even think the judge knows about it. But 157 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 3: it's in court. It's in court. I've got four offers 158 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 3: on the property right now, and they're just kind of 159 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:49,080 Speaker 3: sitting in limbo. 160 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 1: You can't sell it because of their fake leaves. 161 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 3: I can't sell it because most of the offers I 162 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 3: have are cantinuing on getting the squatters out, and no 163 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:06,319 Speaker 3: one's taking any action to get the squatters out of there. 164 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:09,959 Speaker 3: So hopefully the DA will hear your show, and it's 165 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 3: been on the news on every channel. Hopefully somebody at 166 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:19,320 Speaker 3: the DA's office will listen and finally take the bull 167 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 3: by the horns and get those squatters out of there 168 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 3: and have this problem come to an end, and we'll 169 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 3: get some peace and quiet up there, you know, and 170 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 3: I can sell the house and move on with my business. 171 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 1: Yeah. That that just a wild story, all right, John, 172 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:38,439 Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on and telling us the story. 173 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 3: All right, thank you? 174 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: All right, Luck, that's John woodwork right, and he's the 175 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: listing agent for the for this mansion in Beverly Hills. 176 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: I was just looking up more details of the case. 177 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 1: So the doctor in question really real one hundred and 178 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: fifty million dollars he ripped off and medicare fraud and 179 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: he's run off to Lebanon, and he's connected to the 180 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: murder of his twenty one year old ex girlfriend. She 181 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: was found murdered in March of two thousand and eight. 182 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:17,559 Speaker 1: And they think doctor Uwada hired a het woman one 183 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: of his employees, payter a quarter of a million dollars, 184 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: So he's he's far away, and I guess they haven't 185 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: been able to extrad item one hundred and fifty million dollars. 186 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: Do they any controls in government? Is there anybody who 187 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 1: has any security measures? How does he run off with one 188 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million. That's like the thirty billion that 189 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: the fraudsters ran off with during the unemployment scam the 190 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: COVID years more coming up. 191 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 192 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 4: six forty. 193 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 1: How scary is that squatter story? Though? 194 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 2: I know people that they've had that situation and it 195 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,680 Speaker 2: is almost impossible to get those people out. 196 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 1: I do too. Friends of ours they moved. I think 197 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 1: they moved from the UH near Hollywood, right. They had 198 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: a house and they were moving to the West Side. 199 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 1: And they went back to the Hollywood house and they 200 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: found people inside like they were going to rent it out. 201 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 1: And just during the transition period, I guess they noticed 202 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: moving trucks and they thought, wow, this is going to 203 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: be vacant for a few days. Right. And then with 204 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: the fake lease fleas that's been around for years, and 205 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: the idiots in the legislature never closed that loophole. You 206 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 1: could print something on your home computer. I'm sure there's 207 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: least templates, right, you just fill out all the forums. 208 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: You show it to a cop. It's like kryptonite. They 209 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 1: can't do anything. It freezes the cops. They say, oh, 210 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 1: civil dispute. You have to go to court and decide 211 00:11:57,600 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 1: who actually owns the place. 212 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 2: It's right, it is, did I understand how squatters have rights? 213 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:06,079 Speaker 2: You know, it's funny when when your guest said, well, 214 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 2: maybe the d is listening and do something, You think 215 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 2: the gascone is listening to you. 216 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: Right, he might be listening, but he's not going to 217 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: do anything. But isn't it crazy? Every day we have 218 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: a gascone story and they come out of left field, like, 219 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:23,319 Speaker 1: who would have thought that that squatter's taking over this 220 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: this doctor's house and that doctor's a piece of work. 221 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: Huh kills the girlfriend stealed one hundred and fifty million 222 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: dollars from California medicare goes off to Lebanon. Nobody can 223 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: touch him. 224 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 2: Now, he did he kill the girlfriend in that house? 225 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,200 Speaker 2: Because that might spook Did he kill. 226 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:41,959 Speaker 1: The girlfriend in that house? That's a good question. I 227 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: don't know. I don't I don't think. 228 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 2: So oh okay, because that that might spook some people 229 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 2: and say, you know. 230 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:52,840 Speaker 1: There's a murder here. That listing agent has has four offers, 231 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: so let me see. Uh no, No, she was killed 232 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: in Santa Monica. I killed sixteen years. Go boy. Some 233 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 1: people just get away. 234 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,960 Speaker 2: They can do anything, and it's so it's not fair 235 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 2: John to the neighbors. I mean I have seen those 236 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 2: neighbors being interviewed on TV, and I mean these parties 237 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 2: are going all night long and people are they're parking 238 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 2: all up and down the street and they're throwing their 239 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 2: trash and I mean it's it's it's crazy and you 240 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 2: can't do anything about it. 241 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 1: No, no, but what what what John Woodward said, The 242 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: listing agent goes, well, it's it's it's technically in Los Angeles, 243 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: so it's LAPD territory. Beverly Hills police wouldn't put up 244 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 1: with it, I was gonna say. And the Beverly Hills 245 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 1: Police and the City of Beverly Hills, they don't put 246 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: up with anything. And if you walk through Beverly Hills, 247 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:45,719 Speaker 1: you're not going to find like homeless people laying in 248 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 1: the streets or laying in the park. They just they 249 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: just take care of business. Period. 250 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 2: I still don't understand how squatters have rights. I really don't. 251 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 2: That makes zero sense. 252 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 1: Especially since it's already a work case. Every you know, 253 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:06,959 Speaker 1: the judge should be aware of this. Gascone is aware 254 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,679 Speaker 1: of it, and what John Tommy explained yesterday, he has 255 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:12,959 Speaker 1: the personnel, there's a special division that handles these kind 256 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:14,960 Speaker 1: of matters, and he actually the jurisdiction to go in 257 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: there and and shut it down, and he and he 258 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: refuses to do it. I'm just there's absolutely That's why 259 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: whenever we go on a trip, we try to get 260 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 1: somebody to sit in the house. 261 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, you know anybody, because somebody is going to 262 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 2: go into your fancy house and. 263 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: They're never going to want to leave. That's just what 264 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 1: I need. 265 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 2: No, it's really not that nice. 266 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: You want to start that. You're not you're not living, 267 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: you're not on food stamps. 268 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 2: I don't live on the west side, John. 269 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: You just live high up in the hills. It's better 270 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: you look down on the west side. Okay, okay, all right, 271 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 1: when we come back, do you Here's here's what grabbed 272 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: my attention. Headline in the El Segundo Times, l a 273 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 1: is being stripped for parts. Do you know why all 274 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 1: the overhead lights are out? Why it's so dark in 275 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: Los Angeles? This is part of the lawlessness because thieves 276 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: have stolen the copper that electrifies thousands of lights in 277 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: the city. They've stolen the copper wire, so there's thousands 278 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: of lights that are out and not being replaced, and 279 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: periodically there are stories about this, but it only gets worse. 280 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: We'll talk about it next. 281 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 282 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 4: six forty. 283 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: Dohn Cobelt Show, I Am six forty Live everywhere iHeartRadio app. 284 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: If you missed some of the show, all the shows 285 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 1: so far, what the hell, Well, you can hear it 286 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: again on the podcast John Cobelt Show on demand on 287 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: the iHeart app moistline eight seven seven, Moist eighty six, 288 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 1: eight seven seven Moist eighty six and continue you voting 289 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 1: at John Cobelt Radio on Twitter whether you think Ray Lopez, 290 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 1: our producer's dog, is cuter than Deborah Mark's two dogs. 291 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 2: Ray has a little, very cute, six pound Pomeranian, very cute, 292 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 2: and I have to rescue dogs that are terrier mixes, 293 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 2: and I have to say I was offended. I don't 294 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 2: really read a lot of what people say. I've learned, Yes, 295 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 2: but somebody said that my dog that they they commented 296 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 2: that mine are two little rats. Well, first of all, 297 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 2: Ray's dog is little, not a rat. My dogs aren't little, 298 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 2: and they certainly don't look like rats. So I don't 299 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 2: understand why people have to be so rare. 300 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: That is cold, That is really me to insult somebody's dog, 301 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 1: going to block people from you, Well, they do stuff 302 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: like that, you know my policy, don't. I don't know 303 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: dogs a rat nor dogs are rats. 304 00:16:55,520 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 2: Somebody said that your dog was cuter than those two rats. 305 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're hinting that my dog is a rat. 306 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: Dog isn't a rat. That's my dog is a rat. 307 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:07,679 Speaker 2: May Ray, I'm gonna call you make because my dog's 308 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 2: may Mazie. 309 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 5: No. 310 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: I said that your little. 311 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 2: Rocco is a six pound Palmerini. He's little, and my dogs. 312 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 1: Are not gonna call him a rat though, right he 313 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 1: kind of looks like a rat a little bit. John. 314 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 2: This is how this nonsense started yesterday, when I just 315 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 2: wanted to do a dog is cuter than your two 316 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 2: dogs put together. 317 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: I just want to do a little quick promo for it. 318 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: I didn't want to fight to break out again. Anyway, 319 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: Go vote on Twitter, just scroll down and find it. 320 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 1: I don't know where it is. Uh. Uh. The news 321 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 1: is that finally the Los Angeles City Council has noticed 322 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:43,199 Speaker 1: that the city has gone dark, literally gone dark. Do 323 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:47,160 Speaker 1: you know why? Do you know how many? Well, all right, 324 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: just in Boyle Heights, Lincoln Heights, and El Sereno right 325 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 1: on the on the east side. Do you know three thousand, 326 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: seven hundred and thirty eight street lights been vandalized? Three thousand, 327 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:05,439 Speaker 1: seven hundred and thirty eight because the thieves steal the 328 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 1: copper wire. And there's a whole story in the Elsagunda 329 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 1: Times this week about the city council trying to figure 330 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:17,919 Speaker 1: out what to do. I started to know this a 331 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:21,120 Speaker 1: few years ago, driving south of the four or five 332 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 1: at night, going up and down the Supulvita Pass, and 333 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:26,639 Speaker 1: notice how dark it is. You know, my wife and 334 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 1: i'd be driving. I go, is it dark to you? 335 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:30,919 Speaker 1: Or you know? Am I starting to dim? Am? I? 336 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 1: On my way out? Because I figure that's what it 337 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:36,200 Speaker 1: happens right before you die. Things just start slowly going dark, 338 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 1: and I say, it's getting dark around here, isn't it. Oh? 339 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 1: It just turns out there's no street lights anywhere anymore. 340 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: And after I noticed at that time, I started noticing 341 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 1: it everywhere, and I noticed it on you know, Maine boulevards, 342 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:51,199 Speaker 1: on side streets, and it's all copper theft. And I 343 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: know David Goldstein did a story when he was at 344 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:58,400 Speaker 1: Channel two some years ago, and because it was on 345 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: the it was on the freeway. What's that? Oh we 346 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,399 Speaker 1: got Richie Greenberg coming up. Now. Oh well, somebody had 347 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 1: to remind me, all right, put a pin in that 348 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 1: and we're gonna get We're gonna get to it in 349 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: just a couple of minutes. Uh, we're gonna have Richie 350 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:16,439 Speaker 1: Greenberg on. Richie Greenberg ran for mayor of San Francisco 351 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 1: and he's the founder of the Da Chesaboudine Recall, and 352 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,160 Speaker 1: we're going to talk to him because there's another story 353 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:28,399 Speaker 1: about the incompetence of the government in San Francisco. Four years ago, 354 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 1: in San Francisco, they announced the state law that they 355 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:38,120 Speaker 1: thought would get the mentally ill and the drug addicted 356 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: off the streets and into some kind of care. It 357 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:46,120 Speaker 1: was going to be a conservation effort, right. They put 358 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:51,479 Speaker 1: him into a conservatorship, and after four years they helped 359 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 1: exactly four people. Four homeless people got the treatment. It's 360 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: just shocking that they spent all that time and all 361 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: that money and helped only four and they think there's 362 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:07,959 Speaker 1: four thousand of these people. Let's get Richie Greenberg on 363 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,400 Speaker 1: the line here. Richie. I'm sorry about that little miscommunication 364 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 1: on when you were coming on. 365 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 5: But welcome, yeah, thank you, and the hello from San 366 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 5: Francisco and the Belly of the Beast. I hope you're 367 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 5: doing well. 368 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: I am doing well, all right, So you. You got 369 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 1: thousands of people with mental illness and addiction, and this 370 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:26,639 Speaker 1: program was supposed to do what. 371 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:32,640 Speaker 5: Well, you know, in all honesty, you might as well 372 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 5: just shake up a magic eight ball and see what 373 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 5: the answer would be, because you know, there is no 374 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 5: concrete answer for anything when you have money involved, when 375 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,680 Speaker 5: you have millions or tens of millions or hundreds of 376 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 5: millions of dollars at stake. You've got those nonprofit agencies 377 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 5: and organizations that have been taking taxpayers money, my money, 378 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 5: and all my friends and family and great business owners. 379 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 5: Here we're paying up the wazoo every year in property taxes, 380 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 5: sales tax, business taxes, hotel room taxes, and and and 381 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 5: so on to fund these kind of programs that are 382 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 5: supposed to be catering to the needs of those homeless, 383 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,639 Speaker 5: those who have mental addiction, uh that are on the 384 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:28,199 Speaker 5: streets or in you know, wandering around intense But you 385 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 5: know this is also this is about greed. This is 386 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 5: about holding on to the money. The nonprofit organizations collectively 387 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 5: are pulling in billions of dollars through all the different programs, 388 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:48,159 Speaker 5: and the money's funneled to them unaccountably. They do not 389 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:54,719 Speaker 5: want to see their livelihoods, their their their nonprofits go away. 390 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 5: So what they do is they they put up these roadblocks. 391 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 5: They put up these barriers to treatment, They put up 392 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 5: barriers to bringing people off the streets. They get fought, 393 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 5: they fight in court, they try and block legislation. They 394 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 5: also try and help those candidates running for office that 395 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:21,919 Speaker 5: would be more towards keeping these individuals on the street 396 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 5: rather than bring them in. And this is what you see. 397 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:31,120 Speaker 5: You have unaccountable nonprofits that are not helping us. They're 398 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 5: not working for us. 399 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:36,959 Speaker 1: What I suspected and believed for years. Michael Schellenberger has 400 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:40,439 Speaker 1: written a book about this, about the nonprofits wanting to 401 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: keep themselves in business, and they do just enough. They 402 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 1: pay themselves a lot of money, but they do not 403 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,399 Speaker 1: want to solve the problem, because then they'd have to 404 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: find another line of work. 405 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,159 Speaker 5: Exactly. That's exactly right, San Francisco, I think is his 406 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 5: book correct? 407 00:22:57,119 --> 00:23:00,440 Speaker 1: Yes, detail, yes, And they know what they're doing behind 408 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: the scenes, delegate to what they're doing. 409 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:08,120 Speaker 5: Absolutely true. They know it. They try and find excuses, 410 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,400 Speaker 5: They hum and hul when they're being confronted either by 411 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 5: the media or during some hearings in city hall. Or elsewhere. 412 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 5: It's the same thing. And they don't want this to 413 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,120 Speaker 5: go away. They want to they want to line their pockets. 414 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 5: They want to get their their salary. A lot of 415 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 5: them get two three, four hundred thousand dollars a year, 416 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 5: and why would they want that to go away? So 417 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 5: they want to fight to keep it status quo. 418 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 1: Or I couldn't believe was the way they watered down 419 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 1: the law. You had to be placed on at least 420 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:48,120 Speaker 1: eight involuntary mental health holds fifty one fifties eight times 421 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 1: within a year. Yeah, to be eligible for this eight 422 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 1: I mean fifty one fifties are supposed to be when 423 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 1: you or someone you're with is in imminent danger, like 424 00:23:58,040 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 1: you've got a knife and you're holding the knife in 425 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,280 Speaker 1: air and then the police could drag you and put 426 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 1: you in a fifty one to fifty hole for seventy 427 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 1: two hours. That has to happen eight times. 428 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:13,120 Speaker 5: Well again, who is making up those rules? Right? Who 429 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 5: is it that is compromising? Who is it that is 430 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 5: forcing a watering down in legislation? And we heard that, 431 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:24,639 Speaker 5: you know as bad as people attitude towards notorious UH 432 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 5: State Senator Scott Wiener, is he apparently has been trying 433 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 5: to to tighten up the loopholes and to bring and 434 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 5: to rain in this uh. But here in San Francisco, 435 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 5: the local city council, our board of supervisors has watered 436 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,399 Speaker 5: down what the state has has been trying to push. 437 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what's crazy. The state has a lot crazy. 438 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 1: And then and the county supervisors then unwind the walk. 439 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:52,479 Speaker 1: Can you hang on the line. We'll do more when 440 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: we come back. 441 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 5: Sure. 442 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 1: Richie Ritchie Greenberg, he is an activist in San Francisco. 443 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: He ran for mayor. And we're talking about how San 444 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 1: Francisco tried to implement a state law that would get 445 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 1: almost people off the streets, especially the ones who have 446 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: mental illness and addiction. There's over four thousand of them 447 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 1: who are homeless. They're addicted, they're mentally ill. Forty one 448 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:22,959 Speaker 1: percent of these people are frequent users of emergency psychiatric services. 449 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 1: And after four years and a lot of money, only 450 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 1: four homeless people were helped and put into conservatorship. Four 451 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 1: people in four years. 452 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 453 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 4: six forty John. 454 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: Cobelt Show, I Am six forty Live everywhere on the 455 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:48,159 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app and we are going to continue talking with 456 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 1: Richie Greenberg. Richie's a political activist. He's run for mayor 457 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:56,439 Speaker 1: of San Francisco. He's a founder of the recall of 458 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: the DA up there Chess of Bodine. And the story 459 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 1: came out of the San Francisco Chronicle is that there 460 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:06,439 Speaker 1: was a state law that was passed that would was 461 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 1: to get homeless people who were addicted and mentally ill 462 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: in a conservatorship. And there's four thousand people in San 463 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: Francisco who meet that definition homeless, addicted, mentally ill. Forty 464 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:26,400 Speaker 1: one percent use emergency psychiatric services. This is these these 465 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:30,520 Speaker 1: are the toughest cases. And after four years of this program, 466 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 1: only four people were helped. And I can't imagine the 467 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 1: amount of money that was spent. Let's get Richie Greenberg 468 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 1: back on. In fact, Richie, do we know how much 469 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 1: money was spent on this? 470 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 5: Not exactly, because there are so many different aspects to 471 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 5: where money can be spent. You've got allocations from certain 472 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,640 Speaker 5: propositions that have passed here properly from years ago. You've 473 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,439 Speaker 5: got other ways to funnel money to nonprofit fits that 474 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 5: are unaccountable. And that's the problem that we can't get 475 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 5: a straight answer. But the thing that's for sure is 476 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 5: that it's in the tens of millions, hundreds of millions, 477 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 5: maybe even a billion dollars or more when you add 478 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 5: everything up all together. Because not only is it the 479 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:20,919 Speaker 5: funds that have gone to these nonprofits and through our 480 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 5: Department of Public Health, but you also have to take 481 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 5: into account when there is a call, an emergency call 482 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,920 Speaker 5: because someone's having a crisis on the street, if they 483 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:35,919 Speaker 5: bring the fire department, they bring ambulances, that often is 484 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:40,160 Speaker 5: not even calculated in to the total cost of what 485 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 5: taxpayers are paying. So that's what inflates it more so. 486 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 5: I mean, we've got a huge, juge problem here. As 487 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 5: you said, four thousand individuals approximately. I know that's a 488 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:53,679 Speaker 5: drop in the bucket compared to what you have down 489 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 5: in Los Angeles there, but we're a small community. We've 490 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 5: got eight hundred thousand people more or less. We've got 491 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 5: a astronomical fourteen point six billion dollar budget, which is 492 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 5: insane for the number of residents here we have. This 493 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 5: year twenty twenty four, the mayor is up for election 494 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 5: and half of our our Board of Supervisor, our city 495 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 5: council are also running for election or re election. Well, 496 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 5: you know, we are doing the best that we can 497 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:29,679 Speaker 5: now to throw them out or prevent the farthest left 498 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 5: wing candidates from being elected. There are several committees that 499 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,479 Speaker 5: are right now working, including myself. I'm trying to get 500 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 5: the word out there and we are opposing even London 501 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 5: Breed our mayor here, we're actively working to oppose her reelection. 502 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 5: There's so much on the line, money, our safety, the 503 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 5: recovery of the city, and we really are looking at 504 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 5: this now as also being a referendum on her. Her 505 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 5: failures over the years are really come to light. 506 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 1: You know, it really really fleshes out what we were 507 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,040 Speaker 1: talking at the very beginning that the reason this goes 508 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 1: on is because it's such a lucrative racket. Now that 509 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: there's so many hundreds of millions and billions of dollars 510 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 1: flowing through these nonprofits have metastasized, and there's so many 511 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: people whose livelihoods are at stake. They have influence, and 512 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 1: they have money and lobbying power, and they can make 513 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 1: political donations and so any laws which might in some 514 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 1: way help the homeless people and get them off the streets, 515 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 1: which would benefit the general public. It's going to be 516 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 1: stemy because there's a lot of money in keeping all 517 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 1: the homeless people on the sidewalks space down dying. There's 518 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: a lot of money in that for people. 519 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 5: Exactly that's exactly correct. And they can control it. That's 520 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 5: the thing. City Hall and the agencies and commissions and 521 00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 5: all those departments they can control. They can control what's 522 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 5: going on. In the past, they used to vilify tech. 523 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 5: Tech industry used to be the villain because they couldn't 524 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 5: control the success. They couldn't control what was happening. And 525 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 5: I predicted years ago that if there's a demise of 526 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,480 Speaker 5: the tech industry and people left, it's going to be 527 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 5: taken over by focus on the on the homelessness industrial 528 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 5: complex as they call it. And that's what has exactly happened. 529 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 1: All right, Richie, thank you for coming on. Good talking 530 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: with me. My pleasuree Than from San Francisco. So I 531 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 1: was leaving my my normal burger joint the other day 532 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:45,920 Speaker 1: and behind this burger place is an our road. It's 533 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 1: not an alley, it's it's a regular road and it 534 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 1: runs along the back of a series of stores just 535 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 1: off Entour Boulevard. And I usually take it and eventually 536 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:59,000 Speaker 1: head onto the radio station. And as I'm driving down 537 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: from the only car that road, there is a crazy 538 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: person in front of me, and she's mad her maybe 539 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,960 Speaker 1: she's forty years old, a woman, and she's got a 540 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 1: backpack on she's holding some kind of object, and she's gesturing. 541 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,240 Speaker 1: She had a water bottle I guess in her hand. 542 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 1: Big one took it and smashed it on the ground 543 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 1: and it broke it to pieces right in front of me. 544 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 1: And then she took her backpack and smashed it to 545 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 1: the ground as violently as you can. And I'm now 546 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: swerving the car trying to get around her. I'm thinking, 547 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: if she bolts out, I'm gonna end up running her 548 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 1: over now. And she bends over, bends over, and she's 549 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 1: gesturing and shouting at some imaginary person who I guess 550 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 1: she thought was lying on the ground in front of her. 551 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 1: I mean, she is screaming and cursing and waving her 552 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,719 Speaker 1: arms and is insanely angry at this imaginary person, with 553 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,960 Speaker 1: all her possessions now busted and strewn all over the road. 554 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, in no universe is this woman not 555 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 1: captured and taken away? You know, tom a mental health clinic. 556 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 1: They it would have been obvious, right, because my first 557 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 1: thought was, it's like, I gotta call nine one one, 558 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 1: because anybody, if anyone crosses her path, you know, should 559 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 1: I kill them? And I thought, well, who's gonna come 560 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 1: and what are they gonna do? Nothing? It's crazy, all right? 561 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 1: When we come back, Uh, well we'll explain, we'll explain. 562 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 1: This year, we're going to talk to a Long Beach 563 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 1: mother whose son was killed, uh in a in a 564 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 1: car incident and he is She's begging a judge to 565 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,840 Speaker 1: reject the terms of a plead deal that would see 566 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 1: her son's killer spend only six months in jail. This 567 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 1: is Oh, it's La County story. What do you think 568 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 1: is going on here? Hey, you've been listening to The 569 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 1: John Cobalt Show podcast. 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