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 as always run on 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 1: the radio from one until four, and then after four 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:12,559 Speaker 1: o'clock John Cobelt' show on demand on the iHeart apps, 5 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: so you could listen to whatever you missed, and you've 6 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:18,320 Speaker 1: already missed two thirds of the show. But we've got 7 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: something good right now. This is really important. This will 8 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 1: be the next important thing you do. We've got to 9 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: remove George Gascon from office over the next month. In fact, 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:33,480 Speaker 1: we should talk about that in the next few minutes 11 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 1: as well, because the ballots should be arriving at your 12 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: house by today. 13 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 2: The other thing is we must vote. Well. 14 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 1: First, we have to get on the ballot this Proposition 15 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: to Reduce Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft. That's the title, 16 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,160 Speaker 1: Californians to Reduce Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft. That's the organization, 17 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: And in less than thirty days, two hundred and fourteen 18 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: thousand California voters have signed the This would dramatically rewrite 19 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: Prop forty seven, which has caused so much damage to 20 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: the way we live. We are now going to talk 21 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: to the campaign chair Greg Tottin. He's also chief executive 22 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: officer for the California District Attorneys Association and the former 23 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:20,400 Speaker 1: Ventura County District Attorney. This is really important, so pay attention. 24 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: We're going to be doing road shows, public shows where 25 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: you can drive up and sign this petition right from 26 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:27,559 Speaker 1: your car. 27 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 2: Let's get Greg on. How are you? 28 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 3: Terrific? Very very happy to be with you. I do 29 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 3: want to correct your intro just a bit. As of Sunday, 30 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 3: we are up to three hundred and sixty thousand signatures. 31 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:42,199 Speaker 2: Wow. 32 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 3: This initiative is building tremendous momentum day to day, and 33 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 3: our coalition continues to grow and increase, and we need 34 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,279 Speaker 3: voters to sign this. They're having to stand in lines. 35 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 3: It's so popular. 36 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like in the last two weeks you've 37 00:01:58,400 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: got about one hundred and fifty thousand. 38 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 3: Say yes, we are actually collecting signatures at double the 39 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 3: rate we projected, because I think the voters of California 40 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 3: have recognized that this initiative has got to be fixed. 41 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 3: It's long overdue. We're impacted by rampant retail theft, by 42 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 3: cargo theft, by open air drug use, and homelessness. Has exploded, 43 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 3: and then we have the fentyl crisis that is literally 44 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 3: poisoning and killing countless Californias every single year. This initiative 45 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 3: aims to fix those issues in a significant and powerful way. 46 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: Explain what it does specifically, because I want people to 47 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: understand what they're voting for. 48 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 3: Yes, there are three components. The first is to fix 49 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 3: retail theft so that we can hold repeat thieves accountable 50 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,919 Speaker 3: and address the smash and grabs that most of us 51 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 3: have seen on the television news programs at night. The 52 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 3: second component is we address possession of hard drugs. Many 53 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 3: of our homeless populations sadly have serious drug addiction issues. 54 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 3: We need to have felony consequences for these offenses so 55 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 3: we can incentivize them into getting into treatment. That's one 56 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:17,079 Speaker 3: of the problems that Top forty seven had. 57 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, talk about how that would work. 58 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 1: So if they're found with hard drugs, they're arrested, are 59 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: they going to get a choice between going to prison 60 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: and getting treatment? 61 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 3: Correct? On their third offense, the third possession of hard 62 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 3: drugs cocaine, met them, fed sentinol, heroin, and PCP any 63 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 3: one of those five drugs. On their third offense, they 64 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 3: become eligible for what is called a treatment mandated felony, 65 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 3: and they're given an option of going into treatment or 66 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 3: going to jail. We're hopeful that they will tru choose treatment. 67 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 3: If they go into treatment and they address their problem 68 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 3: and complete treatment, their conviction is expunge and they can 69 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 3: go on and have a productive life. That's what's contributing 70 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 3: mightily to the homelessness problem. Since Prop forty seven was 71 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 3: approved in twenty fourteen, we've seen a fifty one percent 72 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 3: increase in homelessness in the state of California. Well, the 73 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:16,720 Speaker 3: rest of the nation has gone down eleven percent. 74 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. 75 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 1: Now we're one of a kind. We're on Instagram live 76 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:21,720 Speaker 1: by the way, So if you're listening and you want 77 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: to watch me talking to Greg, go ahead knock yourself 78 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 1: out here. Okay, did we go through all three components 79 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: or is there one of us? 80 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 3: The third component is the fentanyl issue. Our legislature sadly 81 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 3: has been reluctant to do anything to deal with this 82 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 3: crisis at sentinol. This measure holds sentinel traffickers who sell 83 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:48,919 Speaker 3: large quantities at fentinol or traffic with firearms accountable and 84 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 3: it provides for enhanced punishment. We also provide notice to 85 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 3: people who have sold fentinol that if they do it 86 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 3: again and somebody dies, they can be held accountable for 87 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 3: crimes up to an including homicide. 88 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: You've done some polling on this, and the public seems 89 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: overwhelmingly in favor of getting this on the balot and 90 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 1: voting for it. Talk about that polling. 91 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 3: Yes, we were. We did a major statewide poll of 92 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 3: twelve hundred registered voters in California, and that poll revealed 93 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:25,559 Speaker 3: that over eighty percent I think it's actually eighty nine 94 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:30,600 Speaker 3: percent support amending Proposition forty seven to deal with both 95 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 3: repeat thefts and drug trafficking. When you add sentinel to 96 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 3: the equation, the poll numbers go up to ninety four percent. Oh, 97 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 3: that's why this initiative is so wildly popular. Californians have 98 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 3: had enough. We are at a tipping point in the 99 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 3: state at the time when we're closing stores, people going 100 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 3: to stores and see merchandise locked up, people actually witness 101 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 3: theft that is unaddressed. The public's ready for this, and 102 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:02,719 Speaker 3: we're receiving incredible support. 103 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: How if ninety four percent of Californians are ready to 104 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: rewrite Prop. Forty seven. How could Gavin Newsome stand and 105 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: constantly defend it. I mean that whole target situation the 106 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: other day where he's getting angry at the clerk for 107 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: blaming him for all the theft going on. There was 108 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: a theft right in front of his eyes, and he's 109 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: trying to get the clerk to stop it, and she said, well, no, 110 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: it's the governor, not realizing she was talking to the governor. 111 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: Why do people in Sacramento still insist that Prop. 112 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 2: Forty seven has got nothing to do with it. 113 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: I mean, they're losing ninety four percent of the vote 114 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 1: here in California. 115 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 3: Well, so it's very clear that to address the problems 116 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:50,479 Speaker 3: in forty seven, this measure, by the very language of 117 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 3: Proposition forty seven, has to go back to the voters. 118 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 3: It cannot be aggressed adequately by mere legislation. It requires 119 00:06:58,160 --> 00:06:59,600 Speaker 3: the vote of the people by law. 120 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 1: Somebody told me, though, that the legislature knows that this 121 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:06,600 Speaker 1: is coming and it would pass, and they want to 122 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: put their own version up to confuse the issue and 123 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: try to derail it. 124 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 2: What have you heard about that. 125 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 3: There's a number of obviously special hearings that are going on. 126 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 3: There's the number of bills that have been introduced. At 127 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 3: least one piece of legislation has been introduced by Senator 128 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 3: Tom Lumberg that in many ways actually mirrors the initiative. 129 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 3: Not all of the provisions, but many of the provisions. 130 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 3: The bottom line is to address the problem that has 131 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 3: to go back to the voters, and our initiative, we 132 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 3: believe is the answer. Where we are not at all 133 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 3: optimistic or confident that the legislature will put anything on 134 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 3: the ballot that meaningfully and responsibly addresses this. I will 135 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 3: tell you to your listeners. More than twenty proposals have 136 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 3: been introduce Houston the California Legislature in and around the 137 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 3: retail theft space. All of them have been killed in committee. 138 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 3: Given that craft record, I have to say, as a 139 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 3: career prosecutor, I'm just not optimistic that the legislature is 140 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 3: going to do much of anything. 141 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: Now, I wouldn't trust them at all, But man, I 142 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: have ninety four percent of the people supporting something like 143 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:23,239 Speaker 1: this is overwhelming, all right. If somebody wants to sign 144 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: this thing, what do they do? What can they do? 145 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 2: Today? 146 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 3: The petitions are being circulated in a lot of locations 147 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 3: everything from Walmart's to grocery stores. I know in my 148 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:43,439 Speaker 3: hometown they're circulating them at Ralph's grocery stores. But Walmart 149 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 3: is one of our big and many of the signature 150 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 3: gathers we cannot they're independent contractors, so we don't know 151 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 3: where they're going to be day to day, but I 152 00:08:55,800 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 3: guarantee you and your listeners you can find them at 153 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 3: most large retailers. Additionally, I know District Attorney Spitzer is 154 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 3: going to be hosting an event in Orange County at 155 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 3: one of the arenas on February twenty second. There are 156 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 3: many drive by signature efforts like you mentioned in You're Yeah. 157 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 1: Well we're going to be Yeah, we're connecting with with 158 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: with Spitzer to do one of these signings at one 159 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: of the arenas. In fact, we're talking about it today, 160 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: so that that is coming up for our audience very soon. 161 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 3: And we we literally have district attorneys across the state 162 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 3: that are also holding sign up you know, signing opportunities 163 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 3: through drive ups as efforts, and if they go to 164 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 3: our website c A safecommunities dot com, they can get 165 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 3: more information on the initiatives. 166 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: Well, Greg, how one last question, how many verified signatures 167 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: do you need and how much time do you have 168 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: to get them? 169 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:11,559 Speaker 3: We need five hundred and forty six thousand valid signatures 170 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 3: and we have until April twenty six to obtain those signatures. 171 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 3: Of course, because some individuals signed who are not registered 172 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 3: to vote, we actually are shooting for how much larger 173 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,319 Speaker 3: number we're shooting for over eight hundred thousand signatures. 174 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, listen, keep in contact with us, 175 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: and whenever you think you need a boost, call us 176 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 1: and we'll continue publicizing this. And when you have any 177 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 1: kind of news, good good news, or news that you 178 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 1: need more juice, you just let us know. And we're 179 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 1: definitely going to be doing a couple of shows at 180 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 1: least on the road so our audience can come out 181 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 1: and drive up and sign terrific. 182 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:53,559 Speaker 3: Thanks. You guys are the best. 183 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, this is really important. Thank you, Greg. We'll talk 184 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: again soon. Greg Totten, who is the campaign chairman of 185 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: the proposition is called California Instroduced Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft, 186 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 1: and he's also a chief executive officer for the California 187 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 1: District Attorney's Association. Former Ventura County District Attorney We will 188 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 1: have more on this because the other issue is removing 189 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: George Gascon from office. Gascon was the co writer of 190 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: Prop forty seven. Much of the heartache in California goes 191 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: back to George Gascon. He's like this cancer that has 192 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 1: metastasized over the last ten years and is destroying our 193 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,199 Speaker 1: quality of life. We will discuss this further. 194 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Coebelts on demand from KFI AM 195 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:43,839 Speaker 4: six forty. 196 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:47,079 Speaker 2: All right, this is big news here. 197 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: You must pay attention two things going on in the 198 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 1: world as far as our quality of life is concerned. 199 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: One is removing George Gascon from office, and we could 200 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: do that within thirty days. Secondly, is you signing a petition? 201 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:06,319 Speaker 1: So all we need is one vote and one signature 202 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,559 Speaker 1: from you and the world starts to change. 203 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 2: We just talked with Greg tatten On. 204 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: He's the campaign chair of this proposition, Californians to reduce homelessness, 205 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 1: drug addiction, and theft. It's a big rewrite of Prop 206 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: forty seven, which is severely needed. 207 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 2: Obviously. 208 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 1: He's the CEO of the California District Attorney's Association. He's 209 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: the former Ventura County District attorney, so he's been doing 210 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 1: this for a long time. There's three components to this proposition. 211 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: It is going to create stronger penalties if you engage 212 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: in repeat retail theft. This is one of those things 213 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: that Gavin Newsom always omits and nobody in the media 214 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 1: ever calls him on it. When he was yelping at 215 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: that poor target employee that she should go out and 216 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: stop the thief that was stealing in front of Newsom 217 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,839 Speaker 1: and he's arguing with her about the nine hundred and 218 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: fifty dollars threshold is actually the tenth toughest. No, that 219 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 1: is only part of the problem. I have no idea 220 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 1: why you allow somebody to steal nine hundred and fifty 221 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:17,480 Speaker 1: dollars and then brag about it. But the real problem 222 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,679 Speaker 1: is repeat theft. See in Texas, they have a higher threshold, 223 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: but if you keep stealing, they throw you in prison. 224 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: Here in California, you could steal the nine fifty every 225 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: single day. You don't get thrown in prison. It's always 226 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:36,960 Speaker 1: a misdemeanor, and misdemeanors do not mean jail. In La County, 227 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: for example, there's no jail for misdemeanors anymore so here's 228 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 1: what has to be done. We have to put repeat 229 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: thieves in prison. 230 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 2: Period. That's it. There's no debate on that. 231 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: Secondly, go back to the old way where if the 232 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 1: people on the streets, what most of them are drug addicts, 233 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: they're doing drugs in the streets, turn that into a 234 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 1: felony again and give them the choice that they used 235 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: to have. You can go to prison or you can 236 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 1: go to drug treatment. Prop forty seven got rid of that. 237 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: So what did you end up with drug addicts in 238 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: the street by the tens of thousands, they're dying by 239 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: the thousands, and they're living in the streets by tens 240 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: of thousands. So that the retail theft provision is a 241 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: failure and the drug provision is a failure. We gave 242 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 1: it a ten year experiment, two huge failures since then. 243 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: A problem that didn't exist at the time of Prop. 244 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: Forty seven but has gotten worse because of Prop. Forty 245 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: seven is fentanyl and all the other stupid laws we have. 246 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 2: This will. 247 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 1: Strengthen the penalties against dealing fentanyl. The penalties if you 248 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 1: traffic hard drug would increase. Remember that is something that 249 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 1: they haven't wanted to do in the legislature. One signature. 250 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: Those three components changes life dramatically here in California. They 251 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: need eight hundred thousand signatures. They need it by April 252 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: twenty sixth. They have about three hundred and sixty thousand. 253 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 1: They've gotten one hundred and fifty thousand just in the 254 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: last two weeks. Eighty to ninety percent support this, depending 255 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 1: on the question, so it'll pass. You have to sign 256 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. We're going to do the 257 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: show live out outdoors. We'll give you the details. I 258 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: don't want to get into them right now because we've 259 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 1: got to nail everything down. Maybe tomorrow will announce the 260 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: whole thing and you can come watch us do our 261 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: show and you could sign the petition. They're also going 262 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: to be all over the shopping centers and the grocery stoes, 263 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: the usual places that you find signature gathers. So you 264 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 1: want to sign the California Is to Reduce Homelessness, Drug Addiction, 265 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 1: and Theft Act. That's what you want to sign, and 266 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: then we vote yes on it in November. The second 267 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: thing is your ballot in La County to the District 268 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: Attorney should be in your mailbox today if it wasn't yesterday. 269 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 1: It should be today because they mailed him out Monday, 270 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: and that has If you're doing mail in ballot and 271 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 1: you have to vote against George Gascon, we do not 272 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 1: want Gascon to make the top two. It's not about 273 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 1: beating Gascon with one candidate. We want to beat him 274 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 1: with two candidates. We've had a lot of the candidates 275 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: on the air. Some candidates are stronger than others. 276 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 2: We're going to be getting. 277 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: Into that over the next couple of weeks. But you've 278 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: got to vote him out. He wrote Prop forty seven. 279 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: You know what he's done to La County. He is 280 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: a cancer. He's a cancer in society and his ideas, 281 00:16:56,080 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: his laws, his everything is abominable. I don't care what 282 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,919 Speaker 1: your politics is. Nobody wants to live like this. This 283 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: is not about politics. This is about getting up in 284 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 1: the morning. And people in some parts of the state 285 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: can't go to work. Like we said yesterday, Tyser and 286 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 1: Oakland won't let out their employees to go to lunch, 287 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 1: or they don't want their employees to go to lunch. 288 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 1: There's a lot of people in La don't want to 289 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 1: go out to dinner. They don't want to go retail shopping. 290 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:25,880 Speaker 1: They don't want to go downtown. This has got to end. 291 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: This is a choice that everybody made in their voting 292 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: patterns for the last ten years. We can make a 293 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 1: choice and undo the damage and go back to the 294 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 1: old way. We gave it a run with the Progressives. 295 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 1: Their ideas failed failed. No more debates, no more arguing 296 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,919 Speaker 1: with them. We have to remove them like gascone. We 297 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,880 Speaker 1: have to remove their laws like Prop forty seven. That's 298 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 1: the way forward. 299 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 300 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 4: six forty. 301 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, you have to listen to 302 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: who we spoke with in the last half hower and 303 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 1: that's Greg Tattin, because he's the campaign chairman for the 304 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 1: Californians to Reduce Homelessness, drug Addiction and thefth Act, which 305 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: we are all going to sign and get it on 306 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:12,640 Speaker 1: the ballot, and this is going to be a serious 307 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 1: rewrite of Prop forty seven. You should listen to his interview. 308 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: He explained it in detail. It'll be the third hour 309 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: of the John Cobelt Show podcast and so if you 310 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:24,400 Speaker 1: missed it, that's going to go on online sometime after 311 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 1: four o'clock it's already on Instagram if you want to 312 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: watch it, it's already on Instagram. 313 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 2: Right, we did Instagram Live. Did people enjoy that? Yeah, 314 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 2: we got sixteen new followers from it, So thank you 315 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 2: everybody for following us right there. Yet you follow us 316 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 2: and we'll lead you into trouble at John Cobelt Radio. 317 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 2: Very good. 318 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:44,199 Speaker 1: So yeah, you can watch that on Instagram and you 319 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:45,920 Speaker 1: could hear him explain it. Just you know, you got 320 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 1: to learn about this stuff. 321 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 2: Right. 322 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:50,320 Speaker 1: Huge mistake was made ten years ago, and at the 323 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 1: time Ken and I were very insistent that you do 324 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 1: not vote for Prop forty seven, that you vote no. 325 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 1: Set it time and again and again. But people got 326 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 1: I mean, you're getting snowed by something Kamala Harris wrote. 327 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:07,160 Speaker 1: She wrote the title in summary, something Jerry Brown sold. 328 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: These are people, are stupid, and they're liars, and that 329 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 1: is why California is in the state it's in. You 330 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: cannot follow the lead of a Jerry Brown and a 331 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: Kamala Harrison, a Gavin Newsom. Stop it. They're crazy people. 332 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: Look look around you. You see what's happened. New York 333 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: City has had the same problem because it's the same 334 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:35,679 Speaker 1: progressive philosophy which is destructive and is a failure. And 335 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,480 Speaker 1: we told you yesterday that in New York City they 336 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: have something called the NYCCHA New York City Housing Authority, 337 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 1: and Tuesday, seventy current and former employees of the biggest 338 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: public housing authority in the nation, we're charged with a 339 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 1: massive bribery scheme. Tivity employees collected two million dollars in 340 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: bribes over ten years. If you wanted a contract to 341 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 1: do services, to do work at these housing projects, anything 342 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars or less would be approved by a 343 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 1: single administrator, no bid process. So the administrators started charging 344 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:32,119 Speaker 1: bribe money to get it done. Got to pay me 345 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: twenty percent bribe or you don't get the contract. 346 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:37,360 Speaker 2: There's bribery and extortion. 347 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:43,439 Speaker 1: So the agencies, the nonprofits whoever, had to pay the 348 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 1: money twenty percent bride. So if you had a contract 349 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 1: for ten thousand dollars, you had to pay two thousand 350 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 1: dollars to one of these criminals. And there were seventy 351 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 1: criminals working for this housing agency. 352 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:56,640 Speaker 2: The UH. 353 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: There's some names now that the media has. By the way, 354 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: it was the largest number of federal bribery charges brought 355 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 1: in a single day in the history of the Department 356 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 1: of Justice, in the history of the United States government, 357 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 1: they never had seventy bribery charges in a single day. 358 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 2: You would think the mob would have those numbers. But 359 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:23,400 Speaker 2: even though they don't know, this was. 360 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: More that this was more widespread than the mob. Listen 361 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:36,160 Speaker 1: to these people. Drarca Reupnarian collected eighty three thousand dollars 362 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 1: in bribes while serving as the superintendent for three Bronx 363 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: housing projects. If you go to his social media page, 364 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 1: there are pictures of expensive overseas vacations. His family's frolicking 365 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,879 Speaker 1: on brief beaches, raising glasses of champagne and smiling in 366 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: front of Italian vista is in Venice and Rome. There 367 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:09,240 Speaker 1: you go a mid level housing bureaucrat enjoying expensive European vacations. 368 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 1: Because that eighty three thousand dollars, I was reading some 369 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,439 Speaker 1: of these biographies, I think it was mostly spent on 370 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 1: the good life, because they've had a decent salary to 371 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: get by, to live a middle class life working for 372 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:30,480 Speaker 1: the government, but to get the extras. For example, Dwarka 373 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 1: Runarian also had some European luxury sports cars. Here's another 374 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 1: guy Rigoberto Chares. Rigoberto bribed got seventy thousand dollars worth 375 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: of bribes. He was a groundskeeper or a superintendent at 376 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 1: six different housing projects in Brooklyn and Queens. You know, 377 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: just a year ago he was selected to participate in 378 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: the Coaching and Mentorship Leadershi Academy, a sixteen week of 379 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 1: program aimed at enhancing leadership and management skills. I wonder 380 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:10,879 Speaker 1: if he did a seminar in bribery. Here's another one. 381 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: Nimia Branch took three thousand in bribes superintended at two 382 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: Brooklyn housing projects. An administrator, a supervisor praised him as 383 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:29,439 Speaker 1: a hero of the organization. He cares so deeply and 384 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: gives all to his job. Alex Tulazana, You're going to 385 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: enjoy this one. He made off with forty one thousand 386 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:47,119 Speaker 1: dollars in bribes in just three years. Fifty seven years old. 387 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 1: Not the first time he's been in trouble. In twenty 388 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: twenty two, he was suspended for a month. He was 389 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 1: caught naked in bed with a woman during a work 390 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: related video conference call. He and the lady were having 391 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: sex on zoom ah. The work call was a normal 392 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 1: work call and suddenly his coworkers could see the face 393 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 1: of a woman suddenly appearing. 394 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 2: Can you imagine. Oh, he actually had the woman with 395 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 2: him in the same room. I thought you were saying 396 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 2: they were doing it on zoom, like two people on 397 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 2: zoom together. 398 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: No, he was naked in bed with a woman while 399 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: conducting the zoom call. 400 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 2: Wow, that's ballsy. 401 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: Moments later, Talzano appeared on the video stark naked. His 402 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:53,880 Speaker 1: coworkers cried out, Oh my god. No, was not fired. 403 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,840 Speaker 1: It was not the first time he was suspended. He's 404 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:02,879 Speaker 1: been working for this organize, this homeless authority since nineteen 405 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: eighty eight. He was suspended in ninety five, in twenty fifteen, 406 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two for the video sex an official, 407 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 1: reprimanded twenty fourteen, and big surprise, forty one thousand dollars 408 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 1: in bribes he racked up. You cannot get fired in government. 409 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:25,959 Speaker 1: And there's more. Oh my god, look at this one. Here, 410 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 1: one mercado, three hundred and fourteen thousand dollars in bribes. 411 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 1: He worked as a superintendent at three different New York 412 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: housing projects. His salary is almost one hundred thousand dollars 413 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 1: a year. Three hundred fourteen thousand. That looks like is 414 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: that the biggest out of this group that I've seen? 415 00:25:53,600 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: This is incredible. Yeah, these government workers arrest my kids. 416 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 2: I just can't stop thinking of the guy having sex 417 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 2: without woman on a yeah, yeah, and people start screaming. 418 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:14,719 Speaker 2: I just that would be hysterical. 419 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am six. 420 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: Forty on the radio from one until four, and Conway's 421 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:30,480 Speaker 1: coming up in just minutes. We've told you a lot 422 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 1: about the serious decline in the public's interest in electric vehicles, 423 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 1: and Ford is releasing details. They have an earning quarterly 424 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: earnings report that's come out this week and their profit 425 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: is over ten billion dollars. But if you look into 426 00:26:53,640 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 1: their quarterly report, their electric vehicle division lost almost five 427 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,399 Speaker 1: billion dollars last year and is going to lose between 428 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 1: five and five and a half billion dollars this year. 429 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 1: If Ford weren't trying to sell electric vehicles, their operating 430 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 1: profit would be fifty percent higher than it is. 431 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 2: Isn't that shocking. 432 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 1: If their profit was over ten billion, it would be 433 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,679 Speaker 1: over fifteen billion if they weren't weighed down by the 434 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: electric vehicles that nobody wants. They're trying to sell the 435 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: Mustang mock e, the F one P fifty Lightning, And 436 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 1: if they weren't pushing those and instead investing in a 437 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: new generation of products to replace them, gas powered replacements, 438 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 1: then they'd be making many billions more. Now, how many 439 00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:01,680 Speaker 1: years do you think Ford goes losing five billion dollars 440 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: worth of profit? And then I mean five billion, five 441 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 1: billion in losses and plus billions in opportunity losses, right, 442 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,119 Speaker 1: because opportunity costs, because if you don't, if you're not 443 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: messing with the electric vehicles, those plants would be producing 444 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,120 Speaker 1: something else. You'd be designing something else. You can only 445 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,920 Speaker 1: make so many models. You can only build so many cars. 446 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 1: And right now they've turned over a significant portion of 447 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,399 Speaker 1: their assembly lines, their factories to electric vehicles. And then 448 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,440 Speaker 1: they sit on the lot and the public is going 449 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: pickup trucks and big sport utility vehicles are simply too 450 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 1: heavy to turn into efficient electrical vehicles. According to the 451 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal, they just they the batteries are not 452 00:28:55,920 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 1: there to make it worth having these elects vehicles, and 453 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 1: whatever they are trying to sell, nobody's buying, and so 454 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 1: they're stuck I mean, they're getting obviously a big chunk 455 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: of money from the federal government. The Biden administration is 456 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 1: blowing our tax money, or blowing our borrowed money or 457 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 1: printed money, whatever it is they use to subsidize these things. 458 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 2: And I just can't believe that. 459 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: Ford, General Motors and the rest of them are going 460 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: to continue putting up with this. I saw the other 461 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 1: day that Hurts is pulling back from buying thousands of 462 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 1: European electric cars, huge number, hundreds of thousands of European 463 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 1: electric cars because they can't they don't rent, people don't 464 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 1: want them. The fact that I've found out, my wife 465 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,880 Speaker 1: and I found out just this year, in the last 466 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 1: few months, is that when we go on a trip 467 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: we want to rent a car, you got to be careful. 468 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 1: You go on something like travel and they have a 469 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 1: long list of cars for rent, you gotta look that 470 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: you don't end up with an electric vehicle, because good 471 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 1: luck buying an electric vehicle without a Tesla. And you're 472 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 1: on a trip in an unfamiliar area and you're supposed 473 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 1: to find a charger, a charger that works, a charger 474 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: that works fast. You can't do that on a trip. 475 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 1: So she and I have been really careful looking line 476 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: by line so we don't accidentally get an electric car, 477 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: because then you show up and they say, oh, it's 478 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: an electric car. No I don't want it. Well, we 479 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 1: don't have anything else because that's all they have. They 480 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: bought so many of them. They bought millions of these, 481 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:42,120 Speaker 1: So Hertz is largely getting out of the electric vehicle business. 482 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: Conway is here. 483 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 5: Hey, now, hey, I got a theory and it's all 484 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 5: coming together here that a lot of these stores they 485 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 5: don't want to prevent the theft because they want to 486 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 5: go out of business on the brick and mortar so 487 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 5: they can all be like an Amazon. So they can 488 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,680 Speaker 5: use the excuse of oh we're getting robbed. We got 489 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 5: to move on, we got to close this door, this 490 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,440 Speaker 5: door in this store, and eventually everything will be like Amazon. 491 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 5: Because Target probably pays one hundred and fifty or two 492 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 5: hundred thousand dollars a month for a retail store like that. 493 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 5: That could all be profit if you're you know, if 494 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 5: you got the guys in the warehouse somewhere. 495 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's possible. 496 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,440 Speaker 1: I heard someone talking today on a news show that 497 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 1: they have signed up for the subscription model yeah, yeah, 498 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,960 Speaker 1: Target's going to do subscription to me. So you know, 499 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 1: every month you get a certain amount of shampoo. So 500 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: in groceries, yeah, that's right. The guy drops thirty boxes 501 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,720 Speaker 1: on your on your front lawn and you don't ever have. 502 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:42,480 Speaker 2: To go to the store. That's right, that's correct. 503 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,479 Speaker 5: And so I think eventually we're all just you know, 504 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 5: we're all shut ins now to begin with. Anyway, you know, 505 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 5: nobody ever uses the phoneymore. We just text people. We 506 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 5: don't really go out. Nobody goes out. Somebody was trying 507 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:53,320 Speaker 5: to tell me that the other day. It's like, you're 508 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 5: not supposed to call. That's right, me, it's rude. I'm 509 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 5: for me, Well, yeah, don't call. That's rude. Or what 510 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 5: I do is I text the guy. I go, hey, 511 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 5: you got you got time to talk? That's the edit, 512 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 5: that's the proper etiquette to do. 513 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, well screw that. I just caught people. 514 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 5: Yeah, but all of a sudden, Johnny, here's why you 515 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 5: can't call somebody, because you know, if I'm driving in 516 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,960 Speaker 5: my car by myself, all of a sudden, you're in 517 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,720 Speaker 5: the car with me, you got to tell me you're 518 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 5: getting in the car. 519 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 1: I have to pick up, you know, you sort of 520 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: that it's on them. I'm gonna text you three hours. 521 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 1: You're gonna get me an answer out. 522 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 2: I didn't answer. Now, old school, old school. I like it. 523 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 2: All right. 524 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 5: We're not going to talk much about the rain today 525 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,480 Speaker 5: because it's over. It was over yesterday. They kept having 526 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 5: these emergency press conferences, you know, talk about nothing. The 527 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,800 Speaker 5: last last emergency press conference they had, uh, they were 528 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 5: talking about potholes. 529 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 2: There's a lot of them. 530 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, but how many people in LA are affected by 531 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 5: that one pothole? 532 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:51,920 Speaker 2: Free? 533 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 1: Just what are you announcing it? Just go and fix them? 534 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. 535 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,840 Speaker 5: Also, we have we got the LA records the four 536 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 5: hundred and seventy fifth mud slide. 537 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,120 Speaker 2: So it's a lot of a lot of mudslide, a 538 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:05,960 Speaker 2: lot of mud. 539 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 5: Movierep to four and seventy five month slide into statistics. 540 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:11,719 Speaker 3: I don't know. 541 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 2: But what's a mudslide? You know, sand coming into your pool. 542 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,240 Speaker 2: I don't know what the definition is. 543 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 5: Four rested inside of analyzed downtown Los Angeles skyscraper, the 544 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 5: one that everybody's graffiting. And last December there were four 545 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,800 Speaker 5: or five restaurants in a downtown hotel that all voted 546 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,840 Speaker 5: to unionize, and today they closed them all. 547 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:38,120 Speaker 2: Is that right? Yeah, it's over. You don't do that 548 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,800 Speaker 2: all the restaurants. Yeah, it's tough. It's tough out there. 549 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,720 Speaker 5: You know, McDonald's is getting banged on because back east, 550 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,320 Speaker 5: the you know, the big mac meal is eighteen dollars. 551 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 2: I nobody's got that kind of dog. I keep seeing 552 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 2: that story. 553 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:54,680 Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, if I have eighteen dollars, you remember lunch, 554 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: But remember when we were younger, eighteen dollars was what 555 00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,840 Speaker 1: you go out and spend on dinner on like a salad, 556 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 1: steak or you know, a nice chicken dinner. 557 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,120 Speaker 5: Everything, yeah, right, and everything else and dessert and coffee 558 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:06,800 Speaker 5: eighteen dollars. 559 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,600 Speaker 2: Eighteen dollars. Yeah. Now it's the drive through you get 560 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,799 Speaker 2: a mcdonalard's. 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