1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:01,080 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 2: I Am six forty you're listening to the John Cobelt 3 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 2: podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on the radio from 4 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:10,719 Speaker 2: one until four, then after four o'clock John Cobelt's show 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 2: on demand the podcast and you could listen to what 6 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 2: you missed. You know what you missed so far. We 7 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 2: had a half hour of Eric Sadahal. He is one 8 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:22,119 Speaker 2: of the leading candidates to replace George Gascone. He's a 9 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 2: deputy DA In fact, he's vice president of the Deputy 10 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 2: District Attorney's Association here in Los Angeles and he has 11 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 2: the endorsement of that organization. So it was a fascinating 12 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 2: talk with him, and you could listen to that on 13 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 2: the podcast the two o'clock hour. It's also on Instagram. 14 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 2: We did Instagram Live with it now. On Thursday, February 15 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 2: twenty second, very important day. We're going to do our 16 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 2: show on the road from the Honda Center, Lot four, 17 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 2: and that's where we're going to gather signatures in order 18 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 2: to get on the ballot a referendum that is going 19 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 2: to do a major rewrite of Prop. 20 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:05,919 Speaker 1: Forty seven. 21 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 2: We've talked about this for the last week or so 22 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 2: and this is a biggie. This gets on the ballot, 23 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 2: it'll pass because there's anywhere between seventy and ninety five 24 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 2: percent support for different provisions on the ballot. And one 25 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 2: thing it'll do is a third time somebody gets gets 26 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 2: arrested for shoplifting. Third time, it's a felony. You got 27 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 2: a prison right now. As Eric's at All pointed out, 28 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 2: you could steal something a thousand days in a row 29 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 2: as long as it's under nine hundred and fifty dollars. 30 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 2: And the thousandth time is the same non consequence as 31 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 2: the first time. No jail at least here in La County, 32 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 2: no jail at all. So this would turn it into 33 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 2: a felony on the third time. Also, it would force 34 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 2: people arrested for drug crimes in the street. You get 35 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 2: a choice. You go to jail or you go to 36 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 2: drug treatment. That's the way it used to be. In fact, 37 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 2: both of those provisions are the way it used to 38 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 2: be before twenty fourteen and George Gascon's stupid prop forty 39 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 2: seven stupid progressive ideas that fail, and Gascone wrote that thing. 40 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 2: And third provision is it greatly strengthens the fentinyl trafficking laws, 41 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:30,239 Speaker 2: so especially people who sell fentanyl and it kills their 42 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 2: customer and that would become a major, serious felony as well. 43 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 2: So we're going to sign it on February twenty second 44 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 2: lot for of the Honda Center in Anaheim. We will 45 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 2: have petitions for all the southern California counties. So you 46 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 2: could come from La Riverside, Samburydia, wherever you're living now 47 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 2: you can come watch our show. We're going to do 48 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 2: it live in the parking lot and people are going 49 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 2: to be driving up, walking up and signing. In fact, 50 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 2: we'll have petitions from noon to six that day. We'll 51 00:02:58,160 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 2: be on the air from one to four, but you 52 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 2: it's signed from noon to six. It's a big day 53 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 2: on Thursday. Todd Spitzer has helped set this up for 54 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 2: us down in Orange County and he will be there 55 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 2: as well. We're going to talk to Steve Garvey as 56 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 2: soon as he arrives sometime very soon. He's on his way. 57 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 2: This story I wanted to get to. I don't understand 58 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 2: this huge tower. I guess it's an office tower. It's 59 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:29,799 Speaker 2: some kind of skyscraper and it's abandoned. It's half built, 60 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 2: it was taken over by graffiti, vandals and thirty thirty 61 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 2: floors of graffiti thirty floors and nobody noticed. It went 62 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 2: on for days. Now people are parachuting off this skyscraper. 63 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 2: We're going to do a report. Alex Rosier from NBC four. 64 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 3: Talking video shared on Instagram appears to show someone paragliding 65 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 3: from these unfinished towers downtown Los Angeles. 66 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: Same on finished. 67 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 3: Towers that are also now tagged with nearly thirty floors 68 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 3: of graffiti. 69 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 4: Putting that graffiti up there that high is very, very dangerous. 70 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 3: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said LAPD will surround the 71 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 3: site until the developer secures it. 72 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 5: We don't have. 73 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 2: Any choice but to do that because people being in 74 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 2: that building is extremely dangerous. 75 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 6: The owner of the building. 76 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 2: Should be held accountable and he should reimburse the city 77 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 2: for every dime. 78 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 4: That is spent. 79 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 3: Construction here halted in twenty nineteen when the Chinese developers 80 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 3: ran out of money. They were building ocean wide plaza 81 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 3: with condosamal and hotel. But since work stopped, it's become 82 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 3: an attraction for graffiti artists. 83 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:44,360 Speaker 5: Somebody's got to come in and buy the property and 84 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,599 Speaker 5: finish the project. Of tear it down. 85 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 4: One of those are really joffs. 86 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 3: On Friday, the La City Council ordered the owner to 87 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 3: secure the site and clean it up, or the city 88 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 3: will do it and send them the bill. Council member 89 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,840 Speaker 3: Kevin dal Leone said, the owners have until February seventeenth 90 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 3: to comply. 91 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 6: We passed this on Friday. Just on Saturday evening, LPD 92 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 6: arrests at seven individuals. Early Sunday morning, they were sent 93 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,039 Speaker 6: another five individuals that we're going to use the full 94 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:15,280 Speaker 6: weight of the law in the City of Lake to 95 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:17,040 Speaker 6: force them to clean up their mess. 96 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 3: Does anyone at city Hall think it's likely that this 97 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 3: developer who ran out of money in twenty nineteen is 98 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 3: going to come back and secure this sign. 99 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:26,600 Speaker 7: No, I'm gonna be also with you. 100 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 8: You know, I'm not holding my breasts right now that 101 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 8: they're going to come in and take responsibility for their 102 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 8: irresponsible actions. But that doesn't mean we cannot continue at 103 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 8: putting the pressure on them. 104 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 3: Daily Owned said, the long term plan is to find 105 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 3: a group of investors to take over this project on 106 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 3: this prime land. 107 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 2: I love the way Carabass comes out and she's all 108 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 2: outraged and upset, you know, that these people have to 109 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:55,840 Speaker 2: be held accountable. They're Chinese developers, they ran out of money, 110 00:05:55,880 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 2: they're back in China. You can't hold them accountable the China, 111 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 2: these developers who were bribing the city council people. 112 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 3: And she's saying that the city will have to clean 113 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:08,479 Speaker 3: up and then and build them, like they're really going 114 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 3: to pay the city bill? 115 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, good luck with that. Let's see. 116 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 2: I love politicians with fake outrage. Well, this is what 117 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 2: has to be done. Oh, they're gonna be built, They're 118 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 2: gonna be No, they're not. They're in China. 119 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 1: They wrote this thing off. 120 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 2: It's abandoned, it's gone, and nobody is going to invest 121 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 2: in this because there is a massive amount of empty 122 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 2: office space in Los Angeles. I think in the metropolitan 123 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 2: area there's eighty five million square feet of empty office 124 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 2: space eighty five million. It's nobody's buying this thing. They 125 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 2: have to blow it up. They have to do one 126 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 2: of those implosion procedures. 127 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 7: There's just so much graffiti on that well yet. 128 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 2: Because it's not police down there, or the police were 129 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 2: they standing there watching mey? 130 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 4: But can you imagine how long it's going to take 131 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 4: to get rid of all that graffiti. 132 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 1: And she's arified someone is going to fall or you. 133 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 3: Know, the parachuters and. 134 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 1: The parag life. I hope they do. We need a 135 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 1: few good. 136 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 2: Splats because they don't fall on somebody. When we come back, 137 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 2: Steve Garvey's in the studio. He's running for Senate and 138 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 2: he's coming off the debate last night against those three Democrats, 139 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 2: and we were going to talk to him next. 140 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI am 141 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 5: six forty. 142 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: Steve Garvey is here running for US Senate. Welcome, How 143 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: are you gady to be back with you? 144 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 4: A lot of traffic from the wars in San Francisco, 145 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 4: the big debate last night. 146 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, let's let's talk about that right away. 147 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 2: Adam Schiff, you were up against Katie Porter and Barbara Lee, 148 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 2: the three Democrats, and you're going on tour with them. 149 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: It looks like, and. 150 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 2: Do they do they have anything to say to you 151 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 2: other than you voted for Trump? Because every clip I hear, 152 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 2: I I watched and listened to much of the first debate. 153 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 2: I couldn't hear much of it last night, but I 154 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 2: saw a bunch of clips and that's the stuff that 155 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 2: everybody plays. 156 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: Is that all they want to do. 157 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's trum It's Trump syndrome. Uh and next to COVID, 158 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 4: probably the most debilitating disease. I mean, over and over again, 159 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 4: and I keep saying the same common sense thing. Listen, 160 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 4: I think the opportunity of the single greatest currency we 161 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 4: have as Americans, and I take it personally. I've always 162 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 4: said fifty years now, so well, you just let me 163 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 4: choose the person I think is best at the end 164 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 4: of the day, you know, come come November. The two 165 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 4: people standing, I'm going to choose the person I think 166 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 4: is going to be the best for this country. But 167 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 4: don't keep having because that's all they got. I mean, 168 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 4: if you see and you see me standing up there 169 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 4: looking at them and saying and thinking to myself, I 170 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 4: can't believe they're saying this. I can't believe they're looking 171 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 4: into too, the moderator, into the into the camera and 172 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 4: talking to the good people of California and telling them 173 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 4: that their life is fine. Oh, you're fine, You're fine, 174 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 4: when eighty eight percent of Californians either break even or 175 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 4: lose money at the end of every month. 176 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, we were just talking during the commercial break. 177 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 2: That stock market took a dive today because the inflation 178 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 2: number was higher than expected. It's still over three percent, 179 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 2: and that's on just talking about grocery store inflation is 180 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:24,559 Speaker 2: over thirty percent, and that is a big chunk of 181 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 2: someone in the middle class or in the low income 182 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,559 Speaker 2: classes that you can't afford a thirty percent increase. You 183 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 2: either got to put it on your credit card or 184 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 2: you got to eat less. And I imagine that's what 185 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 2: you're hearing when you're talking to people. 186 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 4: Out Absolutely, and it's compounding. I mean, if something happens, 187 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 4: but I will be the next elected US centator comboy. 188 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 4: If something happens, it'll be a generation before we the people, 189 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 4: hardworking people will have a chance again, a chance to 190 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 4: dream again. Because it keeps compounding. You have a one 191 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 4: party state. We know that. Yes, anybody that's a conservative, 192 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 4: moderate or whatever doesn't have a voice. Good people qualify 193 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 4: people men and women who could be running. They're always 194 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 4: told there's no way you can win. 195 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 2: Well, even moderate Democrats are squeezed out of deciding policy. 196 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,239 Speaker 1: Absolutely everything is far left wing, progressive. 197 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 4: I've had more Democrats come up to me and say, Steve, 198 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 4: thank you for running bless you, and I'm seriously thinking 199 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 4: about voting for you because I'm sick of what's happening 200 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 4: to my party. Remember this, it was a Democratic party 201 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 4: of Reagan and then he decided to become a Republican. 202 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 4: But a lot of those same principles and ideas he 203 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 4: had as a Democrat were moderate ideas. I mean, not 204 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:37,559 Speaker 4: just liberal modart but matter. It's centered right down the road. 205 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,559 Speaker 4: Well that's what isn't what common sense is? Really? 206 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's what annoys me about. 207 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 2: I mean, you know, you don't look for accuracy and 208 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:48,199 Speaker 2: a debate, a political debate, but you do come across, 209 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,199 Speaker 2: I think, in what I've heard as a very moderate guy, 210 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 2: not only in temperament but in your politics, and they 211 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 2: won't just want to paint you as a right wing 212 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 2: crazy because that's the only tool they seem to have, 213 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 2: And you don't end up up actually debating the nuances 214 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 2: of any of the issues. And it gets it gets 215 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 2: really frustrated. 216 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 4: I mean when they come out with a can of 217 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 4: red pain and a brush and they straight right off 218 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:14,559 Speaker 4: the bat, yeah say yeah, say a maga abortion and 219 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 4: pick it pick one of the probably the five words 220 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 4: they use to uh to label people. 221 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's all shorthand that they get out of 222 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 2: focus groups. They test, they test work. 223 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 4: What's that old thing about your point one one finger 224 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 4: at somebody in three are coming back at you. And 225 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:32,319 Speaker 4: I listen to them talk about the economy and how 226 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 4: really good it is, and you should be happy to 227 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 4: live in California, right, really with the disparity between Wall 228 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 4: Street and Main Street, and with a million people leaving 229 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:45,839 Speaker 4: California and those who are good tax paying people by 230 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 4: the way, yeah, and who's replacing and those people on welfare, 231 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 4: so it's even it's even stressing the hardworking middle class 232 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 4: even more. And the wealthy and the rich, and I 233 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,119 Speaker 4: hate to label those with these people who have been successful, 234 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,559 Speaker 4: they've made money. It's the California dream, in the American dream. 235 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 4: But let's get back to reality about don't you tell 236 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 4: people that they're living this great life in California. It's 237 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 4: a malaise. I mean, you and I look out and 238 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 4: see the mountains and it's everything and it's easy to 239 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 4: fall into this. Well, it's California. It'll change eventually, and 240 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 4: it doesn't change. 241 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 2: So I heard today eighty five percent of the stock 242 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 2: market is owned by fifteen percent of the people. And 243 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:27,559 Speaker 2: much of that wealth is in the tech industry, much 244 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 2: of that in northern California. And so much is talked 245 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 2: about those wealthy people, but it's the other eighty five 246 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,199 Speaker 2: percent who don't have much in the stock market at all, 247 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 2: maybe nothing, and they're just living from their paycheck. Sixty 248 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 2: percent of the public lives paycheck to paycheck. They were 249 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 2: hit with this massive inflation hike. I imagine that's what regular 250 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 2: people are talking to you about. 251 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 4: Absolutely. And you talk about the grocery store. O. Wife, 252 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:01,560 Speaker 4: Candas set me to for at M and M's right. 253 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,839 Speaker 4: I had five dollars cash, you know, typical guy. I 254 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 4: don't have can And I go to CBS and I 255 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 4: grab a bag and I give it to the county 256 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,559 Speaker 4: brings it up and I said, it's four seventy five 257 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 4: for what twenty peanut. 258 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 1: M and ms M and M's are going for four seventy. 259 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 4: Five, Garbie. You know, it's crazy, but that's what we 260 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 4: have to do because of inflation and costs and all 261 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 4: these things. And then you go down the street. Now 262 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 4: I do this early in the morning once or twice 263 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:30,960 Speaker 4: a week, go to the gas station about seven in 264 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,719 Speaker 4: the morning, you know where hard work, and Californians get 265 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 4: up and they go to work at that time, and 266 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 4: they're not buying ten gallons worth of gas. They're buying 267 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 4: ten dollars worth of gas. So it's across the board. 268 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:47,959 Speaker 4: How about just saving for the future. I can't save, right, 269 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 4: So the longer this goes on, the more you go 270 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:53,960 Speaker 4: in a hole, and then it takes longer to catch up. 271 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 4: So this is a constant suppression of the people of 272 00:13:57,400 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 4: California to control. 273 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:04,319 Speaker 2: So what are they doing in Washington that's created the situation. 274 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 2: You get to Washington, you're going to be voting and 275 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 2: discussing all these issues. Where do you think they've gone 276 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 2: wrong that it's created such an inflationary environment? 277 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 4: Well, I think first of all, let's let's go to 278 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 4: climate change. Okay, climate change, Okay, what are we going 279 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 4: to do. Well, we're going to turn off gas and oil. 280 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 4: So what happens then is now you have higher energy costs, 281 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 4: which just aren't at the gas pump, they're electricity you 282 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 4: need for just normal things in your house. Then they 283 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 4: want to they want to take away Gastow's right, all 284 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 4: these bizarre things that they come at you with that, 285 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 4: you don't have a choice, you don't have a voice, 286 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 4: so they take away your voice. It was like, it's 287 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 4: a socialism, right. If you think it's a great, look 288 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 4: at Canada and look at Europe. Topiclousy. This great democracy 289 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 4: we have supplying demand. Capitalism really works, but you let 290 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 4: the people participate in it, so the more they can 291 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 4: control you. And it's all all about power at the 292 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 4: end of the day. I mean, i haven't been at 293 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 4: this for very long, but I've been a concerned citizen. 294 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 4: It's about power. It's about control. It's not about serving 295 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 4: the people anymore. It's about who can have the most power. 296 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 4: And in this state, I'm standing up because I want 297 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 4: to be a voice for the people. I want to 298 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 4: go back to Washington, and I say I'm going to 299 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 4: go back for one term. Well, you can't get anything 300 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 4: done in one term. You know you'll be a junior 301 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 4: senator said you really don't think that other senators and 302 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 4: I've said this, I'll go to the other ninety nine 303 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 4: senators and go in and talk to them, reach out 304 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 4: my hand and say I want to work with you, 305 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 4: But you don't think that as a conservative. Being the 306 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 4: next senator of California. I'm not going to have the 307 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 4: currency to say, well, I want to be in this committee, 308 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 4: in that position, committee, in that committee. And at the 309 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 4: end of the day, who are people going to come 310 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 4: and ask for the quote of the day? You're going 311 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 4: to come to me. Yeah, So I'm going to have 312 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 4: the voice to do that. Now, we just got to 313 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 4: get there. 314 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 2: So your celebrity is powerful. I mean, you know, you've 315 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 2: had a great image for decades, and you walk into 316 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 2: any meeting room or at least the mail senators, they're 317 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:06,359 Speaker 2: going to want you on the committee. 318 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: And as long as you have that, you might as 319 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: well use it. 320 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 4: I'm a team builder, yeah, you know. I learned that 321 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 4: a very here. I'm an only child who used to 322 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 4: get out in the summers and pull kids from the 323 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 4: houses and put teams together and play all day long. 324 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 4: And then I got to the major leagues and played 325 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 4: on great teams with great players and great leaders. I 326 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 4: learned from and I think if you were to say, 327 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 4: at the end of the day, what if you wanted 328 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 4: people to call you one thing, what would it be? 329 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 4: I would say it would be a uniter, A uniter 330 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 4: of people and of economies and of what's right, and 331 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 4: what's common sense? And that's no longer part of the equation. 332 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 2: All right, stay for another segment, sure, and we'll talk 333 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 2: some more with Steve Garvey. He's running for US Senate. 334 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 2: I think he should unite all the normal people to 335 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 2: vote for him and get him on to the general election. 336 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 2: Top two get in and he's running against three Democrats, 337 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 2: one nuttier than the next, next to Adam Schiff and 338 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 2: Katie Porter and Barbara Lee. We'll continue with Steve Garvey. 339 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 2: Coming up John Cobelt's show KFI AM six forty. 340 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 341 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 5: six forty. 342 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,160 Speaker 2: We had Eric Sadahal who's running for La County District Attorney, 343 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 2: good candidate up against Gascon and he was on with 344 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 2: us for half an hour, and this hour we're talking 345 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 2: to Steve Garvey for another segment. The Dodger Star who 346 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 2: was on stage last night, running for Senate as a 347 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 2: Republican against three Democratic candidates. He must finish in the 348 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 2: top two on March fifth to go on to November, 349 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 2: and he's running against Adam shift Katie Porter and Barbara Lee. 350 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:48,920 Speaker 2: We talked about I mean there's two overwhelming issues right 351 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 2: now nationally that's driving the presidential race, aside from Biden's 352 00:17:54,520 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 2: senility and Trump's insanity. But we talked about inflation, which 353 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 2: is big. The other one is the border and just 354 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 2: you know, literally two three million people coming over the 355 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,679 Speaker 2: border and they're doing that every year and it's putting 356 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 2: New York and Chicago and Denver into chaos. There's a 357 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 2: lot going on here in LA but doesn't get reported 358 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 2: on very much because of the political leanings of the media. 359 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 2: What what what would you want done? You go to Washington. 360 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 2: They're not going to solve it this year, obviously during 361 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 2: an election year. 362 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 4: So they've thrown thirty billion dollars at it the last 363 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 4: four years. 364 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 2: And everything's gotten worse. That's, you know, say, with homelessness too, right, 365 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,880 Speaker 2: We've spent billions and billions here on homelessness and everything's 366 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 2: gotten worse. So you go to Washington, you've probably already 367 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,959 Speaker 2: heard a bunch of the ideas floating around. What direction 368 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 2: do you think we ought to go? And finally, and 369 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 2: this issue, well you can every day you can. 370 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 4: You'll see it on TV, you'll pull it up, you 371 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,120 Speaker 4: see the videos and all these things, and you can 372 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 4: you can have compassion for it and then you go on. 373 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:02,400 Speaker 4: And what I wanted to do over these last four 374 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 4: or five months was to actually go out in California 375 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 4: and look at these problems. So we did a almost 376 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:11,119 Speaker 4: tour of San Diego, Los Angeles and then Sacramento. And 377 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 4: in San Diego, you know two places that are dear 378 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 4: to me. San diegant here Dodgers Padres, four blocks from 379 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 4: the city center is really it starts to become the 380 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 4: epicenter of the of the ten villages and so forth. 381 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 4: But there's a project there called the Alpha Project, and 382 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 4: this fellas then a phenomenal job in putting together a 383 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 4: program where it's a long ten almost one hundred yards long, 384 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 4: and it's what actually houses the homeless there. But it's 385 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,439 Speaker 4: a six step process between having the homeless and here 386 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 4: is his disciples going out in the community and telling him, 387 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 4: you know, we can create a pathway for you back 388 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:54,400 Speaker 4: into society, but you've got to want to do it. 389 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 4: So these homeless will common, they'll register and that's the 390 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,719 Speaker 4: first step, and then they will will give them a 391 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 4: medical uh, and then they will take them and they'll 392 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:08,639 Speaker 4: give them a cot and they'll give them you know, 393 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 4: some some clothes and some food, and then they'll give 394 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 4: them a psychological evaluation, and then they'll give them a 395 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,400 Speaker 4: drug test. And by the time they're done, and they're 396 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 4: going to be there for a while, they're going to 397 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,159 Speaker 4: be there for five or six months, they'll be ready 398 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:26,199 Speaker 4: to actually go out and do a job. And that 399 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:30,639 Speaker 4: should be the answer to every situation of homelesses is 400 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 4: find a way, a pathway to getting back into society 401 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 4: where it's just not to get food on the table. 402 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,919 Speaker 2: I think they can scale that up, yeah, because you know, 403 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 2: we've got tens of thousands here in La County. 404 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 4: But it's to get it's to get them back where 405 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 4: they have a soul again, something in their heart. They 406 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:52,360 Speaker 4: have a task and they accomplish it. So all these 407 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 4: billions have been thrown. I can go back as a senator. 408 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:56,639 Speaker 4: I don't have probably won't have direct influence, but I 409 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 4: have a voice, and you have to you have to 410 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 4: keep echoing that it's really a local problem. You have 411 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 4: to dress it on a local basis because it affects 412 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 4: not only the homeless, but your own citizens too. It 413 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 4: affects small businesses. So you've got to get two things 414 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 4: you've got to get more money flowing from the state 415 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 4: and local into projects like the Alpha Project and the 416 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:21,679 Speaker 4: Dream Center not far from here, right off the Hollywood Freeway, 417 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 4: right close to downtown. They've been a phenomenal job of 418 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 4: taking not only homeless office streets but veterans and putting 419 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 4: them in a year long program. These are model programs 420 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 4: that you should use and invest your money in that. 421 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 4: But what happens is money is thrown into the private sector. 422 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,040 Speaker 4: Who knows where it's going to go. When I go 423 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 4: back and to watch, the first thing I will do 424 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 4: is to ask for an audit of where the money 425 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 4: has gone. 426 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:48,200 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, now that now. One of the main 427 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 2: components of the homelessness is you know of the drugs 428 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:53,919 Speaker 2: that are pouring over the border, and the homelessness ties 429 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 2: into the border issues not only immigration of people, but 430 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 2: massive amount of drugs. What ought to be done at 431 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 2: the border. 432 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 4: This is probably one of the two existential crisis that 433 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 4: we have that you and I and the people of 434 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,399 Speaker 4: California really care about. 435 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 9: It. 436 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 4: It's the economy and crime. If you have crime in 437 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 4: the streets, people feel threatened, they don't feel secure. And 438 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 4: by the way, I'm big on national defense too, you 439 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 4: have to have a national deterreent or nothing else really matters. 440 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,640 Speaker 4: But in case of crime, this is crime. 441 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 1: In the streets. 442 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,919 Speaker 4: These are drug lords on the streets, it's cartels on 443 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 4: the streets, it's people. Get them off the streets. Stop 444 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 4: letting them sell these the drugs and creating mental problems. 445 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,239 Speaker 4: You know, my opponents turn it around and they go 446 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:41,640 Speaker 4: immediately to shelter because it's easy. It's easy to say, 447 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 4: we've got to provide shelter. We have to provide. 448 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:46,119 Speaker 2: They're still on the drugs and they're still going to 449 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 2: be wandering around the streets all day. 450 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 4: And okay, they wouldn't need shelter. Everything in life starts 451 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 4: from the head down. If they had the mental capacity 452 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 4: to know right from wrong and to make decisions right 453 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 4: and to know drugs is going to be a spiral 454 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 4: to probably death right. Right, So we got to start 455 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,640 Speaker 4: with with drugs and mental illness. And sure we'll find 456 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 4: a pathway to take care like the Alpha Project in 457 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 4: Dream Center, but let's start there. Let's get local government 458 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 4: more heavily involved. Let's start stop wasting money and start 459 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 4: putting to where the real compassion issues for you and 460 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 4: I and people of California and the other thing. What 461 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 4: about the private sector, what about hedge fronts? Why don't 462 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,680 Speaker 4: you sponsor a facility? You're making trillion dollars a year, 463 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 4: whether you're black Rock or whatever it is, get back 464 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 4: this way. If you really want to help society, give back, 465 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 4: start to do it collectively. I'm Garby Media Group has 466 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 4: been in the brand building business, building businesses and so forth. 467 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 4: And the key is to get corporate America involved. And 468 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,160 Speaker 4: I think nobody ever talks about that. Nobody doesn't want 469 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 4: to deal with it. But I think if you started systematically, 470 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 4: and I would going back to Washington and start to 471 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:02,119 Speaker 4: talk to the private you can sector and say, let's 472 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 4: put you can do this, if you really want to 473 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 4: do it, let's let's let's let's put into a consciousness situation. 474 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,439 Speaker 4: Let's do this together. Let's get back to America helping 475 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 4: America again and being And I'm on a civility campaign 476 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 4: right now. Let's get to talk to each other again, 477 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 4: respect each other again, give back again. The wealthy and 478 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 4: the rich, they really do want to give back, and 479 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,120 Speaker 4: I think this is a few to say to them, 480 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 4: this is a way for you to make a difference 481 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 4: in life. I think we'll start to build towards getting 482 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 4: the homeless off the streets. 483 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:35,119 Speaker 1: Well, thank you for coming. 484 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 2: It's a good talking with you again, and I wish 485 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,880 Speaker 2: you a lot of luck because you've come across as 486 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 2: a normal person, and most politicians are not normal. They 487 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 2: don't they don't communicate normally, as you saw on stage 488 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:52,199 Speaker 2: last night. They just shout slogans and prepackaged and you 489 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 2: just have. 490 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,639 Speaker 4: To shake your head. Yeah, I know, see, but I'm 491 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:58,120 Speaker 4: not running for a job. They run for a job. Yeah, 492 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 4: when they're elected, they started meet running to keep that job. 493 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 4: And I had a wonderful CEO say to me the 494 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 4: other day, you know, Steve, if this was California Corporation, 495 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 4: you representing all the people, these elected officials, I would 496 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,159 Speaker 4: have fired a long time ago. They've failed the people 497 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:19,479 Speaker 4: of California. They're failing hard working Californians, he said. So 498 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 4: they just go there. They get power, they want to 499 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 4: keep it, so they vote ninety eight ninety seven percent 500 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,919 Speaker 4: down the party line. And that's not what I would do. 501 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:29,959 Speaker 4: I would go back there. I'd look at each issue, 502 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 4: make a good, common sense issue that's good for the people. 503 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,680 Speaker 2: All right, Steve, thanks very much for coming on. Let's 504 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 2: talk again before election day, right, march back, Amen, I 505 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,960 Speaker 2: need you, and I think walking voting starts February twenty fourth. 506 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 2: Ballots are already in the mail. I don't think many 507 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 2: people have mailed them in yet, but if you do. 508 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 4: Put them in, that's the most important. 509 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think it's a call to all the 510 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 2: normal people out there. They call to normality, right, and civility. 511 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 2: Somebody on our side for once. All are coming up. 512 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM 513 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 5: six forty. 514 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: If you're just joining us with Steve Garvey. 515 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,320 Speaker 2: He was here for half an hour, so you can 516 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 2: hear that on the podcast being posted after four o'clock 517 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 2: John cobelt Show on demand. We also had Eric Sadalon 518 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 2: who's running for La County District Attorney against Gascon. And 519 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,920 Speaker 2: one thing that was a big story today and this 520 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 2: is I think really shows you how much Gascon has 521 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 2: been lying. This is a smoking gun. An organization called 522 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:48,080 Speaker 2: Crosstown LA looked at LAPD crime statistics and found that 523 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 2: shoplifting in the city of La went up eighty one 524 00:26:54,200 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 2: percent last year. So this wasn't a media induced frenzy. 525 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 2: There was these complaints that, wow, that's the media just 526 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 2: focusing on a few smashing grab crimes. It's like, no, really, 527 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 2: Shoplifting went from sixty six hundred reported crimes in twenty 528 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 2: twenty two to nearly twelve thousand in twenty twenty three, 529 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:29,120 Speaker 2: eighty one percent increase. In fact, overall retail crime, which 530 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 2: includes felony smashing grabs, went climb fifteen percent, but shoplifting 531 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 2: eighty one percent. And we're we're told, like Karen bass 532 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 2: Is saying, well, you know, we've got this task force 533 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 2: and we've cracked down and we have arrested one hundred 534 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 2: and twenty eight people. Nobody says how many of these 535 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 2: guys go to jail? How many of these guys they're arrested, 536 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 2: but they're out on bail the same day. So do 537 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 2: they end up getting sentenced for? How long are they 538 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,880 Speaker 2: off the streets? Because an eighty one percent increase shows 539 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 2: you it's a lot of the same people doing it 540 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 2: over and over again. They had a CBS had an 541 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:19,160 Speaker 2: interview with one woman shopping Anna. She says, I have 542 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 2: to wait thirty minutes just to get de ordorant from 543 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 2: behind the glass, and. 544 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 1: That that's what's happened. 545 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,679 Speaker 2: You can't go to a lot of drug stores, you know, 546 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,360 Speaker 2: like CBS stories, some of them have all their all 547 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 2: the goods locked up. Let's play Gascon's claim just to 548 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 2: show you how much he lies. 549 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 1: Would you? Would you play the first cut from Gascon? 550 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 7: They say you're soft on crime? 551 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 9: Right? 552 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 1: Are you soft on crime? 553 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 10: People say, well, you are soft because you're not seeking 554 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 10: one hundred years, you're seeking twenty years. 555 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 11: And you're not seeking the death penalty. 556 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 10: And I'm not seeking the death penalty. 557 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 11: Right, So you have the numbers to prove that you're 558 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 11: not soft on crime. 559 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 4: Absolutely know. 560 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 1: We do share those with us. 561 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 10: We can share you, we can share with you the 562 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 10: number of prosecutions. We'll give you ten years of rates 563 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 10: of filing cases, ten years of the way that we've 564 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 10: prosecuted cases. 565 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 11: His office provided this graph showing actual filings have dropped 566 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 11: by more than five thousand cases in those ten years. 567 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 11: They believe the downward trend those started before Gascon took 568 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 11: office and is statistically insignificant. 569 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 2: He so he brags to the CBS corresponden. It's like, oh, 570 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 2: we got numbers we'll show you that we're prosecuting crimes. 571 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 2: And then CBS gets the numbers and it's actually down 572 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 2: five thousand, and their response is, well, that trend started 573 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 2: before Gascon took over. Now play the second clip. Remember 574 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 2: shoplifting is up eighty one percent. Here's what Gascone says 575 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 2: and out, in the last year. 576 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 10: We have seen crime coming down, not only in our community, 577 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,520 Speaker 10: but we're seeing crime going down nationwide at the same 578 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 10: time that we have continued with the reform efforts. 579 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going down eighty one percent increase just in shoplift. 580 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 7: Done way and Mark to Yeah, we got he's in 581 00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:58,960 Speaker 7: the hallway. I don't know if he's going to come. 582 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 7: I guess he will. We got the George Gascon on 583 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 7: with us. Spoke good one. I know Steve Garvey is 584 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 7: gonna come on with us. 585 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 1: You should have on your show, Steve back, Steve coming back. 586 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 9: That's right, Yes, how Conway gets a lot of guests. 587 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 1: That's right. Hey, you want to stick around and off? 588 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 7: Sure? 589 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 1: Who else would you? 590 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,440 Speaker 9: Who else are we having on that you had on? 591 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 9: Ken Champeau's in the But actually, uh, Conway and I 592 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 9: have a different way of chatting with the candidate John, 593 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 9: We're going to bring our own special. 594 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 7: Strategies more baseball than politics. 595 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 1: Se if you could learn him back in, that's right. 596 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 9: I'll say one thing for him, Tim, if you wouldn't mind. 597 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 9: I just thought, man, he is handsome. I mean, honest 598 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:45,480 Speaker 9: to god. 599 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 7: I noticed when he you said that to him, he 600 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:48,880 Speaker 7: kept backing up, you kept walking. 601 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 9: I did tell him, I said, oh my god, you're 602 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 9: so handsome. Yeah, in person, you know. 603 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 7: And I believe you said in a straight male sort of. 604 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 9: Well, I said, look, I'm straight, but I know I 605 00:30:58,920 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 9: I know a handsome. 606 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 2: Sure, he's a good looking man anyway, And and I 607 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 2: didn't thought the same thing. 608 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 1: It's as I would say that. 609 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 9: I say a lot of things that people think of 610 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 9: when you said. 611 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 7: I wouldn't say that. Not to Barry Farmer is looking 612 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 7: to hire two thousand workers. Maybe they can get the 613 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:21,280 Speaker 7: people laid off at CBS. Oh, CBS, that's horrible. 614 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: They have eight hundred people. 615 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 7: Eight hundred people. That's how do you get another job 616 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 7: for eight hundred people at that level. 617 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 1: That's after drawing one hundred and twenty three million for 618 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. 619 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 7: That's not that something's going on. 620 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: It should have made some money off that. I guess 621 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 1: they didn't. 622 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 7: The La Times, CBS, you know, you have all these 623 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 7: you know, media, the media is it's it's really difficult 624 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 7: now and everybody's smart idea except for Mark Thompson here 625 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,320 Speaker 7: because he has a successful one. Everybody's idea is to 626 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 7: do a podcast. And now there's nine hundred million doing 627 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 7: podcast people doing podcasts, which I like, but I don't 628 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 7: have time to listen to all. 629 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 9: Yeah, the numbers aren't there for a body for a 630 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 9: lot of podcasts. 631 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 2: You know what I read something This was a few 632 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 2: years ago, about three quarters of the people give up 633 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 2: after just a few months. 634 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,080 Speaker 1: Is that right? It's hard, you know, it's a lot 635 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 1: of work, it's a lot of I'm exhausted. You know, 636 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 1: a lot of them don't make any money. 637 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 7: And now you got to compete with Megan Markles. She's 638 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:08,960 Speaker 7: coming back. 639 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 9: She's doing one. 640 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, she's a juggernaut, she said the last. 641 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,880 Speaker 7: Two years you ever really heard her true self. But 642 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 7: you will know. 643 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 9: Oh, she made a deal with Spotify's, you know, twenty 644 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 9: million dollars. She does like four episodes and they just 645 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 9: called it quits and now she's doing another. 646 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 7: They didn't meet the benchmarks for the whole twenty million dollars. 647 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 9: Oh that's a Conway with good details, good. 648 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 1: Knowledge from Conway. 649 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 7: That's right, you're short of twenty million, all. 650 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 1: Right, Conway to talk with you. Steve Garvey, Steve Garvey, 651 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 1: the handsome Steve Garvey. Yeah, the man of Mark Spanish. 652 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 4: Yeah. 653 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 9: Now stepping into the batter's box, Steve Garvey. Boy, he 654 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 9: looks good today, don't you think, Bob, I mean in 655 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 9: a handsome way. 656 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 2: Your hand off my knee. It's the best Debra marks. 657 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:58,600 Speaker 2: Not here Croziers in twenty four our newsroom