1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Can't. If I am six forty, you're listening to the 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We're on from 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,319 Speaker 1: one until four, and then after four o'clock it's John 4 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:11,879 Speaker 1: Cobelt Show on demand, the podcast version same as the 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:17,119 Speaker 1: radio show. Well, we have exciting news. There was a 6 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: big earthquake, but it was three thousand miles away. And 7 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: I can't believe all. 8 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 2: These earthquakes that have been happening around the world. 9 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 1: It's I know it was a huge one in Taiwan 10 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: just a couple of days ago, but this one shook 11 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: up New Jersey, New York all the way into Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware. 12 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: I read that you could feel the quake in Rhode 13 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 1: Island and Massachusetts and as far south as Baltimore. And 14 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 1: they shut down the airports at LaGuardia, New York and 15 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: Kennedy Newark Airport. They also they closed the Holland Tunnel 16 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: and they ran around checking every building, every bridge in tunnel. 17 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: We have an official correspondent in New Jersey. His name's 18 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 1: John Frearia, and he's the cousin of my wife, Deborah, 19 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 1: and we designated him as the Special New Jersey Correspondent 20 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 1: some time ago, and he got shook up this morning, 21 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 1: so I wanted to get him on to get a 22 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: first person description. Is John there, I'm here, Hey, how 23 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: are you. 24 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 3: I'm doing great now now that I've been shaken and stirred, 25 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 3: I'm good though. 26 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: Well, all right, tell me right for moment one? What happened? 27 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 3: Well, okay, I was sitting at my desk pounding out 28 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 3: an email, and suddenly I thought I was having a 29 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 3: stroke or something. Honestly, I started to shake, but it 30 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 3: wasn't me. I learned quickly. It was the floor. Then 31 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 3: it was my desk, and I looked up and the 32 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 3: window treatments were swaying back and forth. I didn't I 33 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 3: had no idea what was happening. It took about, I'm saying, 34 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 3: I'm guessing about thirty seconds or so, and then I 35 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 3: yelled out to my secretary, was that just me? Did 36 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 3: you feel that? And I never experienced an earthquake? 37 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: You know, I'm not. 38 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 3: I'm not in a Californian so I have no idea. 39 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 3: It was very it was very exciting. Then my phone 40 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 3: blew up. Everybody in the family, all of dev was cousins, 41 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 3: my family. 42 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: Did you feel that? 43 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 3: Did you feel that. My sister Maria, who you know well, 44 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 3: her cats, her cats took off before the quake started. 45 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,519 Speaker 3: Then the quake started and she was like, oh my god, 46 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 3: it's an earthquake. She got into the doorframe. Joyce, Yeah, 47 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 3: she's trained, she's hurt. And then cousin Joyce, who was 48 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 3: very close to the epicenter, her house was pretty shaken up, 49 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 3: but no damage and no one hurt. It's just very, 50 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 3: very unusual here. 51 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: It's fascinating because it was a four point eight and 52 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: it was in Lebanon, which is about fifty miles from 53 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:09,919 Speaker 1: New York City, about I think thirty thirty five miles 54 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: from where you are. You're in the Union Springfield area, right, 55 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 1: and four eighth's out here. People will murmur about it 56 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: for a few seconds, but it's nothing. It's nothing. It's 57 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: not a big deal here. And so everybody in California 58 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 1: after watching the reaction on the East Coast online or 59 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: on a cable TV, everybody who's having a good laugh 60 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: because it's fascinating when you haven't experienced one before that 61 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: you get a relatively mild earthquake and it does seem 62 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 1: like the world's ending. 63 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 3: Well, I think It's a total loss of control. Really, 64 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 3: I'm sitting at my desk, minding my own business, and 65 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 3: suddenly the floor is moving and the walls and you 66 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 3: could hear I'm in an old building. You could kind 67 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 3: of feel the roof moving. It's just was a very 68 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 3: odd I'll tell you that. 69 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: Was it scary or just weird? 70 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 3: No, at first it was definitely scary because I had 71 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 3: no idea. It seemed to get worse. You know, it 72 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 3: was only thirty seconds, but it seemed to get worse 73 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 3: and worse as it went like it started like a 74 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 3: gentle and I'm like, what is this? Am I having 75 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 3: a stroke? And it got a little worse. Wait a minute, 76 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 3: it's not a stroke. Okay, I'm all right, Wait a minute, 77 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:28,839 Speaker 3: the desk is moving. Oh wait a minute. It was 78 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 3: just when was it going to end? 79 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: It was very odd, and there's been after shocks. 80 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 3: I heard there were after shocks, but we haven't felt 81 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 3: any here. 82 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, because I heard somebody calling in 83 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: on Fox and she was really upset with the after shocks. 84 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 1: She didn't know what they were. She just thinks she 85 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: would hear like rolling thunder, And so it kept coming 86 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: over and over again. She had no concept of not 87 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: only quakes, but after shocks and how they feel and 88 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 1: all that. 89 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 3: But you're fine now, well, yeah, everything is fine. You 90 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 3: might be interested to know our governor is missing in action. 91 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 3: No word from him. We heard from the governor of 92 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,279 Speaker 3: New York and the mayor of New York, but nothing 93 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 3: from our governor. 94 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 1: Well, I read that the Governor of New York, Kathy Hochel, 95 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: referred to it as an earthquake today west of Manhattan. 96 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: She didn't even utter the words New Jersey. You're just 97 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: I guess you've been renamed West of Manhattan. 98 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 3: Well, okay, so you can. You can address the Christmas 99 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,039 Speaker 3: card to West of Manhattan then if you will. 100 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 1: But you have this Phil Murphy right you was he 101 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 1: out of out of the country. 102 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 3: No word yet where he is. He does have a 103 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 3: villa in Italy, so I suspect that's where he is. 104 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: Well, he might be hiding. He might be hiding wherever 105 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 1: her cousin Maria's Katz are hiding. Could be all right, well, John, 106 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 1: excellent report, Thank you very. 107 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:08,039 Speaker 3: Much, Happy to happy to help any time. 108 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 1: The next disaster that happens, we'll call you. 109 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 4: All right, Thank you very much. 110 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 3: Fair enough, take care. 111 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,559 Speaker 1: Well, it's John Freary who's an attorney in New Jersey 112 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: with the firsthand experience, and you could tell it's it's 113 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: the you get emotionally a little shuck up there. I 114 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: mean you I well, I mean I would. 115 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 2: But here's the thing. 116 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 5: And if I knew that we were only guaranteed to 117 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 5: have a four point eight here in Los Angeles, I 118 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 5: might enjoy an earthquakeer two knowing that it's not going 119 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 5: to cause any damage, no deaths, right, no destruction, right right, 120 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 5: I wouldn't worry. 121 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 2: But the problem is we know that's not true, and 122 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 2: we know that the big one is looming. We could 123 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 2: get an eight exactly, and we will be well, I'll 124 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 2: be dead. 125 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: Well, if you're dead, you don't have to worry about anything. 126 00:06:55,680 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 5: Okay, but well, okay, uh, before we die, right right exactly, 127 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 5: we're watching the things and we're you know, or we're 128 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 5: still alive and loved ones are suffering. I mean, all 129 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 5: of that just yeah, terrifies me. But it is it 130 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 5: is funny that we're sort of like, I mean. 131 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 2: I'm not I'm noting. 132 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: No, you would never laugh at anybody. No, I was 133 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: afraid of a question. 134 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 5: I would not, absolutely, but they always laugh at us, 135 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 5: right when we do our storm watch. 136 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, well we act really stupid and foolish. You and 137 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 1: I don't. 138 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 2: We don't, but others weathered. I mean, it's just it's 139 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 2: just rain. 140 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: You know, because growing up in New Jersey there was 141 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: forty inches of rain every year, so it's not a 142 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: big deal. 143 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 5: Well, I'm a California girl born and raised here, so 144 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 5: I don't really love a lot of rain, but you 145 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 5: know what, I'll take the rain over earthquake. 146 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't. You don't get hysterical like most people 147 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: in the media do. They just they lose their minds. 148 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: But I what was I going to say? 149 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know that I interrupted you. 150 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: That's all right, it's it's it's very uh, it's it's 151 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: very musu. I know what I was going to say. 152 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: The uh. There was a woman who called into Fox 153 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: this morning they were doing live continuous coverage, and she 154 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:12,679 Speaker 1: said she's somewhere in South Jersey and she said, well, 155 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: I'm alone in the house by two year old by toddler, 156 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: and you know, I'm trying to potty train her. And 157 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: so she's she's walking around naked, and you know, you 158 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: let him walk around naked when they potty trained. And 159 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: then the earthquake hit. So I grab her and we 160 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: run outside. But I had to run outside and holding 161 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: her naked. She kept reminding us that her two year 162 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 1: old was naked, and she goes to my husband. My 163 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: husband was out, but she said that all these birds 164 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 1: flew and hid under the bush and my German shepherd 165 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:40,679 Speaker 1: ran into the basement and hit. I haven't seen him 166 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: since he's not coming out. It's like, what kind of 167 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 1: German shepherd did you get? They're supposed to stand on 168 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 1: the front line, right, they're supposed to protect earth grown, 169 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,679 Speaker 1: This silly, sissy German shepherd went in the basement and 170 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: hid somewhere. 171 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 2: He was confused. 172 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: And then she was talking about the aftershocks and that 173 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: she was freaked out by the aftershock, and the whole 174 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: time I'm thinking to you, I mean, this is you 175 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: calling in. If we had like. 176 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,440 Speaker 5: A six eight, I don't think I would even be 177 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 5: able to call it. 178 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 2: I'd still be under the bed. 179 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: But there, you know, it was. It's interesting in her 180 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: tone of voice, and to John as well, is that 181 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: when you experience something you've never experienced before, and you 182 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: don't know what it is, and you very rarely in 183 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: life have that sort of thing, right, There aren't any 184 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,319 Speaker 1: really new experiences to have. 185 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 2: We haven't had a hurricane here. 186 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: No, But when something happens by surprise like that and 187 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: it's the first time ever and your brain cannot compute 188 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: what could be causing this, I mean, his reaction was, well, 189 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 1: I guess I'm having a stroke because I'm shaking here everything. 190 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: It looks like everything's vibrating in front of me. All Right, 191 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: we got more coming up. 192 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:53,320 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 193 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 4: six forty. 194 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: You're on the air. I'm on the air. Are you 195 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:01,559 Speaker 1: on the air? Are you talking to me and my headphones? 196 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: I don't know? Or am I hearing voices in my head? 197 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 2: Okay? Sorry? Were you talking to me? 198 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: I was talking to you off the air over the 199 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 1: intercoun and then you were talking while I was talking. 200 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 1: You were in my headphones, and I don't know if 201 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:17,680 Speaker 1: you were on the air or not on the air. 202 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: I was not okay, you were not on the air. 203 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 5: No, no, no, that's right. 204 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:33,319 Speaker 1: Later, okay, okay, now yesterday, at this time, Steve Gregorory 205 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 1: was telling us about the big heist in silmoar up 206 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: in the valley because some some group stole thirty million 207 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 1: dollars from a money storage business on Easter Sunday, no less, 208 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: and this may be the largest heist in the history 209 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: of Los Angeles thirty million. And whatever they did did 210 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 1: not set up off any alarms. And I have no 211 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 1: idea and nobody's really reported yet on what kind of 212 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 1: security measures they have. And if you're not familiar with 213 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 1: what a money storage business is, because I didn't know, 214 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: and Steve explained this yesterday. You see those armored guard 215 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 1: trucks driving around, Well, they pick up large amounts of 216 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:22,599 Speaker 1: cash I guess during the business day, and this is 217 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 1: stuff that is taken to the storage facility before the 218 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 1: cash is sent to the bank or you know, the 219 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: federal reserve wherever it is people sending large amounts of money. 220 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,199 Speaker 1: I guess this is the day's receipts. I don't know. 221 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: This is like a whole different world. Anyway, money is 222 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 1: stored there, it's supposedly guarded and it's extremely secure, except 223 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: this crew somehow breached the vault and still thirty million. 224 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: Now I know, I guess. They went door to door 225 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 1: the La Times reporters Daniel Miller Richard Winton, and they 226 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: came across a woman who lives in the Tahitian Mobile 227 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: Home Park in Silmark, and over the weekend she heard 228 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:17,439 Speaker 1: a weird mechanical sound, kind of like a rhythmic worrying. 229 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: I guess, like sometimes you know, if somebody is a 230 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: construction project in your neighborhood, you hear the worrying of 231 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: a I guess the mechanical saw. And it seemed to 232 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: be coming from an industrial building and it may have 233 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:37,839 Speaker 1: gone on two hours or more. Now if this were 234 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: the thieves grinding through the vault, or grinding through into 235 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 1: the room where the money was held, or through the 236 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 1: roof and they were able to I mean two hours, 237 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:55,680 Speaker 1: they're making this racket, and there's no security at the 238 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: money storage facility, right because if she hears it in 239 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: the mobile home park, which is a little bit down 240 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: the road, how could the security at the money storage 241 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 1: unit not hear it? And now that she found out 242 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: that the warehouse behind the park was breached by thieves, 243 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: she said, that sound is embedded in my head. My 244 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 1: mind is still going crazy over what happened. I know 245 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: it's just money, but they're invading your space. Well, for 246 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: this storage unit and its customers, it's not about invading space, 247 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: it's about the money. And this is on Roxford Street. 248 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: The company is called Garter World, a security services company, 249 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:43,839 Speaker 1: and it's a single story building. The thieves went through 250 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 1: the roof, got access to the vault and avoided the 251 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: property's alarm system, and Garter World and the parent companies 252 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 1: based in Montreal did not learn of the crime until 253 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: they opened the vault on Monday, and I guess it 254 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: was empty. Now. What's also interesting is the Wi Fi 255 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 1: nearby seemed to be down. George al Hausrey owns the 256 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 1: Crick Market and Deli on Rockford same street, and she 257 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: said he said the store's Wi Fi was down for 258 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 1: most of Sunday. We couldn't access the lotto and cell 259 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: phone calls failed in the area too, And so police 260 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: are thinking that these guys may have jammed Wi Fi 261 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: signals in the area, which is more and more common 262 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 1: now I was reading about this. It jams the security 263 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: systems because that is connected to Wi Fi. Everything's connected 264 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: to the internet now and everybody has Wi Fi to 265 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: connect to the Internet and the building, and so if 266 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 1: you have a jamming system, and I guess these jamming 267 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: systems and the technical expertise of the thieves is greater 268 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: than the security expertise that's being employed here. So there 269 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 1: was a large cut on the side of the warehouse 270 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: that was covered up by a piece of plywood after 271 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 1: the fact. And the people who living in the in 272 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 1: the neighborhood are just shocked that somebody could come in 273 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: and take thirty million dollars. I mean, they're all making 274 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: comparisons to whatever heist movie they've seen. And other neighbors 275 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 1: didn't hear anything at all. Now it says rooftop burglaries 276 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: are extremely rare or extremely rare Los Angeles, So how 277 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: do you have a worrying sound? I guess they had 278 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: no security at the building. That's the other thing I 279 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 1: can I can assume is this this guardive. 280 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 2: World that makes absolutely no sense. 281 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: Though, wouldn't spend twenty bucks an hour to have some 282 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: fat guys sit at a console and just stare at 283 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: the monitors. I don't know, if you're keeping tens of 284 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: millions of dollars, do you not? I mean, every well 285 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: every seven eleven now is a security guard out front. Yeah, 286 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: they're security guards every right. Now, none of them look 287 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 1: like they provide any actual security. They just look like 288 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: there's these big dumb lugs. So I guess if a 289 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 1: homeless guy causes a scene, you know, they'll they'll put 290 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 1: you in a headlock and drag you away. I there's 291 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 1: not much more to it than that. So and I 292 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: realized we were talking. I think at this time yesterday, 293 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: why secretly I root for heists and I really enjoy 294 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 1: movies because I certain crimes I blame the victim, like 295 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: people who get scammed over the phone and they lose 296 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: thousands of dollars because they give away their private information 297 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 1: to some idiot calling from Asia on the phone. Right, 298 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 1: you get, you get, somebody calls in, and you know, 299 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 1: to any reasonably intelligent person, it's like you're overseas somewhere 300 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 1: in a boiler room. You're probably a hostage or a slave, 301 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 1: and they have these things. They have these things because 302 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,440 Speaker 1: they've read stories about it in Vietnam and Taiwan, and 303 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 1: they're forced to call and try to entice you into 304 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: giving up your private information. Well, if you're dumb enough 305 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:19,440 Speaker 1: to give your security numbers away, your social Security number, 306 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: your bank account number, your credit card number. Then yeah, 307 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 1: you deserve to be heisted. You deserve to have stuff 308 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 1: stolen and kind of this too. If Garter World doesn't 309 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 1: want to spend twenty bucks on one guy who would 310 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,679 Speaker 1: have heard the mechanical saw whirring for two hours as 311 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: they cut through the roof and into the vault. Eh, 312 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 1: you deserve to lose thirty million more coming up. 313 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 314 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 4: six forty. 315 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 1: We're on from one until four. I forgot to mention 316 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: you know, we've got today two rounds of the Moist 317 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:56,639 Speaker 1: Line at three twenty and three fifty and Hack in 318 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: a Dumpster, Double Hack in a Dumpster. Three o'clock hour 319 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 1: is going to be busy. Two o'clock we're going to 320 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: have Todd Benzman on. Todd has got a report. He's 321 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 1: the journalist is affiliated at the Center for Immigration Studies, 322 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 1: and he writes for various publications, and he has a 323 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 1: couple of things. He's got a story about how pedophiles 324 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,080 Speaker 1: and killers are paying smugglers five thousand dollars to sneak 325 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:28,119 Speaker 1: them across the border. And he got chased by some 326 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: cartel guys, he and his colleague. So all that coming 327 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:34,440 Speaker 1: up after two o'clock, it's good stuff. And he wrote 328 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 1: about it in the in the Daily Mail today, there's 329 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:43,720 Speaker 1: a there's stories on Gavin Newsom today and just let 330 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:48,920 Speaker 1: me grab this here. Gavin Newsom, you know he's he's 331 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: pushed and got a bill signed that raises the minimum 332 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,959 Speaker 1: wage to twenty dollars an hour for fast food workers. 333 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,159 Speaker 1: And the first thing we found out was that Panera 334 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: Bread got an exams and Panera Bread got this exemption 335 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:07,479 Speaker 1: that if you bake your own bread and sell it, 336 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 1: which they do in their restaurants, then you wouldn't have 337 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:15,160 Speaker 1: to pay your workers twenty dollars an hour. We also 338 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:18,239 Speaker 1: found out that the owner of Panera Bread, or at 339 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: least that that collection of twenty four franchisees, was a 340 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:24,919 Speaker 1: longtime friend and knew some and a business partner, and 341 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: it donated one hundred and sixty four thousand dollars to 342 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: dow some campaigns, and so he got the exemption and 343 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,440 Speaker 1: then knew some light about it, claimed there was no exemption. 344 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: Then he claimed, well, it was just part of the 345 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:40,919 Speaker 1: legislative sausage making anyway, became pretty clear that that was 346 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 1: likely in return for the one hundred and sixty four 347 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 1: thousand dollars donation, and so Newsome got the legislature to 348 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:54,359 Speaker 1: hand out more carve outs more exemptions. Suddenly fast food 349 00:19:55,040 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: franchises that had contracts at hotel orre in parks or 350 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,119 Speaker 1: on any kind of government property that they were getting 351 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: exemptions as well. Something to even at the playing field, 352 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: to muddy up the story, so he can't say that 353 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 1: Panera was the only one who got the exemption. And 354 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:23,120 Speaker 1: it turns out that Gavin Newsom, I think you probably 355 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: know that he owns a number of wineries and restaurant businesses, 356 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: and all those things were financed by the Gettys, the Getty's, 357 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:37,160 Speaker 1: the wealthy you know from Getty Oil. They financed those 358 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: many years ago when he was very young, to get 359 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: him his start so he could campaign and be a politician. 360 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: And his background story was well, I'm a businessman and 361 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: I understand the role of business, and he needed that 362 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 1: because he was such a left wing fool. It's kind 363 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 1: of given more credibility. It's like, no, I know the 364 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: struggles of a small town, small time business. You know, 365 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,920 Speaker 1: I've started these restaurants and I've started these wineries. Well really, 366 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: all he did is he took to Getty's money and 367 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:09,920 Speaker 1: he ended up with one winery called the plump Jack, 368 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: which is just that that name just bothers me. I 369 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: don't know what plump Jack is supposed to be, and 370 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: it's just I don't know. It's like a bad visual 371 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: in my head. 372 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a guy named Jack and he's a little plump. 373 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: Huh Yeah, I don't know, it's just got it kind 374 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: of got a it's a little dirty or something. I 375 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,919 Speaker 1: uh So he has pump Jack wine. And it's funny. 376 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,160 Speaker 1: One time, my wife was going to buy a basket 377 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 1: of wine. We had to give a gift to somebody, 378 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 1: and she's calling up this wine shop and the woman 379 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: on the phone I could hear our speaker is going 380 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: through the wines. You know, we're going to have this 381 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,120 Speaker 1: brand of Chardonnay and this brand of Pinotgois, and we're 382 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:54,120 Speaker 1: going to have a plump Jack, you know, Cabernet. And 383 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,200 Speaker 1: I start waving up my wife. It's like, no plump Jack, 384 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,880 Speaker 1: No plump Jack. She covers up the phone. She goes, why, 385 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: I go, that's Gavin Newsom's winery. She goes on the phone, Hey, please, no, 386 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:08,359 Speaker 1: no plump Jack get a and I think she actually 387 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 1: told the woman, oh, it's Gavin Newsom's winery. The woman 388 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: started cracking up. So anyway, he apparently he pays the 389 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 1: people at his restaurant sixteen dollars an hour. Do you 390 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: believe that he pays at his wealthy restaurants? And I'm 391 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,159 Speaker 1: gonna tell I'm gonna get the menu up here. At 392 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: least the Wall Street Journal did a story on this, 393 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: going through his menu. Yes, here he is. Well, this 394 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,639 Speaker 1: actually came. Yes, this is from the Washington Free Beacon, 395 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 1: and then the journal wrote an editorial on it. So, 396 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: while the rest of California has to do twenty dollars 397 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 1: an hour if you do fast food at Newsom's plump 398 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:55,199 Speaker 1: Jack Cafe, he has one in Lake Tahoe. It's Lake 399 00:22:55,280 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: Tahoe's premier dining destination, and they have advertise hized for bussers, hosts, servers, 400 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: and food runners for sixteen dollars an hour. This restaurant 401 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 1: is steps from the Palisades Tahoe, which is California's top 402 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: ski resort, has a full bar with wines, including a 403 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,920 Speaker 1: bottle of Burgundy that goes for fifty three hundred dollars. 404 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:26,399 Speaker 1: Entrees include pen roasted Norwegian salmon forty nine dollars. A 405 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 1: prime New York strip State goes for sixty seven dollars. 406 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: Another newsome restaurant, about Boa Cafe, which is in the 407 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: Marina District in San Francisco, also has positions open. They're 408 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,399 Speaker 1: looking for an on call cocktail server for eighteen dollars 409 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: an hour. They have a full bar, including a thirty 410 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: eight dollar charcuterie board, a twenty seven dollars wild mushroom rosto, 411 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 1: twenty four dollars for mussels marinera, and a thirty eight 412 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: dollars filet mignon. But the workers eighteen bucks, the Tahoe 413 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:09,879 Speaker 1: Place sixteen bucks. So why is it that some middle 414 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: class couple, let's say they own a mom and pop 415 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:18,880 Speaker 1: McDonald's franchise, and you know a full meal is supposed 416 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 1: to go. I mean, you should be able to get 417 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: a fast food meal like for ten dollars, right, but 418 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:26,959 Speaker 1: it's been jacked up now it's now going for eighteen 419 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 1: and twenty dollars. After all the inflation of the past 420 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: few years. How come somebody running a local McDonald's has 421 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 1: to pay twenty dollars an hour, but Gavin Newsom is 422 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 1: only paying eighteen or sixteen dollars an hour. And since 423 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 1: the fast food minimum wedgelow went into effect, and this 424 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 1: just happened Monday, there have been layoffs and price hikes 425 00:24:55,560 --> 00:25:00,160 Speaker 1: throughout the state. Pizza chains have permanently fired one hundred 426 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 1: of workers. This is according to state records. Burger King 427 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 1: raised their prices. Newsom, when he signed the minimum wage law, 428 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: said this was a big deal and an example that 429 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,919 Speaker 1: the future happens in California. First, well, what the future 430 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:21,119 Speaker 1: meant is now you could get to you get a 431 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,440 Speaker 1: burger at McDonald's or Burger King, plus French fries and 432 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 1: a coke and you're out twenty bucks. That's the future. 433 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: And then he said that the foundational principle advanced by 434 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 1: this minimum wage law is inclusion. What does that mean? 435 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 1: The foundational principle is inclusion. This creates inflation. Now getting 436 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:51,399 Speaker 1: a hamburger a cheeseburger costs significantly more, and this is 437 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,680 Speaker 1: a greater burden on the poor and the middle class, 438 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:56,719 Speaker 1: not on the wealthy who aren't going to McDonald's anyway. 439 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 1: And then he runs around battling this like diverse the 440 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 1: equity and inclusion nonsense. Foundational principle is inclusion. The future 441 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: happens in California first, and this guy runs restaurants and 442 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: pays his employees significantly less. I'm just and doesn't care. 443 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,160 Speaker 1: You know, I doesn't care. I guess if the whole 444 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 1: world finds out plump Jack, it's more like plump jerk. 445 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 3: Now. 446 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: Newsom's campaign spokesman a guy, and this is his real name, 447 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 1: Nathan Click, Nathan click. He says, well, Newsom's business and 448 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: financial holdings are held and managed by a blind trust. 449 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,640 Speaker 1: But the blind trust is run by a family friend, 450 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 1: and Newsom's investment group that controls the restaurants is run 451 00:26:55,040 --> 00:27:01,360 Speaker 1: by his sister and cousin. The investment group, philanthropic arm, 452 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,920 Speaker 1: known as the Plump Jack Foundation, raises money each year 453 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: for Newsom's wife's nonprofit called the Representation Project. Yeah, I'm 454 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,919 Speaker 1: sure he doesn't know what's going on. He doesn't know 455 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: that his employees only make sixteen to eighteen dollars a hour. 456 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,159 Speaker 1: I love when these people hide behind it's a blind trust. 457 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,720 Speaker 1: The Trump's did that too, Yeah, right, Donald Trump doesn't 458 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,399 Speaker 1: know what's going on in his empire? Newsom doesn't know 459 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 1: what's going on. Such liars. They're also full of it, 460 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 1: the plump Jack group. He is, Well, it was just 461 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 1: like the French Laundry when when he was closing restaurants 462 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 1: all over the place and everybody else had to wear 463 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 1: masks and there was all these severe restrictions on just 464 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 1: eating dinner. What was he doing. He was at the 465 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 1: French Laundry eating a meal with eleven other people, including lobbyists. 466 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 1: The total of the meal was in the thousands, and 467 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 1: not a soul was wearing a mask. And it was 468 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:03,360 Speaker 1: an enclosed indoor room, which you lied about. But hey, 469 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: keep voting for him. More coming up. 470 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,879 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 471 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 4: six forty. 472 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: Okay, Well, here's what's happened. Happens in the real world 473 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: when you force a twenty dollars an hour wage to 474 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 1: fast food workers. But let me see if you believe 475 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: a guy like a guy who's had who has twenty 476 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,920 Speaker 1: one McDonald's restaurants in the Sacramento area and he has 477 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 1: more than one thousand employees. His name is Harris lou 478 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:37,919 Speaker 1: and he says that Now this is really hitting family 479 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: owned businesses. You have to be a larger business to 480 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: survive this kind of environment. If I was a one 481 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 1: or two unit franchise e, I don't know if I'd 482 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 1: be able to make it. Even as it stands, I'm 483 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 1: not sure I'm going to make it long long term. 484 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,400 Speaker 1: And here's what he says he has to do. You 485 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: have to cut somewhere. Everything's on the table. You can't 486 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 1: pay people twenty dollars an hour. It's simply doesn't work financially. 487 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 1: The math doesn't work. He said. Instead of the landscaper 488 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: coming by once a week, he'll come by once a month. 489 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 1: So now you've given more money to a guy shakeing 490 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: a fry basket, but there's less money going to the landscaper. 491 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,719 Speaker 1: You see how that works because he can save him 492 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 1: seven several hundred dollars a month. So you know, the 493 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 1: grass area around the restaurant maybe looks a little bit shabbier. 494 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 1: When it comes to replacing equipment, we're going to have 495 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 1: to use more duct tape and nurse the equipment along 496 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: a little longer before we replace it. Okay, that's less 497 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 1: money to the vendor who sells you the equipment, not 498 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 1: to mention, you take a risk of the equipment failing 499 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 1: and then you can't make any food at all that day. 500 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 1: Lou also said he had a program he helps his 501 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: staffers clean up their credit and make down payments on 502 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,200 Speaker 1: their first homes. Well, he's not going to be able 503 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: to do that anymore. You see that what goes That's 504 00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 1: what goes on in the real world, because math is 505 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 1: nothing but logic. Either the numbers add up or they don't. 506 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: And if you jack up wages by twenty five percent 507 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 1: and a fast food operation, then money has to be 508 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: cut elsewhere. So the landscaper doesn't get money, the company 509 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 1: that you order equipment from doesn't get the order, and 510 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 1: now the workers don't get their credit cleaned up, and 511 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 1: they can't make a down payment on their homes because 512 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 1: Harris Lou doesn't have the money to help them out anymore. Say, 513 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 1: let's see who's this here, Angelica Hernandez, She says, people 514 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: see the arches McDonald's, they think it's this giant corporation, 515 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 1: but we run it like a small family business. Again, 516 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 1: the franchise ease, not the corporation. That's the thing I 517 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,520 Speaker 1: wish people could see it's not just us. The majority 518 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 1: of these franchises are owned by families, generational families of 519 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 1: moms and dads and grandparents. It's just a local family business. 520 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 1: McDonald's is like the local coffee shop or the local 521 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 1: cafe down the block. It's owned by local people who 522 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 1: can't afford the twenty dollars because they're middle class people. 523 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 1: Most business owners, small business owners are middle class. If 524 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,040 Speaker 1: over time, if they can build up a network of franchises, 525 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 1: then they move up in the economic ladder. But that's 526 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: supposed to be the American dream. This somebody says in 527 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:32,360 Speaker 1: this article here, Well, like they hire people who maybe 528 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 1: they don't know English, maybe they're shy or nervous, they've 529 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 1: never been held accountable for anything in their life, and 530 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,080 Speaker 1: we teach them really basic job skills to become successful. 531 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 1: We don't want to hire people who plan on being 532 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 1: in one position for twenty years. That's not what this 533 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 1: job was ever designed to do. So it's not supposed 534 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 1: to be a job where you raise a family for 535 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 1: twenty years, which is all the rhetoric you get from 536 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:02,760 Speaker 1: these union idiots who are just designing this to attract 537 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 1: more people to their union. They get so they can 538 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 1: steal more money with union dues. That's their purpose in 539 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 1: pushing this legislation. That's why the unions bribe politicians. They 540 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,840 Speaker 1: want more people in their union. They use the union 541 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 1: dues to bribe the politicians, and they pay themselves six 542 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 1: figure salaries, just like any criminal nonprofit does. And that's 543 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 1: what this is about. They don't care about the working 544 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,400 Speaker 1: man because a lot of working people are now going 545 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 1: to lose their jobs, so I don't this is people 546 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 1: walk around with so much ignorance or so much political 547 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 1: propaganda in their head. A burger flipping job or a 548 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 1: fried basket job is not worth twenty dollars. It's probably 549 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,959 Speaker 1: not even worth sixteen. However, going back to what one 550 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:57,000 Speaker 1: of these business owners said, it starts you in the company. 551 00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:01,320 Speaker 1: And Harris lou has employees who worked their way up. 552 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,400 Speaker 1: Now they're higher up in management since he has a 553 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 1: whole string of franchises and they're making six figures. But 554 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 1: you make six figure pay when your job is worth 555 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:16,120 Speaker 1: six figures. You're not supposed to make a lot of 556 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 1: money when the job has no special skill or education 557 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 1: required to do it. If all you need is to 558 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,480 Speaker 1: be able to stand up and shake your hand to 559 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 1: make it, to shake the fry basket and then shake 560 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,680 Speaker 1: the check the salt on it. You don't deserve that money. 561 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: It's not worth it. Now, if you're managing a set 562 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,480 Speaker 1: of franchises, then it is worth to make a much 563 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:47,640 Speaker 1: better salary. So this has inverted the whole economic system 564 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 1: at fast food restaurants. And if you think otherwise, then 565 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: you're flat out ignorant. And guarantee you ever ran a 566 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:58,959 Speaker 1: business for a day, Guarantee you have the slightest idea 567 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 1: how to do it. If you were given a business 568 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 1: and you ran it like this for a month, guarantee 569 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 1: you go out of business. You're defying the laws of mathematics, 570 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 1: and you can never defy the laws of mathematics. And 571 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,080 Speaker 1: it just it just infuriates me, because what the way 572 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,400 Speaker 1: are they doing this for? So Gavin Newsom can collect 573 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,080 Speaker 1: more money from unions, the Democratic legislators can get more 574 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 1: collect more money from unions. You're going to see how 575 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,359 Speaker 1: many people get laid off, how many people are out 576 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:28,839 Speaker 1: of work, just you know, thanks me nuts, all right, 577 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,360 Speaker 1: when we come back, I'm gonna have Todd Benzman on. 578 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,440 Speaker 1: He's we've had him on a number of times. He's 579 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,520 Speaker 1: a journalist. He writes for many publications. He's also at 580 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,919 Speaker 1: the Center for Immigration Studies. He and one of his colleagues, Boy, 581 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:45,840 Speaker 1: did they have a wild ride. They were actually getting 582 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:50,839 Speaker 1: pursued by the drug cartel and he witnessed how pedophiles 583 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,960 Speaker 1: and killers pay smugglers five thousand dollars to get snuck 584 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,399 Speaker 1: across the border by the cartel. Yeah, this is Joe 585 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:01,120 Speaker 1: Biden's America here coming up. Hey, Hey, you've been listening 586 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,640 Speaker 1: to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear 587 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,399 Speaker 1: the show live on KFI AM six forty from one 588 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,960 Speaker 1: to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, 589 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,720 Speaker 1: anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.