1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:02,120 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 1: We are on the radio every day from one until 5 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:10,879 Speaker 1: four o'clock, and then after four, if you miss something, 6 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 1: you go right to John Cobelt's show on demand. 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There is new video and 16 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: photos coming out almost every hour because there are probably 17 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: thousands of cameras in New York City that either take 18 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: security photos or security video and they're piecing it all 19 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: together and published it. Got a clear look at this 20 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: guy's face now because he stopped at a Starbucks and 21 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: bought some coffee and some protein bars, and he threw 22 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: the coffee cup and the wrappers in the garbage. So 23 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: now they have his DNA. He also dropped his phone 24 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: along the way. They got that and they got a 25 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 1: search warrant to open up the contents, assuming they could 26 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: get past the security in an iPhone. 27 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 2: So we'll talk to Brad Garrett. 28 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: About piecing together the clues as to who did this 29 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: and why they did this. I mean he engraved. He 30 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: engraved words on three of the bullets and it was 31 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 1: very close to the title of a book about how 32 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: insurance companies screw you over when you make a claim. 33 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: So maybe the wife knew what she was talking about 34 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: when she said it might have had something to do 35 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: with someone not getting a claim approved. Also turns out 36 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: that she and Brian Thompson have been living apart for years, 37 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: which may explain her muted response to the to the killing. 38 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: All that coming up ahead, But first, and this is 39 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: new got Word. This morning, the Gavin Newsom was going 40 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: to have a news conference at noon. He was visiting 41 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 1: the border down in San Diego and he was supposed 42 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: to touch on transnational commerce I guess you know, the economic 43 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: commerce between Mexico and California, and he was also going 44 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: to talk about border security. You mentioned border security from 45 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: this goof that has repeatedly enforced California's sanctuary state status 46 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: and bragged about it and has got all sanctimonious about it, 47 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: like Karen Bass does in the La City Council. Everybody's 48 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: so proud of being a sactuary state, and nobody cares 49 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 1: if you've got gang members in terrorists running around, why 50 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: they don't want to help out The FEDS capture the 51 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: criminals and then and then they go around telling us, well, 52 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: my job is to keep Californian safe. I heard this 53 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 1: today because he, you know, he responded immediately to the 54 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:24,519 Speaker 1: tsunami warning, ran right to the beach wearing one of 55 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: his tight black T shirts and he was going to 56 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: stop the tsunami with his bare hands. 57 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 2: Sound a little jealous, John. 58 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: If he got hit by the tsunami would have created 59 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: an instant oil slick. Anyway, back to the California Mexico border. 60 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: So he's at the border and he's talking to reporters 61 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: and I haven't heard this yet. This just came out, 62 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: and the reporter asks him about tariffs. You know, Trump 63 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: is threatening tariffs against Mexico, Canada, and China if they 64 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: don't help with the border situation. And they also started 65 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 1: asking him about the impending rising gas prices, you know, 66 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: which could go up anywhere from sixty to ninety cents 67 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: a gallon next year. So I don't know what's coming. 68 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: We're gonna play cut number five. Newsim at the border. 69 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: What do you feel is still the maybe the misunderstanding 70 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: the public has in terms of how this tariff will 71 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:22,479 Speaker 1: impact their daily lives. 72 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 3: They don't know what tariff means. What I asked nine, 73 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 3: I tell people it's a tariff. They said, oh you know, 74 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 3: I said, no, what is it? Tariff's a tax that 75 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 3: you pay for and not even complicated. Is one of 76 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 3: the biggest tax increases in US history that this guy, 77 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 3: Donald Trump just proposed. That's a hell of a thing. Yeah, 78 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 3: that is disproportionately impacts you. Impacts the cost of oil 79 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 3: and petroleum. You're upset about costs of oil. It directly 80 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 3: impacts the cost of oil. Impacts the cost of medical drugs, all. 81 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 2: Right, just the cost stop. Stop. 82 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: He is so disgusting. He is such a freaking liar. 83 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:12,239 Speaker 1: Oh my god, what a liar he is. Gavin Newsom 84 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: signed a series of laws so that the taxes are 85 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 1: going to go up ninety gas prices are going up 86 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 1: ninety cents a gallon, and he's trying to blame it 87 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 1: on Trump. He is passing sign he's signing a law. 88 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: Let me get this right. He gave the California Airress 89 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: Resources Board the authority to pass a low carbon fuel 90 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 1: price increase. It's a low carbon fuel standard to fight 91 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 1: their stupid climate change. And so they pass this the 92 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: Air Resources Board. They're unelected, they're all appointed by Newsom, 93 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 1: and the price is going to go up sixty five 94 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 1: cents next year. The refoil refineries have to use this 95 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: low carbon fuel standard, which doesn't exist anywhere else, only 96 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: here in California. He appointed the California Air Resources Board 97 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: to do this, and they ricked this board so they 98 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: have the power to raise gas prices without it going 99 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: up for a vote by the legislature or Newsome signing 100 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: a bill. But Newsom signed other bills. One which requires 101 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 1: the oil companies to put away a gas reserve that's 102 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: going to add up to twenty seven cents a gallon 103 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: of gas. There's also an automatic sales tax increase that's 104 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 1: going to hit Youuly the first and there's a fourth one. 105 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:57,599 Speaker 2: There's a fourth increase too. 106 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: All this is from Newsom in the legislature or through 107 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: the California Air Resources Board. And out of the twelve 108 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: members who voted for the gas price increase, eleven of 109 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: the twelve were appointed by Newsom, and Newsom in the 110 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: legislature can block this price increase, but they're not going to. 111 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 2: They refuse to. 112 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: And then this stinking, oily, greasy liar goes to the 113 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: border and tells reporters that it's Trump's tariffs. 114 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 2: What is he nuts? 115 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: All the oil that's imported here into California is not affected. 116 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 1: First of all, no tariffs have been imposed. Trump threatened 117 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: a tariff if they don't comply and help us with 118 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: border control. Last I heard, the Mexican president has agreed 119 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: to do it, and so has the Canadian Prime minister. 120 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: So there might not be any tariffs at all on 121 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: Canada and Mexico if they play ball and help shut 122 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: down the border. And they have in the past. They 123 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: did it for Trump before, they did it to a 124 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: certain extent, even for a feeble old bike. So they'll 125 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: do it. We have more power than they, he is 126 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: intentionally like and the reporters standing around him, at least 127 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: up to this point. 128 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 2: I'm a tape. 129 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 1: Are too stupid to even know the background here, Ah 130 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 1: play more. 131 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 3: Of this impacts the cost of medical drugs, impacts the 132 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 3: cost of food. It's a tax that you pay for. 133 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 3: And you know what, most regressive tax that exists, in 134 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 3: the modest revenue it generates, is to offset a massive 135 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 3: tax cut for billionaires and corporations. 136 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 2: That's what he's proposing. 137 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 3: You can't make this up. 138 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, well you did. Actually you did make it up. 139 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: And he kind of gives away himself at the beginning 140 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: where he says people don't know what tariffs are. Ask 141 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: nine out of ten people, they don't know what the 142 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: word tariff means. He knows most people don't keep track 143 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: of this. He knows that if he says Donald Trump 144 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: cost the ninety ninety cent a gallon increase, a lot 145 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: of people say, oh, that's bad, Why did Trump do that? 146 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 1: Because they don't pay attention to the details, and the 147 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 1: idiots in the media here cover it for a very short. 148 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:35,959 Speaker 2: Time or not at all. 149 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 1: So he knows how ignorant much of the public is, 150 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 1: so he mocks them at first and then proceeds to 151 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:48,319 Speaker 1: exploit the average person's ignorance by blaming the gas price 152 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: increase on Trump. If most people don't know what tariffs are, 153 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: certainly most people don't know about the California Air Resources 154 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 1: Board and the Low Carbon Fuel standard, and that's sixty 155 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 1: five send a gallon increase and the requirement to keep 156 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 1: an oil reserve that's going to drive up prices another 157 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: twenty seven cents, or the automatic sales tax increase in July. 158 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: All right, Now, let's play cut number number six here. Uh, 159 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: this all right, this is this is a little this 160 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 1: is a big bowl, a big word salad. 161 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 4: Hope you got some dressing? 162 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 2: All right? This stuff makes me crazy. Go ahead, play it. 163 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,959 Speaker 2: So what happened a month ago today? What went wrong? 164 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 2: How did Democrats get shown the door so badly? What 165 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 2: would you have done differently? 166 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, Harris, I appreciate it, and I hope you can appreciate. 167 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:39,839 Speaker 5: Uh. 168 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,439 Speaker 3: If I appear a little political, it's because I'm intentionally 169 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 3: trying to be by not answering your question. 170 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:46,719 Speaker 1: Uh. 171 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 3: And what I mean by that is I'm with John 172 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:56,840 Speaker 3: Stewart who wisely said, uh, be patient. Uh, what happened 173 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 3: will be revealed, and it won't be revealed in the 174 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,560 Speaker 3: hours and days and weeks and even months after an election. 175 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 3: What is this that will absorb a deeper understanding over time? 176 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 3: And that's the approach I'm taking. I wrote out, I'm 177 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 3: not making this up. There's about six pages I have 178 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 3: in notes my mother and Dad's grave in the car 179 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 3: of everybody's punditry that completely contradicts everyone else's punditry about 180 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 3: what happened. And I did that purposely from my own 181 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 3: absorption and edification. 182 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 2: That will reveal itself. 183 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 3: I don't have a clear answer to it, and so 184 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 3: as a consequence, I won't attempt to answer. 185 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 6: What was that? 186 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,839 Speaker 4: What was the question what went wrong for the Democrats 187 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 4: and Kamala on a month ago today? 188 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 2: And that was his answer. 189 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: Everybody knows the answers is pretty simple. There's the ten 190 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: million people going across the border. It was the price 191 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: of food going up thirty percent in the last three years. 192 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 1: There's all this woke bull crap that covers most of it. 193 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: Everyone is sick of left wing progressive economics, left wing 194 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: progressive border policies, left wing progressive rules on what you're 195 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: supposed to say, and think, Oh my. 196 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 4: God, I want to see what these six pages of 197 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 4: notes he said that he has that he swore on 198 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 4: his mother and father's grave. 199 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 1: Well, that's serious. That is the worst word salad I've heard. 200 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 2: Out of him. It was worse than any of Kamala's. 201 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 2: That was like a big bowl of kale here. That 202 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 2: was terrible. All right. I might want to play that again. 203 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 2: Keep that around. 204 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 4: No problem. 205 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 2: For people to miss that. 206 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 4: I knew you were gonna love these. I was strolling, 207 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 4: I was scrolling Twitter during the break and just saw 208 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 4: him and I was like, Oh, John's gonna love these? 209 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 1: How do you even talk like that? How are you 210 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: capable of talking like that? All Right? We got more 211 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: coming up. Brad Garrett from ABC News on the healthcare 212 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: executive shot to death in New York. 213 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 2: Try to put together all the clues and the evidence. 214 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 215 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 5: six forty. 216 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: Just for the record, so you don't think I'm crazy 217 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,200 Speaker 1: if you hadn't heard this. It is a ninety cent increase, 218 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:39,319 Speaker 1: and sixty five cents is coming from the California Air 219 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 1: Resources Board. We're talking gas prices, and that's all appointed 220 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 1: by Newsom. And then there's another twenty seven cents a 221 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 1: gallon because Newsom is requiring oil refineries to keep a 222 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 1: reserve of extra gasoline. 223 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 2: There's no reason for that. Third thing is. 224 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 1: Phillip sixty six is closing two of it's refineries because 225 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: of all the onerous climate regulations in California. Again, that's 226 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: Newsom's fault. So we're going to lose eight percent of 227 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: our refinery capacity. That's going to drive up the price 228 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 1: fourteen cents. So you got sixty five cents from the 229 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: Air Resources Board, you got twenty seven cents from this 230 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: law requiring a gas reserve, fourteen cents from Phillips sixty 231 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: six closing refineries, and then you have another few cents 232 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: coming in July because of this automatic gas tax increase 233 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: that Newsom signed. All right, So it's all Newsom, California Legislature, 234 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: California Air Resources Board, which is appointed by Newsom, it's 235 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 1: all of them driving up the oil prices. And he 236 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: had the gall Gavin Newsom at the border today to 237 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: blame Trump's tariffs. That is complete bull crap. He is 238 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: a stinking, thinking liar. And somebody on a call um 239 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 1: on it, and I who was that who had the 240 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: second question about why the Democrats lose? Because that didn't 241 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 1: sound like a reporter. 242 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 4: I didn't see any reporter names on from the questions 243 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 4: we got. 244 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: We gotta play this again. I enjoyed that too much. 245 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: All right, So this this is somebody challenging Newsom. Hey, 246 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 1: you know why the Democrats lose because Newsom is on 247 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 1: this weird island. The whole country is fed up with 248 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: progressive politics, fed freaking up, and we're still getting hammered 249 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 1: over the head with it here with their climate change 250 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: garbage and their sanctuary city nonsense. Nobody wants to live 251 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 1: like this. This is a real Newsome answer. This is 252 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: not edited in any way or enhanced in any way. 253 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: You'll hear it. 254 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 2: What happened a month ago today? What went wrong? How 255 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 2: did Democrats get shown the door so valid? What would 256 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 2: you have done differently? 257 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 3: I appreciate it, and I hope you can appreciate. If 258 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 3: I appear a little political, it's because I'm intentionally trying 259 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 3: to be by not answering your question. And what I 260 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 3: mean by that is I'm with John Stewart, who wisely said. 261 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 2: Be patient. 262 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 3: What happened will be revealed, and it won't be revealed 263 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 3: in the hours and days and weeks and even months 264 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 3: after an election that will absorb a deeper understanding over time. 265 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 3: And that's the approach I'm taking. I wrote out, I'm 266 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 3: not making this up. There's about six pages I have 267 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 3: in notes my mother and Dad's grave in the car 268 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 3: of everybody's punditry that completely contradicts everyone else's punditry about 269 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 3: what happened. And I did that purposely for my own 270 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 3: absorption and edification that it will reveal itself. 271 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 2: I don't have a. 272 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 3: Clear answer to it, and so as a consequence, I 273 00:16:58,280 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 3: won't attempt to answer. 274 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 2: I wonder how long until it reveals itself. 275 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:06,439 Speaker 1: It's like some kind of biblical revelation that we're supposed 276 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 1: to wait for. 277 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 2: The rapture is gonna happen. 278 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 4: You. 279 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna fly down out of the clouds with the answer. 280 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 1: Your gas prices are going up ninety cents a gallon 281 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: next year. There's your answer. There's your big reveal. Here's 282 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:23,199 Speaker 1: another example. It was in the New York Post of 283 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: California's progressive idiocy. This is happening in San Bernardino. Story 284 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 1: is about a guy named Will Luna. He's trying to 285 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 1: run a business. He runs an old fashioned video arcade 286 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:40,680 Speaker 1: where you could play old video games. I guess maybe 287 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 1: pinball machines. 288 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:41,880 Speaker 2: Either. 289 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:52,159 Speaker 1: A local homeless encampment is nearby, and a bunch of 290 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 1: thugs from the encampment broke in and robbed and trashed 291 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 1: will Luna's arcade. Somebody spotted the loot in the encampment 292 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 1: and Luna went inside and he found some of the 293 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:10,400 Speaker 1: stolen merchandise. So he goes to the cops and here 294 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 1: in woke world in San Bernardino, here's what the cops say. 295 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: We can't go inside, but you can. I guess under 296 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: San Bernardino policy, they're not allowed to enter the tents, 297 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: or move the tents or get the stolen merchandise out 298 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: of the tents, but Luna can. 299 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:32,359 Speaker 2: Luna could risk his life. 300 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,880 Speaker 1: So Luna went in the tents and recovered some of it. 301 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,640 Speaker 1: It was thousands of dollars of PlayStation and Nintendo consoles 302 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:46,399 Speaker 1: and our old arcade games of an X Men X 303 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: Men arcade game. The Supreme Court had ruled that these 304 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 1: homeless encampments can be shut down, dismantled, shut down. 305 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 2: In San Bernardino. 306 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: They're allowing them to exist, and they're enabling the criminals 307 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: who are robbing the small business owners. And then when 308 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: the when the guy complains, what he gets is, oh, well, 309 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 1: the cops say. 310 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 2: We can't go in there. You go in there. 311 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 1: If you see your stuff, you can grab it yourself. 312 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:25,680 Speaker 1: Won is not alone. All the businesses at the retail 313 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:29,119 Speaker 1: plaza have been broken into. The camps just keep getting 314 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 1: bigger and bigger. Who who are the brain dead boneheads 315 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,880 Speaker 1: idiots who are running San Bernardino. Who's the mayor, who's 316 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 1: on the city council. Why are the people of San 317 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 1: Bernardino allowing any of this? What is wrong with the mayor? 318 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:48,720 Speaker 1: And what is wrong with city council? What is wrong 319 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,399 Speaker 1: with the police chief? Are you all insane? He got 320 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 1: a guy trying to make a living running up running 321 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 1: up a game arcade, and the homeless people bust in 322 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:03,400 Speaker 1: like they bust into every single business in that shopping district. 323 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 2: They take what they want. He goes to try to 324 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 2: get it back in the cup. So we're going in there. 325 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:12,159 Speaker 2: We're not alone. Yes, you're allowed the Supreme courts that 326 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:16,440 Speaker 2: you're allowed. Here's what these guys do. 327 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 1: Luna says that these homeless freaks masturbate in front of 328 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: the windows of the neighboring hair salon. Imagine that you're 329 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,640 Speaker 1: sitting get your hair done, and what's that on the window. 330 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 1: This is what the homeless guys do all day, mentally ill, 331 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:43,920 Speaker 1: completely out of their minds, drugged out, crazy, violent, dropping 332 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,439 Speaker 1: their pants, masturbating on the windows of the hair salon 333 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 1: to entertain the female customers there. 334 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 2: And the mayor and. 335 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,879 Speaker 1: The city council of San Bernardino and the police chief, 336 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:58,439 Speaker 1: they don't do anything about it. 337 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 2: California. I want to get there. 338 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 1: I want to get You know what, if we can 339 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 1: find out the name of the guy who is giving 340 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,400 Speaker 1: news somem a hard time, I'd like to get him 341 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: on the air. That is the first time in six 342 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: years I've heard anybody get aggressive with Newsom. And of 343 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 1: course he responds with a minute of word salad because 344 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 1: he has no response when he's confronted. I can only 345 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,679 Speaker 1: remember one other time where a female TV reporter up 346 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 1: in Fresno confronted him about something the four or five 347 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: years ago. Took him by surprise with an aggressive question 348 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 1: and he was stumbling and bumbling and stuttering. But but, but, book, 349 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:41,120 Speaker 1: he can't answer anything when challenged. It's like when when 350 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis and Sean Hannity teamed up on them and 351 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: in that debate, same thing. He doesn't have any answers 352 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: when challenged. It's very slow mind. He can't think quickly. 353 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 1: He doesn't have any answers because his policy suck and 354 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 1: he can't defend them. All these progressive policies suck. It's 355 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,879 Speaker 1: terrible to live this way. No other state in the 356 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:02,680 Speaker 1: Union is going to be living like this. You'll see 357 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: in about five years, most of America is going to 358 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 1: be in a different place because people have woke up. 359 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:11,520 Speaker 1: They're not intimidated anymore. That's scared anymore by all this 360 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,880 Speaker 1: woke garbage. All right, we come back. Brad Garrett, ABC 361 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: News crime expert, terrorism expert. He's going to talk about 362 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: that shooting of the health executive. 363 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 2: In New York. 364 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:25,439 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am six. 365 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,240 Speaker 1: Forty on every day from one until four, and if 366 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 1: you missed anything today, you get to the podcast posted 367 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 1: on the iHeart aff John Cobelt Show on demand. All right, 368 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: Brian Thompson is the United Healthcare CEO gunned down outside 369 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 1: the Hilton Hotel in New York City, and the photos 370 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 1: there's videos all over the internet. 371 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 2: Now what happened and who is the guy who did 372 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:50,920 Speaker 2: it and why? 373 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 1: Well, we're going to talk trying to piece together some 374 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 1: clues with Brad Garrett, ABC News Crime and Terrorism analyst Brad. 375 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 2: How are you. 376 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 6: I'm good, John, Thank you. 377 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: One of the many fascinating things about this case the 378 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: shots that the gunman fired at Thompson. Three of the 379 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: rounds and shellcasings were engraved with the words denied, depose, 380 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 1: and defend. And there was a book out, as you know, 381 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,199 Speaker 1: some years ago entitled Delay, Deny, Defend A little different. 382 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 1: The subtitle wide insurance Companies don't pay claims and what 383 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: you can do about it. It's written by Jay Feynman, 384 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 1: who is a professor at Rutgers. Do the police really 385 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 1: think that there is a direct connection here to the 386 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: philosophy the anger out there against insurance companies? 387 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,439 Speaker 6: You know, I think the general belief is this is 388 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 6: about the insurance companies. Now, now in what aspect me, 389 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 6: you know, that's not clear. But if you think about 390 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 6: the time that this shooter had to take to etch 391 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 6: that on the casings, knowing they would be kicked down 392 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,400 Speaker 6: on the ground, knowing that the police would pick them up. 393 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 6: You know, it's just a big statement. And I think 394 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:10,200 Speaker 6: if you couple that with where the shooter committed this crime, 395 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,679 Speaker 6: I mean, this is a really high risk thing to 396 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 6: do in the middle of Manhattan during the day, people 397 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,880 Speaker 6: are rushing to work, thousands of people on the sidewalk. 398 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,359 Speaker 6: He even stands there for a number of minutes until 399 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 6: Brian shows up and then eventually shoots him in the back. 400 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,199 Speaker 6: It suggests to me that all of this is to 401 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 6: make some sort of statement, to draw attention to this 402 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:42,880 Speaker 6: particular healthcare company, where you know, Brian may or may 403 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 6: not have been the actual target. He just represents, obviously 404 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 6: as a CEO this company, and this shooter may have 405 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 6: a beef with the assurance company, which a lot of 406 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 6: people do obviously. So yes, I I do think it 407 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:05,360 Speaker 6: sort of lends itself in that direction. And I'll tell 408 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 6: you this shooter had some proficiencies, but he also left 409 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 6: so many clues, and he did things like use a 410 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 6: weapon that's through World War Two that just basically has 411 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 6: a suppressor built into the weapon. That's why it's so long. 412 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:24,919 Speaker 6: I mean, the last thing you want to do is 413 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 6: use things that her kids could be potentially much easier 414 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:33,199 Speaker 6: found and or traced. And that's one item along with 415 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 6: the shellcasings. You know, we'll have to see if they're 416 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,440 Speaker 6: able to link those in some way. But the point 417 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 6: being their clues that he didn't need to leave or 418 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 6: did he really have to gimit this crime at that location, 419 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:49,640 Speaker 6: I don't know, but it certainly has that flavor to it. 420 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 1: What do you think was he the angry guy or 421 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 1: was he hired by some other angry guy? 422 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,439 Speaker 6: I would say based on the weapon that he used, 423 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 6: the ash on the casings. Now, whoever hired him, I 424 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:10,479 Speaker 6: suppose could have done that, but it certainly feels like 425 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 6: this maybe is not a murder for hiring. I can't 426 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,680 Speaker 6: roll that out because I don't know enough, but certainly 427 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 6: I would lean more towards it at this point, only 428 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,080 Speaker 6: based on the evidence that we know at this hour 429 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 6: that you know, this is personal. This is a revenge 430 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 6: shooting by someone that was harmed or had a loved 431 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 6: one harmed by this insurance company. 432 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 2: There's other things swirling in his life. 433 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: The company was getting investigated by the Department of Justice 434 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: for anti trust violations. He was getting investigated along with 435 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 1: other executives. They sold a one hundred and seventeen million 436 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:54,879 Speaker 1: dollars in stock after getting inside word about some bad news. 437 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 1: He and his wife had been separated for some years. 438 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,200 Speaker 1: I mean, he had a kind of a messy life 439 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 1: going on at the moment. 440 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,480 Speaker 6: Right which may be totally unrelated as to what happened 441 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 6: to him. We'll have to see. Now. My wife made 442 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 6: a comment that that he has received threats not further 443 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,400 Speaker 6: to find. Course, that doesn't surprise me. I mean he's 444 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 6: in a line of work that they anger a lot 445 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:26,359 Speaker 6: of people. Maybe my claims they won't ensure people, you know, 446 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:30,679 Speaker 6: people that might be in dire straits medically, and so 447 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 6: we'll have to see. But I think we'll have to see. 448 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 1: Thompson was going to speak at the at the Hilton, 449 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 1: an investor conference for United Healthcare, so he had a 450 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 1: presentation that he was going to deliver later that morning. 451 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: So the guy did did his research and rented at 452 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 1: a room at a hostel nearby. But he certainly was 453 00:27:55,320 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: sloppy in getting a coffee and power bars from a 454 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: Starbucks and then leaving the rappers and the coffee cup 455 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 1: in a nearby trash can. 456 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 6: I mean that sort of goes to how unsophisticated and 457 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 6: perhaps naive and or I'll throw in one other things. 458 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 6: Maybe doesn't care. Maybe he doesn't care if he gets caught, 459 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 6: we'll have to see again. This really goes john to motive, 460 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 6: and his motive being I have been harmed or my 461 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 6: family members have been harmed, and this company needs to 462 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:36,199 Speaker 6: know that those of us harm are serious, and we're 463 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,400 Speaker 6: going to draw attention to your company. And that clearly 464 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 6: did that. Now you know, well that effect you know 465 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 6: their bottom line one with the other. Probably not, but 466 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 6: I think this is this is all about making a statement. 467 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: He also lost his phone along the way, and they 468 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 1: got a search warrant to go through the contents. If 469 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 1: he's got a security code on the phone, how difficult 470 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: is it for the police used to get in there 471 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 1: and see who he was a calling and who he 472 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 1: was messaging with. 473 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 6: Well, they may have to get the FBI to help 474 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 6: them there. And it may well have been a burner phone. 475 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 6: Who knows if he was smart it was a burner phone. 476 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 6: And so he doesn't care if you have it because 477 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 6: it may only show you know, very limited phone calls 478 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 6: to people. He doesn't care whether they know about them 479 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 6: or not. However, there is a photograph of him. I 480 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 6: don't remember if it was before I think it's before 481 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,240 Speaker 6: the shooting, walking down a street on a cell phone, 482 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 6: presumably the one you're talking about. So you know, all 483 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 6: of that will be interesting if you can get into 484 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 6: the phone. You know, as to is does that have 485 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 6: any relevance as to what happened? 486 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 2: They must be doing just a massive investigation right now. 487 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 1: Oh big. 488 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 6: I mean I have done these investigations where you have 489 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 6: to have twenty five things going at the same time. 490 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 6: You can't do one and go to the next. You 491 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 6: have to divide it up. You know. Obviously NYPD is 492 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 6: driving full speed ahead to catch this guy, and they're 493 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 6: probably the lead and following all of those clues, getting 494 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 6: the FBI probably to help them with out of state 495 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 6: interviews and the tech stuff. And then you're gonna have 496 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 6: to have somebody look at threats against Brian Thompson and 497 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 6: also the company, because my guess is there are a 498 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 6: lot of those and to look at to see if 499 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 6: they are connected in some way to this case. A 500 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 6: lot to do or really a lot to do, and 501 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 6: so we'll see. But they seem to be making some progress. 502 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 6: It's not really fully defined at this point, but I 503 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 6: think they're they're chipping their way towards him. 504 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 2: It's one of those cases. 505 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: It's obviously tragic, but it's just instantly fascinating. 506 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 2: I don't know why there is Yeah, I. 507 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 6: Mean because it has so many elements to it where 508 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 6: it happened to, it happened to of etchings on the 509 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 6: case scene, the unique obscure World War II weapon that 510 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 6: even somebody described as a sniper's weapon. All right, I'm sorry, 511 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 6: as an assassin's weapon because the suppressor muffled the sounds, 512 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 6: you know, like a silencer would have been a more 513 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 6: modern day gun. So it's yeah, it has all sorts 514 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 6: of to. 515 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 2: Us, Rad, thanks for coming on with us. 516 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,240 Speaker 6: You're welcome here, John Brad Garrett. 517 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 1: He is the crime and Terrorism Expert analyst with ABC News. 518 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:41,080 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI AM 519 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 5: six forty. 520 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 1: Apparently there's a lot of people celebrating the murder of 521 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 1: the CEO. 522 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 2: Brian Thompson. 523 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,479 Speaker 4: The TikTok comments have been thoughts and coopays to your family. 524 00:31:52,800 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 2: Oh no, yeah, people are just off. 525 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 1: I guess this was always there, we just didn't have 526 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 1: social media to expose. 527 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 2: It thoughts and prior authorizations. Oh man, that's a rough 528 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,080 Speaker 2: crowd out there, you imagine. Yeah, guy has got two 529 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 2: kids he's leaving behind at home. I mean, what do you? 530 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: What do you. 531 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 2: That's terrible. 532 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,800 Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just reading this story here about all 533 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 1: the crazy posts. 534 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:32,280 Speaker 7: We have timpuing dong with you ding dong doctor Lucy 535 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 7: Jones and me coming on at four forty five. 536 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 2: That'll be cool. Talk about that earthquake. 537 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 8: You know, when they say it's a seven point zero 538 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 8: earthquake in northern California, think, oh wow, half the states 539 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 8: wiped out, and then you realize, okay, it's off the coast. 540 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 2: You know exactly. We didn't even get a student homie 541 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 2: at it. That's right. 542 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,480 Speaker 8: But in talking to Lucy Jones, I know you talked 543 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 8: to her at the top of your show. Did she say 544 00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,719 Speaker 8: did she give you any indication whether there's a four 545 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 8: show pre shock or no shock? 546 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't talk to her. Oh I 547 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: thought you did. No, did Gary and Shannon talk to her? 548 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 2: You're drinking again. 549 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,080 Speaker 8: I get your show mixed up with Gary and Shannon 550 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 8: all the time. 551 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,760 Speaker 1: That's very common. Didn't you guys do a show together. 552 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,040 Speaker 1: You and Shannon, Yes, she was going to be part 553 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:20,280 Speaker 1: of things. Yeah, that was some years ago. And okay, 554 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,280 Speaker 1: Dean Sharp is coming on with us. He's great. 555 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 8: He knows nothing about earthquakes, but he knows a lot 556 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,720 Speaker 8: about homes, which is cool. And then we still have 557 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,840 Speaker 8: this crazy story this Brian Thompson, the CEO of Big 558 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 8: you know by United Health, and that's it, you know, 559 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 8: I think gets pointed towards, as you said, people that 560 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,959 Speaker 8: are getting hosed by these insurance companies. I looked up 561 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,480 Speaker 8: or Bellio looked up last night. Thirty two percent. It's 562 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,120 Speaker 8: up to thirty two percent of initial claims are denied 563 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 8: that much. 564 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,040 Speaker 1: That's a lot. Yeah, I know, Well we've had our share. 565 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:52,320 Speaker 1: We've had our share as. 566 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,000 Speaker 2: Well, and there's nobody to appeal to. 567 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 8: No, and if you sue them, then you're not going 568 00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 8: to get insurance anywhere. So it's a very fine line 569 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,480 Speaker 8: between you know, going what you should get and then 570 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,160 Speaker 8: you know, I mean if you personally do it, like 571 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,760 Speaker 8: if you have you know, somebody you know step in 572 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 8: and a lawyer and try to do that for you. 573 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,839 Speaker 8: I think that's the way to go. But you try 574 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:13,959 Speaker 8: to do it yourself is impossible. I know you're gonna 575 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 8: spend a lot of money on the lawyer. Well, and 576 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 8: probably more than you're denied claim. Yeah, as long as 577 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,000 Speaker 8: you know, if you got to get a lawyer that 578 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,560 Speaker 8: will do it and not take a cut until you 579 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,120 Speaker 8: get paid. Yeah, that's the way to go. Like what's 580 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,600 Speaker 8: his name, Sweet James? Right, Sweet James, Sweet James. He 581 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,080 Speaker 8: I don't want to turw this to a Sweet James commercial, 582 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,359 Speaker 8: But my wife's brother got into an accident. He took 583 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,600 Speaker 8: over the case, and I got him a pot of money, 584 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,000 Speaker 8: no kidding. I got a package, as they call it, 585 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:42,840 Speaker 8: the track. Wow, yeah, a package. 586 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,840 Speaker 2: Good. You got first hand endorsement. 587 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:48,239 Speaker 8: I didn't get any of the money though, Well, I 588 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,399 Speaker 8: got squeezed out of the final check. 589 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 2: I thought i'd get a taste, you know, nothing nothing, 590 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,680 Speaker 2: not even like one percent. Nothing nothing from this guy. 591 00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,959 Speaker 8: And then we got well the latest on the numbers 592 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:01,960 Speaker 8: from the UH postathon as well. 593 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:03,680 Speaker 2: All right, Conway's coming up next. 594 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,399 Speaker 1: Michael Krozer has the news live in the KFI twenty 595 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,919 Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. 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