1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Canf I Am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app around the radio from 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: one until four and then after four o'clock. What'd you miss? 4 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: You could hear it after four on the podcast John 5 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:17,159 Speaker 1: Cobelt on demand, also on the iHeart app. Everything's on 6 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: the iHeart app. You can order dinner on the iHeart app. 7 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 1: So it's all there. We are going to continue now 8 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: with KFI News and Cobin Carson. This is the never 9 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: ending Rebecca Grossman trial. She's charged with two counts of 10 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: murder and two counts of vehicular manslaughter, among other things. 11 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 1: They say she hit two little boys while they were 12 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,239 Speaker 1: crossing the street with mom and their other brother, and 13 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 1: she was going very fast, maybe eighty one miles an hour. 14 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: She may have been racing her boyfriend, Dodger Pitcher Scott Erickson. 15 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: And she is the wife of doctor Peter Grossman, who 16 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: founded the Grossman Burns Center, and they were out drinking 17 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 1: and she had some valume in her system. And that's 18 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 1: what we have learned during, among other things, during the 19 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 1: prosecution case. Now the defense is taking over and Corbyn 20 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: Carson is with us to talk about that into the 21 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: the appreciation. 22 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 2: You'll be happy to know that murder trial is it's 23 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 2: winding down. The judge has said jury deliberations could begin 24 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 2: by the end of this week. 25 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 3: The defense has maintained. 26 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 2: That former Dodgers pitcher Scott Erickson's suv hit those boys 27 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 2: first that you mentioned, and that the eleven year old 28 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 2: boy then bounced off his car and hit Grossman's suv. 29 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 2: If you remember, Grossman and Erickson were having drinks before 30 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 2: the crash, and witnesses had testified that the tour racing 31 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 2: at double the speed limit, and prosecutors have said there's 32 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 2: no evidence to suggest a second car hit the boys 33 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 2: and only pieces of Grossman's shuv were found at the scene. 34 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 2: So in this last week, since the defense has had 35 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 2: the attorney, we've heard from Grossman's husband, they've called up 36 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 2: multiple experts to dispute everything that prosecutions has alleged, the 37 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 2: high speeds, whether or not Grossman was intoxicated, that the 38 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 2: kids were in the crosswalk or not. And in Friday, 39 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 2: two more witnesses were called to claim Ericson's the black 40 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 2: suv hit the boys first. One expert even claimed he 41 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 2: was just given the evidence in the case and concluded 42 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,119 Speaker 2: the black suv must have hit the boys. 43 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 3: Without even knowing that. 44 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 2: The defense's theory of the case was that the black 45 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 2: suv did that, and. 46 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 1: What what is there because they didn't witness the accident, right, 47 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: So this is their claim. I tell you the expert 48 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: witness industry, that is a racket. You got enough money, 49 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 1: you can find anybody to say anything. You can get 50 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: to people to say that the sun orbits around the Earth. 51 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 2: You pay him enough and they have to spin a 52 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 2: good yarn with that, with some good math and analyzes, 53 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 2: so at least make some some believable sense. 54 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: So how does this work? Because Ericson would have been 55 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: going pretty fast too, and when you hit somebody, they 56 00:02:56,080 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: get knocked forward at that speed. I don't under stand 57 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: the physics of him going up in the air and 58 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: then bouncing off Rebecca's car. How does that work well? 59 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 2: Currently, the idea is that his car went through the 60 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 2: intersection two and a half seconds before hers did. And 61 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 2: the defense's claim is that the boy's body would have 62 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 2: bounced up over that suv just have gone right under 63 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 2: it instead of hitting it forward, that it was. 64 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:22,839 Speaker 3: Low enough to the ground that it went under it. 65 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 3: Bounced him up and then that. 66 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: She would it went under the car. 67 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,799 Speaker 2: It went under that the boy went over his car, 68 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 2: over his car, and then his car went under, yeah. 69 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: And landed on and went landed on Rebecca's car. 70 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 2: Right, and then that was what propelled him for the 71 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 2: two hundred and some odd feet fifty feet. 72 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 3: I think that the eleven year old was real. 73 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 2: So it's you know, yeah, it's an interesting physics suggestions. 74 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 3: I gotta tell you. Okay, let's talk. 75 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: About have they have they drawn anything on a whiteboard 76 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 1: to show that that. 77 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 3: Oh, we've had whiteboards. There's been video of the of 78 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 3: the scene. 79 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 2: There's been you know, all kinds of props and gadgets 80 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 2: from both sides, the prosecution and the defense, to try 81 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 2: to illustrate what they believe, which each side believes is 82 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 2: what actually what happened in the case. 83 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 3: But again it'll be up to the jury to decide 84 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 3: they could get it. 85 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 2: Friday, I will tell you one of the interesting things 86 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 2: that happened last Friday was the defense called Rebecca Grossman's daughter, 87 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 2: Alexis Grossman, to testify. 88 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 3: She was sixteen at the time of the accident. She's 89 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 3: nineteen now. The daughter told jurors. 90 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 2: She was running out for pizza that night and she 91 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 2: noticed her mom surrounded by police cars. 92 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,799 Speaker 3: She runs over. Of course, she's stopped by deputies. Alexis 93 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:35,840 Speaker 3: Grossman says it was. 94 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 2: At that moment that she made eye contact with Ericson 95 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 2: as he hid behind a tree. Now, detectives have testified 96 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:45,840 Speaker 2: that they would have noticed this six foot four to 97 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 2: two d and forty pound Ericson hiding in the vicinity. 98 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: Right. 99 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 2: Alexis Grossman told JRS. She eventually was asked to leave 100 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 2: the scene, so she went back to her house, which, 101 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 2: remember the Grossman lives a short distance from this crack scene. 102 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 2: The daughter says that's when Ericson barged into her home 103 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 2: and threatened her not to mention that he had been 104 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,599 Speaker 2: at the scene or he would quote ruin her and 105 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:13,359 Speaker 2: her family. Alexis Grossman also said the guy smelled like 106 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 2: alcohol and he was shouting why didn't your mother just 107 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 2: drive home, essentially saying why didn't she flee all the 108 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 2: way to the to the house. And if you remember, 109 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 2: the miss Grossman's suv was disabled about a third of 110 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 2: a mile or actually about three tenths of a mile 111 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 2: from the crash because the car shut itself down in 112 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 2: you know, Mercedes calls and says, hey, have you been 113 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 2: in an accident? 114 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:37,039 Speaker 1: So her story Scott Arison showed up at the grocerman 115 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 1: house and he's drunk and yelling about why didn't your 116 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: mom stop and why didn't she keep going? Why didn't 117 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: she keep going? 118 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 2: But essentially saying, why didn't you just leave? And we 119 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 2: never would have been caught. 120 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 3: That's what she's a what she's saying. 121 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:55,559 Speaker 2: And then of course during cross examination, Deputy da Ryan 122 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 2: Gould asked, reminded, reminded Alexis Grossman that he is the 123 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,359 Speaker 2: guy who had He reminded everyone that he's the first person. 124 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 2: The Deputy Da Ryan Gould is the first person who 125 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 2: initially interviewed her, Alexis Grossman, and at the time he 126 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 2: says she didn't say anything about Ericson, and don't understand 127 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 2: she said, yeah, I didn't say anything. Grossman said she 128 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 2: was scared of this of Ericson, he's a big guy. 129 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 3: But now she says she. 130 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 2: Wishes she had and maybe the trial would not have 131 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 2: gotten this far because they would have had the second 132 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 2: piece of this. And the deputy pushed a little bit 133 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 2: further to be sure, and reminded jurors that he interviewed 134 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 2: her ten months after the crash and asked her in 135 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 2: court on Friday. During that interview, you never once told 136 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 2: me about Scott Erickson hiding in the bush's or a tree, 137 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 2: And she says, no, I didn't, and then he even 138 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 2: goes she even goes further and says Alexis also admitted 139 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 2: that during that interview she flat out told Ghoul that 140 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 2: Erickson had not come back to the house and that 141 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 2: their paths had quote never crossed that night, and well, it. 142 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: Says, just where did this conversation come from? Well, so 143 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 1: she's claiming this conversation now, but at the time she 144 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: was questioned ten months after accident, she said nothing about 145 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: them meeting or having this particular conversation, right. 146 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 2: She says she didn't tell her parents. She said she 147 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 2: eventually told her mother's first attorney, and that attorney told 148 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 2: her to be quiet, and that attorney ended up dying 149 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 2: and they had to hire this whole new defense team. 150 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 2: And that's why this case has gone on for years. 151 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 3: So, I mean, it's all about reasonable doubt. John. 152 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 2: We've talked about this a lot of times, and the 153 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 2: fact that Ericson is not on this taking the stand, 154 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 2: and that there is this, it. 155 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 3: Appears his SUV was never checked. 156 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 2: And then so the deputy assigned to Ericson said he 157 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 2: found two Mercedes SUV registered to Rickson under the same 158 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 2: license plate. But it appears again no one ever examined 159 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 2: either of those before this guy was charged with misdemeanor 160 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 2: reckless driving. 161 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: Did the defense ask these detectives why they never investigated 162 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: Ericson's cars. 163 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 3: I don't know that they did. 164 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: I haven't heard it. 165 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 2: I haven't heard it come up in the trial neither. 166 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 2: And and you know I've thought about this. You and 167 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 2: I have talked about why hasn't he been in the car? 168 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 3: Where is he? 169 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 2: And you know this could be damaging to both sides, 170 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 2: especially since he's likely to take the fifth the entire time. 171 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 2: For the defense, it would open the door for prosecutors 172 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 2: to try to shut down that theory that Ericson hit 173 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 2: the car first, And then for prosecutors it allows the 174 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 2: defense for more time for that confusion of a focus 175 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 2: away from a RecA a grossman. So either way, it 176 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 2: represents a dangerous unknown for the defense and prosecutor. 177 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:32,679 Speaker 1: He's not testifying for either side. 178 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 2: As of right now, we have not seen him on 179 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 2: any lists or that he's coming. But of course there's 180 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 2: still time. 181 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 1: Okay, And so how many more days of testimony you 182 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: think before they start doing closing arguments? 183 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 2: Just the judge said at the end of Friday that 184 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 2: the jury could get the last Friday, the jury could 185 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 2: get the case as soon as this Friday coming up. 186 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:54,719 Speaker 2: So maybe we'll start seeing some deliberations. But I mean, 187 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 2: and this is a total guess, it seems like this 188 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 2: is going to take a while for some deliberation. Is 189 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 2: just because they're so I mean, a six week trial, 190 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 2: there's so much information for jurors to go through. 191 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 3: It's so much technical information as well. 192 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, see, I wouldn't do that. If I was in 193 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: the jury room, I just say, well, the dents on 194 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 1: her car and she was going eighty one miles an hour. 195 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: What do you think happened? I don't think it's comp 196 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: I think it should have been a six minute trial, 197 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:21,319 Speaker 1: not six weeks. 198 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then how do we get the other the 199 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:24,680 Speaker 3: other eleven have to agree with you? 200 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: If I came home right and I've got I've got 201 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: two big dents in my car and there's two kids 202 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: dead and my internal computer saying I went eighty one 203 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 1: miles an hour. Who needs any more information than that? Seriously? 204 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: All right, well, very good, Corbyn. You can't answer questions. 205 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 3: I can't, but the jury will. 206 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: The jury will sure. I hope we don't have vegetables. 207 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: All right, Cardin, thanks very much. Hardy Carson KFI News 208 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: six weeks What a racket scam defense attorneys are? Seriously, 209 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: do you need to know anything more other than she 210 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: had the dents, She was going eighty one, she was drinking, 211 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 1: she had the valume, her airbag went off, her car 212 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 1: was disabled. She was complaining in the hospital that if 213 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 1: the car hadn't shut itself off, she would have been 214 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: home by Now what else do you need to know? 215 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 1: What a dirty, disgusting racket defense attorneys? Yes, it's REPREHENSI 216 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: all right when we come back the I believe it's 217 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: a Wall Street journal had this story and it's about 218 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: in six months, the whole evy revolution stopped dead. Yes, 219 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: the electric vehicle revolution is in suspended animation right now. 220 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: So many things have gone wrong in the industry, and 221 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: so much money was bet on this, and so many 222 00:10:56,559 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: people had a political agenda bet on the electric vehicle 223 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 1: revolution and now it's just stuck. And we'll tell you 224 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 1: the story when we come back. 225 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KF I 226 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 4: am six. 227 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: Forty No money, huh huh, we're out empty nothing Okay, 228 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: no contest. I don't know when it's coming back, but 229 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to learn a living. No more, no 230 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: more money for now. Uh. This is now. We told 231 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,199 Speaker 1: you this, We've been telling you this for years, and 232 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: to me it was obvious. I think to most people, 233 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 1: it was obvious that this electrical the electric vehicle craze 234 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: was way overhyped, that the industry is not ready to 235 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: sell large numbers of evs. The consumer doesn't want to 236 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: buy them yet because there's a lot of obvious problems 237 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 1: and it's so glaringly obvious from day one what the 238 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 1: issues were. And these issues have gone on for years 239 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:08,199 Speaker 1: now and they haven't been fixed. And I was fascinated 240 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: by a lot of human phenomena, and one is allegedly 241 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 1: smart people like automobile executives. Right, you don't end up 242 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 1: running Ford or GM because you're a dope. Got a 243 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: lot of education, You've gone to business school, you've got 244 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: your MBA, got decades of experience in the auto industry, 245 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 1: so you understand the industry. You've been selling cars and 246 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: manufacturing cars for decades. You climb your way up the ladder, 247 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: you get to the top, and then you become a 248 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: hysterical ninny, like a religious fanatic. And that's what a 249 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: lot of this is. This is religious fanaticism. And it's 250 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:58,199 Speaker 1: the climate fanatics, which is one type of religious zelotry 251 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: that I infected these normally level headed car automobile manufacture executives. 252 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 1: And then Wall Street Journal wrote a fascinating story chronicling 253 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 1: how a six month period of time, the auto industry 254 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 1: went from gung hole, We're going all electric. That's going 255 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 1: to be most of our sales within a few years. 256 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:30,080 Speaker 1: We've got gonna have dozens and dozens of EV models 257 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:36,559 Speaker 1: and it's gonna radically transform the world. Six months later, 258 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 1: it's crickets. Cars are piling up, very few people want 259 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 1: to buy them. The rate of increased sales has gone down. 260 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: Once you see there were some easy pickings in the market. 261 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: You got what they call early adopters. These are the geeks, 262 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: these are the rich guys. They like to show off. 263 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: They like to be on the cutting edge. They want 264 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: to be the first one in the neighborhood to have 265 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:03,959 Speaker 1: an electric vehicle, especially at Tesla and those guys, and 266 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:07,320 Speaker 1: often these cars were the second or third car. You 267 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 1: know that the guy drove on weekends just to amuse 268 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 1: himself or his show off. But most people didn't buy 269 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: one and have no intention of buying one. And it 270 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: was obvious why. But you read this story in the 271 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal. The car executives whipped themselves up into 272 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: this hysterical frenzy. And the story starts a Michigan plan. 273 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: That's where they were going to build the F one 274 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: fifty lightning electric truck. Biden had come to the factory 275 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one to test drive the truck, and 276 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: in the spring of twenty twenty two they started rolling 277 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: off the assembly line, and they planned to expand the 278 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 1: factory and quadruple the number of lightning trucks that Ford 279 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: was going to assemble. Now that was in spring of 280 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. In less than two years, Ford is 281 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: cutting the plant's output by half, and they're sending workers 282 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: to other facilities to make gas powered pickups and SUVs. 283 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: Says one truck inspect The sudden change was a little 284 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 1: bit of a shocker. Reality is set in and there 285 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: was a few months where there was a hot demand 286 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 1: for the evs, and then everyone realized how hard it 287 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: is to get around and stay charged, and within months 288 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 1: everything flipped upside down. Last summer, dealers started warning they 289 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: had evs clogging their lots, Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen. They 290 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: started delaying and downsizing projects. They'd been spending money like mad. 291 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 1: In fact, do you know how much they were spending. 292 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: Ford lost four point seven billion dollars last year. This 293 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 1: year it's going to be five to five and a 294 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: half billion. They may lose ten billion dollars in two 295 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: years on electric vehicles at one car company ten billion 296 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: and the four chief executive Jim Farley, who was mister 297 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: raw rock guy for years, says there's been a seismic 298 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: change in the last six months, a seismic change. And 299 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: this all started in twenty twenty, during the pandemic they 300 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: had they were going to build GM was going to 301 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: build their own battery factories, make their own batteries, have 302 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: evy assembly plants. Tesla was going great guns and they 303 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: were telling all the wall Street investors, Oh, this is 304 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: the breakout year. According to the GM president, this is 305 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 1: a breakout year. And it turned out to be the 306 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 1: bust year. Tesla started slashing prices in mid January of 307 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: last year. Used car dealers who had Tesla's in stock 308 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:17,919 Speaker 1: saw their value plummet by thousands of dollars. Everyone realizes, well, 309 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:20,199 Speaker 1: if I buy a Tesla, I won't be able to 310 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: sell it, maybe for a profit or break even. I'm 311 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna lose money. So that market crashed, and 312 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 1: for a while Musk was elon. Musk was insisting there 313 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 1: was no problem. So as they had a for Jim Farley, 314 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 1: they kept making public pronouncements. So everything's fine, Everything's fine. 315 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 1: But the dealers noticed first because they have the lots. 316 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 1: It was a dealer who owned a string of businesses, 317 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 1: Mickey Anderson was his name, and he saw in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, 318 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: EV's piling up in the lots. Nobody was buying. And 319 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: the customers said, well, how far a car go on 320 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: a single charge? Oh, not that far. How long do 321 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 1: the batteries last, Oh, not that long. How long does 322 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 1: it take the charge of battery? Oh, it takes a while. 323 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: How much does it take to repair one of these? Oh, 324 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 1: it takes a lot. Where do you plug it in? 325 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: There's only a few places to plug it in? I mean, 326 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:26,679 Speaker 1: what is that? Six major questions? And the answer was 327 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: bad For six major questions that customers were asking. Interest 328 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 1: rates rose. They were in the fours, now they're in 329 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 1: the sevens. And Jim Farley, who's the CEO of Ford, said, 330 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:55,199 Speaker 1: the paradigm has shifted and now they think it's going 331 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: to be years and until they start selling evs at 332 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,879 Speaker 1: the rate they ought. They looked at one Ford dealer 333 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 1: named Ed Jolief and he said he's got, uh, let's 334 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: see how many? How many does he have here? He's 335 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: got about twelve evs on his lot and nobody is 336 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: opening the door to check them out, Like they won't 337 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:26,640 Speaker 1: even look at him anymore. Thousands of US dealers signed 338 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 1: a letter urging Biden to ease the regulations that were 339 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: to push the industry to force them to sell more 340 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: electric cars, and now they're begging him to stop roll 341 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: back the mandates public's not buying. Can't force the public 342 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 1: public to buy a product they don't want. It was hype, 343 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: The technology wasn't there it wasn't ready. It's not going 344 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,919 Speaker 1: to be ready for a while. We told you this 345 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:56,159 Speaker 1: was going to happen. Biden's backing off. Newsom is going 346 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: to have to back off. This isn't working out. They lied, 347 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 1: They knew they didn't build the charging stations. They knew 348 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 1: the battery life wasn't great, they knew the range wasn't great. 349 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 1: They knew all this, and somehow the head of four 350 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 1: just got stupid and blew ten billion dollars. Has that happened? 351 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:21,120 Speaker 1: How does a smart guy with all that experience, all 352 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 1: that education, how does he blow ten billion dollars on 353 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: an idea that it was obvious wasn't ready. 354 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 355 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 4: six forty. 356 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:33,880 Speaker 1: We're on the air from one until fourth and after 357 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 1: four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand, also on the 358 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: iHeart app coming up after three o'clock. A group of 359 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 1: mayors in San Diego County want want that proposition to pass, 360 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: the one that we're collecting signatures for at the Honda 361 00:20:55,040 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: Center in Anaheim. A group of mayors in San Diego County. 362 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 1: It's called the Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act. 363 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 1: They need as you may have heard about five hundred 364 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 1: and fifty thousand signatures, they've got three hundred and sixty thousand, 365 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: and we are going to be at the Honda Center 366 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 1: on Thursday from one to four o'clock and you could 367 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: drive up and sign from one to four Honda Center. 368 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 1: You have to take the ball road to exit and 369 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: go to lot number four and they're going to accept 370 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: signatures from one until six. We'll be there from one 371 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 1: until four. There's three main provisions. The first provision will 372 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: start treating thefts as a felony. The third time you 373 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:49,160 Speaker 1: get caught another provision. If you get caught with drugs, 374 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,639 Speaker 1: you get a choice. You can go to jail or 375 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 1: you can go to treatment, which is the way it 376 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: used to be up until twenty fourteen. You don't have 377 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,360 Speaker 1: to go to jail. You to true we don't want 378 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:05,440 Speaker 1: to criminalize drug use and drug adu. Well, then take 379 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:07,840 Speaker 1: the treatment and then you don't have to worry about 380 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: being treated as a criminal. And the third thing is 381 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 1: that to fentannel traffickers, if they killed one of their customers, 382 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: now it's going to be murder. They catch you selling fentinil, 383 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 1: you'll get an official warning saying next time we catch 384 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 1: you selling fentonyl and what are your customers dies, You're 385 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 1: going to prison for murder. Those are three big things 386 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 1: that need to happen. If you saw the smash and 387 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 1: grab that went on in Riverside over the weekend, huh 388 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:42,880 Speaker 1: to idiots in uh with hoodies and masks and hammers. 389 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 1: So the mayor of Alcohol and Bill Wells, he's with 390 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 1: a group of San Diego County mayors that want yes 391 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: to finally fix Prop forty seven, and we'd like to 392 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: hear from the La County mayors on that as well. 393 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,679 Speaker 1: Another thing on the ballot that we've been telling you 394 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 1: about is this horrible, horrible referendum called Measure HLA. It's 395 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:18,960 Speaker 1: only on the ballot in La County. Measure HLA would 396 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 1: impose road diets. You'd start losing traffic lanes to bicycles. 397 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 1: Now you know how bad it is driving on La 398 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 1: City streets, on streets in La County. Well, this is 399 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 1: a Measure HLA. This is a city referendum. So if 400 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: you live in the city of Los Angeles, they're going 401 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: to shrink the roads. Three lanes will be two lanes. 402 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: Two lanes will be one lane for bicycles for bicycles, 403 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 1: and curbing to protect the bicycles. Not making this up. 404 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: We beat this hole in all this nonsense. Back seven 405 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: years ago, the public scared the crap out of Eric 406 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:14,640 Speaker 1: Arcetti and he turned tail on his own idea. Well, 407 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 1: the city administrative officer for Los Angeles there's a guy 408 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 1: named Matt Zebo, and Zebo issued a twelve page written 409 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 1: report which said this idea is going to cost over 410 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 1: three billion dollars over the next ten years. Here's how 411 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 1: it would work. Every time the city would do something 412 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: like a repaving project on a city block, they'd have 413 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: to install bike lanes and maybe curbing and other confusing 414 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: infrastructure changes. This creates traffic. This backs up traffic. When 415 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: we were fighting the the UH the road diet in 416 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:06,919 Speaker 1: Plia del Rey, we saw with our own eyes that 417 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 1: it would create miles of traffic. It's a terrible idea. 418 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: It's punishment. It's meant to be punishment. They know it's 419 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:19,639 Speaker 1: gonna f up traffic. These bicycle advocate fanatics want to 420 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 1: f up traffic. They are funded by some wealthy guy 421 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,719 Speaker 1: in New York City who's apparently one of the members 422 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: of the bicycle cult or the climate cult. There's several 423 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 1: overlapping cults here well. The city administrative offer Matt Zaebo said, 424 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,199 Speaker 1: it's gonna be three billion dollars. We can't afford that. 425 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 1: We're gonna have to take away from other road construction projects. 426 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 1: So not only will the traffic be choked off by 427 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 1: these new bike lanes, these new curbs. These these curbs 428 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,479 Speaker 1: will be like inside, they be like islands built on 429 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: the roadway. I've seen these already. They have them in 430 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 1: Santa Monica. There are atrocious. They do nothing but create 431 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 1: traffic and make it confusing and unsafe. It's complete. There's 432 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 1: no reason to shrink the roads for bicyclists except they 433 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: had this really sicko, insane idea to get us all 434 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,680 Speaker 1: out of our cars. Except there's nowhere for us to go. 435 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: We can't bike. Who's going to bike today? Who's biking today? 436 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 1: And even in the best of weather, few people bike. 437 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,880 Speaker 1: Nobody normal bikes. You know that, You know you see 438 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: guys biking in the middle of the day. They're weirdos. 439 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: They're weirdos are they're homeless people. LA Daily News did 440 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 1: a story on this and they said, there's three hundred 441 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 1: thirty six people killed in traffic last year, two thirds 442 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:54,400 Speaker 1: pedestrians and cyclists. Let's look at the pedestrians. How many 443 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: of those people were homeless or drug addicts or mental 444 00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 1: patients running around the street. And what time of day 445 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,639 Speaker 1: did they did those traffic deaths happened. I pitch it 446 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: they happened at dusk or in the evenings. I saw 447 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:13,360 Speaker 1: a map. I've said this before. The increase in homeless 448 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 1: people has led to the increase in pedestrian traffic deaths 449 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:22,400 Speaker 1: because they're drunk, stoned, high whacked out on meth, the cocaine, 450 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,880 Speaker 1: stumbling around with fentanyl, heroin, or they're just flat out 451 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,880 Speaker 1: crazy and they don't even know they're in the road. 452 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: They don't even know cars are winging by them. It's 453 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,640 Speaker 1: drag addicts and mental patients running around the street that's 454 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: caused the increase in pedestrian deaths. Most of them happen 455 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:44,639 Speaker 1: at night. Most of them happen in certain neighborhoods. My neighborhood, 456 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: nobody gets run down because we don't have homeless people 457 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: on the main roads in our neighborhood. They're not getting 458 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 1: run down during rush hour. Traffic moves too slowly in 459 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 1: rush hour. This is the slight of hand they pull. 460 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 1: Traffic moves too slow rush hour. They're gonna make it 461 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 1: move even slower. People get run down in the evening 462 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 1: or during dusk. It's hard to see. You're not expecting 463 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: mental patients to be stumbled around in the street. That's 464 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,760 Speaker 1: when they get hit, probably by drunk drivers. You have 465 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,719 Speaker 1: to vote no on HLA. On HLA, and it's going 466 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,199 Speaker 1: to cost over three billion dollars. And it must be 467 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: true because it got the supporters really angry. Michael Schneider, 468 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 1: he's running the campaign Yes on HLA. This guy's nuts 469 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 1: and he started yelling and screaming about this this report. Yeah, 470 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: you always get a big pushback when you tell the truth. 471 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 1: All Right, more coming up. 472 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 473 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 4: six forty. 474 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 1: Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to talk to 475 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 1: the al Caholm Mayor Bill Wells, because he's with a 476 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 1: group of San Diego County mayors who want to get 477 00:28:55,600 --> 00:29:01,160 Speaker 1: on the ballot that that referendum to repeal large parts 478 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: of Prop forty seven, and this would treat thefts like 479 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 1: felonies again, and this would treat drug possession as a 480 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 1: crime again and force into treatment or jail. You get 481 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 1: to choose and drug trafficking that kills people. Eh, that 482 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 1: would be murder charges. So we'll get to that with 483 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: Bill Wells from El Cajone. All Right, this is funny. 484 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 1: I didn't. I used to watch the NBA All Star 485 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 1: Game every year. It was I really enjoyed it. Always 486 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 1: wanted to go to one. But it's gotten to be 487 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 1: so stupid because nobody plays any defense. They just all 488 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 1: try to shoot forty foot bombs. They scored two hundred 489 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: and eleven points last night, the East team did. 490 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 5: It was wild? Was it fun to watch? I didn't 491 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 5: watch a single second of it. I love basketball. Basketball 492 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 5: was my favorite sport, and I was completely turned off 493 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 5: by All Star weekend this year. 494 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't watch anymore. I can't watch if it's 495 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 1: nothing but but three point shots. The whole game has 496 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 1: been ruined with this, with this strategy, and then the 497 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 1: All Star Game. It's not a competition that two hundred 498 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 1: and eleven points. I mean he was going in that 499 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 1: direction for a few years. Well, I guess it was 500 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 1: kind of boring because Eventually there's an alternate broadcast. Charles 501 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 1: Barkley was on it, uh and and he and the 502 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: other announcers started talking about San Francisco, and Barkley started 503 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 1: making fun of San Francisco. Listen to this, Hi, Reggie, 504 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 1: we love you. 505 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 3: Let's not having the dart Indian. 506 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:49,720 Speaker 1: That seventeen degrees, if. 507 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,240 Speaker 6: You had a if you had a chance of being cold, 508 00:30:52,560 --> 00:31:03,800 Speaker 6: of being around a bunch of home's crooked in San Francisco. Yes, 509 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:05,360 Speaker 6: we can't even walk around. 510 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: You can't walk around a bulletproof bad. So we love 511 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 1: San Francisco. 512 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 5: So it was Golden State Warriors forward uh Draymond Green, 513 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 5: who the Warriors play in San Francisco now and next 514 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 5: year the All Star Game will be in San Francisco. 515 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 5: So that's why Barkley brought it up. And then it 516 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,120 Speaker 5: was Reggie Miller, who's a former Indiana Pacers legend and 517 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 5: the All Star Game was in Indiana. And then w 518 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 5: NBA player Candas Parker and that's who and she. 519 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,160 Speaker 1: Was the one going, we lot San Francisco. Yes, yeah, 520 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 1: you go out walk at ten o'clock at night, go 521 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 1: in the Tenderloin district. Let's see what happens there. Huh. 522 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: You know it's funny again. You tell the truth and 523 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 1: everybody shots you down. They want you to shut up. No, no, no, no, Charles, 524 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 1: don't tell the truth. None of those people would go 525 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 1: walk in the streets at ten o'clock at night in 526 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 1: those districts. What is it with people? And I don't 527 00:31:58,240 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: take something, dad. 528 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,520 Speaker 5: I bet you that San Francisco will clear out the 529 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 5: homeless next year before the All Star Game comes to town. 530 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 1: Absolutely, that's the only time they clean streets in San 531 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 1: Francisco when there's some kind of out of town visitor, 532 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:18,840 Speaker 1: the President, the China Biden is some kind of All 533 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,200 Speaker 1: Star game. Of course, that's all they do. But I 534 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 1: just love the reaction. There's like a nature oh no, 535 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 1: he said something negative and a plus it was funny too. Yeah, well, 536 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 1: a bulletproof vest you'd walk around in. It's amazing how 537 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 1: people are such in denial, or they're so afraid of 538 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,280 Speaker 1: truth if the truth has some kind of negative connotation 539 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 1: to it. There's also this story, and I'm not gonna 540 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 1: have time to get into this bunch today, but just 541 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 1: to give you a headline, and this is why San 542 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 1: Francisco has has become so disgusting people up in San Francisco. 543 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 1: They spend billions of dollars in tax money, and the 544 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:10,480 Speaker 1: city has given these homeless nonprofits four billion dollars in contracts, 545 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:18,480 Speaker 1: four billion dollars for homelessness, childcare, housing, mental health, and 546 00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:22,479 Speaker 1: addiction treatment. So there you go the whole range of 547 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 1: pathologies that affect these crazy people in drug addicts. So 548 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:32,040 Speaker 1: they looked at twenty five nonprofits and they found I'll 549 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 1: give you one example and then we'll do the story 550 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 1: more in detail later on. Daniel Nissenbaum is the CEO 551 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,320 Speaker 1: of something called the Low Income Investment Fund, and they 552 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 1: provide grants and affordable loans to childcare providers in San Francisco. 553 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 1: Do you know how much this character made seven hundred 554 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:58,400 Speaker 1: sixty two thousand dollars seven hundred sixty two thousand dollars 555 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 1: of tax money to hand out grants and low cost loans. 556 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:09,440 Speaker 1: Holy crap, I'm telling you. Nonprofits are fake. They're a racket, 557 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 1: and they're used to enrich the people who run them, 558 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:18,239 Speaker 1: who are politically connected. That's just the twenty five biggest 559 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:22,680 Speaker 1: nonprofits or the nonprofits who've got the biggest contracts, have 560 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:30,000 Speaker 1: gotten four billion dollars since twenty seventeen, and the the 561 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:35,759 Speaker 1: CEO salaries and other executives are gigantic. And that's what 562 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,960 Speaker 1: it's about. It's not about helping the homeless, the drug addicted, 563 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:42,719 Speaker 1: the mentally ill, the children. They don't care a r 564 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,719 Speaker 1: we come back. Why don't we got to get this 565 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,200 Speaker 1: initiative on the ballot to do a major revision of 566 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:54,560 Speaker 1: Prop forty seven. And we'll give you details on our 567 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,880 Speaker 1: show that we're going to do in Anaheim on Thursday 568 00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,239 Speaker 1: at the Honda Center. And we're going to talk to 569 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,080 Speaker 1: Bill Wells because he's with a group of San Diego 570 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,440 Speaker 1: mares who want this, who need this on the ballot. 571 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,760 Speaker 1: He's in alcohol. We'll talk to him coming up. Deborah 572 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 1: Mark Live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, 573 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,880 Speaker 1: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 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