1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:01,120 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:02,320 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 2: Welcome to the show. 5 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: And I think you me, Eric and Brandon in the 6 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: control room there. That is the Ohn Ray too, right, yeah, 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,639 Speaker 1: I Mission Ray. So that's how many of us? That's 8 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:25,079 Speaker 1: five of us. Yes, that's the total number of total 9 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: number of employees here today. 10 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 3: Do you find it? 11 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 4: I know we joke about this, but in a way 12 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 4: it is kind of depressing on Fridays that nobody comes 13 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 4: in except us. 14 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:36,840 Speaker 2: Everybody apparently is Catholic here. 15 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 3: I didn't know that it's this is the same every Friday. 16 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 3: So just because it's good Friday, that's an expense. 17 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: I thought everyone converted to Catholicism. Yeah, and they were 18 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: all at the stations of the Cross and. 19 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 3: This is just a normal Friday. 20 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: There's another person who showed up for work, Blake Trolley. Yes, 21 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: and he's got a lot going on. Blake, are you there? 22 00:00:59,640 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 5: Yeah? 23 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 2: What's up? 24 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 6: John? 25 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: And yeah? 26 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 5: It is good Friday every Friday at iHeart, isn't it. 27 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 2: Yes? Maybe everybody's very religious. 28 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 5: And on a Friday you have a better chance of 29 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 5: getting hit with a tumbleweed in that office than you 30 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 5: do out on the ten past Palm Sprigs. 31 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: Now you got two things going on because you just 32 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 1: broke a story a few minutes ago about that those 33 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 1: killings in the Mohave Desert. 34 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:31,479 Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's a situation where we've learned more. We're 35 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 5: still working to learn more. And I went and spoke 36 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 5: with you about this when we got the initial information. 37 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 5: The preliminary information that we got from the Sheriff's department 38 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 5: was that just about everybody involved, so this would be 39 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 5: suspected shooters and the people shot in that fatal shooting 40 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 5: in El Mirage where six people were gunned down and 41 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 5: what looked like an ambush attack. We were told initially 42 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 5: it looked like everybody was in the country illegally. So 43 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 5: we started running this up the federal chain, because obviously 44 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 5: the Feds really handle that part of the investigation. The 45 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 5: Sheriff's department just said, look, this is our initial information. 46 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 2: Dig in further. 47 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 5: So we spoke with some federal law enforcement officials and 48 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 5: they say that two of those guys have been deported 49 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 5: in the past. One of those guys has been deported 50 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 5: five times since twenty eleven, So in twenty eleven, he 51 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 5: was caught by border patrol. They sent him back over 52 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 5: the border from Mexico. Both these guys are from Mexico, 53 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 5: and he subsequently tried re entering the US illegally four 54 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 5: times since then. So that's a total of five times 55 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 5: that he was sent out of the country and at 56 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 5: an unknown time and location. Of course, they don't know 57 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 5: exactly when these guys got back in he re entered 58 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 5: the country. The other guy, his initial removal was from Arizona. 59 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 5: This is in twenty twelve, and since that time he's 60 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 5: been removed another three times. He's tried re entering the country. 61 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 5: I think the latest for him was twenty sixteen, and 62 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 5: then here we go again, another unknown day and time 63 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 5: he re entered. I can say for the first guy 64 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 5: I talked about, it had to have been after twenty 65 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 5: twenty three. His last try to get back into the 66 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 5: US was in twenty twenty three. So really speaks to 67 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 5: border impacts and how they're heading into California. 68 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: And then you end up with this looks like some 69 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: kind of drug gang gunfight over marijuana out in the desert. 70 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: You got six people dead. Now the other story that 71 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: you were originally we're going to come on for is 72 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by this because I know this. 73 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 2: Is going on all over the place. 74 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: I just know it because we've all, you know, the 75 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 1: state and the county and the city had blown billions 76 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: and billions of dollars on homeless funding, and we just 77 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: get more and more homeless. And I've just suspected that 78 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: there's a lot of thievery going on, and it turns 79 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: out in this case there may be a lot of 80 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: thievery going on. A Los Angeles developer is saying that 81 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: his former CFO stole millions of dollars that was supposed 82 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: to go for low income housing projects. 83 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 2: So tell us more. 84 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we got to go backwards before we 85 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 5: can go forward words on this, And the reason I say. 86 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 2: That is we have to look at this big picture. 87 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 5: Back in January, California sued Shangri La Industries, alleging that 88 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 5: the developer borrowed against projects that were funded with one 89 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 5: hundred and fourteen million dollars in home key money. The 90 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 5: state says that the company defaulted on those loans, so 91 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 5: it took out loans against state funded project, defaulted on 92 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 5: those loans, and now all the motels that company was 93 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 5: supposed to get converted into housing. We're at risk of foreclosure. 94 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 5: The state said a couple of things. It said, most notably, 95 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 5: you're not allowed to borrow against these state funded projects. 96 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 5: It also says, he look, we gave you one hundred 97 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 5: and fourteen million dollars. You didn't need the loans. We 98 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,679 Speaker 5: gave you plenty of money to convert these motels. And 99 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 5: where it really impacted us here in southern California as 100 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 5: there was a couple of projects out in the Inland Empire. 101 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 5: So the state wanted to get a receivership for the projects. 102 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 5: Because it's had all seven projects, we're at risk of 103 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 5: foreclosure now with these loan statuses. We're now seeing the 104 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 5: firestorm brew from within. The company has sued its former CFO, 105 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 5: and I want to point this out, John, this might 106 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 5: be a crime in itself. The CFO is twenty nine 107 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 5: years old. I don't know who hires a twenty nine 108 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 5: year old to be a CFO. Anyways, his name is 109 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 5: Coldy Cody Holmes. The company says that Holmes and Bezel 110 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:17,840 Speaker 5: tons of money to pay for lavish stuff for him 111 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:21,479 Speaker 5: and his girlfriend. They're suing him for forty million dollars 112 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 5: in damages, and they say this includes so some of 113 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 5: the spending that Holmes allegedly used this homeless money for 114 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 5: is forty six thousand dollars a month to pay for 115 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 5: his rent in Beverly Hills, flights on private jets. Deborah, 116 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 5: don't get inspired here, but Burke and bags valued at 117 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 5: more than one hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars. 118 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 3: I don't make that much money. 119 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 5: I'm in radio endor saying we don't want you to 120 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 5: venture into stealing from homeless programs to get the bags. 121 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 2: Imagine. No, you could just apply. 122 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: You could declare yourself a nonprofit and apply for homeless 123 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: funding and I would look. 124 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 3: Silly with a bag like that. 125 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 2: Anyway, Oh, I'm sure, are you. 126 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 6: Now? 127 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 2: How many bags? Do you know? It was quite a few? 128 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 5: I mean, John, honestly, I can't even itemize this entire 129 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 5: list because when you go through the lawsuit, there were 130 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 5: so many different things that they're saying this guy bought. 131 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,159 Speaker 5: I mean, there was a thirty five thousand dollars gold watch. 132 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 5: Apparently he was leasing luxury cars, taking flights on private jets. 133 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 5: I mean, really, the list goes on and while we 134 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 5: talk about this as being a misappropriation of tax dollars. 135 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 5: This is you and my money, Debra's when everybody's money. 136 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,600 Speaker 5: I think the real you know, one of the victims 137 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,359 Speaker 5: here that people are not talking about are these contractors 138 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 5: that now say Sayra La owes them money. I want 139 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 5: to go to this John. This is a g flooring owner, 140 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:44,119 Speaker 5: Adolpho Gomeringer. I spoke to him this morning. He says 141 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,719 Speaker 5: he still owed ninety four thousand dollars for a motel 142 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 5: conversion project and samer Nardino that he wrapped up in 143 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 5: twenty twenty two. 144 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 7: Yeah, it's you know, it's definitely had an impact on 145 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 7: our business, where a family owned business, small business owners 146 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 7: and one hundred dollars dollars. To recoup from that, it 147 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 7: you know, takes at least, you know, three to five years, 148 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 7: So we're aware of that, you know, well sort of 149 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 7: cut our losses. But it's you know, it's hard, it's frustrating, 150 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 7: it's unfortunate, you know, where I'm still dealing with some 151 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 7: credit card d from things like this, from this project, 152 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 7: and I've paid up all my vendors, right because what 153 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 7: happens if I don't pay out my vendors, then the 154 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 7: relationship with them gets you know, affected, and I don't 155 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 7: want that, right. I've been working with my vendors for 156 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 7: you know, ten plus years, so it's they're all paid 157 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 7: off and you know, and so I'm mode of the 158 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 7: money for our working capital nowadays. 159 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 5: And he tells me John that he was in contact 160 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 5: with Shangri La, but at this point he's not hearing 161 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 5: anything back. 162 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 1: So Shanrala bar is the money and it's supposed to 163 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: pay this guy to renovate a motel into affordable housing. 164 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 1: So he spends his own money, his own company's money, 165 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: to renovate the motel, but Shangroline ever paid him back 166 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: because the CFO ran off with millions. 167 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 5: Well that's that's what's being alleged here. But you know, 168 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 5: I really think there's going to be more that comes 169 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 5: out of this. 170 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 2: I just can't be the only surface. You know, this 171 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 2: kind of thing. 172 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: When you put out that much money and there's obviously 173 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: not much oversight with the government, it attracts a bunch 174 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: of dirt bags and parasites. 175 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 2: He can't be the only one. 176 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 5: I do want to point this out, John. Emails that 177 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 5: have gone unanswered. I emailed the Governor's press office this morning, 178 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 5: and I attached a link to one of the articles 179 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 5: about this these allegations, and I said, good morning, does 180 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 5: the governor believe this demonstrates the need for more oversight 181 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 5: over the program's funds? And have yet to get an 182 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 5: answer back on that, But I really do think it 183 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 5: begs the question. If you're giving out this kind of 184 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 5: money to a company one hundred and fourteen million dollars, 185 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:45,319 Speaker 5: you think you'd watch that money pretty closely, right. 186 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 1: And nobody was but this guy and his girlfriend. We're 187 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: having a great time. Thank you very much for coming 188 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,719 Speaker 1: on late. All right, Thanks John Blake, Charlie Cafi News 189 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: and John. 190 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 4: You're always telling me what to buy you for Christmas 191 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 4: and what not to buy you. If you want to 192 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:02,439 Speaker 4: throw in a broken bag, even if it's used, I 193 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 4: wouldn't complain. 194 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 2: She had a sixteen thousand dollars burken bag. 195 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 3: That sounds like there's a cheap for fifty thousand. 196 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe this is even it was sucond Harem. Maybe 197 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 1: got run over by a car or something. Actually, I 198 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:20,319 Speaker 1: want to go through the list of things that they 199 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:25,199 Speaker 1: bought for themselves. It's pretty stunning. I've just never been 200 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,319 Speaker 1: into this stuff. I'm reading this, and you're supposed to 201 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: be bowled over by the names of the designers and 202 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 1: the prices and the makeup as I don't care. Well 203 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 1: a guy, yeah, I'm a guy. You girls are different, 204 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: some of us are. 205 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 206 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:46,959 Speaker 6: six forty. 207 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: Blake Trolo just had fascinating story that broke today, and 208 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: it was about the homeless industrial complex and all the 209 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 1: cruks and fraudsters that are sucking away millions and billions 210 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: of dollars from you. 211 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 2: Everybody is so foolish on this. 212 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 1: I swear I can't believe how people vote for this 213 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: crap over and over again. People voted for Prop H 214 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: and Prop HHH about seven years ago that provided billions, 215 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 1: and I'm going to point this out every day all 216 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: the homelessness went up and exploded. Then just a few 217 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 1: days ago, a majority, a bare majority, but of mark majority, 218 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: voted for Gavin Newsom's six billion dollar borrowing to provide 219 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: more homeless services, more mental health centers and drug treatment 220 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: and housing and this and that, And I'm thinking, are 221 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: you crazy? But people do this and this story that 222 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: Blake just went through Cody Holmes and Madeline wit Cody's 223 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: twenty nine, Madeline is twenty eight. And they use millions 224 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 1: of dollars in homeless money that they got from a 225 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: homeless program called Project Home Key. This is Gavin Newsom's 226 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: Pride and Joy. The money was given to Shangri La 227 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 1: Industries and Cody Holmes was the CFO. Changri Law got 228 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: one hundred and fourteen million dollars and Cody Holmes stole millions. 229 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: He would doctor up signatures, he'd create fake documents, he 230 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: would open up fictitious accounts. And what did they spend 231 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 1: the money on? A thirty five thousand dollars And you 232 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 1: know what, I'm going to butcher these names. But I'm 233 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: sure you could jump in and an Automar's Pha diamond watch. 234 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 3: I know a PJA Yes. 235 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, right, thirty five grand, sixteen eight hundred and thirty 236 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 1: nine dollars for an Erme's orange Togo berkin. 237 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 4: Okay, let me just tell you. A friend of mine 238 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 4: just sent me a text. And so she sent a 239 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 4: couple of pictures of broken bags because she just happened 240 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:05,719 Speaker 4: here is talking. One of them is one hundred and 241 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:07,559 Speaker 4: ninety five thousand dollars. 242 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 2: Well, what's this sixteen thousand dollars? 243 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 4: Well, there's some there's another one that she sent that's 244 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 4: more than twenty four thousand. 245 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 3: I mean, they're just they're they're different styles. I guess 246 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 3: I don't know. I have never even seen one. 247 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 2: Really, are you never got to touch one yet? 248 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 7: No? 249 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 2: Oh? I thought you try them out? No, they don't know. 250 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 2: Come on, don't they don't have weekend loan program? 251 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 6: No? 252 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 2: No, okay. They spent one. 253 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:31,440 Speaker 1: Hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars for a fifty three 254 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 1: carrot diamond necklace. 255 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:35,439 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, diamonds are expensive. 256 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 1: Fifty three carrots, that's humongous. A Boulder forty three thousand 257 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: for private jet travel, fifty three thousand for special event 258 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 1: passes at Coachella, fifty three thousand to go to Coachella. 259 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 3: Well, some people are really into into that. 260 00:12:54,880 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 1: A Ferrari Portafina, A Bentley Bentega forty eight thousand dollars 261 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: for the rent at this sixty five hundred square foot 262 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: property in Beverly Hills. And they're also trying to get 263 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: a restraining order against these two because they think they 264 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:19,119 Speaker 1: think Holmes is going to be liquidating all the assets 265 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: that he used the homeless cash to pay for. 266 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:22,200 Speaker 2: Now. 267 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: Most telling and Blake's report is he calls Newsom's office 268 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: and Newsom's office doesn't care. They don't reply. What's the 269 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: oversight on a case like this? But that again, Newsom 270 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: was governor when thieves around the world looted thirty billion 271 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 1: dollars from the unemployment fund during COVID. Remember that thirty 272 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: billion went out the door which were on the hook 273 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: for FEDS are not reimbursing the thirty billion dollars that 274 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:55,199 Speaker 1: we allowed to be stolen over fraud. Can you imagine 275 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:59,079 Speaker 1: the mismanagement. This is just one case that's been discovered. 276 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: That's one case. Shanngra La Industries. They were supposed to 277 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: build and maintain low income housing projects. There's a reason 278 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:11,680 Speaker 1: this stuff isn't getting built. And I'm telling you, when 279 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: you put out this kind of bait, you're going to 280 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: get nothing but criminals and scam artists. I bet you 281 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 1: there's dozens of these kind of nonprofit and homeless because 282 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 1: there's you have to the only way to get this 283 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: kind of stuff built is if the state provides the money. 284 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: No real developer wants to build low income housing because 285 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: by definition, there's no money in it. Some of them 286 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 1: cut deals with the government where since they're building a 287 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 1: luxury condo, okay, they'll throw in some affordable housing just 288 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: to get the permits, just to get approval. But they 289 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 1: don't want to build that stuff, and they never it's 290 00:14:56,760 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: never their idea to build it. So the state lavishes 291 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: all this homeless money. And this is really money stolen 292 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: from us. We were taxed under false pretenses. But there's 293 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 1: a lot of suckers in California who always vote for 294 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: this crap. And here come the parasites. Here come to 295 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: the criminals building home. Do you know what, there's hardly 296 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 1: anybody interested in building housing for homeless. The fanatics who 297 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: are they don't have any money. They scream and they 298 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: yell and they push. They don't have any money. And 299 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: the people with money, the people with construction companies, real 300 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: estate development Companiesay, now I'm build this fine. It's crap housing. 301 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: It's crap housing. There's no profit in it. They only 302 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: do it when there it's forced under gunpoint. Practically, hey, 303 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: you can't build your luxury condo until you give us 304 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: a few affordable units. Because nobody wants to do this. 305 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: Nobody cares. Newsom doesn't care either. There's no oversight on 306 00:15:57,880 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: the money. One hundred and fourteen million dollars goes to 307 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: Shangri lah By. See you more coming up. 308 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 309 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 6: six forty. 310 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: When an agency is rotten, it's rotten from the top. 311 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: Metro is a rotten agency. And I know you probably 312 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 1: don't take a metro bus or train. I don't know 313 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: anybody who does. But we pay billions of dollars for 314 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 1: these empty trains and empty buses that carry mostly homeless 315 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: people and mental patients and drug addicts and criminals. I 316 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: mean it is frightening to go on a metro bus. 317 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: And anybody who tries to snow you and gaslight you 318 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: and say. 319 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 2: Oh, you know, safety is our highest. 320 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: Priority, they're lying. They're absolutely lying. Nobody in their right 321 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: mind would go on a metro bus or a train. Okay, 322 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: I mean I met the guy who was set on 323 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: fire on a metro train. He came to our last 324 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: to public broadcast we did when we were gathering signatures 325 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 1: for the correction to Prop forty seven. Guy walked up 326 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 1: to me out of the crowd. All right, I saw 327 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: what the burns did to him. He was lit on fire. 328 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 1: It's not the only time it's happened that people been shot, stabbed, murdered, 329 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 1: sexually assaulted. You deal with urine excrement, all kinds of 330 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: bodily fluids. It's a horror show in there. These metal 331 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:37,159 Speaker 1: tubes either hurtling down the train tracks the subways, or 332 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 1: you're stuck in the metal tube on a boulevard in 333 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and there's all kinds of well. I have 334 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: a friend who put his daughter on a bus once 335 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: on the West Side. Kid was going to a new 336 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: school one day. On the bus. He's calling home saying, 337 00:17:57,520 --> 00:17:59,880 Speaker 1: somebody come get me. There's a crazy guy aboard here 338 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 1: creating that's normal, and everybody in public life denies it. 339 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 2: The public itself, though, knows better. 340 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: And unless you are destitute, you don't take a public busser. 341 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:16,440 Speaker 1: Trade nothing with the word Metro on it. And the 342 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 1: CEO of Metro is this piece of work named Stephanie Wiggins. 343 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 1: And Stephanie Wiggins has has gotten complaints from the appointees 344 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 1: in charge of safety for Metro, and when they complain, 345 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 1: they mysteriously disappear. I don't mean literally like in Russia. 346 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 1: I mean they are no longer working for the agency. 347 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:55,159 Speaker 1: And the latest is Gina Osborne was a former FBI 348 00:18:55,600 --> 00:19:01,120 Speaker 1: agent and was the agency's first Chief safety Officer. Suddenly 349 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,119 Speaker 1: got fired by Stephanie Wiggins, the CEO. 350 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 2: Coincidentally, it was two days. 351 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: After Gina Osborne filed a report with the Inspector General's Office. 352 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,160 Speaker 1: Don't know what it's about, but I guess word got 353 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 1: back to Stephanie Wiggins and so Gina Osborne's fired. 354 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 2: Now this is a former FBI agent. Gena. Osborne's deputy. 355 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 1: Was a guy named Andrew Black, another former FBI agent, 356 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 1: and he filed a lawsuit against Metro two years ago, 357 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: saying that Stephanie Wiggins attack retaliated against him for protesting 358 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:42,920 Speaker 1: the unsafe work conditions that the bus drivers were dealing with. 359 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 1: Andrew Black says that violence and ongoing crime will remain 360 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 1: the hallmark of Metro so as long as this leadership 361 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:57,159 Speaker 1: continues its course of indifference to the suffering and the 362 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:00,919 Speaker 1: plight of the unhoused, and the callous regard for the 363 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:06,360 Speaker 1: health and safety of Metro commuters and employees. In other words, 364 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 1: they don't really care about the homeless people, but they 365 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 1: let him run roughshod over the trains and the uh 366 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,879 Speaker 1: and the buses, so that the rest of us and 367 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,639 Speaker 1: the people who work for Metro are constantly in danger, 368 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,399 Speaker 1: constantly on edge. You just don't know what's going to 369 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: happen minute to minute. Gina Osborne told Andrew Black that 370 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,399 Speaker 1: Wiggins was upset that he had spoken to the bus 371 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 1: drivers honestly. There's a keyword about the problems, and he 372 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: offered solutions to protect their health and welfare. Well, Wiggins 373 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:48,439 Speaker 1: got upset and ordered Black to no longer no longer 374 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 1: speak to the bus operators and train operators about safety. 375 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:58,679 Speaker 1: Now he's the deputy safety officer. He was talking to 376 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:03,680 Speaker 1: the bus and train driver honestly, and he was ordered 377 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:05,440 Speaker 1: by the CEO not to speak to the mini bourn. 378 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:10,200 Speaker 1: Osbourne had told him that she'd gotten in trouble herself 379 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:15,679 Speaker 1: with Wiggins for having spoken honestly in the past. Now 380 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 1: Black got fired and he's suing for five million dollars 381 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: in damages. Osbourne has filed a complaint with the Expector 382 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:27,719 Speaker 1: General's Office and now she was fired by Stephanie Wiggins. 383 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 2: So I guess like in the Soviet Union. 384 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:33,919 Speaker 1: You're not supposed to speak out loud or speak the 385 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:38,439 Speaker 1: truth when you work for Stephanie Wiggins at Metro, because 386 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 1: something bad is going to happen to you. Meantime, there's 387 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: buses and trains rolling up and down all over La 388 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: County right now, filled with crazy, homeless people. The seats 389 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: are stained with feces. 390 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 2: Soaked with urine. 391 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: Needles sit laying on the seats, just waiting for you 392 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: to sit on one. 393 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,880 Speaker 2: There's mental patients, there's drug addicts. 394 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:08,719 Speaker 1: There's criminals and crazy people, and they'll snow you and 395 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 1: lie to you and tell you how wonderful and safe 396 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: it is. They're they're desperate to try to fool people 397 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 1: that Metro is safe, and they need to do this 398 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:26,199 Speaker 1: by twenty twenty eight, actually twenty twenty six for the 399 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: World Cup, twenty twenty eight, for the Olympics. That's all 400 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: everybody in government cares about. As the El Segundo Times 401 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,159 Speaker 1: puts it, they're trying to burnish its image ahead of 402 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:41,399 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty eight Olympic Games, which officials want to 403 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:50,119 Speaker 1: make car free. Yeah, car free. What's their alternative? These 404 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:54,200 Speaker 1: these these metal containers filled with the insane and the 405 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 1: drug addicted. 406 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, can't wait to get on. 407 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 1: They're so terrified that there's going to be all these 408 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: terrible incidents affecting the tourists and affecting the the Olympic competitors, 409 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:13,000 Speaker 1: the media that shows up to chronicle it all. So 410 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 1: for the first time in decades, Karen Bass and all 411 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 1: her lackeys are trying to clean La up for the Olympics, 412 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 1: never for us, for the Olympics and anybody who speaks 413 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: the truth out loud about Metro, You're gone off with 414 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,880 Speaker 1: your head. Of course, you know, in a rational world 415 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 1: it would be Stephanie Wiggins who'd be begging for food 416 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 1: on the on the sidewalk. But no, she gets to 417 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 1: keep her job because she thinks Metro is safe. Why 418 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,360 Speaker 1: she just hired ambassadors the other day. Of course it's 419 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: safe ambassadors. I got more coming up. 420 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI. 421 00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 1: A six coming up after two o'clock. Oh, this is good. 422 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:08,199 Speaker 1: What are you supposed to do? Potholes are everywhere and 423 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: it's a natural occurrence from all the rains. But what 424 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:13,440 Speaker 1: do we pay for the city. What do these guys 425 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: do all day? They should be filling the potholes twenty 426 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 1: four to seven. Well, in Compton, they're not filling them 427 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 1: very quickly. So Alex and Daisy Dela Rosa started filling 428 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 1: their own potholes because they kept telling the city, Hey, 429 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 1: another pothole, oother pothole, nothing. Now, guess who gets the 430 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: cease and desist notice Alex and Daisy Dela Rosa. That's 431 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,639 Speaker 1: what Compton does. Instead of getting a work crew to 432 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: fill the potholes, they get a lawyer to write a 433 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 1: threatening letter. So we're going to talk to Daisy coming 434 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 1: up about their work to try it because their cars 435 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: were getting damaged and the City of Compton and you 436 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 1: know that's a bunch of geniuses. The City of Compton 437 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 1: claims the dale Roses pose a threat to public safety. Oh, 438 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 1: they're the problem, not the lard asses sitting in the 439 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,920 Speaker 1: Compton City yard not filling the potholes. Right, get the shovels, 440 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,639 Speaker 1: get the asphalt, let's get going. But you know what 441 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:21,640 Speaker 1: they're doing right now, and happy hours coming up soon? 442 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,200 Speaker 1: All right, now, this this cracked me up. Never sent 443 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: this to us this morning. You were on top of things. 444 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 3: And uh, I don't know, Eric, I can't take credit for. 445 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 1: What Eric's this is funny, Like, we're gonna play a 446 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: little clip here from k t l A. So some 447 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 1: guy in a Tesla is being chased by police and 448 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 1: then what happens? 449 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 2: Play this clip number one. 450 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 8: You know this morning, I suspected carthief is in custody 451 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 8: after leading La PD on a chase through Hollywood. The 452 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 8: pursuit started around love and thirty last night, near the 453 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 8: avenue of Western Avenue and Eighth Street. The suspect got 454 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 8: onto the southbound one oh one Freeway before exiting at Melrose. 455 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,399 Speaker 8: Police say the stolen Tesla model AS ran out of 456 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,360 Speaker 8: battery in East Hollywood, just south of Normandy Avenue. That's 457 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 8: when officers moved in to make the arrest. 458 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,400 Speaker 2: I saw that this morning. That cracked me up. 459 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 3: That is so funny. 460 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 2: I knew you were gonna like that. 461 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 1: Once I saw that, I enjoyed that. The battery runs out. 462 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,400 Speaker 1: Don't you get a warning? Doesn't something go off? 463 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:35,680 Speaker 2: Yeah it's supposed to. 464 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: Yeah that was, but this was a stolen Tesla, so 465 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 1: maybe the guy didn't even know that the battery warning 466 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 1: was going off. Yeah, before you steal a Tesla, you 467 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: gotta plug it in for a while, make sure that 468 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:55,120 Speaker 1: it's going to last through the police chase. And then 469 00:26:55,640 --> 00:27:00,640 Speaker 1: here's another short one on the two ten A big 470 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: rig going ten miles in the wrong direction. 471 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:04,920 Speaker 2: Also from KTLA, A. 472 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,200 Speaker 9: Man under arrest after driving a semi trailer the wrong 473 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 9: way along the two ten Freeway. 474 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 2: It happened just before one o'clock this morning. 475 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:17,360 Speaker 9: The California Highway Patrol says that in both Alta, Dina 476 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 9: and Baldwin Park they got multiple calls about the semi 477 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 9: going eastbound in the westbound side of the two tin 478 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 9: Freeway right there at the one thirty four in Pasadena. 479 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:28,640 Speaker 2: Now, the semi was. 480 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 9: Driving about sixty five miles per hour in the carpool lane. 481 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:34,439 Speaker 9: It went about ten miles before it was stopped at 482 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:38,680 Speaker 9: Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia. The suspect was then taken into custody, 483 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:40,880 Speaker 9: as you can see, was given a dy test. 484 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: Wow, that is a lot of booze. Did you go 485 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 1: ten miles in the carpool lane? And how did he 486 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: not hit anybody? I mean, that's shocking that he could 487 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 1: go ten miles and not running. I guess big people 488 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: are pull it out of the way now. Last night 489 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,439 Speaker 1: and I'm driving from Ontario back to the West Side 490 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 1: late about ten o'clock. We were out somewhere. We're in 491 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: separate cars because I'd met her after work. So we're 492 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: driving back and I'm driving a little bit behind her, 493 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: going west for at Santa Monica, and all of a sudden, 494 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:20,919 Speaker 1: out of the blue, all these race car guys, the 495 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 1: guys that you see in these news stories all the time, 496 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 1: probably gang bangers. 497 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 2: We were getting close to Eassel East LA. 498 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 1: One guy zoomed diagonally from the far left lane to 499 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,880 Speaker 1: the far right lane. He came within about an inch 500 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 1: and a half of my front left corner, the driver corner. 501 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 1: He was going diagonally right, so he blew right in 502 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: front of my eyes. If I had been a half 503 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: a mile an hour faster, he would have clipped me, 504 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 1: and probably I would would spun off the road. But 505 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 1: they were zooming all over the place, and I called 506 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 1: my wife up and I said, you got to you 507 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 1: got a bunch of street racer thug gang members coming. 508 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: And sure enough, you know, less than a minute later, 509 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: she got the same thing, and they take over all 510 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 1: the lanes. One of them got behind her starts flashing 511 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 1: his lights. I don't know if she wanted her to 512 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 1: race them. 513 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:17,520 Speaker 2: It was what is this? 514 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: What a what a weird sick culture? That is they 515 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 1: terrorize people and it's on the ten primarily. 516 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 3: Not even at night. 517 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 4: I mean when we leave here late afternoon, these jerks 518 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 4: are going in and out of lanes and there's and 519 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 4: then they get right behind me as i'm the you know, 520 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 4: basically telling me to speed up when I can't. 521 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 3: I have somebody right in front of me. 522 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 2: Did they get off on that? I think they enjoy 523 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 2: terrorizing people. 524 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 4: And don't get me started with the motorcycle riders. I'm sorry, 525 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 4: but they going lanes. I can't stand. 526 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 2: I hate that too. 527 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 4: And then when people do move all the way over, 528 00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 4: you know, they give the little peace sign, you know, 529 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,680 Speaker 4: the motor cycle drivers to the to the car driver. 530 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 4: They never do that to me because I never move over? 531 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 2: Move over? 532 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 3: Why why they to do? They should be in a 533 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 3: lane just like me. I'm waiting in traffic. 534 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 2: Why can't they no peace for you? 535 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 7: No? 536 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 3: And they get so close to my car. 537 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 2: You know you've had too many of these incidents. 538 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I know. I told John off the air. 539 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:36,480 Speaker 3: I'll just say it real quick. There was a humongous truck. 540 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 3: I don't know what it was. 541 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 4: And the truck driver gets right in front of me 542 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 4: on a street, not even not on a freeway. 543 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 3: There was no reason. 544 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:46,320 Speaker 4: He wasn't making a left and you didn't need to 545 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 4: get into a left hand turn rate lane. So I 546 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,240 Speaker 4: had to stop and get gas. And so the driver 547 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,520 Speaker 4: of this truck was stopped at a stoplight, and he 548 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 4: and his friends are all looking at me and smiling 549 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 4: and waving, and I yelled at them and I said, 550 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 4: not cool that you got right in front of me. 551 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 4: And the people at the gas station they're looking at 552 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 4: me like I'm a crazy lady, because they don't know 553 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 4: who I'm talking to. 554 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 3: But you know what I. 555 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 2: Understand collateral damage when the guy pulls a gun out. 556 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 3: I know, I sometimes I have no control. 557 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna get yourself in trouble. 558 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,360 Speaker 3: Of my mouth. I know it's diarrhea of the mouth. 559 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 2: And it's not cool. 560 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 3: I did. I said, it's not cool. 561 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 1: You got two big guys in the truck and here 562 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,360 Speaker 1: you come out five feet tall, going. 563 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 2: It's not cool. 564 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 3: Well, And because they were smiling, they were goating me. 565 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,160 Speaker 3: You know they're smiling, they're laughing because they knew. 566 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 2: I was annoyed because and you're not a threat. 567 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 3: I know, you never know though, I mean people. 568 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 2: In the lady next to you is like, what are 569 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 2: you doing? 570 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 3: She did? She looked at me like, I was just we're. 571 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: All gonna get gunned down. Hey, you've been listening to 572 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,240 Speaker 1: The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the 573 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 1: show live on kf I Am six forty from one 574 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 1: to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, 575 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,160 Speaker 1: anytime on demand on iHeartRadio app