1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 1: Can't I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,039 Speaker 2: We're here convening every day from one until four o'clock 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 2: and every day after four o'clock. Whatever you missed you 5 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:17,439 Speaker 2: can get on the website John Cobelt's Show on demand 6 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 2: John Cobelt on Demand on the iHeart app. We had 7 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 2: on so for today. We've had on Don Mahallock, the 8 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 2: law enforcement expert service agent, talking about Trump taking over 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 2: Washington DC Police Department. We had on Sue Pasco to 10 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 2: talk about the continued frustration people are. 11 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: Having, and. 12 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 2: A rambling, babbling supervisor Lindsay Horvath on an LA Times 13 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 2: podcast regarding the fire. We also had Michael Monkson talking 14 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 2: about a really infantile set of stunts by the illegal 15 00:00:55,040 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 2: alien nonprofits who get financed by our state money. We'll 16 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 2: talk you could just listen and get all those segments. 17 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 2: Later on, we're going to talk to Alex Michaelson in 18 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 2: just a moment. Alex is leaving as the anchor of 19 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 2: Fox eleven and the host of the issue is and 20 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 2: he has been just the premiere anchorman in Los Angeles 21 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 2: for a lot of years now, and his show The 22 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 2: Issue Is, which airs ten thirty on Friday nights. He's 23 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 2: asked me to be on at a number of times, 24 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 2: and it was the only kind of a talk show, 25 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:37,680 Speaker 2: panel show, question and answer between Alex and three people 26 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,320 Speaker 2: in media and in the politics, the only one of 27 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,040 Speaker 2: its kind in the state. They'd covered all the issues, 28 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 2: many of which we cover here on the show. There 29 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 2: are very few outlets in the state that cover the 30 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 2: stuff that really matter in people's day to day lives, 31 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 2: and he got it syndicated all across California as well. 32 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 2: But he's leaving Fox eleven and moving on to something new. 33 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: Do we have him available? What's going on? Elex? How 34 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: are you? 35 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 2: Hey? 36 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 3: John? How are you? Thank you for all of your 37 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 3: support of the show over the years. You've been one 38 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 3: of our favorite guests from the start, and there's no 39 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 3: one quite like you. 40 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: Oh that's very kind of you. 41 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:20,119 Speaker 2: But you have provided us here with so much material 42 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 2: from your show just in general, your newscasts on Fox eleven, 43 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 2: you and and the other reporters. I think we've used 44 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 2: more clips from you and Fox eleven than all the 45 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 2: other stations combined over the years. 46 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: So it's been it's been a nice synergy. 47 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 3: Well, and it's a testament to the Fox eleven management, 48 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 3: who has you know, created an opening to have real 49 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,639 Speaker 3: conversations with people and to give space in TV to 50 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 3: dedicate to this not only from a time perspective, but 51 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 3: from a resource perspective, because you know, typical stations to 52 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 3: do six or seven second soundbites and you really can't 53 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 3: get into the big, deep, complicated, nuanced issues by doing that. 54 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 3: And so I'm so grateful that our management has given 55 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:08,959 Speaker 3: us the room to do it. Uh. And then people 56 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 3: like you have been you know, a big part of 57 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 3: helping tell the story and and cut through the clutter. 58 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 1: Yeah. 59 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:18,079 Speaker 2: No, I mean you've nobody else in town is doing it, 60 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 2: and and so you have. 61 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: Served a vital need. 62 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 2: Uh. And so that's why it's it's a big deal 63 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 2: that you're stepping down, just not on a personal level, 64 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 2: but just on you know, I'm looking around at the 65 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 2: media and nobody else is covering this stuff or doing 66 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 2: it the way you're doing it. 67 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 3: Well, thank you. I'm not dying and I'm not retiring. 68 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 3: Continue to work on these issues in a slightly different way. 69 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 3: That's going to be cool and exciting when the time 70 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 3: is right, we'll talk about to say. 71 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 2: Now you know, of course you're not going to say 72 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 2: where you're going and when you're going. 73 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, but but you know, right now, I'm really focused 74 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 3: on on express and gratitude for for this incredible ridement 75 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 3: that we've been on together. 76 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: Yeah. 77 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 2: So that that that issue is show that you created, 78 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 2: that that was unique in Los Angeles and it spread 79 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:18,119 Speaker 2: all across the state. 80 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: What was how did you how did you come up 81 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: with that. 82 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 2: That that format? What what led to the development of 83 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 2: the show? 84 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 3: Well, it started you know, the president of Fox Television, 85 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 3: Jack Aberneth, he came to us and said that we wanted, 86 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,160 Speaker 3: you know, to launch a show, and I said, well, 87 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 3: what do you want it to be? And his note 88 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 3: to me was just make it interesting, not a lot 89 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 3: of which is great, you know, to be given so 90 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 3: much latitude. And I came up with. 91 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 2: That that's a lot of in depth analysis that you 92 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 2: get from executives. 93 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, no, no, I mean I appreciate it. It 94 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 3: was nice, you know, And we came up with the 95 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 3: name the issue is because my my point of it 96 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 3: was not to just to politics. It was to just 97 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 3: look at issues that that matter and that are interesting 98 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 3: and be able to have different kinds of conversations, and 99 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 3: so I thought about, you know, the shows that I 100 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:10,919 Speaker 3: loved that got me excited about getting into TV. You know, 101 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,280 Speaker 3: Meet the Press with Tim Russard was you know, one 102 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 3: of my inspirations. In real Time with Bill maher and 103 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,279 Speaker 3: and and Conan Nolan who I had interned with and 104 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 3: loved and does a great show on Sundays, and sort 105 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 3: of putting all of them together into some of the 106 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 3: local version of some of these cooler national shows. And 107 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 3: part of the fun part of our show also, and 108 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 3: it was a Friday night show and not a Sunday 109 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 3: morning show, is that we we intentionally made it more 110 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 3: of a party. As you know, Gloria already danced with you, 111 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 3: which I know is one of your highlights of your life. 112 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 2: And I'm afraid they're going to show that clip during 113 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 2: my obituary. 114 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 3: Well you'll see it on Friday night at the Best 115 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 3: Step Show. But yeah, I mean it, you know, but 116 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 3: it was fun, right, And I think part of what 117 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 3: I think because it was fun, we allowed people that 118 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,159 Speaker 3: you would never see together, who might not have a 119 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 3: lot in common, to realize that maybe they have something 120 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 3: culturally in common, or maybe there's there's a way to 121 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 3: at least talk to each other, or if you have 122 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 3: an argument, it comes from a place of stibility, and 123 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 3: I think at this moment of so much division, stuff 124 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 3: like that's really important and needed. And I think there's 125 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 3: a lesson that you know that that can be learned 126 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:28,919 Speaker 3: from from that. And so that's you know, to me, 127 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 3: what I'm most proud of of the show is sort 128 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 3: of demonstrating that one we can talk to each other 129 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:36,159 Speaker 3: and two we could laugh together. 130 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,479 Speaker 2: You have a great way of asking pointed questions with 131 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 2: a certain affability and likability, and and. 132 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 3: That is that not your way, No. 133 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 1: That's why I admire it. 134 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 2: I'm not capable of doing that. I always want to 135 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 2: bite their heads off. But but you're really good at 136 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:03,720 Speaker 2: asking questions. You pay attention to the content of the questions. 137 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:07,159 Speaker 2: They're far more harsher than your demeanor is at the time, 138 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 2: and it's very effective. 139 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 3: Thank you that that is part of the strategy of 140 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 3: doing it. I think I think it's And so that's 141 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 3: I appreciate you saying that because I think some people, 142 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 3: you know, see some of the like what we just 143 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 3: talked about, the fun and the dancing and all the 144 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 3: rest of that, and then that means that it's not 145 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 3: a substantive show. I actually think some of that allows 146 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 3: you to get more substantive because it creates an opening 147 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 3: where people feel more comfortable and more relaxed, and then 148 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 3: they start to get more honest and they're not as tense, 149 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 3: and I think you're able to push and get things 150 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 3: that you will. Well, what do you do politicians? There 151 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 3: are other people on these uh on these podcasts that 152 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 3: end up giving their best answers because they they are 153 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 3: relaxed and they and they feel comfortable. 154 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: Yeah. 155 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 2: Well, and it's intimidating for for most normal people to 156 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 2: sit in front of really bright lights, in front of 157 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 2: you know, big cameras, and to have a host boring 158 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 2: in on you on something you don't want to talk about. 159 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: It's it's not a natural place for most people to be. 160 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 2: So you you managed to draw a lot of people 161 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 2: out by relaxing. 162 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: Them, by making it fun. And it's quite a skill 163 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 1: you have. 164 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 3: Thank you. 165 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: So go ahead tell me where you're going. 166 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 3: You didn't make me relax enough. 167 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:32,719 Speaker 1: No, I see, I can't do it. 168 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 2: If you were asking me, I would have told you 169 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 2: because you know your magic would have worked. Seriously, Thank 170 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 2: you for coming on, Thank you for having me on 171 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 2: so many times. It really is the most fun I've 172 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 2: ever had being on a television show. It was a 173 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 2: good time. We were I got to be there on 174 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 2: some historic nights, like the night of the big Biden 175 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 2: flop that never going to forget that we did. 176 00:08:55,400 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 3: We're doing a version of the best of piece and 177 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 3: and your one word is our entire description of that night, 178 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 3: where you just say excruciated. That describes that is that 179 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:13,199 Speaker 3: is how an issue is history, that seminal moment in 180 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 3: American politics is remembered well. But I am so appreciated 181 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 3: to you and to Ray and the entire team in KAMPI, 182 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 3: and also your incredible wife Gebra, who's also a guest. 183 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 3: One of the highlights was when the two of you 184 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 3: came on together to fight against each other, which was 185 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 3: also a very cool moment in the history of the 186 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 3: issue is And she's she's unbelievable and you're a lucky man. 187 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much, and she wishes you the best, 188 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 2: and so do I and I can't wait to find 189 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 2: out where you're going and what you're doing and if 190 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 2: you ever ever need a guest to fill in at 191 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 2: the last minute. 192 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: I'm there for you. 193 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 3: I will be definitely calling you and I'm excited to 194 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 3: talk to you when the time is right. About that, 195 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:57,119 Speaker 3: I think there's gonna be lots of opportunities for partnership, 196 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 3: all right. 197 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 2: Dan, Alex Michaelson, who's leaving Fox eleven. His nightly newscasts, 198 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 2: he did about what did you do? 199 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 3: Six seven a night, five, six, and ten, which I'll 200 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 3: be doing the rest of the week. And so no. 201 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 2: I bet you did six or seven separate newscasts to night. 202 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:17,319 Speaker 1: That's what it seemed like. 203 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's been a lot, especially during the moments 204 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 3: of crisis. We would do twelve or fourteen hours at 205 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 3: a time. 206 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: Oh my god, dam a lot. 207 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 3: But my great, great training, and I'm really grateful for 208 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 3: the gig. And yeah, so Friday night's a big final 209 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 3: show and I hope people check it out. 210 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 2: All right, Well, congratulations and good luck and we'll all 211 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 2: learn soon. 212 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 1: Where are you going? Thank you? 213 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 3: Thanks John, Thanks John. 214 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: Talk to you later, all right. 215 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 2: Elex Michael Sin from Fox eleven, and he's his show's 216 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 2: one of a kind. His anchor work is one of 217 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 2: a kind as well. Because it was so comfortable to 218 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 2: watch during during the Palisades fires, you know, we were 219 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 2: we were packed up at our house ready to bolt 220 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 2: at a moment's notice, watching uh, some of the time 221 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 2: on my iPad because the power had been been out. 222 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 2: Just About everything in Los Angeles failed that week, just 223 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 2: about everything. The water failed, the power failed, the mayor failed, 224 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 2: the city council failed, the fire department was put in 225 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 2: a terrible position, the police were put in a terrible position. 226 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 2: And that was that was just unbelievable to live through 227 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 2: and and truly the worst nightmare and horrific for the 228 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 2: people actually in the Palisades in Altadena. 229 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: All right, well do more. 230 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:42,559 Speaker 2: We come back on Nathan hack and trying to stop 231 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 2: these stupid, ridiculous street takeovers that's plagued La for so long. 232 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM. 233 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 2: Six forty moistline for Friday going eight seven seven Moist 234 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 2: eighty six eight seven seven moistaty six are usually talkback 235 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 2: feature on the iHeartRadio app. You can follow us on 236 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 2: social media at John Cobelt Radio at John Cobelt Radio, 237 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 2: La County DA. Nathan Hackman, he had a press conference 238 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 2: yesterday and said enough of the street takeovers. In fact 239 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 2: that it was an exact quote. We have said enough 240 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 2: is enough plaguing and ravaging communities for years. There have 241 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 2: been an a run of these, I mean in front 242 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 2: of the Crypto Arena in downtown LA. And not only 243 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 2: the cars doing spinouts and donuts, they light off fireworks, 244 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 2: big crowds show up, and they also provided distraction for burglaries. 245 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 2: There was an AutoZone burglary on the twenty first of July, 246 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:50,839 Speaker 2: another one on the twenty sixth in South Los Angeles. 247 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 2: Another AutoZone was targeted by looters vandals defaced it with 248 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 2: graffiti back in June. 249 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: And this is the party. 250 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 2: We have such bizarre, violent psycho subcultures in this city 251 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 2: that are tolerated, that are embraced by the vegetables on 252 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 2: the city council and really all the idiot mayor the 253 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 2: police I assume are told by the mayor not to 254 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 2: mess with these street takeovers. 255 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 1: Of course they could be stopped. 256 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 2: Ninety nine zero point nine to nine percent of cities 257 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 2: and towns in America do not have these. They're in 258 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 2: LA because they're allowed to be in LA. And these 259 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 2: people are. I mean they freaking advertise. They advertise on 260 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 2: social media. Obviously, if hundreds of people know they're because 261 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 2: thousands of people know they're coming and they show up, 262 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 2: the police can know, the government can know, and they 263 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 2: could stop it, stop it and preempt it, and they 264 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:02,880 Speaker 2: could arrest these guys and put them in prison. And 265 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 2: if there aren't laws to put them in prison, then 266 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:08,200 Speaker 2: write the laws and pass them. Of course you could 267 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:12,079 Speaker 2: do it. Do you see these things going on in 268 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 2: any other country, like in Europe Southolk? Do you see 269 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 2: this stuff going on? No, it doesn't go on. People 270 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 2: simply don't permit it. Somebody starts any trouble, Boom, they're gone. 271 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 2: They're in prison. Prison solves a lot of problems. I 272 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 2: am big on dragging people off and putting them in prison. 273 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 2: If you can't behave you know, if you want your 274 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 2: own little private island, and on private island, you want 275 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 2: to take your stupid little car and spin it around 276 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 2: and show off your donuts to the other wild animals 277 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 2: on the island, go right ahead, but don't not in 278 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 2: a civilized town. Of course, La is not civilized because 279 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 2: it's the management, it's the mayor, it's the City Council. 280 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: It's what they tell the police to do. 281 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 2: Jeez, you know, if we could stop the Nazis, we 282 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 2: could stop a few street gangs from spinning cars out. 283 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 2: Just Hawkman says. They're not only going to go after 284 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 2: the drivers, but those who promote them on social media. 285 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. 286 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 2: If it's promoted on social media, why aren't the police 287 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 2: there first? Because they put an exact location, they want 288 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 2: the crowds, and then they want the videos and the photos, 289 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 2: and they want all that posted. Social media has just 290 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 2: a terrible, terrible infectious virus. 291 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: It really is. Hawkman said. 292 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 2: They see the social media excitement of showing up in 293 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 2: a street takeover and they don't think there could be 294 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 2: any consequences, so they don't even they don't appreciate they're 295 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 2: engaging in illegal activity. They want to increase the fines 296 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 2: from five hundred to one thousand if you participate in 297 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 2: or even watch a street takeover an A motion to 298 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 2: do so is passed by the Ellie County Board of 299 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 2: Supervisors in April. Has that become law, And of course, 300 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 2: with the way they write these television stories, you can't tell, 301 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 2: but it should be more than just fines because a 302 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 2: lot of these guys sell drugs on the side so 303 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 2: they could cover their weekend fines. I can't believe they 304 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 2: of course they could stop this. I was going to say, 305 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 2: I can't believe they can't stop it, But of course 306 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 2: they could stop it. 307 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: They just have chosen not to all these years. 308 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 2: And maybe Nathan Hockman is going to change that now, 309 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 2: and they need to get the sheriff's deputies there or LAPD, 310 00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 2: whatever jurisdiction it is, and just start closing streets down immediately. 311 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 2: It's like when these protests get out of control and 312 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 2: become riots. All these protests they don't have permits. You 313 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 2: could stop them in their tracks within minutes. You just 314 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:17,400 Speaker 2: have to do it. There is no right to blockade 315 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 2: a street. Freedom of speech doesn't mean you get to 316 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 2: block streets. It doesn't mean you get to terrorize neighborhoods. 317 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 2: It doesn't mean you get to use it as cover 318 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:31,199 Speaker 2: for burglaries so your fellow street bugs can make a 319 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 2: big profit stealing stuff. Just I can't believe this stuff 320 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 2: goes on for years and years and years, and I 321 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,439 Speaker 2: can't believe again that people put up with it. But 322 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 2: maybe Nathan Haklin is going to change things more coming up. 323 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:50,680 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A 324 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 4: six forty. 325 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:57,959 Speaker 2: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and you can 326 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 2: get the podcast after four o'clock in case you missed 327 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 2: the show. All right, let's uh, all right, now, we 328 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 2: spent a lot of time on LA city corruption. 329 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 3: Right. 330 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:11,359 Speaker 2: It's it's been a bad, bad stretch in Los Angeles. 331 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:16,879 Speaker 2: We have bad corrupt government. We have three four former 332 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:20,959 Speaker 2: city council people have gone to jail or federal prison 333 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:25,479 Speaker 2: for one thing or another. And I was telling you 334 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 2: before that one of the people on the Washington DC 335 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 2: City Council who's been screaming at Trump this week because 336 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 2: Trump took over the police department is up out of 337 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 2: federal bribery charges. 338 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: That guy, that. 339 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:43,880 Speaker 2: Guy was kicked off city council by the other council members. 340 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 2: He ran in the special election and he won, saying 341 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 2: it is back on the city council. Yeah, the voters 342 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 2: put him back on. He could run because he hadn't 343 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 2: been convicted of the felony yet. Presumably he will be. 344 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 3: Well. 345 00:18:58,119 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 2: You know, Orange County is often left out and the 346 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:03,879 Speaker 2: news stories because Orange County, you know, much more tranquil 347 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 2: and peacefull. Of the politicians there are marginally more honest, 348 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 2: but not this guy. This guy's finally going to prison. 349 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:17,679 Speaker 2: We had him on the show once. I don't remember 350 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 2: for what. His name's Andrew DoD O, how you spell 351 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:30,479 Speaker 2: the name? Former Orange County supervisor. And yesterday he a 352 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 2: judge overseeing his bribery case ordered him to pay back 353 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 2: eight hundred and seventy eight thousand, two hundred and thirty 354 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 2: dollars and eighty cents restitution. He diverted millions of dollars 355 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 2: in taxpayer money to nonprofits, to a nonprofit connected with 356 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 2: one of his daughters. It's actually it's sexually hard to 357 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 2: explain because what you do is, when you're a public official, 358 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 2: you have nonprofits connected to your family members, and you 359 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:17,359 Speaker 2: move the money around. It's like you ever go to 360 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 2: a baseball game and on the scoreboard in between innings 361 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 2: you have to find the ball. They put a ball 362 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,160 Speaker 2: under one of three or four helmets, and then the 363 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 2: helmets all move around very rapidly, and your eyes are 364 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 2: supposed to try to follow where the ball is underneath 365 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:32,119 Speaker 2: the helmet, and then they lift it up at the 366 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 2: end and you guess the number. That's what these guys 367 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 2: do with tax money and their families nonprofits. 368 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 1: They move the money around so it's difficult to track. 369 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 2: So his daughter had had a nonprofit and this this 370 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 2: was ten million dollars in COVID nineteen money. Ten million 371 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 2: dollars and he took a half a million in bribes 372 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 2: and in return, he directed money and voted in favor 373 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 2: of ten million to go to the charity that one 374 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 2: of his daughters was involved in. Andrew Doe now he's 375 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 2: going to prison. US District Judge James selna is setting 376 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:28,680 Speaker 2: him to prison for five years. 377 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 1: Bill A. Saley, who's the US attorney, says public. 378 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 2: Money intended to assist aging and ailing pandemic victims instead 379 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 2: filled the coffers of Doe, his family and insiders. Yeah, 380 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,959 Speaker 2: this was money that was supposed to help sick, elderly people, 381 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 2: people who were victims of the COVID nineteen virus. Todd Spitzer, 382 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,640 Speaker 2: Orange County, DA says as a county supervisor, Doat transformed 383 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:04,639 Speaker 2: the county into an ATM available to his insiders, his 384 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 2: loved ones, and himself withdrew millions of dollars to buy homes, 385 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:12,119 Speaker 2: lavish dinners, expensive wine, while the elderly, the sick, and 386 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 2: the vulnerable were left to fend for themselves. Can't get 387 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 2: more despicable than this. He's stealing cod That's why I 388 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 2: was so dangerous to dump so much free COVID money 389 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:32,159 Speaker 2: into the system for biden on down because it just disappeared. 390 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,879 Speaker 2: It's like the unemployment money, billions of unemployment dollars that 391 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 2: Newsom was shoveling out just disappeared to Frost's fraudsters. Now 392 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:46,200 Speaker 2: eighty five percent of the Newsom money was fraudsters outside 393 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:51,360 Speaker 2: the country. Here, Orange County had its own homegrown fraudster. 394 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 2: Can't believe we had this guy on. I wonder how 395 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 2: many former guests have ended up in prison. So he 396 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,719 Speaker 2: got a half million in bribes and doll voted in 397 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 2: favor of this COVID money going to the Viet America Society, 398 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 2: the as that was the charity involved with his daughter 399 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 2: he directed and worked together to approve contracts and payments 400 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 2: to VAS. He actually admitted that he acted corruptly and 401 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 2: abused his position as a county supervisor. And then they 402 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 2: have a long story here that details all the payments 403 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 2: and all the money moving around. He had to give 404 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:42,679 Speaker 2: up well, he and his daughter. His daughter bought a 405 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 2: property in Tustin and she had to give that up, 406 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,880 Speaker 2: and he had. The whole family was in on this. 407 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 2: It's a massive investigation involving multiple law enforcement agencies. 408 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: Cheese, Why are so many? 409 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 2: Why are so many? I understand that you know, certain 410 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:11,680 Speaker 2: percentage of the population. They're born sociopaths. They're born without consciences. 411 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 2: They're pathological liars. The the reason they can be criminals. 412 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 2: I mean, we'd all love to steal money, right, we'd all, 413 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 2: but we don't because we have a conscience. 414 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:25,879 Speaker 1: Or we have a fear of getting caught. 415 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 2: But if if you're born I think with a certain 416 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 2: type of brain damage, you don't have that fear. You 417 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 2: don't care, It doesn't bother you. It's it doesn't affect 418 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 2: them emotionally to do it. And all they all they 419 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 2: see is all the all the riches that they can get. 420 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 1: We come back, uh. I know. 421 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 2: The post office of my neighborhood was stealing our checks. 422 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 2: There were a lot of people in my neighborhood and 423 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 2: they posted all this online and they would pay their 424 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 2: bills with checks. Just a few years ago before. In fact, 425 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 2: that was the number one thing that sent us to 426 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 2: finally go online, because we figured, you know, it'd be 427 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 2: a lot harder to steal our money. But man our 428 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 2: post office, a lot of DNI thieves didn't surprise me. 429 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 2: I'd go in there, I'd look around and saying, yeah, 430 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,159 Speaker 2: I could see this. Well, we're going to play a 431 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 2: report because one postal worker in Carson, a woman, she 432 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 2: was stealing checks, debit cards, credit cards, all kinds of 433 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,959 Speaker 2: private information. Wait till you hear what she did with 434 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,160 Speaker 2: all this money. She was having a good life. Now 435 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 2: she's going to have a very bad life. Tell you 436 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 2: about it. 437 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:47,960 Speaker 1: Next. 438 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 439 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 4: six forty. 440 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 2: Conway is going to be coming up in minutes. Oh, 441 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,359 Speaker 2: just just one thing. I was just looking through the 442 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 2: news story. La Times had a whopper. You actually did 443 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 2: this long, long, SOB story and I'll spell you spare 444 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 2: you the details. It's it's a sob story about how 445 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 2: there's like a couple of thousand people living in Imperial County. 446 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 1: You know where that is. That is east of San Diego. 447 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 2: It runs along the Mexican border all the way out 448 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:26,160 Speaker 2: to Arizona and how there's an increasing number of homeless 449 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 2: illegal aliens living there and it's really hot, and the 450 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 2: headline is living unhoused and undocumented in one of California's 451 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:40,919 Speaker 2: hottest regions, and about how much they suffer living out 452 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 2: in the heat without a home. 453 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:48,639 Speaker 1: They could have chose somewhere colder. That's what I thought. 454 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 2: What, what the hell I'm supposed to feel sorry for this? 455 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 1: You're not supposed to be here. 456 00:26:56,760 --> 00:27:00,199 Speaker 2: I'm sure there's a thousand of these fascinating story on 457 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:01,919 Speaker 2: how they got there. I think you got to go 458 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 2: back home and find your family. You're laying out and 459 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 2: it says you're one hundred and sixteen degree heat one 460 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 2: hundred and sixteen degrees and you're out in the desert 461 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 2: and you're breaking the law, and you don't have a 462 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:18,400 Speaker 2: home and you don't. 463 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,919 Speaker 1: Have any water. What do you think is going to happen? Well, 464 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,240 Speaker 1: why do I have to do something about it? No 465 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:29,159 Speaker 1: cooling centers out there. Don't give them an idea. 466 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 2: We'll be paying for cooling centers out in the middle 467 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:33,880 Speaker 2: of the Imperial County. 468 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: All right, here's I told you. 469 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,399 Speaker 2: Right before the break, we had a horrible post office 470 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,159 Speaker 2: I have in my neighborhood horrible, and they had people 471 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,359 Speaker 2: just actively stealing people's checks. 472 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 1: Everybody would write. 473 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 2: About it online on social media all the time. And 474 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 2: we actually had one of our checks stolen and we 475 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 2: tracked it down and because eventually it was cashed and 476 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 2: somebody had I don't know why it out or in 477 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 2: doubt the recipient of the check and they wrote in 478 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 2: a new name, and I think, I don't know we 479 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 2: were paying our gas bill or electric bill anyway. They 480 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 2: busted a US Postal Service worker in Carson who is 481 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 2: stealing people's cash and checks in their mail. 482 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 5: A former mail carrier for the US Postal Service who 483 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 5: flaunted luxury goods and wads of cash on social media 484 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 5: admitted today to conspiring to commit bank fraud. Thirty one 485 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 5: year old Mary Ann mcdomeitt of Carson has admitted stealing 486 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,160 Speaker 5: checks and debit cards and credit cards for three years. 487 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 5: Authority say mcdonmitt bought luxury goods and took international trips 488 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 5: to places like Aruba and Turks and Caicos. When that's 489 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,320 Speaker 5: stolen money. She has agreed to forfeit her Rolex watch 490 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 5: and other luxury items after pleading guilty mcdummitt has been 491 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 5: in federal custodys since July first, and faces a maximum 492 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 5: sentence of thirty years in federal prison. She was based 493 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 5: at the main post office. 494 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 2: In They found one hundred and thirty stolen credit cards 495 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 2: and debit cards. They had sixteen US Treasury checks and 496 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 2: these people's income tax returns. And they also found she 497 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 2: had a loaded ghost gun looked like a glock, no 498 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 2: serial number on it, and she had co conspirators because 499 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 2: she'd sell the stolen cards to her friends. That's the 500 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 2: postal service for you. She probably worked at mine Conway. 501 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 6: John cova, Hey, we don't do a lot of these 502 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 6: cross talks anymore. 503 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 1: You're too lazy to walk in these. 504 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 6: Well, that's not true. I just think there's enough promotion 505 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 6: on this station, you think. But we got Steph Wush 506 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 6: coming on at four o'clock, which is great. But with 507 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 6: the post office, a friend of mine works at the 508 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 6: post office. 509 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 1: We're actually a friend of a friend. I don't want 510 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:51,479 Speaker 1: to get too deep into who this is. 511 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 6: And he calls in sick about eighteen days a month, 512 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 6: and they've never checked on him, and they always pay 513 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 6: him his full salary. He only worked two days a month, 514 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 6: and he said eighty percent of the people he knows 515 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 6: in the post office got into it just to steal stuff. 516 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 1: This guy that works in the post office. Where'd you 517 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 1: meet this guy at the track? I was gonna say 518 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 1: that I thought it was too easy, a joke, you know. 519 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 6: He goes to Target and it's the credit card shuffle, 520 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 6: you know, with this guy. But I've seen people like 521 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 6: that at the post office where they're opening up envelopes 522 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 6: and pulling credit cards. 523 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 1: Out to pay for stuff. 524 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 6: It's incredible because you can tell you just have to 525 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 6: you know, remember back with the old days, when you 526 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 6: got a credit card, you had to call a phone 527 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 6: number to activate it. Yes, and they had and they 528 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 6: saw it was coming from your cell phone, so they'd activated. 529 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 1: Now the cards are being sent out, are already pre activated, 530 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: Is that right? Yeah, you don't have to do anything. 531 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 6: I got a card the other day from I think 532 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 6: his bank America just said it's good. 533 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 1: To go, and you could run off the big bill. 534 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: You can do whatever you want with it. Yeah, that's 535 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:55,440 Speaker 1: why they do it. I don't know, that's why they 536 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 1: steal it, all right? 537 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 6: I guess so, and Steph fu should for all right, 538 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 6: that's a big deal. 539 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, this big that. 540 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 2: Is coming up next, and we got Michael More Publicity 541 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 2: live the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been 542 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 2: listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always 543 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 2: hear the show live on KFI Am six forty from 544 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 2: one to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, 545 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 2: anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.