1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: Please stand by. Oh sure, we'll wait for you. Bus driver, 2 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: don't leave. We got four hours, no rush. Yeah, that's right. 3 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: What did you not plugged? You know? I bought a 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:16,439 Speaker 1: new set of headphones because I wrecked the last pair, 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: and now I wrecked this pair. And is that usually 6 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 1: because you step on the wire or your break Yeah? 7 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: It is actually Actually I do that a lot too. 8 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,119 Speaker 1: It ends up under the cherry. It's all tangled. And 9 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: then the connection and Ray ran in with with another 10 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 1: pair and they they didn't click in rights. It's just oh, 11 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:37,919 Speaker 1: the emergency headphones, and so we have the replacement emergency headphones. 12 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: All right, every emergency too. Here where'd you have? I 13 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: just got to text my bank that there's something wrong. 14 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: They're suspending my account. That I better log in right 15 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: now and take care of it. Oh yeah, give me, 16 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: give me, don't. I don't want to get fished here. 17 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: But you know it's a complete detail. All an attachment? 18 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: Should I press the attachment? Put in your social security number? Two? Yeah? 19 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: Give him my pet to my bank account. Give that guy, 20 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 1: not Jerry when he's working on my banking status is 21 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: on the whole Oh no, they I know it does it? Does? There? 22 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 1: Are people that can't help it. They have to click 23 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: the link. But what people go forward with, you know, 24 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 1: putting in their personal information is what I'd like to know. 25 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 1: What inspires themone, I guess just people get nervous that 26 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: this is real and what happens if I lose my 27 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: banking And I know somebody who falls for these I 28 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,759 Speaker 1: can't say who. It's nobody you know anyway, but yeah, 29 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: I know they're like every time, often enough more than once. 30 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: That reminds me. I found an interesting story. I wasn't 31 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: gonna intend to start the show with it, but since 32 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: this scam came up. Apparently a phone scammer from Jamaica 33 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: who just calls up people and tries to shake them 34 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: down and often. I think there was a story last 35 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: week how many billions of dollars they're fleeced from senior 36 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: citizens by the fraudsters. Because my mother would answer the phone, 37 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: she didn't get scammed, but she didn't. She liked answering 38 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: the phone, didn't matter who it was, you know, tell 39 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: a marketer she talks. Maybe your dad wasn't talking much, No, 40 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: he didn't, and he didn't answer the phone. Yeah, they 41 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: were watching TV a lot in their later days. But 42 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: you remember William Webster who used to be the FBI 43 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: director and CIA director. That's both he and his wife 44 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: live in Arizona. Her name is Linda. And apparently a 45 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: scammera who had turned out was from Jamaica kept calling 46 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: them up. It says here they're they're going public with 47 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:48,639 Speaker 1: their story because they want to really make seniors aware 48 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: of these financial fraud schemes. A scammera identified himself as 49 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: David and kept calling us and told my husband, this 50 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: is the wife Linda speaking, that you have won seventy 51 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: two million dollars. It was a scam so and of 52 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: course usually what they want for that is you have 53 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: to send like a little down payment or something a 54 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: big thing, which I never understood. It's like they're calling 55 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: to give you money, but you have to send them 56 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: a little money first. That's right to make to make 57 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: it show that you're really committed, right that you're you know, 58 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: you fall for that, you deserve to get fleeced. I know. 59 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,359 Speaker 1: My favorite is the street scammer who and this has worked. 60 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: They walk up to people and they're holding a little 61 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: bull in hat where they say there's winning lottery tickets 62 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: in here and I want to split them with you. 63 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: Just give me a little money to show that you 64 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: know you're trust me, and then they just run off 65 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: with the hundred pockets. Why would they want to split 66 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: them with you? Exactly right. But they still come in. Well, 67 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: the ones that come in now from Nigeria say, we 68 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: can't access the money because we're not in the US. 69 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: We're not citizen because right, right, But but they need 70 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: our help weight in this end. They discovered money for you, 71 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: but in Nigeria. But they get they want they want 72 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: a US lottery. They can't believe it. But they can't 73 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: collect the money because they do not have US connection, 74 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: US citizenship. We need your help, tell me. The former 75 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: head of the CIA and FBI fell for this. No, no, no, no, 76 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: here's what happened. This took a dark turn. They said, 77 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 1: we're not going to give you any money. Stop calling us. 78 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: So apparently the next time he called, he told the wife, 79 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,280 Speaker 1: this is Linda Webster, William Webster's wife. He said he 80 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: would kill me, kill my husband. He was going to 81 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: burn our house down, and our white brick house would 82 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: look lovely with the brains of our head on the wall. 83 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 1: That's the words he used. Apparently that's rough. Yeah. Then 84 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: the couple said that's it, and they notified the FBI. 85 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 1: And I would say, if you're William Webster, the former director, 86 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: it probably gets attention. Yeah, your call goes through. That's 87 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 1: why you don't get boys. Not just put in the 88 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: file an old person complaining about a scammer. It's mister Webster. 89 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 1: We ought to deal with this. He's got connections. So 90 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: they tracked the caller down in Jamaica and he eventually 91 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: came to the US. I don't know if they lured 92 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: him or not, and they arrested him. According to the 93 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: FBI's Elder Fraud Report, last year, they were just over 94 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: ninety thousand scams losses of over a billion dollars, and 95 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 1: that number is up big since twenty twenty. And I 96 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 1: think the pandemic had people feel, especially grandpa and grandma 97 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 1: who can't be visited because it's the risk of them 98 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: getting sick. The person I know a little older and 99 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: a little batty. And that's that's the combination you want. 100 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: You're saying, I don't know this person, No, I don't 101 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: think so, oh okay, older and batty and and so 102 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: that's the perfect target and a very gullible Yeah. I 103 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,479 Speaker 1: think you can spot the personalities people, you know who's 104 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 1: gonna And I think I'm not surprised that this you 105 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: know what kind of scams it was. Uh, it wasn't 106 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: a lottery ticket. It was it lost thousands of dollars. Oh, 107 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,359 Speaker 1: it's some sort of fake investment. Yeah, I forget, I 108 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: forget exactly what it was. It was a lost thousand dollars. 109 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 1: And another one that they fell for was um a 110 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: fake dog that was being shipped from Russia. That she 111 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 1: was she's like that she loves dogs right, and a 112 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 1: soft spot. So it was some kind of offer of 113 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 1: a dog, a blind dog. And the best part they 114 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 1: sent a photograph like like an old fashioned snapshot photography 115 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: from a film camera with his German shepherd on a rug. 116 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:38,119 Speaker 1: It looked like it looked like I gotta save this dog. 117 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 1: But from the color it looked like it was from 118 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties the photo, and there's like shag carpeting 119 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: and and they had they had black xes through the 120 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: dog's eyes to signify that he was blind. Oh no, 121 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: like photoshop or yeah, yeah, exactly the picture. I didn't 122 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 1: know it was somehow imprinted into the photograph too. Black 123 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:04,919 Speaker 1: Egg gave a little cane, a little walking cane, and 124 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:11,679 Speaker 1: a stick or whatever, maybe a up and dark sunglasses. 125 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: Oh man, Yeah, I know. And then she was supposed 126 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: to meet meet them at a park nearby, and they 127 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: were going to bring this this Russian dog. And I'm 128 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: listening to this story and I'm thinking, well, how did 129 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: they get the dog from Russia? How do you ship 130 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: a blind dog from Russia and get somebody to take 131 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: it to this exact park for I don't know, three 132 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. I think the price was wow, and she 133 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: paid up. I think money was lost on that deal too. Yeah, 134 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: I know somebody who's elderly father thought they were investing 135 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: in like gold dust or gold nuggets or something like that, 136 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: and somebody overseas, and they really got into it, and 137 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: they kept asking whole family members for more money and 138 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: finding the kids just said enough and cut them off. 139 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: He was kind of living alone. They also said, we're 140 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: bringing them in, we're moving them closer to us. So 141 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 1: because because their inheritance will be gone soon, everything will 142 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: be gone exactly or even the money were supposed to 143 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: live off for the rest of his life. Will be 144 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: gone if he continues to get scammed that bad. Yeah, 145 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 1: this is how cryptocurrency works too. It's the same idea. Well, 146 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: you're wondering, you know, you're wondering if somebody called Joe Biden, 147 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: if they could get away with it. Oh yeah, bet 148 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: at leasing the treasury. He just writes out a five 149 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: billion dollars check from the US Treasury. That's right, it's 150 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: the Let's Go Brandon Fund. Would you helpless? Good cause? 151 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:39,959 Speaker 1: I think that's possible that it supports old people riding bicycles? 152 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: Can't you help? All right? When we come back. I 153 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 1: don't know about you. I'm in mourning. I have some 154 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: tissues here. I've been shedding a tear the end of 155 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: the campaign of Mike Fura from they Oh that was 156 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: a blow this morning. Well, I think we lost a 157 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,839 Speaker 1: big one. I almost imagine what the future could have been. 158 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 1: Imagine with the navor of Los Angeles. Let's spend a 159 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: few minutes if Mike Furor was mayor, what would what 160 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: life would be like in twenty twenty. We'd all have 161 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 1: that mustache, right, we'd all be walking around with one 162 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: of those on our left. Look cool? You talking about 163 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: a game changer. Yeah, you know. I don't know about you. 164 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: But when the breaking news came down this morning that 165 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: we had lost another candidate in the race to be 166 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: the next Los Angeles mayor, I was at breakfast. I 167 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 1: almost lost it. I had to be consoled by fellow diners. 168 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: It was it was too much. I mean, a guy 169 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: that just took out cute ads with a little docs 170 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:33,839 Speaker 1: and little doggie that's not his by the way, No, no, 171 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: the dog quit. We're talking about the stiff, boring and 172 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: maybe corrupt the city attorney Mike here. It has been 173 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: in politics also a long time. There's just so many 174 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: people that have been in politics a long time. I'm 175 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: kind of tired of talking about them. But they just 176 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: keep switching seats. Right now, he's out at city attorney, 177 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: so he's not gonna be mayor. What's he gonna do 178 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 1: Probably become a slimy low best that's usually really council 179 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: run for state legislature. I just somebody showed me. Maybe 180 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 1: it was Steve Gregory. Uh, some kind of like press 181 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 1: release that Tony Vlair and other sleeves Balls had all 182 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 1: joined a new lobbyist company up in Sacramento. Another one 183 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: he used to be with Mercury Public Affair. Yeah, left 184 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: he and Fabbi and Nunia's the old Assembly speak. Yeah, 185 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: they both left Mercury. They they both are hooked up 186 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,080 Speaker 1: again up north. Is it their own company, are you 187 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: saying or is it just sad? I don't know. They 188 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: they have titles. I don't know who owns the money. 189 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 1: And there's always people looking to pay lobbyists. That's how 190 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 1: you make money when you're at office. They really think 191 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: Tony Vlaar can help them move legislation to at least Nunia's. 192 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:52,679 Speaker 1: Was it well, yea Valar wasn't sacraments. Yeah, they were 193 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 1: both here the Assembly. He was, Yeah, that's what he 194 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:57,719 Speaker 1: did before he became mayor. Yeah, that's I think when 195 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: he ran. There's cheating on his wife. I think he 196 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 1: was in the Assembly, was yes, because he was cheating 197 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 1: with his uh the wife of some Yeah, like either's 198 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: legislative aid or his campaign manager or something like that. 199 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: Same things. He mix him up with Newsom right now, 200 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: same guy and then Schwartzenegger in the housekeeper. Schwartzenegger went 201 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:23,719 Speaker 1: a little outside the normal lines. Know, I went in 202 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: the kitchen. That son apparently is a great guy. His 203 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: son is Joe I think Joey. Yeah, Joey Baena really 204 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:35,319 Speaker 1: good looking guy too, and he's becoming just like Schwartzenegger, 205 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 1: a big weightlifter. Huh yeah, yeah. People say he's a 206 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: really Well that's nice to hear because maybe the mother 207 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 1: was a really nice lady and probably grew up in 208 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: Bakersfield away from the West Side. Nonsense. They pulled him 209 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: right out of the spotlight. One was that story guy 210 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 1: out there. But he's showing up in a couple of 211 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: profile pieces here and then good, well, all right, Mike 212 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: Fura has bowed out of the Los Angeles mayor's race. 213 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 1: He and his one or two percent whatever you want 214 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: to believe. The polls are pretty stale, but we're finding 215 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 1: out that they're doing their own internal polling. Now. Fura 216 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: claims that right now he's third behind Bass and Carusoe 217 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 1: in his internal polling, but he says not enough to 218 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: catch up. Yeah, he's a two and the other guys 219 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: of one. One that's Kevin dileone probably. I love how 220 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: the incessant cheerleading the incessant spin. Well, I'm third now. 221 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:30,320 Speaker 1: I pulled ahead of the other two guys, probably less 222 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 1: than five percent. Yeah, and I think all the money 223 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: he had was spent on those dog ads. I think 224 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 1: that was the end of that. That was his hail Mary. 225 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: I think it was around game pretty late in the 226 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: walk around the borrowed dog a hired dog? Can we 227 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: hire a dog? And I'll walk around for thirty seconds 228 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 1: and maybe that'll send me to the moon by star 229 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,679 Speaker 1: rocketing after I walk around the dog. It's not his dog. 230 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 1: If you saw him at the debates till he was 231 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: just stiff and unimpressive. Now he's that didn't move the 232 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: needle again. The top two vote getters in this June 233 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: seventh vote go to the November runoff. But if somebody 234 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:14,319 Speaker 1: gets fifty percent plus one vote, they win outright now 235 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 1: that we're really down to two people, Kevin di Leone, 236 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: the Pledge of Allegiance. Guys still hanging in there. But 237 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: these two are on the ballot, right, Joe puskayano Quit. 238 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 1: They're on the ballot, and some people will not get 239 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: the news that they're out, or they may feel loyal anyway, 240 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:30,679 Speaker 1: so they'll get, you know, they'll get they'll get a 241 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 1: smattering of votes, right, and as the Time puts it, 242 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: the Times puts it. Federal investigators are probing the city 243 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: attorney's office is handling of a lawsuit ye brought by 244 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 1: a DWP brought by DBP customers, a scandal projected to 245 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,119 Speaker 1: cost a DWP more than one hundred million. Two attorneys 246 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 1: associated with Feurer's office, including a former higher ranking city attorney, 247 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 1: have pleaded guilty and the wide ranging reaching scheme. And 248 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 1: you know, it is hard to campaign when you have 249 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: a probe dangling out of your rear. End. I think 250 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 1: it's dang enough, as mustad. Yeah, I mean we've talked 251 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: about that story and we got the impression they're not 252 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:14,199 Speaker 1: done with their investigation. Yes, And if you're not familiar, 253 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:19,239 Speaker 1: this was a lawsuit brought by customers of DWP for overbuilding. 254 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: It was a completely screwed up what was that change 255 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: in the building system? A whole new, whole new billing system. 256 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: And people are getting fifty thousand dollars bills for their 257 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 1: electricity and water and sometimes they have trouble on doing it. 258 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, of course, yeah, you know, you got you 259 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: got that stud You know something, when I become king, 260 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: I am going to ban those voice menus when you 261 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: call companies. Were right? Oh yeah, some some are going 262 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 1: back to live operators because they know that customers appreciate. 263 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: I can't dann them. I really, I start going crazy. 264 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 1: I start screaming it around the house like a lunatic. 265 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 1: I can't stand those menus. Whoever invented those, I hope 266 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: they are rotting and burning in hell painfully. You mean, 267 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: when you do press a number and then it's still automated, 268 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: they want to get your account number in your name, 269 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: and that's right. What is the nature of your call? 270 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 1: And a few as words as possible. Your company is 271 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 1: effing up. When I usually call those and I get 272 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: the list, the thing I want is not on the list. 273 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: You know. Press one for blah blah, plus two for building. 274 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 1: Press no, no, no no, I have a specific question about something. 275 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: But I heard you just press zero and you eventually 276 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: get an operator. Some of them. Yeah, if you just 277 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: keep hitting zero zero, zero, zero zero, you get through. Right. 278 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: So what happened here was the city got sued by 279 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: some customers. They hired this attorney, an outsider, and he 280 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: made a deal with another attorney to represent both the 281 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: city and the customers. Right then he benefited from the 282 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: big setlement he paid this other lawyer he hired who 283 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: took over the customers lawsuit. But it was all insider trading, right, 284 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: But there are other DWP officials involved, including the former 285 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: head of DWP just played guilty and got sentenced. Recently. 286 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: He took a bribe separately, was one big bundle of 287 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 1: But you would think if you're a benefited from all that, 288 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: somehow he would have had more money for his campaign. 289 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: That wasn't evidence that would that would have been a 290 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: red flag. No, you hide that money overseas in the 291 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: Gyman Islands. You don't funnel into your campaign because everybody's 292 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 1: gonna go, hey, how does Mike get ten million dollars 293 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: for a mayor's campaign? Where did that money come from? He? Uh, 294 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: here's but he was the first politician to enter the 295 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: race more than two years ago for mayor. Isn't that embarrassing? 296 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: You run for two years and you have an office 297 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: insteads Right, you've already got a somewhat high profile, right, 298 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 1: but you're the city attorney. Right, You run for two 299 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: years like seven hundred days plus and and you're you're 300 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: you're one percent, and let me guess you're losing because 301 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: Rick Caruso has more money right, Not because you have 302 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: a dud personality. It's because Rick Caruso has money. He uh, 303 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 1: look at this. He was looking for a ballot measure 304 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:17,920 Speaker 1: to double the size of the LA City Council. I 305 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 1: didn't know that one was out there from him. Oh 306 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:25,159 Speaker 1: that's horrible. Yeah, imagine thirty of those people. Yeah. New 307 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: York and Chicago have much larger legislatures. It doesn't make 308 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: any difference how they do. Yeah, yeah, you just get 309 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 1: you get more morons, right, you know you want to 310 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 1: triple the morons? Hey, go ahead, have forty five of 311 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,440 Speaker 1: these a holes arguing with each other. So the other 312 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:41,679 Speaker 1: part of this, which was I guess expected, he is 313 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: formally endorsing Karen Bass from mayor. So Buscayano throws his 314 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,920 Speaker 1: two percent to Rick Caruso. I bet she should his 315 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: other day, he thought he knows he has better numbers 316 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,399 Speaker 1: than that. He thinks his polling's focus. But and it 317 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 1: is times polling. He may have a point. Well, I mean, 318 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: I'm sure Caruso is spending a lot of money in 319 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 1: his own So maybe Joe's alluding to some numbers that 320 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 1: only they see internally. Maybe I don't know. Blanketing the 321 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: airwave doesn't always work, but I know it's working for 322 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:15,320 Speaker 1: Rick Caruso because this is a race that not everybody's 323 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: going to vote in, not everybody's interested in. But his 324 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: ads are everywhere and it's just going to raise his 325 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: name recognition. And they're polished ads. They look good, they 326 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 1: look home, and it's on all the stuff that people 327 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: are going crazy over, that's right, crime and homelessness. Karen 328 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: Basset's campaign is is. I have not seen an ad 329 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 1: for her, have you. I saw one, but it was 330 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 1: it was a happy talk ad, like to quote Gavin Usom. 331 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 1: It did not meet the moment. Oh you know, I 332 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: thought it was like disappointing. Yea, yeah, it's just it's 333 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,679 Speaker 1: it's like, I think my opinion around vote for me, 334 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:53,400 Speaker 1: you know, my my biased opinion. I think Caruso's content 335 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:55,679 Speaker 1: and his commercials is hitting the spot of where what 336 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 1: people are feeling. She and I saw one ad and 337 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:02,639 Speaker 1: only only once, So she's not spending a lot of 338 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: money on this. Uh. They said she's about to unload 339 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 1: a bunch of ads now that people have the ballots. 340 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 1: That's what I read. Well, they've had him a week already, right, yeah, 341 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 1: ten days? Yes, yeah, a lot of people have already voted. 342 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: I don't know, you better get the get a programmed already, 343 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 1: or maybe she's confident she'll come in first or second 344 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: and it's not worth about this go around. That's actually 345 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,640 Speaker 1: it's not a bad strategy because there's only so much 346 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 1: money you're gonna get donated, and why not spend it 347 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: in November? Yeah, because he's got a lot of money, 348 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:32,640 Speaker 1: So she's got to be ready for November. Right, she's 349 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 1: getting swamped on the on the money scene no matter what. 350 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 1: So but by the way, I did see though the 351 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 1: police union ad about her and using in the tuition. 352 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 1: I did see that last night for the first time. Yeah, 353 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:45,840 Speaker 1: they caught my attention. Oh yeah, there it is. And 354 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 1: you know something, she can squawk all she wants. Uh, 355 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:51,640 Speaker 1: there's a lot of factual stuff in there. She did 356 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: get that free ninety five thousand dollars scholarship to get 357 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 1: a master's degree. She did. She got it from the 358 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: woman who was indicted forgiven Mark Ridley Thomas's son a 359 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: similar deal. And he did vote for bills it benefited USC. 360 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: They were large spending bills. I don't know that you 361 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:07,880 Speaker 1: can make the case that personally lobbied to get usc 362 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 1: all that money, or you can in a thirty second commercial. 363 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,479 Speaker 1: You can certainly imply it. That's right. This is all 364 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,640 Speaker 1: you have to do. I think John Denver's music has 365 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: passed the test of time. When I hear a song, 366 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,159 Speaker 1: I like it, I feel good. I thought he was 367 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 1: making a comeback. I first heard that spot, not a 368 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: thought that plane went down. He's coming in. Yeah, that 369 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:29,119 Speaker 1: that But it's funny. It's happened so long ago. I 370 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: forgot it. Yeah, it was sometime in the nineties, wasn't it. 371 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: I don't remember. It seems like forever. Experimental plane that 372 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: even had. Yeah, that's that's a phrase. I still remember 373 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 1: that term, and you and I pondered it on the air. 374 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 1: I'm still pondering it. You hear you hear experimental plane 375 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 1: and he flew that. But why would you doing this? 376 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:55,160 Speaker 1: Barn pieces. I don't know. Experiment fails. Hey, you never 377 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: know who's listening. Remember last half hour we talked about 378 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 1: people get scammed. Uh huh was based on a story 379 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:05,399 Speaker 1: where the former FBI and CIA director William Webster and 380 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 1: his wife Jamaican scammer. Can't you have to me make threats? Anyway, 381 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:13,639 Speaker 1: they got him arrested. We got an email from so 382 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:20,400 Speaker 1: count Edison's Information Governance Department. Hi, I know you're talking 383 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 1: about scams that I want you to mention utility scams. 384 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 1: Can you put out the reminder first? Utilities will never 385 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,879 Speaker 1: demand your credit card information over the phone. Utilities do 386 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:33,119 Speaker 1: not take prepaid visa cards or bitcoined or cash apps 387 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: like Zell. Utilities will never or will not remove your meter. 388 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: And utilities do not have a disconnection department. Thank you. 389 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 1: That's very into a service that at the that is 390 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 1: true for like all government agencies. I know somebody, I 391 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,679 Speaker 1: wonder if it's the same person again, because she had 392 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,720 Speaker 1: so many of these come. No, the IRW I want 393 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,199 Speaker 1: to know who this is. The IRS called making a 394 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 1: claim and I said, now, the IRS doesn't call alled 395 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 1: you if you You and I joked about that a 396 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: few years ago because we kept getting that automated call 397 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 1: from the IRS. That computer voice is the IRS to 398 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: tell you that you are gun. What did they say 399 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 1: in legal Yeah, the I r S can can garnish 400 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 1: your wages, can put a lean on your home. So 401 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,159 Speaker 1: the I r S doesn't do it. Socalitistan doesn't do it. 402 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,199 Speaker 1: DWP rips you off by mail, They send you the 403 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:28,880 Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars bill and then it takes ten years 404 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: to get it back right. But if if rip off 405 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:38,719 Speaker 1: agency like DWP, they'll they'll they'll do it in print. Uh, 406 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,639 Speaker 1: we're gonna have Todd Spitcher the Orange County da on 407 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:45,199 Speaker 1: Later in the show, word came out today that the 408 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: man who opened fire inside that Laguna Woods church has 409 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: been charged I think ten felonies, including of course murder. 410 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 1: He killed a doctor who apparently tried to stop the attack. 411 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 1: In fact, the doctor was key in that he tackled 412 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:07,679 Speaker 1: the shooter, whose name is David Wenway. Chowell and others 413 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,160 Speaker 1: jumped on and were able to hog tie the shooters 414 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,920 Speaker 1: so he didn't kill any more people. After he opened fire, 415 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: he killed one, but he did hurt five others. The 416 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:22,440 Speaker 1: story that the Alsagundo Times churned up about his life 417 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. If you remember from the detail that 418 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: came out after Sunday's attack, this man lived in Las 419 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 1: Vegas but came all the way to Laguna Woods. Must 420 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: have found out about this Taiwanese congregation and decided to 421 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 1: go and shoot people. We have found out in this 422 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 1: story that his life was quote unraveling in Las Vegas. 423 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: All we knew yesterday is that he had security guard 424 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: job in Vegas. Well, his wife left him. She returned 425 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: to Taiwan in December to seek treatment for cancer, but 426 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 1: also to leave him because they were in the middle 427 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: of a divorce. According to a next door neighbor in 428 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 1: Vegas by the name of Balmore or Lana or Lana, 429 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,159 Speaker 1: he and his wife. Chao and his wife owned the 430 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: building they lived in. It's apparently described as a shabby 431 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 1: stucco four plex and a cul de sac about a 432 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 1: mile west of shabby awfully judgmental on the part of 433 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 1: the Saint Matthew orm Seth of the time. Yes, a 434 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:34,199 Speaker 1: typical elitist La Times writer. Shabby stucco four plex. All right, 435 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 1: you wouldn't live there, Matthew. Who got the point? As 436 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 1: you like to describe it, communist blockhouses. It turns out 437 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: that Chao, who was born in Taiwan, but he actually 438 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:48,120 Speaker 1: thinks of China and Taiwan are one country, doesn't believe 439 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 1: there's a border, So this is coming from the other side. 440 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: Many people in Taiwan want to stay independent from China. 441 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 1: He was the reverse, even though he ended up here 442 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: and he is a US citizen, So this is what 443 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 1: he about while I was doing in his empty But 444 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,920 Speaker 1: do you think his wife going back to Taiwan triggered him? Like, oh, 445 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,120 Speaker 1: now it's even she's leaving me and she's going back 446 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,159 Speaker 1: to that country. Yeah, I mean the research belongs to China. 447 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,920 Speaker 1: The researchers say there are a trigger experiences in people's 448 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: lives before they go off and start shooting, and well, 449 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 1: now he's all alone. Apparently, though they screamed and yelled 450 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: at each other all the time, according to neighborhood, But 451 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: at least she said that Chow was a very nice man. 452 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 1: But there are a lot of people to hear them 453 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: screaming through the wall. They would rather have somebody that 454 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 1: they fight with all day than be alone. I would 455 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 1: say most people would feel that way, even though it 456 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: sounds weird, No, it's it's true. Being alone is really depressing. 457 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 1: Sometimes people are energized by fighting. Oh yeah, no, they 458 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 1: live for the fight. They live and if things are 459 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: too quiet, they start a fight. Yeah, it gets their 460 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: adrenaline going, makes them alive. What did they call it 461 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 1: with oj and Nicole? The mutual dance of destruction. Yes, 462 00:25:54,960 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 1: that's what it is. It's it's Johnny Depp and Amber heard. Yeah, 463 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 1: that's a good example. Though they're not together. The wife 464 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: apparently has stage four lung cancer and one of the 465 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,400 Speaker 1: neighbors said, you could tell that she was just tired 466 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: of him, and he took it pretty hard after she left. 467 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: So I don't know when this was. It wasn't that 468 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,119 Speaker 1: long ago, so maybe after then he's all alone and 469 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 1: he's reading stuff online like everybody does, and this particular 470 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: issue Taiwan versus China, got him worked up. He's reading 471 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 1: about China and Taiwan, and the Buffalo kid is reading 472 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 1: about white supremacy. But they're both, but they're both online, 473 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 1: probably at the same time plotting their shooting spreeze. He 474 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:40,439 Speaker 1: went to that Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian church service and he 475 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 1: sat in the back reading a Chinese language newspaper for 476 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: hours before he chained the doors and tried to superglue everything, 477 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 1: and then he opened fire. That's kind of strange. Don't 478 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:56,919 Speaker 1: you think you's just bursting in it is? It's I 479 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 1: guess he gained everybody's not their com fidens, but people 480 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: saw him and he looked peaceful reading they know him, 481 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: and apparently they think They even asked him and said, oh, 482 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 1: I used to come here. Occasionally people seek refuge in 483 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 1: a church and they just want to spend some time 484 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 1: in the quiet. So he was born in Taiwan, holds 485 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:18,920 Speaker 1: a Taiwanese passport, completed military service in Taiwan, but apparently 486 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:23,159 Speaker 1: strongly believed that Taiwan belongs to China. So right, so 487 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:28,879 Speaker 1: shooting shooting up a half a dozen people in a 488 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: Taiwanese church in Orange County is going to settle that issue. 489 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,119 Speaker 1: I mean, just follow the thinking of a maniac. You know, 490 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,640 Speaker 1: he's got strong feelings, right, But what are you taking 491 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:41,640 Speaker 1: it out of these poor people? It was a bunch 492 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,919 Speaker 1: of elderly people at a pastor's luncheon. Well what are 493 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 1: they going to do about it? So, and here's the 494 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: last straw. In February, Child was evicted from the apartment 495 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: building he had once owned. The neighbors said he helped 496 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 1: Child carry trash out of his unit to the dumpster. 497 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,119 Speaker 1: So last time I saw him, it was just a 498 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 1: homeless old man. He told me, I just don't care 499 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 1: about my life anymore. Well, he said the new owners. Okay, 500 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 1: he sold the property to new owners and they set 501 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,479 Speaker 1: the monthly rent too high for him to afford. And 502 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 1: then he applied for government assistance, but even the government 503 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,879 Speaker 1: wouldn't give him money. He was upset the government wouldn't 504 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 1: provide him housing or an income whoa, oh my god. 505 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 1: They found horrible pictures inside Chao's unit, photos of Chow 506 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:29,959 Speaker 1: with a gun, including one that appeared to have been 507 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: taken at a memorial to a mass shooting the Root 508 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: ninety one Harvest Musical music festival in Vegas. Remember that 509 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 1: that guy? Yeah right? The image showed him with a 510 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 1: gun and an expression as if he was laughing hysterically. Well, 511 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 1: that would be a tip off, wouldn't it. Yeah, But 512 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 1: the new tenants found the photos and threw them out. 513 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 1: Yeah there, I'm gonna get involved. What if we do 514 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: when he comes after us? Right? Yeah, you can kind 515 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 1: of understand that, as terrible as that sounds. But now 516 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: he also may have suffered a braining because six years 517 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 1: ago he was managing another apartment complex and he told 518 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: a tenant who was three months behind on rent to 519 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 1: move out. Instead. The tenant beat Chow and fractored skull 520 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: broke his arm. Oh, and he was all It left 521 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: him with serious anxiety after that. Sixty eight years old 522 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 1: and only has the security guard jobs, and wife leaves 523 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 1: him and he gets evicted from his no money to own. Yeah, yeah, 524 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 1: these are all triggers, aren't they. Yeah? Right, As I mentioned, 525 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 1: Todd Spitzell, beyond with the case and the charges. In 526 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: the five o'clock hour, we'll be talking again about the 527 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: Bologna Wetlands over there in the west side of Los 528 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 1: Angeles and Marina del Rey. That is a place where 529 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: there's probably dozens and dozens of RVs vans parked along 530 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 1: the side of the wetlands where there were trails. Kind 531 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: of a recreation area, but an environmentally sensitive area. You 532 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 1: know what's in there, John, The snowy plovers are in there. Yes, 533 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 1: we remember we we focked to defend the snowy plovers 534 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,160 Speaker 1: when the homeless people were fouling up their nesting area 535 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 1: up in Ventura County. Yes, in the Oxnart area, that's right. Yeah, 536 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: So I'm big on protecting snowy plovers. So the development 537 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:19,720 Speaker 1: here is a bizarre one. There's a lawsuit objecting to 538 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: the way that the county wants to collect the trash 539 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 1: that accumulates from the vagrants who are parked there. The 540 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 1: story should be get them out instead. There's a battle 541 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 1: over how to protect the wetlands from the excessive amount 542 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 1: of trash, and there have been a couple of ideas 543 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 1: floated about, but the one that apparently the supervisors approved 544 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,480 Speaker 1: does not meet the approval of a couple of residents. 545 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 1: Our guest Lucy Hahn, actually likes this idea. We will 546 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 1: talk to her. But again, my feeling is, I understand 547 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 1: you're trying to protect get those people out. They don't 548 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: belong there. And of all places environmentally sensitive wetlands, Yeah, 549 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,160 Speaker 1: how come back in a state like California, how come back? 550 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 1: It's not a reason to bump the homeless off from there. 551 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:17,600 Speaker 1: Each weird when the cult changes what they worship and 552 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,959 Speaker 1: it turns out they worshiped the homeless more than they 553 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 1: worship the environment, And it's hard, hard to understand, hard 554 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,720 Speaker 1: to follow, And it's also hard to look at any 555 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 1: stories right now and not run into Johnny Depp and 556 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:35,960 Speaker 1: Amber heard good Lord, like everywhere I know. But there 557 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 1: is this that plane crash in China at the end 558 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 1: of March where a China Eastern Jet. It was a 559 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:49,280 Speaker 1: Bowing seven thirty seven eight hundred, smashed into a mountain 560 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: side and killed one hundred and thirty two people. Well. 561 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 1: According to a new report, it may have been intentional. 562 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 1: Flight data from the plane suggests someone in the cockpit 563 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 1: push the plane into a near vertical descent while cruising 564 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 1: at a high altitude. When this happened, it's a report 565 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,120 Speaker 1: from the Wall Street Journal today. Data from the black 566 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 1: box recovered at the craft site indicated the controls and 567 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:21,200 Speaker 1: the cockpit led the plane into its deadly dive. The 568 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,360 Speaker 1: plane did what it was told to do by someone 569 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 1: in the cockpit, set a source to the Wall Street Journal, 570 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,520 Speaker 1: how's that for a twist, because everyone was thinking, it's 571 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 1: another either the people weren't trained properly if to add 572 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,320 Speaker 1: a fly one of these, or but this one went 573 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 1: straight down. When they go straight down, that's almost impossible 574 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 1: for a plane to do on its own, would it correct? 575 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:50,720 Speaker 1: You mean? Or just yeah, yeah, it's a near vertical descent, right, 576 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 1: Otherwise it would just gradually glide downward until it until 577 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: it hit the earth. Yeah. But to turn and goes 578 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 1: straight down is just not It's not what the physics 579 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 1: would suggest, So there would be two possibilities. A suicidal 580 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 1: pilot or somebody got into the cockpit and took over 581 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 1: the controls and forced the crash. If this new information 582 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:21,920 Speaker 1: is true, well there should be recordings of the mayhem 583 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: if somebody, somebody, if somebody crashed in. Yeah, you'd hear 584 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: some you'd hear the scuffle or somebody trying to shout 585 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 1: for help. That's what the Chinese are saying. No emergency 586 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,000 Speaker 1: alert was pushed, So then they don't buy the cockpit 587 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:38,280 Speaker 1: intrusion theory, which which which has happened? Remember the Malaysian 588 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:43,520 Speaker 1: did they did? They think that? No, that's never been 589 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 1: They still have never found you know, that was twenty fifteen, 590 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,440 Speaker 1: I think seven years ago. Wow, I was thinking of 591 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,360 Speaker 1: the gym Alasians jet liner that went down. Are you 592 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,000 Speaker 1: thinking of another one? An egypt Air crash? Oh? That 593 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 1: was a pilot that did that, right, right? Yeah, So 594 00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: that so that this would be similar to the Egypt 595 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 1: Air Ashton relation thing. It's still a big mystery, but right, 596 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,440 Speaker 1: it's apt. The lead theory is still that that guy 597 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,279 Speaker 1: was suicidal, right, took it off way out into the 598 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,319 Speaker 1: into the Indian Ocean. When when planes do things that 599 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,840 Speaker 1: make no sense, then it's got to be a crazy 600 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,959 Speaker 1: person at the controls, right if they go straight down 601 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 1: into the ground, or they start taking a bizarre course 602 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 1: all over the Indian Ocean. Now it is the case, 603 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:27,400 Speaker 1: it's just the idea of a suicidal pilot that's doesn't 604 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,400 Speaker 1: occur to people. They don't think that that's man likely. 605 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,439 Speaker 1: It's not. But there's suicidal people in all walks the wide. 606 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,719 Speaker 1: If there's hundreds of thousands of pilots, maybe more, and 607 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,200 Speaker 1: you're going to get an ex percentage. The problem with 608 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,640 Speaker 1: this story is it's the Chinese. So are they going 609 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,480 Speaker 1: to investigate the pilot, reveal their name, tell us anything 610 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,320 Speaker 1: about their background and why they might be said, No, 611 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 1: they'll they'll do the investigation and not tell them. I'm 612 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,920 Speaker 1: surprised even this report got out because Chinese controls the investigation. 613 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,400 Speaker 1: It's it's odd that the Wall Street Journal got ahold 614 00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:58,960 Speaker 1: of a source that can tell them something about the 615 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 1: black box and the possibilities to what happened. All right, 616 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 1: when we come back, A couple of Playa del Rey 617 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,560 Speaker 1: residents have filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles County on 618 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:14,600 Speaker 1: the Board of supervisors and the Flood Control District. They've 619 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:18,840 Speaker 1: approved this trash collection project to take care of the 620 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,279 Speaker 1: debris that's affecting the Bologna Creek where the Bologna Creek 621 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 1: meets the Pacific Ocean. We have talked about the Bologna 622 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:30,200 Speaker 1: Creek and the wetlands there where there's extra trash because 623 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 1: there's a lot of people living in RVs and cars 624 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,719 Speaker 1: and vans who are parked along the side of the wetlands. 625 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,479 Speaker 1: It's kind of where they live and so that's where 626 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:43,399 Speaker 1: they dump. Lucy Hahn is coming on next. We've talked 627 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,680 Speaker 1: to her many times. I think it's Friends of the 628 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,720 Speaker 1: Jungle is her group. She actually likes this new idea. 629 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,520 Speaker 1: We'll explain what it is, but this lawsuit is against it. 630 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:56,080 Speaker 1: It's a they're going to place a floating barge dumpster 631 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:58,200 Speaker 1: there to try to collect the trash.