1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: Can't. 2 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:02,120 Speaker 2: I am six forty. 3 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 3: You're listening to the John Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,559 Speaker 3: We're on every day from three to six. It's Happy Hour, 5 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 3: isn't it? And after six o'clock John Cobelt Show on 6 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 3: demand whatever you missed. I want to tell you about 7 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 3: something we did cover in the three o'clock hour, which 8 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 3: you should listen to, because we had Bill Sale on 9 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 3: and he's the assistant US Attorney for the Central District 10 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 3: and he was part of the big bust this morning. 11 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 2: There. 12 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 3: I'm going to play this report first from William Laugeness, 13 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 3: who reported on one specific bust that they rested eventually 14 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 3: fifteen people. And this report is on two people in Covena, 15 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 3: a husband and wife being convicted for hospice fraud and 16 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 3: stealing sixteen million dollars. And then I'll tell you about 17 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 3: all the other cases and suspects that Sally busted. So 18 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 3: play this report for Fox News. 19 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 4: This is the first takedown for the new White House 20 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 4: Fraud Task Force. They arrested two owners of two hospices 21 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 4: here in Greater Los Angeles. They're accused of collectively stealing 22 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 4: about sixteen million dollars from taxpayers, and this money was 23 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 4: intended right for compassionate end of life care for the 24 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 4: terminally ill. Here's some video we shot earlier today of 25 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 4: the FBI making those arrests of a husband and wife. 26 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 4: He a doctor, she and nurse co owners of the 27 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 4: Saint Francis pallad of Care hospice and Glendale And what 28 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 4: they were doing was this admitting people who were not 29 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 4: qualified for hospice, but build the government as if they 30 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 4: were about thirty thousand dollars per patient, and when the 31 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 4: benefits ran out, they dropped them. 32 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 2: Here's the kicker. 33 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 4: Nationally, eighty percent of adults admitted or people admitted to 34 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 4: hospice die and usually in the first few weeks. Here 35 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 4: almost nobody died. After eight months. Ninety seven percent left alive. 36 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 5: They've been bilking the taxpayers for over seven million dollars, 37 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 5: close to eight million dollars, and it's total, all total 38 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 5: fraudulent hospice services. They were signing up people who are 39 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 5: not terminal terminally ill, they were forging the documents, the 40 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 5: medical records, and they were collecting taxpayer dollars. 41 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 2: And they've been charged and this morning they were arrested. 42 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 2: Here's another arrest down to paying the hospice. 43 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 4: And here they were paying kickbacks to the patients, giving 44 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,359 Speaker 4: them six hundred dollars a month in an envelope. That's 45 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 4: because they were getting reimbursed from the Feds about six 46 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 4: thousand dollars a month. Now they are also paying marketers 47 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 4: to find seniors and take their Medicare card. They built 48 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 4: the government for about eight million dollars not eligible and 49 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 4: they were not terminally ill. 50 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 6: The name of this endeavors project never Say Die, because 51 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 6: the folks who are in the nursing and the hospice 52 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 6: facilities owned by this couple and their family don't seem 53 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 6: to ever pass away. 54 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 2: So the Feds are here for a reason. 55 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 4: California was giving out thousands of hospice licenses that people 56 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 4: were unqualified, no oversight, and of course taxpayer has been 57 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 4: paying it for it ever since. 58 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 3: There's another one, doctor Fariba java Harian. She's a dermatologist, 59 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 3: but according to doctor Oz's Medicaid department, she's connected with 60 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 3: sixty three hospice facilities, sixty three of them as a dermatologist, 61 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 3: because you know, dying people have a lot. 62 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 2: Of skin issues. 63 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 3: She either was listed as medical director attending physician or 64 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 3: some other capacity. Doctor java Harian registered these hospices with 65 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 3: a national provider identify her number. That's how they know 66 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 3: this is her. It's a unique ten digit number given 67 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 3: to healthcare providers, and she used it for sixty three 68 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 3: hospice agencies, sixteen hundred and sixty two unique patients. They 69 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 3: made six thousand claims. They built thirty five million dollars. 70 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 3: This one woman, this crooked dermatologist, according to the FEDS, 71 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 3: thirty five million dollars. Now, the Center for Medical Medics, 72 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 3: Medicare and Medicaid Services revoked java Harrian's license to build Medicare, 73 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 3: suspended the license of at least sixteen hospice agencies connected 74 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 3: to her, and one of the well doctor Oz, says 75 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 3: that doctor java Harian's white coat was a costume. Gavin 76 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 3: Newsom and his administration knew all this was going on. 77 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 3: They didn't care. They listened to the BILLI Sale interview. 78 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 3: He makes it pretty clear they weren't interested. This isn't 79 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 3: catching them by surprise. It's not a shock. Newsom is 80 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 3: not standing in his office going, oh my god, I 81 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 3: had no idea. He's not standing in his office yelling 82 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 3: at his at his lieutenant saying, how come you guys 83 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 3: didn't take care of this? 84 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 2: What? 85 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 3: No, they knew it, like they knew about the unemployment fraud. 86 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:12,719 Speaker 3: They didn't care because they don't suffer consequences. They never 87 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 3: lose elections. They never lose elections, not if you run 88 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 3: for governor, not if you run for the Assembly of 89 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 3: the state Senate. That's why they have a super majority. 90 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,360 Speaker 3: That's why they can pass anything they want. That's why 91 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 3: Newsom can sign anything he wants, even if it releases 92 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 3: child rapists. He signs it because there's no danger to 93 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 3: him politically. This is the environment that we've all created 94 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 3: by not punishing bad politicians who steal our money and 95 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 3: release child rapists into society. They'll keep on doing it, 96 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 3: like three in a week that they were releasing, right, 97 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 3: and then here here's here's sixteen sixteen people arrested. 98 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 2: And they've all been operating for years. And it was simple. 99 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 3: They they they signed up, they signed up healthy patients. 100 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 3: They had them pretend that they were dying, except they 101 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 3: didn't die. 102 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:30,040 Speaker 2: You're supposed to. 103 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 3: I think I think one of the statistics I said 104 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 3: I saw was you go to a hospice eighty seven 105 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 3: percent chance that you're they're carrying you out of there, 106 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 3: you know. 107 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 2: Within a couple of weeks. 108 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 3: Somehow, I think for this this couple, it was ninety 109 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 3: seven percent were surviving. That's unheard of. Imagine having a 110 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 3: hospice fore ninety seven percent of the people came home. 111 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 2: The money. 112 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 3: See, they would sign people up all right, let me 113 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 3: give you give you an example in Anaheim. Lolita Minerd 114 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 3: is aged sixty five, a licensed vocational nurse. She had 115 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 3: a fake hospice in our teaser, say the Feds. She 116 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 3: used her company to submit nine million dollars in fraudulent 117 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 3: claims to Medicare, and Medicare paid eight and a half million. 118 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 2: Of that. 119 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 3: Minerd build Medicare for beneficiaries who were not dying. All 120 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 3: these patients had common addresses, they lived far from the facility, 121 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 3: which is a sign of a scheme and newsoence administration 122 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 3: because could have easily detected this. One couple was approached 123 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 3: at a market to sign up. Then Minerd came over 124 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 3: their house with three of her employees and this couple promised, well, 125 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 3: this couple was promised that if you just sign all 126 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 3: these forms, you get three hundred dollars a month, and 127 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 3: they did each of them. So the husband got three hundred, 128 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 3: the wife got three hundred. The money was delivered in 129 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 3: cash in an envelope six hundred dollars a month for 130 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 3: six months. And the NERD's hospice had a non death 131 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 3: discharge rate of eighty five percent. That means, on paper, 132 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 3: eighty five percent of the patients didn't die in the hospice, 133 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 3: which defies all medical odds. These are disgusting thieves, and 134 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 3: Newsom had an entire state agency that enabled all these 135 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 3: thieves to make off with millions because he didn't care. 136 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 3: And he's putting out a statement today, Well, this is 137 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 3: a federal program. The Fed supply the money in every 138 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 3: state in the Union. It's up to the governor and 139 00:08:55,320 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 3: his administration to prevent, detect, and prosecute the fraud. They 140 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 3: are supposed to vet the every applicant. That is the 141 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 3: state's responsibilities. These are state run programs. It's true in 142 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 3: Democratic states and Republican states. Newsome, like Tim Watson Minnesota, 143 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 3: chose to let the money flow. Take whatever you want. 144 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 3: Didn't care, not his money, and he doesn't suffer consequences. 145 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 3: All right, more coming up when we come back and 146 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 3: I was talking earlier about how Wall Street Journal, California 147 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 3: Post are running headlines about Los Angeles headed to be 148 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 3: the next Detroit. Specifically, it's over all the Hollywood jobs leaving. 149 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,559 Speaker 3: I'll tell you how I noticed this just over the 150 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 3: last year or two because of the podcast. I'll explain 151 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 3: when we come back. 152 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 7: You're listening to John co Well on demand from KFI 153 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:04,839 Speaker 7: AM six forty well. 154 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 3: You can follow us John Cobelt Radio on social media, 155 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 3: so do that and also do this subscribe on YouTube 156 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 3: and you'll get notifications when we put up a new video, 157 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 3: which we do every night after the show. It's YouTube 158 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 3: dot com slash at John Coblt's show. YouTube dot com 159 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 3: slash at John Cobelt Show. 160 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 2: That's where you go to subscribe. 161 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 3: So a couple of segments was telling you there's stories 162 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 3: in the Wall Street Journal, California Post that a lot 163 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 3: of people think that Los Angeles is now in the 164 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 3: Detroit death spiral. It happened starting in the nineteen seventies 165 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 3: in Detroit. The unions had made had made the manufacturing 166 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 3: of automobiles so expensive, and a lot of the cars 167 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 3: of that period were really shoddy. They could no longer 168 00:10:55,800 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 3: compete against Toyota and Honda and other Japanese and Korean 169 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 3: car companies, and it created a permanent change. You know, 170 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 3: Toyota ended up dominating car sales here in this country 171 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 3: for decades, and it was because everybody lazy. The the 172 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:18,679 Speaker 3: cars were not well built. I owned a lot of 173 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 3: American cars after high school, and they were bad news. 174 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 3: I would buy these old, used dunker cars. And my wife, 175 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 3: she had a Honda that she drove for I don't know, 176 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 3: twelve years. She had two hundred thousand miles on it. 177 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:42,959 Speaker 3: She sold it to a coworker, talked to that woman. 178 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 3: Some years later, the woman still had it and over 179 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 3: three hundred thousand miles. Meantime, I'd gone through about eight 180 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 3: American cars. So I'm thinking, oh, there must be. 181 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 2: Something to this. 182 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 3: So wheny went Detroit collapsed, it was greedy unions, it 183 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 3: was stupid management, and everybody thought that would never happen. 184 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 3: Same thing out here. Oh, nobody's ever gonna leave Hollywood, 185 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 3: always gott to ever leave California. 186 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:07,679 Speaker 2: The weather's do good. 187 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 3: Well, you're a bunch of dummies, just gold plated stupidoes. 188 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 3: Because there's forty nine other states competing and they slash 189 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 3: their taxes. They give big tax breaks through production companies 190 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 3: and studios, and now man Netflix is building studios all 191 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 3: over the world. Netflix has huge operations. They're building a 192 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 3: New Jersey and there's a lot of production going on 193 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 3: in Georgia. And a few months ago, you know, we 194 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 3: get we have the podcast, which I talk about incessantly, 195 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:44,560 Speaker 3: and at the end of the month, I get a 196 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 3: list of what cities have the listeners. So the top 197 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:54,680 Speaker 3: eight cities to listen to the podcast are all in California, right, 198 00:12:55,400 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 3: the Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, cities like that. But 199 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 3: then the ninth city, the first non California city, is Marietta, Georgia. 200 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 2: Go away is that? 201 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 3: And that kept showing up, So I look up Marietta, Georgia. 202 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:16,839 Speaker 3: They had dozens of production facilities there for television and 203 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 3: the movies. And if you've heard about the entertainment business 204 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 3: moving to Georgia, well a lot of it's in Marietta. 205 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:29,599 Speaker 3: And there's a lot of listeners to our show. A 206 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 3: lot of can'tfin listeners have moved there and they still listen. 207 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,479 Speaker 3: Either they fly back and forth or they've moved there permanently, 208 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 3: and they listened to California falling apart into the ocean. 209 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 8: It makes them feel good about their choice. 210 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 2: It does. 211 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 3: You know how many times we've gotten a message like 212 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:49,320 Speaker 3: a voicemail or an email on that It's like, I 213 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,440 Speaker 3: listened to you guys every day and I realized I 214 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 3: made the right choice moving to Texas or Georgia or 215 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,559 Speaker 3: Florida or North Carolina or Tennessee or Nevada or Arizona. 216 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 2: Those are the big states. And it makes them happy. 217 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:03,839 Speaker 2: I get them on the moist line all the time. 218 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 2: You do, yeah, oh yeah, all the time. I've heard. 219 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 3: I think you've run a couple of calls where they're 220 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 3: driving out to their new home and they say, I'm 221 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 3: gonna miss you guys, but I'm driving, I'm moving to Texas. 222 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 3: I'm pulling the U haul to Texas. But we'll keep 223 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 3: listening on the on the on the app. And there's 224 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 3: so many of them that actually showed up as the 225 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 3: ninth city on our podcast location list. So they left 226 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 3: and they're not coming back, and they don't have to 227 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 3: come back. You know, Vancouver was a big deal years ago. 228 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 3: A lot of production went up there, and and and 229 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 3: just stud I don't understand stupidly, shockingly, from Jerry Brown 230 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 3: to Gavin Newsom, to Garcetti to pass none of them 231 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 3: wanted to compete with the other states because they thought, well, 232 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 3: it's never gonna happen. Nobody leaves California, No way, Hollywood leaves. 233 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 3: All the weather's too good bye bye, blah blah blah. 234 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 3: So we'll tax him to death, will regulate them to death, 235 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 3: will abuse them basically, And it's like any abusive relationship. 236 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 3: One day the person getting abused packs their bag, jumps 237 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 3: in the car, and heads down the highway. And that's 238 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 3: what happened. You actually abused an entire industry to the 239 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 3: point where now one hundred thousand jobs left the state 240 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 3: just in the last four years, just since twenty twenty two. 241 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 3: Good work, Good work to you. Bass and Newsome abused 242 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 3: the Hollywood business to the point this was the signature 243 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 3: business in California for what the. 244 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 2: Last one hundred years. 245 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 3: Has there ever been a news story of feature, a 246 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 3: magazine piece about Los Angeles that did not reference Hollywood 247 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 3: like in the first three paragraphs. Never that was the 248 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 3: Ideenta and Bass, Garcetti, Newsom, Brown actually destroyed it. It's 249 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 3: and the people many of the people in Hollywood kept 250 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 3: electing this crowd, and they'll elect the next Newsome. They'll 251 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 3: be electing Swallwell, or they'll be electing Nathia Rahman. 252 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 2: Inexplicable. 253 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 3: Uh, when we come back, there's a typhus outbreak here 254 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 3: in Los Angeles because of the vagrants and the rats 255 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 3: that live with the vagrants. 256 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 2: I'll tell you about it when we come back. 257 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A 258 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 7: six ron. 259 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 3: From three to six every day after six o'clock, John 260 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 3: Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app, and that's 261 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 3: where you listen to whatever you missed and three o'clock 262 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 3: hour today. In fact, we did more just a few 263 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 3: minutes ago. The huge bust by the Trump administration led 264 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:06,439 Speaker 3: by Bill of Sale, the assistant US Attorney here in 265 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 3: Central California, in the Los Angeles area, and they arrested 266 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:17,640 Speaker 3: fifteen fraudsters, fifteen fraudsters who had stolen sixty million dollars 267 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 3: worth of tax money, fake medicaid medicare. 268 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:29,360 Speaker 2: Services, fake hospice services. Yeah, they had hospices that. 269 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 3: Never had any No dead people were ever carried out 270 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 3: of this hospice. 271 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:35,640 Speaker 2: Fascinating. Now. 272 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 3: This was the stuff that doctor Oz blew the whistle 273 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 3: on way back in January, where stupid ninety three Iq 274 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 3: new Soon said, well, I'm filing a complaint over his racism. 275 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 3: He was going to some government agency to fire a 276 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 3: racial discrimination complaint. 277 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,040 Speaker 2: I don't know because. 278 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 3: New some because Oz said, hey, there are Median and 279 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 3: Russian gangs behind this. Well, it looks like they arrested 280 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 3: some Armenians today. New Some didn't want to bust any 281 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:17,719 Speaker 3: of the fraudsters, and it didn't matter how many hundreds 282 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:21,159 Speaker 3: of millions or billions of dollars is being stolen from taxpayers. 283 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:24,120 Speaker 3: He refused to do it. You go ask him why. 284 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 3: I always suspect kickbacks. But I'm just dark that way. Meantime, 285 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 3: because he and Karen Bass have lost track of billions 286 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 3: of dollars in homeless money and have allowed tens of 287 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:45,720 Speaker 3: thousands of homeless people to live on the streets. Here 288 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 3: in La County, a record number of typhus cases have 289 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:57,239 Speaker 3: been reported, two hundred and twenty cases. And it just 290 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 3: it just turned into April, didn't it. Patients require hospitalization. 291 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 3: Typhus comes from fleas. 292 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 8: I think I have a flea bite on me. 293 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:12,879 Speaker 2: Seriously, are you one of those people? 294 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 1: What? 295 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,360 Speaker 2: No, I truly do I know people? If you talk 296 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 2: about I had it for a couple of days, really 297 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 2: a real flea. 298 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 8: But yes, I think my dogs may have fleas. 299 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 2: You got homeless encampments in your neighborhood. 300 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:29,920 Speaker 9: No, yeah, wash your dogs, I do, and I call 301 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 9: the vet and I'm trying to get their fleas. 302 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 3: U well, doggie shampoo. Well, now you might have typhus, 303 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 3: I know, or your dog might have types. Stay away 304 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 3: from us. Yeah, really, I don't want to. I don't 305 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 3: want to flee jumping off of you and biting me. 306 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 8: I mean, it could be a I don't know. It 307 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 8: could be one of those flying flies. 308 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,159 Speaker 2: And so you had that clean cleanliness of session I do. 309 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 9: I can't help it if a flea jumps on me, 310 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 9: maybe from outside. 311 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 8: I don't know. It could be one of those flies 312 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:58,119 Speaker 8: that bite. 313 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 3: There were outbreaks in uh Santa Monica, Willowbrook, Central City. Oh, 314 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:06,920 Speaker 3: it's almost people, That's what it is. Don't walk near 315 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 3: homeless people. I try not to because mixed among the 316 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 3: homeless people are lots of rats. Because the vagrants leave 317 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 3: food all over the ground and the rats come to 318 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 3: eat it. So the rats come, they bring the fleas 319 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 3: with them. Then the fleas jump on people. 320 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 8: Have you seen fleas jump? 321 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 2: Yes? 322 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:26,440 Speaker 8: I hate those things. 323 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 2: You apparently have more experience than. 324 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 9: I can do because I have dogs and they get fleas. 325 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 9: I mean when it gets hot, you know, you gotta 326 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 9: time the flea medication just right. 327 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 2: How many you have? One bite? 328 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:44,080 Speaker 8: One flea bite? 329 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 9: I think it could be, like I said, one of 330 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 9: those ankle those they're like these little No, don't say 331 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 9: that it was just one. 332 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,879 Speaker 3: It's a doctor month two Davis. Oh you remember this loser. 333 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 3: He was La County health officer. He was like the 334 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 3: number two to that, that freak Barbara Ferrara. Yeah, oh, 335 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 3: I read she's still got that job. And I read 336 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,119 Speaker 3: she's making like seven hundred and eighty four thousand dollars 337 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 3: a year. Yeah, look at Eric's eye. 338 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:18,120 Speaker 2: Bull j out. 339 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:20,200 Speaker 3: You're in the wrong business. Both of you are in 340 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,399 Speaker 3: the wrong business. She doesn't even have a medical degree. 341 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 3: She has one of those bogus social worker degrees, which 342 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 3: you can get online for about fifty dollars with. 343 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 2: Well. 344 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 3: Doctor Muntu here says cases are an all time high 345 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 3: most requiring hospitalization, so use flea, controlling your pets, I 346 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:48,120 Speaker 3: do your your filthy docs, avoid contact with stray animals, 347 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:53,399 Speaker 3: prevent wildlife from living in your home. Yeah, okay, thanks, 348 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 3: thanks one too. You want to you want to hear 349 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 3: the symptoms because I want to get you to start 350 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 3: like scratching yourself already. I am within one or two 351 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 3: weeks of infection and they can include fever, headache, rash, 352 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:06,159 Speaker 3: and body aches. 353 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 8: I have a headache right now. 354 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 3: It just popped in there you go, I'm check your 355 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:14,239 Speaker 3: body for rashes. Okay, you might have an outbreaks. Uh 356 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 3: it says avoid handling or feeding stray animals and just 357 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:24,400 Speaker 3: you know, control your garbage, Matt. But it comes from rodents, 358 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 3: So there you go, an official rodent warning Karen Bass 359 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 3: typhus outbreak. Now there's another story, and Eric, uh, we 360 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 3: can play this one here. Westlake Village, Like, there's two 361 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,960 Speaker 3: west Lakes, right. There's a really nice West Lake that's 362 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 3: up on the lake. 363 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 2: It's really rich. You like going there, right? 364 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 8: I like the restaurants, so do you? 365 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:46,120 Speaker 2: Yeah? I do, and I don't live there. 366 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 3: And then there's the West Lake District in La MacArthur Park. No, 367 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 3: And there's lots of rodents and typhus and homeless people there. Uh, 368 00:22:55,960 --> 00:23:02,160 Speaker 3: and we've got apparently a huge encampment has homeless encampment 369 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 3: has moved in on the Westlake post office. This is 370 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 3: Mark Coda Rublaze eighty seven. 371 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 10: Certainly not the first that we have seen. It's a 372 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,919 Speaker 10: big one though. This specific homeless encampment got some attention 373 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,199 Speaker 10: on social media this week after a woman highlighted its size, 374 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,640 Speaker 10: saying that the tents have gotten well out of control. 375 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 10: We went and checked it out as well today. This 376 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 10: is the view from Air seven the encampment surrounding a 377 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 10: post office on West seventh Street in LA's Westlake district. 378 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 10: Those tents packed in the alleyway and using up parking 379 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 10: spaces intended for the post office. 380 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 11: Well, obviously a post office parking lot is intended for 381 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,159 Speaker 11: the patrons of the post office. So here we have 382 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 11: people that are congregating in areas that are intended for 383 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 11: other purposes due to lack of a better situation. 384 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,680 Speaker 1: That's where we're supposed to go to. You know, put 385 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 1: our mail in the box, and you don't feel shafe 386 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,400 Speaker 1: walking over there because of the homeless, not because you're 387 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,119 Speaker 1: going to get hurt. Core core affected. Yes, you're going 388 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,439 Speaker 1: to get done for money, you get typhen to help them. 389 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: And it's just dirty. It's just filthy and did the 390 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: city is not keeping it clean. 391 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 10: The council member for the area, Unice Hernandez, send us 392 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 10: a statement this afternoon saying that her office is coordinating 393 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,920 Speaker 10: with outreach services and is planning to clean up the. 394 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 2: Site next week. 395 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 10: She also points to work being done several times a 396 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:23,880 Speaker 10: week to remove bulky autumns and bags of litter within 397 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 10: five blocks of MacArthur Park. Mayor Carried Bass also send 398 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 10: us a statement this afternoon describing the situation outside the 399 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 10: post office as unacceptable. We're told that her office will 400 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 10: work with the council members to address. 401 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,399 Speaker 2: Yes, we're always working on it. We're always coordinating. 402 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 3: It's always unacceptable and this is her Nanis and Karen 403 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 3: Bass are two of the biggest boobs that have ever 404 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 3: walked the earth. If you listen to the story, some 405 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 3: people say they have been living there for years and 406 00:24:53,440 --> 00:25:00,679 Speaker 3: others have been staying there for months, months, in years. 407 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,680 Speaker 3: That's like, wow, we're we're coordinating. Uh, you know we're 408 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,920 Speaker 3: gonna be holding We've got a task for us. We're 409 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 3: we're holding meetings now and uh, we're monitoring the situation 410 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 3: and and we're coordinating outreach services. 411 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,920 Speaker 2: Uh yeah, that's that's what you're doing. 412 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 3: No. I, Unices and Hernandez and Karen Bass are absolutely 413 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 3: not bothered by having uh tens of thousands of people 414 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 3: living in the streets. They don't mind the tents, the 415 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:34,199 Speaker 3: disgusting garbage, the needles, the feces. That's another thing. You know, 416 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 3: if you're a flea and Unices Hernandez is meant neighborhood 417 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 3: life could not be better. You know what what we consider, 418 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,399 Speaker 3: you know, the beauty of the real Westlank Well for 419 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 3: a flea, it's the West Lake district that is gourmet dining. 420 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 8: I didn't know. I guess they have a brain. 421 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:55,640 Speaker 2: I don't know they have a flea brain. Yeah. 422 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,680 Speaker 3: And and but they get the best food, right, they 423 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,480 Speaker 3: get the best food from the from the homeless. And 424 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 3: they have you know, the other dead rats that they 425 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:11,159 Speaker 3: could live in. Uh yeah, isn't it. But Unices Hernandez 426 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 3: is monitoring the situation. She's watching the rats crawl up 427 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 3: and down the sidewalk. You know that rat theces uh 428 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 3: you get like hauntavirus from. 429 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 8: That I've seen that in my yard. 430 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,439 Speaker 2: O the rat feces. Yeah, I don't go near that. 431 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 2: Don't breathe that. 432 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:28,640 Speaker 7: I don't. 433 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:30,640 Speaker 2: Are you still scratching yourself? 434 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 3: No? Okay, when we come back, speaking of Unicus Hernandez, 435 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:39,360 Speaker 3: one of the dumbest women in politics, she wants. 436 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:42,440 Speaker 8: Was it her? 437 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 3: Yeah? 438 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 2: I think it was her. 439 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 3: She wants blamed the car companies for all the stolen 440 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 3: catalytic converters, claiming that the car companies should do something 441 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 3: to secure them, not that she and Bass defunded the 442 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 3: police and that's why criminals run around, and that the 443 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 3: sacram legislature got rid of all the criminal penalties. Anyway, 444 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 3: it looks like they found the mother load of cat 445 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 3: stolen catalytic converters. Tell you about it. We come back. 446 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 447 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 7: six forty. 448 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 2: Boise line for tomorrow last call. 449 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 3: If you're good enough, you can still squeak in eight 450 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,120 Speaker 3: seven seven moist eaty six eight seven seven moist eighty six, 451 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 3: or use the talkback feature on the iHeart Radio app. Uh. 452 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 3: Some years ago, Unicus Hernandez, who's really the I believe 453 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 3: the stupidest councilwoman, they've done they've done some testing on 454 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,360 Speaker 3: the LA City Council. She got she got very confused 455 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 3: about catalytic converters. And I bring this up because a 456 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 3: group of law enforcement agencies banded together and they have 457 00:27:53,600 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 3: uncovered stolen catalytic converters, almost two thousand of them worth 458 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,360 Speaker 3: a half a million dollars, that were stolen from cars 459 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 3: in the Los Angeles area. And if I remember rights, 460 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 3: Hernandez thought that it was the car company's fault for 461 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 3: not securing the catalytic converters better underneath the car. And 462 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:26,119 Speaker 3: a catalytic converter is a car exhaust device, and it 463 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:32,120 Speaker 3: turns the bad pollution into less bad pollution. And it's 464 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 3: got a lot of precious metals, so thieves like to 465 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 3: steal them and then have it melted down and everybody 466 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 3: makes money. And she also didn't understand that electric vehicles 467 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,320 Speaker 3: don't have catalytic converters. Listen to this clip from twenty 468 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 3: twenty three. 469 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 12: And please forgive me if this is not appropriate, let 470 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,479 Speaker 12: me know. Okay, but you know, think talking about this 471 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 12: pilot talking about the expansion of fleet vehicles that are 472 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 12: very much tied to electric you know, vehicles and that 473 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 12: whole process. Like I think about the conversation that we 474 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 12: have around the catalytic converter piece, and if their conversation 475 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 12: is being had with like vehicle manufacturers around this piece, 476 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 12: is there any way that we can also incorporate the 477 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 12: ask of them to also install anti catalytic convert theft 478 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 12: in the production of these vehicles so that we're not 479 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 12: having to catch up electric especially considering that a lot 480 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 12: of the EV vehicles are some of the highest targeted 481 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 12: vehicles because of the amount of precious metals within the 482 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 12: catalytic converters. So we are establishing piltly just something that 483 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 12: I think it's important that we ask. And if that's okay, 484 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 12: if I get ask that, thank you, you can certainly 485 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 12: ask it. 486 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 13: So you ask a phenomenal question, because phenomen catalytic converter 487 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 13: theft is an ongoing issue. I'm sure we all have 488 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 13: our ring apps and nextdoor. 489 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 2: Apps and we see those trying to be minting. 490 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,640 Speaker 13: The car on blocks and taking them out in under 491 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 13: two minutes, So that is absolutely a problem. The beauty 492 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 13: of electric vehicles, however, it doesn't have a. 493 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 2: Catalytic Can we just have a. 494 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 13: Battery that effectively has motors, and that connectivity allows for 495 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 13: these systems operating. So there's no tail pie. 496 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 3: For because it doesn't burn gasoline, you know, eliminate from 497 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 3: it runs out of battery. 498 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 2: Of bozo bozette. 499 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 3: If we're in good shape, right here you go, and 500 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:24,959 Speaker 3: this is Hernandez and uh right, the car company's fault. 501 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 3: Hey can't we get electric vehicles? Secure those catalytic converters. 502 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 3: I say, she's below the newsome IQ line, below the line. 503 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 3: If he's ninety three, he's like eighty five. That's my guess. Anyway, 504 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 3: they busted four people, three men and a woman, half 505 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 3: a million dollars of catalytic converters in Norwalk. And let's 506 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 3: see how many agencies the Arcadia Police Department, San Bernardino Sheriffs, 507 00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 3: Los Angeles County Sheriffs, Chino Police, Montclair Police, of Zeus Police, 508 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 3: West Colvina Police, they all got together. They found almost 509 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 3: two thousand converters, which cost like two thousand dollars each. 510 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 3: And they're still looking for more converters and more suspects. 511 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:20,440 Speaker 3: Maybe if you didn't defund the police departments, they could 512 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:24,440 Speaker 3: be caught more quickly. There'd be more cars driving around 513 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 3: to deter the thefts, and then you throw them in 514 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 3: prison for a long time because when they're in prison, 515 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 3: they can't steal anything catalytic converters or any other car part. 516 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 3: Un this is Hernandez and she's running for reelection and 517 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 3: watched they'll reelect her. We've got Conway coming up next. 518 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 3: Podcast is released in a few minutes. Mark Ronner in 519 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 3: for Michael Krozer live in the KFI twenty for our newsroom. 520 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,720 Speaker 3: You've been listening to the John Cobelt Show podcast. You 521 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 3: can always hear the show live on KFI AM six 522 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 3: forty from three to six pm every Monday through Friday, 523 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 3: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app. 524 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,640 Speaker 7: K f I A M six four stimulating talk