1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 1: Podcast on the iHeartRadio app on from one until four 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 1: and after four four o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand. 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: That's the podcast version on the iHeart app. Now, you 5 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: may remember some weeks ago out in the Mojave Desert 6 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: they found the lots of dead bodies, six people shot dead, 7 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: four of them burned, and one was shot inside a car. 8 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: And they only identified at the time four of the 9 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: six victims according to the story I had. And but 10 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: here's here's the newest twist. Five other guys have been 11 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:49,160 Speaker 1: arrested in connection with the deaths. So we have five 12 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: arrests over the six deaths, all men. And what's the 13 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: reason for all this. Well, we're going to talk to 14 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: Blake Trolley Cafe Ie News. See what he's done. 15 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, So, John, just to backtrack a little bit here. 16 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 2: These are still the five guys that were arrested in January. 17 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 3: But what we are learning now. 18 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 2: Is that this shooting and that these killings were likely 19 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 2: the result of a larger border issue. Just to recap, 20 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 2: as you said, back in January, six people were shot 21 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 2: and killed in El Mirage and what investigators was saying 22 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 2: was a turf war over marijuana. This happened in a 23 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 2: really remote area that's a hot spot for illegal marijuana grows. 24 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 2: In this case, you had two cars park for what 25 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 2: may have been a meetup, when it sounds like the 26 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 2: guys in the cars were a bushed. The shooting was 27 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 2: actually called in by one guy. You tried to make 28 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 2: a run for it and collapse, so his body was 29 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 2: found the next day a short distance away. Another guy 30 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 2: was found in one of the two part cars, and 31 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 2: then as you mentioned, four of the bodies, this would 32 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 2: be the other four people were burned. It appears now 33 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 2: that just about everybody except for one guy involved in 34 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 2: the shooting, so this would be both the suspected shooters 35 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 2: and the victims, was in the country illegally. Preliminary information 36 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 2: from the Sammard County Sheriff's Department now shows that all 37 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 2: five alleged shooters we're here illegally from Mexico, two were 38 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 2: living in Apple Valley, and three were living in Atlanto. 39 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,799 Speaker 2: Of the people shot, we're now being told that two 40 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 2: were here from Honduras, one from Al Salvador, and two 41 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 2: from Mexico. Now on the victim side. One of those people, 42 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 2: we're not exactly sure who. We just know that it's 43 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 2: somebody in that group was here with a work visa. 44 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 2: So I do want to make that distinguishment now, even 45 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 2: as of today, I had asked San Maarino County Sheriff 46 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 2: Shannon Dykas, if this appears to be a cartel involved crime, 47 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 2: you wouldn't go as far as to confirm that. 48 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 3: But here's where things are at right now. 49 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,800 Speaker 4: Really, the evidence you see, it's most you know, cartel 50 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 4: homicides of the burning of the bodies and the thing. 51 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 4: There are a number of consistencies, based on our training 52 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,639 Speaker 4: and experience, that appear to be related to a cartel. 53 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 4: But to get that confirmation that will come from the 54 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 4: federal government side of this, as they continue to do 55 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 4: there fortionate the investigation. 56 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 2: So you got the sheriff's department investigating the murders of 57 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 2: these people because that is the local issue, is the murders. Now, 58 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 2: as far as all the immigration status goes, how these 59 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 2: guys were in the country where they were at, you know, 60 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 2: as far as it goes with customs, all of that 61 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 2: is being handled by the Department of Homeland Security and 62 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 2: the FEDS. 63 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,799 Speaker 1: So we don't know how long they've been living here 64 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: and operating their businesses. 65 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,359 Speaker 3: No, we don't. And you know, John, this case really 66 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 3: presents the question. 67 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 2: You know, I know the sheriff Shannondykas came out saying 68 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 2: that this put you know, shows a need to possibly 69 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 2: change marijuana laws. But now there is also a question 70 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 2: do sanctuary state laws need to be altered to go 71 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 2: after the elicit marijuana market. You know, laws passed in 72 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,119 Speaker 2: twenty eighteen in California, so this would be SB fifty four. 73 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 2: They blocked the sheriff's departments and really all police departments 74 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 2: from being able to coordinate with federal Immigration police on 75 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 2: lower level crime. Well, marijuana falls into that category. So 76 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 2: I was speaking with Shannondykas earlier today and he said, 77 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 2: if it wasn't for SB fifty four, when deputies go 78 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 2: out on these illegal marijuana grows, they'd be able to 79 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 2: kick out a lot of the workers because a lot 80 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 2: of the workers came here illegally. And Sheriff Dikas is 81 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 2: saying they'd be able to prevent human trafficking on these farms. 82 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 3: Listen to this. 83 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 4: It is not uncommon where we see the human trafficking 84 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 4: side of the illicit marijuana production. Many people that come 85 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 4: across the border are illegal immigrants and at the same time, 86 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 4: maybe they were tasked with this is how they work 87 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 4: off their transportation to get across the border. 88 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: So Dikes is saying we're able to go that California 89 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: law keeps law enforcement from rescuing all the people trafficked 90 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 1: and forced into labor on these marijuana farms. 91 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 2: Well, it definitely makes it harder for them to investigate 92 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,160 Speaker 2: because they can't ask any questions on their immigration status. 93 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 2: And right now, as you just heard, a lot of 94 00:04:58,160 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 2: people are coming over here and they're told to work 95 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 2: on these farms. What I can tell you, John, is 96 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 2: that on the farm I was on back in twenty 97 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 2: twenty one, the living quarters in this farm looked pretty inhumane, 98 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 2: and I had suspected that there was some sort of 99 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 2: human trafficking on this farm. I know it wasn't questioned, 100 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 2: but it appeared so. I mean people were sleeping in 101 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 2: these like wood hut boxes out in the desert. 102 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean you just have to use your 103 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,039 Speaker 1: eyes and you could see what's going on here is 104 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 1: these guys are being smuggled in and they're being forced 105 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: to as farm labor, to work on the marijuana farms. 106 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,600 Speaker 1: And there's probably a lot of people who don't understand 107 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,159 Speaker 1: that if we legalize marijuana, why is there such a 108 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:42,159 Speaker 1: huge illegal marijuana market there, that they have these massive 109 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 1: farms and all these workers and you have these drug 110 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 1: cartel shootings, And it's because the illegal marijuana is cheaper. 111 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,039 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's much cheaper. I mean, even if you go 112 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 2: into the city of Los Angeles. You know, I made 113 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 2: a whole documentary about this, and it was fascinating to 114 00:05:57,560 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 2: see all the different layers to this. One thing was 115 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 2: just the level of taxation that's put on marijuana in California, 116 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 2: from the moment it's cultivated to when you're actually buying 117 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:09,279 Speaker 2: it in a store. And somebody told me, even the dispensaries, 118 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 2: a lot of the dispensaries you see aren't actually legitimate. 119 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 2: And you'll see these sweeps happen in Los Angeles where 120 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 2: the laped will go in and shut a lot of 121 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:20,039 Speaker 2: them down. They look like legitimate stores, but they're selling 122 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 2: the illicit product at a lot cheaper price, all. 123 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: Right, And they haven't given a hant over which specific 124 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: cartels may be involved. 125 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 4: In this no. 126 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 2: I had asked the sheriff about that, and it sounds 127 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 2: like that's going to be part of the federal investigation. 128 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 2: So I have reached out to the Department of Homeland 129 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 2: Security to try to get more clarity on all those 130 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 2: questions you're asking, how long have they been here, you know, 131 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 2: how did they get into the country, you know? And 132 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 2: is there does there appear to be any cartel involvement? 133 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:51,280 Speaker 2: I mean, investigators here locally are sure not being shy 134 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 2: to say, look, look at this crime. You got six 135 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 2: people shots and bodies burned. This certainly looks like a 136 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 2: duck and walks like a duck. 137 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. And how much of this is there? 138 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: How many acres of marijuana fields are growing? 139 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 2: Let me just give you the numbers from twenty twenty three, 140 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 2: and this might give you give you an idea, John 141 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 2: of how much of an issue this is out in 142 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 2: the desert. And keep in mind, it's not just the violence. 143 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 2: I mean, the sheriff did tell me in a recent 144 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 2: interview that a lot of times when they find bodies, 145 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 2: these things actually lead back to some of these illicit growth. 146 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 2: But there's other issues. One of them is carboferon which 147 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 2: is a pesticide that's used that's highly toxic. In fact, 148 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 2: on the right along I was on, they found this 149 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 2: stuff and they had to call out the hazmat team. 150 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 2: I went on another ride along with the California Department 151 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 2: of Fish and Wildlife and they had talked about how 152 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 2: a mountain lion had actually died from eating carbofuron, So 153 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 2: highly toxic chemicals. On top of that water diversion. 154 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: Right, are people smoking these chemicals? 155 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, these chemicals are getting into the illicit product. So yeah, 156 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 2: it's pretty sketchy stuff. Well, anyways, Shannon Dyka says that 157 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty three, his department served four hundred 158 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 2: and eleven warrants for illegal marijuana gross sites, recovered six 159 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 2: hundred and fifty five plants, and a wopping three hundred 160 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 2: and seventy million dollars. So this is major business out there. 161 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 2: And you know, John, there's other drug issues, especially as 162 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 2: it pertains to human trafficking. 163 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 3: We spoke last week. I spoke to the sheriff about this. 164 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 3: He says that. 165 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 2: Since twenty twenty two, deputies on a specialized operation I've 166 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 2: recovered more than one hundred and ninety pounds of fentanyl 167 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 2: and get this more than two thousand, seven hundred pounds 168 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 2: of meth. And he says, in a lot of these cases, 169 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 2: again they're blocked from talking to federal immigrations officials about this, 170 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 2: and this stuff's getting trafficked in by people that you know, 171 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 2: this is how they're paying off their immigration. 172 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: It's just like the federal mistake. Government are going out 173 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 1: of their way to facilitate this massive import of drugs 174 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: and the farming of drugs here and the human trafficking 175 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:01,199 Speaker 1: that goes with it. I sometimes I think they must 176 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: be getting kickbacks, the state legislators and the federal government. 177 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 1: They must have a piece of the action, because all 178 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 1: their decisions make this worse, make it more widespread and 179 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: more lucrative. 180 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 3: I really want to know where the taxes are going 181 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 3: to be out on marijuana. 182 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 2: You know, when I made this documentary, I remember that 183 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 2: was something that the governor had said when he was 184 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 2: rolling out his budget. He was questioned about it by 185 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 2: a reporter if he was going to address taxes, and 186 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 2: he says, and he said he was. This was like 187 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,839 Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, and you know, it still 188 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,679 Speaker 2: seems like the taxation on marijuana is obviously high enough 189 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 2: to support this illicit market. 190 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 1: Huge black market. All right, Blake, very good, thank you 191 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: very much. All right, we're coming on Blake Trolley KFI News. 192 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 1: I mean, see what's going on here. First of all, 193 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,599 Speaker 1: we've got a wide open border, right, and then we 194 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:53,680 Speaker 1: have this stupid SB fifty four which prevents law enforcement 195 00:09:53,880 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 1: from even questioning the illegal alien drug farm workers. You 196 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 1: can't question them, you can't find out their immigration status, 197 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 1: which limits limits your ability to find out who is 198 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 1: behind this entire business operation. Then you legalize marijuana, but 199 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: you tax it so heavily that you create a massive 200 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 1: illegal market. And then here they come over the border 201 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 1: and and these people are forced to work in the fields. 202 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 1: This is uh, this is uh like like when women 203 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 1: get dragged over the border and they're they're forced into prostitution. 204 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: This is how you pay off the bill for getting 205 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: smuggled in. And this is all all the policies encourage 206 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 1: more of this massive profits for the drug cartels. We're 207 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: coming up. 208 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A 209 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:58,239 Speaker 5: M six forty. 210 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: Round from one and the after four o'clock John Cobelt 211 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: Show on demand on the iHeart app voice line already 212 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: open taking your calls for Friday eight seven seven Moist 213 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,680 Speaker 1: eighty six, eight seven seven Moist eighty six. I found 214 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 1: this over the weekend and I've been looking at it 215 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: because I'm trying to figure out how I can, if 216 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: I can be able to transmit this effectively. So you understand, 217 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 1: we all know that Joe Biden's brain and body are 218 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:32,319 Speaker 1: failing badly and he's got no business being president or 219 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: running for president again. And there's a lot of stupid 220 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 1: political parties in Zutro say no, no, no, he's vigorous. 221 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 1: Sunday he's no. He's shot, and we all know he's shot. 222 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: Whether you like him or not. He shot. And remember 223 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: Robert Hurt came out the Special Counsel with an investigative 224 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: report on Biden and all the classified documents that he 225 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,559 Speaker 1: had that he never never should have taken with him. 226 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: And it turns out he had documents fifty years going 227 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: back to when he was senator, and they were at 228 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: his house, his main house, the beach home, the Vice 229 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: Presidential home, at the Naval Observatory, and her eventually issued 230 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: a report where he said that Biden is not going 231 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 1: to be prosecuted in part because he didn't think a 232 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: jury would convict a well meaning elderly man with you know, 233 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:37,680 Speaker 1: serious memory issues. Well, in the National Review, I think 234 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: his I think this is either Dan McLaughlin or Andy McCarthy. 235 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 1: They both write on legal issues. Lawyers very smart, and 236 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 1: they spend the time looking at documents and reading transcripts. 237 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: And one of them went through the transcript of Robert 238 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:03,839 Speaker 1: hurrying Joe Biden, and I'm going to read you. It's 239 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 1: actually a paraphrase of Joe Biden's response to one single question. 240 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:15,839 Speaker 1: It's on page fifty five. Simple question. Robert hur asked 241 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:21,679 Speaker 1: Biden in what workspaces he kept documents at his vice 242 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: presidential residence, which is the Naval Observatory. Kamala Harris is 243 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:30,080 Speaker 1: living there now, so that's all. It's like, where did 244 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: you keep the documents when you were living at the 245 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:35,439 Speaker 1: Naval Observatory when you were vice president? This would be 246 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: about twenty sixteen. This is a summary of Biden's response. Now, 247 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: the actual response is seven pages long. Right now, the 248 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: simple response should be, well, I had a file cabinet 249 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: in my office. I had several drawers in the basement 250 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:58,560 Speaker 1: where I put the file. There was something like that, 251 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 1: where do you keep your papers? Well, Biden began by 252 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 1: recounting that quote. I was the guy who wrote the 253 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 1: Violence Against Women Act. Then he said that agriculture is 254 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: a four billion dollar industry in Delaware and the del 255 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 1: Marve Peninsula. Then he went on to a law school 256 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 1: torts class and he was applauded for speaking ten minutes 257 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: about a case he had not read. Then he said, 258 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 1: to make a long story short. He got a job 259 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: out of law school at a firm in Delaware, and 260 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 1: then he said, to make a long story not quite 261 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 1: so long. He participated in a case where he was 262 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 1: waiting for his bar results. It was about a poor 263 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: kid who is down one hundred foot vessel chimney scraping 264 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: hydrogen bubbles off the inside. But he was wearing the 265 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: wrong pants, the wrong jeans, and then spark caught fire 266 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: and he was caught in the containment vestible, and he 267 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 1: lost part of his penis in one of his testicles, 268 00:14:55,960 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: and he was twenty three years old. This is just 269 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: a summary of all the topics. This is only part 270 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: of it, right seven pages long, So every one of 271 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: those lines I read had a longer story attached to it. 272 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 1: Then he talks about. The senior partner told Biden to 273 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: write a memo supporting a motion to dismiss the case, 274 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: and son of a Bee, it prevailed, and he Biden thought, 275 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: son of a bee, I'm in the wrong business. I'm 276 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: not made for this. Then the senior partner invites him 277 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 1: to go to the Wilmington Club, where no blacks Catholics 278 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 1: are allowed. They have not been allowed to be members 279 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: the DuPont family name, it's an old, rich Delaware family. 280 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: Biden recalled being taken aback by the will Wilmington Club invitation. 281 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: And the only time I ever lied is I can 282 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: remember look somebody in the eye. He made up a 283 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 1: story that his father was coming to visit that day. 284 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: He goes on and on. Let me skip ahead. And 285 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: the whole point of telling you this is that I 286 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: had a lot of material I kept notes on about 287 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. And when he was twenty six or 288 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: twenty seven, I went to work part time for a 289 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: criminal deference firm, mainly a real estate There were five people, 290 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: and so I was no longer a public defender. But 291 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 1: he wanted to start his own law firms instead. So 292 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 1: to make a long story short, he ended up running 293 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: for city council, but he wanted to be sure I 294 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: was going to lose, so he ran in a district 295 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: and no Democrat had ever won, and I won it. 296 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: And next thing you know, I'm in a tough position. 297 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: Seven minutes of this, and everybody wonders, why did her 298 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 1: say he was an elderly man with a poor memory. 299 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: He's being exceedingly polite. He's back leap crazy. All he 300 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: had to say is I had I had the papers. 301 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: I put in a cabinet or in a drawer, or 302 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 1: in a folder, or on top of the refrigerator, or 303 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 1: under the sofa, wherever he was hiding the classified documents. 304 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 1: Just say where he put him And instead it was 305 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: seven pages worth of this. I'd read you all seven pages, 306 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: but you drive off the road and hit a tree. 307 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: Remember that next time you hear one of these phony, 308 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 1: stupid TV debates about Biden's mind. It's gone. It's gone. 309 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: We're coming up. 310 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A 311 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 5: six forty. 312 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:20,399 Speaker 1: Well, it looks like we have the the final page, 313 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: the final chapter of the Great Oregon Drug Decriminalization Experiment. 314 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 1: Sometimes it might feel like California has the stupidest policies 315 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 1: in America. That we have the most failures, that we 316 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:42,639 Speaker 1: have the most idiotic progressive ideas taken to their taken 317 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,679 Speaker 1: to their extreme, and we have a fair amount of that. 318 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:49,479 Speaker 1: We have a lot of failed, stupid progressive ideas that 319 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 1: they've put into law. There's no question we lived at 320 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: the consequences every day. But Oregon beat us out when 321 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:03,160 Speaker 1: it came to decriminalizing drugs. And there was a ballot 322 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: initiative initiative only four years ago. It was called Measure 323 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: one ten, and it would it decriminalized possessing even hard drugs. 324 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: You could have meth, cocaine, heroine, all of it, and 325 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: at worst you would get a ticket for one hundred dollars. 326 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 1: And you could get the one hundred dollars ticket waived 327 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 1: if you called a toll free number for a health assessment, 328 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 1: and purpose that of that was they might be able 329 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: to talk you into treatment once you dial the hotline. Now, 330 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 1: can you imagine how muddled your brain has to be 331 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 1: to think that you Because Oregon has been beset by massive, 332 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 1: by a massive number of people living and dying in 333 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 1: the streets from drugs, there are lots of bodies piled up, 334 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 1: especially in Portland. All right, So there were so many 335 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: bodies piled up because they didn't enforce any laws. Right, 336 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:19,199 Speaker 1: So when you don't enforce any laws, here's what's happened. 337 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,199 Speaker 1: Of course, we knew that when we were kids. You 338 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 1: knew all you had to do is sit through grade school, 339 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,919 Speaker 1: and if you had a strict teacher, the class was orderly, 340 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:32,680 Speaker 1: and if you had a teacher that was too lenient, 341 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:38,120 Speaker 1: the class was mayhem. You know, by time you're six, seven, 342 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 1: eight years old, you know that, right, the more rules 343 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:45,479 Speaker 1: there are, reasonable rules, the more peaceful the class is, 344 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: and the more productive everyone is. But imagine how muddled 345 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:54,200 Speaker 1: all these silly progressive adults are that they think you 346 00:19:54,280 --> 00:20:03,199 Speaker 1: can let people take as much cocaine, heroin, meth, fentinyl, LSD, molly, 347 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 1: all of it and nothing bad is going to happen. 348 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 1: What kind of feeble minded fool do you have to be? 349 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 1: I think a lot of the people who run Oregon 350 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 1: are probably on drugs, have been on drugs for a 351 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:19,639 Speaker 1: long time, and have pretty extensive brain damage. Because nobody 352 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: rational would think decriminalizing all drugs was going to turn 353 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:28,879 Speaker 1: out well. But hey, so in Oregon they passed Measure 354 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: one to ten with fifty nine percent of the vote. 355 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 1: That's a pretty big win, almost sixty forty. And what happened, well, 356 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 1: they ended up with people laying in the streets whacked 357 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,159 Speaker 1: out on heroin and fentanyl or they're jacked up on 358 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 1: methan cocaine and they're going crazy and slamming themselves into walls. 359 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,199 Speaker 1: And of course there's a lot of crime, and of 360 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: course there's a lot of theft, shoplifting, burglaries, there's a 361 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 1: lot of public intoxication. There's people urinating and defecating. Right, 362 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,640 Speaker 1: Everything that came out of it was bad. Everything came 363 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,239 Speaker 1: out of it, and it's just fascinating to me that 364 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: you could have millions of people in twenty twenty four 365 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 1: with all the education available, and they still would think 366 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 1: having absolutely no public limits on drug possession and drug 367 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 1: use would turn out. Well, well, they got what they 368 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,639 Speaker 1: asked for, and again, the way it worked was no 369 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 1: criminal penalties for a possession of small amounts of meth heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, 370 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 1: and they were going to spend money on the loxone 371 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:50,879 Speaker 1: distribution that reverses fentanyl overdoses that's right. Don't curb the 372 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: possession of fentadyl. Spend more money on a drug that 373 00:21:54,960 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 1: reverses the overdose. Okay anyway, But after three years of 374 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:10,679 Speaker 1: this disaster, sixty four percent wanted the thing repealed. The 375 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,879 Speaker 1: progressives who promoted the bill originally said why this is 376 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 1: a racial justice policy because a disproportionate amount of people 377 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: of color were getting arrested on drug crimes. Well the appeal. 378 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: The support for repeal was especially strong among black and 379 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:37,439 Speaker 1: Hispanic citizens in Oregon. Their neighborhoods got the worst of it. 380 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,439 Speaker 1: If their neighborhoods had a disproportionate number of addicts, their 381 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,640 Speaker 1: neighborhoods ended up with a disproportionate number of people laying 382 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 1: in the straits. Measure one ten did not reduce Oregan's 383 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:58,680 Speaker 1: drug problems. The drug overdose death rate increased by forty 384 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 1: three in its first year and kept rising after that. 385 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 1: The latest data showed that deaths by overdose grew forty 386 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 1: one percent versus two percent nationwide. I think when you 387 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: live in Los Angeles or San Francisco, or Portland or Seattle, 388 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 1: you don't understand that what you're experiencing is not being 389 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:28,160 Speaker 1: experienced in the other forty seven states. It's simply not happening. 390 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 1: The overdose deaths increased two percent nationwide and an Oregon 391 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: forty one percent. Now, what was the only state that 392 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: decriminalized all those drugs? It was Oregon. What a perfect 393 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:48,120 Speaker 1: test case for this progressive insanity. And that's why I'm 394 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: kind of enjoying all this because you know this had 395 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 1: to happen. You had to say, fine, let's have it 396 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:57,879 Speaker 1: your way. You're always angry, agitating, yelling, calling everybody a 397 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: bunch of racists because we have drug crimes. F okay, 398 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 1: let's do it your way. What's going to happen. What 399 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 1: they ended up doing is they ended up killing more 400 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: black and Hispanic citizens. More blacks and more Hispanics died 401 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 1: because they criminalized drugs. Hey, that's equity, that's good. So 402 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 1: instead of the criminal penalties, like I mentioned, you got 403 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 1: one hundred dollars ticket for drug possession, you get the 404 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 1: fine waved if you called a toll free number. Ninety 405 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 1: five percent of people ignored the ticket, ninety five percent 406 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: because there was no consequence. You got one hundred dollars fine, 407 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 1: But if you didn't pay it, they never came for you, 408 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,879 Speaker 1: which means there really was no fine. They had that 409 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:43,400 Speaker 1: hotline number, so few people called. Remember these were drug 410 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 1: addicts that it costs seven thousand dollars per completed phone call, 411 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 1: seven thousand dollars. Huge open air drug martch markets appeared 412 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 1: sharp rise in violent crime. By the way, violent crime 413 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 1: is falling around the nation, it's increasing sharply in Oregon. 414 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,879 Speaker 1: Why because you legalize drugs. They needed more money for 415 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 1: those drugs. And in this story, which was written by 416 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: someone in the drug treatment industry, pointed to one aspect 417 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 1: that was overlooked. Fentomylon meth addiction is not like having 418 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: any other medical problem where you're motivated to seek treatment. 419 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 1: It's not like being depressed. It's not like having chronic 420 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,400 Speaker 1: pain or cancer. There's a motivation there to seek treatment. 421 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,440 Speaker 1: But when you're addicted to drugs, every time you take 422 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,879 Speaker 1: a hit and it feels good, and if you're addicted, 423 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 1: you don't want to give that up. See an addict 424 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 1: focuses on the moment he gets high. He doesn't think 425 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 1: about the general state of his life dysfunction. He doesn't 426 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 1: notice it anymore, care about it anymore. All he's waiting 427 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 1: for is the next high. And that's why virtually no 428 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: one went for treatment in Oregon until they died in 429 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:15,399 Speaker 1: the streets. And enough people died in the streets that 430 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 1: eventually the Oregonians realized, well, this isn't very compassionate. I mean, 431 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 1: I'm a progressive and I believe in compassion. Right, They 432 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:26,479 Speaker 1: couldn't see that coming more coming up. 433 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A 434 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 5: six forty. 435 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: You know often I'm guilty of this too. You hear about, 436 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 1: you know, start being broken into and why is everyone 437 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 1: just standing there? Why did all people do or take 438 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:48,400 Speaker 1: out their phones? And you know, there's this natural response 439 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 1: to hey, why doesn't somebody stop the thief? Why doesn't 440 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:56,640 Speaker 1: somebody help the woman out? Well, it's because this happens. 441 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,040 Speaker 1: We're gonna play you a story from ABC seven. The 442 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,879 Speaker 1: reporter is Tim Pulliam, and here's what happened to a 443 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: guy who wanted to be a good Samaritan and chased 444 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,400 Speaker 1: down a suspect who'd robbed a woman. 445 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 6: Brian Takun snapping this image from his hospital bed a 446 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 6: painful reminder he survived a violent stabbing after helping a 447 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 6: woman who had just been robbed. 448 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 7: I asked, you know what had happened and told me 449 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 7: she had been assaulted. Set at every street, had he 450 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 7: glargansenter herself phone. 451 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 6: The coon says it happened last Sunday morning near Broadway 452 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 6: and Pine in Long Beach, where he operates his food truck. 453 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 6: After seeing the woman in distress, the coon says he 454 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 6: hopped in his food truck and drove after the robber, 455 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 6: catching the man near Lincoln Park, he says police arrived, 456 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 6: taking the thief into custody. 457 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 7: You know, the brief suff for I felt like maybe 458 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 7: I had dislocated my shoulders. I didn't really think too 459 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 7: much of. 460 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 6: It, please say the woman suffered a minor injury, but 461 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 6: within hours he was in hospital wounded from a punctured lung. 462 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,399 Speaker 6: After three days in the hospital, he says, doctors believe 463 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 6: it could take several weeks at home for a full recovery. 464 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 1: His injuries forcing him to close his food truck. 465 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 7: You know, we're a small business, so definitely this is 466 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 7: our only source of job. You know what my family 467 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,920 Speaker 7: depends on what my employees family has been on as well. 468 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 6: The community rallying around Brian his goalfundme to support his 469 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 6: medical bills and living expenses, surpassing its goal. 470 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 7: I definitely appreciate everybody's donations and all the love and support. 471 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 7: I really don't think I'm. 472 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 6: A hero or anything you know of. 473 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 7: If I see something, I'm gonna do something. You know, 474 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 7: it's just the way we're brought up. 475 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 1: I love that. 476 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 6: Brian says, once he's back on his feet, he wants 477 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 6: to reopen his food truck with the celebration for the community. 478 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 6: Police identify this with the robbery suspect is Alexander Pearson, 479 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 6: a twenty nine year old from LA I like the report, 480 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 6: go I love that because the guy said, oh, well, 481 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 6: that's the way I was raised in or to help people. 482 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 1: Oh I love that. Yeah, except you end up with 483 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: your lung getting punjured. You end up getting a deep 484 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 1: stab wound. If your lungest punctured, he easily could have 485 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: plunged the knife into your heart or an artery, and 486 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 1: you got to close your talk. It's really nice that 487 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 1: you know the local people are contributing to his GoFundMe, 488 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: but you end up closing. He has to close his 489 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: taco truck for weeks while he's healing. See, this is 490 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 1: something the police supposed to take care of the police 491 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: and law enforcement and the district attorney supposed to create 492 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 1: an environment where people don't do this that much because 493 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 1: they're gonna get caught and they're gonna get thrown in prison, 494 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: and it's going to be a difficult, unpleasant experience, and 495 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 1: so they decide not to do it again. But we don't. 496 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 1: We don't have that system. So it leaves it to 497 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: frustrated citizens who finally lose their temper and go chasing 498 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 1: a bad guy down the street. And what do you 499 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 1: get for it. You get a knife in the shoulder, 500 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,480 Speaker 1: you get a knife in the back, you get a 501 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 1: punctured lung. Your business closes for weeks. And the reporter says, 502 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, yeah, buddy, you go do it. 503 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 1: You go take on the next Robert with with your 504 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: your microphone and your notepad. See how that flies. All right, 505 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 1: we come back, Michael Monks. This stuff is hard to believe. 506 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: But Monica Ridriguez is one of those dim witted LA councilwomen, 507 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 1: and she's got this great idea to fight homelessness. How 508 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 1: about a new homeless agency in the city of Los Angeles, 509 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: a new Department of homelessness. How many thousands of employees 510 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 1: do you think we have fighting homelessness? Well, she wants 511 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 1: more the department. We didn't have a Department of Homelessness, 512 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: I guess because that's the official name in the press release, 513 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 1: the Department of Homelessness. Who know that's coming up next? 514 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,960 Speaker 1: Michael Monks from CAFI. Who's gonna explain this? 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