1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Can if I am six forty you're listening to the 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:06,559 Speaker 1: John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app. We need to 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: hear from you Friday moistline eight seven seven, Moist eighty 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: six eight seven seven Moist eighty six. It's toll for 5 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: you anywhere in the world. Or you can use the 6 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 1: talkback feature on the iHeart app. So you better call 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 1: now and vent unleash you're inner beast and we'll play 8 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: it back on Friday. All right, the Otani thing, I'm 9 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: going to assume you know what I'm talking about here. 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: I have to set the whole thing up, but it 11 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:43,520 Speaker 1: centers on the interpreter if a Misihara getting his hands 12 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: on four and a half million dollars of Otani's money 13 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: through nine wire transfers. I assume a half million dollars 14 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: for each wire transfer and sending it to Matthew Boyer, 15 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: the bookie in Orange County, to cover Missihara's debts. And 16 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: you remember at the beginning they had multiple stories. The 17 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: Elsagunda time says the story seemed to change by the hour, 18 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: and the original story from Izahara in a ninety minute 19 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: interview was yeah bad, I have a bad gambling problem. 20 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 1: And Otani bailed me out, And eventually it became Otani saying, 21 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: I have no idea how he got the money. I 22 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 1: had nothing to do with this. I didn't nothing. But 23 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: they will not address how he could get a hold 24 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,399 Speaker 1: of the money. And and some people I hear saying, wow, 25 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 1: you know, maybe Motani gave him, you know, the biking information. 26 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, I could see you given your your 27 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:45,680 Speaker 1: close friend. I mean he's practically your personal assistant, your 28 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: pin number if you need to get a few hundred 29 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: dollars out of an ATM machine, right, But a wire 30 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: transfer thing, if you haven't done one, is a little 31 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: more complicated than that. And when you're when you're when 32 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: you're sucking out four and a half million dollars, you 33 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: have to get approval from various bank personnel, and they 34 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: want approval from you or your personnel that are running 35 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: your financial empire. So the El Segundo Times had had 36 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: the same questions we did. I am not crazy here, 37 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: multiple sources because in that press conference, oh, Tony should 38 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: have explained all this period, how did he get your 39 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 1: four and a half million? Well, I don't know. Well, 40 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: you do know, Okay, somebody in your camp does, because 41 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: the bank doesn't let a guy like Missuharror just show 42 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: up and take out four and a half billion dollars. 43 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: Does he need to tell us that? Or does he 44 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: need to tell the investigators that? 45 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 2: Because maybe he didn't say it in the press conference 46 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 2: and maybe he's just telling the investigators what they need 47 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 2: to know. 48 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: I assume he has to tell the investors, yeah, right, 49 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 1: because he got so much online. But I personally want 50 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: to know. He has to tell me. You want to know, right, No, 51 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: of course, how much have you paid for Dodger tickets? 52 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: A lot of money? Okay, so you want to know, right? 53 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: You want to know which way the season's gone? Yes, 54 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: baby Debor doesn't want to know? Yeah, no, of course 55 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: I'm curious about that. 56 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 2: Uh. 57 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: Anyway, multiple sources confirmed that they were all wire transfers. 58 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: So let me let me move on here. Okay. So 59 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,520 Speaker 1: they talked to a former FBI agent named Peter Groupi. 60 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: He ran the FBI's White Collar Crime Division in New York. 61 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: He says, the one question I would have, the one question, 62 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: who had the authority to execute these wire transfers? He 63 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 1: said it would be highly unlikely that o'tani didn't have 64 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: a business manager or someone in a similar role who 65 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: could have flagged these unusual withdrawals. Second one second question 66 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: from John Holden, a professor at Oklahoma State who studies 67 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: the gambling industry. Why would any illegal bookmaker allow Missahara 68 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: to run up a debt in the millions of dollars? 69 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: You know, there's this whole thing about you got to 70 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: know your customer. If there's a guy running up millions 71 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: of dollars in debt, how does the book baker know 72 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: he's going to cover it? He's bing it. I mean, 73 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: you don't. And this is this is a this is 74 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: a great I hadn't even thought of this one because 75 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: miss Ahara was well paid. But it's not like he 76 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: was excessively wealthy. He's been getting paid between three and 77 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 1: five hundred dollars three and five hundred thousand dollars. They 78 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: worked for the Angels for a number of years, and 79 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: then they moved over to the Dodgers in the offseason. 80 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 1: This really is more of an Angel's story anyway. Okay, 81 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: why does an illegal book baker allow Missihara to run 82 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: up this debt? Says John Holden. Something's not adding up. 83 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 1: You don't expect an illegal bookie to do this. If 84 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 1: you suspect someone is stealing a lot of money and 85 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: wagering it with you, that's going to bring in a 86 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: lot of unwanted attention on you as well. Aha. Matthew 87 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: Baller knows he's running an I llegal bookie operation, right, 88 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 1: and you have to be a little bit on edge 89 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: every day of your life. Now he's getting a guy 90 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: no way. An interpreter has got four and a half 91 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: million dollars lying around. But Bowyer allows him to run 92 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:20,039 Speaker 1: up this huge debt and doesn't question it. Knows he's 93 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: good for the money, not worried that Misihara is stealing it. 94 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 1: Because if Bowyer is receiving stolen funds from Misahara, well 95 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 1: that's another layer of danger, legal danger that Bowyer's in 96 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,919 Speaker 1: Holden says, if you're a bookie of any variety, you 97 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 1: probably have questions about where people are getting the money. Now, 98 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: let's go back to the press conference. Remember Otani was 99 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 1: reading from a script. He was reading from notes in 100 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: Japanese and it was translated by the new interpreter. No 101 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: questions were allowed. Okay, that that's a red flag there. 102 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: So the Elskunda Times starts calling up everyone connected with Otani. 103 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: He's got an agent, Nez Balllo at CIA, and then 104 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: a crisis public relations manager called in return. This is 105 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:33,039 Speaker 1: a publicist named Matthew Hiltzick. Listen to his clients, Harvey Weinstein, 106 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: Alec Baldwin, say that one guy who's raped a slew 107 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 1: of Hollywood actresses. Baldwin who most recently shot a woman 108 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: to death, Johnny Depp, who had that wild situation with 109 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 1: Amber heard in Hillary Clinton's US Senate campaign. What a 110 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: gallery of criminals in near criminals? 111 00:06:57,760 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 3: Huh. 112 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: So this Hiltzik represents Harvey Weinstein, Alec Baldwin, Johnny Depp, 113 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton, and Shohe Otani. Otani also has Andrew Brettler, 114 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 1: a West Hollywood lawyer who's represented convicted actor rapist Danny Masterson, 115 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: Arnie Hammer. He was involved some sort of sex scandal, 116 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: Prince Andrew Jaz and Chelsea Handler. Now Otani has got 117 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: this seven hundred million dollar contract, most of the money deferred, 118 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: but he does get sixty five million a year in 119 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 1: commercial endorsements, a lot of that in Japan. But a 120 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: spokeshole for CIA is not talking that. Nobody's talking. See 121 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: add this all up he's got a public relations manager, 122 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: a crisis manager, and an attorney who have some of 123 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: the biggest criminals and scam artists in the world, in 124 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: Hollywood and internationally peculiar. I mean, if there's no scandal here, 125 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: if there's no scam, then why not just have a 126 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: question and answer, free wheeling question and answer session with 127 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: the press. Why did you lawyer up have these crisis managers? 128 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: Why the confusing stories? And now you know the script 129 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:32,440 Speaker 1: that avoids the number one question, how did MSA Hard 130 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: do it? And Otani is an empire and I could say, yeah, yeah, 131 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 1: you know his heads in baseball, he's not really paying attention. 132 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: That's not his forte. He's not a Wall Street money manager. Okay, fine, 133 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: but one of his money managers, his attorneys, his agents. 134 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: You know these guys. These guys pay big percentages. So 135 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 1: I mean a Tony pays big percentages to guys like 136 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: that to keep his fortune intact so it doesn't get 137 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 1: ripped off. So it's a fascinating story, one of the 138 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: few in the Times, But in the end, no answers. 139 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: It kind of just fleshed out the question. Yeah, this 140 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: is a real question, this is something there's something significant 141 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 1: still to be learned about this story. We come back 142 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: and replace some of the cuts of Dave Roberts, the 143 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 1: Dodgers manager, because Roberts now has to answer questions since 144 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: nobody else will talk. 145 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 146 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:35,359 Speaker 4: six forty. 147 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: I continue fascination with how public figures handle crises and 148 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:44,079 Speaker 1: scandals and things they don't want to talk about. Last hour, 149 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 1: we were talking about crying John Pierre and her nonsense 150 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: response about to a radio host about Joe Biden's dementia. Well, 151 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 1: I haven't heard these in full yet. I want to 152 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: hear Dave Roberts. This is Dave Roberts being asked if 153 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:00,839 Speaker 1: anything had been different since Otani's press conference on the 154 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: gambling scandal. Play click cut five. 155 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 5: First, not really. I think it's more business as usual. 156 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 5: So I haven't talked to the guys today. It just 157 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 5: seems like guys are ready to, you know, get through 158 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 5: this game and get to the off day and then 159 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 5: get ready for the home opener. 160 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 1: There nothing better than than than baseball manager stringing cliches together. 161 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 1: I mean, they've got hundreds of them, and they could 162 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,439 Speaker 1: They could talk for for like five ten minutes. You 163 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 1: know who's good at that. Derek Jeter. Oh yeah, Derek Jeter, 164 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 1: for like twenty years, never gave an interesting answer to anything. 165 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: It's just endless cliches and and no parcels' is like that. Yeah, 166 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: I know, it's fascinating, all right. Cut six. Apparently this 167 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 1: is bringing the team closer Altani. 168 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 5: You know what, Actually, I would argue that it's uh, 169 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 5: it's gonna, it's gonna it's gonna help relations internally because 170 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 5: you know, there's no longer a buffer where I think 171 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 5: that I've already seen it. 172 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 3: You know, the last couple. 173 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:10,319 Speaker 5: Of days, I think Show has been even more engaging 174 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:13,559 Speaker 5: with his teammates, and I think there's only upside with that. 175 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: So the team needed a gambling scandal well to bring 176 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: it together. 177 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 2: I don't know about that, but I think what was 178 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 2: key in that clip was him saying there's no longer 179 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:30,959 Speaker 2: a buffer between Show Hay and the team, which leads 180 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 2: me to believe that Epe really controlled what was coming 181 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 2: through and getting filtered to a tawny. 182 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: I say, I see, So it made Otani into an island. Yes, 183 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: that's you know, that's a perfect way to describe it. Well, 184 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: I guess when you're stealing four and a half million 185 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 1: dollars from somebody. 186 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 2: And you are completely translating a foreign language to the man, 187 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 2: it's easy to misinterpret. 188 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: And that's interesting. Miss Harra wanted complete control of Otani. Yeah, 189 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,200 Speaker 1: because if he lost even a little bit of control, 190 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: then maybe the secret would be exposed exactly. Then finally, 191 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: one more cut from Roberts on Otani here. 192 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:15,319 Speaker 5: I think he's very capable. I think he's He's been 193 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 5: around baseball long enough, so I think that it's just 194 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:25,680 Speaker 5: naturally going to happen. But if he needs assistance or support, 195 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 5: he has it. 196 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 1: He knows that all right. Well, they certainly got a 197 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: lot of people much more interested in the baseball season 198 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 1: coming up. You know, spring training could be sleepy. And 199 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:43,239 Speaker 1: now a nice scandal when we come back. Speaking of scandals, 200 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom signed a cleanup bill yesterday. Newsom, what was 201 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: he cleaning up? He was cleaning up his own soiled 202 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 1: Panera Bread bill. This is the one where he gave 203 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: Panera Bread an exemption from the twenty dollar minimum wage 204 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: law for fast food restaurants by coming up with a 205 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 1: bizarre clause that says any restaurant that bakes and serves 206 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: its own bread doesn't have to pay twenty dollars an 207 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 1: hour or to its employees. The only company that got 208 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: that exemption was Panera, and of course Newsom's longtime buddy 209 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: had had two dozen Panera franchises and is given one 210 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:31,200 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty four thousand dollars to new some campaigns. 211 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 1: So what they had to do to muddy up the 212 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: story the buddy's name is Greg Flynn, to moddy up 213 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: the story and make it not look like Greg Flynn 214 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: bribed Gavin Newsom to get the exemption, is he had 215 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: to start handing out exemptions to all kinds of other 216 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: fast food restaurants depending on the location it was. It's 217 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: really this, this mess, this stew of a bill, and 218 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 1: we're gonna explain it to you because because Newsom signed 219 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: it yesterday. The thing is the restaurants that don't get 220 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 1: the exemption, they are now quickly working to lay off employees. 221 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: They can't afford to pay them twenty dollars an hour, 222 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 1: they don't want to, and there's a lot of ways 223 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: to serve food without paying somebody twenty dollars an hour. 224 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 1: We're gonna explain all this next. 225 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 226 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 4: six forty. 227 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: We have a lot of corruption stories yet to come. 228 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 1: In fact, after three o'clock, Eric Arcetti's former deputy mayor, 229 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: Raymond Chan is going to prison. He's found guilty in 230 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: the same corruption case that sent Jose Wezar, the councilman, 231 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: to prison as well. This is just stunning how many 232 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: dirty criminals worked at the city council and in Garcetti's administration, 233 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: and Raymond Chan is the latest. His trial is long 234 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: delayed because of his original attorney, Harlan Braun got very sick. 235 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 1: Michael Monks from KFI News is going to have that 236 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: report after three o'clock. I have in front of me 237 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 1: a number of corruption stories. I don't know what to 238 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: do first, but since I mentioned Gavin Newsom, let's start 239 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: with him. Because Newsom is another dirty player. Gavin Newsom 240 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: had to sign Assembly Bill six ' ten into law 241 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:31,800 Speaker 1: to clean up a big, sloppy, smelly mess that he 242 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: created because they passed a minimum wage bill recently the 243 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 1: Newsom pushed and it provided twenty dollars an hour guaranteed 244 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: wages to all those who work in the fast food industry. 245 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 1: There was one restaurant chain in the whole state that 246 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: did not have to pay twenty dollars an hour, and 247 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 1: that was Panera Bread and Panera Bread two dozen outlets 248 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: were run by Greg Flynn, long time close buddy and 249 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: business partner of Newsom. This was so blatant, This was 250 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 1: so unbelievably blatant. You give one exemption one and it 251 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 1: goes to your good friend who you've done business with. 252 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: And in addition, and this may be the most important aspect, 253 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 1: Flynn donated one hundred and sixty four thousand dollars to 254 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: newso campaigns one hundred and sixty four thousand, and then coincidentally, 255 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: his restaurants are the only fast food joints in the 256 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 1: whole state that got the exemption from paying employees twenty 257 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: dollars an hour. What are the odds, isn't it? I mean, 258 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 1: Flynn goes back to high school as Newsom's friend. You 259 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 1: mentioned these two eily characters, and you know exactly who 260 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 1: these two guys were from high school. And so Newsom 261 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: got into office, his buddy calls up and it's like, hey, Gavin, 262 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: have you seen how much money I've given your campaigns, 263 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 1: and Gavin says, Greg, I don't learn, You'll be taken 264 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 1: care of. And I know it when something like that, 265 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:19,120 Speaker 1: Because when Newsom was finally confronted by reporters over how 266 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:23,919 Speaker 1: could this be, how could Panera get the exemption, Newsom goes, oh, 267 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:28,439 Speaker 1: oh no, no, that was just that's legislative sausage making. 268 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: Sausage making. No, it was it was like it was, 269 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: it's worse than sausage. That's sausage making. Like those things happen, 270 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 1: you know, everybody starts trading favors in the legislat John 271 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 1: this was a Newsome deal. And then when everyone criticized 272 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: that stupid answer, Newsom claimed that Panera didn't actually get 273 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 1: an exemption. Oh, there's no such thing. That's not That 274 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:01,880 Speaker 1: was an outright lie. It was all wise. They're buddies, 275 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: business partners, and Flynn is a major campaign donor. Of course, 276 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:14,119 Speaker 1: of course he got a break. That's why people donate 277 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: to campaigns, and that's why politicians take campaign donations. Anyway, 278 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:28,159 Speaker 1: it was a huge scandal, obviously, and even even the 279 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: sycophants in the media, we're snarking at Newsome and again 280 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 1: overriding all this is Newsom wants to be president. Newsom right, 281 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: oh Man, Panera bread scandal, say, that's another thing. In 282 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 1: this case. Panera Bread is a brand name that a 283 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: lot of people are familiar with. It's like, if you're 284 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: going to give special exemptions, you got to give it 285 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: in an industry or to a company no one's ever 286 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: heard of, and people will follow the story. Now, when 287 00:18:55,800 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 1: you walk in to a panares, look at the menu, 288 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 1: look at the bread that they sell. That led to 289 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 1: your service worker not getting twenty dollars an hour. Maybe 290 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 1: they're making seventeen or eighteen or fifteen, but it's because 291 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 1: of the bread. So it had to be a cleanup bill, 292 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 1: and Newsome signed Assembly Bill six y ten. Now listen 293 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:28,160 Speaker 1: to this, and this is language from the bill. Got 294 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,879 Speaker 1: this out of the California Globe. The bill would exempt 295 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:37,439 Speaker 1: additional restaurants from the definition of fast food restaurants. Okay, 296 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 1: so now you have a category of fast food restaurants 297 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: that are not considered fast food restaurants. For example, if 298 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:49,120 Speaker 1: you have a fast food franchise in an airport, that's 299 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: not really a fast food restaurant anymore. If it's in 300 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 1: a hotel, an event center, a theme park, a museum. 301 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,679 Speaker 1: All those fast food restaurants. No, no, No, that's a 302 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 1: hallucination you're having. They're not really fast food. No fast 303 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 1: food restaurants in Let me see where else. Oh, gambling establishments, museums, 304 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:19,439 Speaker 1: theme parks, corporate campus cafeterias. Oh, if you have a 305 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: concession with the government, ports piers, beaches parks, you not 306 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 1: only don't have to pay your employees twenty dollars an hour, 307 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 1: but you're no longer under the rule of the Fast 308 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 1: Food Council. Newsom has the Fast Food Council to control 309 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: and regulate fast food restaurants. Why pick on those? He's 310 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:50,640 Speaker 1: such a dope. He knows that most people aren't familiar 311 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: with how franchises work. You're not penalizing wealthy McDonald's executives 312 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 1: or Burger King or wend These executives are toobell executives. 313 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 1: You can't penalize executives. It's impossible. They're way too rich, 314 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:09,400 Speaker 1: they're way too protected. It might seem like it, Well, 315 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,640 Speaker 1: you know this is for equity and fairness. Now, Ilhitz 316 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 1: screws over local business owners, the traditional mom and pops 317 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:26,160 Speaker 1: business owners, Guys who run local franchises or women or families. 318 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: They're middle class people flat out cannot afford twenty dollars 319 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 1: an hour, just impossible. So here's what's happening. Franchisees. Those 320 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 1: are the local owners, right, the middle class people for 321 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 1: Pizza Hut and Round Table Pizza Pizza are going to 322 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 1: lay off more than one thousand delivery drivers this year. 323 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,199 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal says some change like Jack in the 324 00:21:55,240 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 1: Box are going to turn to technology. They're going to 325 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 1: have robots to make the food, like the French fries, 326 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: to flip the burgers, to dispense the drinks, and they'll 327 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: start firing the human beings. So the stupid ass unions 328 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 1: and the stupid ass government officials are going to cost 329 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 1: a lot of people their jobs because somewhere along the line, 330 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 1: people bought into the fiction, the nonsense that if you 331 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: have a fast food job, you're supposed to have a 332 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 1: living wage, you're supposed to raise a family of fur 333 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:44,680 Speaker 1: on that. Now. I grew up in the air when 334 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: a lot of high school kids, a lot of my 335 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 1: friends worked at fast food, none of them. I worked 336 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: for a restaurant for two days. That was a disaster. 337 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,399 Speaker 1: There was a lot of damage, a lot of carnage. 338 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:01,959 Speaker 1: There were some injuries, and we all knew quickly we 339 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 1: can't do this for the rest of our lives. This 340 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 1: is a dead end. This was a great motivator to 341 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 1: go to college. You spend the summer of junior year 342 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 1: working in fast food. You're applying for college is so 343 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,400 Speaker 1: fast that September. Do you ever work in a restaurant? 344 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: I never did. Can you imagine me working in a restaurant? No? Yeah, 345 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 1: I dropped huge tubs of plates. I can imagine it was. 346 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,120 Speaker 1: I worked at my aunt's restaurant. My aunt worked there 347 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: for many years, and they more or less asked me 348 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: to leave. And how were you to customers? Probably aloof 349 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 1: you didn't yell. I didn't yell at them, okay, but 350 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 1: I was just you know what I was. You spend 351 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: their food when they complained, no, no, no, no. I 352 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 1: had to clean up their dirty dishes. I was a busboy. 353 00:23:54,680 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 1: Oh okay. Other people's food is disgusting, so foul and disgusting. 354 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 1: And I had to pick up these plates. And the 355 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: reason I was dropping them is I didn't want to 356 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 1: touch them, so I was holding them with my fingertips 357 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: or trying to hold underneath because looking at people's eating 358 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: food like maybe want to puke. You could have worn gloves. 359 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 1: And then they assigned me to the kitchen. And I 360 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,879 Speaker 1: went in the kitchen, and I will never forget the 361 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: odor of the kitchen. It was some combination of old 362 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: food and industrial strength cleanser and the body odor of 363 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 1: the other guys who worked there, oh, the whole And 364 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:35,199 Speaker 1: I would go in there and was like, you know, 365 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: I'd want to puke the whole day. I wanted to 366 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:43,360 Speaker 1: throw up. So I it was like by after two days. 367 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: It was by mutual agreement. 368 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 4: Two days. 369 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, I worked Saturday and Sunday on a weekend. First 370 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 1: it was in September my senior year, because my dad 371 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 1: thought I should have a job, and so all right, 372 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,200 Speaker 1: went to my aunt's restaurant. She didn't own it, she's 373 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 1: waitress there. And two days and then the most miraculous 374 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 1: thing happened, greatest stroke of luck. I was working a 375 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: lot at the high school, putting it together a morning broadcast, 376 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:19,199 Speaker 1: and a lot of it was gathering sports scores. And 377 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 1: there was a guy who had graduated from the high 378 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,239 Speaker 1: school a few years before. He'd gotten a job at 379 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,360 Speaker 1: the local paper and they were looking for a new 380 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 1: person to work in the sports department at the paper. 381 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: And he came to our school and he asked the coaches, Hey, 382 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 1: is there anybody here who could work in the sports department? 383 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: And the coaches thought of me because I was in 384 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,959 Speaker 1: there every morning putting the morning broadcast together, and they 385 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 1: hired me. Ah, Like, the next weekend, I was working 386 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:46,200 Speaker 1: at the newspaper. 387 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:47,439 Speaker 4: It was meant to be. 388 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 1: Oh and that was that was it. That was it 389 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,680 Speaker 1: for stupid jobs. Well, not entirely, but generally for the 390 00:25:53,760 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 1: most part. Yeah, but that was the greatest feeling in 391 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,720 Speaker 1: the world that I was never going to have to 392 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: bust tables anymore and deal with people's stinking food and 393 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: the smell of dishes and the cleanser we get it, 394 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 1: and the body odor of these unwashed Yeah you said 395 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,160 Speaker 1: that already. Well, I'm it's all in my head now, 396 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:22,479 Speaker 1: I know. 397 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 6: But now I'm smelling it too, and I feel sick awful. 398 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,199 Speaker 1: There's so many things you can't remember in life, but 399 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,120 Speaker 1: stuff like that never leaves you. 400 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI AM sixty. 401 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 1: One of Garcetti's cronies, Eric Garcetti is former deputy mayor. 402 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: Raymond Chan is going to prison. It's the same corruption 403 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 1: scandal that involving crooked real estate developers that sent Jose Weezar, 404 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 1: the councilman, to prison as well. Another guy, wait till 405 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: you hear this, Michael Monks has the story coming up 406 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 1: now in Oregon, they're dealing with a scandal involving the governor. 407 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,199 Speaker 1: What do you do when you're the spouse of a 408 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 1: governor and it's discovered that you're being paid taxpayer money 409 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 1: and you're giving a security detail, and people think this 410 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:27,640 Speaker 1: is nepotism and this is you cashing in on your 411 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 1: spouse's position as governor. Right, what should you do? Well, 412 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,359 Speaker 1: you could go to the press and claim that you're 413 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 1: a crazy alcoholic, which I don't know justifies the money 414 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,439 Speaker 1: that you're getting. I well, this is a true story. 415 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 1: The governor of Oregon is Tina Kotech. She's lesbian, and 416 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:54,120 Speaker 1: she is a wife named Amy Amy Kotech Wilson, and 417 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 1: it turns out that she has gotten recently has been 418 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:05,880 Speaker 1: working in Tina Cotech's administration, and Amy we even got 419 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 1: a security detail anytime she attends events on the governor's behalf, 420 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,760 Speaker 1: and that money for the extra security is coming out 421 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:19,160 Speaker 1: of the governor's budget. And so a lot of news 422 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: organizations in Oregon we're questioning her role and how much 423 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,160 Speaker 1: money is she making and what is she doing and 424 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 1: this is just this is double dipping here. Well, of 425 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: course that's what it is. Gee, you know, I don't 426 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 1: I don't think any any of the media here in 427 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: California would do something like that. Huh wow. In Oregon, 428 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 1: they actually questioned the governor and questioned the governor having 429 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 1: a wife on the payroll. So there's no defense for this. 430 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 1: Uh So Tina Cotex said, Hey, I'm mentally ill and 431 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 1: I'm an alcoholic. I share this information about myself now 432 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 1: in the hopes that will make it difference and reduce stigma. 433 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 1: Now you just want the criticism of the money you 434 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: might be taking to stop. In fact, the governor, Tina Cootech, 435 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 1: hired an advisor to look into a possible office of 436 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 1: the first spouse appointment. The advisor Malaia Mesiba. She's going 437 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 1: to get seventy two thousand dollars just to design a 438 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 1: separate office for the governor's wife. I'm sure Malia is 439 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: a close spread too, So she gets seventy two thousand 440 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: dollars to invent Office of the first spouse, and then 441 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 1: I presume Office of the first spouse is going to 442 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: bring in a salary. She has been attending meetings on 443 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 1: mental health and addiction. I guess she would be an expert. 444 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 1: Three of Tina Cootech, three of the governor's top aids 445 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: have gotten into fights with cotech spouse and have quit, 446 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 1: including her chief of staff, Big best there. They wanted 447 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 1: an extra salary, they got caught, and now she's trying 448 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 1: to deflect and shield criticism. Well you know I have 449 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:24,200 Speaker 1: a mental illness. Well you know I'm an alcoholic. Well no, 450 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 1: you're taking a lot of tax money here for spending 451 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:32,320 Speaker 1: a lot of tax money on you. Why it's just 452 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 1: about you know, changing the narrative. Right turns out in Oregon, 453 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: this is the second governor a row who's been involved 454 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,720 Speaker 1: in this situation. The former governor John Kitzber had a 455 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 1: fiance named Sylvia Hayes, and Hayes was getting one hundred 456 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: and eighteen thousand dollars for a fellowship with a green 457 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: energy group, and she didn't report it on her taxes, 458 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 1: and eventually I had to pay forty four thousand dollars 459 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 1: is for ethics violations. So apparently they are only electing 460 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: crooks in Oregon too. Hey, John, they're holding an update 461 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 1: on the bridge collapse. You want to take Yeah, let's see. 462 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 7: What the total costs are going to be. I do 463 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 7: not yet know what the full timeline is going to be. 464 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 7: But the thing that I do know is that the 465 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 7: task in front of us, it will be real, it 466 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 7: will be daunting. But despite this task ahead of us 467 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 7: being daunting, I can tell you right now, our resolve 468 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 7: is unshaken. 469 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,360 Speaker 3: We will get to completion. We will do it together. 470 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 7: This work will take time, but we are going to 471 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 7: make sure that we are going to leave no one behind. 472 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 3: We are going to take care of our people. 473 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 7: At least eight thousand workers on the Dots have jobs 474 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 7: that have been directly affected by the collapse. We need 475 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 7: to make sure supporting them in this moment, and we 476 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,120 Speaker 7: need to make sure that we are getting them back 477 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 7: on the job. 478 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 3: And the same goes for many others that have been. 479 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:15,400 Speaker 7: Affected by this crisis, both directly and indirectly. We are 480 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 7: going to move forward together because that's what we do, Because. 481 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 3: We are Maryland tough and Baltimore strong. 482 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 7: I will now turn over to Colonel Butler for the 483 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 7: Maryland State Police for uptis. 484 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 3: Thank you, Governor. 485 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:40,240 Speaker 8: I'm Colonel Rolandell Butler, Junior Superintendent of the Maryland Department 486 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 8: of State Police. This morning, as the Governor said, we 487 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 8: move from search and rescue to search and recovery. The 488 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 8: Maryland State Police, along with the underwater recovery teams, supported 489 00:32:55,200 --> 00:33:00,080 Speaker 8: by state, local and federal partners, made a try tod 490 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:05,480 Speaker 8: You're finding shortly before ten am. Divers located a red 491 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:09,040 Speaker 8: pickup truck submerged in approximately twenty five feet of water 492 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:14,400 Speaker 8: in the area of the middle span of the bridge. 493 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:20,080 Speaker 8: Divers recovered two victims of this tragedy trapped within the vehicle. 494 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 8: The victims were identified as Alejandro Hernandez Fuintes, thirty five 495 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:36,160 Speaker 8: years old of Baltimore and dorleyan Roniel Castillo Cabuera, twenty 496 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:40,600 Speaker 8: six years old of don Dak. Their family members were 497 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 8: notified just over an hour ago in person by Maryland 498 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:51,600 Speaker 8: State Police personnel with crisis intervention personnel present. Knowing the 499 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,000 Speaker 8: gravity of this, We've provided them with a list of 500 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 8: resources that they can refer to and refer their friends 501 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:01,920 Speaker 8: and family to At this point, based upon the conditions, 502 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,480 Speaker 8: we're now moving from a recovery mode to a salvage 503 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:10,200 Speaker 8: operation because of the superstructure surrounding the vehicle. What we 504 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:14,640 Speaker 8: believe are the vehicles and the amount of concrete and debris. 505 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 8: Divers are no longer able to safely navigate or operate 506 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:26,040 Speaker 8: around that. We have exhausted all search efforts and the 507 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:31,719 Speaker 8: areas around this wreckage, and based on sonar scans, we 508 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:36,880 Speaker 8: firmly believe that the vehicles are encased in the superstructure 509 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:45,240 Speaker 8: and concrete that we tragically saw come down. At this point, 510 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:50,200 Speaker 8: as this moves to a salvage recovery effort, the Maryland 511 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:54,680 Speaker 8: State Police will continue to support the Unified Command as 512 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 8: the salvage assessment phase takes place, and the US Coast 513 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:02,319 Speaker 8: Guard will brief you additional additional information regarding what to 514 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:06,000 Speaker 8: expect and possibly how long this could take. But I'll 515 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,320 Speaker 8: tell you now there's no defenditive timeline on this. 516 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:14,960 Speaker 3: Please be patient, Please keep the family members in mind. 517 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:20,800 Speaker 8: In coordination with our FBI partners, we've determined the countries 518 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:27,879 Speaker 8: of origin of those that are presumed deceased to be Mexico, Guatemala, 519 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:36,280 Speaker 8: El Salvador, and Honduras. The notifications to these individuals family 520 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:41,040 Speaker 8: members and loved ones outside of the United States is 521 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:45,280 Speaker 8: being handled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that accordance 522 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:50,319 Speaker 8: with their established protocols. Again, I encourage you all to 523 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:54,120 Speaker 8: think about these people and those that they love and 524 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:54,720 Speaker 8: they lost. 525 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 3: They're going to use your love and support. No handradl 526 00:35:59,120 --> 00:35:59,680 Speaker 3: to the Admiral. 527 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:03,720 Speaker 1: Good evening. 528 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,400 Speaker 9: My name is Radmull Shannon Gilreath. First, I want to 529 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:11,040 Speaker 9: say our deepest condolences go out to the sympathy go 530 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,560 Speaker 9: out to the families of the impacted individuals. 531 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:15,880 Speaker 3: I also want to. 532 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:21,160 Speaker 9: Announce that the Coastguard, along with our federal and state 533 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,840 Speaker 9: and local agency partners, have stood up a unified command. 534 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:29,200 Speaker 9: Our number one priority, not unified command, is to reopen 535 00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:32,000 Speaker 9: the waterway so that we can safely move commerce in 536 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:33,080 Speaker 9: and out of the Port of. 537 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:38,000 Speaker 1: Baltimore, Los Angeles, Orange County. 538 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,919 Speaker 9: And as safely as possible. So that's what we're doing 539 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:42,719 Speaker 9: from a unified command perspective. 540 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:54,640 Speaker 10: Thank you very much, Good evening, Paul. We develop Secretary Transportation. 541 00:36:55,960 --> 00:37:01,399 Speaker 10: The entire department's heartbroken to have lost these individuals. One 542 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:02,319 Speaker 10: of our facilities. 543 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:04,920 Speaker 6: I did want to update you on the efforts that 544 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:08,880 Speaker 6: we're doing to move forward with the reconstruction of the bridge, 545 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,600 Speaker 6: as was mentioned earlier by the governor, and we have 546 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,960 Speaker 6: applied for the dollars, the federal dollars that are available 547 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 6: for this type of purpose. I sent a letter earlier 548 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,560 Speaker 6: this morning. I just got off a phone call with 549 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,880 Speaker 6: the Federal Highway Administrator on the step of the process 550 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,760 Speaker 6: that we're moving forward. We intend to receive some additional 551 00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,120 Speaker 6: federal dollars very quickly to start that process, and then 552 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,239 Speaker 6: we will come up with a design for the replacement 553 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,040 Speaker 6: of that bridge as quickly as possible to get the 554 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,880 Speaker 6: court back up and the community back up and running. 555 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:48,360 Speaker 11: Thank you, Senator Ben Carden. 556 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,000 Speaker 3: First, let me express our. 557 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:54,560 Speaker 11: Deepest condolences to the families of the victims of this 558 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,120 Speaker 11: horrible tragedy, and I also want to personally thank all 559 00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,799 Speaker 11: the first responders. I had a chance to see firsthand 560 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:06,600 Speaker 11: some of the diving activities and it was extremely challenging. 561 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:07,040 Speaker 3: To say the least. 562 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,000 Speaker 11: And we know that the quick action of our first 563 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:15,279 Speaker 11: responders saved wise by keeping vehicles off the bridge before 564 00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,800 Speaker 11: we collapse. So we really want to congratulate our first responders. 565 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,759 Speaker 11: When you have a catastrophic event like this that affects 566 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:28,720 Speaker 11: transportation infrastructure that's critically important to our community into our region, 567 00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:33,359 Speaker 11: the federal government comes to your help, and we are 568 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,640 Speaker 11: asking the federal government to help us through this crisis. 569 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:41,680 Speaker 11: President Biden has responded in a very direct way. We 570 00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,480 Speaker 11: are very confident that we will get the immediate attention 571 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,960 Speaker 11: that we need thanks to Divide and Administration and our 572 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:48,840 Speaker 11: federal partners. 573 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,040 Speaker 3: We also will need the help of. 574 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:55,840 Speaker 11: The Congress Center VENTA working with our entire congression allegation 575 00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:00,960 Speaker 11: to make sure that we provide the necessary authors supporting 576 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:05,439 Speaker 11: resources to make this recovery complete and that we can 577 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:06,920 Speaker 11: move as quickly as possible. 578 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:08,880 Speaker 3: Make no mistake about it. 579 00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,080 Speaker 1: Our top Okay, we're going to drop out because there's 580 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:15,400 Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to be anything new beyond their first 581 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,440 Speaker 1: announcement that they they found I guess, two people in 582 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:23,719 Speaker 1: a pickup truck that they have found in the river. 583 00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,680 Speaker 1: But this is this is gonna be a long, long 584 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:32,440 Speaker 1: ordeal because you have so much twisted metal that fell 585 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:36,080 Speaker 1: into the river and on top of the bodies there, 586 00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:41,640 Speaker 1: and you know they're probably in the very early stages 587 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,439 Speaker 1: of trying to figure out how they're going to pull 588 00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:45,920 Speaker 1: this thing out of the river. Let alone have to 589 00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:50,719 Speaker 1: rebuild a new bridge. So we will bring you more 590 00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,200 Speaker 1: when it's time. Hey, you've been listening to The John 591 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,919 Speaker 1: Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live 592 00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,439 Speaker 1: on kf I Am six forty from one to four 593 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,800 Speaker 1: pm Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand 594 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,360 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app.