1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 2: We're on from one until four and then after four 4 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 2: o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart app. 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 2: You know, it's frustrating enough that you can't get violent, 6 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 2: crazy people arrested, but even when they get convicted, keeping 7 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 2: him in jail. Right, We're going to talk with Todd 8 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 2: Spitzer the Orange County DA about the case of Ike. 9 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:31,479 Speaker 2: His full name is Ike Nicholas Susser. He's only twenty 10 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 2: years old, and he originally went to prison for stabbing 11 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 2: his mother to death seven years ago when I was thirteen. 12 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 2: And obviously he got out fairly quickly, but he keeps 13 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 2: getting arrested, he keeps getting light sentences, and he's keeps 14 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 2: getting out, and he's on the loose and commits more crimes. 15 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 2: And the latest is he he walked away from a 16 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 2: halfway house in Santa Ana and disappeared. He's been captured 17 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,039 Speaker 2: in Mexico. Let's get Todd Spitzer on the Orange County 18 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 2: DA to talk about this crazy case. Todd, how are you. 19 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 3: I'm great. I'm really happy that Ike Sauser is back 20 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:20,039 Speaker 3: in custody. Believe me, you're right. He killed his mother 21 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 3: when he was thirteen. He's actually been in jail, juvenile 22 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,960 Speaker 3: hall when he was he was found to have a 23 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 3: sustained petition. Juvis are a little different. The judge didn't 24 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 3: find murder, the judge found manslaughter. So he did his 25 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 3: time in juvenile hall. And then you may remember there 26 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 3: was a huge man hunt for him. John he escaped 27 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:47,119 Speaker 3: from the juvenile hall twice and we had to find him. 28 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 3: He actually, you know, went in out through a window, 29 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 3: got up on the roof. This was a major, major story, 30 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 3: and there was a man hunt for him. Then. This 31 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 3: was I think he escaped the first time before he 32 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 3: even starred his trial. I think he was a waiting trial. 33 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 3: But irrespective, as he became an adult, he was shifted 34 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 3: over to our Orange County jail and there he took 35 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 3: a cafeteria tray, broke the plastic up and turned that 36 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 3: into a shank. So he had a deadly weapon inside 37 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 3: the jail. He had prior to that. I got ahead 38 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 3: of myself. He assaulted correctional officers while he was still 39 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 3: in juvenile hall. Then he goes over to adult. He 40 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 3: has this adult jail, he has this shank. We prosecute 41 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 3: him for that. He gets a very light sentence on that, 42 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 3: and then he's released through this halfway house. While the 43 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 3: first time while he's out there, he's caught a griffeiting 44 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 3: excessive damage thousands of dollars on an underpass of one 45 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 3: of our freeways. His lawyer, after I came out and 46 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 3: said we were looking for Selzer, his lawyer, mister Hammond said, well, 47 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 3: he's just a muralist. He's just expressing himself. This is 48 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,839 Speaker 3: a positive This is just a positive expression for God 49 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 3: to say he's a killer. For God to say that, 50 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,119 Speaker 3: you know, he arms himself in jail, or he assaults 51 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 3: correctional officers. Now he's just a muralist. I'm now he's 52 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 3: a muralist, and we take him back into custody on 53 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:23,399 Speaker 3: new criminal charges, the vandalism. He's got the probation violation 54 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 3: from the shank and the jail, and that judge only 55 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 3: gives him ninety days and releases him back to a 56 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 3: halfway house. Now he's on formal probation. Several weeks ago, 57 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 3: he immediately leaves that location, and through our intelligence gathering, 58 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 3: we find out he's probably headed to Mexico, and we 59 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 3: work with the federal authorities in Mexico. The Mexican UIs 60 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 3: Custom Service Border Protection, and I have a team, and 61 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 3: I need to explain this because you're going to appreciate 62 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 3: this and ask why the hell, well do I need 63 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 3: this too? But you'll understand it in a minute. So 64 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 3: if you remember the legislature pass Assembly built one O 65 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 3: nine and that changed the fact that you could send 66 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 3: people to state prison for crimes, you had it instead, 67 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 3: for certain crimes that they now deem non violent, you 68 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 3: had to house them in your local jails. Well, I 69 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 3: knew that that was going to be a failure, and 70 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 3: so I assembled, in conjunction with other law enforcement agencies, 71 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 3: an one O nine Task Force Assembly built one O nine. 72 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 3: And basically what we do is we monitor with probation 73 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 3: whether these individuals who would have gone to state prison 74 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 3: and would have been supervised by parole are behaving when 75 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 3: they're back out in society. And guess what we're finding. 76 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 3: Generally know they're not, and they get re arrested. And 77 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 3: my team of DA investigators and other law enforcement officials, 78 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 3: Santa Ana Sheriff probation, we go out and we re 79 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 3: arrest these people. Well, this team was they When Sauser 80 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 3: absconded last time, we worked all Easter weekend a year 81 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 3: ago and got him back into custody. He got slapped 82 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 3: on the wrist. Again, nothing happened much. And this time 83 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 3: he absconded, my task force went out and we went 84 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 3: all the way to Mexico to find him, and we 85 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 3: took him back into custody and he was back in 86 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 3: Santa Ana, back in jail yesterday. So I mean, just 87 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,919 Speaker 3: think about the resources, John, Just think about the craziness 88 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 3: of all the things we have to do now because 89 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 3: the state of California is failing to protect the public. 90 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: And how long is he going to stay in jail 91 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: this time? 92 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:47,600 Speaker 3: Well, that's interesting. I have nothing but respect for the 93 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 3: bench here. I worked with a lot of these now 94 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 3: judges who used to be prosecutors. I know most of 95 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 3: them very very well. But the fact of the matter is, 96 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 3: I'm going to analogize him to Charles Manson. And I'll 97 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 3: tell you why, because I've personally met Charles Manson. I 98 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 3: met him, I went to the prison he was at. 99 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 3: He was house next to Sirhan Sirhan, and I will 100 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 3: tell you this charismatic, outgoing personality, like just like crazy. 101 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 3: You look in Manson's eyes and you know he's crazy. 102 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 3: But this is Ike Sauser. He's charismatic, he talks, he 103 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 3: knows how to talk the right talk. He's manipulated everybody 104 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 3: in this criminal justice system except me and my lawyers 105 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 3: and the probation department. So he's looking at probably two 106 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 3: years additional custody time in county jail hanging over his 107 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 3: head for this probation violation. And we're going to ask 108 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 3: the judge to impose the entire amount because he's not 109 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 3: suitable for probation. Every time he goes out on probation, 110 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 3: he SCons or violates the law. And so but appreciate 111 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 3: this right. We're knocking our head against the wall every 112 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,919 Speaker 3: single time we go to court on him because the 113 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 3: judges look at him and they don't take him seriously. 114 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 2: Isn't there one judge who will look at the whole 115 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 2: his whole resume here starting with stabbing his mother to death? 116 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: I mean, what were those circumstances? 117 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 3: Well, because it was a juvenile, it was an open 118 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 3: court trial. So look, his proceeding was an open court 119 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 3: even though it is a juvenile and the judge did 120 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 3: find him not guilty of murder but manslaughter, which is 121 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 3: you know what happened. But you're right. In all of 122 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 3: our briefs we are urging the court to look at 123 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 3: the whole picture. This is not a guy who just 124 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 3: painted an undercrossing. This is not a guy who just 125 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 3: had a shank in the jail. It's not a guy 126 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 3: that's escaped from juvenile hall just twice. This is a person, 127 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 3: as you said, the whole picture. 128 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: He's done all those things and he killed his mother. 129 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 3: We're at the point, John, where that we are hoping 130 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 3: the right judge, at the right moment, at this right time, 131 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 3: will said, well, finally say enough is enough. And we've 132 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 3: given you every opportunity, every chance to save yourself, every 133 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 3: chance to intervene responsibly. You haven't taken it. You got 134 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 3: to do the rest of your time, and good luck 135 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 3: to you. 136 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 2: His brain is not going to change, he's not going 137 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 2: to do he's a psycho, and he's a psychopath. 138 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, a psychopath. 139 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 2: And some of those guys are really charming and really smart, 140 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:38,679 Speaker 2: and all the more reason you have to lock them up. 141 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 3: That's see. I don't think a lot of people like. 142 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 3: That's why I analogize him to Charles Manson. And I 143 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 3: wouldn't say that in the vacuum or the abstract, but 144 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 3: I have personally met and interacted with Charles Manson like 145 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 3: a foot away, and he was in his cell and 146 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 3: I was on the other side. But we still engage 147 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:00,200 Speaker 3: in a conversation. And I'm telling you, when you look 148 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,680 Speaker 3: at somebody's eyes, you can tell that they're crazy. 149 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, I know. The eyes. 150 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 2: The eyes reveal everything, and a crazy person can't hide 151 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 2: their eyes. 152 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 3: Let me just say this, And you've been so kind 153 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:13,439 Speaker 3: to have me on and you always give me a 154 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 3: lot of time. One of the things that society knows 155 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 3: very little about. Right we're looking at Hawkman and Gascon. 156 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 3: People watch my race. We know Katie Porter and Adam 157 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 3: Schiff and Steve Garvey, Barbara Lee, but we don't know 158 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 3: about judges. And so I want everybody to remember when 159 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 3: judges come up for election, to go to my website. 160 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 3: No LA in OC judges. That's my slogan, if you 161 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 3: remember during my campaign, was no LA and OC. I 162 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 3: don't want Los Angeles here, I don't want George Gascon here. 163 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 3: And I won by forty one points. Now I create 164 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 3: a website to say no LA and OC judges all 165 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 3: one word dot com, and I will be making my 166 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 3: recommendations on judges during elections. 167 00:09:59,200 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: You know what. 168 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:04,319 Speaker 2: That is great because we're always we always get a 169 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 2: request from our listeners to recommend judges, and I never 170 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 2: had the slightest idea how to get valid information, detailed 171 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 2: information on judges for all these races. So I'm looking 172 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 2: forward to your website. And Todd, I gotta go, thank 173 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:21,959 Speaker 2: you for coming on again. All right, Todd Spitzer and 174 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 2: when we come back. Oh, the guy's a muralist. This 175 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:32,079 Speaker 2: mom killer was also a muralist. Yeah, that attitude has 176 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:35,560 Speaker 2: pervaded a lot of law enforcement. And I'm talking about 177 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 2: judges and other city politicians. Because there's a story in 178 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 2: the La Times today about the graffiti tower. 179 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 1: Tell you about it. It's going to make you crazy. 180 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six. 181 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 2: Forty on from one until four and then after four 182 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 2: o'clock John Cobelt Show on demand on the iHeart AFT 183 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 2: and we were talking with Todd Spitzer because you have 184 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 2: this miscreant ike Ike Seusser. That's how Todd said his 185 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 2: name right, Matt Sauser, Ike Suser. He's only twenty years old, 186 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:22,079 Speaker 2: and as we mentioned, he stabbed his mother to death 187 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:26,599 Speaker 2: at the age of thirteen and was only convicted of 188 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 2: voluntary manslaughter, only got a few years in juvenile hall, 189 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 2: and then every few years he would commit another crime, 190 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 2: attacking directional officers. He had a shank in jail. He 191 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:42,959 Speaker 2: drew graffiti on an underpass, and Spitzer, you know, said, 192 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 2: you get these judges, former prosecutors, and I'd love to 193 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 2: talk to these guys and have them explain why spin 194 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 2: this guy through the system over and over and over again. Well, 195 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 2: he ran off from a halfway house last week, ended 196 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:05,079 Speaker 2: up in Mexico and got busted by customs and Mexican officials. 197 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 2: And Todd has a has a whole crew that deals 198 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 2: with this sort of thing. He's going to go back 199 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:16,840 Speaker 2: in jail now for a while. But anyway, one of 200 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 2: his defenders called him a muralist. A muralist because this 201 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:25,079 Speaker 2: guy defaces private or public property with a stupid graffiti. 202 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 2: And I cannot stand graffiti, and nobody I knows can 203 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 2: stand graffiti. But leave it to the El Segundo. Times 204 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 2: some nutball columnist named Frank Cheyan. He finds people who 205 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 2: love graffiti, but listen to this crap. He says, the 206 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,559 Speaker 2: city spends more than eleven million dollars a year painting 207 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 2: graffiti over that's eleven million dollars in tax money on 208 00:12:54,640 --> 00:13:00,679 Speaker 2: paint because of these bastards. Last year, the city paid 209 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 2: more than thirty The city paid to cover more than 210 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 2: thirty two million square feet of graffiti thirty two million. 211 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 2: And then you know about the office tower with all 212 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 2: the graffiti, and you really can see that for miles. 213 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 2: We were driving down the tent over the weekend, headed 214 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 2: towards downtown and it's like, oh my god, is that 215 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 2: the graffiti tower? 216 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. You could see that from miles away. Disgusting. 217 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:32,079 Speaker 2: And now we're spending another four million dollars in tax 218 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 2: money to clean up that site and to secure it. 219 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 2: Frank Chayong says that ever since the graffiti tower became 220 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 2: an issue, a complicated debate has followed with few easy answers, 221 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 2: few easy answers. It's graffiti or vandalism. Hey, Frank, let's 222 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 2: try to get this through the cement in your head. 223 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 2: It's vandalism. It's a crime. Do you know a single 224 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 2: person who would enjoy gang members coming over their house 225 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 2: and spraying graffiti all over the facing, the front facing 226 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 2: of the house. 227 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: You know anybody who would want that? 228 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 2: Anybody who would wake up in the morning and find 229 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 2: their house, their front door, their garage all sprayed with 230 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 2: graffiti and go, oh, isn't that wonderful? Isn't it a 231 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 2: wonderful expression of urban arts? One, Frank Chyon, find me 232 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 2: one person you know who would enjoy having their house 233 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 2: to face by graffiti taggers? Is graffiti harmful? Is an 234 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 2: abandoned property made worse by graffiti? And what does graffiti 235 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 2: say about the state of Los Angeles overall? That we 236 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 2: let criminals run amok and do whatever they want and 237 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 2: there's no penalty. That's what it says, and that's what 238 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 2: everybody knew. Did you ever see graffiti when you were 239 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 2: a kid, unless you grew up in a horrible neighborhood. 240 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 2: In normal neighborhoods, nobody sprays graffiti. 241 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: Nobody. 242 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 2: If there was a straight kid who did it, he 243 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 2: was the most troubled kid in the school, the most 244 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 2: troubled kid in the class, and probably headed for a 245 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 2: lot of crime. He does admit the harms of graffiti 246 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 2: are seen with small mom and pop enterprises in high 247 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 2: crime neighborhoods, and in fact, he admits they lose foot 248 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 2: traffic when their businesses are graffiti. Well, of course they do. 249 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 2: If I see graffiti on a business, I don't want 250 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 2: to go in the business. I don't want to be 251 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 2: on the block. I don't want to be on the neighborhood. 252 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 2: Anytime I see graffiti, if my wife and I are 253 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,239 Speaker 2: driving around, it's like, let's get out of this neighborhood. 254 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 2: It means bad people are here. It means criminals are 255 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 2: only criminals do that in itself. It's a crime. It's 256 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 2: not a debate. It's not a complicated debate. There is 257 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 2: no debate. 258 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: I don't know what. 259 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 3: I remember. 260 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 2: When I moved to Los Angeles, there was some big 261 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 2: graffiti story and it was a big debate. And I've 262 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 2: never encountered this before. I'd seen graffiti, but I had 263 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 2: never experienced a debate as to whether this was artistic 264 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 2: expression or a crime. Only until I got to La. 265 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 2: Did do you run into people scratching their beards? 266 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: Uh? Here's one. 267 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 2: Susan Phillips, a professor of environmental analysis at Pittser College. Boy, 268 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 2: that's that's that's a complete waste of money. Susan Phillips 269 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 2: wrote a book called The City Beneath a Century of 270 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 2: Los Angeles Graffiti. Don't buy me that for Christmas. I 271 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 2: got scratch that off though. Don't go to Amazon for 272 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 2: that one. She says it's impossible to draw a clean 273 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 2: line between art and vandalism when it comes to graffiti. No, 274 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 2: it's not. There is no debate here, not an inch 275 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 2: of debate. Again, if somebody went over Susan phillips house 276 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 2: and started spraying graffiti, she would not go in her 277 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 2: backyard and say, oh, isn't this. 278 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 1: Wonderful art we have here? 279 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 2: What a great expression of urban artistic sensibility. No, she 280 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 2: wouldn't do that. And then what was this other guy? 281 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 2: He was Trump's lawyer who came up with the idea 282 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 2: that the election could be challenged, and he's getting possibly disbarred. 283 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 2: We'll talk to him. He used to be a regular 284 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 2: on our show. 285 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:34,919 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 286 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 4: six forty. 287 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,880 Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock, We're going to talk with 288 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:44,439 Speaker 2: John Eastman. He was formerly a Law School dean in 289 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 2: Orange County at Chapman Right Chapman University. He was a 290 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 2: constitutional and still is a constitutional scholar, and we used 291 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 2: to have him on his guest all the time whenever 292 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,880 Speaker 2: there were Supreme Court decisions to be analyzed. I remember 293 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 2: he sat in with us one election night as an analyst. 294 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,879 Speaker 2: And then he became Donald Trump's lawyer, and he was 295 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:14,639 Speaker 2: one of the leading architects of the theory as to 296 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 2: why Trump may have won the twenty twenty election, and 297 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:29,160 Speaker 2: he was a unindicted co conspirator in that case. He 298 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 2: was the dean of Chapman Law School from twenty twenty 299 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 2: seven to twenty ten, and he was a professor until 300 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, and then Trump happened. Used to be 301 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 2: a former law clerk for the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, 302 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 2: so quite a career. Now he's on the verge of 303 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 2: getting disparred. He may be disparred in a matter of 304 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 2: days because of his involvement in the truck Trump election controversy. 305 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 2: John Eastman, who never holds back. He's as blunt and 306 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 2: forceful as anybody we've ever interviewed on the show. 307 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 1: And he will be on after three o'clock, so you 308 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 1: want to listen to that. 309 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:13,199 Speaker 2: Now, it's opening day, and while people are trying to 310 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:18,639 Speaker 2: lose themselves in Dodger Baseball, there's nothing new on the 311 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 2: Otani story, so it's not that. But this is really crazy. 312 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 2: In the last week, they've introduced a bill in the 313 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:37,439 Speaker 2: California legislature demanding reparations for families that were displaced in 314 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 2: the nineteen fifties by the city of Los Angeles on 315 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:47,120 Speaker 2: the land that became Dodger Stadium. And in fact, some 316 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 2: people think that the La Dodgers owe reparations to these families. 317 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 2: Of course, I'd imagine most of the people who are 318 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 2: alive in the fifties who this effected are probably dead 319 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 2: or very old. This is Wendy Correo. She's an assembly 320 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 2: woman and there's been pressure from these wacky activist groups 321 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 2: for many years. They demand reparations. They either want money 322 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,639 Speaker 2: or they want the land back. Well, why do we 323 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 2: give them right field or maybe like the you know, 324 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 2: the third base coaching box, you can set up a 325 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 2: tenth there, you know. Sometimes Dodger Stadium is referred to 326 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 2: as Chavez Ravine. 327 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:38,639 Speaker 1: Well it was. 328 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 2: It was a real location three hundred acres, and there 329 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 2: were communities called Palo Verde, Laloma and Bishop eighteen hundred 330 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 2: families lived there, most of them Mexican American, and all 331 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 2: these people were shoved aside the city of Los Angeles. 332 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 2: I guess they declared eminent domain. They were going to 333 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 2: build affordable housing. Even back in the fifties you had 334 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 2: the affordable housing scamp. Of course that wasn't built. They 335 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 2: sold the land of the Dodgers to get them to 336 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 2: move from Brooklyn. So now Wendy Korea, she is filing 337 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:26,160 Speaker 2: a bill claiming that the promise of housing was never fulfilled. 338 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:30,399 Speaker 2: Those families were robbed of home ownership and generational wealth. 339 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 2: When you I mean, I don't know. You know, I 340 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 2: wasn't there in the fifties. But generally, when they declare 341 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 2: eminent domain, they have to offer you market value, and 342 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 2: as long as you get the market value at that 343 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 2: time the compensation, then you sell and you take your 344 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,719 Speaker 2: money and you go buy something else, and then you 345 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:59,959 Speaker 2: make your generational wealth there. But somehow in Wendy care 346 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 2: Rho scrambled brain, Jesus is hang on, I'm going to 347 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:05,399 Speaker 2: look up her day of a second because she was 348 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 2: in the news lately. I think I don't want to 349 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 2: say anything until I say for sure. Hold on, she's 350 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 2: in the DUI, right, I don't want to say that 351 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:15,959 Speaker 2: and end up getting sued. 352 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 1: Yeah. 353 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. Maybe she still needs to dry 354 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:23,479 Speaker 2: out here. Yeah, here it is. 355 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 3: This was. 356 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 2: Well, just in January, she was finally fined and given 357 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,959 Speaker 2: community service two thousand dollars fine. She was two times 358 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:39,440 Speaker 2: over the legal limit. She claims she sneezed. Yes, that's right. 359 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 2: She crashed her car, claimed she sneezed, and then they 360 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 2: found her blood alcohol content was twice over the legal limit. 361 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:57,440 Speaker 2: And she was running against Kevin de Leon for city council. Well, 362 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 2: she's still in an assembly woman. Well, I don't know's 363 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 2: a she's got to switch beers or whiskeys or something. 364 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 2: This is nuts. The Chavez Ravine Accountability Act, it would 365 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 2: ask the City of La to form a nine member 366 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 2: task force to another task force, another reparation's task force. 367 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 2: Compensation to the descendants of the displaced, either that they 368 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,120 Speaker 2: would get free city owned land or they would get 369 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 2: some kind of monetary compensation. 370 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 1: That is chest nuts. What is with this? It was 371 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 1: sixty years ago. 372 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 2: Look if your parents or grandparents were forced to move 373 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:45,440 Speaker 2: sixty years ago. 374 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 1: What are you bitching and demanding? 375 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:51,120 Speaker 2: Well, of course everybody wants free money, right, everybody wants 376 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:51,880 Speaker 2: to be a victim. 377 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,400 Speaker 1: Being a victim means you get to check from the government. 378 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 2: And they think the Dodgers ought to ought to throw 379 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:03,199 Speaker 2: some money in as well. Oh, you know who is 380 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,440 Speaker 2: part of a news conference now, Ricardo Lara Calphart Lara, 381 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:13,439 Speaker 2: the State insurance Commissioner. He said they were never adequately 382 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 2: compensated for their homes. These people are carying a grudge 383 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:28,199 Speaker 2: for that long I mean, move on in life. And 384 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 2: then all this is is to create a task force. Seriously, 385 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:37,119 Speaker 2: these people, do your known reparations never actually happened, because ultimately, 386 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 2: nobody wants the government to pay reparations to anybody for 387 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 2: any reason. I mean unless something happened yesterday, but anything 388 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 2: that happened sixty years ago or two hundred years ago, 389 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 2: there is no market for reparations in the real world. 390 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 2: People should stop acting like victims and expect any transgressions 391 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 2: and who and this is not even a transgression necessarily 392 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 2: occasionally they should build thoze a lot of neighborhoods it's 393 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,679 Speaker 2: up to me, I'd be buildozing neighborhoods and expanding lax 394 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 2: to make that a lot bigger, or or put it 395 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 2: in a major airport in a centralized location. I would 396 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,400 Speaker 2: be build dozing neighborhoods and putting in more freeway lanes 397 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 2: so traffic could move faster. You know, pay off the 398 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:24,919 Speaker 2: market price, and you gotta go. You know, it's not 399 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,160 Speaker 2: about you, It's about the good of the community. More 400 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:28,639 Speaker 2: coming up. 401 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 402 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 4: six forty. 403 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,879 Speaker 2: When we come back after Debra's News at three o'clock, 404 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 2: we're gonna have John Eastman on. John Eastman is formerly 405 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 2: the dean of the law school at Chapman University, and 406 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,239 Speaker 2: he is a constitutional law professor, and he was on 407 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 2: our show many times as a legal expert. But he's 408 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 2: run into a lot of trouble since trying to help 409 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 2: Donald Trump we made president. He was described as the 410 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 2: architect of Trump's theory that he could remain as president 411 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 2: after the election, the theory that Mike Pence could declare 412 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:15,959 Speaker 2: Trump the victor during that certification that happened on January sixth, 413 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 2: And you know what, went on there, So they're about 414 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 2: to disbark John Eastman here in California. John's coming on 415 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 2: our show to talk about it, and I'm sure it's 416 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 2: gonna be quite energetic his presentation. We'll talk about that 417 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,400 Speaker 2: with him coming up. All right, I want to play 418 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,360 Speaker 2: this here. We're gonna get this couple on the air tomorrow. 419 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:40,439 Speaker 2: Alex and Daisy Dela Rosa. All they're trying to do 420 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 2: is earn a living. They're couriers. Couriers, okay. Daisy drives, 421 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,080 Speaker 2: Alex does the deliveries, and they're running into so many 422 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 2: potholes in Compton. They decided to fix the potholes themselves 423 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 2: at their own cost or get donations, and now the 424 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 2: city of Compton is sending them a legal letter. Lay 425 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 2: this clip cut four from eighty seven. The reporter Ashley MACKI. 426 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,160 Speaker 5: That pounding you here is the sound of one more 427 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,679 Speaker 5: pothole in Compton being filled. Alex and Daisy Dela Rosa 428 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,200 Speaker 5: live and work in the city. They drive as couriers 429 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 5: around Compton. Daisy drives and Alex gets in and out 430 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 5: of the car to deliver. Daisy says after several flat tires, 431 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 5: a blown suspension and a few arguments, the couple decided 432 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,200 Speaker 5: to do something about all the potholes in their city 433 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,879 Speaker 5: and also He's are like it is that like I'm like, 434 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:34,159 Speaker 5: but we don't have that much money. 435 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 1: Is that it doesn't matter one pothole at a time. 436 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 5: While the recent reign doesn't help, Daisy says, potholes and 437 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 5: Compton have always been bad. This is video of the 438 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,360 Speaker 5: first pothole they filled a few days ago. Since then, 439 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 5: they filled almost a dozen and it's gained a lot 440 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 5: of traction on social media. Daisy says people have been 441 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,359 Speaker 5: making requests for them to come to their streets and 442 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,120 Speaker 5: have even donated about two hundred dollars so far. 443 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 4: I'm tired. 444 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 5: I already changed two self tires my suspension opera, so 445 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 5: I'm tire. The couple has even attracted other fellow residents 446 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 5: to come. 447 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 1: Out and help. Or Las Familia Gabriel. 448 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 5: Magayana says he heard about what Alex and Daisy were 449 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,919 Speaker 5: doing and where they would be next from Facebook and 450 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,719 Speaker 5: decided to come help. He says it's important for protection 451 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,360 Speaker 5: for his family and his community, as there have been 452 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,119 Speaker 5: a lot of accidents from car swerving from the potholes. 453 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,159 Speaker 5: ABC seven reached out to the City of Compton, but 454 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,120 Speaker 5: hasn't heard back yet. The neighbors watched and applauded as 455 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 5: the potholes in front of their home got billed. 456 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 6: I know they were out here on Friday covering other 457 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 6: potholes right here on Mona and it's just incredible on 458 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 6: their behalf. 459 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 5: Alex and Daisy tell me each of these blacktop repair 460 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 5: bags cost about seventeen dollars. They say, as long as 461 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 5: they keep receiving donations, they'll be out here filling potholes 462 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 5: in Compton. 463 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 2: All right, And we're gonna have Daisy on tomorrow at 464 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 2: two o'clock. All right, So Daisy Dayla Rosa is going 465 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 2: to talk about youre. I's been trying to do the 466 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 2: job that the bureaucratic slugs won't do, and that's filled 467 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 2: the potholes. By the way, it's all over the place. 468 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 2: It's on the west side. The main road near my 469 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 2: house has got so many potholes on it. My wife 470 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 2: and I were driving it was boom. 471 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 7: Well, why don't you go and fill those potholes. 472 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna do that. 473 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 7: I think you should. 474 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 2: You know, I'm ready to go out with my own 475 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 2: with a shovel some asphalt. 476 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 6: And I'll join you, but I'm not going to do 477 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 6: any of the work. And I'll just talk in your 478 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 6: bullhorn and I'll just crain what you're doing. 479 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 2: You don't do a lot of physical labor. Have a feeling, right, Huh, 480 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 2: you'd mess up your your pretty coats that you wear, and. 481 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 7: Well that too, not that strong. 482 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, So there there's a lot of potholes. In fact, 483 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 2: I was looking at the next door app in my 484 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 2: neighborhood and there was a woman complaining that she just 485 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 2: blew her tire out, and another woman replied, I blew 486 00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:00,240 Speaker 2: my tire out two weeks ago, same pothole, and uh 487 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 2: you you have to you have to fill out paperwork. 488 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: And by the way, they always say call three one one. 489 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 1: I called three to one one the other. 490 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 2: Day because we drove over three potholes in a row 491 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 2: on Santy City Boulevard and I got Karen Bass on 492 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 2: the recording. Oh yeah, and then they tell me that, 493 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 2: uh uh three to one one is closed. 494 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 5: Oh. 495 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 7: I usually get there are thirty five people ahead of. 496 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 2: You, right yeah, And it's like, well, why isn't this 497 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 2: a twenty four hour operation? 498 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: Shouldn't three one one be twenty four to seven. It's 499 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: not I didn't know that. 500 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 7: I think it opens at eight. 501 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, it opens a date, But I drove over the 502 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:41,240 Speaker 2: pothole at seven at night. Yeah no, And uh, they're 503 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 2: not taking calls. There's not even a recording. 504 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 6: And now we're having a big storm this weekend, which 505 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 6: means there will probably be even more potholes. 506 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 1: I wonder how long Tapenga Canyon's going to be closed. 507 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,480 Speaker 7: Oh, I know it's going to be worse because of 508 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 7: this weekend. 509 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, mention yest day, the traffic is so root up 510 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 2: on the west side, especially in the afternoon rush, Oh 511 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 2: my god, all over one Street one rather one Canyon 512 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 2: Boulevard in Malibu, and then the whole west side gets 513 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 2: jenned because nobody can get up. You go up to 514 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 2: Maliboun and get over the mountain to get back to 515 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 2: the West Valley or Calabasas and Hidden Hills and Thousand Oaks, 516 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 2: that whole region. Everybody's got to work around it, and 517 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 2: it's paralyzed. It's spilling over into all the just when 518 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 2: this was fascinating about it, the logistics of it. It 519 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 2: spills over into every nook and cranny into the little neighborhoods. 520 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 2: You think you're blocks away from the main road, and 521 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,600 Speaker 2: all of a sudden, half the west side is flying 522 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 2: by your house. All right, Dever's got the news coming up, 523 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 2: and then we are going to have Johnny's been on. 524 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 2: Who's uh, his law license is about to get suspended. 525 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 2: Actually it's going to get stripped. A judge in California 526 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 2: recommended yesterday that he loses law life, since we're going 527 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 2: to talk to him about it. And he was the 528 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:07,160 Speaker 2: dean of the Law School of Chapman constitutional scholar, and 529 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 2: he was one of Trump's leading attorneys when they devised 530 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 2: the theory that Trump had the right to remain as president. 531 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 2: More coming up. 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