October 16, 2025 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (10/16) - Lou Penrose fills in for John. Ashleigh Fields from The Hills calls into the show. Pelosi barks, McConnell falls. Apple tags are getting people targeted by criminals. Also, ABC Correspondent Alex Stone joins the show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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coblt podcast on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
App Lou Penrose sitting in for John Cobelt all this week.
Thanks for taking us along with you. So a new
January sixth commission, a Republican congressman from Georgia is leading
a new select subcommittee under the Judiciary Committee, tasked with
revisiting January sixth. Asked about that and perhaps any connection
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she may have at any wrongdoing on January sixth. Congresswoman
Nancy Pelosi, former speaker, got real short with the reporter.
Congress On Pelosi, are you at all concerned that the
new January sixth committee will find.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
You wiable to that day?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Why did you refuse the National Guard on January sixth?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Shut up?
Speaker 5 (00:51):
I did not refuse the National Guard. The President didn't
send it. Why are you coming here with Republican talking
points as if you're as serious journal the American view?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
We want to know. We still have questions. Thank you?
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
The Hills Ashley Feels joined us. Ashley, thanks for spending
time with us. Why would Republicans revisit this terrain? It's
not good for them it's not a good narrative, and
it just seems like we're going backwards in time.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
What's the rationale from the congressman from Georgia.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Well, thank you so much for having me today. As
we know, the White House is led by President Trump
of the Republican Party, and so are both Chambers of Commerce.
So they're revisiting this subject because it was an extremely
hard talking point for them, you know, coming into the
twenty twenty four election, and it could be revisited during
midterm elections this year. They are relying on statements from
formal Capitol Police Chief Stephen sund who said he requested
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that Pelosi send in the National Guard three days ahead
of the January sixth Capital insurrection. He said that she
denied his request for the federal presidence of law enforcement.
Pelosi eventually called up Capitol Police and urged them to
bring National guardsmen in on the day of January sixth,
but in a later documentary said that she quote totally
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failed by not bringing in a guardsman sooner.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So is that really kind of the crux is it?
Whether did she deny the National Guard? Does she have
to accept the National Guard? I mean, we hear a
lot about the National Guard being federalized now by the
President of the United States, despite what governors say. How
does a member of Congress refuse the National Guard and
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how was she able to do that?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Help us understand that.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
So, Nancy Pelosi has a sergeant at arms, that sergeant
at arms can either accept or deny the request or
the presence of the National Guard, and ultimately, on January third,
she directed the sergeant at arms to deny it, and
so the Capitol Police were prohibited from calling in the
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National guardsmen. Now, Pelosi had no idea what January sixth
would have looked like three days ahead of the Wyatt,
but we do know it was heavily advertised by President Trump,
and it ended up being a terrible day for people
in Congress, including staffers and lawmakers. And so that's something
that the Republican Party is looking to revisit and maybe
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change the narrative around.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
But I mean the scalp here politically speaking, would be
Pelosi if they can revisit this and have her on
tape or in a statement saying that she made a
mistake and she should have accepted or should have directed
the sergeant at arms to direct the Capitol Police to
call on the National Guard.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
It would be her maya culpa.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And she's an I don't know if she's outgoing member
of Congress, but she's certainly in the sunset of her
congressional career. Is it worth bringing this all up again
when you speak to members of Congress?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Is everybody on board? But bringing this up again just
to get even with Nancy Pelosi?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Well, Democrats, of course are against this. They believe that
it's a plot to countersh our legacy as the first
women to become House Speaker. But as we know, the
Congress is gop led, and this is something that they're
looking to hammer on. They're revisiting all points that they
feel like we're targeted by Democrats in previous elections.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I quills, what's the mood right now? They're in the
middle of a shutdown.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
The midterm election is three hundred and eighty three days away.
That's a lifetime in politics, but not a long time
when it comes to fundraising. And I'm sure there are
many congressional members of Congress in some of these purple states,
or even some of these within plus or minus five
percentage point districts that are already seeing primary challenges or
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challenges from another party, you know, showing up in local
newspapers and a local events.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So they have the reelection on their mind. What's the
mood there?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
The move is pretty somber. I mean, there's a lot
of finger pointing. As we see the spederal funding laps
take hold for the sixteenth Many people are concerned about
back pay and pay for federal workers or furloughed workers,
military members and other people who are serving at the
pleasure of the president of lawmakers, and so this is
something that they're really looking again to hammer down on
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before midterm elections. We know the Republicans, they're blaming Democrats.
Democrats are blaming Republicans. And right now this is a
battle truly over the Affordable Care Act subsidy extension. The
Democrats have been pushing forward in order to vote to
approve the end of a government shutdown. And so depending
on how this turns out, polsters are saying that this
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will heavily impact the twenty twenty six midterm elections.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And we're sixteen days into it, and will there be
another vote tomorrow or are they done for the week.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
There will be another vote tomorrow lawmakers, they're expected to
come back. We saw Senate Majority of Leader John Thune
say that he is looking at providing a vote to
extend ACAA subsidies in exchange for a vote from Senate
Democrats to end the government shutdown. And so we're just
all looking out here to see what's next on the horizon.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Ashley Fields with the Hill, thanks so much. Always good
to catch up with you.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Thanks for bringing us up the speed on the latest
from our nation's capital. Sixteen days now into this government shutdown,
and the shutdown, there's a pull out today. And if
you ask Americans, every American that's a Republican says it's
the Democrat's fault. Every American that's a Democrat says it's.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
The Republican's fault.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So America is perfectly represented by Congress right now.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
It is just finger pointing.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
With flights delayed and government workers missing paychecks. Fifty four
percent of US adults now call the federal government shutdown
a major issue. Sixty nine percent of Democrats call it
a major problem. Only four and ten US adults support
the Democrats demand to extend Obamacare subsidies.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
The same number has no opinion.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Four and ten support, So less than half agree that
the Democrats should get their way and get the ACA
American Care Act as subsidies, which would include healthcare for
the illegals tangentially, and an equal number four and ten
don't care, have no opinion. Americans have just could care less,
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not even aware that the government is shut down.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Sixty nine percent of Democrats call it a major problem.
Only four and ten US adults support the Democrats demand
to extend Obamacare subsidies. The same number has no opinion.
Just three in ten have a favorable view of the Democrats.
Republicans a smidge higher at four and ten.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Oh look at that.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
So Democrats losing on this one, Republicans winning, but just
by a little bit.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
But when it comes to who's at fault, so.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Who do you blame for the shutdown? Three quarters believe
each deserves a moderate share of blame.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So truly a divide in DC between the parties and
straight through American society. Louke Penrose, if of John Coblt
on The John Coblt Show on KFI AM six forty
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Speaker 7 (08:09):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So speak of Pelosi getting sideways again with a reporter.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Shut up, I did not refuse the National Guard. The
President didn't send it.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It's a sharp shut up. I mean it's a heartfelt
shut up. It's a good shut up. I'll give her that.
It's right into the microphone. It's a real crisps hit.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
That again, shut up.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
I did not refuse the National Guard. The President didn't
send it.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That's a reaction to the question of the Republican's reopening
investigations into January sixth and whatever role she had or
didn't have with respect to security that happened today. Also,
Mitch McConnell and the Senate fell. He was walking inside
the Senate office building. He is eighty three, being asked
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a question by a reporter. He really just fell. I mean,
it wasn't a trip. He didn't catch the edge of
a shoe on a loose tile. Nobody tripped him, and
he didn't have anybody in his way, literally just his
left leg gate out. He was just walking at a
pretty normal gate and he was flanked by a staffer.
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And I don't know if it was Senate security or
Capitol Hill police. Somebody would imagine a gun just happened
to be near him and caught him, but not before
he hit the ground. And we watched it from a
bunch of angles to see and it just looked like
he was walking and his left leg just lost power
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and he went down toward his left got up very quickly,
smiled and waved at the reporter who actually had a
cameraman there, so it was all caught on t It's
people do fall. Eighty three year old people fall two
and sometimes it can be a bad fall. This I'm
sure it's going to hurt tomorrow. His risks probably took
most of the weight. He's a tall fellow. But it's
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not the first time. It's a long series of health
scares into what is now many many octogenarian senators and
a lot of people are beginning to wonder if it's
not time to revisit term limits.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
So I'm not a fan of term limits. We do
have term limits.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Every congressional term expires every single time, Like every member
of Congress is up for reelection and they are running
as an incumbent, but their term expires, so they have
to be re hired. That's what an election is. For
a sitting member of Congress, you are re hiring them.
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They do have the advantage of incumbency, but sometimes that
can work against you.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Right if you're a member of.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
The party in power and the direction of the country,
it may not be that particular congress member's fault. That
congress member could have voted no, could have voted against
his own party, and just because the letter is next
to his name or her name, they could get fired
or voted out of office.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
So the system works fine.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Senators have a six year term, so it's hard to
remember how old they get, and.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You know, statewide, it's pretty easy to.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Hide if you're sef you're frankly a not very effective senator,
or you're just not high profile, or you don't like
to go on TV, or you don't have a good
speaking voice, not charismatic, but for whatever reason, wanted to
be the senator. Because if your industry, because if your family, heritage,
or whatever the ego. Then you can be a senator
and hide in the Senate and do very little for
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a long period of time and get the pay. But
you're still up for reelection and the people of Kentucky
continue to put Mitch McConnell there, and you have to
respect their choice. Even though he's now eighty three and
he's falling asleep, he's having what appears to be many
strokes sometimes or just falling out of consciousness for a while,
going silent, slipping and falling, having all kinds of problems tumbling.
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And the question becomes, why are people that are in
office staying in office when they are having difficulties. I
worked on Capitol Hill. A lot of walking involved a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Of stairs there. There is I mean, there's Senate.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
There are elevators that are reserved just for members of
Congress and members of the Senate during votes. But you
know they're four undred and thirty five members of Congress,
and there are three House office buildings and there's one
hundred senators in the two House office buildings. Those elevators
get crammed, and sometimes you got to you gotta run down,
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and you got to move.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Capitol Hill is a busy blaze.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And if you have to make it to a fundraising
event after the vote, boyle boy, you gotta skidattle. So
why you have to ask the question, do we have
to wonder if we should impose term limits on people
that should be term limiting themselves.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
And that question is being asked.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Now, why doesn't he want to go spend time with family.
Why doesn't his family pull him inside and say, Mitch,
you probably should pass the baton.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Do you want to get a broken hip on the
Senate floor? Is that what you want?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So these questions are being asked, and I think today
is just another day where that question becomes top of mind.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
But we don't have to do that.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
We can just on elect or fire every member of Congress.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
We have a limit. The term is limited.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
It's just they renew the contract every election day. And
it's a little bit easier in the House of Representatives.
And that's why the House of Representatives tends to be
a little more fiery because they have to face the
voters every two years, sent it every six years.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
So people, I'm sure in Kentucky forgot that they reelected
Mitch McConnell. But he did get up. He is fine
and we have no reports of any problems.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Hey, coming up, we'll talk with ABC News correspondent Alex Stone.
I don't know how many of you have purchased the
air tag and attached to something that you lose a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
We just did it in my family.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
My oldest is sixteen and drives, but my wife loaded
some app Live three sixty or something, so we always
know where he is if we're out of town or
he's out and I can track my sons via their
iPhone with this app.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
And it's pretty good. It's pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Actually, it shows you how they got to their friend's house,
like what.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Roads they traveled. Literally, the little dot goes.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Sometimes they go zigzag and you wonder, why are you
taking the long way to your friend's house?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
And where are you? And you can zoom in and see,
oh they stop by, in and out.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Okay, And it's a useful tool in tracking kids. But
then it occurred to my wife, we only know where
the phone is, we don't know where the car is, so.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Maybe we should put one of these air tags in
a car. Well, I'm not going to tell you if.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
We did or didn't do that. Who knows who could
be listening, But it did cross our mind. In Florida,
people are getting the carjacked because thieves are putting air
tags their own. Add the thieves air tags in the
cars and then tracking people and then going in and mugging.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Them and stealing the car.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
ABC News correspondent Alex Stone has the whole story and
what we can do to watch out make sure we
don't get hit over the head.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
That's all coming up next on The John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Lou Penrose info John Cobelt on KFI AM six forty
Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Louke Penrose sitting in for John Cobalt all this week.
Good to be with you. Florida Sheriff is saying that
if your iPhone is sending you a notification that an
air tag is tracking you and you didn't place it
in your.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Car, you need to take action.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
ABC News correspondent Alex Stone joins us with this story. Wow,
the crooks are getting pretty sophisticated. But the whole air
tag thing.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah, hey lou So Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
We've done a number of stories here in SoCal of
homeowners who have found cameras that have been hidden outside
of their homes, and typically they link back to the
what are called the tourists burglars, you know, the ones
who come out of Chili typically and come in and
commit the crimes and drop the loot for money and
then go back to South America. So the cameras are
kind of a normal thing, but the air tags going
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after random victims, this is something new now. Air tags
police have dealt with for a while, typically in stocking
or domestic viol where air tags are something like an
AirTag another brand is used to track somebody. But in Odessa, Florida,
they say that now criminals are using air tags to
track random victims who they want to target, who they
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believe have money or things that they want. So a
couple pulled into their driveway at night. There were two
armed men waiting for them, who pulled them out of
their car and into the garage. The robbers didn't know
that the couple could remotely sound an alarm that went off.
They sounded it, the guys took off running, but police
came in and found the robbers have been tracking the
couple for quite a while using air tags, and the
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cops are saying.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
That was so key about this investigation. So some criminals
are very sophisticated. So these two criminals used an air
tag to monitor and surveil these victims.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
So that's Joseph Maller, the chief Deputy of Hillsboro County
of the sheriff there, and they say that these two
had been watching the victims, knew where they were, knew
their pattern of life by putting an air tag in
their car, and recently policemen kind of one where this
situation was going to go with air tags and domestic
violence went on. This seems to be where it's going.
The robbers in this case in Florida got away, but
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the air tag that was found is what led police
back to the phone it was registered to and who
owned the phone, and that is how they found these
robberies and arrested.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
Our detectives identified the air tag on the vehicle, on
the victim's vehicle, and we use that to help us
identify who the suspects were.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
So what they were using to commit the crime is
actually what solved the crime as well. But those guys
were stopped at a traffic stop, they were arrested. Long
listed charges are facing now. But if you have an
iPhone and there is an air tag with you that
is moving with you that has not registered to you,
you should get a warning on your phone that there
is an air tag that is tracking you. If it's
a third party device another company, not Apple, you're probably
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not going to get that. Or if you have an
Android device, you're probably not going to get it. But
Mallurie says they did not get a warning in this
case that they knew of or you know a lot
of people clear them and not actually read what the
little pop up is it comes out.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I think get a notification that ane a AirTag.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
Was hear them, but you know, for our community of
what I really want you to be aware of is
there are sophisticated criminals out here and they do use
these type of devices. If you do receive some sort
of notification that you have no idea about, be cognizant
of that and notify us.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
And if you've seen one.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Like before, my son had a phone, we give him
an air tag when he'd be out with friends, just
so we kind of knew where he was, and if
he was in the car with us, we would get
this warning because he was moving with us, so the
air tag was moving with us, but it wasn't registered
to one of our phones, and so we'd get the
little pop up from the bottom that they would say
that you're being tracked and so if you see that,
they say, don't ignore it. The other thing is it's
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unclear why the robbers went after this couple. This was
not a targeted thing. They don't think other than knowing
that this couple probably had money.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
We don't know why they were targeted. I know they're
business owners. They own a restaurant.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
So any type of business owner that handles a lot
of cash, whether it be a restaurant, a jeweler, things
of that nature, be cognizant, have your situation aware about you.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
But police say loud just a warning of how robberies
or burglars are now getting more sophisticated, watching their victims,
watching that pattern of life, and a warning going out
there that if you do see that pop up on
your screen and not ignore it. If you don't know
where that air tag is coming from, to try to
figure out why it's coming up on your screen.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
This is amazing because technology is becoming so useful, yet
at the same time, there is so much technology that
you become numb to it. Like I have three sons
and they're all teenage, sixteen, fifteen, and now twelve, and
my wife has loaded this app onto their phones that
track them so I know when they're at the house,
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I know when they're at school.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I get a little deal deal deedal or whatever. But
it's always going off because they're they're right your right.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Well, because if the two of my oldest now drives
and so the two olders go to the same high school.
So now, so four notices go off on both my
wife's and my phone at breakfast, So the phone is
going crazy and right. So it's good because I can
see where they are and see where they've been, and
see why they took the long way to their friend's
house instead of going directly. So these kinds of apps
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and these kinds of tools do help parents. But at
the same time, you're right there. It would not be
unusual to get some kind of notice or notification on
my phone and ignore.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
It because I'm getting so much of it.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, and I think about driving, because you're in your
car and this thing was in their car, and so
it wouldn't be unusual for it to pop up. The
warning looks a lot like if you have air pods
and you open up the case on your AirPods and
it pops up from the bottom and there's a little
picture of your airpod's case, it looks like that. That
is what the warning looks like, where it'll pop up
and show a little air tag and say there's an
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air tag not registered to you, and just.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
To give you the heads up. Oh that helps.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
At least it's a different notification, unlike the million other
notifications that come from the top on their way down.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, what about the notion or the idea that maybe
these these perpetrators were just practicing, maybe they were not
necessarily going after they were just trying to see how
this works and how much time they have because they
kept their phones with them, which, as you pointed out,
is the reason that the investigators were able to find them.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
But they would have had to have.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I mean they left the ear tag in the car
or on the car somewhere.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Well, because they ran away so quickly when the alarm sounded,
they did get the They pulled the family, the husband
and wife out of their car and dragged them in armed,
dragged them into their garage and then to mail. They
give them all kinds of stuff. And that is when
I don't know if it was on a keychain. The
alarms different ways you can sound it or an app,
but the homeowner was able to remotely sound the alarm,
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so once the audible alarm went off, the guys took
off running at that point, so it seems like they
just wanted to get out of there. They didn't expect
the alarm to go off, but they had been watching
them in that way, and they were armed. They had
guns and they so they very much were It seemed
like planning on fully robbing this family, but took off
once the alarm started sounding.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
What a story. Alex Stone, thanks so much. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Thanks for coming on and sharing this one with us.
So now, air tag's good, iPhone's good, technology good, but
every notification matters.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
And if you're getting notified that you're.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Being tracked and it ain't your air tag, somebody is
tracking you, keep an eye out. The John Cobalt Show
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Speaker 7 (23:23):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (23:29):
Following the news at three, President Trump suggested that San
Francisco might be the next major US city that he
is going to focus the administration on a crime crackdown
like he has done in Chicago. This started really with
the National Guard protecting ICE agents and ICE raids, and
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in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
He was having the National Guard also.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Assist or protect I suppose law enforcement DC police in
their operations, and he moved that to Chicago. And they
have ongoing efforts in Chicago, despite the efforts by the
Mayor of Chicago to push back and leave the city
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of Chicago alone. But President Trump is going forward using
the pledging to use the FBI and National Guard to
get crime under control. Now it's interesting because San Francisco
is seeing an uptick in prosecution. The District Attorney of
San Francisco has put out a number of put out
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numbers of significant reduction in crime. And the new mayor
of San Francisco is a tough on crime kind of guy,
ran as a tough on crime mayor as a candidate
and has been cracking down and now has reports to
show that auto theft and breaking and entering into an automobile,
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those kinds of crimes are down, assault or down.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Crimes using weapons are down.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Now we know we hear this from time to time
from major city leaders. Saying crime is completely under control.
You see that in Portland. People that don't want ice
in Portland, don't want the National Guard in Portland, tell
you that Portland is completely safe.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Somebody told me the other day, hey, I went through this.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
This was a Trump critic and a friend of mine
that works in DC, a Republican, and he said, hey,
I just went through Baltimore and no, uh, there's no
mayhem going on. And I said, you gotta be kidding me, Like,
Baltimore is not a safe city, but San Francisco might
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be safe her. Now, President Trump said yesterday that San
Francisco is a great city, and he's right, it is,
and he said it was way better ten or fifteen
years ago. And I would argue that it was slightly
better ten or fifteen years ago, not as good as
it was forty years ago, but better than it is today.
(26:10):
And the problem is, if you look at who was
in charge of San Francisco ten to fifteen years ago,
it was Gavin Newsom, who was then the.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Mayor of the city and County of San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
So of course Newsom jumps on that and offers the
president a great heartfelt thank you, but we'll see if the.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
President decides to go.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
He says he has support political support to go into
San Francisco and get the crime under control. But according
to the mayor and the district attorney, crime is under
control and going down, and going down in a very
dramatic way.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
And look, if these.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Guys want to duke it out and have a war
of words over who's better at controlling crime. As long
as the crime numbers are going down, that's good for
me and good for you. If the mayor and the
district attorney have things under control and there is a significant,
significant reduction in.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Crime in any city, I'm happy.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
If the threat of the President stepping in causes the
mayor and the district attorney to get tough on crime,
then job done. But San Francisco certainly was less problematic
ten and fifteen years ago. I remember people used to
go to San Francisco for the weekend. People used to
(27:26):
talk about it all the time. When I first moved
to California in nineteen ninety, people in West Hollywood would
gay guys in West Hollywood would always fly to San
Francisco for the weekend. It's like a very common thing.
Jomp out of Southwest go.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
To San Francisco for the weekend, and like, you don't
hear that as much anymore.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
What you do here is people that have to go
to San Francisco for a deposition or a conference and
fifteen minutes into their rental car, their rental car window
gets smashed and their laptop gets stolen.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
That you do.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
So we'll see if these numbers bear out, and we'll
see what Trump wants to do, and we'll talk about
it following the news at three o'clock. Speaking of crime,
they are shoplifting in the supermarkets in Long Beach. The
grocery store owners and the grocery chains in Long Beach
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are having to put more people at the self checkout
kiosks because people on Long Beach are shoplifting.
Speaker 9 (28:33):
The Long Beach law requires at least one staff member
monitoring every three self checkout stations.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
One for every three. That's a lot.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
You know, there are six self checkout stations at the
grocery store that I go to and there's never a
person there, and the light is always going on and
the machine is always telling me that I haven't placed
my bag of bartlet potato Bartlett. The payers in the
bag and have to wait, So there's nobody there but
one for every three.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
That's a whole lot of staff just standing there watching you.
Speaker 9 (29:06):
The Long Beach Law requires at least one staff member
monitoring every three self checkout stations. Designed to help the
stores fight shoplifting. The National Retail Federation says that since
the pandemic, stores nationwide have seen a staggering ninety three
percent increase in shoplifting.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Ninety three percent increase. How much of that do you
think is a bad scan? How much of that do
you think is people trying to scan and the machine
won't cooperate and then they just get fed up and figure, look,
it was three tomatoes for whatever reason, the sticker on
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the third tomato won't go. I'm not standing here and
waiting for the manager to come over.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
For eighty nine cents.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Like, how much do you think it's that or how
much do you think people are just literally stealing food?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Percent? That is staggering.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
And I have said for a long time COVID broke
a couple of things in American culture. I think COVID
broke a strong work ethic in American culture. And I
think we're on our way to rebuilding that people that
have maintained their work ethic now shine, So it actually
is good for some, but it was bad for a while.
(30:24):
And I think COVID broke the whole shame of stealing thing,
and you're seeing that at the grocery store and they're
trying to solve it, at least in the Long Beach.
Louke Penrose if John Covelt on KFI AM six forty
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
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You can always hear the show live on KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
App Lou Penrose sitting in for John Cobelt all this week.
Thanks for taking us along with you. So a new
January sixth commission, a Republican congressman from Georgia is leading
a new select subcommittee under the Judiciary Committee, tasked with
revisiting January sixth. Asked about that and perhaps any connection
(00:29):
she may have at any wrongdoing on January sixth. Congresswoman
Nancy Pelosi, former speaker, got real short with the reporter.
Congress On Pelosi, are you at all concerned that the
new January sixth committee will find.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
You wiable to that day?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Why did you refuse the National Guard on January sixth?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Shut up?
Speaker 5 (00:51):
I did not refuse the National Guard. The President didn't
send it. Why are you coming here with Republican talking
points as if you're as serious journal the American view?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
We want to know. We still have questions. Thank you?
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
The Hills Ashley Feels joined us. Ashley, thanks for spending
time with us. Why would Republicans revisit this terrain? It's
not good for them it's not a good narrative, and
it just seems like we're going backwards in time.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
What's the rationale from the congressman from Georgia.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Well, thank you so much for having me today. As
we know, the White House is led by President Trump
of the Republican Party, and so are both Chambers of Commerce.
So they're revisiting this subject because it was an extremely
hard talking point for them, you know, coming into the
twenty twenty four election, and it could be revisited during
midterm elections this year. They are relying on statements from
formal Capitol Police Chief Stephen sund who said he requested
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that Pelosi send in the National Guard three days ahead
of the January sixth Capital insurrection. He said that she
denied his request for the federal presidence of law enforcement.
Pelosi eventually called up Capitol Police and urged them to
bring National guardsmen in on the day of January sixth,
but in a later documentary said that she quote totally
(02:04):
failed by not bringing in a guardsman sooner.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So is that really kind of the crux is it?
Whether did she deny the National Guard? Does she have
to accept the National Guard? I mean, we hear a
lot about the National Guard being federalized now by the
President of the United States, despite what governors say. How
does a member of Congress refuse the National Guard and
(02:29):
how was she able to do that?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Help us understand that.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
So, Nancy Pelosi has a sergeant at arms, that sergeant
at arms can either accept or deny the request or
the presence of the National Guard, and ultimately, on January third,
she directed the sergeant at arms to deny it, and
so the Capitol Police were prohibited from calling in the
(02:53):
National guardsmen. Now, Pelosi had no idea what January sixth
would have looked like three days ahead of the Wyatt,
but we do know it was heavily advertised by President Trump,
and it ended up being a terrible day for people
in Congress, including staffers and lawmakers. And so that's something
that the Republican Party is looking to revisit and maybe
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change the narrative around.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
But I mean the scalp here politically speaking, would be
Pelosi if they can revisit this and have her on
tape or in a statement saying that she made a
mistake and she should have accepted or should have directed
the sergeant at arms to direct the Capitol Police to
call on the National Guard.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
It would be her maya culpa.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And she's an I don't know if she's outgoing member
of Congress, but she's certainly in the sunset of her
congressional career. Is it worth bringing this all up again
when you speak to members of Congress?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Is everybody on board? But bringing this up again just
to get even with Nancy Pelosi?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Well, Democrats, of course are against this. They believe that
it's a plot to countersh our legacy as the first
women to become House Speaker. But as we know, the
Congress is gop led, and this is something that they're
looking to hammer on. They're revisiting all points that they
feel like we're targeted by Democrats in previous elections.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I quills, what's the mood right now? They're in the
middle of a shutdown.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
The midterm election is three hundred and eighty three days away.
That's a lifetime in politics, but not a long time
when it comes to fundraising. And I'm sure there are
many congressional members of Congress in some of these purple states,
or even some of these within plus or minus five
percentage point districts that are already seeing primary challenges or
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challenges from another party, you know, showing up in local
newspapers and a local events.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So they have the reelection on their mind. What's the
mood there?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
The move is pretty somber. I mean, there's a lot
of finger pointing. As we see the spederal funding laps
take hold for the sixteenth Many people are concerned about
back pay and pay for federal workers or furloughed workers,
military members and other people who are serving at the
pleasure of the president of lawmakers, and so this is
something that they're really looking again to hammer down on
(05:15):
before midterm elections. We know the Republicans, they're blaming Democrats.
Democrats are blaming Republicans. And right now this is a
battle truly over the Affordable Care Act subsidy extension. The
Democrats have been pushing forward in order to vote to
approve the end of a government shutdown. And so depending
on how this turns out, polsters are saying that this
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will heavily impact the twenty twenty six midterm elections.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And we're sixteen days into it, and will there be
another vote tomorrow or are they done for the week.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
There will be another vote tomorrow lawmakers, they're expected to
come back. We saw Senate Majority of Leader John Thune
say that he is looking at providing a vote to
extend ACAA subsidies in exchange for a vote from Senate
Democrats to end the government shutdown. And so we're just
all looking out here to see what's next on the horizon.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Ashley Fields with the Hill, thanks so much. Always good
to catch up with you.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Thanks for bringing us up the speed on the latest
from our nation's capital. Sixteen days now into this government shutdown,
and the shutdown, there's a pull out today. And if
you ask Americans, every American that's a Republican says it's
the Democrat's fault. Every American that's a Democrat says it's.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
The Republican's fault.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So America is perfectly represented by Congress right now.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
It is just finger pointing.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
With flights delayed and government workers missing paychecks. Fifty four
percent of US adults now call the federal government shutdown
a major issue. Sixty nine percent of Democrats call it
a major problem. Only four and ten US adults support
the Democrats demand to extend Obamacare subsidies.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
The same number has no opinion.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Four and ten support, So less than half agree that
the Democrats should get their way and get the ACA
American Care Act as subsidies, which would include healthcare for
the illegals tangentially, and an equal number four and ten
don't care, have no opinion. Americans have just could care less,
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not even aware that the government is shut down.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Sixty nine percent of Democrats call it a major problem.
Only four and ten US adults support the Democrats demand
to extend Obamacare subsidies. The same number has no opinion.
Just three in ten have a favorable view of the Democrats.
Republicans a smidge higher at four and ten.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Oh look at that.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
So Democrats losing on this one, Republicans winning, but just
by a little bit.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
But when it comes to who's at fault, so.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Who do you blame for the shutdown? Three quarters believe
each deserves a moderate share of blame.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
So truly a divide in DC between the parties and
straight through American society. Louke Penrose, if of John Coblt
on The John Coblt Show on KFI AM six forty
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
So speak of Pelosi getting sideways again with a reporter.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Shut up, I did not refuse the National Guard. The
President didn't send it.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It's a sharp shut up. I mean it's a heartfelt
shut up. It's a good shut up. I'll give her that.
It's right into the microphone. It's a real crisps hit.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
That again, shut up.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
I did not refuse the National Guard. The President didn't
send it.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
That's a reaction to the question of the Republican's reopening
investigations into January sixth and whatever role she had or
didn't have with respect to security that happened today. Also,
Mitch McConnell and the Senate fell. He was walking inside
the Senate office building. He is eighty three, being asked
(09:06):
a question by a reporter. He really just fell. I mean,
it wasn't a trip. He didn't catch the edge of
a shoe on a loose tile. Nobody tripped him, and
he didn't have anybody in his way, literally just his
left leg gate out. He was just walking at a
pretty normal gate and he was flanked by a staffer.
(09:29):
And I don't know if it was Senate security or
Capitol Hill police. Somebody would imagine a gun just happened
to be near him and caught him, but not before
he hit the ground. And we watched it from a
bunch of angles to see and it just looked like
he was walking and his left leg just lost power
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and he went down toward his left got up very quickly,
smiled and waved at the reporter who actually had a
cameraman there, so it was all caught on t It's
people do fall. Eighty three year old people fall two
and sometimes it can be a bad fall. This I'm
sure it's going to hurt tomorrow. His risks probably took
most of the weight. He's a tall fellow. But it's
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not the first time. It's a long series of health
scares into what is now many many octogenarian senators and
a lot of people are beginning to wonder if it's
not time to revisit term limits.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
So I'm not a fan of term limits. We do
have term limits.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Every congressional term expires every single time, Like every member
of Congress is up for reelection and they are running
as an incumbent, but their term expires, so they have
to be re hired. That's what an election is. For
a sitting member of Congress, you are re hiring them.
(10:51):
They do have the advantage of incumbency, but sometimes that
can work against you.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Right if you're a member of.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
The party in power and the direction of the country,
it may not be that particular congress member's fault. That
congress member could have voted no, could have voted against
his own party, and just because the letter is next
to his name or her name, they could get fired
or voted out of office.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
So the system works fine.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Senators have a six year term, so it's hard to
remember how old they get, and.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You know, statewide, it's pretty easy to.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Hide if you're sef you're frankly a not very effective senator,
or you're just not high profile, or you don't like
to go on TV, or you don't have a good
speaking voice, not charismatic, but for whatever reason, wanted to
be the senator. Because if your industry, because if your family, heritage,
or whatever the ego. Then you can be a senator
and hide in the Senate and do very little for
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a long period of time and get the pay. But
you're still up for reelection and the people of Kentucky
continue to put Mitch McConnell there, and you have to
respect their choice. Even though he's now eighty three and
he's falling asleep, he's having what appears to be many
strokes sometimes or just falling out of consciousness for a while,
going silent, slipping and falling, having all kinds of problems tumbling.
(12:15):
And the question becomes, why are people that are in
office staying in office when they are having difficulties. I
worked on Capitol Hill. A lot of walking involved a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Of stairs there. There is I mean, there's Senate.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
There are elevators that are reserved just for members of
Congress and members of the Senate during votes. But you
know they're four undred and thirty five members of Congress,
and there are three House office buildings and there's one
hundred senators in the two House office buildings. Those elevators
get crammed, and sometimes you got to you gotta run down,
(12:52):
and you got to move.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Capitol Hill is a busy blaze.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And if you have to make it to a fundraising
event after the vote, boyle boy, you gotta skidattle. So
why you have to ask the question, do we have
to wonder if we should impose term limits on people
that should be term limiting themselves.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
And that question is being asked.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Now, why doesn't he want to go spend time with family.
Why doesn't his family pull him inside and say, Mitch,
you probably should pass the baton.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Do you want to get a broken hip on the
Senate floor? Is that what you want?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So these questions are being asked, and I think today
is just another day where that question becomes top of mind.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
But we don't have to do that.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
We can just on elect or fire every member of Congress.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
We have a limit. The term is limited.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
It's just they renew the contract every election day. And
it's a little bit easier in the House of Representatives.
And that's why the House of Representatives tends to be
a little more fiery because they have to face the
voters every two years, sent it every six years.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
So people, I'm sure in Kentucky forgot that they reelected
Mitch McConnell. But he did get up. He is fine
and we have no reports of any problems.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Hey, coming up, we'll talk with ABC News correspondent Alex Stone.
I don't know how many of you have purchased the
air tag and attached to something that you lose a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
We just did it in my family.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
My oldest is sixteen and drives, but my wife loaded
some app Live three sixty or something, so we always
know where he is if we're out of town or
he's out and I can track my sons via their
iPhone with this app.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
And it's pretty good. It's pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Actually, it shows you how they got to their friend's house,
like what.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Roads they traveled. Literally, the little dot goes.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Sometimes they go zigzag and you wonder, why are you
taking the long way to your friend's house?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
And where are you? And you can zoom in and see,
oh they stop by, in and out.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Okay, And it's a useful tool in tracking kids. But
then it occurred to my wife, we only know where
the phone is, we don't know where the car is, so.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Maybe we should put one of these air tags in
a car. Well, I'm not going to tell you if.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
We did or didn't do that. Who knows who could
be listening, But it did cross our mind. In Florida,
people are getting the carjacked because thieves are putting air
tags their own. Add the thieves air tags in the
cars and then tracking people and then going in and mugging.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Them and stealing the car.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
ABC News correspondent Alex Stone has the whole story and
what we can do to watch out make sure we
don't get hit over the head.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
That's all coming up next on The John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Lou Penrose info John Cobelt on KFI AM six forty
Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Louke Penrose sitting in for John Cobalt all this week.
Good to be with you. Florida Sheriff is saying that
if your iPhone is sending you a notification that an
air tag is tracking you and you didn't place it
in your.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Car, you need to take action.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
ABC News correspondent Alex Stone joins us with this story. Wow,
the crooks are getting pretty sophisticated. But the whole air
tag thing.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah, hey lou So Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
We've done a number of stories here in SoCal of
homeowners who have found cameras that have been hidden outside
of their homes, and typically they link back to the
what are called the tourists burglars, you know, the ones
who come out of Chili typically and come in and
commit the crimes and drop the loot for money and
then go back to South America. So the cameras are
kind of a normal thing, but the air tags going
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after random victims, this is something new now. Air tags
police have dealt with for a while, typically in stocking
or domestic viol where air tags are something like an
AirTag another brand is used to track somebody. But in Odessa, Florida,
they say that now criminals are using air tags to
track random victims who they want to target, who they
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believe have money or things that they want. So a
couple pulled into their driveway at night. There were two
armed men waiting for them, who pulled them out of
their car and into the garage. The robbers didn't know
that the couple could remotely sound an alarm that went off.
They sounded it, the guys took off running, but police
came in and found the robbers have been tracking the
couple for quite a while using air tags, and the
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cops are saying.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
That was so key about this investigation. So some criminals
are very sophisticated. So these two criminals used an air
tag to monitor and surveil these victims.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
So that's Joseph Maller, the chief Deputy of Hillsboro County
of the sheriff there, and they say that these two
had been watching the victims, knew where they were, knew
their pattern of life by putting an air tag in
their car, and recently policemen kind of one where this
situation was going to go with air tags and domestic
violence went on. This seems to be where it's going.
The robbers in this case in Florida got away, but
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the air tag that was found is what led police
back to the phone it was registered to and who
owned the phone, and that is how they found these
robberies and arrested.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
Our detectives identified the air tag on the vehicle, on
the victim's vehicle, and we use that to help us
identify who the suspects were.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
So what they were using to commit the crime is
actually what solved the crime as well. But those guys
were stopped at a traffic stop, they were arrested. Long
listed charges are facing now. But if you have an
iPhone and there is an air tag with you that
is moving with you that has not registered to you,
you should get a warning on your phone that there
is an air tag that is tracking you. If it's
a third party device another company, not Apple, you're probably
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not going to get that. Or if you have an
Android device, you're probably not going to get it. But
Mallurie says they did not get a warning in this
case that they knew of or you know a lot
of people clear them and not actually read what the
little pop up is it comes out.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I think get a notification that ane a AirTag.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
Was hear them, but you know, for our community of
what I really want you to be aware of is
there are sophisticated criminals out here and they do use
these type of devices. If you do receive some sort
of notification that you have no idea about, be cognizant
of that and notify us.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
And if you've seen one.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Like before, my son had a phone, we give him
an air tag when he'd be out with friends, just
so we kind of knew where he was, and if
he was in the car with us, we would get
this warning because he was moving with us, so the
air tag was moving with us, but it wasn't registered
to one of our phones, and so we'd get the
little pop up from the bottom that they would say
that you're being tracked and so if you see that,
they say, don't ignore it. The other thing is it's
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unclear why the robbers went after this couple. This was
not a targeted thing. They don't think other than knowing
that this couple probably had money.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
We don't know why they were targeted. I know they're
business owners. They own a restaurant.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
So any type of business owner that handles a lot
of cash, whether it be a restaurant, a jeweler, things
of that nature, be cognizant, have your situation aware about you.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
But police say loud just a warning of how robberies
or burglars are now getting more sophisticated, watching their victims,
watching that pattern of life, and a warning going out
there that if you do see that pop up on
your screen and not ignore it. If you don't know
where that air tag is coming from, to try to
figure out why it's coming up on your screen.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
This is amazing because technology is becoming so useful, yet
at the same time, there is so much technology that
you become numb to it. Like I have three sons
and they're all teenage, sixteen, fifteen, and now twelve, and
my wife has loaded this app onto their phones that
track them so I know when they're at the house,
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I know when they're at school.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I get a little deal deal deedal or whatever. But
it's always going off because they're they're right your right.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Well, because if the two of my oldest now drives
and so the two olders go to the same high school.
So now, so four notices go off on both my
wife's and my phone at breakfast, So the phone is
going crazy and right. So it's good because I can
see where they are and see where they've been, and
see why they took the long way to their friend's
house instead of going directly. So these kinds of apps
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and these kinds of tools do help parents. But at
the same time, you're right there. It would not be
unusual to get some kind of notice or notification on
my phone and ignore.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
It because I'm getting so much of it.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, and I think about driving, because you're in your
car and this thing was in their car, and so
it wouldn't be unusual for it to pop up. The
warning looks a lot like if you have air pods
and you open up the case on your AirPods and
it pops up from the bottom and there's a little
picture of your airpod's case, it looks like that. That
is what the warning looks like, where it'll pop up
and show a little air tag and say there's an
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air tag not registered to you, and just.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
To give you the heads up. Oh that helps.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
At least it's a different notification, unlike the million other
notifications that come from the top on their way down.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yeah, what about the notion or the idea that maybe
these these perpetrators were just practicing, maybe they were not
necessarily going after they were just trying to see how
this works and how much time they have because they
kept their phones with them, which, as you pointed out,
is the reason that the investigators were able to find them.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
But they would have had to have.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I mean they left the ear tag in the car
or on the car somewhere.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Well, because they ran away so quickly when the alarm sounded,
they did get the They pulled the family, the husband
and wife out of their car and dragged them in armed,
dragged them into their garage and then to mail. They
give them all kinds of stuff. And that is when
I don't know if it was on a keychain. The
alarms different ways you can sound it or an app,
but the homeowner was able to remotely sound the alarm,
(22:36):
so once the audible alarm went off, the guys took
off running at that point, so it seems like they
just wanted to get out of there. They didn't expect
the alarm to go off, but they had been watching
them in that way, and they were armed. They had
guns and they so they very much were It seemed
like planning on fully robbing this family, but took off
once the alarm started sounding.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
What a story. Alex Stone, thanks so much. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Thanks for coming on and sharing this one with us.
So now, air tag's good, iPhone's good, technology good, but
every notification matters.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
And if you're getting notified that you're.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Being tracked and it ain't your air tag, somebody is
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Speaker 2 (23:29):
Following the news at three, President Trump suggested that San
Francisco might be the next major US city that he
is going to focus the administration on a crime crackdown
like he has done in Chicago. This started really with
the National Guard protecting ICE agents and ICE raids, and
(23:53):
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
He was having the National Guard also.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Assist or protect I suppose law enforcement DC police in
their operations, and he moved that to Chicago. And they
have ongoing efforts in Chicago, despite the efforts by the
Mayor of Chicago to push back and leave the city
(24:17):
of Chicago alone. But President Trump is going forward using
the pledging to use the FBI and National Guard to
get crime under control. Now it's interesting because San Francisco
is seeing an uptick in prosecution. The District Attorney of
San Francisco has put out a number of put out
(24:39):
numbers of significant reduction in crime. And the new mayor
of San Francisco is a tough on crime kind of guy,
ran as a tough on crime mayor as a candidate
and has been cracking down and now has reports to
show that auto theft and breaking and entering into an automobile,
(25:01):
those kinds of crimes are down, assault or down.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Crimes using weapons are down.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Now we know we hear this from time to time
from major city leaders. Saying crime is completely under control.
You see that in Portland. People that don't want ice
in Portland, don't want the National Guard in Portland, tell
you that Portland is completely safe.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Somebody told me the other day, hey, I went through this.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
This was a Trump critic and a friend of mine
that works in DC, a Republican, and he said, hey,
I just went through Baltimore and no, uh, there's no
mayhem going on. And I said, you gotta be kidding me, Like,
Baltimore is not a safe city, but San Francisco might
(25:49):
be safe her. Now, President Trump said yesterday that San
Francisco is a great city, and he's right, it is,
and he said it was way better ten or fifteen
years ago. And I would argue that it was slightly
better ten or fifteen years ago, not as good as
it was forty years ago, but better than it is today.
(26:10):
And the problem is, if you look at who was
in charge of San Francisco ten to fifteen years ago,
it was Gavin Newsom, who was then the.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Mayor of the city and County of San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
So of course Newsom jumps on that and offers the
president a great heartfelt thank you, but we'll see if the.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
President decides to go.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
He says he has support political support to go into
San Francisco and get the crime under control. But according
to the mayor and the district attorney, crime is under
control and going down, and going down in a very
dramatic way.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
And look, if these.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Guys want to duke it out and have a war
of words over who's better at controlling crime. As long
as the crime numbers are going down, that's good for
me and good for you. If the mayor and the
district attorney have things under control and there is a significant,
significant reduction in.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Crime in any city, I'm happy.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
If the threat of the President stepping in causes the
mayor and the district attorney to get tough on crime,
then job done. But San Francisco certainly was less problematic
ten and fifteen years ago. I remember people used to
go to San Francisco for the weekend. People used to
(27:26):
talk about it all the time. When I first moved
to California in nineteen ninety, people in West Hollywood would
gay guys in West Hollywood would always fly to San
Francisco for the weekend. It's like a very common thing.
Jomp out of Southwest go.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
To San Francisco for the weekend, and like, you don't
hear that as much anymore.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
What you do here is people that have to go
to San Francisco for a deposition or a conference and
fifteen minutes into their rental car, their rental car window
gets smashed and their laptop gets stolen.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
That you do.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
So we'll see if these numbers bear out, and we'll
see what Trump wants to do, and we'll talk about
it following the news at three o'clock. Speaking of crime,
they are shoplifting in the supermarkets in Long Beach. The
grocery store owners and the grocery chains in Long Beach
(28:25):
are having to put more people at the self checkout
kiosks because people on Long Beach are shoplifting.
Speaker 9 (28:33):
The Long Beach law requires at least one staff member
monitoring every three self checkout stations.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
One for every three. That's a lot.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
You know, there are six self checkout stations at the
grocery store that I go to and there's never a
person there, and the light is always going on and
the machine is always telling me that I haven't placed
my bag of bartlet potato Bartlett. The payers in the
bag and have to wait, So there's nobody there but
one for every three.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
That's a whole lot of staff just standing there watching you.
Speaker 9 (29:06):
The Long Beach Law requires at least one staff member
monitoring every three self checkout stations. Designed to help the
stores fight shoplifting. The National Retail Federation says that since
the pandemic, stores nationwide have seen a staggering ninety three
percent increase in shoplifting.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Ninety three percent increase. How much of that do you
think is a bad scan? How much of that do
you think is people trying to scan and the machine
won't cooperate and then they just get fed up and figure, look,
it was three tomatoes for whatever reason, the sticker on
(29:46):
the third tomato won't go. I'm not standing here and
waiting for the manager to come over.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
For eighty nine cents.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Like, how much do you think it's that or how
much do you think people are just literally stealing food?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Percent? That is staggering.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
And I have said for a long time COVID broke
a couple of things in American culture. I think COVID
broke a strong work ethic in American culture. And I
think we're on our way to rebuilding that people that
have maintained their work ethic now shine, So it actually
is good for some, but it was bad for a while.
(30:24):
And I think COVID broke the whole shame of stealing thing,
and you're seeing that at the grocery store and they're
trying to solve it, at least in the Long Beach.
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