And we continue at 105 in the afternoon on the John Phillips show, Mr. Randy Wings and Culver City. All right, son, from Napa at Johnny, don't like show at Gmail.com with some of the other county tax rates. If you're curious, Sonoma County is 9.5% rural. Napa County is 7.5%. Marin County's tax is 8.25% tax and Alameda County is 10.75% depending on the city, which is why we called her a crime boss. She called me a crime buff. Wow, someone did go through the trouble to run the numbers. Or they had AI do it could also be that 800 222 5222 is the telephone number 1 800 222 5222. It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. He is the founder of Morgan and Morgan. You see the billboards all over town. You can get him online at for the people.com John Morgan. Welcome. It is good to be back. Well, thank you so much for stopping by and I've got to say, after you were on the last time and I asked you about your pal, the late great Jimmy Buffett, when you two would go out and have a cocktail together, what was his preferred cocktail? When you said Rose, the amount of email that we got after you said that it was like revealing what brand of eggnog Santa Claus prefers. Well, he loved Rose. I'm trying to think of the brand he used to drink. There was a certain brand he had too and then Kittakila. I'm surprised he didn't own the brand of Rose because if there was a Jimmy Buffett brand at Rose, that thing would be in every grocery store in America. Well, you know, his last song that he wrote, and if anybody loves Jimmy Buffett, as soon as there's finished listing to your show, they should Google his last song called Bubbles Up. And I own a little piece of the Margaritaville company and I'm urging this CEO to start a champagne line called Bubbles Up. But listen, listen to Bubbles Up. His Jimmy's goodbye song to all of us. And Frank Marshall, the great director who lives out there, he wrote, he sent it to me. And Frank did Jurassic Park and Raiders. His message to me was Jimmy saved the best one for the last one. So listen to Bubbles Up and think about Bubbles Up champagne. It really was a great gift that he gave his fans putting out that album right there at the end, almost as a parting gift. And you want to hear something unbelievable. The night before he died, Paul McCartney, I'm told, went to his house and sag harbor and sang, let it be to him in his bedroom. I mean, his whole life was just a story book. It doesn't get any better than that. No, can you imagine your edge your last day and Paul McCartney's at the foot of your bed playing, let it be and saying it to you? If that was the case, I wouldn't even be hitting the morphine drill. Exactly. That is the morphine. That is the morphine. And so, but you have Bubbles Up for all your listeners, they're going to go crazy about that song. Well, thank you so much for stopping by. We always appreciate your time. You of course were in all the books about the 2024 election. One of them, fight, described a scene where after the Biden debate, the first Trump Biden debate, you were the first person that Nancy Pelosi called to spitball what just happened in that debate and figure out what the Democratic Party would do going into the future. Since we had that conversation, Nancy Pelosi announced that she would not be seeking re-election to the House of Representatives. She, of course, had already stepped down as speaker of the House, but she was still a voting member of the House. And also, since we spoke the last time, Mitch McConnell, the longtime Republican leader of the Senate, announced that he would not be seeking re-election. Both of those, too, who ran their respective chambers for years and years and years are now turning the keys over to the next generation. As someone who knows these people well, how much do you think that's going to hurt each of the parties? It's not going to hurt the Republican Party because I'm from Kentucky. Mitch McConnell is just, you know, but here's the thing about Pelosi. Whether you like her or hate her, she's the most consequential female in the history of America. Her greatest strength to the Democratic Party is fundraising. Nobody can raise money like Nancy Pelosi. And President Trump, he begrudgingly respects her because he knows she is very formidable. Losing Pelosi is like losing Tom Brady. Losing Mitch McConnell is like losing Trent Dilfer, if you even know who the hell he is. That's not nutshell on that. When she called you up that day, was she freaking out or was she cool as a cucumber and just trying to assess just what the doctor was over? She knew what's all was interesting is what she did is she texted me back. But what the tech said was John Morgan says the election is over. And I tend to agree. And then I wrote back to her. I said, are you writing this to me? And she said no, I made a mistake. I was sending that. This is a quote to my sweet husband Paul. So I texted her. She texted me back. And then we talked after that. But I knew that when I saw him there, why not looking at the camera, looking like the corpse, like a week in it, Bernie's I knew it was over O V E R all caps. I mean, it was like, that's it. And now he's apparently having a hard time raising money for his library. So from the point of view of the donors, there's got to be residual anger. Total anger and don't forget. He was going to be a bridge. He was going to be a one term and everybody was okay with that. Then he got in there and started liking it. I'll tell you who I think really liked it the most was his wife Jill. But he stayed. And then so what he's done is he's ruined his legacy. He's ruined his legacy in so many ways. He could have been a transitional president. And now he is a disastrous president. He was not only did he not step away before he stepped away. He gave us Kamala Harris as a nominee. You could not have had a worst choice in the world. You could not have picked anyone in the Democratic Party that would have been worse in my opinion. And so I caught a little bit of grief because people asked me about his library, his presidential library. I said, listen. This guy ain't going to be able to build a presidential book mobile. If people even remember what those things are, nobody's going to give him any money for any thing. He has ruined himself in history. And he could have been, you know, the president who gave us the infrastructure bill who set us on our way into the 21st century. And now he's a guy that stayed too long, cost the Democrats everything, and gave other Republicans all three branches of government. That's his legacy. What do you make of the fact that right now, if you look at the polls in the Democratic primary in 2028, Kamala Harris is leading the pack. Now a large part of that just could be name ID. People know who she is. They may not know who random governors of other states are. But given what happened in that election, I can't for the life of me believe that there's anyone in the Democratic Party who would think it's a good idea to nominate her again. Well, I can't think of who anybody who has a good idea to nominate that Congresswoman for Minneapolis. But they not only nominate her. They elect her. You know, in the Democratic Party, there's all sorts of fringe groups. And she has incredible name ID. Her problem is going to be very simple money. Nobody is going to give her a red penny of any substance. And the same thing for her, and look, I've always been against her. I was against her when they were trying to pick her for vice president. I was I was raising T total hell saying no, no, no, no, don't forget. When she ran for president, she didn't do anything. She only got 8% in her home state of California. And so I've been against her from the beginning. Once she got the nomination, once Joe Biden said it's going to be Kamala, that was the day that John Morgan left and went and registered as an independent. I said, I'm out. I'm not a socialist. And I'm nowhere near a socialist. I'm very much a capitalist. So I said goodbye to the Democratic Party. She's still there, but she'll never get the money. She has absolutely no presence on stage. The sad part is, you know, when you read those books, she thought going to bed the night before that she was going to win. And instead other than other than George McGovern, she got her ass beat worse than anybody ever. But went to bed thinking, I'm going to be the president tomorrow. The disconnect, the distortion is just beyond. And you know she thought she was going to win when she'd come out on stage with Oprah. She'd be prancing. She didn't walk out. She pranced out. It's like the one of Santa Claus's rain deers the way they put away. She had those blooms raised up coming out. And so she got beat everywhere. She didn't win in the state. All this, the blue wall hell. There was no wall. So she might think it, when she starts calling and dialing for dollars, it's going to be a big F you. Do you kind of get the impression that they might lose control of that primary? And I say that because we're here in Los Angeles where Karen Bash is the incumbent Democrat running for reelection. And a socialist on the city council just announced that she is going to run against her. And I believe right now that the socialist is going to win. And Karen Bass is not going to be reelected as mayor. We saw that happen in New York City with the socialist candidate beating the Democratic candidate. Cuomo, the former governor. We saw it happen in Seattle. We've seen it happen in Chicago. And I look at this Democratic primary and I say, OK, the two people who pull the best right now are Harris and Newsom. And we know how deeply flawed those two are. If AOC catches fire and she's not going to raise her money from the traditional sources, she's going to get it from people who are all ginned up watching MSNBC at night. And they send her small dollar checks every time she rattles the cage. And it's not like how normal nominees raise their money. It's very different. It's decentralized. And the party can't say it's not your turn stand down. I could see a scenario where someone like that becomes the nominee this time. Well, it's very possible. And here's the thing. First of all, I'll say this, if there's a way for Democrats to lose when they shouldn't, they will find a way. That's that's simply put, but what you got to remember is this America is desperate on both sides. MAGA came to be because of desperation. The MAGA voters were tired of woke them. They were tired of the I they believe that they were being discriminated against. And they didn't want transgender males slimming against females. That's what the likes was about about desperation. 40% of Americans don't have $400 60% live paycheck to paycheck. So there's a sense of desperation. I have a lot of business is in America hotels and attractions. And in my advertising, there's the number one word in American advertising is this word. Three, the second best word in American advertising is money. The best two words together in American advertising is free money. And that's what the socialists are offering up free money. And when you start saying free money, you're going to get a lot of people who don't want to work and want to get free money. I mean, we still can't people get people to go back to work from the pandemic. And you know, you think, well, when was that last year? No, it was years and years ago. And you in New York City people can only Jamie Donnan can get people to come back to work. People don't want to work. I call work from home. Don't work from home because I have work from home. And when I'm working from home, I'm really not working as hard as I do and work. So free money, it could absolutely happen. People are desperate. And now what's happened here, it's given the Democrats, somebody asked me, what should be the Democrat strategy? I said they have no strategy. What they got to do is just let Trump be Trump. And hopefully the optics will be so unappealing to independence. That that they have a chance. The Democrats are going to win 30 seats in the midterms because people, the independence don't like the way this is going down. They don't like the cruelty, cruelty. Were those two people that were killed in Minnesota, agitating, probably, probably when you look at them, you see that girl's face. They got killed, but the way they got killed was absolutely outrageous. I mean, they were not a threat. And those types of moments are going to give the Democrats the midterms in my opinion. Here in California, the SEIU is going to put a wealth confiscation tax on the ballot that would go after billionaires specifically and go after their assets, which would force them to sell stocks. Maybe when they don't want to sell stocks and would certainly take them to the cleaners over a trillion dollars in wealth has already moved out of the state in anticipation of that making the ballot and potentially passing. Could you see a scenario where there are no billionaires left in California where people just look at this and they go, this is loony tunes. We're out of here and places like Florida are going to become the epicenter of commerce for the entire nation. Of course, I could because you know, look a year ago Forbes had me on the cover of one of their magazines as a billionaire. And so I've watched these, I've watched these talks and I was like, how would that work? But I know how it worked for me. I would go and do anything not to have that happen to me. I don't believe. I want to give my money to the charities. I want to give it to I don't trust the federal government with money in my state planning. I'm doing everything in the world to leave every single penny to my wife and my foundation. But yeah, look, I woke up today. I'm I live in Maui, Hawaii. I'm in Maui right now. I'm now live there in the wintertime, but I woke up today. I got a bunch of friends down in Florida. Mark Zuckerberg has bought a house in the in creek where everybody lives now. It's where Jared Kushner lives. It's where Bayes those lives. They're all leaving. And look, the billionaires text will be bad for them, but it wouldn't change their lifestyle at all. But they don't like the idea of working, making this money, playing by the rules and then having the rules change at the end and say, hey, we got one more rule. We're going to take another 5%. I mean, California is already the most tax state in the country. The thanks California has going for them is its natural beauty, but at a certain point in time. Hey, you'll come to Florida where I live most of the year, you'll come to Florida, you'll deal with the effing mosquitoes a little bit. You'll deal with some humidity, but by and large, you're going to be inside with air conditioning and paying zero taxes in Florida. They're talking about trying to find a way not to raise taxes, but to eliminate property taxes on homes. So, yeah, I mean, California's losing them. New York's losing them and Florida and Texas are getting them. All right, John, we're going to have to leave it there, but enjoy one of those monkey pod mites tonight. They're the best over in Maui. I guess what on Saturday, on Saturday night, I'm having dinner with Peter Maryman who owns monkey pod and owns Marymans down in Maui. So I will, I will have a my tie on you for you at Marymans Saturday night. All right, enjoy that my John Morgan, everyone. You can get them online at forthepeople.com 800-2225222 is telephone number 1-800222. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny. Don't like show at gmail.com. That's Johnny. Don't like show at gmail.com. And Randy, it's time to open up the California crime blotter. It's happened yet again. It's wow, wow, what's up? Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, reach the California crime blotter with John. And Randy. And Randy, this would involve a bunch of jackass teens. In San Diego, there's a whole bunch of teenagers that have figured out which homes are vacant because they're currently on the real estate market. And those are the homes to break into to throw raging parties. Great. For more, we go to NBC7 in San Diego. It was party time in the San Diego House and the kids through a rager, the biggest problem none of them live here. Well, that takes care of cleanup. In fact, at the time, no one did. And NBC7 investigation discovered a growing problem in legal house parties being thrown inside vacant homes listed for sale or rent. Yeah, so it was Dave. So you literally just open up Zillow or Red Fenty like, oh, we could party there tonight. And then we could party over there. Look at the pull in the school districts. Great. Yeah, so as Dave Summers reports, these parties advertise on social media aren't just costly to clean up. They've also proven deadly. It's a quiet street in O time, mesa was anything but on a Friday night in late January. This home is for sale, but this was no open house. I had no idea. This is what it looks like when San Diego police break up an illegal vacant house party right as it's getting underway. I was supposed to know kids are at it again. Imagine if you were a realtor and you're supposed to show that property the next morning and you show up and it looks like a bomb went off. There's crime scene tape everywhere and a bathtub full of guacamole. I was surprised to see that there was, you know, 60 plus people gathered around the house and coming from the side gates in the backyard. Social media has been a net negative for society. There I said it. Party goers are also surprised to see the police. I'm going to be honest. I heard it was a party going on. I just came to San Diego. I didn't know it was going on here. Someone told me there was a party. How am I supposed to know that this wasn't anybody's house? I'm just here to hit a pinion and play pin the tail on the donkey. I'm going to be honest. I heard it was a party going on. I just came to San Diego for a few weekends. Got your wrongs all the ****. Inside homeowner Eric Vaca surveys the aftermath. All the beds were like that when I came in here. His beautifully staged home violated. Looks like they just cut them off. The smoke detectors cut down. Oh yeah, that's the new thing. They cut off the smoke detectors in these party houses. Why? What are they lighting on fire? Everything. Looks like they just cut them off. The smoke detectors cut down. So party goers could light up. Well, I guess it is a party. They want to let their hair down. Now, it's been a few years for me. I haven't touched the stuff in about eight years. But from what I remember, even when my dumpy little apartment in Valley Village was full of pot smoke, it never set off the smoke detector. Have you hot boxed it quite often? Yes, I did. I've never heard of a house party with, you know, 10s, 20s, 100 of people coming in and breaking into the home and then completely trashing it. But that's exactly what happened to because, of course, they can't just have a good time. The only way to really have fun at a party is to destroy property. Oh yeah, because then you get to act like Metallica in a hotel room. But that's exactly what happened two weeks prior in the Skyline neighborhood. This wasn't just any party. It was let's have fun and ruin the house. Well, I don't remember seeing that show on HGTV. You know, as much as people want to talk about the war on single family homes, it's happening right here in San Diego County. They're actively destroying them one at a time. They actually let off fireworks inside the house. Of course they did. Could you imagine how loud that must have been if you light off fireworks inside a home? Here you go, dear. They actually let off fireworks inside the house. When realtor, maybe that's why they cut off the smoke detectors. Because if you let fireworks inside the house, it would probably notify the fire department. What are you thinking if you're the neighbor? Probably that there's a gender reveal party going on. When realtor Vanessa Munoz listening was broken into the Skyline property was an escrow. A human size... Oh boy, can you imagine that? Oh boy. Yeah, that's not going to go well. Like what do you do at that point? Who's liable for it? It's in the process of being transferred. A human size hole in the wall. What? If I'm the buyer, I pull out. How do you do this? A human size hole in the wall. Did they invite the cool-aid man? Maybe someone at that party was on PCP. A human size hole in the wall, like someone that thrown into the wall, the sliding door going outside was completely shattered. I hope no one was barefoot. The repair bill around seven grand according to Munoz. It could have been a lot worse. I know that people like to compare their generation to the current generation. I think we have all the evidence that we need that the teenagers today are the dumbest teenagers in centuries. I love the fact that there's $7,000 in damage and she goes, well, it could have been worse. What? A stolen key of driving through the wall? Don't give them any ideas. The repair bill around seven grand according to Munoz. It could have been a lot worse. It was a lot worse for retired Navy Lieutenant Troy Asaki. Last August, he says, his then vacant rental home suffered upwards of $250,000 in damage from an illegal party. Oh, I remember that story. We covered that story. We're really hard-broken. It's been a mixture of emotions, of frustration. How do you cause $250,000 worth of damage? I think you have to light a bomb. And anguish and a lot of it has just been heartache. In recent years, these vacant house parties have been more than just damaging. They've been deadly. In 2024, a 12-year-old boy was killed and four others shot in National City. But do all these parties have in common? Social media. There's an lack of parents. Yeah, we're the parents when the kids are shooting off fireworks indoors and shooting off guns. With all the stories that we do on the monster teens, on the e-bikes, on the monster teens that are taken over the vacant homes, the only way to nip this in the bud is to make the parents of their children financially liable for all the damage they cause. Well, that's not going to happen. What we need to do is bring Maury back and send these little bastards to boot camp again. They're saying, hey, party at this house, $10 cover at the door. They'll have security person there. They'll have a DJ or something like that. San Diego police lieutenant sees her. So wait a second. Okay, let's just say best case scenario. They got a hundred kids to crash one of these places. They're doing all this to make a thousand bucks. $250,000 in damage to make $1,000 in profit. That is math. San Diego police lieutenant sees her. These are her minutes says he's seen the flyers being shared online. They link to private group chats where addresses are revealed just minutes before the parties pop up. Even though they're young, they're sophisticated. It's a pop up party. And we're going to imagine being the lucky winner. Your address pops up. Joy. They're going to open houses. They're checking out redfin and seeing what houses are empty. Are they staking out a house like a burglar might stake out a house? Very much so more like a burglar would stake out a house. And then when the realtor goes home, that's when the party begins. SDPD says they've seen 15 to 20 of them across the county in the last year. So in 2008, for example, we had a lot of these cases because there were so many houses in the market for sale that were empty. So if there's another real estate crash, there's going to be more house party takeovers. And I just thought of something. If these homes are staged, then the furniture inside the homes doesn't even belong to the homeowner. It belongs to some staging company. What are what kind of insurance you have to have in that business right now? Probably from a company that's moving out of state again. But what about the kids you saw casually walking past police? Why aren't they being copped? It's California. We don't do that here. Humanity says arrests aren't so simple because it's hard to prove who was in on it. Well, I would imagine you would probably arrest the people who threw the party and not the people who attended the party. Because if you're attending the party, you don't really know who owns the house. It could be some relative of the person who's throwing the party. I don't know, especially if you're young. You probably aren't asking too many questions. Yeah, I would imagine that if it's just your friend's parents house that you think that you're at and you light off a bomb in the hallway, that's not necessarily a crime. No, you're just being a bad house guest. If we can identify the person who's throwing the party, a lot of times that's very difficult. Because most people are going to say, why didn't I know I thought the person throwing the party owned the home? And so that's going to be part of our burden of proof. You know, sometimes, and we discuss this a lot, the news stories that we do on the crime blotter, they are educational in multiple ways. One, if you're a homeowner or gosh, if you're in the real estate industry, you know that this is a thing. But two, if you want to throw illegal house parties, it turns out it's very hard to get caught. Well, thanks for passing along that information. And so that's going to be part of our burden of proof. And right now, police only respond when they get 911 call. It's complaint driven. Is that about right? Yes, that's very much correct. The reason I mean, they're not going to know unless somebody lights off the fireworks inside the house and the neighbors are like, what the hell's going on over there? I thought they moved out. The reason why the bus happened here in Otaimaiza is because the homeowner got a tip from a homeowner here in Skyline. You see, they found a party flyer inside the house. So the next time a party was announced online with the address, contact was made quickly and the cavalry was called in. I see these kids are so dumb they literally left a paper trail. Well, once you think you're bulletproof and you're never going to get caught, you don't bother to cover up your tracks. I feel very lucky and thankful that we caught it just in time. Eric Vaca isn't the only one feeling grateful. In my 20 plus years of doing real estate, I had never experienced something like this. A week after the Otaimaiza party, Realtor Carla Vigrio got a call from you, Guestin. Vaca's Realtor. This is what you saw at Hervegan Spring Valley listing. There were more than 30 people inside and like about 20 people outside waiting to pay the cover of $10 to come in. This is like the worst money making opportunity I've ever seen. How about this? If you're looking to find the person who's throwing the party, how about the person with all the cash? But you're making $10 covers that was 50 people at the party, 30 inside, 20 outside. So you're making $500. I'm assuming you get a higher the DJ. How do you make money on this? Well, there's no overhead. You don't have to clean up the mess. You don't have to patch the hole in the wall. You don't have to deal with the fallout from the fireworks. Low overhead. I saw them throw a fireworks from the front door outside and it literally exploded. Okay, if you shoot off fireworks inside a house, it's going to hit the ceiling. And wouldn't it bounce around like a pinball? Right in front of people who are walking in. Deputies responded quickly. The only damage smashed up smoke detectors. That's the new thing. Okay, they had to deface the sign out in the front yard with the Realtors face on it too, right? Oh, of course. And the surprising realization that nobody was going to jail. Like the deputy said, they can't really do anything. They can't even arrest them because they don't know who started it. For now, San Diego's real estate community is on the case. At this point, I think we have to stick together. The deputies did tell me you need to get this out to your agents that you know. Let them know what's happening. Police, how good are the locks on those doors? Because the kids are going to be breaking in the day after the open house. Okay, what are the things that the kids do to people when they want to really get them? Is they do the swatting? Those have become very popular. Correct? Oh, yeah. Okay, if you know someone's on vacation, and you really want to get them, my guess is you could have one of these parties at their house. Maybe that'll become a thing like swatting. Police tell us they believe they know who's behind a lot of these parties and they're working to build cases they can send to prosecutors for possible charges. The DA's office confirm they're prosecuting two cases tied to parties last year. One case involves a juvenile so they can't release any details. And he won't get any real punishment. Nope. Including the charges. I mean, a lot of these organizers of the street takeovers, the same thing. It's juveniles with social media can't do anything. And that's why they keep going on and on and on. And it's not just a street takeover. They always lose to 7-11 and terrorize some poor cashier. Including the charges. And the other four men were arrested and charged with burglary and vandalism. I'm Dave Summers, NBC7 investigates. Frustrating indefinitely wild. So this story began with a tip to our investigates team. If you have a tip you'd like them to look into. If you have witnessed a teenager explosive house party where they cut off the smoke detectors, let NBC7 know they are investigating. One of my favorite scenes from a movie was in the movie Ghost Busters. When they're having a party at one of the homes and one of the ghost dogs trashes the place. And Rick Moranis walks out and goes, okay, who brought the dog? I'm picturing Rick Moranis at each and every one of these parties. 800-222-5222 is a telephone number. 1-800-222-5222. If you'd like to email the show you can do so. Johnny don't like show at gmail.com. That's Johnny don't like show at gmail.com. And Randy, you're monitoring the mailbag. Napa Al writes in at Johnny don't like show at gmail.com on the profit from these illegal house parties that the teams are doing in San Diego. John wake up the profit is on the sideline. Drug prices you get a cut on. I don't know but this is really logical. Well that would make sense. There's some drug deal in going on at the party which could explain the drug usage that leads to a human sized hole in the wall. I wonder who's responsibility it would be to fix it. And I say that because when I was buying a house one time the pool equipment in the backyard got stolen. And I went to the buyer and I said even though we were in escrow and the contingencies had been signed off on, I still didn't have the key. So protecting the house wasn't my responsibility. And I told the seller that that was them. That was their responsibility to make sure that the house didn't get robbed. And I made them replace it. I would imagine in this circumstance it's the seller that has to pay to fix everything, not the buyer, even if the home is an escrow with all the contingencies signed off. But let's say you're in you're that one house that we discussed where there were in escrow. Does your home insurance policy still cover you if you just sold the house? I'm not sure how any of that works because the property is in a state of limbo when you're in escrow. It's changing from one hand to another. You can also argue it was the real estate agent that was supposed to make sure that the house was taken care of in the middle of the transaction. I don't know. Oh, well, if I'm the seller, I'm probably blaming the realtor. So the bees were coming after you. All right.
