1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Calf I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: and Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Yeah, 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: all right. We'll also keeping an eye, of course, on 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 1: the Nashville shooting story. We'll have Alex Stone. I've always 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: gather there's a lot of good details in audio on 6 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: the air in about an hour with an update on 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: the complete story. If you missed it though well last hour, 8 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: you can listen to the podcast, or I can briefly 9 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: recap if it matters to you. We've untangled this a bit. 10 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 1: Is apparently a lot of the media was twisting itself 11 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: into knots when it comes to identifying the shooter, Audrey Hale. 12 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 1: Who was Audrey Hale? We've learned a female at birth 13 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: and decided in more recent years to transition to being 14 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: identified as a male. And I want to understand that 15 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: it didn't please her family and that's where the name 16 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: Aiden came in. But anyway, that's the best we know, 17 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: and we'll get into all this in about an hour. 18 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: The skid Row Housing Trusts is a nonprofit that owns 19 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:08,839 Speaker 1: a bunch of downtown residential buildings for the homeless. It's 20 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 1: been around a while, but we learned only recently because 21 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 1: apparently it was like the worst kept secret. It's in 22 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:20,400 Speaker 1: huge financial trouble and what's bothersome about this? And this 23 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: is an Elisagundo Time special Doug Smith and Benjamin Oreskies. 24 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: As recently as twenty twenty one, Garcetti and other officials 25 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 1: made a video touting the opening of a new building 26 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 1: and acting like this nonprofit was incredibly successful. Well, it's 27 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: one of the answers to our problems of housing the 28 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 1: homeless right here. Instead, what was really going on? And 29 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: they weren't telling us it's in financial ruin. Oh, and 30 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: the buildings had seen physical ruin. I mean, the descriptions 31 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: of these apartments are so disgusting, so overwhelmingly foul, that 32 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: the homeless didn't even want to live there. And Garcetti, 33 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: what did these public events talking about how wonderful the 34 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: housing is, how wonderful this organization is. He lied, he 35 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: knew what it was like. And one of the supervisors, 36 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: Holly Mitchell, lied, they knew. It was a disaster, was 37 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: a huge waste of taxpayer money. People should be thrown 38 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: in prison for what they did. Hence the term worse 39 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 1: kept secret. We didn't know bought a lot of people 40 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: in city government probably knew, and especially those people dealing 41 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: with homeless spending new twenty nine buildings. This trust operated. 42 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:35,679 Speaker 1: Here's as close as the Times writers get to describe 43 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: what happened through the years. The cost of keeping these 44 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: buildings habitable only grew as a profoundly vulnerable residential population 45 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: prone to substant use disorder and other impairments caused damage 46 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:54,359 Speaker 1: and chaos. Financial, financial mismanagement and little stable leadership worse 47 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: into problems. That's how they put it, prone to substance 48 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: abuse disorders. Substance use disorder and other impairments cause damage 49 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: and chaos. Is that the new phrase for being a junkie, 50 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: for being a mathematic substance use disorder, for being a 51 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 1: heroine junkie, their sons, for being an sud boy. That 52 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: this is the prob This is why I'm so crazy 53 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: about the way the language changes. They clean it up. No, no, 54 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:24,519 Speaker 1: but but I've always been a nag about this because 55 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: when they start changing the language, they want to confuse 56 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:32,359 Speaker 1: and obscure, and pretty soon it's impossible to tell exactly 57 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: what's going on. They do it with these transgender stories 58 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: now too. The media is gonna gonna twist themselves into 59 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: a knot to try to cover up that perhaps some 60 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: of Audrey what's your name Audrey Hale's problems might have 61 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: been the emotional disturbance that she was suffering because of 62 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: her transgender state, and that perhaps that added to whatever 63 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: emotion she was feeling on the way to becoming a killer. 64 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: They don't want to examine that tangle of emotions. So 65 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: what they do is they start talking and euphemisms or 66 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: not describing things at all. Well, same thing here, they 67 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: don't want to describe what did it? What happens if 68 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: you take a homeless person into your house and they're 69 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: a drug addict or an alcoholic or a mental patient. 70 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: What happens They destroy their room and your house. Which 71 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: is why nobody does it. Okay, soy Karen Bass doesn't 72 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: take anyone in. It's why Eric Carcetti doesn't take anyone in. 73 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: It's why you and me and every single person listening 74 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:35,160 Speaker 1: never takes a homeless person in because they will destroy 75 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 1: the place. You'll be vacuuming up human waste within a week, 76 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: And people like Garcetti just try to shovel this under 77 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 1: the carpet as they say, apparently for years, operating losses, mismanagement, 78 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: mistakes had gone unaddressed. The organization eventually got cut off 79 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: from local and state funding, so they had to borrow 80 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: millions of dollars just to make payroll, and at one 81 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: point they considered venturing into cannabis production to bring in revenue. 82 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:07,279 Speaker 1: That's right, create more drug addicts, okay, create more people 83 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: stoned out of their minds, laying in the park not working. 84 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:14,919 Speaker 1: Good idea. Oh, it keeps your rooms filled. Did you 85 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: know what they couldn't you know why they couldn't borrow 86 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 1: any money anymore. And addition to not being able to 87 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: pay their bills, I bet you the loan officers would 88 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: go take it to where the buildings and go back 89 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 1: to the bank saying, we're not loaning money to that. 90 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: This is in ruins. No, well, we told you the 91 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: store a few months ago. They sometimes had to redo 92 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: rooms two and three times over, apartments, whatever they are, 93 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 1: because the people just kept destroying them. Because when you 94 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: get a mortgage or you do a refinance, you get 95 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 1: you get an appraiser coming over your house because they 96 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,559 Speaker 1: want somebody to physically see that your house is worth 97 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: what you say it's worth and you're worthy of the 98 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,720 Speaker 1: mortgage or the refinance. So that's what was happening here. 99 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: It's like, no, you're not getting any more money, even 100 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 1: if you're a renter or a good landlord. Comes every 101 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: now and then to make sure you haven't destroyed the place. 102 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 1: That happened, well, it got destroyed. A fifty one million, 103 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: A fifty one minute video was made. Testimonials included Congressman 104 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 1: Jimmy Gomez, former Mayor Garcetti, and supervisor Holly Mitchell, touting 105 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,919 Speaker 1: the great work of the nonprofit. And this wasn't that 106 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: long ago that they made this video. Six hundred and 107 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 1: forty nine lofts and the Joshua House Health Center or 108 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:24,719 Speaker 1: bringing Housing Help at Hope to Los Angeles and Angelinos 109 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: for generations to come. Garcetti said about the most recent development, 110 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 1: which opened to twenty twenty one, he was a walking, 111 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:35,919 Speaker 1: talking human fraud. Wasn't he virtue everything? He was involved 112 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 1: in everything? He said, Oh, he's a bag of bs 113 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: involved fraud. Wow, But of course he gets an ambassadorship, right, 114 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: of course he does. We're at the point now where 115 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: a lot of the units are empty because they can't 116 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,679 Speaker 1: maintain them. But because the units are empty. They're getting 117 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: even less revenue because you're paid to house the homeless people, 118 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: and if the homeless people ain't in there, you ain't 119 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: getting paid. So that's why this thing is on the 120 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 1: brink of collapse. People have drugs in the building, prostitution. 121 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: We were told not to worry about it would all 122 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 1: get fixed, because the Times went there and interviewed a 123 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: few of the remaining tenants who described the plight living there. 124 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: Here's a description of the rooms from the interim CEO, 125 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 1: Joe An Cordera. Many of the properties continue to face 126 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 1: numerous challenge challenges, including critical life safety, fire protection system malfunctions, 127 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: elevator adages, unrepaired damage due to excessive and ongoing vandalism, 128 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 1: electrical adages, consistent and unrelenting vandalism and trespassers, electrical problems, plumbing, 129 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: sanitation issues, among other adverse building conditions. You want that 130 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: in English. The plumbing didn't work, There was human waste everywhere, 131 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: the electrical systems were out. The unrelenting vandalism. That means 132 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: the tenants had destroyed just about everything. The woman that 133 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 1: John cited There is interim because the former CEO was 134 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: fired last year by the name of Lee Rogas, who 135 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: had a four hundred and fifty two hundred and twenty 136 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 1: nine thousand, nine hundred and sixty nine dollars salary, but 137 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: also apparently expenses of over four hundred and fifty thousand 138 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: dollars a contract for something called executive coaching. Yeah, it 139 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: was a side scam. Scam. Yeah, she was making get this, 140 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:34,680 Speaker 1: six hundred and at eighty thousand dollars, six hundred and 141 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: eighty thousand dollars this woman was getting. She was getting 142 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: all that four hundred and fifty one thousand. Yeah, the 143 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 1: side contract. Oh I see, calling herself an executive coach 144 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:52,319 Speaker 1: and taking money for that she was paid being a CEO, right, yeah, Wow, 145 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:57,439 Speaker 1: Well that's what happens when something's collapsing. People just grab 146 00:08:57,480 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 1: what they can out of it and run, figuring all right, 147 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: I can fire me eventually, but hopefully they won't arrest 148 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: me for stealing and wow. Uh starting with the the 149 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: these these these buildings they own are really are just 150 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: uh we probably ought to be debolished. They're in shambles. Yeah, 151 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:17,839 Speaker 1: they've been completely destroyed from the inside out. Probably their 152 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: massive fire hazards. Uh, everybody inside is insane. Insanley whacked 153 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: out on drugs, her mental illness, and they were getting 154 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:29,959 Speaker 1: their money from our taxes. All right, we got more 155 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:32,319 Speaker 1: coming up to Johnny Ken KIM six forty. We're live 156 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: everywhere the iHeartRadio app. You're listening to John and Ken 157 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 1: on demand from kf I am six forty Johnny Ken, 158 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna look through. Oh what who asked? We have 159 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: Kevin Newsom, who's doing a great job. We have because 160 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,959 Speaker 1: it is a team effort. Governor Pomo has become a 161 00:09:56,040 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: national leader of garnering nickname America's governor. A very very 162 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: special thank you to our governor no other than Gavin 163 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 1: us because it is this partnership with Joe Biden that 164 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 1: makes us come to reality. You spoke to National Yard 165 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: troops today in a chilling speech that if I want 166 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 1: to listening carefully, I thought you were sending soldiers off 167 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: to war. I'm gonna get the Jimmy Gomez in a second, 168 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:28,839 Speaker 1: A good Christian shut hey you, But yeah you it's 169 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: time for your tongue bath, So touch me gets your 170 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: tongue off. That come on all that in where's Deborah 171 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: Mark's tongue? Sound? Do we still have that, or yeah, 172 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: there's a tongue bath that is a sexy sound? Boy? 173 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 1: Not we are at the You know, it's interesting just 174 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 1: playing that intro. Did you hear Carciti and there mentioned 175 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 1: Jimmy go Mas and we just talked about the both 176 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: of them on the video touting that skid Row housing 177 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: nonprofit which is going bankrupt. Maybe that it was only 178 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: a year or two ago they were touting it. Maybe 179 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: it's being like the future. I know that. Maybe that's 180 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: what the clip was from there she is that's her 181 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:21,559 Speaker 1: tongue bath noise? Do you have two different ones? No, 182 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:27,839 Speaker 1: the second one was not mine? That's me? Yeah, what's that? 183 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:33,079 Speaker 1: That's me? That's think are two? There are two? There 184 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: are two? Remember he grabbed another one right right right right? Wow, 185 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: I can't I can't recognize my own sounds. Got a 186 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:44,840 Speaker 1: snort and a gulp too. It's a different Deborah Mark. 187 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: The tongue bath desk is trotted out in um honor 188 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 1: of our esteemed Mayor Karen Bassetti. The New Yorker did 189 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 1: a long interview article about the new mayor of Los Angeles. 190 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: The writer is Emily Witt. The subtitle is Oh boy, 191 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: here we go. This is where the bathing comes. Early 192 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:09,080 Speaker 1: Karen Bass on combating homelessness, reforming the police department, and 193 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 1: building a greener city. They go through the usual background 194 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 1: of telling the readers who she is, where she came from, 195 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 1: her time in congress. So, yeah, this is meant for 196 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 1: a New York audience. It is who is probably not 197 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: familiar with her. But they decided, because she's a black 198 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: female mayor of a major city, we need to do 199 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: a piece on her because you know what, after one 200 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: hundred days, we've deemed her success already, so let's go 201 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: and give her a Doug bath. That is the strategy 202 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 1: to declare the one hundred days over and wow, look 203 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: at La High on the rebound. It's coming back now. 204 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:53,440 Speaker 1: I mean most of the interview is short questions like 205 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:56,719 Speaker 1: you set a goal of getting seventeen thousand people houses year. 206 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: Do you think you'll make it? The answer is four words, 207 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 1: I certainly hope. So there's no follow up. Well that's 208 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:06,199 Speaker 1: a penetrating question, isn't it. And she goes, I certainly 209 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: hope so, and and the writer had nothing else to say. Oh, 210 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: it's The next question comes up about inside Safe and 211 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: apparently what Bass is touting. Here is where they want 212 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 1: to get rid of outdoor homeless. She wants to go 213 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: after the model they kind of have in New York 214 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 1: where most of their homeless are in some tourist type 215 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: of shelter and not lying on the street and out 216 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,959 Speaker 1: all of them, but more than we have. But you know, 217 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 1: we've always said the weather is better out here. Well, 218 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: they have a law in New York which mandates that, 219 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 1: did they do you have to you have to have 220 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 1: shelter for every homeless person and the homeless person has 221 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: to take the shelter, but they didn't really enforce it, 222 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: or because I see homeless people lying around New York 223 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 1: and of course they don't enforce it. Nobody enforces anything anymore. Oh, 224 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 1: there's a couple of parts too worth mentioning what's your 225 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 1: vision and for the future of housing in Los Angeles? 226 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: And the part I wanted to get to for your purposes, 227 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,839 Speaker 1: John is that because the question was there is there 228 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: not enough permanent housing? And she says that eventually it's 229 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 1: going to require all Angelinos to have a hand in this, 230 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: that the private sector must step up. We must all 231 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 1: step up to solve our housing problem because the attitude 232 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 1: usually is, well, you know, she'll just use these tax 233 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 1: funds and buy up properties and convert them like that 234 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: skid row housing trust we just talked about. But but 235 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: if that's not enough, well the John Cobell probably gets 236 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 1: to give up his home. Yeah, they're gonna city needs 237 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: the private sector for profit, not for profit, it needs 238 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 1: regular Angelinos. You have to pay very close attention to 239 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 1: what's going on in your neighborhoods because they'll start putting 240 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: up homeless housing in residential blocks. And that's what Garcetti 241 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:00,120 Speaker 1: wanted to do. Remember, every council district had to have 242 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: a big homeless And then he brought that Bridge House 243 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 1: into Venice and absolutely destroyed the name. I remember he 244 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 1: tried Korea Town and they went eight there. They said 245 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: you're not bringing that here. They fought it viciously, and 246 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: he gave up. You have to become the biggest nimby 247 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 1: that the world has ever seen. You have to all 248 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: of you have to be nimbies because this you're fighting 249 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: just a brutal force here. They have no idea what 250 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: to do, because the only option is to force people 251 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: to leave la to harass them every day by saying 252 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. You have to move on. You have to 253 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: move on. You have to move on. There's never going 254 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: to be enough permanent housing built. There's never going to 255 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 1: be enough temporary housing, and the homeless don't want it. 256 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: There is simply a huge overload of bodies in the streets, 257 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: and you've got to constantly coerce them to get out 258 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: of town and go back to where they came from, 259 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 1: go back to their hometown and their family, and work 260 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 1: it out there. We can't do it. We're never going 261 00:15:57,520 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: to be able to do it. And if they think 262 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: the alternative is that you're gonna start doing multi story 263 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: apartment buildings, I was getting too Yeah, yeah, How do 264 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: you change the minds of residents who don't want multifamily 265 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: housing built in neighborhoods that are currently single family homes? 266 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: And the beginning of the answer is just kind of 267 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 1: blah blah, But then she gets to it. I use 268 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 1: the example of Sherman Oaks, where they're adamantly opposed to 269 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: changing the character of their single family homes, but they 270 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: welcomed housing on the commercial corridors. You cannot say all 271 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: they on house need to be in black and brown communities. 272 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: You can't do that. These communities are already severely overcrowded. 273 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: That's why you have to build housing everywhere. So John 274 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 1: going to build a homeless high rise, not residential areas. 275 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: I don't just called it the commercial corridors. So is 276 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: that why people are dying in Sherman Oaks. We're finding 277 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: bodies like every I don't know, wellless people or collapsed. 278 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 1: And I don't know what she's talking about, because you 279 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: know why, You're never gonna have affordable housing in Los Angeles. 280 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: It's it's impossible that the land is overbuilt. There's nowhere 281 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:05,719 Speaker 1: to put anything. Well, that's why she's talking about big buildings. 282 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: So we're at capacity, yes, but you can't put it 283 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: in residential areas. Oh, this is the next big fight. 284 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: Besides getting you out of your motory started getting you 285 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: out of your gas powered car, they want to get 286 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: you out of your single family home. That's the next 287 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: thing they're trying to do. You know what, that's that's 288 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 1: that's worth. That's the fight that Huntington Beach is in 289 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: right now at the state. That's worth to build more 290 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:26,679 Speaker 1: high rise you know what, low income housing. Then they 291 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 1: want a civil war. They're going to have a civil war. 292 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 1: They're not gonna They're not gonna give its people to 293 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 1: give up their single family homes. And there's no reason 294 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 1: anybody should. Absolutely no, we are not responsible for every 295 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 1: vagrant problems that wandered here from Alabama or Tennessee or 296 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: Texas or where the hell they're from. We're not. We 297 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: don't have to give up our neighborhood because strangers wander 298 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 1: in with addictions and mental illness. Imagine, you got you 299 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:54,159 Speaker 1: gotta think of it. You have to call it what 300 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:56,360 Speaker 1: it is. You have to talk about this in blunt terms. 301 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: That's why I'm against all this, all this woke language. 302 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: All right, you have drug addicts and mental patients getting 303 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:06,479 Speaker 1: on buses bringing all the baggage of their failed lives 304 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 1: into your town. And then you've got some woke joke 305 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 1: as mayor saying, well, you know your single family home 306 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: as it's gotta be modifications here. No, there's not gonna 307 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: be modifications, not to my home and not to the neighborhood. Sorry, 308 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 1: this is the where we want to live, and we're 309 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 1: going to protect ourselves. I think it's a little worked up. Devermark. 310 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: Do you think John needs a tongue bath. Go ahead, 311 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: all right, we're coming up Johnny ken camp By in sixty. 312 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 1: It wasn't taken out of context. That would be careful 313 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: what I say now? I want to from Ken park 314 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: as the news. You're listening to John and Ken on 315 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: demand from kf I am sixty. Leap date on the 316 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 1: mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee at the Christian School coming 317 00:18:56,160 --> 00:19:00,639 Speaker 1: from alex Stone after three o'clock. And of course the 318 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:05,160 Speaker 1: debate is on concerning on both sides right wing, left wing, 319 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 1: and the transgender status of the shooter. All that coming 320 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 1: up in the three o'clock hour. Well, we haven't talked 321 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:16,239 Speaker 1: about the border in a while, John Cobel Tavwoay. The 322 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 1: US is supposed to be making a deal with Mexico 323 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: to try to stop this much fentnyl from coming into 324 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: the country. Mexico is saying we will crack down on 325 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 1: labs and the smuggling of components while the US does 326 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 1: what we are supposed to stop the flow of guns 327 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 1: into Mexico. That's always been their complaint that they think 328 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 1: they have pretty good gun laws, but we send all 329 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: the guns. Oh tod that's the thing that we export 330 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,920 Speaker 1: we're selling him to the cartels, to cartel Well, yeah, 331 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 1: that's exactly. I'm really skeptical of this entire story. Oh 332 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,399 Speaker 1: it's not our government, it's it's people. Oh yes, so 333 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:58,479 Speaker 1: what happens Remember the Fast and Furious programmer they were 334 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 1: trying to figure out that wasn't smuggle the guns into Mexico. Yeah, 335 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 1: and it was the government. Yes, they tried to do. 336 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,439 Speaker 1: They tried to track right the guns where they end up. 337 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,679 Speaker 1: And yeah, one of them end up killing a boarding patrol. 338 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 1: But that's been going in for many years. They really 339 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 1: don't know. It's not that they don't know, they don't 340 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,880 Speaker 1: do anything. Yeah, they'll tell you. All resources are only 341 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 1: so much. How can we stop? I wonder if you 342 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: have two presidents just like we say, you're not doing 343 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 1: enough to stop the feentnel for coming into the west 344 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:33,400 Speaker 1: of Mexican saying well, you're not doing enough to stop 345 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:35,879 Speaker 1: the guns from coming into our country. That's kind of 346 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 1: the fight that we have. So right, So now both 347 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 1: sides are promising and it's probably an empty promise. Well, 348 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: I'm saying I think this is just a convenient public 349 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:47,199 Speaker 1: relations deal. Mexico says it's gonna shut down labs that 350 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 1: make these synthetic opioid and go after big fentanyl people 351 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 1: in the trade. And then when the jug cartels start 352 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: assassinating politicians bureaucrats, then what I see this This this 353 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 1: is really cheap headlines. You know, Biden wants to ron 354 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 1: for reelection. I don't know where the Mexican president is, 355 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: and fentanyl is definitely an issue. But the drug cartel 356 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 1: owns the Mexican government, and Biden can't force the Mexican president. 357 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 1: What does he want the guy to commit suicide by 358 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: stopping the fentonyl flow. You know how many billions of 359 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: dollars the cartels are making. You think they're just gonna 360 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 1: willingly give up that money because the Mexican president or 361 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,919 Speaker 1: feeble old Joe says so, they're not gonna do that. 362 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 1: They're more powerful than the Mexican military and more powerful 363 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 1: than the government. The drug trade, You're right, is so 364 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,879 Speaker 1: embedded in Mexico and its economy. It is the I 365 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 1: don't see ever unwinding. It is the single big, biggest, wealthiest, 366 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 1: most powerful in terms of arming themselves, single biggest most 367 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: powerful entity in Mexico. Way more powerful than the government 368 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 1: or the Mexican police forces or the military because nobody 369 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: can take him down and they and they bribe everybody 370 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 1: in sight. So I don't know what they're talking about 371 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 1: as far as the people coming into the country. Couple 372 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 1: of stories in the last twenty four hours. Because Joe 373 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 1: has such an open border policy, wanting to reverse everything 374 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: that Trump did to try to tamp down on migrants 375 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 1: coming into the United States, Mexico is seeing a lot 376 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 1: of people and still is coming from Central America, and 377 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 1: Mexico has sort of said they do and they don't. 378 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:29,439 Speaker 1: We'll detain some of these folks and we'll get them 379 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: ready to deport them from our country back to their 380 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:35,120 Speaker 1: home countries. So that didn't sit well with a group 381 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: of men who are being held at a detention center 382 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 1: in northern Mexico. Sixty eight men from Central and South 383 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 1: America are being held at this facility. Some of them 384 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: decided to protest their possible deportation back to their home countries, 385 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 1: so they set mattresses on fire and now forty people 386 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: at least are dead. Apparently the flames overwhelmed everybody in 387 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: the detention center. Well, that was a bad idea. If 388 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,120 Speaker 1: they're sixty eight guys there and forty died. That's crossed 389 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 1: that off on the list of protest ideas. They were 390 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: from Guatemala, Hondris El Salvador Venezuela, Columbian, Ecuador, and Guatemalans 391 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 1: were the largest contingent of the detainees being held there, 392 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,400 Speaker 1: and the protest didn't work too well with that many 393 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 1: guys dead coming back. When you organize a protest, don't 394 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:23,639 Speaker 1: organize a protest that's going to result in you burning 395 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:28,640 Speaker 1: to death. That's a bad protest. Twenty nine people are injured. 396 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 1: And then this is a new term, delicate hyphen serious condition. 397 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,959 Speaker 1: Delicate hyphen serious condition. So just about everybody got how 398 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:40,239 Speaker 1: many prisoners were there, sixty eight, So with forty you're 399 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 1: dead and twenty nine or that's sixty nine. So I 400 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,679 Speaker 1: don't know the numbers are correct, but well, it sounds 401 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 1: like that's what the AP story says. Yeah, it sounds 402 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:52,680 Speaker 1: like you shouldn't do that. The Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro 403 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 1: ma Orcas testifying before Congress, and apparently when he was 404 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: asked by one member of the committee about how the 405 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 1: cartels use illegal immigrants to distract border agents, he honestly 406 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 1: answered and either this is a lie or he's pretty dense. 407 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 1: He was not aware that they do that. I wasn't 408 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 1: aware that that's a strategy. M Yes, the cartels sometimes 409 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 1: flood the boarder with people to overwhelm the agents, and 410 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 1: that way it's easier to get the fetenyl in. We've 411 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 1: all known about that for some time now, but apparently 412 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 1: that was news to mayorcas well. Last week. John Maudlin 413 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,879 Speaker 1: is the chief agent for the Border Patrol in the 414 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 1: Tucson sector, and he explained how it works. It's called 415 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,639 Speaker 1: task saturation. It's a term we used to describe a 416 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 1: tactic where smuggling organizations split large groups of migrants into 417 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,879 Speaker 1: many smaller groups. These small groups are then directed to 418 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: illegally cross all at once in a different locations, effectively 419 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: saturating the area with migrants and exhausting our response capability, 420 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,439 Speaker 1: and then they bring the drugs in. Now while every 421 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: single border patrol officer is overwhelmed by the flood of 422 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: hundreds or thousands of migrants. We have some of this audio. 423 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 1: This is US Senator John Cornyn questioning the orchis when 424 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,639 Speaker 1: somebody from the People's Republic of China shows up in 425 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 1: El Paso, Texas and then claims asylum as released into 426 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: the interior of the United States? Do you know where 427 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: they are and what they are up to? We very 428 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,200 Speaker 1: well can know where they are based upon you can 429 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 1: do you It depends on the individual and the fact 430 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 1: though some of them. If it depends on the individuals, 431 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,400 Speaker 1: some of them, you don't know where they are or 432 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: what they are up to. Is that right, a Senator, 433 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: of the issue of individuals absconding from law enforcement? Isn't 434 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: a challenge that and you are failing in that challenge, 435 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: mister secretary, if you and the Biden administration policies are 436 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 1: contributing to what is happening on the border. And according 437 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 1: to miss mcconagall, she credited the Bible broken border policies 438 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,119 Speaker 1: with contributing to the death of her son. And you 439 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:16,880 Speaker 1: won't even have the common decency to apologize, Senator, As 440 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,919 Speaker 1: I mentioned before it, I must say this that my 441 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: heart is with the victims of every um death from 442 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 1: an overdose. Number one. Number two, we are bringing unprecedented 443 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 1: force to the fight against the drug traffickers. Number three, 444 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: The scourge of fennel is not new. It is not 445 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 1: something that was born in twenty twenty one, and I 446 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,479 Speaker 1: can provide you. But it's exploded tens of thousands of 447 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:51,119 Speaker 1: death that preceded this administration. Stop it as a challenge 448 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 1: all have to come to fight you. Stop it now 449 00:26:55,760 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 1: simply lost all credibility. Mister secretary out All right, that's 450 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 1: the US editor John Cornyn. He's questioning the hack DHS 451 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: secretary Ala is right? Why even talk to this guy? 452 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: He's got no credibility out? What is we're talking about 453 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,640 Speaker 1: impeaching him? Are they still gonna do that? Well, it'll 454 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 1: never fly beyond the house right beyond the house boat. 455 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 1: But I don't know. I don't understand the point of 456 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,440 Speaker 1: even summoning him to the committee. What what he talks 457 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 1: in circles? You want to make a show of it 458 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: to their constituents that they're bringing up the issues at 459 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,520 Speaker 1: but they're part of the problem because everything is a show. 460 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:36,879 Speaker 1: All right. We got more coming up. Johnny Ken k 461 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: if I am six forty. We're live everywhere in the 462 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 1: iHeart Radio app. You're listening to John and Ken on 463 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 1: demand from kf I AM sixty. Well, we'll bring you 464 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 1: up to date right after three o'clock. Alex Stone, ABC 465 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:55,159 Speaker 1: News will join us on the Nashville school shooting. What 466 00:27:55,400 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 1: we know today concerning the manifesto, the family, the guns, 467 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 1: all of that coming up after the news at three o'clock. 468 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,159 Speaker 1: But what we do know the shooter, Audrey Hale, was 469 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:11,959 Speaker 1: having some emotional problems and was suicidal. In fact, had 470 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,720 Speaker 1: texted her friend just before the shooting that you're probably 471 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 1: going to hear about me on the news and this 472 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: might be the last time you hear about me, knowing 473 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 1: full well she probably would be killed. So we'll get 474 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: into all this coming up after the news at three o'clock, 475 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 1: along with a lot of other good stuff to bring you. 476 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 1: But of course, if you can't hear the next hour, 477 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:32,879 Speaker 1: pick it up on the podcast. It'll be posted up 478 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 1: there right after four o'clock at caf I AM sixty 479 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 1: dot com, or you can use the iHeartRadio app. It 480 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: is John and Ken on demand. Well, we have a 481 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: survey out which says that your employer would love to 482 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: replace you with artificial intelligence. Sixty nine percent of employers 483 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,760 Speaker 1: and a survey said it would be financially beneficial, of course, 484 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 1: to replace employees with AI technology. Most of those financial benefits, 485 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 1: of course lower payroll, costs. So as we have politicians 486 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:09,959 Speaker 1: in the state of California, in the City of LA 487 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 1: and the County of LA fighting for the lower income employees, 488 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,960 Speaker 1: know that the day is coming. Particularly John and I 489 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: talked about this other day fast food industry where they 490 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: are going to turn around and use robots and AI 491 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: to replace a lot of the workers in these stores. 492 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 1: Because if you continue to raise the cost of doing business, 493 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,480 Speaker 1: they only have two choices, raise prices or figure out 494 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 1: a way to cut other costs, and that could be 495 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 1: you and your high pay. And they don't like to 496 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 1: raise prices, particularly the fast food industry. That's what gets 497 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 1: them a lot of business. Everyone knows two things when 498 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 1: they go to these places. It's fast, and it's generally cheap, 499 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 1: unless you're go into shake shacks. Well, but if you're 500 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 1: going to McDonald's or we're in and out, it's a 501 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: nice cheap meal that people enjoy. That's the problem here. 502 00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,680 Speaker 1: They have a list of the top ten US jobs 503 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: at risk of being replaced by AI. Number one is cashier. 504 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 1: More than three point three million cashiers out of work, 505 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 1: Customer service reps good, They're terrible, two point seven million. 506 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 1: They ought to go what would you have instead, like 507 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 1: a not a chat bot. Do every do We're gonna 508 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 1: website and you want a chat I was gonna say that, Yeah, 509 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 1: I mean it's this program to answer to diner questions. 510 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: But sometimes I don't go to customer service unless I 511 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 1: have a very damn specific issue that I must get 512 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: resolved the human instead. It's answering all the dumb generic things. 513 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 1: But the humans act like the chat bots or like 514 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: this AI because they're just reading from their manuals, so 515 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 1: what to do, and there's no way to get them 516 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 1: off their manual it's impossible. Yeah, I never have a 517 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 1: customer service rep. Please me. Never. Yeah, we're both did 518 00:30:55,280 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: the same thing, okay, gets them calling the wrong number? Ah, 519 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 1: what happened a bookkeeper? Because because it's all on your 520 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 1: dirty mind, that's why this is the way you said it. 521 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 1: She laughed Tooley was totally the way you said it. 522 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 1: So bookkeepers, you're all out of business, a million of them. 523 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 1: Eye keepers. Oh. I wasn't a bookkeeper, but I understand it. 524 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 1: Support bill and clerks. You're gone. HR assistance, Oh great, good, 525 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,720 Speaker 1: get get that HR assistant. Yeah, I get rid of 526 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 1: that entire department. Paralegal. Oh yeah, I was talking to 527 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 1: a guy. Um, this is going to affect lawyers a 528 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 1: lot because because they can get AI to write up 529 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,760 Speaker 1: cases and research, and you can put in every case 530 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 1: that ever existed into a database into a database, and 531 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 1: then the AI will quickly sweep the entire base and 532 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,720 Speaker 1: tell you what the outcome is going to be, and 533 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 1: that you can actually present both sides of the argument, 534 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: tell you what the likely outcome is going to be. 535 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,600 Speaker 1: That you know, eighty two percent of the time a 536 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,480 Speaker 1: case with this type of David's wins x amount of 537 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: money just submitted to the judge, and the judge is 538 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 1: going to look at it said, well, if we're gonna 539 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 1: end up here anyway, then I'll just declare this over now. 540 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 1: And because they've already done the research, right, there's really 541 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,960 Speaker 1: no reason to appeal it because the appeals court, their 542 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 1: paralegals are going to come to the same conclusion. You know, 543 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 1: because so much of this is based on precedent, and 544 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,240 Speaker 1: so much of this is based on, you know, the 545 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 1: history of what these cases normally bringing. There's only so 546 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,960 Speaker 1: many varieties of legal cases in the world, you know, 547 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: they all fall into the general stereotypical categories and so 548 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 1: you just need a super AI program to tell you 549 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 1: what the settlement ought to be. They talked to three 550 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 1: thousand managers and thirty four percent are already preparing to 551 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 1: adopt AI tools. Twenty two percent of self testing AI 552 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 1: tools that they could find useful. There's a lot of 553 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 1: media websites that use AI and you can kind of 554 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:59,320 Speaker 1: tell like it's it's not in its perfected form yet. No. 555 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,240 Speaker 1: It it gives you a simulation of a news story 556 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 1: and it's kind of there, but you can pick up 557 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,480 Speaker 1: the nuances. It's a strange kind of right. Yeah, yeah, 558 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:13,880 Speaker 1: the language. Yeah, a lot a lot of sports sites 559 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,239 Speaker 1: use a lot of junk news sites use it if 560 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 1: you type in a celebrity's name. And I think they 561 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:23,200 Speaker 1: these these sites pay to get top of the list 562 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 1: recognition from Google when you do a Google search. And 563 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,080 Speaker 1: I have all these junk celebrity sites and if you 564 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 1: read the stories, you could tell they're just mass produced 565 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:34,080 Speaker 1: by some kind of artificial intelligence. Have you ever have 566 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,240 Speaker 1: you been in one of these Amazon Fresh stores yet? 567 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,240 Speaker 1: I got one near me. I haven't gone in. I 568 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:42,239 Speaker 1: am an Amazon customer. You just scan a code when 569 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 1: you go in. There's any nobody working there, and when 570 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:49,600 Speaker 1: you take stuff off the shelves, image recognition and censors 571 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 1: will pick up the price, and I guess they just 572 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 1: charge your your your Amazon account, right and you walk 573 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,959 Speaker 1: out of the store. Yeah, you can use Amazon one 574 00:33:58,040 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 1: or you can insert a credit or a debit card 575 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:01,719 Speaker 1: to open to just walk out gates. And that's how 576 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,360 Speaker 1: you don't get out the door without Yeah, no, that 577 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 1: that'd be great because there's no cashiers. It's probably maybe 578 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 1: somebody has to stock the shelves. I guess, because the 579 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,560 Speaker 1: great point of tension when I go to a grocery 580 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,400 Speaker 1: store is the checkout line because it's slow and because 581 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,120 Speaker 1: you nobody have the self checkout ones. But you can't 582 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,840 Speaker 1: put alcohol there. Is that what you're buying? I'm kidding. Yes, No, 583 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 1: that's been a problem. Yeah, you can't take alcohol and 584 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:28,239 Speaker 1: self check out. I'd buy Yeah, that's right. It's like 585 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:32,360 Speaker 1: no machine machine paying the neck when you well, you 586 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,160 Speaker 1: don't buy produce, but if you do, you have to 587 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,600 Speaker 1: weigh it and then scan it and they have to 588 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,520 Speaker 1: find exactly what it is this type of orange or 589 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:43,040 Speaker 1: this type of apple, but which son doesn't have that problem? Well, 590 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,600 Speaker 1: I have to buy lettuce for the lizards. So I 591 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:50,960 Speaker 1: do buy some produce. Oh okay, if I gotta buy 592 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 1: and I have to buy carrots for the crickets, which 593 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 1: and the crickets I feed to the lizard. They you're 594 00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,359 Speaker 1: gonna keep all these creatures even though your your sons 595 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 1: don't live at home anymore? Did they? Uh? Wells the 596 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,160 Speaker 1: most part, they're not at home. Yes, but no, we 597 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 1: keep them and I tend to them. I know. I mean, 598 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,520 Speaker 1: they could take their credits. We got it. We got 599 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,799 Speaker 1: a new bearded dragon just a couple of months ago. 600 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,839 Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, bring it into the station and Deborah Mark, 601 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:22,200 Speaker 1: please don't. They liked the vegetables. Yeah, this this I 602 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,239 Speaker 1: had one. I told you we had to youthanize a 603 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,880 Speaker 1: very long story. Oh they were hard, well, they were 604 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,320 Speaker 1: just really quick cli Cliff notes. It was hard to 605 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,200 Speaker 1: take care of. And I couldn't get the tank. I 606 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,279 Speaker 1: guess warm enough about the light the whole thing, and 607 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,600 Speaker 1: it was dying. I brought it to the vet. Oh 608 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,799 Speaker 1: it was a little bit. It's harder to get warm enough. Yeah, 609 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,520 Speaker 1: the lighting whatever, it didn't work. John, Okay, I'm not 610 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:49,640 Speaker 1: It wasn't a good carriage. Just screw in why'd you 611 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 1: have to kill it because it was dying. You should 612 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:55,160 Speaker 1: have given it to me. Somebody couldn't. Oh my god, 613 00:35:55,200 --> 00:36:00,840 Speaker 1: you killed a baby. Oh wow, John's hurt. Jesus, we 614 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:02,960 Speaker 1: were I put it out of its misery. Trust me. 615 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,720 Speaker 1: My son, who was twelve at the time, was devastated. 616 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:12,359 Speaker 1: God where animals go to diet? All right, we gotta 617 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 1: talk about the Nashville shooting next. John and Ken caf 618 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,040 Speaker 1: i AM six forty live everywhere the i Heart Radio apps. 619 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,200 Speaker 1: A lightbulb the deper marked one in the twenty four 620 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,080 Speaker 1: Camfi newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John and 621 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,399 Speaker 1: Ken Show. 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