1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:01,960 Speaker 1: I Am six forty. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John and Ken Show on demand 3 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:10,959 Speaker 1: John has the week off from here with Debora marketing. 5 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: Up to date on the news, which, of course, the 6 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: big story is that they did not survive. The five 7 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: people aboard the submersible called the titan run by a 8 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 1: company called ocean Gate, which went to look at the 9 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: Titanic wreckage, deep deep deep in the Atlantic, two and 10 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: a half miles underwater. Apparently that vessel imploded and that's 11 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:34,519 Speaker 1: some of the debris which was the breaking news this 12 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: morning that they recovered. They're quite sure that that's what happened. 13 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 1: Exactly how soon after they went down in the water 14 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:47,200 Speaker 1: did the vessel implode. We don't know. That is all 15 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: we know. We'll have a report later on in the 16 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 1: show from ABC News to bring you up to date. 17 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: But the whole story's over there. There be no rescue, 18 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: and probably the case that this whole countdown about the 19 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:04,839 Speaker 1: running out of oxygen is irrelevant, that probably the vessel 20 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: imploded well before they would have run out of oxygen 21 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: most likely. Anyway, we got a lot to get to. 22 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: We'll be talking to Daniel Guss with the Gus report 23 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: later on this hour about the whole Current Price ordeal, 24 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:20,479 Speaker 1: the city council going very slowly and the possibility of 25 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: suspending the city council member has been charged with ten 26 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: felonies dealing with his wife's consultancy company. But what we're 27 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: going to focus on with Daniel Guss is the other 28 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:33,759 Speaker 1: council members, particularly Council President Paul Krekoryan, being shocked, Oh 29 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,680 Speaker 1: my gosh, I never saw this coming Current Price what 30 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: I'm shocked. And then now some are scratching their heads 31 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: and saying, why is this a felony case? Isn't this 32 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:45,040 Speaker 1: just an ethics violation? 33 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 2: Ethics? 34 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: We'll get into all that coming up later on this hour. 35 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: The Attorney General Rob Bonte held a big news event 36 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: where apparently reporters pestered him with real questions about whether 37 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: or not what he was announcing was enough to cut 38 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: down on the retail theft problem in the state of California. 39 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: He focused on what he calls organized theft rings and 40 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: announced an unprecedented agreement with large retailers in some of 41 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,920 Speaker 1: these online marketplaces to crack down on this. The idea 42 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: being that the retailers can report the theft and then 43 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 1: outfits like Amazon and eBay and something called offer up 44 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 1: can see whether or not these organized theft rings are 45 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: selling this stuff online to get rid of it very quickly. 46 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: Of course, this is part of it, but he basically 47 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,919 Speaker 1: ignored the shoplifting that's been going on for some time now, 48 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: not only in California but around the country. But California 49 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: seemed to have been plagued by this problem in particular. 50 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: And we go back, of course to Prop forty seven. 51 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: Prop forty seven was passed in twenty fourteen. We talk 52 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: about it a lot because of its effect on drug 53 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: use and the homeless, but it also set a threshold 54 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 1: of nine hundred and fifty dollars for items stolen in 55 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: shoplifting cases. If you're under that amount, it's just a misdemeanor. 56 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: This was another invitation to people to shoplift, knowing that 57 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 1: even if they got caught, it's just a little citation. 58 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. So we're gonna talk. 59 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 3: All right, Well, looks like, oh here here's Ken. We 60 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 3: lost you for a second. 61 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: Oh okay, We're going to talk now with Assembly one 62 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 1: one A Lunas, a modesto Republican who introduced a bill 63 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: to repeal Prop forty seven, and he's going by the way, 64 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: Rob Bonta called this apples and oranges. If you want 65 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: to talk about Prop forty seven. Oh, we're more concerned 66 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: right now here with organized retail thefts. So let's bring 67 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: on the Assembly member and talk about this. Welcome to 68 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: the show. 69 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 4: Hi, thank you for having me. 70 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, no problem. So you did introduce a bill to 71 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: repeal Prop forty seven. Of course you, being a Republican, 72 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: didn't have much chance, did it well? 73 00:03:57,640 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 4: And not only that would be sitting as the vice 74 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 4: chair on Public Safety. I got to watch some of 75 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 4: my Republican colleagues who just wanted to take a little 76 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 4: bit of Prop. Forty seven and tweak it just a 77 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 4: little bit, get denied. So I have to watch go ahead. 78 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: No, I've heard, and I thought there was a Democrat 79 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: that proposed lowering the threshold them out. 80 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 4: Oh there were some Democrats also. Yes, they also took 81 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 4: a bite at one of those apples or oranges that 82 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,479 Speaker 4: Bonta was talking about, and they got denied as well. 83 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 1: So what did you think about this event by Bonto 84 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: the other day to talk about this agreement with retailers 85 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: and online marketplaces. He thinks this is going to put 86 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: a real dent in the problem. 87 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 4: Well, you know, the only thing I can even think 88 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 4: of positively coming from this is that at least they're 89 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 4: starting to recognize and admit that there is a problem. 90 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 4: But this does not solve the problem at all. Until 91 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 4: we actually have teeth in the laws that could come 92 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 4: after criminals that are taking advantage of our stores, They're 93 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 4: going to keep going. It's the consequence of we need 94 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 4: to bring back Yeah. 95 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: So talk about Prop forty seven's role in all this 96 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: now was passed in twenty fourteen. Have you been tracking 97 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 1: this to see whether or not shoplifters are aware of 98 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 1: this and how they use this to their advantage? 99 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 4: So since twenty fourteen. So I don't know how much 100 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 4: you know about me, but I just retired as a 101 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 4: sergeant from the Sheriff's office, so I got to see 102 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 4: firsthand how retail stuff was going on and how criminals 103 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 4: they're smart. People don't give them the credit that they 104 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:33,039 Speaker 4: need as far as figuring things out, but they know 105 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 4: exactly how much they could steal and get away with, 106 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 4: especially with it becoming a misdemeanor. A lot of people 107 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 4: just think, well, you know, law enforcement's not doing their job, 108 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 4: they should still arrest And well, when it's a misdemeanor 109 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 4: for what most people may not know and maybe your 110 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:50,159 Speaker 4: listeners don't even know, a misdemeanor has to be committed 111 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 4: in a presence of a law enforcement officer to arrest 112 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 4: on that only only a few misdemeanors are are their 113 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 4: loopholes or there's circumstances that could be changed, but that 114 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 4: one is one that has to be in the presence 115 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 4: of So they say law enforcements are not doing their job, Well, 116 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 4: they can't do their job because you took that away 117 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 4: from it and you made it a misimer. 118 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: Well, you know, what are the chances that a law 119 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: enforcement officer is going to actually see the theft? 120 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 4: Correct? Are you almost need like a police station or 121 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 4: are their sheriff's station at these retail stores? Is what 122 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 4: you're going to need? 123 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: Well, he makes it sound like if we go after 124 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: these sort of organized he calls it organized retail theft operations, 125 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: I don't know whether they're gangs or what, that that's 126 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: going to effectively cut back on the shoplifting of the state. 127 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: But what we often see day to day in the 128 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: news and I'm sure you do too. Is just people 129 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: on their own walking into stores and taking stuff. They 130 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: may not be part of some big operation. 131 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:45,919 Speaker 4: Correct, And I think you're going to have more of 132 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 4: that than this organized crime part. And people don't even 133 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 4: run out of the buildings anymore. They walk out of 134 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 4: the buildings. Sometimes they're waved at the cameras. 135 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, and the stores have basically given up. And I'm 136 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: sure you're aware of somebody that have just shut down 137 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 1: in certain cities in the state because the problem has 138 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: become too big. 139 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 4: Look at San Francisco. I think San Francisco is a 140 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 4: great example to show that even the biggest stores like Norse, 141 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 4: Stroam and stuff that are leaving San Francisco because they 142 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 4: can't take the losses anymore. And the other thing that 143 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 4: people aren't understanding is a lot of people think that 144 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 4: by doing Prop forty seven, by decriminalizing California, you're helping 145 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 4: the less advantage or the lower income areas. But what 146 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 4: you're doing is you're hurting them because those retail stores 147 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 4: are closing stores in those areas that are low income, 148 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 4: that are underserved, and so you're hurting them even more 149 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 4: so now they have to travel further into town, your seniors, 150 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 4: your veterans, you're disabled there, don't have access to pharmacies 151 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 4: like they used to, or even just the regular store 152 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 4: to go get something. 153 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: So you think if we repealed Prop. Forty seven this 154 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: would put a real dent in shoplifting. 155 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 4: I think it will. I think I think bringing these 156 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 4: Keith the tape back to these laws will help a lot. 157 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 4: Making it a felony again to where law enforcement can 158 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 4: do their job again will put a very big DNMS Man. 159 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: Banta said, well, we're at the lowest levels of crime 160 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: in the state of California. There's a spike in some crimes, 161 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: but he didn't He seemed to kind of wave off 162 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: your ordinary shoplifting and just focused on what he thinks 163 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 1: of these big retail theft rings. 164 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 4: Well, the reason that the reason that they're taking pride 165 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 4: in having these low crime rates being reported is because 166 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 4: you can't report a crime now when it's not a 167 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 4: crime anymore. So by decriminalizing California, by taking those off 168 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 4: the books, they don't get reported anymore. So obviously your 169 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 4: numbers are going to look much better. 170 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, we've heard this time and time again from retailers 171 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: and police officers around the state that a lot of 172 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 1: this stuff just isn't reported because it's pointless. There's really 173 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: there's nothing's going to be done anyway, so why bother. 174 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: And I'm looking at a story where some store up 175 00:08:56,520 --> 00:09:00,839 Speaker 1: in Vallejo, apparently it's installed some new shoplifting deterrent. It's 176 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,199 Speaker 1: like exit gates, so you have to scan your receipt 177 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 1: to get in and out. I mean, and as you know, 178 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: and as you talked about, some are actually closing down, 179 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 1: others are just hiring more security. I'm seeing security that 180 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,200 Speaker 1: I've not seen in some stores before, Like a grocery store. 181 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 1: I saw a guard at the door the other day, 182 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: and I've gone to that store for years. I've never 183 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: seen a guard at the door. 184 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 4: Or you're even seeing everyday items now being locked up 185 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 4: that you have to call on a tendant to come get. 186 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 4: And to what some of the retail stores are telling 187 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 4: me is they're also unfortunately having to let employees go 188 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,199 Speaker 4: because the stores aren't getting as much business as they're 189 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 4: getting because work or shoppers don't want to wait for 190 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:42,199 Speaker 4: somebody to come unlock a door so they can get 191 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 4: some deodorant or some shampoo. They'd rather just order it online. 192 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,840 Speaker 4: So now you're taking jobs away from those communities as well. 193 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: So Banta said they charged eight people and an alleged 194 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: organized retail crime operation that targeted Apple stores losses of 195 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: about a million dollars. That sounds like a small dent, though, 196 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: and the bigger problem. 197 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 4: Here it does. I know of a store not too 198 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 4: far outside of my district that was reporting over four 199 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 4: million dollars in just one year in retail theft. 200 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 1: All right, Well, what happened to that bill where they 201 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 1: were going to lower the threshold from nine to fifty. 202 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: I think it was down to four to fifty or 203 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: something like that. That was a Democrat, but that just died. 204 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 4: Huh, it just died right now. Basically, legislation don't want 205 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 4: to increase any consequences. Their goal right now is to, well, 206 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 4: what we're doing right now, we're emptying some of these prisons. 207 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 4: I still feel that, you know, there needs to be prisons, 208 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:42,679 Speaker 4: because we need to have people with consequences, and if 209 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:43,959 Speaker 4: you don't have a place to put them and they know, 210 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:45,319 Speaker 4: you're not going to hold them accountable. 211 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 1: All right, as simply, Ben, thanks for talking to us. 212 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 1: I appreciate it. 213 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 4: Thank you. 214 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:55,199 Speaker 1: That's assembly been one a Luna's modesto Republican. As you heard, 215 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: he used to be a police officer before he got elected. 216 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: Talking about the continued problem of shoplifting, well they call 217 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: it retail theft. The Attorney General had a big event 218 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: the other day to announce a new agreement between the 219 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: top retailers and the online marketers to try to cut 220 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 1: out this organized theft rings. But Prop forty seven, just 221 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:16,439 Speaker 1: like it is with the drug and the homeless problem, 222 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: a big problem too when it comes to shoplifting. Got 223 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: more coming up. Johnny Ken KFI AM six forty live 224 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: everywhere the iHeartRadio app. 225 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 226 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:29,439 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 227 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 1: We got the moistline tomorrow, so a quick reminder that 228 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: there's room because of the short week. Use the iHeartRadio 229 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,079 Speaker 1: app to leave your message the microphone icon or called 230 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 1: the tophrey number one eight seven seven moist eighty six 231 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: one eight seven seven six six ' four seven eight 232 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 1: eighty six. We go now to Washington, d C. For 233 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 1: some news and I thought of this this morning. The 234 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 1: Prime Minister of India is in the United States. His 235 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,319 Speaker 1: name is Narenda MODEI and he is meeting with Biden. 236 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 1: And who do we think about now when we think 237 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 1: about India. Oh, that guy, Eric Garcetti, the ambassador to India. 238 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: Apparently he's tailing along so that he can act important 239 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 1: in this diplomatic show. Although as a leading Democrat who 240 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: thinks that we should not be honoring this prime minister 241 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 1: a long history of human rights abuses, anti democratic actions 242 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 1: targeting Muslims and religious minorities. And of course that's coming 243 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 1: from the mob member they call from Michigan RepA Rashida 244 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 1: Talaib of Michigan, who is Muslim herself. Anyway, we thought 245 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 1: you would enjoy some audio from Garcetti, who of course 246 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: is returned to the United States, did do some interviews 247 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 1: Spectrum News. One is talking here to yoga Pants about 248 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: the transition. 249 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 6: I love this job. It is such an amazing moment 250 00:12:57,720 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 6: between the US and India. I think people in this 251 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 6: and the importance of this relationship. But being mayor really 252 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 6: prepared me for the pace of this job. How you 253 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 6: get different people from different perspectives to come together, how 254 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 6: you do negotiate things to help move people forward. Maybe 255 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 6: it's a little less weight on my shoulders than being married, 256 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 6: because nobody expects me to fix that pothole. But the 257 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 6: fun of this moment and enjoying really an amazing mission, 258 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 6: almost three thousand people who are working in India for 259 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 6: the American people has been incredibly fulfilling. And seeing this country, 260 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,199 Speaker 6: which is really taking its place in the world as 261 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 6: a major power and a great friend of our country, 262 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 6: couldn't be at a more exciting time. 263 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:42,199 Speaker 1: Always says just the right happy things does Indeed, these. 264 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 6: Are a few of my favorite things. 265 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:48,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's completely out of the spotlight, now reduced to 266 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: a ceremonial job of ambassador because he didn't get something bigger, 267 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: which would have been a cabinet appointment or anything resembling that. 268 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: Now he has to sit there in India for god 269 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 1: knows how many years. Says he loves eating Indian food. 270 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: It's a real pressure job, isn't it. I enjoy eating 271 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,680 Speaker 1: the bagels and tacos when I'm home. But what I 272 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 1: do is I granb a dozen bagels, put them on 273 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 1: the plane, freeze them when I get home, and that'll 274 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: sustain me for another few months, which means maybe he 275 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: doesn't love eating Indian food that much, or at least 276 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: every three thousand people work in India for the American people. 277 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: That's a huge, huge kind of embassy. But there you go. 278 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: There's your Garcetti update. The other story out of Washington, 279 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: and we have some of the audio. We had reported 280 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago that it looked like the 281 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 1: appointment of Julie Sue, the former head of labor for California, 282 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 1: as the United States Labor Secretary, was in trouble. Just 283 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: like Garcetti's ambassador nomination. This thing is moving along incredibly slowly, 284 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 1: and now more than two dozen Republican Senators, including the 285 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: Minar leader Mitch McConnell, are telling Joe Biden to withdraw 286 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 1: her nomination to lead the department. Not that that means anything. 287 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: They'll probably ignore it. Biden, like he did with Garcetti, 288 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: tends to stand by people, particularly now that these parties 289 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: are constantly at each other's throat. Julius Sue, of course, 290 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 1: was the head of the labor Department in the state 291 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 1: of California during the pandemic, when we had all that 292 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 1: unemployment money ripped off. She was a big proponent of 293 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: Assembly Bill five, which makes the freelancers quote into employees, 294 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: which ruins their independence and in some cases they're livelihoods. 295 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 1: And it is believed that Biden wanted to bring this 296 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: idea to Washington, d C. And she got a job. 297 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: Well right now, she's actually the acting Labor Secretary of Hell. 298 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: They a deputy job before that, But her nomination is stalled. 299 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: She's already appeared before a couple of Senate committees. One 300 00:15:55,440 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 1: senator says she's avoided answering questions whenever possible, frame from 301 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 1: providing distinct specicificity to our answers when she has responded 302 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: to inquiries. Given this, we hope that you withdraw the nomination. 303 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 1: There are signs that she may not have enough votes. 304 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: The Democrats have a fifty one to forty nine edge 305 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: in the US Senate, but there's still a few Democratic 306 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: US senators who were hesitant to support her nomination, and 307 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 1: they've gone on the record to say that now we 308 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: are the same thing when it came to Garcetti, and 309 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: he still sneaked through. So it's a question when and 310 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: Biden will probably hang on even longer to get this done. 311 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 1: I mean, she's acting secretary. Is there really a rush? 312 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: But these were a group of Republican senators and the 313 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell, the Assembly of the State Senate minority leader, 314 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 1: who are saying, just move on to somebody else. It 315 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: says here the Democrats who are holding out are good 316 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: old Joe Manchin, who's rumored to possibly be running as 317 00:16:56,520 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: an independent for president, the Montana Senator John Tester, and 318 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: the woman from Arizona, Kirsten Cinema, who calls herself an independent. 319 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:07,120 Speaker 1: They're not saying how they would vote. So without those 320 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: three votes, this nomination doesn't go through. So sometimes they 321 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: just sit and wait and wear people down and see 322 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,120 Speaker 1: if they can't get Julie Sue through. All Right, more 323 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,719 Speaker 1: coming up Johnny Ken Show, KFI AM six forty Live Everywhere, 324 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. 325 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:24,120 Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 326 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 5: AM six. 327 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: Forty KFI AM six forty Live everywhere, the iHeartRadio app. 328 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 1: And the moistline is tomorrow. Leave your messages at one 329 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: eight seven seven Moist eighty six one eight seven seven 330 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: six ' six ' four seven eight eight six. We 331 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 1: returned now to the drama around the La City Councilman. 332 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: Current price just the latest, the fourth in just a 333 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,679 Speaker 1: few years. To be charged with crimes. This time the 334 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:55,360 Speaker 1: charges coming from the La County District Attorney's office felony 335 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 1: charges and what's going on right now as the City 336 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 1: Council is moving there very slowly towards looking into suspending 337 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 1: him because you know that would be the money line, 338 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:08,920 Speaker 1: and just like Mark Lee, Thomas didn't want to lose 339 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: his pay current price, would prefer to keep his pay 340 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: even if he's not in a voting position on the 341 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:17,639 Speaker 1: La City Council and he's withdrawn from his roles on 342 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 1: committees and such. But we're gonna bring on Daniel Gus 343 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 1: the Gus Report now to talk about another factor in 344 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 1: all this and also get his take on the suspension, 345 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 1: and that was the shock which was expressed by the 346 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 1: council President Paul Crocorian at all this. And this is 347 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 1: worth going over because it tells you how things often 348 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:42,919 Speaker 1: work with politics and the La City Council in particular 349 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:45,880 Speaker 1: with all this corruption. Daniel Gus, Welcome back to the show. 350 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 2: Hey, Ken, thanks for having me back. I appreciate it. 351 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:52,400 Speaker 1: Sure. So what you wrote about is the fact that 352 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,439 Speaker 1: this sounds ridiculous that Paul Crekorian was shocked at the 353 00:18:55,560 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 1: charges against Current Price, because well, why go to the listeners, 354 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: Why there should be no shock from anybody on the council. 355 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 2: I mean, I was shocked watching Paul Crekorian saying he's 356 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 2: shocked about these charges the day that they broke, because 357 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 2: these guys have been direct colleagues for thirteen of the 358 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 2: past sixteen years, and they've been in the same local 359 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 2: political circles for far longer than that. Let's go back 360 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 2: to two thousand and six, both of them, Paul Crecorian, 361 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 2: LA City Council President and indicted City council member Current Price, 362 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:47,639 Speaker 2: started working together, representing their respective districts from Los Angeles 363 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 2: up in Sacramento in the California State Assembly. After about 364 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:56,159 Speaker 2: three years there, Current Price went off to the State 365 00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 2: Senate and Paul Crekorian came down to the l City Council, 366 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 2: where since roughly twenty thirteen they have been members of 367 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 2: the same city council. So for for Coreyan to say, 368 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 2: wait a minute, I'm voting on these deals with delbra 369 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 2: Richardson Price, whose Current's wife, Why is he involved in 370 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 2: so many deals involving his wife? And even when the 371 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 2: La Times started writing about prices, big of me, even 372 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 2: if he didn't want to believe me, and I had 373 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,680 Speaker 2: the story years in advance of the LA Times, why 374 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:33,199 Speaker 2: didn't Paul Griccorya know this? 375 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:37,920 Speaker 1: And I mean now when they vote on these deals, 376 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 1: do they know all the particulars like the wife consultancy 377 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: was involved in this? Do they know all that? Or 378 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:45,920 Speaker 1: is it not presented that way? 379 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 2: Oh? It's presented that way for sure in the agendas, 380 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:53,119 Speaker 2: because if I can sit here and find it, you know, 381 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 2: I'm looking at the document right now where they have 382 00:20:55,640 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 2: these multi year contracts for these very arcane service, says 383 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 2: Delbert Richardson. Price del Richardson and Associates had what's called 384 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 2: a prequalified on call right of way consulting services. So 385 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:13,199 Speaker 2: she was one of a select few. Her business was 386 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 2: one of a select few for whenever the city had 387 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 2: right of way issues, very often she got these things. 388 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 2: And you can't tell me that Paul Crecorian and all 389 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 2: of the council members they don't have dinner together, they 390 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 2: don't go into ballgames together, they travel the world together. 391 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 2: How did he not say, gee, why isn't current Price 392 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:35,440 Speaker 2: recusing himself from this stuff? So it's very clear there's 393 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 2: no way a guy with a law degree like Paul 394 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:42,120 Speaker 2: Crekorian could not know that his price's wife was involved. 395 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 1: And we've heard for years, Daniel, that the way the 396 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 1: La City Council operates is their own little universes and 397 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: they kind of don't cross over or try to interfere 398 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,639 Speaker 1: with each other as deals and what they're doing in 399 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: their districts. They often just that's your fiefdom, you deal 400 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: with it. So is that part of what goes on, 401 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:02,719 Speaker 1: and they just put their head in the sand and 402 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: just ignore something. 403 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:10,400 Speaker 2: Like this, right, that's absolutely a perfect description of it. However, 404 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 2: they are also sworn to uphold the laws and act ethically. 405 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,959 Speaker 2: If they see something that doesn't make sense, it is 406 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 2: their responsibility to say, hey, this doesn't make sense. Why 407 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,360 Speaker 2: is he voting on issues involving his wife. And it's 408 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 2: not only always a land deal, it's just, for example, 409 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 2: her having these a series of professional services contracts. So yes, 410 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 2: they all have their own little fiefdoms and they basically 411 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 2: they let each other go their way. But they are 412 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 2: supposed to say, hey, this doesn't make sense, let's address it. 413 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 2: That's why they have an ethics commission, which by the way, 414 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 2: is also a load of crap. 415 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about that, because Marquis Harris Dawson, I 416 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 1: suppose he has been scratching his head, does understand why 417 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,679 Speaker 1: these are feelings against price. Shouldn't this just be a 418 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 1: small ethics violation and just a quick little slap on 419 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:01,919 Speaker 1: the wrist. What's your take on that? 420 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 2: Well? I happened to reach out to Marquis Harris Dawson's 421 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 2: office about an hour ago because he had an interview 422 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 2: where he said that it feels like black politicians are 423 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 2: being targeted, and so I said, gee, I wonder if 424 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:20,960 Speaker 2: they're talking about me, because I've written about black, Latino, Jewish, 425 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 2: white council members and other lawmakers who've been in serious 426 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,119 Speaker 2: legal trouble. So I'm asking for more context. And they 427 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 2: said that they would get back to me, and I 428 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:36,880 Speaker 2: trust that they will. What the law should be felonies misdemeanors, 429 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,479 Speaker 2: I leave that up for the prosecutors. So I don't 430 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 2: think that Marquise Herris Dawson has a law degree. Maybe 431 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 2: he does, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't, and he's 432 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,400 Speaker 2: entitled to his opinion. But these things seem to meet 433 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 2: all the parameters in terms of amount stolen allegedly stolen, 434 00:23:55,840 --> 00:24:00,480 Speaker 2: and these claims that the price has been made on 435 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 2: a superficial level, they seem to be appropriate charges. I'm 436 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 2: more curious about him thinking that it's targeting of black 437 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,200 Speaker 2: politicians because that makes no sense. 438 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: Well, except you've been hinting about her Blessing in some 439 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,800 Speaker 1: of your columns, so that's another black council memory. 440 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 2: Well, sure, but I've written about Mitch Englander, I've written 441 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,879 Speaker 2: about Nuri Martinez, I've written about Eric Arcetti, you know. 442 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,919 Speaker 2: So yeah, well, Wes. The reason why Wesson gets more 443 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 2: attention is he was city council president for more than 444 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 2: a decade, so he's responsible for Price and all the 445 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 2: other council members who he led, being on various committees, 446 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:43,440 Speaker 2: and who chairs those committees. So yes, her Lesson, who, 447 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,200 Speaker 2: by the way, I like personally. I find her very 448 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 2: likable personally, But I hold him in higher responsibility because 449 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 2: a city council president, he not only decides which council 450 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 2: members go on and share which committees, he decides what 451 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 2: if anything gets on the agenda that or doesn't. It 452 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,439 Speaker 2: has nothing to do with his race, but that's what 453 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 2: city council and that's what the La Times love to serve. 454 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 2: If they can't respond or address to the issue based 455 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 2: on the facts, they'll serve up a nice healthy bowl 456 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 2: of race. 457 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:21,879 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's often what they do, all right. Well, the 458 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,199 Speaker 1: other thing I want to ask you about is the 459 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:36,880 Speaker 1: suspension of current price. Do you think they're slow walking this? Oh? Okay, yeah, 460 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 1: I was was wondering that myself. Sounds like you dropped 461 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:40,919 Speaker 1: that Daniel Guss from the Gus Report. I was just 462 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,639 Speaker 1: talking to him, and of course he follows all things 463 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,119 Speaker 1: around city Hall and this, of course occurs. The charges 464 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 1: against current price, the La City Council member a bunch 465 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 1: of felonies. We'll have more on this tomorrow too, when 466 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 1: a committee is supposed to take up the suspension of 467 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,199 Speaker 1: current price. And I think they're really slow walking this 468 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: because of all the sensitivities race and the concerns about representation. 469 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 1: More coming up. Johnny KENKFI AM six forty Live everywhere 470 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. 471 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 472 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:12,159 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 473 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: Thank Daniel Gus. We just lost communication with him on 474 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 1: his cell phone there. But the Gus Report is what 475 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: he reports on La City politics. Coming up after three o'clock, 476 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,199 Speaker 1: the Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, came to Orange 477 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: County met with officials, including the Orange County DA Todd 478 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,679 Speaker 1: Spitzer will be my guest after three. A number of 479 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,639 Speaker 1: Republican Congressmen were also there. They were talking about a 480 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 1: number of issues, but one of them was home burglaries 481 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:45,359 Speaker 1: and break ins and the connection to Chile Chileans who 482 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:50,159 Speaker 1: maybe taking advantage of some sort of immigration loophole to 483 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 1: find their way into the United States and engage in 484 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: robbing people's homes. Todd will have all the details after 485 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: the news at three o'clock. It's time to pick on 486 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,880 Speaker 1: a vegan. John Cobelt even weighed in on this story, 487 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 1: which I had seen a celebrity chef by the name 488 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 1: of John Mountain. Wasn't Johnny Mountain a weather report on 489 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:12,640 Speaker 1: Channel seven years ago? 490 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 3: Yes? 491 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 1: I remember that name too, But this is not the 492 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:19,120 Speaker 1: same guy. He goes by Johnny. Though he's got some 493 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 1: show called Great British Menu on the BBC. He has 494 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:23,680 Speaker 1: banned vegans from his restaurant. 495 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 3: I oh, it's so ridiculous. 496 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:29,439 Speaker 1: That's f off. He actually said this is a vegan 497 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 1: free zone, and he said it started because he tried 498 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,919 Speaker 1: to accommodate a young woman who asked if there were 499 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 1: vegan options, and he said, well, yeah, we've got nochi 500 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: and vegetables, and that was that. Whoever you noteed, he'd 501 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: forgotten to make those vegan accommodations as he was busy 502 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: catering for a private party. The customer condemned the restaurant 503 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 1: on Facebook, saying, I think it's incredibly important nowadays that 504 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 1: restaurants going to accommodate everyone. 505 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,360 Speaker 3: I think that's correct. I feel. 506 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 1: Well, he just said they're a very low minority, and 507 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 1: that just was a tipping point for him. 508 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,400 Speaker 3: Okay, you know what, I disagree, and I think every 509 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:14,760 Speaker 3: restaurant should have at least one vegan option, just one, okay. 510 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 3: And if you're going to tell me, if I'm calling 511 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 3: you and saying, hey, I'm going to come in, I 512 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,119 Speaker 3: just want to make sure that you have some vegan options, 513 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 3: and I'm told yes, and then I go there and 514 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 3: there aren't, I'm gonna be pissed too. 515 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 1: Because the problem for you is it's not that you 516 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,679 Speaker 1: can't get vegetables. What if they're cooked in butter or something. 517 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 3: Exactly, and you would think that's so easy I mean 518 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 3: when I go to restaurants and they say, well, we 519 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,680 Speaker 3: have we have vegetables, I said, okay, can I get 520 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 3: them in cooked in olive oil? Okay? Oh no, we 521 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 3: cook them in butter? Okay, Well can you cook them 522 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 3: in olive oil or avocado oil? 523 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 1: You actually have this discussion with restaurants. Yeah, you're right, Eric, 524 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 1: can the worst go to a vegan place so you 525 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 1: don't have to deal with that because I don't know 526 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:55,680 Speaker 1: the one that says it's growing, and there's a lot 527 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 1: of them, and it's all good, I. 528 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 3: Know, but I don't really like a lot of the 529 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 3: typical vegan restaurants. Oh you don't know, because I don't 530 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 3: eat the tofu and I don't eat the fake meats. 531 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 5: I don't. 532 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 3: I don't eat that. But I was just recently at 533 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 3: a restaurant and I'm not gonna say what restaurant, but 534 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 3: I get this rice. It's so good, and I've asked 535 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 3: a million times to the owners. So I just want 536 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 3: to make sure there's no butter in this right, No butter, 537 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 3: no butter? Okay, vegan. 538 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 1: Yes. 539 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 3: So I went there last week with my dad for 540 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 3: the first time, and I did my usual there's no butter. 541 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 3: Oh no, we always put butter in there. You have 542 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 3: to request no butter, I said, But I always ask 543 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 3: and they always say there's never any butter. So they 544 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 3: bring it to me and I noticed it looked different. 545 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 3: Do you know how long I've had that friggin' rice 546 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 3: with the butter? I hate that. It's really not hard 547 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 3: to skip butter. 548 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 1: That's hilarious. 549 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 3: I'm glad you think so. 550 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 1: Eric, he mocks it, just proves you're not vegan. 551 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 3: Vegan. I'm a hypocritical vegan because I wear leather, but 552 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 3: I try to eat vegan as best do. 553 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 1: You try to cleanse you mistakenly eating why I let 554 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: it go? 555 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 5: Ken? 556 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,280 Speaker 3: I did, but it was upsetting because I don't understand 557 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 3: it's really not that difficult. It's either made with butter 558 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 3: or it's not. Can you guys all get on the 559 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 3: same page. 560 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: But you know, you're such a minority. We live in 561 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 1: a world that's you know, meat and dairy focused. You 562 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 1: just have to accept the fact that you know are 563 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 1: going to get it your way. And this is this 564 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: guy's restaurant. If he wants to tell vegans to take 565 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,600 Speaker 1: a hike, they can take off. Fine, you're welcome to 566 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 1: come in, you have to say you're a vegan. Just 567 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 1: sit down. But if you're going to start making special requests, 568 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 1: he's probably gonna send you a walking. 569 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 3: Well that's well. 570 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 1: And how about this story. This one's even worse. A 571 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: New York City landlord who's a vegan has got a 572 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 1: beautiful apartment with beautiful views. But you can only move 573 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: in there if you agree not to cook any meat 574 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 1: or fish in the kitchen. Meat bad, you know what? 575 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 3: Then you have the option if you don't like that, 576 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 3: then then don't go there, don't live there. 577 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,200 Speaker 1: And I don't think carnivores are protected under the New 578 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 1: York City rental ordinances, so you know, I guess you 579 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 1: got to live with it, right. I don't think there's 580 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 1: special protections for being a carnivore or for being a vegan. Right, Yeah, 581 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 1: he doesn't want the smell of cooking meat drifting upstairs. 582 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 3: Well, I don't blame that person. I don't like it either. 583 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 1: But I wonder what would happened if somebody took the 584 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: apartment told him not in writing that they didn't eat meat, 585 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 1: her fish, and then they cooked it. Would he This 586 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 1: may be a big addition, probably would. Yeah, the apartment 587 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: lists for almost five thousand dollars a month on South 588 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 1: Oxford Street in New York City. He says, you can 589 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 1: still order meat and fish baked dishes. You just cannot 590 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 1: cook on site because of the smells. You can bring 591 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: in takeout that's meat or fish, but don't you dare 592 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 1: try to cook it, because it's like that story we 593 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 1: did a couple of months ago where if somebody complained 594 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,280 Speaker 1: that their neighbor was cooking meat in the kitchen and 595 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,360 Speaker 1: the smell was drifting into her house. Yeah, she was 596 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,959 Speaker 1: very annoyed by it. Like the fight we said there 597 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 1: was smokers years ago, right, people of smokers, Yes, but 598 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 1: can you can you outlaws smells of what people are 599 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:06,520 Speaker 1: debating in this story. 600 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:07,880 Speaker 3: I think that's so funny. 601 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 1: I I and I'd even rather have a vegan cooking 602 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: vegetables next to me than a smoker. A smoke is 603 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,200 Speaker 1: the worst, the worst, And now that marijuana smoke is everywhere, 604 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: because that's like the worst. It smells like something burnt badly. 605 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,440 Speaker 1: And even though I'm outside, I'm passing people constantly with weed. 606 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,960 Speaker 3: Oh I know, even at like seven in the morning 607 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,360 Speaker 3: when I'm walking my dogs that's what I smell now. 608 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,520 Speaker 1: People love the little comfort that they get from their 609 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,320 Speaker 1: weed habit. All right. Coming up next, I'll be talking 610 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,440 Speaker 1: to the Orange County DA Todd Spitzer, having ONIMO. I 611 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: have not had him on in a while. He appeared 612 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 1: alongside the Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, who came 613 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 1: to Orange County and met with Todd Spitzer and a 614 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: number of Republican Congress members, and one of the things 615 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:58,000 Speaker 1: they talked about was home burglaries and robberies and the 616 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 1: connection to Chile. We've talked about this before, but there 617 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 1: are some people coming from Chile and this is what 618 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,959 Speaker 1: they do, break into your home and steal high value stuff. 619 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:11,480 Speaker 1: Johnny KENKFI AM six forty We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. 620 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,920 Speaker 1: Debra Mark has the news. 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