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John has got a vacation week 11 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 1: com here with Debrah Mark in our little news center. 12 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: Get updates from her every fifteen minutes or soe and 13 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: and about fifteen minutes we have I guess we're calling 14 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: it inflation vacation. That's your chance two in a thousand 15 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: bucks with the keyword. We're doing this weekdays and begins 16 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: with the nine am hour all the way through the 17 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 1: five o'clock hour here on the John and Ken Show. 18 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: So you listen for that word and then you send 19 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: in the keyword and you could win the money. I'll 20 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: explain more coming up, but it'll be in about fifteen 21 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: minutes here on KFI, we're going to talk once again 22 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: to John Kupal, the president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. 23 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: He gave us a heads up about this story, and 24 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: now we're seeing it written up. It's a new report 25 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: out called Unjust Legacy by something known as the Opportunity 26 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: Institute and Pivot Learning. Pivot Learning anyway, it's a nonprofit 27 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: that advocates for equitable Oh there's that word, equitable outcomes. 28 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: For California. Pivot Learning is a consulting organization that works 29 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: with schools in California and other states on improving achievement. 30 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: And apparently this report talks about what they think is 31 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: the unjust legacy of Proposition thirteen, passed in nineteen seventy eight, 32 00:01:55,960 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: backlash against rising property taxes that was driving bull out 33 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: of their homes. They're saying it's contributed, to listen to 34 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: this list, a wealth gap, a severe housing shortage, and 35 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 1: for decades not enough funding for public schools. John Coopa, 36 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the John and kenchet Hey, Ken, how 37 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: you doing. That's a whole lot on your plate there, Fella, Well, 38 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 1: I know, but you know it's like a broken record. 39 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 1: We've heard this so many times before, and you know, 40 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: when Prop thirteen first came out, they complained that it 41 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: should be repealed because it is a benefits business properties 42 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: too much. And then they've come up over the last 43 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: forty two years with a series of excuses why they 44 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: they think it's a it's a bad thing. And I 45 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: guess when you've run out of criticism, then you kind 46 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 1: of play the race card, and that is underlying this. 47 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: They're saying that it is inequitable, that it impacts minority 48 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 1: communities more because most of the benefits of Prop thirteen 49 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 1: have a nerd to the benefit of rich people. You know, 50 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: we have heard this before. And I think one of 51 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 1: the things in their forty seven pages that they did 52 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: not point out that when Proposition thirteen, when it was 53 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: attacked in the courts, the United States Supreme Court, not 54 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: the California Supreme Court. The United States Supreme Court upheld 55 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 1: Prop thirteen on the very basis that it inhibits displacement 56 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: of lower income families by gentrification. So it's like Prop thirteen. 57 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 1: I mean, you go into any minority community in California 58 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: day and you go up and say, hey, would you 59 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: like your property reassessed a full market value. This makes 60 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: no sense at all. And again this is the latest 61 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: can in the in the in the analyst litany of 62 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: so called studies or arguments or lawsuits against Prop thirteen. Fortunately, 63 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: fortunately Prop their team still polls very very well, well 64 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: above sixty percent. And even though California is now a 65 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: majority minority state, I mean white Californias are now in 66 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: the minority, and yet Prop thirteen remains very, very popular 67 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: for the simple reason that Prop thirteen helps everyone. And 68 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: I think people know that, no matter what their socio 69 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: economic status is or anything. If the basis of it, 70 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: and this is one of the reasons that passed with 71 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: sixty five percent of the vote in nineteen seventy eight, 72 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: was it was driving people out of their homes, people 73 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,679 Speaker 1: that could not afford the rising property taxes. Of course, 74 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: common sense tells you was just the opposite. It was 75 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 1: helping people at the lower end of the economic scale. 76 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,239 Speaker 1: The wealthy could afford the property taxes. Probably weren't happy 77 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,159 Speaker 1: about that, but it wasn't driving them out of their homes. 78 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 1: This is really upside down. They're still so bitter over this, 79 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 1: aren't they. They really are, And it's interesting because for 80 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 1: the first ten years after Prop thirteen was enacted, even 81 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: liberals acknowledged that Prop thirteen had a very progressive element 82 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 1: to it in that it helped lower income people. So 83 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: now they've come full circle. The only reason they've come 84 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 1: full circle is because they've tried every other argument and 85 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 1: it's not sticking again. I think you know we have. 86 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: We've been through the list before. The highest income tax 87 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: rate in America, the highest state sales tax rate in America, 88 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: the highest gas tax in America, about ready to go 89 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: up again by the way, on July first, and Prop thirteen. 90 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 1: Prop thirteen is the only thing that provides a modicum 91 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: of sanity. At the same time, it's generated a lot 92 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: of property tax revenue. Everybody, you know, these detractors say, yeah, 93 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:55,239 Speaker 1: but you have low property taxes. We don't. California ranks 94 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: fourteenth out of fifty states in per capital property tax collections. 95 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 1: So I mean, at the end of the day, they 96 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: just want it all. They're coming up with any excuse 97 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: to say you've got it, we want it, and we're 98 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: gonna take it, even if it takes some bogus study 99 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: to try to justify it. And they always come back with. 100 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:17,679 Speaker 1: It's hurting the schools, it's all. It's really been horrible. 101 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 1: Prop thirteen is just destroyed school funding. This report says 102 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:25,480 Speaker 1: California fell from fifth and per student funding till forty 103 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: seventh in the nation in the next two decades after 104 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: it passed. That is absolutely abjectly untrue. The National Center 105 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: for Educational Statistics reports current expenditure per pupil inflation adjusted 106 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one dollars. We went from fifty eight 107 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: hundred dollars per student in sixty nine seventy before it 108 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: prop their team passed. We're now in inflation adjusted dollars 109 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: over about fifteen thousand dollars, and that was pre COVID 110 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: and post COVID it's got to be much higher than that. 111 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: So on a per student inflation adjusted basis, we are 112 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: throwing money at education. The problem with education is we're 113 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: getting a crappy product. And it's not for lack of money. 114 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: And the States is about what's the latest budget three 115 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars. They have one hundred billion dollars surplus. 116 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: I mean, how is Prop thirteen hurting the money that 117 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: they're taking in. They're taking in so much money already. 118 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: How could they possibly look at this as a reason 119 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: to be to knock it aside. Yeah, and here's the 120 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: other important point. When the inevitable recession comes and there's 121 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: a huge drop off an income tax revenue and sales 122 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: tax revenue, it's Prop thirteen that stabilizes the property tax 123 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 1: revenue for local governments. You talk to any commy assessor 124 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,239 Speaker 1: and they will tell you that Prop thirteen has actually 125 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: been good for local governments because it helps us stabilize 126 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: the revenue coming in to local government coffers. So it's 127 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 1: a win win win all the way around. It's still 128 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: it's still really ticks off the progressives because they just 129 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: want it all and we're here to defend Prop thirteen, 130 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: which we've done for forty two years, and we'll do 131 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: it for another forty two years. Yeah. I just had 132 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: a conversation with one of my siblings I've assisted list 133 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: in Texas. It was probably the one thing she was 134 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: taking more than I was was property taxes. She couldn't 135 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: believe how much it was. And I know the number 136 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: you said you were not exactly you know, in the 137 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: top or the lowest states for property taxes. But it's 138 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 1: clear that that's at least one advantage we have over 139 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: many states is the ridiculous property tax bills. Yeah, we 140 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: get a lot of calls from Texas saying we want 141 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: Prop thirteen for Texas. I'm not sure that that would 142 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 1: work that well because Texas has no income tax at all. 143 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: What they do need in Texas, and I've told everyone there, 144 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 1: we have a lot of policy advisers that they needed 145 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 1: a some limitation on the annual increases and axable values, 146 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 1: maybe not two percent like California has, which is really great, 147 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: but they need some tax relief. But again, it's hard 148 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: to feel sympathy for Texans who pay zero income tax 149 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 1: because that's what's hurting a lot of us here in California. 150 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 1: All right, John, always a pleasure to talk to you. 151 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,679 Speaker 1: Thanks for spending some time with us. You bet you 152 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: have a great day and we'll talk you later, all right, 153 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: John Coopala, the president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. 154 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 1: A forty seven page report has come out that's basically 155 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: calling Prop thirteen racist, that it favors the white, wealthy 156 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 1: class and has led to a funding gap, particularly for schools. 157 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 1: And you see this all the time, you know, how 158 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: much money you spent on K through twelve schools in 159 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: the state of California. It's an enormous amount. The schools, 160 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 1: the public schools aren't a failure because of the money. 161 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: It's a failure because of the quality of education. And 162 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 1: a lot of money is spent on middle management, a 163 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 1: bunch of supervisors. All right, we got more coming up 164 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:07,199 Speaker 1: on the John and Ken's show, including Ah, You're a 165 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 1: chance at a thousand dollars. You just have to hear 166 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 1: what that keyword is. Next John and Ken's show on 167 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: kfive coming up after four thirty, we'll be at the 168 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: help and Science desk, and I have a feeling. After 169 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:20,439 Speaker 1: I tell you this study and go through the details 170 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 1: of this study, a lot of our listeners will be 171 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: doing something tonight that they don't ordinarily do, just to 172 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: see how much longer they're going to live. Eat more 173 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: veggies that would not be it that did not come 174 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: up in the study. But that's a nice try. Eat 175 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: less meat. Sometime we have to compare veggies because veggies 176 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: are okay, but there's some I just absolutely cannot stand. 177 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: It doesn't seem to be any limit for you. We 178 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,199 Speaker 1: should do a veggie cookoff can that would be really fun. Well, 179 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: I don't cook a lot of veggies like you just 180 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,560 Speaker 1: buy em or I mean you could just you could 181 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:56,319 Speaker 1: just microwave a bunch of them, Yeah you could, or 182 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: you could just throw them in. You can saute them 183 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: and add a little ricelicious. Once she gets started, I 184 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: have from veggie cooking talk. Why don't you go on 185 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:10,959 Speaker 1: one of the weekend food shows. And I actually don't 186 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: cook a lot anymore. I used to. Oh okay, so 187 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 1: now you go to one of your favorite vegan restaurants 188 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:20,080 Speaker 1: and get yeah, the grocery store and get vegan stuff. Well, 189 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:23,080 Speaker 1: actually today and all vegan grocery store is there one? Well? 190 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 1: I go to Sprouts has a lot of vegan stuff, 191 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: Trader Joe's, Whole Foods. In fact, I went probably stuff 192 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:30,840 Speaker 1: it's probably got to be one of its only vegans, 193 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 1: only vegan. There's no meat in there. There's none of that, dairy, 194 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: none of that. I haven't found one. Maybe you can 195 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: start one. Okay, Well, when I get bored working on 196 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 1: this show, maybe that's what I'll do. Yeah, it could 197 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: be soon. It could be. Uh wow, the California High 198 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:50,959 Speaker 1: Speed Rail we haven't done an updated in a while. 199 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: There's a battle in the legislature, of course, over allocating 200 00:11:55,880 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: the last couple of billion dollars from the initial ten 201 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 1: billion dollar bond measure that passed in the year two 202 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,719 Speaker 1: thousand and eight. Fourteen years later, here we are, and 203 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: there's really nothing to say. It looks like a picture. 204 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 1: There's just some large structures in Fresno. They're like sort 205 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: of rail overpasses. That's about all that we've got after 206 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 1: fourteen years. Of course, they want to build this terrible 207 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: first segment up in the central Valley from Bakersfield, Timber said. 208 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 1: They call it the train to nowhere. They're gonna they're 209 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: asking the federal government for one point two billion dollars 210 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 1: and they're opening with a president like Joe Biden, but 211 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,560 Speaker 1: of course he doesn't control Congress that they can get 212 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: that kind of money. The state has spent nine point 213 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 1: three billion dollars for project development and construction since the 214 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:51,839 Speaker 1: mid two thousand, most of that since construction on the 215 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: initial segments began in the central San Joaquin Valley in 216 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: the year twenty fourteen. Why do you think about that? 217 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 1: Right now? The estimate for this MERCID to Bakersfield segment 218 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:07,679 Speaker 1: is nearly twenty billion dollars. It's worth repeating the original 219 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: ballot measure said thirty three billion for all of high 220 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: speed rail to connect us from top to bottom, twenty 221 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: billion just to get from said to Baker's field. Now 222 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: there's another update. This one comes from the San Jose area. 223 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 1: They have now estimated that to put high speed rail 224 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:32,680 Speaker 1: to connect San Jose to San Francisco, the cost has 225 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 1: now ballooned over five billion dollars. That's a jump of 226 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 1: two hundred percent. There's just there's no killing this, there's 227 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: no putting a finish to this. They apparently completed a 228 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 1: year's long environmental clearance process. This is a forty eight 229 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:56,719 Speaker 1: mile corridor that will carry these trains down the peninsula 230 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: up there in the Bay Area on electrified caltrain tracks 231 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: at one hundred and ten miles per hour and eventually 232 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 1: on to southern California. Oh yeah, right in the year 233 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: twenty ninety. There are three stops. And apparently the environmental 234 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: document released last week does include this new price tag 235 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: for the recommended roots through the peninsula, which is more 236 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: than three times the figure that we heard in the 237 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 1: High Speed real Authorities twenty twenty two Business plan, which 238 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 1: has to be current. It may have come out last year, 239 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 1: the business plan, but they're claiming it's inflation, high real 240 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: estate costs, supplied chain woes, it's affecting all projects around 241 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 1: the country. See it's like they've added on the pandemic 242 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: and the supply chain problems to their never ending list 243 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: of excuses. They also say that, apparently because the high 244 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: speed real agencies still out the CEO Brian Kelly, well, 245 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: we're in a bind over cost estimates because this part's 246 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: really unbelievable. Without funding, we can't really figure out the 247 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 1: budgets on an accurate timeline. You like that. So now 248 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 1: the excuse is, well, we don't have the funding, so 249 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: we're not really sure what we can build in how 250 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: much it'll cost. While this thing is a circular belief, 251 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: I don't really think it's fair to ask us, this 252 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: is Kelly Gee, what are your cost estimates to get somewhere? 253 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: When nobody's providing us funding to get there. This just 254 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: puts us in the guests forever position. So it says here, 255 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: even when they're dramatically high cost figures, the San Jose 256 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 1: to San Francisco link is relatively cheap and less destructive 257 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 1: compared to other segments of the project because and here's 258 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: what we've talked about before. It relies on existing caltrain 259 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: tracks and stations. See, that's what they decided to do, 260 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: and eventually, years ago they called this the blended rail project, 261 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 1: where they were going to use existing rail lines and 262 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: try to run higher speed trains on them. But they 263 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: can't do that in a lot of these places. So 264 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: this has become unbelievable. And just to repeat, back in 265 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, it was supposed to be a 266 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 1: two hour and forty minute ride from Los Angeles to 267 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: San Francisco, and then eventually there'd be connections to Sacramento 268 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 1: and San Diego. This story i'm reading says it's a 269 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: cost of forty five billion. I remember it was only 270 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 1: thirty three billion, and then it jumped over one hundred billion. 271 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: Well now you can see we're on our way to 272 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: about one hundred and twenty billion dollars. But all this 273 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: is a joke, None of it is to be believed. 274 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 1: The thing is, we need to kill this. And in 275 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 1: Sacramento there's a divide between the legislature and Newsome. Newsom 276 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: actually wants to continue on with this boondoggle. The legislature 277 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 1: wants to grab some of this money for local rail projects, 278 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: knowing that this is just a complete waste all right, 279 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: coming up, Dex will be at the Health and Science desk. 280 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: Particularly you are over the age of fifty, you might 281 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: want to listen to this because this brand new research 282 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 1: is going to give you an idea as to how 283 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 1: many years you have left on this planet. Johnny can 284 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 1: Show on KFI and the US and Chinese scientists have 285 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: implanted human cells into monkey embryos. An international team of 286 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 1: scientists working on a project say that they have discovered 287 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 1: strong evidence for the existence of a new force of nature. 288 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:32,919 Speaker 1: The patient accusing the doctor of some bad bedside behavior, 289 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:38,400 Speaker 1: and it was all caught on camera. Doctors started grouping 290 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: cases together about a brain illness. The discovery of a 291 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:46,159 Speaker 1: potentially new and unknown syndrome is scary. Scientists are now 292 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:49,879 Speaker 1: trying to unlock the secrets of this strange syndrome. Researchers 293 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 1: say they've found the skull of what they believe as 294 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 1: a new species of humans. It involves an eighteen year 295 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 1: old baby faced kid who the gid of masquerading as 296 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: a doctor treating pay hints out of his own clinic. 297 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 1: The mystery disease is devastating. We just want to know 298 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 1: what it is. They're testing for dementia, alzyrus, Parkinson. He 299 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 1: even did antibody testing, historical antibody testing. As we come 300 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: on the air this evening, the nation has now reached 301 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: that grim new milestone, the outbreak of a mystery virus 302 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: that now has the World Health Organization on edge. And 303 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: now an update from the John and Ken Health and 304 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 1: Science Desk. Yes, John and can Well Ken. This is 305 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,719 Speaker 1: one of our oldest desks, by the way, probably as 306 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 1: old as the execution desk. It kind of went out 307 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 1: of commission though, because when the pandemic hit we could 308 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,439 Speaker 1: have pulled out the desk every five minutes to report 309 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 1: on COVID. So it's kind of been restructured and it's back. 310 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:48,199 Speaker 1: And of course the Health and Science Desk isn't just 311 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: about pandemics and strange stories of people having organs removed 312 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: from their body that were the wrong organs. Every now 313 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:59,159 Speaker 1: and then, it's to make sure that you stay healthy. 314 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,879 Speaker 1: De remark. And we have a brand new study to 315 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:08,719 Speaker 1: talk about. Brazilian experts tracked two thousand people people, ages, 316 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 1: fifty two seventy five. Now, I don't know your age, 317 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:16,160 Speaker 1: and I'm not going to ask, But anyway, for those 318 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: listeners who are tuned in and are between those ages, 319 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:21,959 Speaker 1: this might be something you want to hear about. And 320 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: I guarantee you there will be a number of people 321 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 1: in the audience hearing this right now that will try 322 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:31,159 Speaker 1: this tonight because you just can't help yourself after you 323 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:35,719 Speaker 1: hear about this challenge. These are how would I put it, 324 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 1: exercises things that you should be able to do if 325 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,679 Speaker 1: you're in decent health and should live an extended life. 326 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,199 Speaker 1: If you cannot do these things, the science says, the 327 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: research says, you're likely to die an earlier death. How's 328 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:56,640 Speaker 1: that for very very extreme? Huh? And the first one 329 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 1: is the flamingo you perplexed, Debra More, Yes, I am 330 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: the flamingo. You know. I read about this years ago. 331 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,879 Speaker 1: I didn't know that they call it that Stand with 332 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: one foot on the back of the opposite lower leg 333 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: while keeping arms by your side, fix your gaze straight ahead, 334 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: and see if you can do that for ten seconds. 335 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 1: If you cannot, sorry, eighty four percent who could not 336 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,639 Speaker 1: complete the flamingo test were more likely to die early. 337 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: According to this research, that's only one of several markers. 338 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 1: But I saw this story yesterday and I tried it. 339 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: I was up there twenty seconds or more. Really. Yeah. 340 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: The one thing I didn't do, which I'll have to 341 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 1: do later, I didn't put one leg on the back 342 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: of the other. I just kind of stood there on 343 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: one leg like I didn't have it set behind the 344 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 1: other leg. That's important. But yeah, you'll try it, and 345 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:57,119 Speaker 1: I will try it. I will do you do yoga 346 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: or anything like that or any kind of no, I 347 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 1: should any kind of sort of No, I hike. You hike, 348 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: but you don't go to any gyms or do any 349 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 1: kind of I don't like. No. I do some weights. 350 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:12,160 Speaker 1: I do weights at home. I just don't like going 351 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 1: to a gym. Now. The next test is how fast 352 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: do you walk? You ever notice how fast you walk? No, 353 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 1: And I saw this in a different study recently that 354 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 1: your pace is a strong indicator, particularly if you're a 355 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: bit older, as to maybe how much you got left 356 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 1: in your body. The slowest mail walkers we're doing about 357 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 1: one mile every eighteen minutes, to give you an idea, 358 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: while the fastest walkers were at one mile every fifteen minutes. 359 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 1: So you think about that, that's four miles an hour. 360 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: That's pretty quick. I haven't really checked myself. I think 361 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: I do about three and a half miles ago. I 362 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,360 Speaker 1: think that's what I do. You know, because you don't 363 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 1: really think about it. If you're talking to somebody or 364 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,400 Speaker 1: you're not paying it tension, you're probably going slower than 365 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: you think. But I've been out there and people I 366 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 1: see some people like they're obsessed. They go buy me 367 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: with their arms going and they're going like six miles 368 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:09,960 Speaker 1: an hour at singing, or maybe four or five miles 369 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:13,399 Speaker 1: an hour. The slowest female walkers can only cover one 370 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 1: mile every twenty minutes. The quickest female walkers were able 371 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 1: to I don't know. This number is not right, but anyway, 372 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 1: according to this journal, that's another indicator of whether or 373 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: not you're going to be around for a long time. 374 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: The walking speed that you have another one I think 375 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 1: is impossible. And they had this at my gym. One 376 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 1: of the instructors called it Turkish getups. Do you know 377 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 1: what that is? So Turkish getups? I'll explain it to you. 378 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: You get on the floor and you sit cross legged, right, Okay. 379 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 1: The idea is to stand back up and do not 380 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: use your hands, knees or arms for support. That I've 381 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: done that. Yeah, Oh that's pretty good. Good. I can't 382 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,360 Speaker 1: that's one I have a real problem with. Really. Oh wait, 383 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 1: you gotta work on that, ken if you want to 384 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,920 Speaker 1: stay alive longer, well, I can do the walk standing 385 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 1: on one leg on the walking sperience, but imagine if 386 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: you can do If you can do all of these, 387 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 1: you're gonna be around forever. Yeah. I don't know if 388 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 1: it's you know, if you can't do any of these, 389 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: but you're probably at the highest risk of an early death. 390 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 1: If you can do some of them, you're probably doing 391 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 1: better off. Yeah. That one I think has a lot 392 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 1: to do with flexibility. And I have some flexibility problems. 393 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,880 Speaker 1: I mean, I stretch a lot and I roll out 394 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 1: because I run a lot. I have very tight hamstrings, 395 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: and it's hard for me to do that without at 396 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 1: least using one hand to get up. And actually, the 397 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:39,880 Speaker 1: guy at my gym had you're holding a weight while 398 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,160 Speaker 1: you do it. Oh that's hard without Yeah, so you're 399 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 1: still holding the weight up in the air while you 400 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,679 Speaker 1: stand up. Yeah, yeah, you do that and send me 401 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:49,199 Speaker 1: a video. I will. I'm going to try and do 402 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:50,920 Speaker 1: that tonight. I bet you I can do it. It's 403 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,160 Speaker 1: not going to be easy, yeah, yeah, but I'm gonna 404 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: do it. Walking up stairs, you should be able to 405 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,719 Speaker 1: walk up four flights of stairs without stopping. I can 406 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: do that easily. I love stairs. I although I don't 407 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 1: go to those parks so they have those tremendously high 408 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 1: Oh that I do those. It's fun. Well, it's not 409 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:16,440 Speaker 1: really fun, it's good exercise. Another one is grip strength. 410 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,160 Speaker 1: Men should have a grip strength above twenty six kilograms, 411 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 1: while women should be above sixteen. I wouldn't be exactly 412 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,679 Speaker 1: sure how to measure that one. I don't really have 413 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: anything that measures grip strength. I don't know that mine 414 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,399 Speaker 1: is mine is probably average. And the last one, can 415 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,360 Speaker 1: you do forty pushups in one go? I can't even 416 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,879 Speaker 1: do one. Shall admit I'm terrible at push ups. And 417 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: that's something else I found out at my gym. Women 418 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 1: have more trouble with push ups than men. So what 419 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: they were allowing the women to do is keep their 420 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 1: knees on the ground and do the push up your 421 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: upper body. Yeah, I could do that. You could do 422 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,919 Speaker 1: forty with just your upper body. Yeah, I'll try that. 423 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 1: I will try that tonight. But regular pushups yeah, yeah, 424 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 1: that's tough for eleven and the only one worse or 425 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 1: pull ups? You ever do? A pull up? Yeah? I 426 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 1: can do a few. We have to just pull your 427 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 1: whole body weight up over the chin bar. Yeah, that's 428 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 1: can you do pull ups? I can do, but probably 429 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 1: just a few at a time. I couldn't do any 430 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:21,719 Speaker 1: more than three or four or five? Right, yeah. Yeah. Well, 431 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,439 Speaker 1: as they studied all these seventeen hundred people, what I 432 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: found weird about this was, well they tracked them long 433 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: enough to find out and chart which one's died young 434 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: versus which one's kept living. Um, that that's probably was. 435 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,720 Speaker 1: So it must have been a study that lasted for 436 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 1: quite a few a few years. So that's our advice 437 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: to you. But begin with the flamingo. Flamingo and see 438 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,439 Speaker 1: whether or not you can stand on one leg with 439 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: the other leg wrapped behind the standing leg. See if 440 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: you can do that for at least ten seconds each leg, 441 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,160 Speaker 1: to determine whether or not you're going to live a 442 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: long and prosperous life. Deb's doing it right now. It's easy, peasy. 443 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,400 Speaker 1: I could do my newscast this way. Oh, you better 444 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 1: do your whole newscast this way now. Okay, I gotta 445 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 1: move my mic. I will so. I was gonna say, 446 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: how can you talk on the mic if you're standing? 447 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: I moved it up. Okay, So okay, I'm good. I'm 448 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 1: doing it. You're on one leg, yes, I am, and 449 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 1: my other leg is wrapped around my standing leg. It's 450 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: pretty good. All right, You're going to live a long life. Unfortunately, unfortunately, 451 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: I love you to do all right. Coming up after 452 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 1: five o'clock will be at the George Gascon Recall desk. 453 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 1: Er guests will be Kathy Katie. Kathy has done remarkable 454 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:42,359 Speaker 1: work for victims and families of victims of crime thanks 455 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 1: to the La County DA, who doesn't care about victims 456 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 1: of crime or their families. We have another story. A 457 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 1: man who's been arrested in the killing of a homeless 458 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 1: person in Pacoima was released from prison last year after 459 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 1: serving just eight years of a life sentence for a 460 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 1: double murder because George Gascon would not transfer his case 461 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 1: from juvenile to adult court. Kathy Katie's involved in the case. 462 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 1: She can tell us a lot more At five oh 463 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,439 Speaker 1: five Johnny Ken Show here on K five. We'll be 464 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,440 Speaker 1: at the George Gascone Recall desk at five oh five. 465 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 1: We're really at the end here. July sixth is the 466 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,239 Speaker 1: last day they can turn in signatures to put this 467 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: on the ballot. If you are an LA County registered voter, 468 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,880 Speaker 1: please go to Recall DA George Gascone dot com and 469 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,159 Speaker 1: sign the petition and send it in. We're gonna be 470 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 1: talking to Kathy Katie. Kathy Katie has retired with the 471 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 1: La County DA's office, and what she's been doing now 472 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 1: is pro bono work for victims of crime their family members. 473 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 1: She's represented many people, particularly with the onslaught of George 474 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 1: Gascone cases because he doesn't care about victims. And the 475 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:59,399 Speaker 1: latest concerns a convicted gang member who benefited from George 476 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: Gascon's policies and because of that, he was out there 477 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: to kill a homeless person in Pecuoima. They get all 478 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,880 Speaker 1: the details on this coming up after the news at 479 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: five o'clock today down in Yuvaldi, Texas, where a couple 480 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,199 Speaker 1: of weeks ago at rob Elementary School, nineteen children and 481 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:22,439 Speaker 1: two adults were killed by a mass shooter. It's sad 482 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 1: to think that, you know, despite the horror of that 483 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: and the evilness of this killer. Of course he's dead, 484 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,679 Speaker 1: so there'll be no trial. All the focus has been 485 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: on the police response, which was basically non existent. They 486 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: got to the school, they got inside the school, they 487 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 1: set themselves outside the classroom. They released a pictures and 488 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:48,480 Speaker 1: video today of all the police officers, and they were 489 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 1: with the school district who were ready. They seemed to 490 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 1: have shields and weapons, They were ready to get in 491 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: there and stop the shooter. And they didn't, not for 492 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: seventy five minutes. So the may and that everyone's looking 493 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: at here is Pete Arodondo, who was the incident commander 494 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 1: at that school, although in one of the only interviews 495 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: he's ever done, he told the Texas Tribune he didn't 496 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 1: think he was in charge that day. Is that going 497 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 1: to be his defense? I didn't know I was in charge. 498 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 1: I don't know you're the head of the school district 499 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 1: police and it's happening on school property. Well, so he 500 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 1: was waiting for somebody to take over. We also heard 501 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 1: that he didn't have a police radio. And of course 502 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: yesterday and the weekend's big development, the classroom door may 503 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: not have even been locked. Apparently it only locks from 504 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: the outside, not the inside, so they didn't need any 505 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 1: special equipment or keys to breach that door. They probably 506 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,080 Speaker 1: could have just gone right in there within minutes and 507 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: fought with that shooter and probably saved some children's lives 508 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 1: and maybe a teacher's life. So the development today is 509 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 1: that Aarondondo has been placed on administrative leave. It says 510 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 1: here they are placing on leave effective today, even though 511 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: they say they don't really have the full results of 512 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: the investigation. But I guess after a month they know 513 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 1: enough and they've decided to remove him from his position. 514 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,920 Speaker 1: He also got elected to the city council, and he 515 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: asked for a leave of absence from the city council, 516 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 1: and they're saying no, And if you take a leave 517 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: and you miss more than three city council meetings, we're 518 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 1: going to throw you off the city council. So I 519 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 1: think this guy's just going to have to disappear from town. 520 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 1: And whether or not this zever civil or criminal case 521 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 1: against him, we'll wait and see. But it is hard 522 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,920 Speaker 1: to believe the massive ineptness of this response to a 523 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 1: mass shooting twenty something years after what happened in Colorado. 524 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 1: All Right, as I mentioned, coming up, we'll be at 525 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: the George Gascone recall desk. One quick animal story for 526 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 1: Deborah Mark. This time it's about griff Park. Apparently Fox 527 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: eleven has learned that there has been a severe backlash 528 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: against the Griffith Park pony rides. They've apparently been there 529 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 1: since nineteen forty eight, but in recent times, animal rights 530 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 1: groups are showing up at Griffith Park to protest the 531 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 1: pony rides, claiming that the ponies are they have a 532 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 1: sad life. The operator of the pony rides says that no, 533 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 1: we have two vets on call twenty four hours a 534 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: day to take care of their needs. We have someone 535 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 1: out here every week to work on their feet. We 536 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 1: take extra care of our ponies, and they're not pushed 537 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 1: that hard. What they do as a quick rock, a 538 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 1: walk around the ring a couple of times, they're not 539 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 1: really It's not like you know, I've ever been to 540 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,240 Speaker 1: New York City and they have those carriage rides. Have 541 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 1: never been on one. A couple of those horses have 542 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 1: collapsed in the heat. They at least ought to call 543 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 1: those off on those really hot sweltering summer days in 544 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,160 Speaker 1: the park, and maybe they have. I haven't followed that story, 545 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 1: but he says this is unfair. So you've got a 546 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:15,560 Speaker 1: couple of city council members, the usual suspects, Nithia Rahman 547 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,840 Speaker 1: and Paul Corretz. They went out there and they're they're 548 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: calling for a third party to assess the facility. But 549 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 1: the City of la has renewed its contract with the 550 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 1: Griffith Park pony Rides for at least another three years, 551 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 1: so for now it's not going to end. But they 552 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 1: apparently have put together emotion in response to concerns brought 553 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 1: forth by residents and animal rights groups, we've initiated a 554 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 1: process to bring on a third party, a questrian expert, 555 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 1: to review and report on the policies and practices of 556 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 1: the operation to ensure that the horses are being well 557 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,840 Speaker 1: cared for. It. I've heard of it, Deborah, but I've 558 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 1: never been there. I've never seen it up close. I 559 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 1: used to take my kids for pony rides, not at 560 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 1: Griffith Park. It was someplace else in the valley. I 561 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 1: don't even know if it's still around, But then that 562 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,080 Speaker 1: was before I was a vegetarian or maybe it was 563 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 1: when I was a vegetarian, but I was okay with 564 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 1: the kids riding the horses. I just didn't want to 565 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 1: ride them. But I think it's fairer to have an 566 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: investigation and make sure that these ponies are treated fairly 567 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 1: and humanely and that they're okay, because, again, they don't 568 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,360 Speaker 1: have a choice. They may not want to give rides 569 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,560 Speaker 1: to the little kids, but I do get the kids 570 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:29,560 Speaker 1: enjoy riding ponies, So I'm kind of conflicted on this one, 571 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,600 Speaker 1: but I want to make sure that they're being well 572 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 1: taken care of. Yeah, I don't how to judge animals, 573 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 1: but I've been to a few of these fairs where 574 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: they have like the little petting zoo, and they sometimes 575 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: there's a little ponies. Everything they do look depressed. They 576 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,080 Speaker 1: just kind of stand there at their head down. But 577 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,680 Speaker 1: I don't think horses and ponies are very reactive in general, 578 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,760 Speaker 1: so it's hard to judge it by that. 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