1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,719 Speaker 1: We're on from one till four, but after four o'clock 2 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: you could hear the show as a podcast Johnny kennon 3 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,879 Speaker 1: demand also on the Guyheart Radio app. Yeah, we got 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: everything in place. Next hour we'll be visited for two 5 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: rounds of the moistline people. We will throw somebody into 6 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: the all wonderful John and Ken Hack and a dumpster 7 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: dumpster that's coming up later on on this show. Well, 8 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 1: we're gonna return to the subject of zero bail. This 9 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:28,159 Speaker 1: became a happening thing. After all we went through in 10 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: twenty twenty following the death of George Floyd and Minneapolis, 11 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: there was this attempt to turn on the criminal justice 12 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: system and of course police with defund the police. But 13 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: what they tried to do with the criminal justice system 14 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: while we're gonna wall too well with the likes of 15 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 1: George Gascon as La County District Attorney and one of 16 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: the tenants of that was a bail. Bail is just 17 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: it's racist. It's unfair that people have to pay bail 18 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: to stay. And well, the reason for bail is that 19 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: these people you want to hold onto them because they 20 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: could recommit. They could be serious, violent people if turned 21 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 1: back into society even before they come back for their 22 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: next court appearance, if they come back for the next 23 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 1: court appearance. So we're going to talk about the latest 24 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 1: studies and reports on the concept of no bail with 25 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 1: Michael Rushford, the founder, president, and chief executive officer of 26 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 1: the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation. Hey, Michael, how are you. Hey, 27 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 1: Thanks for having me on. Guys, Yeah, good to talk 28 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:28,319 Speaker 1: with you again. All Right. We had a politician here 29 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 1: who's now at office named Bob Hertzberg, and you're probably 30 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: very familiar with him, and when he was in the 31 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: California legislature, he was promoting some kakamami no bail policy 32 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:42,479 Speaker 1: for several years. He came on our show and flatly 33 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: insisted that the statistics prove that if you let people 34 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: out without bail, there are fewer crimes committed by that crowd. 35 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: And you have the study that proves that that's absolutely false. Yeah, 36 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: And I'll just say at the outset, people like Hertzberg 37 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: live in an alternative universe. I don't know what color 38 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: the sky is in his world. But if you've ever 39 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: raised a child, or ever we're a teenager yourself, you know, 40 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: damn well, if there's no consequences for bad behavior, you 41 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,799 Speaker 1: get some more. It's just it doesn't make sense. But 42 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: in order to make the point, fortunately, there have been 43 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: two data dumps on bail in one was in New 44 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: York and the other the state of New York, and 45 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: the other one was here in California in Yolo County, 46 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:40,359 Speaker 1: not a big county, but it confirmed what the the 47 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: Manhattan Institute had determined from the data dump in New York, 48 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: and that is, releasing criminals on bail, you end up 49 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: rearresting like seventy to eighty percent of them for a 50 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: new crime within eighteen months, let alone whether they show 51 00:02:55,919 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: up for court. And in both states. New York introduced 52 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: a bail reform law in twenty twenty which essentially eliminated 53 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:08,399 Speaker 1: bail for almost all crimes. And then when the pandemic hit, 54 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: they didn't even hold a hearing for these guys, had 55 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 1: just released them. The study by the New York State 56 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: Division of Criminal Justice, it just released the numbers, and 57 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: Manhattan Institute put them together and noticed that the number 58 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,079 Speaker 1: of arrests of people who are on their own recollacissance 59 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: or no money bail went from one hundred and sixty 60 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: six and twenty nineteen to four hundred and forty five. 61 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: And this is per month in twenty twenty one, two 62 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 1: and a half times more arrests, and each month three 63 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: hundred of those arrests were fatalities. Now that's a pretty bad, 64 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: a pretty bad track record for zero bail. And as 65 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: you know, something like fifty percent of murder and like 66 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: forty three of violent crimes are committed by minorities, which 67 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: zero bail was supposed to, you know, make more fair 68 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: for them and their victims or other minorities. So all 69 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: you're doing when you let criminals out on zero bail 70 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: is turning them loose back to their communities to attack 71 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,160 Speaker 1: and kill and rob and rape other people of their 72 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: same race. Now, all right, here's here's the numb of 73 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: this that we've been talking about for a long time now. 74 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 1: They always disguise their motives as being racial. They'll say, 75 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 1: too many minorities getting a thrown in PI prison held 76 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: without bail. Right, all, everything about prison release and no 77 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: bail is about too many minorities are in prison. Yeah, 78 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: when they let the prisoners out and when they give 79 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: people no bail, you end up with far more minorities. 80 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 1: The victim of crimes, violent crimes killed. So I wonder 81 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,840 Speaker 1: is it really race or is it just about destroying 82 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 1: the system. Well, it's it's hard to deny that that 83 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: motive has to be there when even black legislators, and 84 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: in New York, a black police chief for one of 85 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: the big areas. Then there went before the New York 86 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: legislature and he was black, and most of the committee 87 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 1: was black, and they wouldn't listen to his statistics on this. 88 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: They threw him out, they wouldn't let him talk. They 89 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: disinvited him when they knew what he was going to 90 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:33,919 Speaker 1: say because he was talking about the victims being largely minority. Yeah, 91 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,719 Speaker 1: and and and that these policies are creating these victims. Now, 92 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: the other study was done in Yolo County. As I said, 93 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: it was a smaller study, but it was more rigorous 94 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 1: and what it confirmed was is that these releases do matter. 95 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: They took a hundred offenders randomly selected from twenty eighteen 96 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen who had to pay bail to get out, 97 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: and then they took one hundred offenders from twenty twenty 98 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: to twenty twenty one. When the state our state California 99 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: abolished bail for all but the most murder and rape, 100 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: so carthy and as you know in La Carthie, if 101 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: we're getting out the same day they stole the car 102 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: and going and stealing another car during that period. Anyway, 103 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 1: they looked at what they were doing and looking at 104 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: their rearrest rates. The average recivitism rate for those released 105 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: on zero barrel was seventy eight percent. Wow. For inmates 106 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 1: that are arrestees that were sent out on bail they 107 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: had to pay bail, it was forty six percent. But 108 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: what you said about that, that that committee made up 109 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: of largely minority legislators, and that that official who was 110 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 1: trying to explain all these statistics. It's very striking to 111 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: me because we've gone from two sides disagreeing and having 112 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: two different theories or interpreting data differently, to that side 113 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: doesn't want you to speak anymore. You're not allowed to 114 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,719 Speaker 1: speak out, okay, right. That it's a whole different that's 115 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: an entirely different phenomenon here, which is true. A lot 116 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: of these work progressives, they don't want anything discussed out 117 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: loud anymore. It's shutting down any dissent, any alternative thinking. 118 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: And you don't accomplish much when you do that, and 119 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: it's happening in a lot of areas, as you know, 120 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: in medicine, and they freak get the public policy, they 121 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: get they get really angry, and they get emotional, like 122 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: like little children. They cover their ears. Yeah, and now 123 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: you're wrong for even talking out loud about it, let 124 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: alone that you have some horrible, heinous opinion. Yeah, it's 125 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 1: it's really straight until they get until they get mugged. 126 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: That's that's the old state. A liberal is a conservative 127 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: as a liberal who got mugged. I mean, I bet 128 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 1: Barbara Boxer's it's attitude on crime is a lot different 129 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: than she got mugged in broad daylight down in Oakland 130 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: a few years ago. Agoum having it's almost like we 131 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 1: have to let we should all the criminals in the 132 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: parts of the town where most of the liberals are, 133 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: so they can all get mud that way that we'd 134 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: end up with a lot better if maybe we get 135 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: rid of the DA down there. Ud did New York 136 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: modify their zero bail And they had no, No, they're 137 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: they're going further. They are. Last year they passed a 138 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: law to stop calling um uh prison inmates uh repeat 139 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: offenders they call them, or probably the prisoner minutes they 140 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: call them incarcerated persons, because it would help them rehabilitate themselves. 141 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 1: About all this really smacks of the policies that that 142 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: communist governments had, just erasing language, racing concepts that aren't 143 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 1: approved of anymore. This is directly at a communist Russian 144 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: and communist China. But there is there is I've been 145 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: through this drill before. I mean, I was doing this 146 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: work in the eighties. There becomes a point when crime 147 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 1: gets so bad and I think we've got to be 148 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 1: pretty close to it where the public, the sleepy public 149 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: that's busy just trying to make a living, stands up 150 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: and says, I'm throwing these bums out. Who's causing the problem. 151 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:16,319 Speaker 1: The key to the solution is voices like yours and 152 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 1: others that are show telling the people where the problem is, 153 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: so that when the neighbor gets killed, or the little 154 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,559 Speaker 1: girl across the street gets kidnapped, or somebody sets your 155 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 1: car on fire, you can turn on the radio or 156 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: look at the newspaper and say, Okay, these policies created 157 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: this environment I'm living in and I don't like it. 158 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: So hopefully in the next couple of election cycles, we 159 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: can start to wash out these pro criminal fools that 160 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: shouldn't be making laws for anybody. All right, Michael, thank 161 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: you so much for coming on. We appreciate it. My 162 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: pleasure night. Michael Rushford is the founder, president, and chief 163 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 1: executive officer of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, and he 164 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: just wrote a column about the studies that have come 165 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:02,439 Speaker 1: out that zero bail has been a disaster, high reciditism rates. 166 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 1: Another keywords coming up, John and Ken Cafe. I am 167 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: six forty live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. All right, we 168 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,679 Speaker 1: go back to the presidential election of twenty twenty and 169 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 1: anybody remember that no Trump against Biden. I was there. 170 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: We were covering it, right and of course, but you 171 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 1: know what happened in the weeks afterwards. Trump was a 172 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: screament about election fraud. And what ended up playing out 173 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: on the cable news channel Fox News was Fox News 174 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 1: was bringing on guests who were attacking a large voting 175 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 1: systems company called Dominion. They're based in Colorado, and they 176 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: brought a lot of guests on who are claiming election 177 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 1: fraud in behalf of Trump, including Rudy Giuliani, right, and 178 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 1: some Nutty attorney, a woman named Sydney Powell. Sydney Powell 179 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 1: was everywhere at the time. I didn't watch a lot 180 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: of this coverage, but I kept seeing her name in 181 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: so many stories. So eventually Dominion had enough and they 182 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: filed a defamation suit against Fox News. And Fox News 183 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 1: of course file the counterclaim. There might be a trial 184 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: coming up in April unless a judge dismisses one or both. Well, 185 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:22,680 Speaker 1: it hurt their business because, yeah, they provide voting machines 186 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: for nations around the world, and here you had the 187 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: President of the United States and his advisers and Fox 188 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 1: News pushing the idea that their system is completely corrupt 189 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: and fake and that's why they want a billion and 190 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:43,320 Speaker 1: a half dollars and dam The Fox counterclaim is that 191 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: they didn't lose any business out of this. The Dominion 192 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: did not get hurt by this, but they did not 193 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:52,319 Speaker 1: lose any clients or accounts. It is a one point 194 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: six million dollar defamation lawsuit against the network. It's a 195 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: massive amount of money. So what we're seeing now in 196 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: preparation for a possible trial in April to some of 197 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: the internal documents being filed with the court and some 198 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: of them are being made public, and I guess the 199 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: most interesting thing about that is that it looks like 200 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: some of the hosts at Fox News, even though they 201 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: were bringing on guests who were screaming voter fraud and 202 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 1: saying bad things about dominion voting systems, they weren't buying it. 203 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson apparently told the producer, I guess he sent 204 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 1: an email or something. Sidney Powell is lying, called her 205 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:37,319 Speaker 1: an unguided missile and dangerous as hell. Fellow host Laura 206 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: Ingraham told Tucker Carlson that Powell is a complete knot. 207 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: No one will work with her, Ditto with Rudy. So 208 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 1: behind the scenes, they were clearly not big fans of 209 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: this idea that dominion voting systems stole the election from Trump. 210 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 1: Hannity said Rudy Giuliani who was acting like an insane person, 211 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 1: and Laura Ingram agreed, such an idiot. But they continued 212 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: pushing it because that's what a chunk of their audience 213 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,679 Speaker 1: wanted to hear, and they were afraid that they were 214 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: going to lose audience to other conservative fit channels that 215 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: were more friendly to the idea that Trump had the 216 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: election stolen. So they were stuck between Clearly this was 217 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:27,079 Speaker 1: a circus, Clearly this was false, but they didn't want 218 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: to offend their audience. And this is very similar to 219 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,200 Speaker 1: what you see in a lot of newspapers who have 220 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: ended up with a very liberal audience, and so they 221 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 1: feed them a lot of progressive nonsense every day. So 222 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 1: you had and this is why there was a Gallop 223 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: poll out this week that only twenty five percent of 224 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 1: the country thinks the media is not trying to lie 225 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: and mislead the public every day. Twenty five that's the 226 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 1: trust rating. Now for the media, they've all blown their brands. 227 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: CNN blew their brand. You see what Fox is about here, 228 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: you see what the New York Times, the Washington Post 229 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 1: is about. You know, they were constantly pushing the Russian 230 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 1: hoax conspiracy. Meantime, Fox was pushing for months and months 231 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 1: this voter fraud conspiracy. Both sides were pushing a lot 232 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: of eyes because they were trying to pander to the 233 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: people who watch the most devotedly, the ones who show 234 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: up the most and stick with the channel the longest, right, 235 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 1: And so now you end up at a point where 236 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: there's nobody to believe. I mean foxes, Yeah, Fox is 237 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: just standing by the First Amendment. Here, they're also saying 238 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 1: a lot of this is just protected opinion. The judge 239 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: actually has decided that dominion can be treated like a 240 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 1: public figure, so they're not like some protected private entity 241 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 1: that's being disparaged by these comments. It is tough to 242 00:14:54,960 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: win defamation cases against the media because Fox's argument is, hey, 243 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: this was the news, so we were covering it. Now 244 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: they were bought on the guests who just gave their opinions. 245 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: Now they were disproportionately covering it and favoring the pro 246 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: Trump guests because again, that's what a big chunk of 247 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 1: their audience wanted to hear. Right, maybe other news outlets 248 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 1: gave a little bit of time to the nuts, but 249 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: maybe gave more proportional time to people who were explaining 250 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 1: the obvious that there is there was zero evidence that 251 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 1: there was any fraud widespread enough to tilt an election. 252 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 1: It just didn't exist. I mean, I remember there there 253 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 1: were sixty court cases that Trump's crowd brought sixty and 254 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 1: they went over sixty. Well, once you go over sixty, 255 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: you gotta go home. But so dominion has to prove 256 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: with the preponderance of the evidence that Fox their hosts 257 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: the network acted with actual malice or reckless disregard for 258 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: the truth, and that might be a high bar well 259 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 1: to cover. Some of the hosts pushed push the theory, 260 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: like they got rid of Lou Dobbs, because Lou Dobbs 261 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 1: was a financial host on the Fox Business Channel and 262 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: he was very blatantly pushing the fraud theory. It wasn't 263 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 1: just his guests saying so, it was he saying so. 264 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: He was all in yeah, and Fox Fox eventually dismissed 265 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: him because that he was particularly dangerous. If they let 266 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 1: him keep going on yeah, they would have even more 267 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: convincingly been liable. All Right, we'll be back John and 268 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: Ken caf I Am six forty live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. Well, 269 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: we're getting closer to the three o'clock hour on Friday, 270 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: which brings us two rounds of the moist Line, a 271 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 1: hack for the dumpster, and yes, the final keyword on 272 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: the John and Ken Show for now for your chance 273 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 1: to win a thousand dollars in the CAFI Cash Refill 274 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: contest to Conway. Will continue to have a few more words, 275 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 1: but the contest ends today. It'll come back eventually, probably 276 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: with a new name, So stand by for all that 277 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 1: in the busy three o'clock hour. It's worth noting we've 278 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: talked about how the Sacramento Communist planners have really been 279 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:12,239 Speaker 1: on a role lately. One thing they did where they 280 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 1: passed a law concerning fast food restaurants. They wanted to 281 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 1: set up this council which will determine the wages and 282 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 1: benefits for fast food workers, basically displacing private enterprise like 283 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 1: a communist government would do. They would dictate all the terms. 284 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 1: They also passed the law, which, by the way, the 285 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: fast food law has been put on hold because we're 286 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: going to vote on it. They also passed law concerning 287 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: what doctors can say about COVID to their patients and 288 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 1: deciding that that also has to be determined by us, 289 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:47,399 Speaker 1: where the arbiters of all the truth about COVID. Something 290 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: else that they've been doing, and we've been covering this 291 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 1: for a few years, is determining what your neighborhood looks 292 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: like in terms of what kinds of housing is in 293 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: your neighborhood. They have passed these bills in Sacramento, basically 294 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: overriding local zoning ordinances so that they can put up, 295 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 1: you know, apartment buildings or just more housing in cities 296 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:16,160 Speaker 1: up and down the state. One place that is fighting 297 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 1: back is Huntington Beach. Huntington Beach apparently is ready to 298 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:23,879 Speaker 1: file a lawsuit against the state, and the state is 299 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: probably going to file a lawsuit against Huntington Beach. They're 300 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: challenging what they call the Regional Housing Needs Allocation Mandate 301 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 1: that they build thirteen thousand, three hundred and sixty eight units. Yeah, State, 302 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: Huntington Beach. State wants to force suburban areas to build 303 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 1: big apartment complexes because they say, so they've decided you 304 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 1: don't have enough people, right, Yeah, so they want more 305 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 1: densely populated areas. Now. People choose Huntington Beach because they 306 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 1: want to live in a single fan house. If you 307 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 1: want her to live an apartment with a thousand other people, 308 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 1: there's other cities to pick, you know, Like, you know, 309 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 1: go to Wilshire Boulevard on the west side of LA 310 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:13,679 Speaker 1: They had these massive apartment structures that have hundreds and 311 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 1: hundreds of people inside, So go live there. People don't 312 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:19,639 Speaker 1: want to single family house not far from the beach 313 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 1: and the emphasis on that is family. Families like to 314 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: live in single family, standalone homes, right, most families want 315 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,400 Speaker 1: to The only reason, the only reason families are stuck 316 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 1: in an apartment most of the time is because they 317 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: can't afford it. Yet, give you an idea. Huntington Beach 318 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 1: has about two hundred thousand people. So if you're going 319 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 1: to add over thirteen thousand units and there's several people 320 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 1: in unit households, that's a significant increase to the population. 321 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: And you know some of it's that could be like 322 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 1: upwards of forty thousand people, and some of it's going 323 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 1: to be euphemisms like affordable housing. Well that's exactly what 324 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: this is all and you know what that means. It's 325 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 1: going to be vagrant, has it. So they had a 326 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: news conference the other day and one of the Huntington 327 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:10,880 Speaker 1: Beach officials, the mayor, Tony Strickland, said, it's pretty clear 328 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 1: that Sacramento wants to urbanize Huntington Beach. The people of 329 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: Huntington Beach don't want to be an urban community. They 330 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:19,239 Speaker 1: like the suburban coastal community that it is today. So 331 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 1: we're going to fight this. Well, Historically, zoning has been 332 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 1: the province of yeah, exactly. And the people vote for 333 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: the local officials most directly, and they should have to 334 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 1: say as to how their town grows or it doesn't grow. Yeah, 335 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,199 Speaker 1: what you have up in Sacramento are a lot of 336 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 1: weirdos like Scott Wiener. Well, it's the communists who think 337 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 1: that we know best and we should determine and dictate 338 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,360 Speaker 1: all policies, and they're going to tell you how to live. 339 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:48,879 Speaker 1: And guys like Scott Wiener, and he's this legislator up 340 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 1: in San Francisco, and almost every idea at his empty 341 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 1: head has been a really bad idea. And their and 342 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: their ideas against middle class suburban families. You know, they're 343 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 1: the one who don't want you driving cars to work 344 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,440 Speaker 1: and back. They don't want you to have a swimming pool, 345 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,160 Speaker 1: they don't want you to have grass lawns. They don't 346 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: want you to have a house. No lawn, no pool, 347 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 1: no car, no house. And they pass laws to try 348 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: to make it more difficult to enjoy life on your 349 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:25,920 Speaker 1: terms because they say so. So, the states may pull 350 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 1: what's called the builder's remedy. It allows project developers to 351 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: submit housing projects without regard to local zoning. In general 352 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: plan standards if twenty percent of the units are designated 353 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: to affordable housing or one hundred percent or moderate income housing. 354 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 1: So that may be the trick they're going to try 355 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: to pull on them. They're gonna just override Huntington Beach's 356 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:49,359 Speaker 1: local approvals. Imagine before that happens, this will go to 357 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 1: court somehow. Now, Huntington Beach's argument is that they're a 358 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,879 Speaker 1: charter city, and I guess charter cities in the state 359 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: get certain independent protections. That's what they're arguing. Charter cities 360 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: Supposedly their decisions supersede state law in certain cases. Right, 361 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 1: But that that's yet, that's a complicated court case that's 362 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,440 Speaker 1: going to go on for years. So what what? What 363 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 1: resistance is good? Because you, at some extate you just 364 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: wait them out, you create a complicated legal process. Years 365 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 1: go by, new admission administrations come in. Maybe this isn't 366 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: the focus of the new administration because people aren't going 367 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 1: to put up with this. Now. You know, they've artificially 368 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,439 Speaker 1: limited the amount of housing that can be built in 369 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: this state, and that's why prices are high. It's a 370 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 1: hundred percent on these Jackals and Sacramento, and I've just 371 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 1: following this a bit what a lot of towns and 372 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 1: cities are doing. We talked about Atherton, it's a very 373 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: wealthy community up in the Silicon Valley in the Bay 374 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 1: Area that they're fighting it too, But a lot of 375 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 1: other towns and cities are just doing nothing. It's like, well, 376 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 1: you're really going to make us do this, You're gonna 377 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,880 Speaker 1: have to push this. They're not really. I don't think 378 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,640 Speaker 1: anybody embraced this and said, oh, yeah, you're right, We'll 379 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: build tons of new low income housing. Nobody wants that. 380 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 1: Nobody want because nobody wants to live among low income 381 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:15,200 Speaker 1: housing neighborhoods. Nobody does. And the thing is, there's more 382 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,160 Speaker 1: middle to upper class people in these California towns than 383 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: there are lower income people. And people pick a town 384 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 1: in order to isolate themselves by class. I mean almost 385 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 1: every town or every section in a city is organized 386 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: for a particular class. And that's the way human beings are. 387 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:45,199 Speaker 1: We don't actually mix together real well when you're from 388 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 1: different classes, and in many other ways as well, but 389 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 1: you know, you you end up you end up with 390 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:57,400 Speaker 1: with with different different stores, different restaurants, different car dealerships, everything. 391 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,719 Speaker 1: People who have money want to be segregated from people 392 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: without money to some extent. I don't care how left 393 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 1: wing they say they are. You'd go by their choices. 394 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,360 Speaker 1: Look where they live and how they live. And basically 395 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:14,440 Speaker 1: we've always been guided by market forces, supply and demand, 396 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,919 Speaker 1: and a better neighborhood in a better area will have 397 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 1: more demand and it will be probably more well off people. 398 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: They tend to congregate and live in those towns and cities. 399 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 1: But that's kind of the way. It's always been freedom. Yeah, 400 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 1: freedom associate force some sort of equity that if you 401 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 1: have a certain percentage of different classes of people in 402 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 1: your town. It's the freedom to associate with who you want, 403 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,119 Speaker 1: the freedom to live with who you want, not to 404 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: have the central planning communists and sacrament. I will tell 405 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 1: you who you're going to live with. Oh, by the way, 406 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,120 Speaker 1: here's another sign, another sign that Newsom's running for president. 407 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he has declared the wealth tax dead. Oh 408 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 1: that just happened him. Yeah, that would that would That 409 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: was on taxing all the assets of the wealthy, including 410 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 1: their stocks, even if they haven't sold the socks stocks. Uh. 411 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: News is the one where even if you move, they're 412 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,199 Speaker 1: coming after you. Yeah, Newsom set of wealth tax was 413 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:16,120 Speaker 1: not part of the conversation. Such proposals are going nowhere. Yeah, 414 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 1: that same thing happened last year. The same guy introduced it. 415 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: Yeah in the dumb Alex Lee, Yeah, he's this a 416 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: little weener again, not a family guy. He's been living 417 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: with his mom, he had a job delivering food, and 418 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: somehow he's become this great tax legislator trying to steal 419 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: billions of dollars from wealthy people. It pisses me off 420 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 1: because I was telling somebody about this the other day. 421 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 1: You know, I hear all this, all these weird uh 422 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: this weird anger from time to time about somebody like 423 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,880 Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos, and it's like he went in any built Amazon, 424 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:56,119 Speaker 1: this is the greatest delivering service in the history of humankind. 425 00:25:56,200 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: He did it. You didn't. And you're busy buying stuff 426 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: from his service anyway. So he gets to have his 427 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: billions of dollars because he did something. You, Alex Lee, 428 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 1: didn't do anything. Alex Lead is probably delivering Amazon products. Allright, 429 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:13,880 Speaker 1: We got more coming up. Johnny Ken Cafe, I Am 430 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 1: six forty live everywhere, the iHeartRadio app. Money gonna work 431 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,399 Speaker 1: coming up after the News at three o'clock. Another one 432 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: of these stories that people in Culver City are concerned 433 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 1: because Apple is going to open up a brand new 434 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 1: headquarters there as they continue to make inroads into the 435 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: streaming world, that it's going to change the neighborhood. It's 436 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 1: kind of like like what we're just talking about. Hunton Beach 437 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: is fighting trying to bring in more affordable housing. But 438 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: this is the opposite fear that, oh no, it's only 439 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 1: going to be wealthy people we can't afford to live here. 440 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,879 Speaker 1: We'll delve into this because we love it when The 441 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 1: Times does stories like this. The term is gentraification. Oh 442 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,639 Speaker 1: it's going to change. So let's say it's gonna reduce 443 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,639 Speaker 1: a low income, disgusting everyone into something middle class or 444 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,119 Speaker 1: upper class. That's such a shame. Yeah, code word for 445 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 1: it's getting a big facelift and upgrade. I know. I'm 446 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 1: always amazed that some media outlets like The Times, it's 447 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,159 Speaker 1: just like, you know, oh, people are poor, and we 448 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:21,159 Speaker 1: should just accommodate, and we should just respect entertainment and 449 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: tech jobs go to some other state. Aren't they already 450 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 1: doing that? Yeah, it's a good point. Aren't half the 451 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:30,440 Speaker 1: Hollywood productions now out of state. Isn't a lot of 452 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 1: tech moving to a Nevada and Miami? I don't. I 453 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,680 Speaker 1: don't understand. What do you want? Who's going to pay 454 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 1: the bills? If you don't have huge companies, they'd employ 455 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,679 Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of taxpayers. Were you gonna get the 456 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:48,440 Speaker 1: money from for all your wacko social programs? I'll talk 457 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,679 Speaker 1: about that coming up. Yeah, we have two rounds of 458 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,680 Speaker 1: the moist line and we'll have a hack for the dumpster. 459 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: Apparently China's claiming that we flew a balloon over their territory. 460 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 1: They looked like they had to close down some airspace. 461 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,360 Speaker 1: They're claiming it's our it's one of our spy balloons 462 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: that's been flying over a part of China. They're just 463 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 1: a bunch of liars. They want to turn this story around. 464 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 1: Listening to them is like listening to newsom Okay, what's 465 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 1: what's today, what's the lie of the day today, What's 466 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: what's Today's brought Baganda And in fact, one of our 467 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 1: officials said, they're now claiming that there's a gazillion balloons 468 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 1: by the US flying over China. It's not true. Just 469 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 1: trying to change the narrative awfully defensive for a country 470 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,920 Speaker 1: they sent one weather balloon our way. Huh yeah, oh yeah, 471 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 1: you're right, You're right, that's what they pretend it is. 472 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 1: If anything, the Northern Illinois Bottle Cap Balloon Brigade are 473 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: the ones that should be angry exactly all right. I 474 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: don't know who would do something like this. We have 475 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 1: a story from ABC seven and their reporter Jacia petel On. 476 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 1: I've never heard of this before because when I first 477 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: saw the story, I thought it was an attempt to 478 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: collect money fraudulently. Doesn't look like it's exactly that. Let's 479 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 1: play the story from ABC seven on this memorial. This 480 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: is thirteen year old Jamari Baker. His mom, Sophia Davis, 481 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: says he's an autistic student at Bethune Middle School. Davis 482 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 1: says on February sixth, she received a phone call from 483 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: the school. Someone created a fake memorial for her son, 484 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 1: saying he passed away even though he's very much alive. 485 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: Candles and food were left on the ground and in 486 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 1: front of pictures saying rip Jamari Baker, we will miss you. 487 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 1: One paper even saying breaking news. A shot and killed 488 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 1: by gang members in South la. He basically just was like, 489 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 1: why was the you want to horn me? Why would 490 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 1: they want to do this thing? I don't bother no one, 491 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 1: you know. It's just been really hard for him, Like 492 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: he just locks up in his room. Baker's family is 493 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 1: calling for a state investigation. They say they're unsure if 494 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 1: a student or staff member created the fake memorial. We 495 00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: really believe that someone should be held accountable. Sophia has 496 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: reached out to several people with no response, which is 497 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: absolutely absurd. Justice should be fair for Jamari and all 498 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 1: other children who are being bullied in this way. The 499 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: family went into the school office asking for a meeting 500 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: with the principal, but Jamari's mom says she still has 501 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,720 Speaker 1: a lot of unanswered questions. You say you're going to 502 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,000 Speaker 1: update me on everything, and none of that happened. None 503 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,440 Speaker 1: of it. She didn't she didn't call me, she hadn't 504 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,239 Speaker 1: kept in contacting me. I had to come down here 505 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 1: over and over again. Davis says she's taken her son 506 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 1: out of the school and he's currently being homeschooled. She 507 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 1: wants to find a new school for her son and 508 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 1: wants to get to the bottom of who created the memorial. 509 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 1: We reached out to the Los Angeles Unified School District 510 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 1: about the memorial. Their statement says, in part, any threat 511 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 1: on campus, alleged or otherwise is taken seriously and each 512 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,560 Speaker 1: incident is fully investigated by our law enforcement partners. Los 513 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 1: Angeles Unified does not condone any type of misconduct in 514 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:04,959 Speaker 1: our schools. It just don't want to know anything to produce. 515 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 1: It's just the weirdest story. Now, would this be considered 516 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 1: a prank or some form of bullying? Yeah, to set 517 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,400 Speaker 1: up a memorial telling other kids at the school they're 518 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,600 Speaker 1: making they're making fun of the autistic kid that he 519 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 1: that he died and from a gang shooting. Yeah, that's 520 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: that's that's the side. They put down candles and there 521 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 1: was a photo of them. Did you see the picture. Yeah, 522 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,520 Speaker 1: people put down food they you know what. And the 523 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 1: thing is, I don't understand. There's more like woke programs 524 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 1: that kids have to sit through in school now than 525 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 1: ever before, and all kinds of anti bullying programs that 526 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,239 Speaker 1: go on, and yet when something happens, the administrators they 527 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:53,320 Speaker 1: never respond, they never helped. Yeah, you're right. They think 528 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 1: they would jump on this because it's a clear case 529 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 1: of bullying. I mean that New Jersey story. They got 530 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:02,400 Speaker 1: video of these girls kicking the crap out of this 531 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 1: fourteen year old blonde and she committed suicide a couple 532 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,040 Speaker 1: of days later, and all the parents are screaming at 533 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 1: the administrators. And I saw some video of this, and 534 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: the administrators are standing there going, well, you know, you know, 535 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 1: we followed all the proper procedures according to law. And 536 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 1: I was watching, I'm saying, why do all the administrators 537 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 1: do this? Why does every one of them not respond 538 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 1: in the moment, punish the people who were committing the crimes, 539 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 1: not protect the innocent. And then after something really horrible happens, 540 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,760 Speaker 1: then they started reading prepared statements on how they followed 541 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 1: all the proper procedures. It's the same thing over and 542 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,080 Speaker 1: over again. It's like, who are these people who get 543 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 1: into administrative work for schools? Who are they? Because they 544 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:55,360 Speaker 1: all seem like soulless robots, cowardly and cruel. And it's 545 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,000 Speaker 1: the same person It's been going on for decades. Not 546 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,360 Speaker 1: that ever changes the fact their statement did say the 547 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,480 Speaker 1: safety of our students and employees is our top priority, 548 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,920 Speaker 1: top priority. That is exactly word for word the same 549 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:12,200 Speaker 1: statement that every school, every company puts out when something 550 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,080 Speaker 1: bad happens. The safety of our customers, the safety of 551 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 1: our students is our top priority. That that that must 552 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:22,719 Speaker 1: be a boilerplate message. That's probably one of those AI messages, right, 553 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:27,680 Speaker 1: Artificial intelligence is now writing doing automatic writing. Here's some businesses, 554 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,880 Speaker 1: So that's what that's what it produces. Just say it's 555 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 1: a safety is our top priority. Thank you, thank you 556 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 1: for asking. But it's the most strange, complicated, kind of 557 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:42,240 Speaker 1: little bullying example to do. To set up a memorial 558 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 1: that somebody died. I could definitely see that, yeah, jackass kids, 559 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:52,560 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because yeah, jackass kids shaped by social media. 560 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:54,960 Speaker 1: Oh you're right, they may have seen a video or 561 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: something like that happened, but I should I could pull 562 00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 1: something like that. All you got is one jackass say. 563 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:01,720 Speaker 1: Oh you know, it would be funny. Why don't we 564 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,480 Speaker 1: start to go fund me to raise money memorial for 565 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 1: whatever kid? You know, the kid who's dinged. All right, 566 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,040 Speaker 1: when we come back, we're going to talk about another 567 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 1: one of these stories where the community is concerned that 568 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:23,040 Speaker 1: if a large business opens a brand new building in 569 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,319 Speaker 1: the neighborhood, Oh my god, what's that going to do 570 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 1: to the rents. What's that going to do to our 571 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:28,920 Speaker 1: quality of life? I think it's going to make it 572 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,400 Speaker 1: better for most people who can stay. 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