1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Kf I Am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: and Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We're 3 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 1: looking for you on the Moist line. Leave a message 4 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: using the iHeart Radio app. It's the microphone icon. Or 5 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: by the way, you can also access the podcast that 6 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 1: are put up there right after the show ends at 7 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: four or call the toll free number one eight seven 8 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: seven Moist eighty six one eight seven seven six six 9 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: four seven eight eight six. We'll be here in more 10 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 1: next hour on what happened in Montobello with what they 11 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: call a land spout sort of like another version of 12 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: a tornado taran or roofs off some buildings. Will get 13 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: an update from kfi's Blake Trolley on the wild weather 14 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 1: and an update on that Mark Ridley Thomas trial. A 15 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 1: lot of attention now being focused as it rightly should be, 16 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: on the sun Sebastian Ridley Thomas. That's who Markaredley Thomas 17 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: is accused of trying to make all the deals for 18 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: by handing money over to USC from the County of 19 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: Los Angeles to get his son good position at the school. 20 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:05,559 Speaker 1: What a sad sack his son is going to Ridley 21 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: Thomas might go to prison trying to save his son. 22 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 1: He boy, oh boy, what a loser, all right. One 23 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: of our favorite favorite pinatas over the years has been 24 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: this uh Hassan Akrada where we got to be aware 25 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 1: of him. In Los Angeles County. We've got what's the 26 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: name of this organization, Southern California Association of Governments and 27 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: an encompassed not to Sandy La County, bunch of counties. 28 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: He has something and it's all the local communities banding 29 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 1: together to come up with a transportation policies and rhad diets. 30 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: We're all intertwined and everything. Twenty seventeen, we're big on 31 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: rhad diets and that's what we learned a lot more 32 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:45,680 Speaker 1: about Hassana col Yeah, and out of his head now. 33 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: His brain was trained literally in communist Russian the nineteen eighties. 34 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: He went to Moscow University while it was still communist 35 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: in the eighties. He also his first job in the 36 00:01:55,960 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: communist government as a bureaucrat was something with the Moscow 37 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: subway system. Okay, so he's died in the wool. Communist, 38 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: trained in communism, worked in communism bureaucracies. He comes to 39 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: Los Angeles to become the head of SKAG, and all 40 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: his ideas are about mileage taxes, tolls, congestion, pricing, you 41 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: name it. It was everything about getting cars off the 42 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: roads and charging people exorbitantly. So now he's still around. 43 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: He moved over to SANDAG, the San Diego Association of 44 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: Governments as executive director. Apparently he's paid more than four 45 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a year and as annual compensation that 46 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: goes above six hundred thousand. They lured him away, thank god. Yeah, 47 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: he's a Bernie Sanders style communist. Yes, except like Bernie 48 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: has three homes worth the over a million dollars. That's 49 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: Acrada's model here. So tomorrow there's a meeting scheduled. It's 50 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: sort of a performance review of Hassan Akrada. I think 51 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: you know what we think of his performance. And again 52 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 1: he pushes the mileage tax, the road diets, and mass 53 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,839 Speaker 1: transit to the hilt. I'm going to talk to San 54 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond now about this, plus says 55 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:10,679 Speaker 1: some questionable spending. Let's find out more. Jim, how are 56 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: you hey, I'm doing well. Now you got me all 57 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: wound up again and frustrated because we've got this guy 58 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 1: now in San Diego County. I know, we should have 59 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: kept him in LA. Who the hell hired him to 60 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: be the executive director, didn't you know? It's past. It 61 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: was the sand Egg board. Fand Egg is a San 62 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 1: Diego association of government, say hired this guy and and 63 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: thought he was the best thing since life bread and uh, 64 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: he's been done nothing but caused turmoil down here. And 65 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: what is his plan that he just put forward in 66 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one plan for our transportation plan? But basically 67 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: just taxes people into submission into using public transportation. That's 68 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: that's his whole plan is just tax us with a 69 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: mileage tax, with roadway taxes, with toll charges, everything else, 70 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: just to get people out of their prison. It's not 71 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:02,119 Speaker 1: a movie. He tried that in LA. But of course 72 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: if you go on a metro train homeless, you end 73 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: up getting stabbed raped. So his whole idea just didn't 74 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: really work out. No, And actually there was an audit done. 75 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: There was credit card misuse. He actually gave campaign contributions 76 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: to sitting board members, to those that agreed with him, 77 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 1: and he gave it to the opponents of those who 78 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 1: didn't agree with him. Any other you know, hired official 79 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 1: in government, if they're trying to stack their board like that, 80 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: would be fired. Any city manager, any county manager, would 81 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 1: be fired. This guy still still is there. Let's talk 82 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: about the credit card purchases. This is the Sandann credit cards. 83 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: Almost two and a half million dollars of tax dollars 84 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 1: on the credit card and two hundred and fifty thousand 85 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 1: dollars on bookstores. Who spends a quarter of a million 86 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: dollars on bookstores in the year twenty twenty three? No, less, 87 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 1: I can hardly find a bookstore that exists. Now that's true. 88 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 1: I don't you know an internal auditor. Luckily we got 89 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 1: they have an internal auditor came up with this and 90 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: it Crodas. His answer is, well, this is just politicians 91 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: and talking and there's nothing really to see here. And 92 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,600 Speaker 1: well this he wants billions of dollars and he can't 93 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: handle a couple millions, and he wants to control billions 94 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: of dollars. I mean, is there is there a detailed 95 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: audit of the bookstore? Because I gotta drive ten miles 96 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:27,480 Speaker 1: to go to a real buckstore. I can't have met 97 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,279 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I mean a book 98 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: is about twenty five dollars, right, So what what did 99 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: he what did he buy a thousand books? On transportation? 100 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,559 Speaker 1: I don't know. He must have about one hundred thousand 101 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: book He must have bought one hundred thousand bucks. Also notable, 102 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: Jim is one hundred and sixty nine thousand dollars on 103 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: Southwest airlines. I thought, this is a man that's worried 104 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: about climate change. Well, and and he drives an suv, 105 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: so uh, he's uh, you know, the epitome of what 106 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: he is trying to get rid of. But yeah, he 107 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: do you guys used to have a segment hack in 108 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,479 Speaker 1: a dumpster. I wish you'd. I wish you to kept 109 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,840 Speaker 1: a lock on that one. No, yeah, I think we did. 110 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:09,479 Speaker 1: We did put him in a few years back, but 111 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: he got out. Okay. How much does he eat? Sixty 112 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: nine thousand dollars? How much does he fly? Where is 113 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: he flying to? He's telling everybody to take a train 114 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: or a bus. He's flying all over the place, and 115 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: I want an answer on the bookstores. I mean, this 116 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:25,840 Speaker 1: is the most outrageous list of credit card purchases I 117 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: have ever seen. You guys got a fire a transportation agency. 118 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 1: And That's what I've been trying to do. I'm trying 119 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: to get people riled up to and I let him 120 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: know last week when his like preliminary personnel review is 121 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 1: up with the Executive committee. Now he's going to go 122 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: before the full board. We want to make sure that 123 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: the public is there and the publicans speak to this, 124 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: and we've we've been sending out the links and things 125 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 1: like that for people to do to get this, get 126 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: get rid of this guy. The only consensus he's been 127 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: able to build in San Diego County is we all 128 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: hate the mileage tacks. Both sides of the aisle hate 129 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: this mile tax. He actually, even after being told to 130 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,039 Speaker 1: get rid of the mileage tax in this plan, he 131 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 1: went and submitted the plan to carve, which is the 132 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: California Air Resources Board in Sacramento, with the plan in it, 133 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: with the tax in it, six months after he was 134 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 1: told to remove it. That's insubordination. I should be dismissed 135 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: for that. No people have to hear this timeline. In 136 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: December twenty twenty one, the Board of Directors voted to 137 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: remove the mileage tax. But but Akrada went in and 138 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: submitted the plan anyway with the state with the tax. 139 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: Then they voted in June twenty June twenty twenty two, 140 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: and then they voted again in September twenty twenty two. 141 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: Both times removed the tax. The transportation plan still has 142 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: the tax. It does and that's the only plan that's 143 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: right now with the state of California. They have not 144 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: you know, taken it back. It's still the plan there 145 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: with the mileage tax. And everybody wants it out. Even 146 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: we got a new chair at SANDAG and the chairs says, 147 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 1: we want this out of here. But he's he's insubordinate. 148 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: He doesn't he thinks, you know, he knows better than 149 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: the board and he'll probably get through this uh personnel 150 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: uh evaluation, you know, free as a bird and make 151 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: they probably, I wouldn't doubt if they give them a raid. Well, 152 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: why what does it take. Well, he's saving the world, 153 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: you know, from climate change with it pretty much have 154 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of Nathan Fletcher's down there. Is that 155 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: what it is? This is, that's it. This is to 156 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 1: be investigated for these credit card charges. Well, and he's 157 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: trying to tax us into the past into the past 158 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 1: of trains and trolleys and buses. You know, we've we've 159 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,679 Speaker 1: got technology. Technology in the future is going to be 160 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: the autonomous vehicles, technology lanes, you know, get those types 161 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: of things. Is I think where the investment needs to be. 162 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 1: But he's trying to tax us into submission into the past. 163 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 1: All right, Tim, So tomorrow there's some sort of performance 164 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: review being done by what the board, Yeah, the Board 165 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: of Directors. Unfortunately it's going to be in closed session, 166 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: but you can talk to closed session to them going 167 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: into it and for public comment. But it's it's uh. 168 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 1: You can go to my website Jim Desmond County Supervisor 169 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,680 Speaker 1: dot com and uh, you know, check that out for 170 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: the links and get information. But you call in. We 171 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: need ordinary people calling in and just you know people 172 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 1: and you know, have to take take cards, people with 173 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: families and kids, service providers, you know, the landscapers and plumbers, 174 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: and people that have to drive to get to where, 175 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 1: you know, get to their jobs. In southern California, most 176 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: people can't afford to even live near their jobs. They 177 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: have to you know, live an hour away and commute 178 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: in uh and via car. So this is creating why 179 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 1: is the government always the enemy of normal people? Why 180 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:42,479 Speaker 1: is this? Why are we always fighting all these consents? 181 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: And like we don't have enough crazy people yet to 182 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: import one from Russia? Well we report we imported them 183 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: from LA. So thank you very much, thanks for talking 184 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,719 Speaker 1: to us. San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond. Have a 185 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: good day, Take care. Okay, more coming up. John and 186 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:01,080 Speaker 1: Ken kf I AM six forty live everywhere the iHeart 187 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 1: Radio app. You're listening to John and Ken on demand 188 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 1: from kf I AM six forty. They were on from 189 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: one to four. 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You ever get like that, 200 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: we all you just I'm joining. I'm joining the club 201 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: like you're all right. I can tell lately you are 202 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 1: sick of yourself. I am sick. There's a certain disgust 203 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 1: that project one eight seven seven moist eighty six starts 204 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 1: in the morning when I look in the marriage one 205 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: eight seven seven six six four seven eighty eight six. 206 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: Here's your quick Trump up date. The grand jury hearing 207 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 1: the evidence didn't even meet today. There are rumors that 208 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 1: this may go away, just rumors. We don't know this, 209 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:12,439 Speaker 1: This indictment may not happen. There have been stories in 210 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 1: every direction, and that's how Trump was and always is. 211 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: You never can tell. He's a wild card. Yeah, I 212 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 1: think he's gonna do what people around him are gonna do. 213 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: What suppose he's told advisors that if this happens, he 214 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 1: wants to be handcuffed to make an appearance in court. 215 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 1: There is some that thought he would go the opposite 216 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:32,679 Speaker 1: direction and do this quietly. No, he wants to make 217 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 1: a public show of this because he's running for president. 218 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 1: He wants to be a martyr, nailed to the cross. 219 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: That's what he wants. One of my favorite headline stories 220 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: today which I did not do. The clickbait was what 221 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: would a Trump run for presidency be like when he's 222 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:50,199 Speaker 1: behind bars? What would it be like? Stupid stuff? But 223 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: would a Trump presidency be like behind bars? He true, 224 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:55,839 Speaker 1: he could run the campaign behind bars and still be 225 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 1: in prison when he gets elected now next year. Right. 226 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 1: Somebody asked me this the other day. If he gets 227 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: convicted of a felony, does that keep him from being president? No, 228 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 1: it doesn't. There's only two qualifications to be president. You 229 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: have to be a thirty five or over and you 230 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: have to be a national born citizen. And even with 231 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: that there are waivers as well. Now, all right, let 232 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: the Mayhem begin. Yeah, so that's all we know. So 233 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: this post I think me begin tomorrow. But there's no 234 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 1: word whether or not that's going to happen or what's 235 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 1: happening with this uh indictment. This is a ridiculous case 236 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: to bring. This really is just there's some kind of 237 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: democratic power play and that that that district Attorney allows 238 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: gascone like Mayhem to flourish in New York. He doesn't 239 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 1: prosecute anything, nothing. No, So he wants headlines for this 240 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 1: going after a paperwork crime, covering up your payment to 241 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 1: a porn start. Good lord, now we bring you this. 242 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: We were just talking about Sana Krata. He's the communists 243 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: that heads up these San Diego Association of Governments. He 244 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 1: was formerly the head of the Southern California Association of Governments. 245 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: I check my math, director, I check my math. By 246 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: the way, I missed it. You the two hundred and 247 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,119 Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars that he ran up at a bookstore, 248 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: that would be ten thousand books, which is still a 249 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: tremendous average price of what twenty five dollars a book? Okay, 250 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 1: I haven't bought an actual hardcover book in a long time. 251 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: That's my That's my whole point. Hardly anybody goes to 252 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: a bookstore to buy a hardcover book anymore. All Right, 253 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: I know some people do it, for the most part, 254 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 1: they don't. Maybe it wasn't books. What is the book? Videos? 255 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 1: What did he buy? Videos? What did he buy there? 256 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: Or or the executive board and the staff what are 257 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: they doing? Well? He's a big believer in mass transportation, 258 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: which brings us to this story from La Watchdog. Believe 259 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 1: it or not, it's about California high speed rail. The 260 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,319 Speaker 1: gist of it is is the way things are going, 261 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 1: they are clearly going to be out of bond money. 262 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: It was only ten billion dollars passed in the year 263 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,319 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, where fifty three percent of people 264 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: approved it. That is not nearly enough even to finish 265 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 1: the pathetic segment from Baker's Field to Mer said, so 266 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: where this story is headed, it's one hundred and seventy 267 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 1: one miles. That's say Bakersfield said, it's now going to 268 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 1: cost like thirty billion dollars, So they don't have that money. 269 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 1: It's actually thirty five billion from what I'm reading here, 270 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 1: So they're even hist of this story. The gist of 271 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: this story is, if you can believe it or not, 272 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: they might try to put on the statewide ballot a 273 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: one hundred billion dollars bond measure. One hundred billion dollars 274 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: that would be ten times the original bond measure. Yes, 275 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: this is to build out the whole system with their 276 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: current cost estimates. Who's going to do this. Who's gonna 277 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: shun the ballot? Well, the legislature could do it. Legislature, 278 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: the high speed rail people could do some sort of 279 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: signature collecting thing, I don't know, but it looks like 280 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: it's one of their only ways out. The federal government's 281 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:12,359 Speaker 1: not going to give enough money. There are no investors 282 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: who are going to invest in this thing, so the 283 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: only choice is to go back to the taxpayers with 284 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: a bond. And they're thinking, well, we got away with 285 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: this in two thousand and eight, maybe we can wait. Wait, 286 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: we've had fifteen years of failure, fifteen years of big 287 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 1: headline failure. Who thinks that this would pass. Not even 288 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: here in whack job California with this pass it, it 289 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 1: would not. I would just love to see this on 290 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 1: the ballot so we could pummel it every day. Oh, 291 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: please give us the material. Right now, it's only a 292 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: theory that this is where they might go because they're 293 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 1: not going to get enough from the Biden people, and 294 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 1: they're not going to get anymore from the legislature. Gives 295 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: them some of the climate change money from the carbon tax, 296 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: but it's not enough to its pocket change. Yeah, the 297 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars is an enormous amount of money. I mean, 298 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: incess here. The total cost, now none of this is credible, 299 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 1: is one hundred and twenty eight billion to build out 300 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: the whole system. Remember the original estimate was thirty three billion. 301 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: Then we're going to take ten billion from the bonds, 302 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: start the system, and then get investors to get them 303 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: to the thirty three billion. But now they're going with 304 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty eight billion. You know how you 305 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: see why they get one hundred billions. And people should 306 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: know this is the construction unions that keep this project going. 307 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: They backed Newsom into a corner and the Democrats in 308 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: the legislature and say, guys, we fund you don't want 309 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: to have you don't want to be primaried, you don't 310 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: want to have an opponent in the Democratic primary, will 311 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: fund that opponent and we'll run commercials claiming you're a 312 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 1: child molester. So you are going to keep voting for 313 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: whatever funding you can find. And the same thing with Newsom. 314 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: It's like, hey, you want to be president, you better 315 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 1: you want you want us to fund an opposing candidate 316 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 1: in losing California. That's what it is. The story and 317 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: City Watch LA comes with the picture probably from the 318 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,959 Speaker 1: Central Valley, of some of the construction, and it's just 319 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: it looks like the bridge to nowhere. It's an elevated railway. 320 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 1: What do they call a viaduct and it just kind 321 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 1: of ends. I think the high speed rail people just 322 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: should just jump off there right there with it. It 323 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 1: looks like a perfect place. Can we have a televised 324 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 1: mass suicide for the board? What they have stolen? Enough money? 325 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 1: All right? Coming up next, Oh please put this on 326 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:40,199 Speaker 1: the ballot. We'll give me an update on the trial 327 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 1: of Mark Ridley Thomas, the suspended LA City council member 328 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: who's being tried by the Feds. That's important. The Feds 329 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: on a case of corruption when he was on the 330 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: La County Board of Supervisors. And of course a lot 331 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 1: of focus lately has been on his son and that's 332 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: supposedly what he did all this for in this corruption 333 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 1: accusation for his son, Sebastian, and we got to know 334 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: a lot more about him from this story. Johnny Ken 335 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 1: kf I AM six forty Live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. 336 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:10,679 Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from kf 337 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:15,439 Speaker 1: I AM sixty by the way podcast after four o'clock 338 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 1: you can hear this whole show again or for the 339 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 1: first time. Anything you missed on the iHeart app John 340 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:26,440 Speaker 1: and Ken on Demand, Yes, all right, was it a tornado. 341 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 1: Was it a land spout? Anyway, we'll find out more 342 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: about what happened to Model Bello earlier today, where the 343 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,719 Speaker 1: roofs were torn off of some buildings, debris was flying, 344 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: somebody got injured. We understand we talk about Blake Trolley 345 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,359 Speaker 1: went out there to get the story firsthand. After the 346 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 1: news at three o'clock, we'll also update you on the 347 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: Yellow Unified School Districts strike. Two quick headlines. Mayor Bestsetti 348 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: got involved. We're not sure exactly how, but she's decided 349 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 1: to stick her beaconto this. And there is also word 350 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 1: from the union that they may resume a strike soon 351 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:12,880 Speaker 1: and it will have an indefinite end point. They after 352 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: these three days are over, they may say, well, if 353 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: we don't get we want, we're just gonna go out, 354 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:19,399 Speaker 1: walk out without any end day. You know what, they 355 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 1: should all be fired. With all the immigrants coming into 356 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: the country that need work, they should fire everybody in 357 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: the LAUSD. Now, well, you just said yesterday though they 358 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 1: can't find people to do these jobs. Now well they will. 359 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: That's you get them to the immigrants and say take 360 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:40,360 Speaker 1: these jobs or you get deported. Okay, that is I'm 361 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 1: being kind. I'm given I'm giving the immigrants work, I'm 362 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: giving them an opportunity. Nobody gets deported anymore. So good 363 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 1: luck with that is this is my kingdom, your kingdom. 364 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: I forgot. Okay, It's important when you have a trial 365 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 1: to establish for the jury because jurors like this motive. 366 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 1: We're talking now, right now about the suspended Los Angeles 367 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:06,119 Speaker 1: City councilman Mark Ridley Thomas. He is on trial by 368 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 1: the federal government corruption. The claim is he tried to 369 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,199 Speaker 1: use the power on the Board of Supervisors that he 370 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 1: had to steer contracts to usc School of Social Work 371 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 1: in return to get some good things for his son, 372 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: Sebastion Ridley Thomas. So what the prosecutors were laying out 373 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:29,920 Speaker 1: recently was the whole story of his son, Sebastian Ridley Thomas, 374 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:33,160 Speaker 1: to show you the motive that Mark Ridley Thomas, why 375 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: he was behind this. In twenty seventeen, Sebastian Ridley Thomas 376 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 1: was just thirty years old, but resigned from the State 377 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 1: Assembly before the end of his third term in office. Publicly, 378 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 1: he was talking about health concerns, but we learned that 379 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 1: the me too of movement is what really got him 380 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 1: two sex harassment complaints. It was left out of his 381 00:20:55,440 --> 00:21:00,360 Speaker 1: resignation letter, but apparently everybody believed that really was going 382 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:05,360 Speaker 1: What was going on that he left Sacramento, He actually 383 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: wrote to his father, for your information, rumors are another 384 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,239 Speaker 1: Los Angeles legislator. His next he was talking about the 385 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 1: end of the career of assembly Member Matt Dababna. Remember 386 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: that story and section that was a weird one? Was 387 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:21,399 Speaker 1: that the one where he pulled down his pants or 388 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 1: something and allegedly in a bathroom or I just don't Yeah, 389 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 1: I just don't remember the details and I don't want to. 390 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: So he resigned, and marcare D. Thomas's reaction was this, 391 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: don't react. These are scare tactics. So they knew that 392 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 1: his time was limited, so they were looking for an out, 393 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,160 Speaker 1: which prosecutors say propelled Margaret Lee Thomas to start working 394 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: on the next phase of his son's life. Yeah. You 395 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: know what's interesting. You mentioned his resignation letter. H They 396 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: put out health problems as the reason he was resigning, 397 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 1: And they actually have a set of emails in evidence 398 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:03,880 Speaker 1: the back and forth between the Ridley Thomas's and their 399 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: political consultant, Bill Wong, and this is why I always 400 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 1: rail about these these official statements, and I always say 401 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,920 Speaker 1: these are concocted by lawyers and PR people, crisis management people, 402 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 1: and it's true. And this is the proof because a 403 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: capital blog wrote that eyebrows must be raised while Sebastian 404 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: was leaving, and Wong the PR guy said, well, people 405 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: will move on as long as the reality of Sebastian's 406 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:38,119 Speaker 1: health problems is a plausible alternative narrative. Oh that's a 407 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: good one. Yeah, And our reaction to rumors and gossip 408 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: do not come across as overly defensive. See. See, there's 409 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 1: what the professionals do. It's like, no, no, just keep 410 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 1: saying it's health because that's plausible. See, And we just 411 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,399 Speaker 1: won't respond to the stuff about the sex harasment that 412 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: was the reason he was being driven out of office. Well, 413 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:00,439 Speaker 1: they actually put his doctor on the standard fence. Did 414 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 1: he had his gallbladder removed? That's what the doctors? Yeah, 415 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 1: And you know people quit their careers all the time 416 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:11,680 Speaker 1: because they can't live without a gallbladder. So apparently Sebastian 417 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 1: was emailing the head of USC's Public policy school, a 418 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: guy by the name of Jack Not, about a part 419 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: time professor position he hoped he hoped to would pay 420 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 1: twenty five grand while he completed a Social Work in 421 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:26,480 Speaker 1: Public Policy dual degree program. He wrote, a Practitioner in 422 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: residence is a preferable title. I would like to be 423 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: ready to launch in January. This was December fifth. This 424 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 1: is practitioner in residence. Practitioner in residence. He's a pomp 425 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 1: poon just like his dad. He looks just like him. 426 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: He see a picture, Yeah, I know, spitting image of 427 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: each other. Yeah, that's a pretty large image. So months earlier, 428 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: the dean of USC's social work program that's at Maryland Flynn, 429 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 1: compared Sebastian to another prominent former student who received a 430 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: full scholarship, none other than La Mayor Karen Bass. Quote, 431 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: Flynn wrote, I intend to open every door for him, 432 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 1: just as I did with Karen. Yeah. That's pretty damning. Yeah, no, 433 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 1: that shows you that's right, because that these politicians are 434 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: going to get me money help him. Bass got a 435 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:13,359 Speaker 1: degree in exchange for pushing legislation in Washington that would 436 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:18,400 Speaker 1: enrich USC. It really happened. It's the truth, and nobody 437 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 1: in the media wants to talk about it. Nobody in 438 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,119 Speaker 1: politics wants to talk about it, but what they're nailing 439 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: Mark and Sebastian Ridley Thomas sport is the same thing 440 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: that Karen Bessetti did. So in the final weeks of 441 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, Marilyn Flynn urged her staff to give the 442 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: highest priority to enrolling Sebastian, even though he hadn't even 443 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 1: submitted transcripts, and another dean said, well, I don't think 444 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 1: the timeline for him to start in January is feasible. Well, 445 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 1: Flynn intervene, I think of the interest of showing Mark 446 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 1: Redley Thomas that we can deliver, it would be provident 447 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,640 Speaker 1: to get the offer letter out before the holidays. See 448 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 1: what's going on here. She's trying to make this happen 449 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,400 Speaker 1: fast because he's about to leave the legislature and he's 450 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,920 Speaker 1: looking for a landing spot. Yeah, I don't want to 451 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 1: blow this deal, right Margaret Lee. Thomas was also allegedly 452 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,160 Speaker 1: leaning on the head of La County's Department of Mental Health, 453 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: a doctor Jonathan Sharon, after a three minute call in 454 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: the morning of December fourteenth. He immediately shared Sharon's contact 455 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 1: information with Flinn, explaining he's ready to go with the 456 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 1: old wink emog. Ah, the wink emog means we got it. 457 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: It's a dale that doesn't sound corrupt. It is corrupt. 458 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 1: And some USC officials said they would like to have 459 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: known about the sexual harassment investigation before Sebastian was hired. 460 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 1: Listen to this rich quote Michael Nichol, an associate advice provost. 461 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 1: Whatever the hell that is. It's really important within our 462 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:45,560 Speaker 1: school to provide good role models for our students. Oh, 463 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 1: really like that gynecologist, how many hundreds of women did 464 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:54,159 Speaker 1: he sexually violate? How about the dean of the medical 465 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: school that was doing drugs with prostitutes in Pasadena hotels? 466 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,160 Speaker 1: Who's the good role model there? Oh? How about the 467 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: whole athletic department that was caught in the varsity Blues 468 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 1: scandal taking bribes to get kids on teams. So Sebastian 469 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 1: began taking classes at USC in January of twenty eighteen. 470 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,119 Speaker 1: A week later, he reached out to the deans of 471 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 1: USC's the deans of USC Social Work in Public Policy program, 472 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,120 Speaker 1: regarding a job. Is there a written offer or agreement yet? 473 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 1: And flying forward of the message to her, aid, would 474 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,679 Speaker 1: you jump all over this? We need to get this 475 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: finished right because we got to finish our end of 476 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:37,159 Speaker 1: the bargain here, our end of the deal. So I 477 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: think they've laid out a pretty good case. Yeah, that 478 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 1: these two were working together to help each other in 479 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: this corruption truth. You know that doctor that was testifying 480 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:51,399 Speaker 1: for Sebastian, he was going through all of Sebastian's medical procedures. 481 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: Gallbladder removal, two procedures to drain an abscess. Yeah, and 482 00:26:56,760 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: that happened, a painful gastro intestinal owned. How do you 483 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 1: get that he's thirty years old? It sounds like he 484 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 1: had real medical problems. Well, how do you get abscesses 485 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 1: and gastro sounds like ulcers and stress or genetic I 486 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: don't know stuff like that. There's a story. There's thirty 487 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,719 Speaker 1: years old. I don't know what he's doing now. Does 488 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,199 Speaker 1: anyone know he's still at USC Did he go on 489 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:28,639 Speaker 1: to this is like five years later? I don't all right, 490 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:30,959 Speaker 1: we got more coming up. Johnny Ken kf I AM 491 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 1: six forty. We're live everywhere in the iHeart radio app. 492 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,639 Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from kf 493 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:43,720 Speaker 1: I AM sixty. That's your lucky day. The Moistline is 494 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 1: suffering a bit of a drought. So there's openings for 495 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: you to call using the iHeartRadio app to drop a message. 496 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: There is the microphone icon or call the toll free 497 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 1: number one eight seven seven moist eighty six one eight 498 00:27:55,400 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: seven seven six six four seven eight eight six. Trolley's 499 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: going to come on after three o'clock to explain what 500 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: a landspout is. If that's what hit Montebello, that's the belief. 501 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 1: Some are calling out a small tornadoes caused cause some 502 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 1: damage in Montabello. Very did anybody get hurt? There were 503 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,359 Speaker 1: earlier reports of one injury, and we don't know that 504 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:24,359 Speaker 1: much about it, but we'll find out more from Blake 505 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 1: after the news at three o'clock. All updates you on 506 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:31,080 Speaker 1: that school strike. Well, one thing to clarify too about 507 00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 1: the salaries that we'll get into coming up in the 508 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: big three o'clock hour. Well, what was more surprising to 509 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 1: people that Dick, that Dick van Dyke is still alive, 510 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 1: or that Dick van Dyke at ninety seven is still driving. 511 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 1: Just a question I had. I see him often in 512 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: the news. Oh, I thought you meant the streets of 513 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: the West. He's very active. I mean they had this 514 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 1: video of him doing like a song and dance routine 515 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,240 Speaker 1: on us walk in London. A few months back. He 516 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 1: was just on that dreaded show The Masked Singer. Ever 517 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: watched that? No, I know, I have seen the last 518 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 1: two minutes waiting for the news, and I've never understood it, 519 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,960 Speaker 1: and and it was I just didn't understand what was 520 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 1: going on. Oh, actually it's not hard to understand. They 521 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: put on those big like mascot heads and they go 522 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 1: out and sing and you're supposed to figure out who 523 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 1: they are. They're usually B or C or D celebrities. 524 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: So Dick van Dyke was one of the contestants. And 525 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 1: I guess they also vote on how good you did, 526 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 1: and then if you're if you finish last, I think 527 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: you have to expose who you are. You take the 528 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: head off the big mascot head or whatever it is, duckhead. Oh. 529 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: Like I said, I only see the last two minutes. 530 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: I didn't know he was on the show. He was 531 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: the oldest ever to appear, I mean honestly ninety seven. Uh. 532 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 1: The thing he's always said, which is good advice, just 533 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 1: keep moving. That was his only advice to people about 534 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 1: a long life. Keep no I read a story about 535 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,680 Speaker 1: him ones. He has an extensive and he's had it 536 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 1: for a long time, an extensive like physical exercise regiment. Yes, 537 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 1: he was quite the dancer. He's very flexible. He said. 538 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: He realized that the only thing that was going to 539 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 1: keep him out of a wheelchair or out of a 540 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,560 Speaker 1: nursing home was to constantly exercise his body every day 541 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 1: in like a real, meaningful, strenuous way. And maybe that, 542 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,200 Speaker 1: maybe that's right, that might be the key, that could 543 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: be the answer. Meanwhile, we have she's kind I don't 544 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: know her. I guess this was the reboot of Baywatch. 545 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 1: Alexandra Paula. She was found not guilty of theft for 546 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 1: stealing two chickens. Uh, these are the activists. Oh, this 547 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,880 Speaker 1: is Debra's crowd, Foster Farms truck, the people who can 548 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:49,960 Speaker 1: make crimes and get away with it. They took the 549 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 1: chickens from a truck and they referred to us as 550 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,320 Speaker 1: an open rescue. She was charged of misdemeanor theft, but 551 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 1: a multi day trial in Merced County, they found her 552 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 1: not guilty. Found her not guilty. Good, well, except she 553 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 1: did it. She saved some chicken. There's a picture for 554 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: holding the chicken walking away from the truck. How does 555 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 1: she not get convicted? Well, all right, there must have 556 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: been animal people exactly, there's people the right thing. Yes, 557 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 1: you go, jury, jury, nullification, that's right. Yep, this is 558 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 1: the injury for the chickens. And they had names Ethan 559 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 1: and Jack's fantastic. This is the best story I heard 560 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 1: all week, and all other living being subjected to abuse 561 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 1: by corporations like foster farms. Yes, I have so much 562 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 1: love for the chickens in my family, and I want 563 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 1: all animals to experience safety and respect. Oh, just like 564 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 1: the teachers of the janitors, they want respect too. Well, yeah, 565 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 1: and the chickens won't respect too. Oh. Do you know 566 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 1: how many chickens Americans consume? Her year? Too many? Eight billion? 567 00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,320 Speaker 1: I think I read a number like that last week, 568 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 1: And you were You're jaw dropped when I said that, 569 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 1: which translates to twenty one million, nine hundred and seventeen 570 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:11,480 Speaker 1: thousand chickens per day. About that, I don't like it. Oh, 571 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,600 Speaker 1: I did eat chicken today, I had Chipotle. I did so, 572 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 1: so she saved two. Hey, you gotta start somewhere. Maybe 573 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 1: next it will be the cows or the pigs and 574 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 1: another twenty one million hit the grill. Do we know 575 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: what happened to the two she saved? I mean, but 576 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,480 Speaker 1: are they still around? She had for lunch. I had 577 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 1: chicken for lunch today too. You did too, Yeah, some 578 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: chicken and rice. Yeah that's what I had, chipotle chicken 579 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,040 Speaker 1: or rice. Yeah. I had a little piece of a cow. 580 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: I had a salad with garbonzo beans and avocado. Yeah. 581 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 1: What are you a rabbit? Put her in a cage? 582 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 1: She pretty much is. Yeah, coming up next. Of course, 583 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 1: it was another wild weather day, this time with the 584 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 1: weather in and out. It was weird and that it 585 00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 1: would pour and then go sunny pour again as the 586 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,480 Speaker 1: last brands of this storm system have been making their 587 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:07,520 Speaker 1: way over southern California. Excitement this morning out Montabello, where 588 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 1: it looks like some type of a small tornado ripped 589 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,760 Speaker 1: the roof off of a business. We have a live 590 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 1: report coming up from Blake Trolley Cafine News Johnny Ken 591 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 1: calf I Am six forty, We're live everywhere, the iHeartRadio 592 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 1: app and Debra mark lytton the twenty for our Calfine Ushron. Hey, 593 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: you've been listening to the John and Ken Show. 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