1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Calf I Am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: and Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. There's 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:09,120 Speaker 1: another chance you to win some money the thousand dollars 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 1: the cash contest that's been back all week. We'll do 5 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: it at three twenty. A keyword will be announced. To 6 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 1: follow the directions. John will repeat the keyword because he 7 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 1: likes to do that. Do you make sure you're catching 8 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: up and you're aware of some listeners are slower than others, 9 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,760 Speaker 1: that is true, and they need the reinforcement. So we'll 10 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: be listening for the keyword at three twenty. There'll be 11 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: another one for today at five twenty or thereabouts with 12 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:36,599 Speaker 1: Tim Conway Junior. Have they knocked out all three Tennessee 13 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: legislators or just the one? Is what I'm seeing so 14 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,160 Speaker 1: far that it says two more awaiting expulsion votes. Oh okay, Yeah. 15 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,239 Speaker 1: This is a big story out of Tennessee where the 16 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: state legislature is talking about expelling three members because they 17 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: brought protesters who want gun control reform inside the House 18 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: of Representatives chamber balcony out there to protest. You can't 19 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:01,959 Speaker 1: do that, and they it's like a January sixth thing. 20 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,639 Speaker 1: And the three legislators took over the floor for forty 21 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: five minutes with a megaphone and they were not that 22 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: was not what they were allowed to do. No, they 23 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: brought they brought this session to a halt. They were 24 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:15,320 Speaker 1: shouting into the megaphone, leading chants with the riff raff 25 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: in the balconies. There has been a huge number of 26 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: protesters outside the Tennessee Courthouse. The Republicans have a three 27 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: to one majority and they've decided enough of this. You 28 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 1: three are out so far one has been expelled, but 29 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: the other one is, uh, well, one of them is 30 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,960 Speaker 1: the woman is pleading for her life. There, she's standing, 31 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: she's standing in front of the crowd. She's there live 32 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: right now. She's there on the floor of the chamber, 33 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: and she's speaking at the front podium. But a CNN 34 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: is covering this like it's another one sixth thing or 35 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 1: what they're covering. Yeah, they are, they are, well because 36 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: it's Republicans thrown out three Democrats before. Yeah, you're gonna 37 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: see you know, all kinds of coverage on this if 38 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: they if they go through with kicking. I've actually never 39 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: heard of this before. Expelling people. Well, actually the whole story. 40 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: I mean legislators bringing in their own protesters and stopping, 41 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: stopping the legislature for forty five minutes, and then the 42 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: majority retaliating saying, you know what, you guys are ejected, 43 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: not just for that day, but you're you're you're thrown 44 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: out of the legislature. And you can do that when 45 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,359 Speaker 1: you have a supermajority. Yeah. Well, I wish I could 46 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,959 Speaker 1: see this kind of stuff from our Republicans in Sacramento 47 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: because they're the big underdog there, or they should take 48 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,959 Speaker 1: some sort of crazy action to wake up the state 49 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: to what's going on, especially when it comes to things 50 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: like crime and homeless and it's all over gun control 51 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: because that Nashville shooting, Yes, that should debate in Tennessee. 52 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: Looks like the Republican legislature isn't going front of new 53 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: gun control laws and that's upsetting these three legislators and 54 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: their followers. Now we're going to talk once again about 55 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: the skid Row Housing Trust. This is a group of buildings, 56 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: like twenty nine of them owned by a nonprofit which 57 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: is in huge financial trouble. In fact, it looks like 58 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: they're going to have a receivership take over their operations. 59 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: They're losing like hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. 60 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,919 Speaker 1: And then came the horrible news yesterday afternoon that three 61 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 1: people were found dead inside one of their buildings, suspected overdose. 62 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: A building called six forty nine Lofts, as The Times 63 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: describes it, a building provides housing to underprivileged residents in 64 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: the skid Row area. This is huge, this skid Row 65 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: Housing Trust. They manage almost two thousand units of housing, 66 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: two thousand units in the twenty nine buildings, and most 67 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: of them are terrible condition. They have one hundred and 68 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: twenty nine employees, and they're losing three hundred thousand dollars 69 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: a month. So the whole thing is a disaster because 70 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: most of the buildings are dilapidated and the vagrants are 71 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: the ones destroying the buildings. So this, by the way, 72 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: all finances are their tax money. Yeah, I've heard they've 73 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: been short of tenants too in some of the buildings 74 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: because they're in such horrible shape and you know, homeless 75 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: people don't really want to stay there. We're going to 76 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: talk down of the Reverend Andy Baile's CEO of Union 77 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: Rescue Mission, who probably has some insights on this whole fiasco. Andy, 78 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: how are you? I'm good, Thank you so much. How 79 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: long is this must have been going on for a 80 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: long time. I mean, you don't end up in this 81 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:24,160 Speaker 1: kind of financial devastation overnight. Now, this has been going 82 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: on the entire time I've been serving at Union Rescue 83 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: Mission eighteen years. I have been reporting the conditions of 84 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: these apartments to the La Times. I pretty much have 85 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: had ninety minutes with an editorial board less than a 86 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 1: year ago, and everything I said was scoffed at and 87 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: not printed in the La Times. And here we see 88 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: some of the truth coming out. And I've I've encouraged 89 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,840 Speaker 1: Doug Smith and Ben Oresquez for their but I told 90 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 1: them dig a little deeper, guys, because the truth is 91 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: the policies that come with the permanent support of housing 92 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: harm reduction that our federal government demands. So the money 93 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 1: comes from the hud Feds, to the state, to the 94 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 1: local environment. They require alcohol and hard drugs to freely 95 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: flow in these apartments, which means drug gangs backed by 96 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: cartels they rule in these apartments. And I've shared that 97 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: and shared that, and people don't want to believe me. 98 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: But all you have to do is go visit and 99 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: see the chaos that ensues in not only Schedule Housing Trust, 100 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: but in all of the apartments. I meet with the 101 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 1: agency heads that they're my peers on skid row, and 102 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: they tell me the problem is the policy. The policy 103 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: is that they have to allow a non sober environment. 104 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 1: I shared this with Mayor Karen Bass this week at 105 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: a lunch and she couldn't believe me that this is 106 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 1: the environment there. So it's not just that it's been 107 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:20,239 Speaker 1: a financial disaster for years. It is that the leaders 108 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 1: used to fire people. It fire employees for calling the 109 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 1: police on the drug gangs. This is the way it's 110 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:31,720 Speaker 1: been for years, and you know you can't operate an 111 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 1: organization like that. Imagine Union Rescue Mission allowing drug drug 112 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: gangs to intimidate our staff. I've even heard of a 113 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: of a gang member putting their cigarette out on one 114 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: of Schedule Housing Trust staff members. This was three or 115 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 1: four years ago. Can you imagine working in that environment 116 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 1: where gangs rule and nobody in politics, nobody in the media. Well, 117 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 1: just two years ago Mayor Garcetti was town. This is 118 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: a big success story and everybody should have known better 119 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 1: because I was telling them, and I get emails from 120 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 1: the guests, the residents at the Schedule Housing Trust telling 121 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: me the intimidation factor, the threats that they get. It's 122 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: been a disaster for years and they still the La 123 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: Times still has not printed the full truth. Why do 124 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: you think that is because they want this to be 125 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 1: a success and they're covering up the problems. Is yes, 126 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: in fact, they want this to be a success because 127 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: it is the model of permanent supportive housing and the 128 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: harm reduction, which that's a bad word for it's a 129 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 1: harm enhancement, the free flow of alcohol and hard drugs. 130 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: But United Way was big on this. They said, ten 131 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: thousand more units of this and we will solve the 132 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 1: problem of homelessness. You archaic missions and recovery people, you 133 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: used to manage the problem, but we're going to solve 134 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,040 Speaker 1: this problem. Do they believe this or is this a 135 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: financial racket? You know it could be either way. There 136 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: are sincere people who truly believe this is the model, 137 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: but I don't know how because street homelessness is skyrocketed 138 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: since we rent this way California. California is the only 139 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: state that doubled down on this model as the way 140 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: to solve homelessness. Can I ask you something because I'm 141 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: really in a state here. I can understand believing in 142 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 1: a theory and wanting to see it work, hoping it'll work. 143 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 1: But when you've had a disaster like the skid Row 144 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: Housing Trust for many, many years, how can anybody in 145 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 1: politics or anybody at the LA Times insist, well, this 146 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 1: is the only way to success. I mean, it's been 147 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: proven that it's a colossal failure. So that's when I 148 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: start to wonder what's their real motivation here? Well, right, 149 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:58,439 Speaker 1: that's a great question for them, because even the Hilton 150 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: Foundation and others who and quietly propping up skid Row 151 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: Housing Trust over the last months, when they knew it 152 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,559 Speaker 1: was going to fall apart, they didn't want to disclose 153 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: that it's a systemic failure of permanent support of housing, 154 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 1: the harm reduction model. And not only Skiedroll Housing Trust 155 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: is fifty percent vacant, but I've heard from others that 156 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: they're approaching fifty and sixty percent vacant. Other agencies that 157 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: are that are that vacant. Because people don't want to 158 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: come to skid Row, they don't want to live on 159 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 1: skid Row, And why would they want to live on 160 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 1: skid row in an apartment where everything that goes on 161 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,199 Speaker 1: on the streets and skid row. He's going on inside 162 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 1: the apartments, people are living in fear. Can you hold on? Yes? Okay, 163 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 1: this is the Reverend Andy Baals. He's a CEO of 164 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: Union Rescue Mission. And wow, this is quite a quite 165 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: an interview we're having with the Reverend Bails. We're talking 166 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 1: about skid Row Housing Trust. It's a nonprofit. They've got 167 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: like twenty nine buildings to house the homeless. They're in 168 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,959 Speaker 1: huge financial trouble and now we find three people apparently 169 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 1: overdosed in one of their buildings yesterday afternoon. And the 170 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 1: Reverend Bales is really telling us what he's been saying. 171 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,439 Speaker 1: He says for years, but it's going unheard about this 172 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: failed effort at housing the homeless, permanent housing. Johnny Ken 173 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio applets. 174 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 175 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: AM six forty. All right, we're talking to the Reverend 176 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: Andy Bales, the CEO of Union Rescue Mission. Here's a 177 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: lot to say about what's known as the skid Row 178 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: Housing Trust. It's a nonprofit. They operate twenty nine buildings, 179 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: obviously to house the homeless. It's considered permanent supportive housing. 180 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: But it's a financial mess. And yesterday three people were 181 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 1: discovered dead, apparently of a drug overdose inside one of 182 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: the buildings. And Reverend Bales has been telling us about 183 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 1: the problems with the harm auction theory that's going on here, 184 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 1: that they do allow, you know, people to drink and 185 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: use drugs, and apparently drug gangs proliferate in these buildings. 186 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 1: And he says he's been saying this for years, but 187 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:11,839 Speaker 1: not a lot of people have been listening. And it's 188 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 1: it's the federal requirements to get the money to finance 189 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 1: these operations. Eddy, you talked at the beginning about these 190 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: federal requirements that these organizations have to allow drugs and 191 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: alcohol in order to get the money, and that nobody 192 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 1: in government believes that. Isn't that in black and white though, 193 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: that that's a printed policy, correct. Yes, I can send 194 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: you the policy. I just found it in my notes, 195 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 1: Ready to send it to anybody who dares to ask. 196 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 1: You can't even intervene in its judgmental to intervene and 197 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:53,679 Speaker 1: even suggest somebody go to AA or NA. And it's 198 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: a radical version of the arm reduction model specific to 199 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 1: Los Angeles and very specific to skid Row, that alcohol 200 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:06,840 Speaker 1: and hard drugs just run wild. I had a guy 201 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 1: come out. I was walking with Hal Eisner from Fox 202 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: News down the street. A guy ran out of his 203 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 1: apartment said who are you guys? And I told him. 204 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 1: He said, hey, if you want to do something to 205 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: help somebody stop the drug gangs from moving into our apartments, 206 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: kicking us to the curb and taking over our apartments 207 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 1: and selling drugs. And I tweeted that very experience, and 208 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 1: some of the activists on skid Row said I was 209 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: demonizing gang members. And a gang member across the street 210 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 1: went up to my dock worker and said, tell your 211 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: boss to shut up about us. So I didn't shut up. 212 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: I called Commander Mark Raina, and they set up officers 213 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 1: in my offices and they watched the drug deals go down, 214 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: and they not only arrested the drug dealers, but they 215 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 1: arrested the supplier. And that's what we need to do. 216 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,599 Speaker 1: We need to take on the gangs. All the current policies, 217 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 1: and I hate to say this, but all those current 218 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:03,319 Speaker 1: policies are federal, state, local government and Measure HHH and 219 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: Measure H shouldn't even have gained the harm reduction that 220 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:10,959 Speaker 1: we self impose that on ourselves. But all of these 221 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 1: policies are only subsidizing cartels and sustaining drug cartels. So 222 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: our policies are killing people and sustaining cartels. Why would 223 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 1: we have such policies? And this was out and you 224 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 1: said this to me or bass yes, and she didn't know. 225 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: She was shocked to hear my description. And I tried 226 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: to get one of my teammates along the table with 227 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: me to concur and they were willing to step up 228 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: and admit because people are afraid to tell the truth. 229 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: We don't receive any of these funds. So I'm not afraid. 230 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 1: Is everyone afraid of the cartels. I'm not afraid of 231 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: the cartels. Is everybody else afraid? I'm trying to afraid 232 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 1: of the government not giving them money? Because if you speak, 233 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 1: one of our faith politicians once called somebody said, if 234 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,679 Speaker 1: if you want to get in, you got to be in. 235 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: That was the threat they received when they spoke up 236 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:11,319 Speaker 1: against the harm reduction model. But but my friend came 237 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 1: along and he said it is true that if you 238 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: take federal money, you can't have a sober environment. And 239 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 1: that was the backing that it gave me. This is 240 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 1: widespread throughout all these types of housing projects. Yes, and 241 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: depending on how the individual manager interprets the rules, if 242 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: they follow the rules exactly, they will not intervene in 243 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 1: somebody's addiction at all, because that's deemed judgmental. You just 244 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: allow somebody to be addicted until they die is better 245 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 1: than dealing with the drug issue. And how many years 246 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: have they had these policies. It's about ten years. Yeah, 247 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: it's about ten years. And we saw it coming and 248 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 1: we stood up against it, but it fell on deaf ears, 249 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: and it's been falling on deaf ears, and finally it's 250 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: coming to light. And perhaps you know, Mayor Karen Bass 251 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: stood up to Joe Biden and President Biden who said 252 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: he was going to double down on what California policy 253 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: has been, and she said, not without mental health help 254 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: and not without addictionarycovery help. So I have faith in 255 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: Mayor Karen Bast attempting to reverse this, and I'm hoping 256 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: and praying she will. All Right, Reverend Bales, we appreciate 257 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: you talking to us great insights. Thanks you, thank you 258 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: for coming on. Thank you, sir. That's Andy Bailles. He 259 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 1: is the CEO of Union Rescue Mission. In a story 260 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: we have from Courthouse News, it says that in recent years, 261 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: the Housing Trust constructed usually expensive and gorgeous buildings designed 262 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: by award winning architects. Groundbreaking ceremonies would teachally feature a 263 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: who's who of local governmental which I think included Garsetia 264 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 1: a couple of years. Do you remember when we did 265 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 1: the show from skid Row years ago? Yeah, I don't 266 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: know if that building we're outside of part of the 267 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: Housing trus, but it was an unusual architecture, right, Remember 268 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: how colorful the outside facade was. I remember one of 269 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 1: the officers was telling us, Oh, it's full of prostitutes 270 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 1: and drugs. That that was the story he told us. Then, yes, 271 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: the drugs. Like more than ten years ago, they were 272 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: going door to door the drug gangs as soon as 273 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: these people moved in their first day at a rehab 274 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 1: and they gotta got knock gonna at the door with 275 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: a full menu of of drugs to jest and as 276 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 1: you heard Reverend Bells say, they run free. Uh, we'll 277 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about this when we come back. 278 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFII. 279 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: Just an update on the expulsion of Tennessee legislators over 280 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: a big protest that shut down the legislature last week. 281 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 1: They've expelled one young black legislator, but they spared the 282 00:16:56,040 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: white female. Oh yeah, remember the I told you the 283 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: woman was up there at the podium. Got any reasons 284 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 1: why there was a difference between the team, I can't tell. 285 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: It's it's happening as we speak. And so she survived. 286 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 1: But the black one, he's he's another young black legislator. 287 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: There is another young black legislator of Price's expulsion, right, Yes, 288 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:20,400 Speaker 1: they're both being justin. They're both in their late twenties. 289 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: They both just got elected and she was she was 290 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: older and she's a white woman. So that comparisons to 291 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 1: January sixth, and that they took over the balcony. But 292 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 1: I'll shoed the protesters in there, took over the floor 293 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: for an hour, disrupted everything. They were not allowed to 294 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 1: do that. So Republicans have a supermajority in the Tennessee Legislature. 295 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 1: So they had a hearing and they decided to expel 296 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 1: at least one, but yea sparing one. She's just joining us. 297 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 1: We just had a hell of an interview with Andy Bayos, 298 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:55,920 Speaker 1: who has run the I want to get the name 299 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 1: of this organization right, oh, and rescue mission, Yeah, n 300 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 1: Rescue mission down at skid Row. And Andy has been 301 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:05,439 Speaker 1: there a long time. He's been a straight shooter for 302 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 1: a long time. And wow, I'm telling you if you 303 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 1: missed it, you have to listen to the podcast, so 304 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:15,320 Speaker 1: will be posted after four o'clock from three to three thirty. 305 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:18,200 Speaker 1: The interview ran after four o'clock. The podcast. By the way, 306 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 1: sorry that yesterday's podcast wasn't posted right away. It is 307 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:23,440 Speaker 1: up there now so you could listen to that one 308 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:25,160 Speaker 1: as well. But I'm telling you you ought to listen 309 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 1: to Andy Bales because he explained a lot as what's 310 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:33,159 Speaker 1: gone on here. And I think the biggest revelation is 311 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: that ten years ago the federal government required what they 312 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 1: called a Reduction Harm policy, and all these homeless housing 313 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: developments that were being funded in part with federal government 314 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:50,960 Speaker 1: money had to abide by certain conditions, and one of 315 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 1: them was to allow the free flow of drugs and alcohol. 316 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 1: I know they believed in housing first, and I know 317 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 1: that they remember that we used to call they call 318 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 1: them wet houses where there's no les. Yeah, but I 319 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 1: didn't realize it was this literal and that it's what's 320 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 1: probably destroyed these prominent supportive housing projects like skid Row 321 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,679 Speaker 1: Housing Trust. Yeah, that is the center of the story. 322 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 1: Because the people are addicted to drugs and alcohol, they'll 323 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 1: tear up the place. The drug gangs will tear up 324 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 1: the place. That's why they've had so much financial problems 325 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 1: and they're broke. Skid Row Housing Trust is basically bankrupt. 326 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: It's being placed in receivership. It's losing three hundred thousand 327 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,719 Speaker 1: dollars a month. This is a huge organization. They manage 328 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: two thousand units of housing, twenty nine building buildings, most 329 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 1: of them dilapidated, dangerous. Much of that is caused by 330 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 1: the homeless themselves destroying the units. They're losing three hundred 331 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,160 Speaker 1: thousand dollars a month. Drug gangs take over the place, 332 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:51,720 Speaker 1: they run rampant. I see even in one of the 333 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 1: time stories that a woman who's there in a wheelchair 334 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: and looks like she was a veteran. She says, you 335 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 1: walk around this place and there's just all sorts of 336 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:04,120 Speaker 1: strange people. There's no security and as somebody she said, 337 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: somebody was shooting up in the trash room. It's it's 338 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,679 Speaker 1: it's horrific. And and here's part of the crime is 339 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 1: Andy Bell says. He's told this to the Los Angeles 340 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:21,439 Speaker 1: Times editorial board and other media and other politicians, and 341 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: the LA Times covered up this story for years because 342 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:32,120 Speaker 1: they believe in the harm reduction model, except it clearly 343 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:36,120 Speaker 1: didn't work. It's a disaster. Now you have all these 344 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:39,959 Speaker 1: buildings destroyed. We had three more homeless people die in 345 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: one of these buildings. Today you have a massive deficit. 346 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: And now the drug cartels and the gangs have taken 347 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 1: over the buildings the entire skid row area. And this 348 00:20:54,000 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 1: policy is prevalent throughout southern California and nobody, I mean, 349 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 1: this is what I was yelling about a couple of 350 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 1: months ago. There's this belief and again the term is 351 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 1: harm reduction. That all we should do with people that 352 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 1: have drug problems is give them a needle exchange program 353 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 1: comes somewhere that we can stand by and give them 354 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 1: narcan if they overdose. They've tried it for ten years, 355 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: it didn't work. This is where I think, well, now 356 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 1: it's a racket. They don't care that it doesn't work. 357 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 1: This is why San Francisco looks the way it does. 358 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:26,199 Speaker 1: It's like an open air drug market because everyone believes 359 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: there's nothing we can do. They're addicted. They're addicted, but 360 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 1: did they want to figure it out over time? Let 361 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:32,719 Speaker 1: them figure it out over time that they might want 362 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 1: to get off the drugs. But if not, but we're 363 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 1: just going to stand by and make sure we can 364 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 1: resuscitate them. The key thing what he said is everyone's 365 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 1: afraid of losing their funding. And this is what I 366 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 1: know is the root of this. Nobody wants to lose 367 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,159 Speaker 1: their funding. It's about keeping the racket going because the 368 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 1: people that run these organizations do make big six figure salaries. 369 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: They do, and so this one's broke. But the woman 370 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 1: who ran it knew about what was going on for 371 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:04,360 Speaker 1: years and she was making well into six figures. So 372 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,400 Speaker 1: you keep the scam going for as long as you can. 373 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:13,439 Speaker 1: And the Los Angeles Times is so disgusting, such a 374 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: disgusting media organized organization, because you're talking about the editorial board. 375 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,680 Speaker 1: That's a lot of people on that board, and those 376 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: people are older and for them to be a part 377 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 1: of this conspiracy to cover up the information. We don't 378 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 1: have another major media outlet that covers real stories, right, 379 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,880 Speaker 1: The TV doesn't cover any of this. Basically, it's us 380 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: and and that's it. It's just our show. You can 381 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 1: there's nothing on radio, there's nothing on TV. The La 382 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: Times covered this up for many years. That's disgusting. I mean, 383 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: if there was a way to put them in jail, 384 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 1: the editorial board, they should go to jail because they 385 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:58,359 Speaker 1: helped destroy the lives of these homeless people. And and 386 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: I'm I'm just absolutely in shock. This has been a 387 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 1: policy I guess goes back to the Obama administration. I 388 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: never heard that it came from the FEDS, but Reverend 389 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 1: Bales said that, you know, they could override it locally 390 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 1: or do something about it, and they don't. Yeah, I 391 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: just nobody knows. I mean, Karen bast didn't even know. 392 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,120 Speaker 1: He said that this was the pen Now that she does, 393 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: what's she gonna do? Well, what's everybody gonna do? Right, 394 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:29,119 Speaker 1: It's led to the ruin of these buildings after ten years? 395 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,120 Speaker 1: Do you want to still keep killing these people? This 396 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:38,400 Speaker 1: is why this dopey housing first is a loser. Just well, 397 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:40,239 Speaker 1: just give them alls and don't worry about whether they 398 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 1: use drugs and alcohol. Just get them in there. It's 399 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 1: all they need is housing to destroy the place. That's 400 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:46,919 Speaker 1: the problem with that, because they're gonna continue to use 401 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,879 Speaker 1: drugs and drug gangs are going to hang out there 402 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,239 Speaker 1: because they got customers. All Right, we'll finish coming up 403 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,160 Speaker 1: John and Ken k if I AM six forty live 404 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 1: everywhere the iHeartRadio Appum, you're listening to John and Ken 405 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:03,359 Speaker 1: on demand from k I AM sixty last warning for 406 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: the week who These calls will play during this hour tomorrow. 407 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:09,360 Speaker 1: So you use the app the microphone icon to leave 408 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,719 Speaker 1: a message for the moistline the iHeartRadio app, or call 409 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 1: the toll free number one eight seven seven Moist eighty 410 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 1: six one eight seven seven six six four seven eight 411 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 1: eight six. In a bit of a surprise today, I guess, 412 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 1: considering most people think that the United States Supreme Court 413 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 1: is stacked conservatively like what six to three generally generally 414 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: or five to four depending on how you see the 415 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: Chief Justice, they ruled that a twelve year old transgender 416 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: girl from West Virginia can compete on the middle school 417 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,439 Speaker 1: girls sports teams, not about that it's a it's a 418 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 1: temporary or yes, yeah they have it. There wasn't a 419 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 1: decision on the merits of the case, right, but sometimes 420 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: that indicates, right, the feelings of the justices when they 421 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: sometimes yeah, yeah. They rejected an emergency application from West 422 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 1: Virginia lawmakers that would have allowed student athletes to only 423 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 1: play sports with and against those of their biological gender. 424 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 1: They refused to disturb an appeals court order that made 425 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: it possible for the girl to continue playing at her 426 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 1: school's track and cross country team. The two dissenters were 427 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: Alito and Thomas. She's a boy transitioning to a girl. 428 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: That's correct, yes, right, but obviously she quote was, I 429 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,640 Speaker 1: didn't feel comfortable as a boy, right, but she obviously 430 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 1: you never know if it's obvious, Jacky Pepper, hyphen Jackson, 431 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: she can go through any physical surgery. Yet I don't 432 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,639 Speaker 1: think so. I don't have that in the story that 433 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 1: she said in a statement last spring she was not 434 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,640 Speaker 1: a boy and insisted she run with the girls team 435 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,919 Speaker 1: a lot of variants. Uncomfortable though, in the in the 436 00:25:54,200 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 1: locker room, dressing, yeah, showers, Um, that's uh, oh man, Well, 437 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: but it's not something if you have daughters you don't 438 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 1: want you don't want that if if you just you know, 439 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 1: for obvious reasons, you just don't. Good lord, And I 440 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 1: mean I've seen that some people trying to make a 441 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 1: uh lay out the differences where pre puberty in middle 442 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:32,920 Speaker 1: schooling below, there isn't that much of an advantage. This 443 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 1: is ald right, right, but you know obviously once you 444 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: your past puberty, a male transitioning to a female is 445 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 1: generally gonna have a huge advantage on all the biological 446 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,680 Speaker 1: complete women. Yes, in terms of competing. I mean, I 447 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 1: don't I don't know how anybody defends that, because you're 448 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: just basically blocking out most of the biological girls who 449 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:03,919 Speaker 1: are still girls. And in another development, today, Mayor Bessetti 450 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,119 Speaker 1: made a media appearance to announce that they're really going 451 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,920 Speaker 1: to do something about filling the potholes in LA. Nineteen 452 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 1: thousand potholes from these recent storms has caused damage to 453 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 1: Los Angeles City streets. Basically, though the bottom line was 454 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 1: just called three one one report the pothole. They said 455 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: that there's always teams out there looking to fill potholes. 456 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 1: They received nineteen thousand, two hundred and seventy nine requests 457 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 1: ins December to fix potholes, and they claimed they repaired 458 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: seventeen thousand, four hundred and fifty nine of them. That 459 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 1: reminds me of when Tony Vlar's a lackey brought in 460 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 1: his print out claiming that he filled a million pottles 461 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,879 Speaker 1: or something like that. Yeah, well this isn't close to 462 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: him now. I don't even think there were a million pottles. 463 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: I think he just made up that number. Yeah, because 464 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,679 Speaker 1: all they did was feel fit. The only potholes they 465 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 1: could prove were fifty eight thousand filled. I don't even 466 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: know if it's proved. They gave us a print out sheet. 467 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: They're making that play street name God. Nobody was more 468 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 1: full of crafted via ghost and now you know what, 469 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:12,639 Speaker 1: Garcity just didn't do anything. Yeah, via GHOSTA constantly claimed 470 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 1: he did things, which you're totalies. Garcetti just stopped working, 471 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 1: Yeah he did, he quit. Do you want to be president? 472 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: Don't we all conways here? Hey? If they did fill 473 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,359 Speaker 1: a million potholes in a year, that's thirty nine hundred 474 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,479 Speaker 1: a day. That seems like a lot. Yeah, yeah, especially 475 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,239 Speaker 1: with county workers, you know, yeah, people, I love them 476 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: right because they're not. It's taken carabast three months to 477 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 1: do seventeen thousand. So but you know it's really weird. 478 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 1: You go to you know, Oregon, Washington State, Arizona. I 479 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: know you went to Arizona. There's not a pothole in 480 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 1: the whole state. I don't know why we have them all. 481 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: And all the freeways are really smooth, they're beautiful. Yeah, 482 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 1: and they have and they have tractor trailers that have 483 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 1: three cabs, I mean three trailers, right, Yes, you know 484 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 1: they're moving a lot of crap. And here we have, 485 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,200 Speaker 1: you know, a guy on a bicycle and he makes 486 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,160 Speaker 1: a pothole. Yeah, on the west side. Half the people 487 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 1: are driving preussis that's right? And Sun said Bovard, looks 488 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,040 Speaker 1: like it's been bombed. I mean they had better roads 489 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 1: in the London during World War Two. I haven't. I 490 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 1: had to. I was driving my daughter down in Orange 491 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 1: County and there's one particular move if you're on the 492 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 1: ten eastbound to the seven ten southbound, that's a mess there. 493 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 1: And I always have telling a hold on, baby, we're 494 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 1: on a freeway in LA. You're on it feels like 495 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 1: we're off roading. We've got that Alex Stone coming on 496 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 1: today at Police and San Francisco are are staying tight 497 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: lipped on the step that Yeah, that great. He didn't 498 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 1: show up for us, Oh he didn't. He did not 499 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: Alex Stone didn't know he was supposed to be there. 500 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 1: Nobody we got ghosted. Oh, we'll talk to him about 501 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: that ghost Babel ghost him. Uh. Doug O'Neil's coming on 502 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,080 Speaker 1: with us. He's won the Kentucky Derby twice. That's kind 503 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 1: of a cool deal. And then Dean Sharp, we'll be 504 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 1: on with us. The house Whisper and plus the California 505 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: is the lowest rate of homeownership. We talked a little 506 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 1: about that last second segment tonight. It's not good. It's 507 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 1: not good. Conway. Yes, let's get dogs the news. Bring 508 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: it on, Big Old Thursday program. Hey, you've been listening 509 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 1: to The John and Ken Show. You can always hear 510 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 1: us live on caf I AM six forty one pm 511 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,200 Speaker 1: to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course 512 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 1: anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.