1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Kf I Am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: and Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio. 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 2: App after four o'clock. 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: It's the Johnny Cannon on demand podcast, and you can 5 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: listen to what you missed. You gotta listen all weekend 6 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: to Today's show and any other one you want. 7 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 3: Yeah. Now, story that we've been following here on The 8 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 3: John and Ken Show for some time now was a 9 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 3: decision that was made by an LA City Council member 10 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 3: by the name of Katie Yaroslavsky. This is the fifth 11 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 3: District of Los Angeles, and she is proposing a homeless 12 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 3: housing project. I like this homeless Angelino's in West LA. Well, 13 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 3: not necessarily are the angelino They're not Angelina's. The address 14 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 3: is twenty three seventy seven Midvale Avenue near Westwood in 15 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 3: Pico Boulevards. This is near the West Side Pavilion, which 16 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 3: is pretty much not a West Side Pavilion mall anymore. 17 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 3: I think it's like offices there now, and they do 18 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 3: all the stories. I think I'll move out. The movie 19 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 3: theater is gone. But anyway, that's the neighborhood that we're 20 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 3: talking about. Thirty three unit interim they described it housing 21 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 3: facility for homeless be built on a parking lot in 22 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 3: the commercial area. It includes three laundry units, storage, a 23 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 3: pet area, office and case managing, conferencing space, dining areas, 24 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 3: security fencing. A couple of things we learned about this 25 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 3: particular project, and it's opposed by many people in the neighborhood. 26 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 3: Sounded off at a couple of meetings and they booed 27 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 3: Yaroslavsky and Mayor Bascone calling for a recall. What we 28 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:36,479 Speaker 3: learned about this particular interim housing project on the West 29 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 3: Side is that one of Katie Aeroslovsky's staffers, less than 30 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 3: twelve months ago, he had a position with the homeless agency, 31 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 3: the homeless unit, the homeless nonprofit that's getting the money 32 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 3: to put up this, yeah, this project. 33 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: That's the corruption of Katie Aerroslovsky's office, right, So that 34 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: nonprofit is going to get a lot of the tax 35 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: payers to pay all their salaries and to pay for 36 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 1: their benefits. And you know, they got a nice, big 37 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: fat contract to waste city tax money on. 38 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 2: And now the. 39 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: People have to live with the horror of a thirty 40 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: three unit homeless homeless development there. 41 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 3: And the problem here is that Katie Yosowski says, these 42 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,679 Speaker 3: are just your homeless neighbors. They're not. No, they're never 43 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 3: just wandered in there and squatted because it's probably a 44 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 3: nicer area to plant yourself. 45 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 2: No, it's a nice neighborhood. 46 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: None of them owned a house there, none of them 47 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: are renting there, none of them even had a room there. 48 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: So it's not your homeless neighbors. Carry Kitty Erslavski is 49 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: a liar. Karen Basking backed her up. She's a liar. 50 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 1: They're going after neighborhoods that they think are going to 51 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 1: vote for Arslavsky and Bess anyway next time. You know, 52 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: it's like those residents in Chicago who discovered they voted 53 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: for the mayor and now the man is turning their kids' 54 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 1: football field over to the migrants because they figure out, 55 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: you're going to vote for me again anyway. 56 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 3: Right, So, after an hour of public comment, the Housing 57 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 3: and Homeless Committee of the Los Angeles City Council approved 58 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 3: the project. That's the development this week, so it's one 59 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 3: step closer to happening. We're going to bring on a 60 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 3: guest who's been following this to Her name is Susan Collins. 61 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 3: She's actually running for California Senate District twenty seven, which 62 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 3: is up in the valley, but she obviously follows these matters. 63 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 3: So let's bring her on and talk about all this. Susan, 64 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 3: how are you. I'm good. 65 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me on. And by 66 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 4: the way, I have always, even before I decided to 67 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 4: run for office, I have always participated in whatever causes 68 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 4: were going on, regardless of what district they were in, 69 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 4: because you know, we all need to sort of adopt 70 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 4: the mentality and understand that whatever happens in Vennice is 71 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 4: going to happen in my neighborhood. What happens in you know, 72 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 4: Westwood is going to happen in Sherman Oaks. So where 73 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 4: one city and these policies affect all of us, no 74 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 4: matter where you live, and we need to come together 75 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 4: as a city and focus on these issues. 76 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 3: So were you at this committee hearing yesterday and spoke? 77 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 3: I was? 78 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 5: I was. 79 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 4: It was actually I believe on Tuesday that the meeting 80 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,359 Speaker 4: was Tuesday or Wednesday. I go to a lot, I 81 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 4: can't remember. I was, And you know, they listened to 82 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 4: countless people opposing it with very valid reasons. There are 83 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 4: a handful of people there who are not vested in 84 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 4: the community who supported it, and you know again unanimously 85 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 4: approved the funding for it. You know, I know you 86 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 4: mentioned the conflict of interest with Katie's office, But one 87 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 4: thing that forrad gets overlooked I'd mentioned very often is 88 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:56,159 Speaker 4: is exactly how much she lied about that. You know, 89 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 4: she initially said that she understood and she knew knew 90 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 4: about Zachary Warma's conflict of interest, so she had taken 91 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 4: steps to wall him off so that he didn't participate 92 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:13,359 Speaker 4: in those conversations. And after the attorneys for the Midveille 93 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:17,840 Speaker 4: Pico Project submitted a record request. Only at that point 94 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 4: when they went through the emails did they find out 95 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:24,359 Speaker 4: that Zachary Warma had was basically the point person. He 96 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 4: was the person that set up the meetings, he participated 97 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 4: in the meetings, He was intimately involved in that whole process, 98 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 4: even though Katie says she knew of his conflict of interest. 99 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was a no big deal, right, no 100 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 3: big contract. 101 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: So his old whole employer gets this big contract greased 102 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: by Katie Jaroslavsky. Yes, and she lies about it because 103 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: that's what she does. If she if she's speaking, she's lying. 104 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:51,359 Speaker 1: Her lips are moving that she's lying. 105 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 3: And I mean so. 106 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: Yaroslavski and the rest of this committee, they don't care 107 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:00,120 Speaker 1: what any of the residents have to say. 108 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 4: Now, So right now, you know, the mayor has implemented 109 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:10,159 Speaker 4: these emergency powers, and you know, even that is it's 110 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 4: a it's an overreach because what she's done is she's 111 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 4: implemented a tool that was supposed to be used in 112 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 4: the event of like an earthquake or something like that 113 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 4: that would give her brief authority to make decisions. But 114 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 4: she's using them to put up structures such as this, 115 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 4: which has a ten year lease. Well, that was never 116 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 4: the intention of, you know, implementing emergency powers, and that's 117 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 4: sort of the focal point of the Fix the City lawsuit. 118 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 4: And I wanted to bring a couple of a couple 119 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 4: of other points of that is that in that emergency powers, 120 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,919 Speaker 4: she has also decided that she can you know, she 121 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 4: calls it streamlining. I call it steam rolling, but she 122 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,840 Speaker 4: can streamline these buildings and fast track them without doing 123 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 4: the SEQUT studies. Now, the secret studies are environmental and 124 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 4: community studies that were put in place to protect the 125 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 4: area residents and enable them to ensure that they have 126 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 4: their right to do process. They have waived the sequel 127 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 4: process for this. However, this particular location doesn't qualify for 128 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 4: that sequel exemption, but they've steamrolled it pass these residents anyway, 129 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 4: you soon over there. 130 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: But I mean, you know what the residents really have 131 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: been screaming about is that they have a nice neighborhood 132 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: and now you're going to have several dozen mental patients, 133 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: drug addicts, criminals in a family neighborhood with really nobody 134 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: to control their behavior. They might be given this room 135 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: to sleep it overnight, but they could go wandering around, 136 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: do whatever they want and have all their friends come over. 137 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: And it's going to be chaotic for the neighborhood. And 138 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: this has happened before in other parts of the city. 139 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: It happened in Venice when they set up Bridge Housing, 140 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 1: made a bunch of promises, said this is going to 141 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: be a special zone, We're going to have police protection, 142 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: and all hell brokelues, so just more and more homeless 143 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: people came piling into the neighborhood. So the city lies 144 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: about whatever promises they make. And even if even if 145 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: they provided police protection, and they enforced the ordinances. 146 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 2: Who the hell wants this? 147 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 3: There's children that live in this neighborhood. 148 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 4: Right, they actually can't enforce the ordiances. You know, when 149 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 4: Garcetti made these promises, he made promises that he didn't 150 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 4: really even have the legal authority to do. So if 151 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 4: you look and it wasn't just Venice, you know, I've 152 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 4: invested a ridiculous amount of time following this, and I 153 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 4: have driven to almost every bridge housing and several of 154 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:39,959 Speaker 4: the permanent support of housing facilities, and without fail, they 155 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 4: have had the exact same effect on the surrounding communities 156 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 4: that the Venice Project has. I was, you know, I 157 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 4: drove around El Pueblo when I was over there at 158 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 4: the end of day, the one on Selma and Hollywood. 159 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,319 Speaker 4: I mean, you go to every single one and if 160 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:55,559 Speaker 4: you know the community before and you see the community now, 161 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 4: they're unrecognizable and not in a good way. 162 00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:59,840 Speaker 3: Because they're outdoor mental institution. 163 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: You bring an outdoor mental institution where people are whacked 164 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: out on every drug imaginable. They're alcoholics, they're drug addicts, 165 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 1: they have all kinds of untreated mental illness and schizophreny 166 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 1: and bipolar disorder. Well, what do you think is going 167 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 1: to happen. I mean, this is so outrageous. These officials 168 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: ought to be put in prison for doing this. 169 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 4: Well, I would agree with you, and here you're at 170 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 4: one more point. 171 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 2: You know. 172 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 4: One of the things that in fact, I just found 173 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 4: this out real recently is that they keep talking about 174 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 4: wrap around services. Wrap around services, and the way that 175 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 4: our elected officials talk about these programs, these healthing facilities 176 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 4: with wrap around services, it really gives people the impression 177 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 4: that there's going to be someone on staff to you know, 178 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 4: work with these people, and that is simply untrue. They 179 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 4: do not have mental health providers on staff twenty four 180 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 4: to seven if at all. So in these contracts when 181 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 4: they talk about when you really read through the contracts, 182 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:59,840 Speaker 4: it's very somewhere like page two hundred and sixty. It's 183 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 4: is that these facilities will provide and these are quote 184 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 4: linkage to or a connection to services. So all that 185 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 4: means is that if a staff are handsome at groswort 186 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 4: on AA meeting or to a mental health clinic and 187 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 4: says there's a bus stop that now that nonprofit provider's 188 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,719 Speaker 4: contractual obligation has been met, Yes, it's there are not 189 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 4: providers on staff. 190 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: It's all a scam. All they do is give them 191 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: a phone number on an address. It's a complete scam. 192 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 1: The neighborhood is going to get ruined. These people should 193 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: fight a bloody war to stop this thing. And Kenny 194 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: Roslovsky autob removed from office as quickly as possible. She's 195 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: a danger to that neighborhood. She's a danger to the families. 196 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,959 Speaker 1: She's destructive, you know what I mean. Those homes are 197 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 1: worth a good amount of money and nobody deserves this 198 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:57,479 Speaker 1: to happen. And these are not fellow neighborhood and Julido's 199 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 1: they are not much of the homeless popular has moved 200 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: in from out of town and out of state. 201 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 3: Enough with their lives, all right, Susan, we thank you 202 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 3: so much for coming on and. 203 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 4: Give us a Rever're very much for having me. I 204 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 4: appreciate it, all right. 205 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 3: That's Susan Collins who goes to some of these committee hearings, 206 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 3: and yesterday the Homeless Committee of the Los Angeles City 207 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 3: Council is on Wednesday, did approve that project on the 208 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 3: west side. We've talked about Midville Pico where thirty some 209 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 3: odd homeless people are going to be plunked in interim 210 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 3: housing in the neighborhood. Johnny Ken KFI AM six forty 211 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 3: Live everywhere iHeartRadio app. 212 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 213 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 214 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 3: All right, well, we're on the vagrant beat. We just 215 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 3: told you that the Homeless and Housing Committee of the 216 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 3: Los Angeles City Council has approved this project on the 217 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:48,319 Speaker 3: west Side. They call it Midville Pico. That's near where 218 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 3: the West Side Pavilion is. They're going to put thirty 219 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 3: something vagrants in an interim housing project, which does not 220 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 3: please many people in the neighborhood. A number of people 221 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 3: showed up to speak to this committee in favor of 222 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 3: or against the proposal. We just had a guest named 223 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,320 Speaker 3: Susan Collins, who doesn't live in the neighborhood, but she 224 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 3: went to anybody to talk about the problems with housing. First, 225 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,439 Speaker 3: now we present the other side. Listen to this lunatic 226 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 3: and as John has said, the study we talked about 227 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 3: yesterday involving Michael Schellenberger about a certain psychosis that people 228 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 3: with wokeness seem to have. You're going to hear this 229 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:24,080 Speaker 3: man make an analogy that's really really far flung. His 230 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,319 Speaker 3: name is Jeffrey Allis. I think he comes from Santa Monica. 231 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 3: He's with the Santa Monica Homeowners Association. Of course, this 232 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 3: is not anywhere near Santa Monica. This Peko Midvale project, 233 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 3: that's true, although it's not that far. But yeah, it's 234 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 3: not part of Santa Monica. Yeah. Anyway, here's what he said. 235 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 3: Listen to this analogy. 236 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 6: The Pico Midvel housing project is not perfect, but it 237 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 6: is good, and it can be developed quickly and efficiently. 238 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 6: Many who oppose the project in flame fear and anger 239 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:57,239 Speaker 6: by stoking the idea of stereotypes and cliches about unhoused 240 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 6: individuals as an organized group of addicted, violent criminals and monsters, 241 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 6: and such aspersions recall similar verbiage used to oppose Eastern 242 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:12,079 Speaker 6: European immigration in the United States, ending segregation in Los 243 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 6: Angeles in the sixties, and inflaming homophobic fear about pedophiles 244 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:19,679 Speaker 6: molesting our children if they're hired as teachers in our school. 245 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 6: The homeless are people just like anyone else that are unhoused. 246 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 6: Some people have drug problems, just as house people do. 247 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 6: Some people have mental health issues, as some house people do. 248 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 6: But they are human beings and they deserve housing. I 249 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 6: was part of a task force the CD five of 250 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 6: council member Yearslovsky's predecessor, and we have tried to develop 251 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,559 Speaker 6: fifty properties that we were all turned down. We can't 252 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 6: continue to say, find a different location. 253 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 3: Thank you, sush, excuse me. Sorry, Everyone has to be quiet, 254 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 3: thank you. Wow, that's a sending tone from that woman. 255 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:07,319 Speaker 1: Everyone has to be quiet, you ratty little Toddler's you. 256 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 3: We are whoa we are more of a superior. He 257 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 3: tried to reach out to you. John coblt. He mentioned 258 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 3: the immigrants from Eastern Europe. Remember, people didn't want the 259 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 3: Polish people here. 260 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 2: Well, actually I don't but okay. 261 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: Well the but polls were when I was a kid, 262 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: they were the butt of jokes, so wide. 263 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 3: Jokes. I didn't care. The Irish were too. There was 264 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 3: like a whole Irish, the Italians and the Italians, right 265 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 3: the groups ethnic jokes were. 266 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 2: Yes, the the people who were. 267 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: Waspy and and German. They ruled people at the bottom 268 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: of the Poles, Italians, Irish, we were all considered the peasants. 269 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: I don't care, trust me. The homeless have nothing to 270 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 1: do with this. No, no, the man is really off 271 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 1: his rocker there. That is that is the stupid woke rhetoric. 272 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: I believe he also uh said this was like people 273 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 1: who dehuman ey blacks and member people, gay people and 274 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: all the all the alphabet people, and uh that this 275 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: is this is this is what they use because they 276 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 1: don't really have an argument that's going to convince anybody. 277 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 1: These are drug addicts, these are mental patients. Nearly every 278 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 1: one of them, every one of them behaves in an erratic, 279 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: dangerous way. They have criminal records. They could be pedophiles, 280 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 1: they could be felons, many of them are, and many 281 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: of them are not from the neighborhood. 282 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 3: And so they're dangers. 283 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: They're they're they're they're they're they're absolutely terrifying and frightening. 284 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 2: And he's lying. 285 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 1: And what he tries to do is to shut people 286 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 1: down by linking them with racist, homophobes, transphobes, xenophobes. They 287 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: got all the phobes, they got all the is, they 288 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: have the same language. It doesn't it's not gonna work 289 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: anymore because this guy is a danger, and he's represented 290 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 1: and twushing danger. I don't care that he's tried fifty 291 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: places and got no takers because nobody wants this in 292 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: their neighborhood and nobody ever will nobody, So yes, you're 293 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: going to have to go to the desert and try 294 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: to sell this to the desert tortoises out there because 295 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 1: no humans in any normal neighborhood is going to ever, ever, 296 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: ever accept this. So get that through your head. All right, 297 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: We got more coming up. 298 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 299 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 300 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: Just a clarification, we played a little clip of Jeffrey 301 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:39,920 Speaker 1: Ellis and he was that wiener who is speaking in 302 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: favor of the homeless project in that neighborhood in Midville Pico, 303 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: and he was misidentified in the story. He's with the 304 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: Westwood South of Santa Monica Homeowners Association, so he's what, 305 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 1: yeah he is, all right, then he is closer to it. 306 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:01,479 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's in the neighborhood. 307 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:05,160 Speaker 1: But I looked up because he is with the organization, 308 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: I guess he must be on the board. And he's 309 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 1: got a little page with his philosophy, and you know, 310 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: he was calling people who are against the housing project 311 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: the same as racists and homophobes, and he said, I 312 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 1: let me see here, let me get it right. Oh, 313 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:30,439 Speaker 1: I'm most concerned that whatever future development occurs in our 314 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 1: community is determined by our citizens and professional planners who 315 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 1: work with our communities, not by politicians and they're handpicked commissioners. Well, 316 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:46,639 Speaker 1: the citizens in the community don't want this homeless monstrosity, 317 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 1: and it's the politicians who are. 318 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:51,919 Speaker 3: Forcing it on them. Yeah, Aslowski. 319 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: So this Jeffrey Ellis is this fraud where if you 320 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 1: go to his website because he's with this homeowners organization, 321 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,639 Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, Jeffrey's my kind of guy. He wants 322 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: the people in the neighborhood to decide the future. 323 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 2: No, he doesn't. 324 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:09,879 Speaker 1: He wants the likes of Katie Arslovsky and Karen Bascone 325 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 1: to cram three dozen crazed vagrants. 326 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 3: Into your neighborhood. Everyone's a fraud. I mean's just everybody. 327 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 3: We have got the great three o'clock Friday show. That's right, 328 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 3: We've got the Moistline people coming next hour. We have 329 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 3: him some hacks to throw into the dumpster. It's a 330 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 3: collection of hacks based on one of the biggest stories 331 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 3: we've covered in the past. Couple of weeks. We'll kick 332 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 3: off next hour with one more chapter on the vagrants 333 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 3: in today's show and kind of matches with what's going 334 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 3: on this afternoon. It looks like some more hotel workers 335 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 3: have walked off the job at hotels near lax unhappy 336 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 3: with wages and healthcare benefits. And it's going to be 337 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,679 Speaker 3: about the hotels next hour, because maybe all the hotels 338 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 3: in LA will close if they're forced to take in 339 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 3: the vagrants. That's going to be on the ballot for 340 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 3: Los Angeles City voters next year that they're going to 341 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 3: be forced to report their vacancies and as a chance, 342 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 3: they have to take in the vagrants and house them 343 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 3: in their hotels. Well, this could include some of the 344 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:09,120 Speaker 3: nicest ones you can imagine. 345 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: And the public is not going to rent rooms at 346 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: hotels that take in vagrants. 347 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 3: And that's what we're gonna find out with a brand 348 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 3: new poll that's come out asking people both here and 349 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:21,199 Speaker 3: across the country, what do you think if LA passes 350 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 3: an ordinance that requires the hotels to take in homeless people? 351 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 3: Would you go to that city? Would you go to 352 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 3: that hotel that's coming up at three or five of 353 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 3: the Johnny Kent show one more note on Los Angeles 354 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 3: City government and something that they're planning to do is well, 355 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 3: you're probably aware that there's a lot of robberies going 356 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:43,879 Speaker 3: on in Los Angeles, smashing grabs, taco stands being knocked off, 357 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,479 Speaker 3: many stores are being robbed, and one of the moves 358 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 3: that store owners are making is to go cashless because 359 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 3: if you are going to go in and rob at 360 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 3: a coffee shop, you could take some coffee, right, maybe 361 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 3: a couple of donuts, but you're after the cash. The moulah. 362 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 3: Just like the guys that knock off the taco stands, 363 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,640 Speaker 3: they know that that's primarily a cash business and that's 364 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:11,879 Speaker 3: what they're after. That's why I remember a couple of 365 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 3: years ago they were knocking off all the pot shops 366 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 3: because again, that's primarily a cash business, and that's what 367 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 3: the robbers are after. The quick hit and grab the money, 368 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,440 Speaker 3: particularly if it's untraceable. They used to go rob banks, 369 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:26,920 Speaker 3: but the bank's got more complicated, better security, They mark 370 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 3: the bills. Yeah, so now we'll just go after a 371 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 3: store that's got canny. When they break into restaurants overnight 372 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 3: try to steal the cash. Yeah, So the response is 373 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 3: we're just gonna have to go cashless. We're sorry customers, 374 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 3: but were forced to do this. You're just gonna have 375 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,399 Speaker 3: to use a credit card or a debit card if 376 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 3: you come here. Well, the reason we're talking about this 377 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 3: is that the City of La is not going to 378 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 3: allow that. They've done this in San Francisco and Berkeley, 379 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:58,680 Speaker 3: a cashless ban telling businesses they cannot go cashless. City 380 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 3: council Member Heather Hut we have so many people in 381 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,640 Speaker 3: the city that are unbanked or are underbanked. Never heard 382 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:05,160 Speaker 3: that expression. 383 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 6: Oh. 384 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 1: I was looking at the Channel seven story by Sophie 385 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:12,360 Speaker 1: Flay and the lead line is should restaurants and other 386 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 1: businesses be able to turn down cash payments? The city 387 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:22,359 Speaker 1: council is trying to protect the unbanked and under banked, 388 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,080 Speaker 1: and I'm looking at unbanked. That's not a word. Underbanked 389 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 1: is not a word. 390 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:29,400 Speaker 2: What is this? 391 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 3: Unhoused? Unbanked? Ah, I don't know. A cashless business doesn't 392 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 3: allow them to participate in the economy at all. So uh, 393 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,679 Speaker 3: supposedly seven percent of Californians are unbanked. Meeting someone who 394 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:50,479 Speaker 3: does not have a bank account. Well, anyway, the La 395 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 3: City Council Announcy passed or motion to ban cashless businesses. 396 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 1: But they have created an environment where where business right 397 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: this is to take cash. 398 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:03,399 Speaker 3: Well, the visits have casher now targets. 399 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 1: You know, they were happy to debank the police a 400 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:12,919 Speaker 1: few years ago, right and demoralize the police. And we 401 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 1: have a shortage of cops. And they've also disallowed the 402 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: cops from enforcing the law actively. 403 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 3: Now we have no bail. Now we have no bail. 404 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 3: We've been debailed. 405 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: So now a de banked person and get off on debail. 406 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,399 Speaker 3: Some security experts were telling businesses this is probably what 407 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,120 Speaker 3: you have to do. You have to go cash list 408 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 3: because that's what they're here. That's what they're looking for 409 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 3: when they break in at like three in the morning. Oh, 410 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 3: they're trying to find where you keep the cash receipts 411 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:44,639 Speaker 3: and you maybe you have to go cashless. So some 412 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 3: of them have tried to do that, but in LA 413 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 3: they're not going to let you. And they went to 414 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 3: some egghead at UC Irvine. Bill Maher, the Dean of 415 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 3: Social Sciences, says we can't forget about folks who live 416 00:22:55,800 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 3: in a predominantly cash based society. Some people with disabilities 417 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,679 Speaker 3: have a hard time when they're using a non cash 418 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,880 Speaker 3: means of payment that that would that be a credit card. 419 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 3: Somebody in a wheelchair can't people put the credit card out? 420 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,160 Speaker 1: They can't really and uh, in our part of the world, 421 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 1: recent immigrants are refugees, well, they're not supposed to be here. 422 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:18,639 Speaker 3: People who haven't yet set up a bank account have 423 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 3: a hard time with cash, right. 424 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 1: Because they're there are legal aliens and they don't have 425 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: the proper idea and then they don't have a bank account. 426 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:25,399 Speaker 3: You see them. 427 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 1: They're also paid that way, so that's right that they're 428 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:29,639 Speaker 1: they're because they don't pay taxes. 429 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 3: They're paid under the table. 430 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 1: Yes, so they're untaxed. In addition to being unbanked and underbanked, 431 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: you forgot an underbanked. 432 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 3: I'm not sure what the distinction is if you have 433 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 3: like you have some banking your under bank underbanked means. 434 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 3: I don't know. Ask Heather Hut, Eather lunatic. Heather Hut, Yeah, 435 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,120 Speaker 3: that's her name. I think she is. That she took 436 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 3: one of the seats that somebody got in trouble, right remarkedly, 437 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 3: Thomas or somebody. Oh, she replaced one of the criminals. Yes, 438 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 3: at the current price, I'm mixing them all up and app. 439 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 1: I can't keep track of it. There's a shide criminals 440 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: that have been kicked out, and I who knows who 441 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:09,120 Speaker 1: these people are that replace them? 442 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 3: Uh More? Coming up Johnny KNKFI A six forty live 443 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 3: everywhere I Heeard Radio unbanked. 444 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 445 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 446 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: On the radio from one until four and then after 447 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: four o'clock on the iHeart app Johnny can on demand 448 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: the podcast. 449 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 3: You could listen to whatever you missed. Listen all weekend 450 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 3: to any show that you want to. Yeah, if you 451 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,199 Speaker 3: can't hear Next Hour Live, pick it up on the 452 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 3: podcast because going to have the moistline here. We're gonna 453 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 3: have hacks for the dumpster. It's all ahead on the 454 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 3: Friday Johnny Ken's show. 455 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 6: Now. 456 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 3: The following story may seem unbelievable, but it's true, although 457 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 3: not all of it is true. There was a viral 458 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 3: story that went out a week or two ago. It 459 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 3: almost sounds like the beginning of a joke. A man 460 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 3: went to the ballpark in Philadelphia and if I had to 461 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 3: get in with his emotional support alligator. Well, the emotional 462 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 3: support alligator part is true, but the man was not 463 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 3: actually trying to get into the ballpark. Sort of a 464 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 3: story behind it. But there is a man I think 465 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,679 Speaker 3: his name is Joey Henny, and he does have an 466 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 3: emotional support alligator named Wally that he walks on a leash. 467 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 3: And look at the pictures of the video. It is amazing. 468 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,360 Speaker 3: The alligator is six foot long and fifty five pounds, 469 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,120 Speaker 3: but it wears a harness and a leash. It will 470 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 3: not bite anyone. In fact, it loves to be held, 471 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 3: and it does to cuddle, and it loves when you 472 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,680 Speaker 3: pet it on the chin. He loves to cuddle. It does. 473 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:38,920 Speaker 3: There's a picture of a woman holding the alligator like 474 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:39,399 Speaker 3: a baby. 475 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 2: Wait, the harness in the leash does that keep its jaw? 476 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 3: No, it does not. The jaw is not shut. The 477 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 3: harness is around sort of its neck area. I'm looking 478 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:49,679 Speaker 3: at it here. 479 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: This idiot's gonna lose his face one day. He or 480 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: his leg, yeah, any of his appendages. 481 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 3: He's had the alligator for quite a while. It's got 482 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,679 Speaker 3: one hundred and forty ten thousand followers on TikTok. The 483 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 3: reason he went to the ballpark. Is that to some 484 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 3: friend of his says, I know the ballplayers, they'd love 485 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,360 Speaker 3: to meet your emotional support alligator. Why didn't you come 486 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,159 Speaker 3: on down to the ballpark. He was not intending to 487 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 3: go to the game, but he was maybe the player 488 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:16,880 Speaker 3: was going to come out and quickly say hello, because 489 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,679 Speaker 3: this person, what what is the But then they were 490 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 3: too late because the players already had to stay in 491 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,200 Speaker 3: the clubhouse and go play the game. So then they 492 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 3: did try to get him tickets and he was told 493 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 3: you can't bring that in here. Yeah, only guide dog 494 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 3: service animals or service animals and training. 495 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: This is an emotional support qualify. I can test the premise. 496 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,400 Speaker 1: What kind of emotional support can can of alligator bring? 497 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 2: Oh? 498 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 3: He says, it brings him much joy? How badly damaged 499 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 3: is this guy? He is really bonded with the with 500 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,680 Speaker 3: the elevator. But what's wrong with him? Though? 501 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: But it's wrong with the human the guy. I don't 502 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:52,920 Speaker 1: know what can the alligator do about it? 503 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:53,360 Speaker 6: The the. 504 00:26:55,600 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 3: Alligator brings him happiness. They always say this about all animals. Times, 505 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 3: when you just cuddle an animal, it makes you feel calmer. 506 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 3: They always say that, doesn't that what happens to you. 507 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 2: Never mind, Yeah, I love my dogs. 508 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:07,920 Speaker 3: What's three? 509 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:09,199 Speaker 2: You're right, all right? 510 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 3: Because she's getting more anxious. 511 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: He's a third dog now, once for earthquakes, once for viruses. 512 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 3: And once for getting ready to fly. 513 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 1: And wait a few years, she's gonna have twelve dogs 514 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: in her house. The anxieties pile. So what's this guy's 515 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,160 Speaker 1: Probably we know Debra's problems, right, She's aired almost all 516 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:27,440 Speaker 1: of them. 517 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 3: What is this guy's issues in life? He says that 518 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 3: he calls He says, he compares Wally to a living, 519 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,439 Speaker 3: weighted blanket who loves to be held and give hugs. 520 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 3: You know, as I said, particularly partial to chin rubs. 521 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:45,640 Speaker 3: I've been handling alligators for thirty years, is what this guy, 522 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,120 Speaker 3: Henny said. Brown men should not. This one he took 523 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 3: a special liking to. So he is the first reptile 524 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,479 Speaker 3: to be certified as an emotional support. 525 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 1: That emotional support thing is a real load of who, 526 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: isn't it. I mean, I don't know where this came 527 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,480 Speaker 1: from when they started. I see people walking around in 528 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,399 Speaker 1: airports and and and there their animals have like, uh 529 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,199 Speaker 1: a well have like a little a vest, right a 530 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 1: vest and it says, emotional support animal on the vest. 531 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 3: He says, do not pet. I've seen that with a 532 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,439 Speaker 3: lot of people that have their their service dog or 533 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 3: emotional support animal. 534 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 2: So I see these people, My first thought is, what's 535 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 2: wrong with you? They just want their animal on the 536 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:28,440 Speaker 2: plane with them. 537 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:29,879 Speaker 3: I figured it's scam. 538 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 1: Or you really have It's like having a stuffed animal 539 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,640 Speaker 1: when you're five years old, right, it's something to kind 540 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: of five years old exactly. Okay, Now it's a living 541 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: creature that no grown man who has any self respect 542 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 1: should be walking around with. 543 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:47,640 Speaker 3: Emotional support animal. That is just the alligator. Isn't that weird? 544 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're probably gonna catch some alligator virus. 545 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 3: Are the Phillies going to use him as a ralligator? 546 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 3: Now that's idea the air well, they didn't let him 547 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 3: in though, because he didn't technically, Oh, they're. 548 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 2: Now trying to protect the players. 549 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 3: Well, the players wanted to meet them. At least that's 550 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,320 Speaker 3: the story that the guy's telling. Some of the players 551 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 3: were interested in the alligatory through at the alligator. They're 552 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 3: never going to win another pennant. Now, speaking of flying though, 553 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 3: Deborah Mark, you don't want to take the low cost 554 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 3: airline via Jetair because apparently on a flight from Bangkok 555 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 3: to Taiwan, people are just sitting there like you would 556 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 3: normally on a plane, and suddenly a rat and an 557 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 3: otter scooted by a rat and an otter. Somehow a 558 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 3: woman got through security with several animals. It says here, 559 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 3: and it looks like the rat and the otter got 560 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,239 Speaker 3: loose and they started scurrying around the plane cabin. You 561 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 3: imagine that was a now bino rat in a one 562 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 3: foot long otter? 563 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 2: Was it an emotional support otter? 564 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 3: Do they have vests? 565 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 2: A subsequent search. 566 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 3: Found a box with twenty eight live turtles, a snake, 567 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 3: a marmot, two otters, and two other rodents of unknown species. 568 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 3: A marmot. A marmot. 569 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's a marmot. It's another kind of the 570 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: little rodent thing. I guess, I don't know. They're a 571 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 1: little rodent things. 572 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 3: The Honor looks very cute, though, is the picture of 573 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 3: the otter are asleep? Otters can be kind of cute. 574 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 2: The marma looks almost like a hamster or a guinea. 575 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 3: Pig, right, But otters can be aggressive. You have to 576 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 3: be careful, so I mean the plane's mid air. Could 577 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 3: you imagine that I would think I was seeing things 578 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 3: if an otter is scurried by. 579 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 2: I guess they don't have security measures in those countries. 580 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:26,959 Speaker 3: I don't know how she did this. I don't think 581 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 3: they have the same kind of scanning. I don't know. 582 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,320 Speaker 3: I mean with us, every kind of carry on goes 583 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 3: through the scanner. 584 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 5: There. 585 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 3: You think they would pick up an. 586 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 1: Otter and an albino rat and albino hell well. 587 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 2: It's cuter than a brown and rat, it says. 588 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 3: The cabin crew immediately ordered anyone who bought these animals 589 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 3: on the plane to make themselves known, but the culprit 590 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 3: did not come forward initially, But after they started investigating, 591 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 3: the woman did admit it and then demanded a refund. 592 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 1: Because I guess the flight had to retere. You go 593 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 1: the thing for you to worry about. Edgie thinks rats 594 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 1: running under it. 595 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 3: All right, when we come back, we're gonna talk about 596 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 3: a poll that was taken. If you're gonna plan on 597 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 3: visiting Los Angeles, would you book a room at a 598 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,000 Speaker 3: hotel that might have to take on the vagrants? Because 599 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 3: on the ballot next year is a measure. It's on 600 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,440 Speaker 3: the March twenty twenty four ballot to require all local 601 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 3: hotels to house homeless people next to paying guests. A 602 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 3: labor union, the one that's representing these hotel workers, got 603 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 3: this on the ballot. We'll talk about it next with 604 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,360 Speaker 3: a representative from the American Hotel and Lodging Association. Johnny 605 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 3: KENKFI AM six forty Live everywhere iHeartRadio app. 606 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, remark live in the KFI twenty for our newsroom. 607 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 3: Hey, you've been listening to the John and Ken Show. 608 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 3: You can always hear us live on CAFI AM six 609 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 3: forty one pm to four pm every Monday through Friday, 610 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 3: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.