1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: I AM six forty. You're listening to the John and 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. You can 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 1: of course hear the show live between one and four, 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: but if that doesn't work for your schedule, you can 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: pick it up on demand sometime right after four o'clock 6 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: at CAFIAM six forty dot com and also, of course, 7 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 1: well the ever present iHeartRadio app. Got a lot to 8 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: get to in the last couple of hours of the show. 9 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: But we're gonna start with the world of homelessness. Isn't 10 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,839 Speaker 1: that nice? Well, of course there's a faction, and it 11 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: mostly is controlling politicians in the city and the state 12 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 1: who believe in housing first, and not only that, they 13 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: believe that where the homeless stand or squat or sleep 14 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: or lie is where they should be housed, regardless of 15 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: where they quote fell into overlessness. So we have this 16 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: city owned parking lot in West Los Angeles that council 17 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: Member Katie Arroslavsky wants to convert into interim housing. The 18 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: properties at twenty three seventy seven Midvale Avenue, which is 19 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:10,680 Speaker 1: a corner lot at the intersection with Pico Boulevard, and 20 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:14,400 Speaker 1: of course the old West Side pavilion former. It's no 21 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 1: longer a mall. We know what happened to malls. But anyway, 22 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 1: there are people who live in the neighborhood who are 23 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 1: vehemently against this plan. The last time we visited this story, 24 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:30,319 Speaker 1: there was some sort of community meeting and boy did 25 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: they let Roslovsky know. And I think Bass was there too. 26 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: They got booed, people were yelling. Recall. The organization we're 27 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: going to talk about now is Stopmidvlle Pico dot org. 28 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: Natalie Meinhart is going to be my guest here to 29 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: talk about this plan for housing the homeless in this 30 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: neighborhood of West Los Angeles, and on top of that 31 00:01:53,720 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: a development concerning an Ethics Commission investigation. Let's bring on, Natalie. 32 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: Welcome to the John and Ken Show. 33 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 2: Thank you, Ken, I appreciate you having me. 34 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: Anything you want to add to my opening there about what's. 35 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 2: Going on, well, you do have it pretty much correct. 36 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 2: The city is using our tax dollars to build, like 37 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 2: you said, an interim homeless shelter in the heart of 38 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 2: a residential, single family neighborhood and close to local businesses, 39 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 2: and they've made it abundantly clear that this will be 40 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 2: a low barrier entry shelter, which means that violent offenders, 41 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 2: people with drug addiction issues, and pretty much people from 42 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:44,959 Speaker 2: all walks of life will be sheltered next to young children, 43 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 2: next to local businesses, next to the elderly, and huge 44 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 2: parking lot which is extremely crucial to the local businesses 45 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 2: nearby will be eliminated. 46 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: It's about what is it? Forty or so are supposed 47 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: to be housing there? Is that what you hear? 48 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 2: They're supposed to be housing about thirty four residents at 49 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 2: any given time. Again, these residents are from all walks 50 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:15,239 Speaker 2: of life, and there will be no curfew, there will 51 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 2: be no drug testing. The residents are free to go 52 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 2: and come as they please, so you can imagine what 53 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 2: they may want to be doing all day, wandering the 54 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 2: streets the local neighborhood. And there will only be one 55 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 2: unarmed guard to support these thirty four residents who has 56 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 2: and this person has zero jurisdiction once a resident leaves 57 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 2: the facility, So if he just happens to step right 58 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 2: outside and commit a crime, this one arm one unarmed 59 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 2: guard has zero jurisdiction, he'd have to call the police, 60 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 2: and we all know that police is at it's all 61 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 2: time low. 62 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: Do we know what this housing is supposed to look 63 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: like in turn of the structure that they're putting these 64 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: thirty four people in. Is it one building? Is it 65 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: a bunch of little houses? Do we know? 66 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 2: Yes, we do. It will be thirty I believe, eight 67 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 2: by eight plastic huts that will just be placed on 68 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 2: the property essentially, and they're meant to last for at 69 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 2: least ten years, which is what the project is set 70 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 2: to last for. 71 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: Oh, that's interim ten years. 72 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 2: Huh right, right, at least ten years, yeah, right, Because. 73 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: The belief is it'll turn over, we'll get these people 74 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 1: into permanent housing, but there'll be all the homeless people 75 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,480 Speaker 1: will have to put in there on a short term basis. 76 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: This is the crap that they always sell everybody. Well, 77 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: let's talk about one of the other things that your 78 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: organization has put out in a press release. Again, this 79 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 1: is step Hello, there's an ethics investigation of complaint that 80 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: apparently one of her staffers. His name is Zachary Warma, 81 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: he's her council district Housing and Homelessness policy director. Tell 82 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: us exactly what was found out about this person? 83 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 2: Yes, so we've submitted a number of public records requests 84 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 2: to the city. We receive responses from them, and in 85 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 2: those responses, we've discovered that there have been several people 86 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 2: involved in this or in using a vendor named and 87 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 2: the vendor's name is LA Family Housing. They have a 88 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 2: proven track record of complete failure. If you look at 89 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:43,360 Speaker 2: their North Hollywood project date, the residents there will tell 90 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 2: you that they've completely destroyed the neighborhood. There have been 91 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 2: stabbings in the street, there has been drive by people 92 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:53,600 Speaker 2: shooting up in between their toes on the streets. And 93 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 2: so your Slatsky's office is trying to use LA Family 94 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 2: Housing to also run this project. Now they hired LA 95 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 2: Family Housing without participating in any sort of competitive bidding process. 96 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 2: And again, this is a ten year, multi million dollar project, 97 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,600 Speaker 2: and how did that happen? So we started digging into 98 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 2: these documents. We discovered that as of October twenty twenty two, 99 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:25,359 Speaker 2: Zachary Warma, who was the Associate director of Policy for 100 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:29,599 Speaker 2: LA Family Housing, that's less than a year ago. He 101 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 2: is now CD five Housing and Homelessness Policy Director. 102 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: Oh wasn't that nice? So he slid from Los Angeles 103 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 1: Family Housing into Jaroslowski's office as our Housing and Homelessness 104 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: policy director. But what do you know, his old organization 105 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: got this no bid contract right. 106 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 2: And he was responsible for initiating the Midvale Prequel project. 107 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 2: He was involved in steering the contracts to his former employer, 108 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 2: LA Family Housing, and you'll see that he was involved 109 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 2: in virtually every single meeting in the project. Now, this 110 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 2: is in direct violation of ethics launs. It's of interest, 111 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 2: of course, and so we want to get down to 112 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 2: the bottom of this. How did this happen and why 113 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 2: did it happen? 114 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: They're supposed to be what a twelve month period after 115 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: you leave an organization like that before you can get 116 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: involved in this kind of contracting. Is that what the rules? 117 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: Stayed twelve months? And he wasn't gone twelve months because 118 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: this when was this award made? Was it July or 119 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 1: this year some couple of months ago. 120 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 2: We don't know exactly when the award was made, but 121 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 2: we know that he started discussing this matter in the 122 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 2: early at February of this year, and he left LA 123 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 2: Family Housing. We will leave in October of twenty twenty two, 124 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:43,679 Speaker 2: so just a few months later. 125 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, Natalie, I don't know if you've listened to 126 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 1: the show on any regular basis. What we call it 127 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: the homeless industrial complex. It's kind of this big spending 128 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: machine that occurs. Like they used to call it the military, 129 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 1: I still do the military industrial complex, but we've nicknamed 130 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 1: it homeless because billions are spent, and it's money that 131 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: just circulates between politicians and these nonprofits and all their 132 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: connected personnel that move back and forth between these jobs. 133 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: And it seems to be the case exactly in what 134 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: you guys have uncovered with this Zachary Warma, he used 135 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: to be with Los Angeles Family Housing up until last October. 136 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: He comes over, he joins her staff, Katie Rosowski staff 137 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: as her Housing and Homelessness policy director, and what do 138 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: you know? A contract, no bid goes out to this 139 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Family Housing ten year and you guys have 140 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 1: said it's multimillion. Do you know the exact number on 141 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: this contract? 142 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 2: We don't know the exact number, but we do know 143 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 2: that it's a multimillion dollars project. 144 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: And they will not only what well are they going 145 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: to manage this thirty four person plastic house thing? Is 146 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: that what they're supposed to do? 147 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 2: Correct, They're supposed to manage it and provide support services 148 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 2: to the various residents. 149 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: So what happens. What happens with a complaint like this? 150 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: Do you know? It just says now La City Ethics 151 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 1: Commission will invest the gate Katie Eroslovsky. Right. 152 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 2: All we know is that they will investigate and they'll 153 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 2: come to some sort of determination. The investigation is kept 154 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 2: confidential for the time beings. But there has been a 155 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 2: complaint initiated, and that's where we are now. 156 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you very much for talking to me, 157 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: and keep up the big fight. We would appreciate hearing 158 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:23,079 Speaker 1: from you and your organization. 159 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:24,959 Speaker 2: Thanks Tom, thank you very much. 160 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: We will all right. That's Natalie meinheart. She's with Stopmidvillepico 161 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: dot org. This story popped up a couple of months 162 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 1: ago where is announced by another horrible council member, Katie Eroslavsky, 163 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: that she wants to house the homeless right there in 164 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: a West Los Angeles neighborhood, not far from the West 165 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:44,559 Speaker 1: Side Pavilion if you know the area of Midvale and Pico, 166 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 1: going to put up this. It's a city owned parking lot, 167 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: so they want to put up thirty four. As Natalie 168 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 1: described the little plastic houses put homeless people in there, 169 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 1: and we know what happens to these other sites like 170 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 1: in Venice that because their service is associated with it, 171 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: that does invite other people to camp that because now 172 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: they realize there's something going on here that could benefit them. So, 173 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 1: you know, you think you're solving the problem, Katie Roslovski, 174 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: you're probably compounding it in what is And I've been 175 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 1: there many times. I used to go to the movies 176 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: there in the West Side Pavilion and I didn't live 177 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: far from there when I lived near UCLA years ago, 178 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 1: and it's a very very nice neighborhood. So we'll continue 179 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 1: to cover their fight over this. And as we just mentioned, 180 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: it's the homeless industrial complex because a staffer for Katie Rooslavsky, 181 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,439 Speaker 1: you just happens to be in charge of our housing 182 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:33,559 Speaker 1: and Homelessness, used to work for one of these nonprofits, 183 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Family Housing, and they just got the 184 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 1: big contract to manage this thirty four person homeless site 185 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: in West LA More coming up on the John and 186 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: Ken Show k I Am six forty. We're live everywhere. 187 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 1: It's the iHeartRadio app. 188 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 3: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 189 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:53,559 Speaker 3: AM six forty. 190 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: John's got some time off. I'm here with Debra Mark 191 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 1: updating you on the news. We'll talk about some bills 192 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,199 Speaker 1: making their way through Sacramento. Again. This is a busy 193 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: week in the state legislature and it's mostly not good news. 194 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: Some of them are bizarre, some of them are clearly 195 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,439 Speaker 1: shouldn't see the light of day, but we'll talk about it. 196 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: We'll also talk about the little pickle the Gavin Newsom's 197 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: in when it comes to racial identity politics. It's all 198 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: coming up after the news at two thirty. We're just 199 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 1: talking about homelessness in La of course, and on the 200 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 1: West Side, the plans by a council member named Katie 201 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 1: Yaroslavsky to put up a homeless encampment little plastic houses 202 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: near the West Side Pavilion in a nice neighborhood there 203 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,079 Speaker 1: in West Los Angeles that the people are protesting and 204 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 1: they did discover and doing some of their digging that. 205 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 1: Of course, her homeless and housing director just came over 206 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: from a nonprofit that got the contract to put together 207 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 1: this site, multi million dollar, ten year contract. So you 208 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:58,079 Speaker 1: can see how it works. The incestuousness, the back and 209 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: forth and the complete horror of the homeless industrial complex, 210 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,560 Speaker 1: a story we covered a couple of years ago, And 211 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: I'm going to try to make you feel a bit 212 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: better by going somewhere else where. They have these problems Austin, Texas, 213 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 1: and they believe we had a guest on the air. 214 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: Three years ago, Austin City Council ended a twenty three 215 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: year old ban on public camping to try to decriminalize homelessness. Well, 216 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,839 Speaker 1: a group called Austin Now gathered enough signatures to put 217 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: a camping ban on the ballot, and it was approved 218 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 1: fifty seven percent to forty two percent. Not long after that, 219 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: proposition B madelyning down or camping on public property a misdemeanor, 220 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 1: publishable by a fine up up to five hundred dollars. 221 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,559 Speaker 1: Where are we now, more than a year or two later. 222 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: It's still pretty ugly in Austin. From what I'm reading, 223 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,079 Speaker 1: they're complaining that there's nowhere for these people to go. 224 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,679 Speaker 1: So even though they're enforcing the camping ban, people just 225 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: go somewhere else and put their stuff down until they're 226 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: told to move again. They just so. Here's a store. 227 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: An activist by the name of Jamie Hammonds you'll hear 228 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: him narrating this video. He's walking through Austin, Texas West 229 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: Bolden Creek green Belt, which apparently was once a very 230 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: lovely place for people to recreate to now it is 231 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 1: just overwhelmed with homeless people. Let's listen in Bolden Creek 232 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: green Belt. Look at this place. 233 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 4: Man. If this doesn't this doesn't change your mind about 234 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 4: how we go about the homelessness issue, nothing will. This 235 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 4: was one of the more beautiful green belts in Austin, 236 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 4: and look at it. Jesus fires liquor, bottles, needles, narcan 237 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 4: junk this stuff everywhere. As far as I can see, 238 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 4: Bolden Creek green Belt has just been completely demolished. I 239 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 4: just saw a squirrel out here eating a piece of plastic. 240 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 4: As far as you can see, it's just been destroyed. 241 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 4: It's going to be interesting to see if the city 242 00:13:57,600 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 4: can actually clean this is. 243 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: This is bad. 244 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 4: This is almost as bad as the Violet Crown. It 245 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 4: just keeps going and going. Look at this mess, It 246 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 4: just keeps going and going. All right, we are out 247 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 4: here on the Bolden Creek green Belt. This is the 248 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 4: creek here. They're nice, no trespassing, but this whole green 249 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 4: belt is full of these camps and apparently the city 250 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 4: is out here currently they're about to start cleaning these out, 251 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 4: but that has been the case for about a month 252 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 4: now and this is all still here. About seventy five 253 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 4: people have been moved from here into shelter, so we'll 254 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 4: keep tabs on it. But this is what your Bolden 255 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 4: Creek green Belt looks like today. 256 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: Nice. That is again an Austin activist by the Damie 257 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 1: Hammond's who made this video which has gone viral. It 258 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: reminds me of the Santa Ana riverbed story we covered 259 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: a couple of year years back. It's like a trail 260 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 1: and a walking area wooded and there's just so much 261 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 1: as far as the eye can see of homeless encampment, 262 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: junk with tarps and all sorts of garbage and of 263 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: course scattered about our needles and everything else that the 264 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: homeless hoard. And again my point with this is the 265 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: same as I always say, you have to enforce to 266 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: get people to get their lives together. Pampering people and 267 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: saying oh, it's too expensive for you to buy a home, 268 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: so we'll let you camp until we can find you 269 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: and take care of you for the rest of your 270 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 1: life with permanent supportive housing. That's not the way it 271 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: works in this country. Maybe one of those little tender 272 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: socialist countries will treat you that way, but in this 273 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 1: country a lot of self responsibilities required, and for many 274 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: years long gone. Now apparently people found a way to cope, 275 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: even if it's meant sleeping on a friends or a 276 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 1: relative's couch for a while until you can get your 277 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 1: act together and get a better job and make a 278 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 1: little more money and move a place where you can 279 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 1: afford the housing. It's that simple. And then, of course 280 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: the other part is stay off the drugs and if 281 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: you have a mental illness, get some type of treatment. 282 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: All that's out the window now with this pampering philosophy 283 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: that we have to solve everybody's problems, because it's really 284 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 1: just about housing. It's not it's about everybody has a 285 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 1: relative like this, right, a leech, somebody that just doesn't 286 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 1: want to get up and work, right, somebody would rather 287 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: just be a lay about, just kind of hanging around 288 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 1: and mooching off the system, whether it's you or the 289 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: government or whatever. Now we have large collections of these 290 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 1: in all the major cities, and until we really get 291 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: to kicking butt and telling people you got to get 292 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: your act together. We're not doing everything for you. There's 293 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 1: gonna be no end to this, all right, More coming 294 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: up Johnny Ken's show, I Am six forty Live everywhere 295 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. 296 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 3: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 297 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 3: AM six forty. 298 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: Well, he's not going down without a fight. We're talking 299 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: talking about Mrt. Mark Bidley Thomas, of course, the longtime 300 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:07,879 Speaker 1: Southern California political hack. He was in the city council 301 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: and the state legislature, the county Board of Supervisors. Anyway, 302 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,160 Speaker 1: he was found guilty and sentenced to over three years 303 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 1: in prison. This would be a federal case, and he's 304 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:21,399 Speaker 1: supposed to turn himself in next month, either November, I 305 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: think November thirteenth, but he hopefully he's not going to 306 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 1: have to, he thinks, because he's appealing to the US 307 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. What happened in the case 308 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 1: was they did appeal to the judge who oversaw the trial, 309 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 1: and he turned aside their appeal, so they have to 310 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 1: go further, and now they're going to go to the 311 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 1: Ninth Circuit. We'll talk about with defense attorney at LU 312 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: Shapiro after the News at three o'clock. What are mrt's 313 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:48,120 Speaker 1: chances And of course, what he's also trying to do 314 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:52,879 Speaker 1: is delay his reporting for prison. He would probably like 315 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,119 Speaker 1: a decision that would allow him to stay out of 316 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: prison until this appeals process resolves. So we'll find out 317 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:02,360 Speaker 1: those prospects. Come it up next hour on the John 318 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 1: and Ken Show. Meanwhile, up in Sacramento, we told you 319 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: that the Friday is it. They'll finish their session Friday 320 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,160 Speaker 1: and be gone for a couple of months. So they're 321 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 1: pushing all these bills through, whether the thumbs up or 322 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: thumbs down to turn them over to dipity do Gavin Newsom. 323 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:21,680 Speaker 1: The one we're watching for, and we don't have any 324 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: word yet, is the one, of course, that would make 325 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 1: it a serious offence to traffic miners for sexual purposes. 326 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:33,160 Speaker 1: I've been following that story with State Senator Shannon Grove 327 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 1: for some time now after it got turned down by 328 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 1: the Assembly Public Safety Committee, but came back around and 329 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: apparently has the support of Democrats and Republicans in Sacramento. 330 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,919 Speaker 1: So we expect that bill to get passed, but it 331 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,439 Speaker 1: may take until the final day some things that happened today, 332 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:51,440 Speaker 1: And of course this one gets a lot of headlines. 333 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:56,679 Speaker 1: Skittles are banned. Yeah, what they did was they had 334 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 1: a bill up in Sacramento that apparently some of the 335 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 1: ingredients in candy like Skittles are toxic, toxic food additives. 336 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: That's what's in the bill. It isn't a bill to 337 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 1: ban Skittles, but if Skittles has that ingredients, they're gonna 338 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 1: have to change the recipe. The California Food Safety Act, 339 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 1: the first of its kind in the country, would ban 340 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: the manufacturer, sale, or distribution of brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, 341 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 1: and something called propol parabin and red dye number three. 342 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: So if the people that make products that have those 343 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,400 Speaker 1: ingredients are gonna have to change. I think they did 344 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:41,679 Speaker 1: this in Europe with the skills, and maybe they change 345 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: the recipe. But honestly, I have to ask the same question, 346 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:47,439 Speaker 1: how much would you have to ingest of Skittles for 347 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 1: it to become a serious cancer problem? 348 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 5: Yep, it find another candy then that doesn't have those ingredients. 349 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 5: I mean, do you really love Skittles that much? 350 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, anything anything you eat, Debra's probably gonna have something, 351 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 1: except you eat your own vegetables. But you could end 352 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:06,880 Speaker 1: up with all sorts of bacteria. But anyway, a lot 353 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: of things that we ingest in small amounts, probably you 354 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 1: would not be good for the body, but over the 355 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: long run, they're not likely to kill you. I don't 356 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 1: know why you have to go after particular ingredients that 357 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 1: a small amounts. 358 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:22,479 Speaker 6: Just because the off chance. 359 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 1: I mean, look, there's the off chance. 360 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 6: Hey, looktles. It doesn't okay, who cares? I don't care. 361 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 6: If it's carrots, then I wouldn't eat them. I find 362 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 6: something else. 363 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 1: If they can change the formula so the skittles taste 364 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: the same and keep them on the market. This bill 365 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 1: won't take effect until January first of twenty twenty seven. 366 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,360 Speaker 1: I've new some signs, so we'll see what the makers 367 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:50,119 Speaker 1: of this particular candy do. But uh, four. 368 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 6: Years to just get as many skittles as you want. 369 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, do you still go into buildings, Deborah? Will you 370 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,880 Speaker 1: see that sign that warns you that the buildings may 371 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: have toxic chemicals? Yeah, that's nonsense, all right? That this 372 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 1: is what California is, the nanny state. That's what they're 373 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,120 Speaker 1: known for. They really if anything's bad for your health, 374 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: will find a way to ban it or at least 375 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: to notify the public about it. But I really think 376 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 1: the odds of you dying from ingesting skittles with this ingredient, 377 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,360 Speaker 1: even if you ate several packs a day, would probably 378 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: be minimal. 379 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 5: You're probably right, But again, I would just I don't know, 380 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 5: I'm just talking about me. I would just find a 381 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,879 Speaker 5: different candy that just doesn't have those ingredients. I mean, 382 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 5: there's so many kinds. 383 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: I just well, we're gonna find out that there's something 384 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 1: in M and m's it's no good, and then what's 385 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:41,360 Speaker 1: after that? Right, don't think of some of those red 386 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 1: dyes to make those red m and ms or something like. 387 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 6: That, and then they won't make red m and ms anymore. 388 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 1: What happened if they found some chemical and avocados that I. 389 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 5: Just said, if it was in carrots, I wouldn't eat carrots. 390 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 5: If avocados suddenly became a cancer causing situation, I wouldn't. 391 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 5: I would not eat avocados. 392 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,119 Speaker 1: I would live. I would find Well, the problemeric is 393 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: pretty much with processed foods. Those are the ones that 394 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 1: come from the factories, you know, And that's really I 395 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:09,120 Speaker 1: mean the chances of us suddenly finding out there's something 396 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 1: in avocados growing on a tree. 397 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 5: I mean, I don't need sacron. I don't use sachron 398 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 5: because of you know, all those years ago they said 399 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:19,440 Speaker 5: that there was that chance of sacron causing cancer so much, which. 400 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 1: Is a good point. But here, tell me, what's the 401 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 1: death toll from sacran? Do you have a number? 402 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 6: I do not. I would have to google that and 403 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 6: do some research. 404 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: Jaf by Sacrid. It was on the certificate of the 405 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: guy that died in the morgue. See that's what I 406 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 1: also wonder again. They used to say you'd have to 407 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: drink a lot of diet soda with sacchron for it 408 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: to probably cause you cancer over a lifetime. So another 409 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,639 Speaker 1: bill that apparently is going to be sent to Gavin 410 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:48,680 Speaker 1: Newsom is this one's funny. Seven years ago the legislature 411 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: decided to take a stand. They passed a law forbidding 412 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 1: the state from spending money on travel to states with 413 00:22:55,280 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: what they described as anti LGBTQ plus laws. Well, they're 414 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 1: going to repeal it because it was really, really dumb. 415 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: And it turns out that there more than half the 416 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: states would qualify as being states that have these kinds 417 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,400 Speaker 1: of rules and laws. So it got to be ridiculous, 418 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 1: especially when it comes to the student athletes and some 419 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,640 Speaker 1: other professional professors who had to travel to other states. 420 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:22,360 Speaker 1: They realized that this was stupid. Oh yeah, it says 421 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,720 Speaker 1: here the number of states that California would not fund 422 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,879 Speaker 1: travel to has grown immensely. It now stands at twenty six. 423 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 1: So they've decided that this is a silly thing to do. 424 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 1: And finally they have a bill that mandates that human 425 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: beings have to be behind the wheel of driverless trucks. 426 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 1: I guess this is common sense for most people as 427 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 1: we head to the future of self driving vehicles. Do 428 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,159 Speaker 1: you really want to see a large big rig on 429 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: the road that's being driven by robotics? Probably not, So 430 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,359 Speaker 1: this bill mandates that human drivers have to be behind 431 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: the wheel of a honomous drucks. But you know, anybody 432 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: that has a tesla thoses where you can trick the 433 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,640 Speaker 1: thing into making you believe that there's a U many 434 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: the behind the world with their hands on the wheel. 435 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 1: But this way truckers can you know, they can drive 436 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 1: all night, but they can sit in the passenger seat 437 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 1: and take a nap and figure out a way to 438 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 1: keep their hands on the wheel. But it passed overwhelmingly 439 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:24,680 Speaker 1: and Newsom's expected to sign it. When we come back, 440 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about Newsom. He's in a bit of 441 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 1: a pickle. We're gonna play you a clip again from 442 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: Meet the Press. This is the problem you get into 443 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: when a lot of what you do politically revolves around 444 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: racial identity politics. And it all has to do with 445 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 1: old Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat. But the other issue that's 446 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,159 Speaker 1: coming up, of course, I had mentioned yesterday, is the 447 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,480 Speaker 1: idea of giving out cash money as slave reparations. It's 448 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 1: coming up next. John and kenkf I am six forty. 449 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,639 Speaker 1: We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. 450 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,880 Speaker 3: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from k IF. 451 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,160 Speaker 3: I am six forty. 452 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,479 Speaker 1: I just down to hole a bag of Skittles. 453 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 6: De Yeah, and how you feel? 454 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:13,119 Speaker 1: And Ken? You, Oh, I think I have cancer? You 455 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 1: need to go to e R. Oh my god. Skittles 456 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,159 Speaker 1: will kill us all if we eat ten thousand bags 457 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 1: a day. 458 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 6: Well, yeah, yes, that that you're. 459 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 1: Saving some Sacramento from the evil of skittles, and some 460 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:26,679 Speaker 1: of their ingredients kill us. 461 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 6: If you eight thousands and thousands a day. You would 462 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 6: die I think from something that shot to do it. Yeah, exactly, 463 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 6: sugar car. 464 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: Instant diabetic attack, Yeah, probably what would happen. But anyway, 465 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,400 Speaker 1: all right, coming up after three o'clock, my guest will 466 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,160 Speaker 1: be defense attorney Luke Shapiro to talk about markre Lee Thomas. 467 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,399 Speaker 1: The gambit here is just to put off having to 468 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: report for prison in November. So he's appealing to the 469 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: Ninth Circuit the conviction and the decisions made by a 470 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: judge in the case against Markedly Thomas for corruption concerning 471 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 1: the school's social work at us see. So we'll talk 472 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: about that. Also, we're keeping an eye on Sacramento. Next 473 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: hour two. There's another thing that's going through the legislature 474 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,880 Speaker 1: which deals with your electricity bill. In the future, you'll 475 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: pay for your usage, plus you'll play a fixed fee 476 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 1: based on your income. Ridiculous. Imagine everything in life that 477 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,560 Speaker 1: you buy could be based the price would be based 478 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 1: on your income. Is that the direction we're heading. I mean, 479 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:30,199 Speaker 1: they can control these quasi government agencies concerning electricity, but 480 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 1: just imagine if they were able to copy this to 481 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:34,920 Speaker 1: all sorts of aspects of a you fill up the 482 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,399 Speaker 1: car with gasoline. Well, how much do you make? All right, 483 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,640 Speaker 1: Well that's your price. You make a lot. Yeah, you're 484 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: gonna have to pay a lot more per gallon. Anyway, 485 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,199 Speaker 1: we'll talk about all this with a state senator by 486 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 1: the name of Brian Jones in the three o'clock hour. 487 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: Now we move over to dippity Doo Gavin Newsom. We're 488 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,120 Speaker 1: gonna play a clip from Meet the Press. We didn't 489 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 1: get to this yesterday. It's sort of inside politics, but 490 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,639 Speaker 1: I want to use it to make a point about 491 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 1: the trap you run into with quote racial identity politics. 492 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 1: It all concerns Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat, let's say, and 493 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 1: she's got another year and several months to go before 494 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 1: her term is up. She didn't make it to the 495 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,199 Speaker 1: finish line, and she has to be replaced. Well, Newsom 496 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: is the one that names her replacement. Now, is he 497 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: going to name somebody that'll have the inside seat for 498 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: next year's election or will he just name a caretaker 499 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,400 Speaker 1: so he doesn't get involved in the primary politics. There's 500 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 1: a three way race going on on the Democrat side 501 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 1: to be Feinstein's replacement in the US Senate. It's quite 502 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 1: a Troika. But anyway, it's Barbara Lee, a congresswoman from 503 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 1: the Bay Area. Is Adam Schiff, of course, the congressman 504 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:48,679 Speaker 1: from southern California, and Katie Porter, the congresswoman from Orange County. 505 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,159 Speaker 1: So here's what happened when Chuck Todd and Gavin Newsom 506 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 1: talked about this. 507 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 7: The senior senator here has her daughter apparently has power 508 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,959 Speaker 7: of attorney. She, as an elected official, has power attorney 509 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,879 Speaker 7: over forty million people's representation in Washington, d C. 510 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,200 Speaker 8: Why should she still be serving as a senator. 511 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:07,120 Speaker 1: Well, I leave it to her. 512 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 8: I told you I'm the most subjective human being in 513 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,160 Speaker 8: the world on this topic. I have no objectivity whatsoever. 514 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 8: I've known Diane Feinstein since I was a kid. I 515 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 8: interned with her in college. Still have a signed book 516 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 8: from my days when she was mayor, and so yeah, 517 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,880 Speaker 8: so you know, I just I'm the last person to ask, 518 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 8: is it's sad to watch? 519 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 7: Look, this is somebody who who's obituary. Does you know 520 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 7: legacy is? I think fact people are get to the 521 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 7: real questions of what we're watching. 522 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 8: But I'll tell you, I mean, it wasn't that long 523 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 8: ago where she would call me up reading the Riot 524 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 8: Act on issues related to forest management, vegetation management, where 525 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 8: we're doing in the Central Valley on drought and water issues. Again, 526 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 8: that won the black and white movie Days. 527 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: That was That was not too long ago. 528 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 8: Her staff is still extraordinarily active and we wish her 529 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 8: only the best. Her term expires, she's not running for reelection, 530 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 8: so you know this time next year will be in 531 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:03,160 Speaker 8: a very difficult face. 532 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,280 Speaker 7: Do you feel as if the staff is fulfilling can 533 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 7: do the duties. 534 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 8: I don't think, and I know it. We're working extraordinarily closely. 535 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 7: You don't feel as if the state's losing out by 536 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 7: not having a more active voice. 537 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 8: Maybe missing town halls or more act. But you know, 538 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 8: Center Pitia was just in the office a few days ago. 539 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 8: We were comparing contrasts. I've seeing issues and advocacy and 540 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 8: we're aligned with with Feinstein in her office. 541 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 7: You don't have to make another No, I don't want. 542 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 8: To make another appointment. I don't think the people at 543 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 8: California want me to make another appoyment. Yeah, and I 544 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 8: don't think that's you know that said, it's my job, 545 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 8: it's my responsibility. If we have to do it, we'll 546 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 8: do it. 547 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: Uh. By your pledge. Yeah, interim appointment. 548 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:45,520 Speaker 8: I don't want to get involved in the primary. 549 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 7: You would not appoint anybody that is that is filed 550 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 7: for this completely. 551 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 8: Unfair to the Democrats that have worked their tail off. 552 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 8: That primary is just a matter of months away. I 553 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 8: don't want to tip the balance of that. 554 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,080 Speaker 7: But you're going to bide by it would be a 555 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 7: essentially a caretaker an African American. 556 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 8: We hope we never have to make this decision. Yeah, answer, 557 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 8: I abide by what I've said very publicly on a 558 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 8: consistent basis. 559 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 2: Yes. 560 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 1: So here's what's really going on. He did make a pledge, 561 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 1: because this is racial identity politics, that it's going to 562 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,720 Speaker 1: be a black woman. Should Diane Feinstein resign her seat, 563 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 1: I will appoint a black woman. All right. So there 564 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 1: is a black woman running for Senate for that seat, 565 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 1: it's Barbara Lee. Here's the problem. Nancy Pelosi is related 566 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,440 Speaker 1: by marriage Tokevin Newsom, and Nancy Pelosi is a big 567 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:39,800 Speaker 1: Adam Schiff fan. If he appoints Barbara Lee to the 568 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 1: seat come next year, let's say it happens in the 569 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,479 Speaker 1: next month or two. When people start voting, they're going 570 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 1: to see Senator Barbara Lee. That's going to give her 571 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,240 Speaker 1: an inside track and an advantage. She's actually behind in 572 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 1: the polls over Adam Schiff and Katie Porter. That's why 573 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 1: he doesn't want to do this because Pelosi likes Schiff 574 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,560 Speaker 1: and he's close to Pelosi. So you know, Barbara Lee 575 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: had a response to this, the idea that a black 576 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 1: woman should be appointed only as a caretaker to check 577 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 1: a box, some sort of a presentation of participation trophy. 578 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 1: She's not happy because really, and again this goes to 579 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: inside politics, she would like to have had the interim appointment. 580 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: It looks good when you appear on the primary ballot, 581 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: you've already got the title of US senator. The other 582 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 1: problem for new someone who comes to racial dentity politics, 583 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 1: of course I mentioned yesterday, is the idea of cash 584 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 1: reparations because of slavery. A huge, overwhelming number of Californians 585 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 1: do not like that idea. But because he assigned this 586 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,480 Speaker 1: task for us to look into this reparations back in 587 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and this was one of their big conclusions, 588 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 1: and let's not avoid it, it's a big one up. 589 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 1: There is money because they calculated exact amounts for people 590 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 1: to receive from the state of California. He's in another 591 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,600 Speaker 1: box on that one. So there you go. If your 592 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 1: life is committed to racial dentity politics, sometimes you get 593 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 1: boxed in. All right. Coming up next, we'll talk about 594 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:08,560 Speaker 1: Mark Ridley Thomas, the longtime Southern California politician who's expected 595 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 1: are supposed to report to prison in November. Will that happen? 596 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 1: He's appealing John and Ken KFI AM six forty live everywhere, 597 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:21,040 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app, Deborah Mark and the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, 598 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 1: you've been listening to the John and Ken Show. 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