1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, this is our new start time has been for 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 1: a few weeks wonder four. So if you miss any 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: of the live show, you're always welcome to check out 4 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 1: the podcast to KFI AM sixty dot com the iHeartRadio app. Well, 5 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 1: were you reeling? Were you roiling? Did you feel the earthquake? 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna concede my time, mister chairman, to 7 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 1: Representative Mark in the newsroom, because I can't compete with her. 8 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 1: I can no. I came shooting right through my neighborhood. 9 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: That was a big one. Yes see, I told you, John, 10 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 1: did you? But very very short, but for the first 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: time I actually had some things really physically rattle. I 12 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: have a TV attached to a gas burning fireplace and 13 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: one of those rattling lu lu lungung lung cluck, and 14 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, no wind. Nothing has ever done that before. 15 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: So it was like very brief but violent. Uh. But 16 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: Deborah Mark, But of course, because she's always on alert 17 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 1: for this, it must have hit the first of all 18 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: the big question, Yeah, did the earthquake alert app Deborah 19 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: Mark give you notice? No, I think it has to 20 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: be a four point five, and this was a four 21 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 1: point short of the Mark, Yes, well, it seems like 22 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: it hit the West Valley. It felt more like a 23 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: seven or an eight. It was. First of all, I 24 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,680 Speaker 1: was sound asleep for a change. At two o'clock in 25 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: the morning, I feel that first I don't know, rumble, 26 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: I can't even describe it. And my dogs were about 27 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: to jump off the bed. So I grab my dogs 28 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: and we all huddle in the middle of the bed 29 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: and we're rocking and we're rolling, and my heart is 30 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: going crazy. I was absolutely terrified. And then for me, 31 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: it felt it did not feel short, ken it felt long. 32 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: And so I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I'm waiting for just 33 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: the windows to start shattering. I'm waiting for the roof 34 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: to fall in. I mean seriously, I was waiting for 35 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: it to get worse. And so when it finally stopped, 36 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: I could hardly breathe. I was so scared because you 37 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: know how much I hate earthquakes, and this one, this 38 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: one was as you said, violent. So then I'm thinking, okay, 39 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: was this a four shock? And then three minutes later, boom, 40 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 1: another aftershock, and again grabbing my dogs. I was so scared, 41 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: and so all night long I was thinking about, Okay, 42 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:19,679 Speaker 1: what am I going to do? There's another earthquakes. So 43 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: I held one dog the whole night because I was 44 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: afraid she was going to fall off the bed and run. 45 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: And then I'm trying to figure out where I'm going 46 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: to move because I can't stand this. I can't stand earthquakes. 47 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: I'm so tired of earthquakes. I'm tired of thinking of them. 48 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: They terrify me. All right, yeah, she's yeah, Yeah, that's 49 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: I was not holding on to any dogs outside. Grabbed 50 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: a neighborhood cat, you know, So I just went and 51 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: grabbed one, all right. No, no, And I thought I 52 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: was going to hear car alarms or something that didn't happen. 53 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,679 Speaker 1: And yes, I did feel one after shock. It was 54 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,399 Speaker 1: relatively mild. I as a small jelt. But in case 55 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 1: folks don't know, this was off the coast of Malibu, 56 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: so it's kind of in between us. It's probably closer 57 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 1: to you. I didn't feel anything. I slipped through it, 58 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: and no one in your house did, No, Lucky. It 59 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,079 Speaker 1: just really just depends on, you know, where the waves 60 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: go out from the epicenter, and it just didn't reach you. 61 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: I don't know if I was in the deep deepest 62 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: part of my sleep cycle or what. But she's right, 63 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:24,959 Speaker 1: there's something. I mean, I'm not a light sleeper, but 64 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 1: I tend to sometimes every few hours kind of rouse around. 65 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: And I did. I kind of was lying there and 66 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: I said, oh, oh, and yeah, it's a rumbling in 67 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: the distance before you get the big jolt. And I said, oh, 68 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: this is probably one of those. And then you had 69 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: that thing. Well, am I gonna go check out where 70 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: it was? And I turned over, went back to sleep. 71 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: You did, oh, because sometimes they're just really local and 72 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: there's no news on them anyway, and you know, or 73 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: did this come from further away? And it's a bigger quake. 74 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: And I just said I'll check in a few hours, 75 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: And sure enough, when I turned on TV and radio, 76 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: this morney, please call us with what what you fell 77 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: to it? This is the dumbest, most overplayed move in 78 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: radio and DV history. First of all, I have better. 79 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: And one reporter actually said I spoke to one woman 80 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: and some of her plates rattled, Wow, her plates rattled 81 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: breaking news. My heart rattled. That's breaking in Yeah. I 82 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: like the way you're always in the mode. Where is this? 83 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: It is the big one that rips apart. My life 84 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 1: always go there, always. There's never a time when there's 85 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:36,359 Speaker 1: an earthquake that I don't go to that. An average 86 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: of twenty five earthquakes between magnitudes four and five occur 87 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: every year in California Nevada. That's according to a data sample. 88 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 1: That's a tough way to live. I know, you know what, John, 89 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: I may need the exit bag because I can't deal 90 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: with this. It lives here long enough. You know right 91 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: away that when I felt that that's not a three, 92 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: or I knew that was probably at least a four. 93 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 1: I feel bad for your daugh. You practically squeeze the 94 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: life out. Oh I did, and Ken, I've lived in 95 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: California my whole life, and it never gets any easier, 96 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: which is why we wonder why you do why. I 97 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: wonder too, because I can't figure out a place it's 98 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 1: safe mentally for you. I know, I know, my poor dog. 99 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: I know I'm coming unhinged. I I don't think you 100 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: were ever hinged. I guess obviously there was a pregame 101 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,160 Speaker 1: show between you two, because I can tell John's heard 102 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 1: this already. Yes, yes, I'm just enjoying it. I know 103 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,600 Speaker 1: the first left so much you wanted to hear it 104 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:37,600 Speaker 1: again first time, she told me. I just sat there 105 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: and listened, so you can. Yeah, I don't. I don't 106 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 1: know what to make of it. I don't know what 107 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: to do. I mean, I slept through the thing. I can't. 108 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: I can't really commiserate very much. The Yella Fire Department 109 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: went into earthquake mode, with Cruise conducting a strategic survey 110 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 1: of all one hundred and six neighborhoods and examining major 111 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: areas of concern. Wow, so I guess they get right 112 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: out there and just looking to make sure enough around. Yeah, 113 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 1: I don't see it. Maybe see anything every way overpass 114 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: didn't come down for some reason, or some building didn't 115 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: fall apart. It usually takes less than an hour the 116 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: earthquake mode, So I guess they have all these teams 117 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: to quickly go out there and check out somebody. You know. 118 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,280 Speaker 1: You know what's funny is we haven't had a big 119 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: one in a long time. Universe don't listen to him, 120 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: So no, we have it. So we're you know, we're overdue. 121 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 1: I know. Well that's why my brain goes to that, 122 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: because I know we are due. But you had what 123 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 1: about off the coast of Malibu. Where's the tsunami? I 124 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 1: didn't think about that. No, out, you know what. My 125 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: brain can only handle so much John, Okay, yeah, earthquake 126 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 1: was enough. The tsunami. I wouldn't be able to show 127 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: my face at work. I'd be so overwrite. It's fragile, 128 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: very overwhelming. It really is. I know, a good thing. 129 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,840 Speaker 1: This only happens once every few months, it seems. But 130 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: you were going to say something John about to Oh no, no, 131 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: I'm just enjoying this so I get to watch your 132 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 1: face on the screen here too, specifically ten miles south 133 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: of Malibu, fifteen miles southwest of Santa Monica, fifteen point 134 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: four miles west of Venison, sixteen point three miles west 135 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:16,679 Speaker 1: of Elsa, Gundola. I'm only two miles from Santa Monica. 136 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: I should have felt something. Did you have an edible 137 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: last night that you didn't tell us about? But no 138 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: one else at his home felt it? Then it probably well, 139 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: maybe they all did edibles together. I don't know. That's 140 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: weird that you didn't feel it. You want in Tarzana, 141 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: but I felt it in Tarzana. Oh okay, yeah, you're 142 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: up there in the valley yeah, you know, well, did 143 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: you want to eat more edibles? Debor Mark? If you're 144 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: pushing this, can you imagine if the earthquake woke me 145 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 1: up and I had taken an edible, because I mean 146 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: I woke up about briefly in a quarter to three, 147 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: so I was forty five minutes past the main nothing 148 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: to do with the earth quack, nothing, that's just the normal. Yeah, 149 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 1: I had to pay, That's what it was. Yes, did 150 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: you get older? You do have to pee? And then 151 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: I crawled back into bed and I didn't move till 152 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: six o'clock. No, So it was a very very peaceful 153 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: quiet for you. Yeah, all right, Well, we're glad that 154 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: Debora Mark was able gonna make it to work. We 155 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: thought this might be a reason to call in. And 156 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: you know, I enjoy these things. I feel like I 157 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: missed out. Yeah, you know, you don't enjoy them in 158 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: the moment they're happening, because what if it really is 159 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 1: us and it's like, oh my god, you know, And 160 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: I don't think so much about dying never, but I 161 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: think about how there's no power in the water and 162 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 1: this goes on for weeks. As John said, we're lined 163 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: up into the crypto dot com arena for bottles of water, 164 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: the crypto dot com arena. I'm correcting people, it's no 165 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:44,199 Speaker 1: longer stables. All right, we got more. We're gonna talk 166 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: a couple of stories around the Monterey Park shooting we 167 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 1: didn't get to yesterday. Well one from today. The Elsagundo 168 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: Times really did a story on gun control. It fooled 169 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: me because the headline made me think it was about 170 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 1: what we were talking about yesterday. Was there a copycat 171 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: killer thing? There was a half Moon Bay shooting and 172 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 1: the Monterey Park shot. There was one doctor for Asian men. 173 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,839 Speaker 1: There was one paragraph on that exactly. The rest time 174 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 1: it was the usual, Your chance for money is coming up. 175 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,319 Speaker 1: Listen for the keyword next. John and Ken kf I 176 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: am six forty live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app 177 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 1: and Eric Eric I was going to introduce Eric. I'm 178 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: doing the news now, ye maybe you have some news. 179 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: And then last week Layla told me that you were 180 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: going to introduce her as Chris and she was filling in. Yeah, 181 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 1: her moment, he called her Chris. That's wrong with you? John? 182 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: I told you it's it's starting. It's Bidenville for me. Yeah, 183 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,559 Speaker 1: just call him John Biden. All right, Debra Mark live 184 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: in the twenty four our Calfe newsroom. All right, the 185 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,959 Speaker 1: usual story of you know, what's the real reason the 186 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: Elsagundo Times decides to do a story. They did one 187 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: that's headline, two mass shootings in three days? Are these 188 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: copycat crimes? And they're talking about the two older Asian 189 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: men Monterey Park. It was a seventy two year old 190 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 1: who killed eleven and then early two days later a 191 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,440 Speaker 1: sixty six year old up in Monterey Bay murdered seven people. 192 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: But of course the sentence that they use do a 193 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: pair of back to back mass shootings in California suggest 194 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: that older men will be the next generation of mass murderers. 195 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 1: That's not really what's at play here. We're talking about 196 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: the possibility that the sixty six year old saw what 197 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: the seventy two year old Asian men did on the 198 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,319 Speaker 1: news and maybe it inspired him a bit. Today's my 199 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 1: day to go. Where does this writer, Melissa Healey, where 200 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: does it get into a generation? I don't know. Obviously 201 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,439 Speaker 1: it's not going to be a generation of mass killers. No. 202 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:42,599 Speaker 1: And then they go through the database about how this 203 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: is normally the action of a younger male, not a 204 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: teenager usually, but somebody who's got a lot of problems 205 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:53,599 Speaker 1: with society, and they're using their twenties, thirties, forties. And 206 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: then they took the diversity angle. Did you know that 207 00:10:57,160 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 1: six point four percent of the mass shooters were of 208 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 1: Asian descent and nine of those shooters immigrated from birthplaces 209 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:08,719 Speaker 1: in Asia? Fifteen percent of mass shooters were immigrants. What 210 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 1: is this? They're even applying the diversity lens, the equity 211 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: lens to mass shooters. Now, yeah, I know they're they're 212 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: really crazy, No, And I think the way everything is 213 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: aging out in this society, and there's so many more 214 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: baby boomers in that age group, there's probably going to 215 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: be more shooters from that group. It's a whole different thing. 216 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 1: Plus we talked about yesterday and everyone knows this. There 217 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:39,599 Speaker 1: are more mass shootings, so this has somewhat become normalized. 218 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: So somebody, even a little older might decide, well, you know, 219 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:46,679 Speaker 1: it's my turn to show the world how I really feel. 220 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 1: But the true I think agenda here comes at the end, 221 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,959 Speaker 1: where you know, they talk to their experts and of 222 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 1: course ultimately, oh, it's not about any of these things. 223 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 1: The one big problem here is you guessed it. The guns. Yeah, yeah, 224 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 1: I am amazed how many times these people can carp 225 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: about the guns. There's absolutely nothing they or anybody can 226 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: do about it. There's four hundred million guns out there. 227 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 1: I don't know what you're at your hold about here. Well, 228 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 1: as they used is uh, these distinctions pale next to 229 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: the single most common factor that unites all mass shootings, 230 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 1: and that is a gun. The thing that makes the 231 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 1: mass shooting is the gun. We know that because again, 232 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:35,959 Speaker 1: the plan here is to take away the guns or 233 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 1: limit them, because it's not about the people. We got 234 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: to get the guns away, right, So go ahead, you 235 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:45,079 Speaker 1: start first, you go and you confiscate the four hundred 236 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: million guns. Let's see how it goes. Now. I mean, 237 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: I don't know what the point of this constant hand 238 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:54,199 Speaker 1: ringing is. There is four point two million adults in 239 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 1: California on a gun according to a survey from twenty eighteen. 240 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: It's probably higher than that now, but oh, ten percent 241 00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: of the total population. Yeah, four point two million adults, right, Well, 242 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 1: I've read over the week, think almost half of them 243 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 1: are sixty years of age or older. That three percent 244 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 1: of the country owns half the guns. Yeah, I've seen 245 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 1: stats like that. That's also unbelievable. Yeah, I think. I 246 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: think most people have won, but there's obviously a contingent 247 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 1: that's got dozens of guns. The other issue that's come 248 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 1: up is how come police didn't tell people for five 249 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: hours after the Monterey Park shooting happened that he was 250 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,680 Speaker 1: still on the loose. Now, this happened at ten thirty 251 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 1: at night. I didn't pick up the story until early 252 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: Sunday morning, so by then they already had put out 253 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 1: the word that he was loose. But apparently official notification 254 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: came around three thirty am during a news conference that 255 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:01,679 Speaker 1: the suspect fled the scene and remains out standing. There 256 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 1: was one former assistant chief from l EPD, Horace Frank, 257 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:08,719 Speaker 1: who says it's a public safety issue. The only time 258 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 1: you don't do that is when you can articulate specific reasons. 259 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: Otherwise you always err on the side of keeping the 260 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: public in form. If there's a reason for this delay, 261 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: I can't think of one. Now some are thinking it 262 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: was an oversight. I'm like, how could that be an oversight? 263 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: When you're telling the public about a mass shooting. People 264 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: want to know, did you get him. Is he dead 265 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: or is he still out there? And who should we 266 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: be on the lookout for? Was first I thought, was 267 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: this their way of saying, well, we don't want him 268 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 1: to know we're looking for him. I don't, I don't. 269 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: Of course he knows you're the police are looking for him. 270 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: Of course he does. He shot twenty people. Why would 271 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: you wait five hours to tell people see and they 272 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: won't talk about it, which means maybe somebody screwed up. 273 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: Some guy has to alert the communication center, Hey, send 274 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 1: out the send out the bulletin to all the news agencies. 275 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 1: Somebody you put it on Twitter. I don't understand. Nobody 276 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: even put a tweet out. Seriously, they didn't want the 277 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 1: public to panic. Is that why the didn't want people 278 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 1: to think the public was asleep? But if you heard 279 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,720 Speaker 1: the story late last that Saturday night, you would have 280 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 1: been like, well, there's no finish here. What happened to 281 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: the shooter? Just disappeared her? Yeah, yeah, you evaporated. We'll 282 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: say that. I'm just say, look, he's on the loose. 283 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: We don't know where he is. We don't have a clue. 284 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: It also helps people on the lookout for him, right 285 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: if they say anything about that white cargo van that 286 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 1: could have helped. Now. Fortunately, hours later Torrance police saw 287 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 1: it and they closed in on the guy who killed himself. 288 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: But it's an arrange thing to forget, or if they 289 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: didn't on purpose, well what's the reason. Yeah, No, nobody 290 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 1: talks anymore. I notice. I think everybody is so wary 291 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 1: of getting criticized for whatever the reason is. Down now 292 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 1: you have these public agencies shutting down. They just won't talk, 293 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 1: and they deny everything or they lie about it. The 294 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 1: La County Sheriff's Department is now saying, at least in 295 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: this story, well, we're going to assess everything what worked 296 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: and what didn't work in the early hours of our investigation. 297 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 1: And in terms of putting out information, this is this 298 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 1: new guy, Luna, one of these canned statements. Yeah, that's right, 299 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: it's Luna, all right. This was his first big, big 300 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: test here, and he doesn't have his people tell the 301 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: public that there's a mass shooter on the loose, because 302 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: this guy was on the loose until the next afternoon, right, Yeah, 303 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: well yeah, they eventually I think it was around eleven am. 304 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 1: Eleven am boxed in and then he was dead at 305 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 1: one or twelve something like that. All right, so a 306 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: good long time he's on the loose. Well, maybe it 307 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 1: already dead when they found the van, but they were 308 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: keeping it boxed in for a couple of hours. All right. 309 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 1: We got more coming up to John and Ken KF 310 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 1: I am six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app 311 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: around from one to four now and after four o'clock 312 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 1: you can hear the podcast on the iHeartRadio app John 313 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 1: and kennon Demand is what it's called. And we got 314 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: something called the Moist Line, which is coming back in 315 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: just two days. 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At the time we 326 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:31,400 Speaker 1: talked about this, people were unaware of this organization, but boy, 327 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: they tried to influence policy in the entire region. And 328 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:39,400 Speaker 1: that's what they're about, Southern California Association Governments. Well he's gone. 329 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 1: He went down to San Diego with his reign of 330 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 1: Terra and you should hear the list of things he 331 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: wants San Diego to do to leave their cars behind, 332 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 1: mileage tax being the least of it. We'll talk to 333 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:57,160 Speaker 1: Carl after the news at two o'clock here on K five. Well, 334 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 1: we're now going to talk about probably one of the 335 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: oldest stories that had no update on the John and 336 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,680 Speaker 1: Ken Show. It was back in the year twenty twelve, 337 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:10,639 Speaker 1: more than ten years ago. The story of corruption concerned 338 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 1: the man who was the La County tax assessor. John. 339 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 1: We called him John no Good, nogez, remember that Jo. Yeah, 340 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 1: he was arrested in twenty twelve accused of accepting bribes 341 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty five grand. But then there were delays. 342 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:29,680 Speaker 1: Apparently one of them was forty five thousand pages of 343 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,399 Speaker 1: evidence collected by investigators. Could you imagine forty five thousand 344 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: pages of peeped off about a case people were bribing 345 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,400 Speaker 1: him in order to get a lower property tax assessment. 346 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 1: That's what the idea was on their property. So now, 347 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: in May of twenty twenty, a second district Court of 348 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: Appeals ordered all the charges dropped because of technical grounds 349 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 1: about a missdeadline. This involved nogez in his former top 350 00:18:55,960 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 1: assistant demand by the name of Mark McNeil. However, that 351 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 1: didn't deter them. Prosecutors refiled the charges. No Gaza McNeil 352 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 1: have pled not guilty. He took a leave of office 353 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 1: from his assessor's job for two years. His term expired 354 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 1: in December of twenty fourteen. He was replaced by the 355 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 1: current assessor. Did you ever go to jail, I don't 356 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:19,360 Speaker 1: think so. If he did, there was a bond. Must 357 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 1: have been a bond, so he let him out of 358 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 1: his home and handcuffs ten years ago. But I don't 359 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:25,920 Speaker 1: see him the story that he spent in the middle 360 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: time in prison. You know what, if there's some kind 361 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 1: of paperwork problem, you can't fix that quicker than the 362 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 1: ten years. No. I So there was an update in 363 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: the story recently, and it's another odd one. There's a 364 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 1: tax consultant at the center of this allegedly by the 365 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 1: name of Ramen Salari. He was acting as the middleman 366 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: between the business owners and the assessor's office to get 367 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: the tax assessments lowered. That is the claim of prosecutors, 368 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 1: and he was going to make a plea deal with prosecutors. 369 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,439 Speaker 1: He agreed to a deal with prosecutors had called from 370 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 1: deplete guilty to a single charge, pay more than nine 371 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 1: million in penalties, but the sentence would spare him from 372 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 1: present time under the count. Under the terms of the deal, 373 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: eleven counts of conspiracy, bribery and grand theft were to 374 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 1: be whittled down to one conviction for grand theft, so 375 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 1: he would go two years felt any probation, forty five 376 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: days of community service and that would be it. So 377 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 1: he would go. They wanted him because they wanted to 378 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: get Nogaz and his assistant. So this guy would go 379 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 1: from Nogaz to the property owners with what the bride 380 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 1: menu was correct, How much would it take to deal? Right? Yeah? Right, 381 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 1: he was the middleman, the go between, right, because the 382 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 1: early key to the entire case, You're not going to 383 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: go directly to no gazgas instant going to come over 384 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:53,400 Speaker 1: your house and you get want to leave a trail, right, 385 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: you have to have you don't want to be like 386 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: a dope what's his name on the LA City Council. Yeah, 387 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: we's are at the at the cashier's cage and running 388 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: around with hookers and hotel rooms in Vegas, getting bags 389 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 1: of money in restrooms. That's right, using your family members 390 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 1: to launder them money. No. No, he wanted some sort 391 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: of go between, and that's this tax consultant guy. So 392 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,399 Speaker 1: there is what happened. It looks like the prosecution and 393 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: the defense agreed to the terms of this plea deal 394 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 1: I just laid out. The judge said no. Los Angeles 395 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: County Superior Court Judge Stephen A. Marcus said no, supposedly relented, 396 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 1: but then said no again. Well, and what was the deal? 397 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 1: No jail time, get out, two years fell any probation, 398 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,160 Speaker 1: forty five days community service, nine million dollars in penalties, 399 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,400 Speaker 1: no prison time. One single charge was all they had left. 400 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 1: Oh you say no too, Oh absolutely he should go 401 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: to prison. Yeah, that's if you have a guy collecting 402 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:56,440 Speaker 1: bribery at this level on a property tax scam, how 403 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: do you not put him in jail? I mean, we 404 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,640 Speaker 1: already got I mean, I mean City Hall is filled 405 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,399 Speaker 1: with corrupt a holes, right, I mean how many council people, 406 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: deputy mayors, lobbyists, consultants and the tax assessor and everybody 407 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:16,679 Speaker 1: was getting away with this? Then you're agreeing with Marcus. 408 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 1: That's why he would not approve of this plea deal. 409 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: He thinks that this man Solari should serve some jail time, 410 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,480 Speaker 1: some prison time, and he was not going to abide 411 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: by this plea deal. It's getting hard though, to prosecute 412 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 1: because ten years people are dead, they don't remember. But 413 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: it even got stranger. After our recess, the judge said, 414 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: all right, I'll accept the deal if you tell prosecutors 415 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 1: right now what you know. Come to my courtroom in 416 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:48,920 Speaker 1: the afternoon plead guilty. Solari then spent two hours with prosecutors, 417 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 1: coming clean, providing a detailed account of his role in 418 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 1: the charge crimes. He incriminated himself at others. He revealed 419 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:57,400 Speaker 1: how he allegedly funneled at least one hundred and eighty 420 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 1: grand and payoffs to the County assessor's staff aren't teen 421 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 1: years ago. But when they returned to the courtroom to 422 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 1: finalize the deal, the judge announced, now I changed my mind, 423 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,880 Speaker 1: this is too lenient. There's no way I can live 424 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 1: with no custody time deal on the extent of this 425 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: alleged fraud and white collar crimes. Now, I even have 426 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: a problem with the fact that the judge told this guy, 427 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 1: if you go into another room and tell prosecutors anything, 428 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 1: you know. I know that wasn't really right because because 429 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 1: that's gonna get harder. Defense attorneys are going to know 430 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 1: of this case, and they're not going to let their 431 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: clients participate, right. They're not gonna unless it's signed and 432 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 1: agreed to beforehand. They're not going to have their clients 433 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: spill the beams, right, which you know impedes further investigations. 434 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 1: I mean, if you're gonna do something like this, you 435 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: do have to follow through on it, but you should. 436 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: You should never make a deal for him for no 437 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: jail time. That should never ever happen. The lawyers have 438 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 1: asked a state appeals court to order the court to 439 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: accept the plea deal. Again. They're arguing, what we just said, 440 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 1: he would not have devolved his guilt to prosecutors, not 441 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:02,400 Speaker 1: without definitely getting a plea deal. Shady judge. This judge 442 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 1: is kind of ah and they also want this judge 443 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 1: removed from the case. So that's where it stands. But 444 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 1: that gives you a general idea. I mean, I we 445 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:14,360 Speaker 1: talked about this case maybe for the first year after 446 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 1: it happened, expecting there to be a plea deal or 447 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,719 Speaker 1: something to happen in the courts. But wow, this thing 448 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:26,920 Speaker 1: is laid there for over ten years. Ah, that's hasn't 449 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,679 Speaker 1: gone to jail yet. Well, no, he's up and convicted 450 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:33,400 Speaker 1: of anything. Well, when he was originally convicted, he wasn't 451 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,120 Speaker 1: originally convicted, was originally arrested and charged, but you get 452 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 1: released because you can't hold on to somebody until they 453 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,399 Speaker 1: had their day in Corton. So he was found guilty. 454 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 1: He said. He was arrested in twenty twelve, and in 455 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 1: twenty twenty they ordered the charges dismissed. It took eight 456 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: years just to get to that point. Yeah, it said 457 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:54,359 Speaker 1: that they were connecting a whole lot of evidence. But 458 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 1: you know that would be up to no guys, because 459 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,879 Speaker 1: the defendant has the right to a speedy trial otherwise 460 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: they can delay it too, so they must add something 461 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,479 Speaker 1: to do it. It shouldn't take eight years for anything. 462 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 1: There's no excuse for that. And it's not like it's 463 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 1: that much money. I mean, right, weez are it was 464 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 1: over a million dollars, right, this is like, yeah, a thousand. 465 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: It's not a big amount of money. But you know what, 466 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 1: everyone who works in government should be put in prison 467 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: right now. Everybody it mentions that this guy Salari was 468 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,880 Speaker 1: the middleman for the trying to get the tax assessment 469 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 1: lowered on the old spaghetti factory in Hollywood, a grocery 470 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 1: storing Torrance, a seven bedroom mansion in bel Air. I wonder, 471 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 1: you know what, I wonder how they pulled this off. 472 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,920 Speaker 1: I don't remember, because you get you get it. You 473 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: don't get the tax assessor coming to your house, right, 474 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 1: you don't get John Nogaz, right, you get somebody in 475 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 1: the office. Yeah you So, so how did the guys 476 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,160 Speaker 1: in the office know that Nogaz was on the take? 477 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 1: And where where did how did this tax consultant fit in? 478 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 1: Or did somebody hand you a business card and say, 479 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 1: you know what, this guy can help you out, this 480 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,880 Speaker 1: tax consultant, And then he comes over and he lays 481 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 1: out the terms of the deal on behalf of no guests. 482 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,440 Speaker 1: All right, all right, we got more coming up. Johnny 483 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: Ken KFIA. I'm six forty live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. 484 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:18,400 Speaker 1: All right. Of course, we're on from one to four 485 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: every weekday here on KFI. So if you miss a 486 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: live hour, just go grab the podcast, which will be 487 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,719 Speaker 1: put up there right after four o'clock either at KFI 488 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,159 Speaker 1: AM sixty dot com or you can go to the 489 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 1: iHeart Radio app. Coming up after two o'clock, our guests 490 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 1: will be called a mile from Reform California to update 491 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:41,160 Speaker 1: us on something that apparently, according to some California officials, 492 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 1: is inevitable, and that's the miles tax, the miles driven tax. 493 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:48,920 Speaker 1: This has been around. I feel like we're going back 494 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: in time on the show. Today we're talking about the 495 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,239 Speaker 1: corruption case against an old La County tax assessor from 496 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 1: ten years ago, and we've been talking, I think about 497 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:00,680 Speaker 1: the mileage tax, it seems for ten years here on 498 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 1: the show. But he has reason to believe that they're 499 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 1: getting closer to implementing it. So you'll hear from Carl 500 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: after the news at two o'clock. Oh look at that. 501 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 1: This next story comes from a man we just talked 502 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 1: about a couple of weeks ago, Bill Weir, who used 503 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 1: to do sports on Channel seven here in Los Angeles 504 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: TV is CNN's chief climate correspondent now, which I found 505 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:29,359 Speaker 1: to be an odd transition, but anyway, he was another 506 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,440 Speaker 1: one that was worked up about, you know, the heavy 507 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 1: rains and climate and yes, you know, it hasn't rained 508 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,440 Speaker 1: really since the big downpour a couple of weeks ago, 509 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,119 Speaker 1: and the next ten days there isn't much coming the 510 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: next ten days either mid February. I read I read 511 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,880 Speaker 1: this complicated weather story the other day. What's mid February. Oh, 512 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 1: the atmospheric river may start up again? Oh yeah, the 513 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 1: whole we can count on Matt prediction. I'm just telling 514 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: you they think the system is going to get back 515 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 1: in alignment to bring us more rain. Yeah, because I 516 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,719 Speaker 1: looked at the next ten days, which takes us through 517 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 1: the month, and I didn't see much coming. Monday has 518 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: like some chance, but nothing, nothing until possibly mid February, 519 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: all right, but there's no guarantees. Well, this story comes 520 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: from Murphy North Carolina. We have talked before on the 521 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:26,240 Speaker 1: show how mining cryptocurrency requires a lot of energy, a 522 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:31,640 Speaker 1: lot of electricity. So the companies behind this now are 523 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 1: trying to find places around the US where the land 524 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 1: is cheap and they can set up their complicated power 525 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 1: system for people to crypto mine. Well, the people in Murphy, 526 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: North Carolina, really had no idea about what went into 527 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: crypto coin mining as so it says here modern miners 528 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: use enormous amounts of server power to roll the winning 529 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: number faster than their competitors around the world. That's how 530 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: you mind cryptocurrency. The unrelenting demand for electricity was one 531 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 1: reason China has banned cryptocurrency. I didn't really I didn't 532 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: know that, did you. Yeah, I know, I heard that 533 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 1: there are these crypto wackos. They had migrated into towns 534 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 1: where power is unusually cheap, like hydroelectric power is what 535 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 1: they want. So they've gone to places in the Pacific Northwest, 536 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: oh where there might be a dam and it produces 537 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 1: really cheap electricity, and then they take over residential homes 538 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: in suburban towns or trailers. And the thing is, the 539 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: way you make a cryptocurrency. This is probably going to 540 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 1: make no sense, but what they do is they have 541 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: huge banks of computers, and of course with computers then 542 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 1: you need cooling mechanisms, right, you can't have the computers 543 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 1: overheat and if you have a lot of computers in 544 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,959 Speaker 1: a room or in a house. That creates a lot 545 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 1: of heat, so you need a lot of cooling and 546 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 1: you end up using an enormous amount of energy. Now 547 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 1: on the computers you have to solve these complex mathematical puzzles. 548 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: They validate cryptocurrency transactions and then they have a distribution 549 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 1: ledger to locate the coins. It makes no sense if 550 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 1: you're not a decrypto, right, But it's a system that 551 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 1: requires gigantic computing power and then at the end of it, 552 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 1: it'll burp out this digital coin which exists again only 553 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 1: on the Internet. And it's so lucrative though, that it's 554 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 1: worth buying all the computer equipment and all the cooling 555 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 1: equipment and paying for the rental or buying the house 556 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 1: as long as the energy's chief. Well. In Murphy, North 557 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 1: Carol line up, people are saying that this vast cryptocurrency mine, 558 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 1: which if you look at the picture, it's just a 559 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 1: bunch of like metal buildings scattered around like high power lines. 560 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 1: It's not technically a mind. Nobody goes into the ground 561 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 1: to try to get any precious metals, but it's what 562 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 1: they use as a power source. They say that the 563 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: sound from this is like a jet that never leaves, 564 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 1: and we have about thirty seconds of an example, twenty 565 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 1: four hours a day, seven days a week. That's what 566 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:47,720 Speaker 1: people are hearing that live near this cryptocurrency daters data center. 567 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 1: And what do you know, it's operated by San Francisco 568 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,720 Speaker 1: company called Prime Block. Don't they get their tech tech 569 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,520 Speaker 1: people get their tentacles and everything. One woman says, it's 570 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 1: like like living on top of Niagara Falls. His house 571 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 1: is less than one hundre yards from the mine. He says, 572 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:04,000 Speaker 1: when it's at it's worth, it's like sitting on the 573 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: tarmac with a jet engine in front of you, but 574 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 1: the jet never leaves, it never takes off. It's annoying 575 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 1: and it's a constant annoyance. There was a similar story 576 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 1: a few years ago in Arizona. Some tech company had 577 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:22,520 Speaker 1: opened a gigantic, massive data center and they had massive 578 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 1: computers along with the cooling mechanisms that they needed, and 579 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:30,120 Speaker 1: people who lived in the town the whirring went on 580 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 1: twenty four hours a day and they were screaming at 581 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 1: the town hall meetings and there was a big, big 582 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 1: ruckus about it. So you know it crypto mining is 583 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:44,760 Speaker 1: one thing, but all these data centers are another and 584 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,760 Speaker 1: takes it takes a lot of electricity for all this. 585 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,720 Speaker 1: Somebody else described it as imagined forty five sedans traveling 586 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 1: close together, NonStop on a three lane road at thirty 587 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 1: five miles an hour, and they've been trying to measure 588 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 1: the decipel levels from this. Some people are ready to 589 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,960 Speaker 1: move out. Someone already have you know this? I think 590 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 1: that's got to prove without people realizing what this was, 591 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,320 Speaker 1: because a lot of people in Murphy, North Carolina don't 592 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,960 Speaker 1: really know what cryptocurrency mining is all about. Yeah, very 593 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 1: few people do you hear about cryptocurrency, But I bet 594 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 1: you you know, not even one percent of the public 595 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,440 Speaker 1: knows how it works. And even when somebody explains that 596 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,280 Speaker 1: you don't really know how it works, it doesn't make 597 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:26,800 Speaker 1: any sense. People creating a single bitcoin is about the 598 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 1: same amount to power and average house for fifty three days. 599 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,040 Speaker 1: That's the comparison crypto mining. Yeah, one bitcoin. That's why 600 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 1: all these these Green New Deal type wackos ought to 601 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 1: be going after all the cryptocurrency fanatics because because they're 602 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 1: wasting tremendous amounts amounts of energy creating fake money Yeah, 603 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,239 Speaker 1: largely used by all the criminals in the world. How 604 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,479 Speaker 1: much of that contributes to our constant power outage problems 605 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,800 Speaker 1: the last couple of years. Yeah, exactly, Courtncy mining. All right. 606 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,760 Speaker 1: Coming up next, our guests will be called A mile 607 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,960 Speaker 1: from a form California and Cogo Radio to talk about 608 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,720 Speaker 1: where we are on the horrific idea of a mileage tax. 609 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,520 Speaker 1: That's right, They would track the mileage you drive and 610 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,399 Speaker 1: charge you. It looks like perhaps maybe six cents a mile. 611 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,400 Speaker 1: Johnny Ken KF I AM six forty live everywhere, the 612 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,520 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Deborrah Mark live in the twenty four hour 613 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:22,360 Speaker 1: KFIN Newsroom