1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Caf I Am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: and Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app for 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: out the radio one until four after four o'clock. 4 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 2: You know what to do? 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,159 Speaker 1: You go to the iHeart app and the John and 6 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 1: Kent podcast and you could listen to whatever you missed 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: this afternoon. 8 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 3: A reminder that the Moist signe is back in two days. 9 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 3: During the three o'clock hour, we're still collecting calls. Feel 10 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 3: free to leave a message for the iHeartRadio app, the 11 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 3: microphone icon or the tell free number one eight seven 12 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:32,279 Speaker 3: seven Moist eighty six one eight seven seven six six 13 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 3: four seven eight eight six. Well, it's happening again in Venice. 14 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,559 Speaker 3: They have to clean up the homeless. We thought we 15 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 3: may have left this story behind, not that we didn't 16 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 3: expect this could happen again. We're gonna go to Blake 17 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 3: Trolley KFI News to find out what this effort's all about. 18 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, Ken, So today a large homeless camp in Venice 19 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 4: was cleared out. 20 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 2: About thirty people were living at the camp. 21 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 4: The camp was between a parking lot and a street 22 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 4: and it was lined with tense trash debris. As you mentioned, 23 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 4: this was not an insight i'd safe move in and 24 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 4: this was also not notably a forty one to eighteen band. 25 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 4: This was actually cleared out for a beautification project. I'm 26 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 4: told outreach to get people into housing began last month. 27 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 4: Out of those thirty people, six people initially accepted the 28 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 4: housing prior to today. I think some of them started 29 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 4: to feel that pressure today because another six accepted housing. 30 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 4: This camp was around for about a year and a half. 31 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 4: Again a pretty big one and one of a few 32 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 4: in Venice. Just driving into the camp, I realized, this 33 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 4: is not Venice's only homeless camp. There's RVs up the road. 34 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 4: You go down the street, there's more homeless people. Yeah, 35 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 4: this is not the homeless issue in Venice is definitely 36 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 4: not cleared because this camp is cleared. But that said, 37 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 4: this was a big camp. It was near some really 38 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 4: expensive homes. Sanitation crews did arrive. They started dismantling the tents, 39 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 4: and quite a few neighbors I haven't seen this before, 40 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 4: came out to watch this camp be dismantled and it 41 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 4: sounds like they've had quite a few issues with this camp. 42 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 4: Will go to Bite zero first. This guy again just 43 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 4: lives across the street. 44 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 5: Yeah, the pay box has been broken into several times, 45 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 5: probably around ten times in over a course of two 46 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 5: and a half weeks, every day continuously where they break 47 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 5: into the box late at night and take money out. 48 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 4: Okay, so that was actually the parking lot attendance. So 49 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 4: that parking lot, oh, I say that. Yeah, the parking 50 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 4: lot that it sits in has a pay box. There's 51 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 4: a hole in it this morning, and I asked her 52 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 4: what happened. She said, well, several times this thing just 53 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 4: gets broken into. They bust it open and they grab 54 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 4: the cash. It's kind of an honor system cash box. 55 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 4: But yeah, neighbors I spoke with in the area say 56 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 4: that they've just been devastated I guess by this camp. 57 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,639 Speaker 4: They've been kind of traumatized by this camp. They've seen 58 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 4: drug dealing, prostitution, you name. It also goes on at 59 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 4: the camps. No, it's not a noble and wonderful and 60 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 4: the canals are nearby. There's a lot of expensive homes 61 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 4: near the canes. You have the parking lot where the 62 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 4: camp is at. Then across the street there's homes right 63 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 4: behind those homes. Is where the canals are. I do 64 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 4: want to go to byite number one if we can 65 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 4: eric this is a woman. She's actually trying to sell 66 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 4: her home because of the camp. But big shocker, the 67 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 4: multimillion dollar buyer pool doesn't want her home. 68 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 2: What has it been like living right here? 69 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 6: It's been a war zone. I feel like we're living 70 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 6: in the wild wild West. It's anarchy. There's drugs, prostitution, gangs. 71 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 6: Everything's getting stolen left and right. If it's not nailed down. 72 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 6: I feel like I'm living with PTSD. Every time I 73 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 6: hear the slightest noise, I'm thinking I'm getting robbed again. 74 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 6: So I'm just hoping that once this cleanup takes place 75 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 6: at lasts and it's safe for the tourists as well 76 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 6: as the residents who live here. 77 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 4: You say you've been robbed before by the people here 78 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 4: at the camp. 79 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 6: Yes, there was one time my bike got stolen. I 80 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 6: looked around for it, couldn't find it. Then I found 81 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 6: it in the parking lot of this encampment and I 82 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 6: was able to get my bike back. 83 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 4: Have you had any other issues, safety issues, anything like that. 84 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 7: Oh? 85 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,720 Speaker 6: Yeah, the safety issues. It's all the time, people coming 86 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:22,799 Speaker 6: into the property, plugging in their phones for the chargers, 87 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 6: using the water, using my garden as a toilet. 88 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:28,839 Speaker 2: So those are just some of the issues living there. 89 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 4: And the woman I spoke with today said she's trying 90 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 4: to list her home four points something million dollars. She's 91 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 4: already dropped it. It's already in the threes. She says, 92 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 4: she's had it on the market for four weeks. She's 93 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 4: only had two people come to look at it, and 94 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,039 Speaker 4: both times she said, they're not saying anything, but she 95 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 4: knows why they're not. 96 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 2: They're not terrifying. 97 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 1: No, if we were looking for a house and we 98 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: ran into this size encampment, we do you turn before 99 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: we got to the house, It's like, no way. Normal 100 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 1: people don't want to live in this. And you know what, 101 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 1: these people are paying the price for voting for Bonnen 102 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 1: and Garcetti all those times. I bet you if you've 103 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 1: gotten door to door and said, well, who'd you vote 104 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: for for mayor the last two times, who'd you vote 105 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: for counselmate, it would have been bonding in Garcetti. Bonding 106 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:07,840 Speaker 1: and Garcetti. Well that's what they brought you. And now 107 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: you know this is your tax you're paid. 108 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 2: You know. 109 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 4: I spoke with one woman today she says since Tracy 110 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 4: Park's taken over, she's happy with the job that's being done. 111 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 4: She said things definitely seem to be shaping up in 112 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 4: the area, so she seemed pretty satisfied, you know, with 113 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 4: the new leadership. People are concerned, I should say it's 114 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:28,239 Speaker 4: it's not all roses around the neighborhood, but he's concerned 115 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 4: with what that the camp will move back in because 116 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 4: it's not a forty one to eighteen and just today 117 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 4: is the complete ban. This is just clearing out for 118 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 4: a beautification. They started to put up some kind of 119 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,839 Speaker 4: plastic barriers around, and the beautification is really just planted, 120 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 4: you know, plants going in, new plants, new mulch. So 121 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 4: this is not a forty one eighteen. It is not 122 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 4: a complete ban, and people are worried. Yeah, you've cleared 123 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 4: it out. Officials say they're going to keep outreach if 124 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 4: people come back. They're going to keep trying to deter 125 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 4: people from camping. 126 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 5: Reach. 127 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you just arrest them if they back. Well, 128 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 1: that's why people want the guy with a gun. That 129 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,840 Speaker 1: don't take care of this problem. So I mean, what 130 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 1: is it? What were they beautifying exactly? 131 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 4: Just the planters and everything around the area. That parking lot, 132 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 4: I guess is the largest access route to the beach 133 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 4: in all of Los Angeles. So they're they're saying, well, hey, 134 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 4: this is a beautification project. 135 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 2: We're moving everybody out. 136 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 4: If you come back, they are going to work on 137 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 4: keeping people out of the area. That said, people want 138 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 4: a stiffer enforcement model that live in the area. 139 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 2: I mean, you need a permanent police presence. Well, who 140 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 2: did this come from? 141 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 5: What? 142 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 2: Department of LA Government? 143 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 3: Didn't come from Tracy Park and didn't come from inside 144 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:35,479 Speaker 3: Safe It came from what the Department of Parks or something. 145 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:37,600 Speaker 4: No, this did come from Tracy Park's office. Yeah, no, 146 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 4: this was a district initiative at least. It's how's it's 147 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 4: been explained to me and her office tells me. 148 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,239 Speaker 2: But it's more about beautification than clearing out homeless. 149 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been cleared out for beautification. They say they're 150 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 4: going to work to keep the camp away, but again, 151 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 4: people that live there want that forty one to eighteen band. 152 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:55,160 Speaker 4: What I've been told is it's hard because there's really 153 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 4: not a lot of criteria that this camp falls under. Well, 154 00:06:57,720 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 4: it's got to be a school or a daycare center 155 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 4: that category. It's exactly, it's not sensitive. It's not a 156 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:03,599 Speaker 4: sensitive area. 157 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:07,359 Speaker 1: It should just they should just ban camping in public 158 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: period and stop fussing around with this. 159 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 2: All right, way to live. Thank you Blake for that report. 160 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 3: All right, these guys Blake Trolley KFI News on another 161 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 3: homeless encampment cleanup in Venice. 162 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. 163 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 3: Neither one of us wanted to say that Venice is 164 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 3: clear of homeless people. They've got so much attention a 165 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 3: few years back, particularly joining the pandemic, when oh we 166 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 3: were told to be hands off of the homeless. Things 167 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 3: really got out of control on the board wall and 168 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 3: it's gonna take it. That got all the focus. But 169 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 3: there's so many areas where there's homeless people. 170 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: It's taking to take many years to climb out of 171 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: the Garchetti ear. He created such a sewage jump here 172 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: in this city. And I hope he's breathing in a 173 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:45,239 Speaker 1: lot of bad air in India right now. 174 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,679 Speaker 3: A story we haven't been able to verify. A listener 175 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 3: sent us an email that her daughter lives in a 176 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 3: townhouse complex. I'm not even gonna mention the town because 177 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 3: if this isn't true, I don't want to, but it's just. 178 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 2: Interesting and very possible. H She says. 179 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 3: The United States Postal Service will not deliver mail to 180 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 3: her section of the complex. They require her and other 181 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 3: residents to drive to another post office where they have 182 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 3: to stand in line and go to trouble to pick 183 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 3: up their mail every day. Do you know why they 184 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 3: refuse to deliver to the complex Because apparently a vagrant is 185 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 3: peeing on the mailboxes all the time and the mail 186 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 3: carrier won't go near. 187 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 2: I believe that that's its action. Still believe that. 188 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 3: Imagine that you're being kept from your mailbox because the 189 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 3: guy thinks it's a good place to pee. You sure, 190 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 3: it's only p uh, Well, that's the easiest thing to 191 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 3: do up against the mailboxes, that it is to sort 192 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:39,079 Speaker 3: of bend over and try to probably all right, we 193 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 3: got more coming up. Johnny Ken KFI AM six forty, 194 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 3: we're live everywhere. iHeartRadio Act. 195 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 7: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 196 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 7: AM six forty. 197 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: Are you considering running for president in twenty two, twenty 198 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:55,839 Speaker 1: twenty eight? 199 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 2: Not even consider at all. This election is a choice 200 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,320 Speaker 2: about life and death. We need tofeat trump ism. This 201 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 2: is the most consequential election. 202 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 4: They choose that as they self fear around crime, they 203 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 4: self came around these perverse gun laws. 204 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 2: What we've got right now is not working and it's 205 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 2: about to break. And look at this sewage that. 206 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 4: Is online that they amplify on these networks and in 207 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 4: social media to dehumanize people. 208 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 2: This whole damn border debate is made up. 209 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 8: That's how extreme the Republican Party is in the United 210 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 8: States of America. 211 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 2: It's time to organize, guys bottom up, not just top down. 212 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 2: Publicans have been organizing bottom up forever. Where the hell 213 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,680 Speaker 2: are we as a party to capture the narrative. 214 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: I honestly, if I were offering political advice, I'd tell 215 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 1: him to pack up and wait a few years. 216 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 2: I never trust politicians, so I get why we keep asking. 217 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 2: So when I see you in Iowa twenty twenty three, 218 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 2: I will play this for you. The answer South Carolina, 219 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 2: I'm gonna where with us. 220 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 8: I know John and Canton present the Gavin Newsom is 221 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:08,319 Speaker 8: running for president. Gavin Newsom maybe short of running for president, well, 222 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 8: maybe Gavin Newsom not running for president. 223 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: Desk Jenny kencho Yeah, can't buy six forty live everywhere 224 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. 225 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, the subject is still Newsome carrying on about the 226 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 3: flights of migrants that. 227 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 2: Came from Yes, I didn't finish this, I know to rupt, 228 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 2: don't go ahead. 229 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 3: Well, I just had to get people idea what we're 230 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 3: talking about first before you were erupted. This was the 231 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 3: migrants that came from well, actually were flown from New Mexico. 232 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 3: They were in Texas, but it was at the direction 233 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 3: of Florida. We found out yesterday that the Florida Estate 234 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 3: to Emergency Department was the one that did arrange these 235 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 3: flights for the migrants to make their way to Sacramento, 236 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 3: and Newsom went wild on Twitter that this could be 237 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,440 Speaker 3: a cron could be a kidnapping. He then sat down 238 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 3: with Politic co or did a phone interview and he 239 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 3: is still making the same comments. He is saying that 240 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 3: we're still looking at the quote I love. Oh here 241 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:13,839 Speaker 3: it is. This is very serious. It's ongoing, and we'll 242 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 3: make a determination as the facts present themselves. 243 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 1: There's no facts. He's full of his own feces, he 244 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 1: really is. And he comes out and he starts blathering 245 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: about kidnapping charges and so did that little putts bonto. 246 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 2: Okay, the two of them, yeah together. 247 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: He's like a little puppet singing on Newsom's knee, and 248 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: Newsom is tugging on his strings, tugging on something there, 249 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: and the two of them are starting to go kidnapping, kidnapping. 250 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: There's they know. This is the thing is they know 251 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: there is zero chance of a kidnapping charge. Not only 252 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: it didn't happen, they would never do it and they 253 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: could and they have no evidence. And you know what 254 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: pissed me off is the Desantus team yesterday released video 255 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: and paperwork showing that these migrants sign a waiver. They 256 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: knew they were going to California. There's video of them 257 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 1: talking about that they're happy to go to California. And 258 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 1: the El Segundo, Pravda, Propaganda, Times and other news outlets go, well, 259 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,319 Speaker 1: you know, we have no way of verifying if this 260 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: video and this paperwork is true. Well, you had no 261 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,200 Speaker 1: way of verifying Newsom's charges when you put it in 262 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:26,079 Speaker 1: big bold headlines. They haven't provided any evidence to support Well, 263 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 1: Newsom didn't provide any evidence either, did he. 264 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,079 Speaker 2: So Lusim's wild ass. 265 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 1: Theory gets show stopping headlines and breaking news chirons. When 266 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 1: DeSantis actually at least offers some real paperwork and video. 267 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 3: It's like, well, we don't know chirons. Chiron's never heard 268 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 3: you say that before. I like that it's underused word. Well, 269 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 3: here's his evidence, sort of. Newsom and his wife visited 270 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 3: with some of the migrants Saturday reviewed the materials they 271 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 3: were carrying. He said their supposed waivers were unsigned with 272 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 3: the markings of Florida's Office of a Urgency Services. He 273 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 3: said when he talked to them, they felt like they 274 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 3: didn't know why they're being flown here. That's his evidence. 275 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 3: They independently told me similar stories about how they were 276 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 3: mislet and lie to the notion of taking people under 277 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 3: false pretense is well established in statutes. 278 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 2: Okay, so where's the kidnapping charges? 279 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: Because to me, when somebody commits a kidnapping, right, police 280 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 1: charge the guy immediately. I mean, as soon as they 281 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 1: get the body. Right, they've got the guy and he's 282 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: doing the purp walk and he's in an orange jumpsuit 283 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: and he's behind bars. 284 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 2: So where is it they've had They've had three. 285 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: Days now, and I don't I don't see any charges 286 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: from Bonta and Newsom. I see a lot of weasel wordings. Well, 287 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 1: you know we're gonna have the facts come out, So 288 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:44,679 Speaker 1: what are you talking about. I thought you had the facts. 289 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: You're the one who shouted kidnapping. You must have had 290 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: the facts already. Right, Oh, that's right. In the Twitter thing, 291 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:54,839 Speaker 1: he put kidnapping with a question mark. Suddenly that question 292 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 1: mark didn't make all the headlines that these propagandists at 293 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 1: the LA Times immediately amplified. 294 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, The New York Times weighed in on this story 295 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 3: along with Martha's vineyard story from last year, and the 296 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 3: migrants were flown there, saying it's a stretch. John Taylor, 297 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 3: political science professor at the University of Texas, says, prosecuting 298 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 3: this is going to be a stretch, and you'd probably 299 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 3: never get a conviction. We talk about doing something for show, 300 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 3: which is what he's accusing Desantus of doing. 301 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 2: He's doing the same thing. 302 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 3: He's grand standing over possible charges when it's honestly not 303 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 3: gonna happen. 304 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 2: But Newsom gets a stage four it. That's what's galling. 305 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: He immediately gets to spread his lies, and the LA 306 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: Times eagerly prints his lies. I saw today that the 307 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: Times laid off seventy four people in the newsroom because 308 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 1: Patrick Souon Young is losing a lot of money and 309 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: suits Young's. 310 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 2: Daughter is ruining the newsroom. 311 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: So that my first reaction was, well, maybe if you 312 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: stop printing lies on behalf of the governor, you wouldn't 313 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: have to be laying off your employees because people are 314 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 1: not reading your product very much anymore. I look up 315 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 1: the online numbers for the La Times all the time. 316 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: It really stinks. 317 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 2: Did you see their own story on this today though, Yes? 318 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 2: On the layoffs. Yeah. Yeah. 319 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 3: When the paper was acquired by doctor Patrick Schume Sung 320 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 3: and his wife five years ago, the Times was shedding 321 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 3: print subscribers had just one hundred and twenty five thousand 322 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 3: digital subscribers. 323 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 2: The family invested millions. 324 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 3: They hired one hundred and fifty journalists, We built the 325 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 3: business operations and launched an entertainment studio. So they're trying 326 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 3: to make it sound like he really built the paper 327 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 3: up and this is just a minor setback. No, he 328 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 3: lost fifty million dollars last year. He's worth billions, so 329 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 3: he can afford to do it. They're now up to 330 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 3: five hundred and fifty thousand digital subscribers. John Colebelt when 331 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 3: he took over the paper, they only had one hundred 332 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 3: and twenty five thousand. 333 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. He's losing tons of money. The digital 334 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 1: subscriptions aren't much money. He doesn't have an advertising base anymore. 335 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: See the old fashioned newspaper business had reams and reams 336 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: of classified ads, special automobile sections on Sundays right. Lots 337 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 1: of major department stores would be advertising all the time. 338 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: They were making so much money. I think they had 339 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: over a thousand people in their news department, So it 340 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: doesn't matter if they have subscribers. 341 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 2: The subscribe description price is too low. 342 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 3: And unfortunately, most of these layoffs don't affect the reporters 343 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 3: that we read. 344 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 2: That's going to be next now. 345 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 3: A lot of it is a handful of managers. Reporting 346 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 3: positions are expected to be largely spared. Production staff will 347 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 3: be trimmed, editors on the news and copy desks, as 348 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 3: well as the audience engagement team. 349 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 2: I love that some photographers and audio producers will also 350 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 2: be cut. 351 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: There's no profit in it, and their subscription increase has 352 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: stalled out, so they're dead. 353 00:16:59,400 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 2: In the water. 354 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: If it's anybody else that owned the times they'd sell 355 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: or close, but they've got they've got a billionaire who's 356 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: trying to be a civic leader. But even the billionaires 357 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:12,920 Speaker 1: get tired of this crap after a while. Billionaires don't 358 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: become wealthy by keeping a dead business on life support. 359 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: These and by the way, the product is terrible. The 360 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 1: writing is terrible. You know, you have people in their 361 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 1: mid twenties making whatever newspaper minimum wage is, and most 362 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: of the articles are about sexuality and race. 363 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 2: There's almost nothing is. 364 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:42,439 Speaker 1: A lot, yeah, overwhelmingly sexuality and race. And you know 365 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 1: what's funny, it's the two things that most normal people 366 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: are sick of hearing about. I can't tell you how 367 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: sick most people I talked to were hearing about sexuality 368 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: and race. That's It's like here it is one, two, 369 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: three articles right at the top about sexuality. Four at 370 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:04,880 Speaker 1: the top about sexuality. I mean, seriously, it's not that interesting. 371 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 1: It's it's it's. 372 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 2: Not it's not an issue in most people's lives. 373 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: So you know, you're not gonna you're not gonna get 374 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 1: more subscribers and advertising by by constantly obsessing on something 375 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 1: that most people don't don't even think about. 376 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 2: Let alone. Care about. 377 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 3: All right? We got more coming up. Johnny Ken KFI 378 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 3: AM six forty. We're live everywhere iHeartRadio app. 379 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,640 Speaker 7: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 380 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 7: AM six forty. 381 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:37,439 Speaker 1: We're live on the radio from one to four, and 382 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 1: then the John and Ken on demand podcast on the 383 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 1: iHeart app after four o'clock and you pick up whatever 384 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 1: you missed. 385 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:44,439 Speaker 7: Uh. 386 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 3: Coming up after three o'clock. Matt Cappoluto's coming back on 387 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 3: the show. He lost his daughter Alexandra to fentanyl and 388 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 3: she did not know she was taking fentanyl, and he 389 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 3: has been fighting for years to make some changes in 390 00:18:58,080 --> 00:18:59,440 Speaker 3: the laws in California. 391 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 2: Alexandra Laws. 392 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 3: Alexandra's Law is what he has been behind and it 393 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 3: didn't make it through the state legislature. So there's a 394 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 3: plan now to maybe put it in front of the 395 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 3: voters as a constitutional amendment. And this goes after fentanyl dealers. 396 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:16,919 Speaker 3: It's sort of like the drunk driving thing. You do 397 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 3: it once, maybe we give you a pass, but you 398 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:22,239 Speaker 3: do it again, you face homicide charges. This could not 399 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 3: get past the public safety committees and Sacramento. So the 400 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 3: plan now is to perhaps put it in front of 401 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 3: the voters. We'll find out more after three o'clock about 402 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:36,199 Speaker 3: the fate of Alexandra's law. George Gascon sends out a 403 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 3: lot of emails lately. I guess the Johnny Ken shows 404 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:42,679 Speaker 3: on the mailing list. We're on everybody's mailing list, by 405 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 3: the way, that he's looking for money because he's running 406 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 3: for reelection. But the news in the last twenty four 407 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 3: hours is, I don't know, it's really sad. He quit Twitter. 408 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 3: George Gascon quit Twitter. And the thing that he's railing 409 00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:00,159 Speaker 3: against here is Elon Musk, and he wrote this, so 410 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:04,399 Speaker 3: I happened to agree with mister Gascon. Musk railed against 411 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 3: progressive policies and goals and said, my supporters want to 412 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 3: erode the very fabric of civilization and hate humanity. I 413 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 3: think that's a pretty good way to size up Gascon's well. 414 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 3: Mister Musk is correct. 415 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 2: He is correct. 416 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:20,239 Speaker 1: Yes, Gascone does hate humanity. He doesn't care if we 417 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 1: all die at the hands of his band of violent criminals. 418 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:24,679 Speaker 2: Yeah. 419 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 1: I mean he's practically running a criminal network, this Gascone, 420 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: because he empowers these guys and defends and protects them 421 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 1: so they can go out and kill us. 422 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:36,400 Speaker 2: All over again. Yeah. I like the way. 423 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:39,479 Speaker 3: This is what he's trying to do. Reform the criminal 424 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 3: justice system, hold cops accountable. That's like his top priority. 425 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 3: I'm sick of his crap. 426 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 2: No, but you notice nowhere in there is to stop 427 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 2: the crime. No, it's rampant. No, he wants to stop 428 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,959 Speaker 2: lifting all of the property crime. No. X was cracking 429 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 2: down on illegal guns and fentanyl. Oh, you know, I'm. 430 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:57,640 Speaker 1: Sick of all his cover stories. I'm looking at two 431 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 1: and a half years. He's got ten cases that he 432 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 1: hasn't prosecuted, ten thousand. We have gone through dozens and 433 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: dozens of his stories. All right, So he's he's an anarchist. 434 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: He's destroying the system. That's what he's about. I don't 435 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 1: want to hear his cover stories, his excuses, his misdirections, 436 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 1: his shields, all the catchy phrases he has that gets 437 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: amplified by the. 438 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 2: Propaganda papers in LA. He is an anarchist. 439 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 1: He's going to lead the place in ruins, the way 440 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 1: the gar City left the La streets and ruins. 441 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 2: Now we move over to CNN. 442 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 3: We just talked about the El Segundo Times engaging in 443 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 3: some layoffs of employees. CNN just laid off one big employee, 444 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 3: the chairman and CEO. This is a guy by the 445 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 3: name of Chris lickt he'd only been there for thirteen months. 446 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 3: He came in he was going to try to change 447 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 3: CNN from apparently what was this anti Trump fading, progressive, 448 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:01,639 Speaker 3: shrinking and viewer channel that people were so I remember 449 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 3: he came in there and he said, well, maybe we 450 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,400 Speaker 3: should try something that's more in the middle somewhere, And 451 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,640 Speaker 3: then I guess the last straw was the Trump town 452 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,200 Speaker 3: hall where he what he faced was looks like an 453 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,360 Speaker 3: employee revolt because some of these people have been there. 454 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,439 Speaker 2: They're dug in for decades. They're die hard progressives are 455 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 2: what they are. 456 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:21,719 Speaker 3: They are the and the wolf blitzers who have been 457 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 3: there for like twenty or thirty years. 458 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: Did you read that Atlantic magazine profile and Chris licked 459 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 1: and no. 460 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 3: It's said he expressed regret to staffers about the Atlantic 461 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:37,640 Speaker 3: Peace by journalist Tim Alberta, in which Lick disparaged CNN 462 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,359 Speaker 3: coverage under his predecessor, Jeff zucker Well. This was the 463 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 3: final final straw try to trade him as an isolated 464 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 3: leader primarily concerned with a mandate that the network be 465 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 3: more more hospitable to Republicans and addressed the need to 466 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 3: restore trust reviewers. 467 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: It's more nuanced than that. It's actually one of the 468 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: most brilliant pieces of writing I've ever seen in terms 469 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 1: of profile filing. 470 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 2: Somebody. 471 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: I don't know why Lickt gave this reporter such access, 472 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 1: but clearly Lickt was disgusted by the old CNN and 473 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: he was under the impression that his bosses wanted him 474 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 1: to radically change what was a dying channel, and in 475 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: the first year none of his decisions worked out. They 476 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: have now even less audience. You know what, the audience 477 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: is now in prime time on average, less than a 478 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 1: half a million people. It's amazing how much how much 479 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: coverage this channel gets it does They mentioned all the 480 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 1: time it's not even five hundred thousand people out of 481 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 1: a country of three hundred and thirty million. And he 482 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: came in and he thought that the anti Trump coverage 483 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 1: was over the top, which it was, and that the 484 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 1: COVID coverage was over the top. And I actually highlighted 485 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,400 Speaker 1: one of the quotes in the Atlantic magazine story and 486 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: he said, like Trump's presidency Lickt said the pandemic exposed 487 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 1: the degree to which his network had lost touch with 488 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 1: the country. Quote in the beginning, CNN was a trusted source. 489 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 1: This crazy thing COVID, no one understands it. It helps 490 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 1: help us make sense of it, what's going on. And 491 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,879 Speaker 1: then I think we got to a place where, oh, 492 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 1: we got to keep getting those ratings, We got to 493 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 1: keep getting the sense of urgency. COVID, COVID, COVID. Look 494 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: at the case numbers, look at this, look at this. 495 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 1: He's mocking the CNN coverage, no context, and you know, 496 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: this kind of shaming. And then people walked outside and 497 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: they go, well, this is not my life, this is 498 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: not my reality. You guys meaning CNN are just saying 499 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:39,400 Speaker 1: this because you need the ratings, you need the clicks. 500 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: I don't trust you. And that certainly encapsulates how I 501 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 1: felt watching CNN and other places, is they were hyping 502 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: the COVID emergency beyond all reason, beyond all proportion. And 503 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: I knew people, a couple people that I knew that 504 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 1: my wife knows, spent all their days watching CN twelve 505 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: hours a day, and they became increasingly hysterical about COVID. 506 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 1: They were having nervous breakdowns over it. But it got 507 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 1: them the eyeballs and it got them the ratings. But 508 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 1: it completely distorted and that's why you couldn't have a 509 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 1: reasonable conversation about anybody, about vaccines, about masks, about kids. 510 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,199 Speaker 2: Going to school. It all became absurd. And I knew this, 511 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 2: and I think we said it at the time. Do 512 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:23,399 Speaker 2: any of those people feel foolish now? 513 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,199 Speaker 1: I think they do. Yeah, but they're not going to 514 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 1: talk about it publicly. But you know, you can kind 515 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,479 Speaker 1: of tell it's like, what the hell was that about? 516 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 1: You and I were in the middle of it, going, 517 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 1: what the hell is this about? 518 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,920 Speaker 3: No, But I remember, even early on in the pandemic, 519 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 3: we started to look at the death rate numbers and 520 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 3: realized that they weren't that great. It was just that 521 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 3: this virus was moving through and it was more contagious 522 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 3: than past illnesses. 523 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,159 Speaker 2: And that's what we realized very early on. 524 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 3: We said, though, it's not killing people at an incredible rate, 525 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 3: it's just infecting a lot of people. But that leads 526 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,919 Speaker 3: to too many dead bodies for people. You see how 527 00:25:58,920 --> 00:25:59,640 Speaker 3: you end up in a circle. 528 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,400 Speaker 1: On the it was mostly elderly people and those who 529 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,639 Speaker 1: are already at compromised health. 530 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 3: Right, but those people are saying, well, we still like 531 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:08,440 Speaker 3: them around even if they're not good. 532 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 1: But yeah, but you can't keep everybody else home. You 533 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,679 Speaker 1: can't shut down their lives. You can't destroy kids for 534 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,680 Speaker 1: a year and a half in their education. The price 535 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:17,920 Speaker 1: was too high. Got to come up with something better 536 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,679 Speaker 1: than absolute lockdown. But CNN fed the hysteria because it worked. 537 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 1: LA Times covered it the same way because it worked. 538 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,359 Speaker 1: And this was the final straw for me where I 539 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 1: looked at these media outlets and said, you know what, 540 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 1: I don't believe you anymore. You know this is not 541 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 1: your ordinary exactly. 542 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 3: No, it's advocacy journalism, that's right, that's what they've engaged 543 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 3: in in years. 544 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 2: And it's false journalism. 545 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 1: Okay, what CNN did, the LA Times did and is 546 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: still doing is false journalism. I don't believe you anymore. 547 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,919 Speaker 1: I don't trust you. I'm not going to waste my 548 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 1: time with you. And the proof is there's only four 549 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 1: hundred ninety four thousand people left watching CNN at night, 550 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: four hundred ninety four thousand. In fact, one of the 551 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 1: things Chris Lick did is you put Jake Tapper in 552 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,719 Speaker 1: to do then one o'clock show for a few weeks. 553 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: You know, Jake Tapper came in fiftieth place, fiftieth. He 554 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,720 Speaker 1: came in behind gun Smoke reruns. 555 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, gun smoke reruns that TV Land or something, the 556 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 3: Inspiration Channel. 557 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,399 Speaker 2: The Inspiration Jeff Black and White. 558 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 1: Gun Smoke reruns from the nineteen sixties out drew Jake Tapper. 559 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:26,879 Speaker 2: All Right, we got more coming up. 560 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,200 Speaker 3: John and Ken KFI AM six forty live everywhere iHeartRadio 561 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 3: app he. 562 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 2: Got gun Smoke. 563 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 7: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 564 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 7: AM six forty. 565 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 3: Well, we finally have I guess you call it an 566 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 3: on the record response from Ron DeSantis, Florida governor was 567 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,200 Speaker 3: in Arizona today in a place called Cochies County where 568 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 3: he was doing some sort of border security for him, 569 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 3: and he did speak about the migrant flights. This is 570 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,160 Speaker 3: the first time he has spoken publicly. Now I'm I'm 571 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 3: looking at two different websites and it's fascinating. 572 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 2: The Hill. What would you describe the Hill as, John 573 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 2: the Hill? I think it kind of leans a little conservative. 574 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 3: DeSantis dodges on California migrant flights, newsome and border round table. 575 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 3: But the Daily Caller, which I know, is right, we 576 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 3: are not a sanctuary. DeSantis responds to investigation over transporting 577 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 3: legal immigrants to California, and when I read his quotes 578 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,880 Speaker 3: in the Daily Caller story, it doesn't sound like a dodge. 579 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 3: You want to hear part of his full statement, which 580 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 3: I thought was excellent. I think the border should be closed. 581 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 3: I don't think we should have any of this. But 582 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,880 Speaker 3: if there's a policy to have an open border, then 583 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 3: I think the sanctuary jurisdiction should be the ones that 584 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 3: have to bear it. We are not a sanctuary in Florida. Yes, 585 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 3: we know people want to come, and so the move 586 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 3: we can defer before we even. 587 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 2: Have to get there is good for our state. 588 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 3: Now, a place like California, they give benefits, they give 589 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 3: unemployment checks, they do all that, and so you can 590 00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 3: see why some of the folks were interested in going 591 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 3: in that direction. In Florida, we've gone the opposite way. 592 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 3: We're saying we're going to have a legal workforce, We're 593 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 3: not going to have benefits, We're not going to do that, 594 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 3: and basically try to disincentivize it. Other states have tried 595 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 3: to incentivize it and I think that they should be 596 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 3: the ones to pay, the ones to pay to do that. 597 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 3: And he's referring to that bill and Sacramento that they 598 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 3: give illegal aliens unemployment. 599 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 2: Well, that doesn't passed yet, but he's already. 600 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 1: It's such a fake issue because going back at least 601 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 1: to the Obama administration, Obama had migrants flown all over 602 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 1: the country. So did Trump, so did Biden. Obviously Biden 603 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 1: has flown thousands all over the place in the middle 604 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 1: of the night to Florida, to upstate New York. You 605 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: have the mayor of El Paso doing it, you have 606 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: DeSantis doing it, Greg Abbott doing it, the Democratic mayor 607 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 1: of the Democratic. 608 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 3: Denver, Yeah, I was the governor of the Denver mayor 609 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 3: was the governorment or the government of Colorado. 610 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 1: The governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, he's a Democrat. He's 611 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:02,400 Speaker 1: flown them out, So everybody's flying everybody everywhere, and they're 612 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: illegal aliens here. They don't have any protected rights under 613 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:11,960 Speaker 1: the constitution, so the government can relocate them to wherever 614 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: the government wants to. 615 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 2: You know, they're lucky they're not all in jail. They 616 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 2: could all be in jail, so. 617 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: They're going to move from state to state because obviously 618 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 1: you can't have the Texas border towns abshort two million people, 619 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 1: so they're going everywhere. There is no crime here. The 620 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: government is in charge. The government can decide what to 621 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: do with these people. There's no kidnapping. 622 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 2: He added, we can't have mass migration. 623 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 3: These sanctuary jurisdictions are part of the reason we have 624 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 3: this problem because they endorsed and agitated for these types 625 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 3: of open border policies. They've bragged at they're sanctuary jurisdictions. 626 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 3: They've attacked the previous administration's efforts to try to have 627 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 3: the border security. And of course he's referring to Trump. 628 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 3: That makes common sense to me. Well, he's exactly right, 629 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 3: and he's saying, look, if you're a sanctuary state or 630 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,040 Speaker 3: a sanctuary city, then obviously you're welcoming migrants from all 631 00:30:59,040 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 3: over the world. 632 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 2: Here they are are. Why aren't you just opening your 633 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 2: arms and saying that's exactly right. 634 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: Well, it's not a stunt, you, no, it's it's it's 635 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: it's a bizarre it's bizarre propaganda to say, oh, this 636 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 1: is cruel and in human. 637 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 2: They're coming to California. 638 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 1: You claim this is the greatest place to be in 639 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,239 Speaker 1: the greatest country in the world. What is cruel and 640 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 1: in human here? I thought they're leaving all kinds of 641 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 1: violence and oppression and abuse, and now they're they're going 642 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 1: to Sacramento. I know Sacramento is not the but. 643 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 2: The most divine place to go. 644 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 1: It's not the garden spot of California, but still it's 645 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,360 Speaker 1: better than you know, being an l Salvador, Honduras or 646 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: wherever these people are coming from. 647 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:42,960 Speaker 2: So all it. 648 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 1: Is is incendiary rhetoric and nonsense amplified by a dishonest, 649 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 1: corrupt media. 650 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 3: All right, when we come back, we're going to welcome 651 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 3: back to the show a man that has fought tirelessly 652 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 3: in California for tougher laws on fentanyl dealing. His name 653 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:03,720 Speaker 3: is Cappalaludo. His daughter Alexandra died from fentanyl a few 654 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 3: years back, and Alexandra's law is what this is all about. 655 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 3: It is gonna come down harder on fentanyl dealers. It 656 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 3: has failed time and time again in Sacramento in the 657 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 3: public safety committees. Now the idea is to put it 658 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 3: in front of the voters. But to do that it 659 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 3: has to get the approval of the legislature to put 660 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 3: it on the ballot. We'll find out all about this next. 661 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:29,520 Speaker 3: John and KENKFI AM six forty Live everywhere, the iHeartRadio app. 662 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 2: And Debra Mark Ltd. 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