1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: CAFI AM six forty. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John and Ken Show on demand 3 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 3: John's got some time off. I'm here with Deborah giving 5 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 3: you the news updates. In about fifteen minutes, another keyword 6 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 3: we'll be revealed. 7 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: Here on KFI. 8 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 3: If you've been following along, we have the KFI Inflation 9 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 3: Compensation contest going on. Your chance at one thousand dollars 10 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 3: comes at around two twenty when we reveal it. I 11 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 3: have the keyword right here, but I'm not gonna tell you. 12 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 3: You'll hear a big voice guy say it, and then 13 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 3: I'll repeat the keyword. You follow the instructions, maybe win 14 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 3: the money. You got to be listening live to do this. 15 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 3: But of course, if you can't hear the John and 16 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 3: Ken Show live, you can always pick us up on 17 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 3: demand at KFIAM six forty dot com or the KFI 18 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app. 19 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: Is another easy way to do that. 20 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 3: I'm just looking to a story from the El Segundo 21 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 3: Times that there is a shortage of saracha, which is 22 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 3: the really hot sauce that they make in those plants 23 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 3: where peppers, and it's probably because of climate change. So 24 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 3: we found out the end of last hour that the 25 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 3: algae bloom that's out there that's harming dolphins and sea 26 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 3: lions and other sea creatures could be climate change. And 27 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 3: now saracha shortage could also be climate change. Is there 28 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 3: nothing that won't be blamed on climate change? The list grows. 29 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 3: What was interesting is I remember a couple of years 30 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 3: back they were saying, Eh, maybe we shouldn't drag the 31 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 3: drought into this, but that's gone to The drought's also 32 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:29,759 Speaker 3: because of climate change. Everything that's a climate change. 33 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 1: You have it a bad day, all right? You got fired, 34 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: some of your family sick. 35 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 3: Climate change, just right off the climate change and what 36 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 3: can you do about it? 37 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: All right? 38 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 3: We're now going to talk once again to John Ally, 39 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 3: founding member of the Santa Monica Coalition. He's been on 40 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 3: our show a number of times over the years, and 41 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 3: he and a number of other residents and business owners 42 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 3: are fighting the city of Santa Monica. And of course 43 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 3: what else, it's tolerance the homeless and the drug addicted. 44 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 3: This chapter brings us some one thing a little new, 45 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 3: which apparently is a good old needle distribution program says 46 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 3: here that they've been distributing free packages of syringe needles, 47 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 3: opioid drugs, and narcan inside three of Santa Monica's parks, 48 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 3: and what we're seeing the result is people are dying 49 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 3: anyway addicts, addix rodean or being poisoned by fentanyl or 50 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 3: any combination of the two. Let's bring John back on 51 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 3: the show for an update on this story because it looks. 52 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 1: Like it involves. 53 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 3: Oh look at that Barbara Ferrer from the Alli County 54 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 3: Health Department. 55 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: John, how are you good. 56 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 4: It's good talking to you again. 57 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, So explain what's going on there in Santa Monica 58 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 3: with this handing out of needles. 59 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 4: Well, things have declined. We now have two to three 60 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 4: reported people dying from overdoors per week, on the sidewalks 61 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 4: and on the grass areas of our parks. 62 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: That's a lot for Santa Monica. 63 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:07,079 Speaker 4: Three a week, two to three a month, I'm sorry. 64 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 1: To a month. Okay, three a week, No, two. 65 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 4: To three a week. Two to three a week. That's 66 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 4: verified by the police, and I personally witnessed two in 67 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 4: the last two weeks, and they're covered up. And those 68 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:24,959 Speaker 4: are just the ones that are reported. Nobody ever finds 69 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 4: out what happens to the poor people, what their names are, 70 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 4: but we're losing control of our parks. Seventy two percent 71 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 4: of our residents live in apartments and the parks of 72 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 4: their backyards. They're being taken over by the needle distribution, 73 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 4: which has been going on secretly before we discovered it 74 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 4: last March. It's been going on since twenty nineteen. So 75 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 4: three mayors knew about it. No council people knew about it, 76 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 4: and our current mayor, Glen Davis was mayor back in 77 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 4: twenty nineteen. She knew about it, and we put out 78 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 4: a petition and we have garnered so far just short 79 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 4: in five weeks. Eleven thousand letters sent out to the city, 80 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 4: state senators and the county, the Board of Health and 81 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:24,479 Speaker 4: Barbara Ferrer. And guess what, the City's blocked our emails, 82 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 4: so we'll find another way for them to see it. 83 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 4: But eleven thousand letters, and mostly from residents. Businesses are 84 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 4: just finding out about this. And it didn't just start 85 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 4: in the park. It started in the third Street promenade, 86 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 4: if you can believe it, on a retail street, and 87 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 4: it started on a privately owned property occupied by seven 88 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 4: to eleven. So we met with Barbara Ferr. We insisted 89 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 4: on it. She didn't want to do it. She wanted 90 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 4: to do it by phone. We insisted on a direct 91 00:04:54,360 --> 00:05:00,359 Speaker 4: in person meeting, and she admitted she couldn't give us 92 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 4: any financial data on the needle distribution program. We don't 93 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 4: know how many county and in this case, they're using 94 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 4: the Venice Family Clinic employees to help them. They're not 95 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,279 Speaker 4: taking any referrals or contacts for follow up mental health, 96 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 4: sobriety or drug programs. We had a couple members, including myself, 97 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 4: go into the parks and I was offered needles, not 98 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 4: one two, and she said, well, we'll pull back and 99 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 4: we'll distribute them from the curb side. It was a lie. 100 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 4: They continue to go into the parks and she said, 101 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 4: if you fight us on this, we'll go into the 102 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 4: private rooms within the parks. And I said, gosh, you 103 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 4: know that doesn't make much sense. We've got a senior center, 104 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 4: a youth center, and a tennis reservation office. You can't 105 00:05:59,520 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 4: do that. 106 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, and the parks are not meant for their national 107 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 3: distribution program. 108 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 1: You're right. 109 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 3: The parks are meant for people's recreation and enjoyment. Nobody 110 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,280 Speaker 3: should be catering to drug addicts in public parks. Did 111 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 3: you say this is coming from the La County Department 112 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 3: of Health, but it's being carried out by this Venice 113 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 3: Family clinic handing out the needles. 114 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 4: Yes, exactly, and it's known now to the city. The 115 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 4: city council voted and asked the county last September to 116 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 4: move it into a county or city owned building away 117 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 4: from the parks. Forget about the merits of the program, 118 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 4: which they have no metrics that's successful. We said, the 119 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 4: city said, please move it out of the parks. Her 120 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:53,040 Speaker 4: response was to expand it into three parks, and everyone's 121 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 4: been quiet on city council. Last week, the city manager, 122 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 4: who's appointed by the city council, signed a joint proclamation 123 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 4: saying that the city supports the program and is in 124 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 4: hand in hand with the county. So we asked the 125 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 4: council members, who's the city is that, the city council, 126 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 4: the mayor, city manager, who you appoint, who is it? 127 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 4: And they don't have an answer. I think there's scrambling 128 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 4: to find an answer right now that Barbara Ferrara has 129 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 4: this perverted way of thinking. It's a perverted program, it's corrupt, 130 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 4: and it's hurting the most vulnerable. Thirty percent of these 131 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 4: people are women. They're being attacked at night by other women, 132 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 4: being jumped. There's now We took a walk on on 133 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 4: Ocean Avenue yesterday Pallistates Park overlooking the bus where most 134 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 4: of the major hotels are, and we found open drug use. 135 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 4: I asked one of the homeless where I could get drugs. 136 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 4: I said, where can I get some mets? And he said, well, 137 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 4: if I wasn't on camera, I would tell you. But 138 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 4: it's within fifty yards from here, and there's syringes on 139 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 4: the ground. We're picking them up. The city doesn't pick 140 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 4: them up, the county doesn't pick them up. So we've 141 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 4: got a big problem. And now the hotels and the 142 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 4: restaurants have spoken before city council and said, look, we 143 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 4: need more police. The ambassadors are watching. It's not working well. 144 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:43,839 Speaker 4: The private security is not working. We need more police. 145 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 4: The chief has said we need two hundred and eighty officers. 146 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,199 Speaker 4: We're down under two hundred if you include the recruits. 147 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 4: So it's a disaster. It's a very poorly run city. 148 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:58,079 Speaker 3: Now you're saying since they started this needle distribution program, 149 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 3: you found out it probably started in twenty nineteen that 150 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 3: there's more dead people in Santa Monica from drug overdoses. 151 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:10,559 Speaker 4: Definitely. A year ago we were seeing guests on the sidewalks, 152 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 4: the alleys and on the promenade three to four a month. 153 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,559 Speaker 4: Now we're seeing two to three a week. That's huge 154 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:21,119 Speaker 4: and we think it's direct correlation to this program. 155 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:23,599 Speaker 3: Why are you guys going to have an election? You 156 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 3: got to get these council members out. I mean, honestly, 157 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 3: if you have that many people that support what's going 158 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 3: on there, John, or that many people that support your coalition, 159 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 3: they should be starting to vote these people out of office. 160 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 3: When are elections coming up? This is ridiculous. 161 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: If this is a big issue, they got to go. 162 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,839 Speaker 4: That's our goal, one vote at a time, one person 163 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 4: at a time, to get interested. The subject on the 164 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 4: ballot has always been rent control, which is not going 165 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 4: away in that city, and that's what the main emphasis 166 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 4: is on, and people aren't paying attention. And that's our 167 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:02,079 Speaker 4: goal to reach everybody. The people that are hurt most, 168 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 4: the poor people, middle income people that can't walk the streets. 169 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 4: They want to walk their dogs and they can't. We 170 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 4: have people walking around. We have a video yesterday, I 171 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 4: have a guy walking around pounding cars and pounding street 172 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 4: ballards with a six inch or eight inch cast and pipe, 173 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 4: now hitting city owned trucks. It's totally out of control. 174 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,559 Speaker 3: All right, John, thanks for talking to me again and 175 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 3: keep us updated because this is horrendous. But you're really 176 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 3: going to have to find a way to get these people. 177 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,200 Speaker 3: You say, eleven thousand have signed your petition to get 178 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 3: these people out of office who are managing this. Thank 179 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 3: you so much for coming on you take care, all right. 180 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 3: The Santa Monica Coalition dot org is their website. That's 181 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 3: John Ally, the founding member. And of course all this 182 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 3: has to do with a needle distribution program apparently advocated 183 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 3: and authorized by the La County Health Department than his 184 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 3: family clinic is handing out free packages of syringe needles, 185 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 3: and more people are just ending up dead. 186 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 1: This is this. 187 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 3: Horrific idea of harm reduction. Keep in mind those two words. 188 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,439 Speaker 3: They used them during COVID, which made some sense because 189 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:17,719 Speaker 3: the idea of locking everybody down this became a buzzword 190 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 3: harm reduction. You know, you take a mask, you get 191 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:22,959 Speaker 3: a vaccine, you try to limit the harm. But when 192 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 3: it comes to drug users and hopeless people. Harm reduction 193 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 3: is horrific. All it means is tolerance. And we're going 194 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 3: to stand by with narcanda, see if we can't save 195 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 3: your life. And of course that's not going to happen. 196 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 3: And in Santa Monica, it's not happening often enough. 197 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 1: All Right, I got more coming up. 198 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 3: The chance for one thousand dollars is next with an 199 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 3: important keyword. 200 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: Stand by for that. 201 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 3: John and KENKFI AM six forty live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. 202 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 203 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 204 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 3: Well, this story came out Friday, they had a chance 205 00:11:57,559 --> 00:11:59,319 Speaker 3: to get to it and looked at it again over 206 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:05,559 Speaker 3: the weekend, just really started laughing the headline online and 207 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 3: it got attention all over the country. Elseegondo Times four. 208 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 3: In ten California residents are considering packing up and leaving. 209 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 3: New poll finds Now, if you're just a headline reader, 210 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 3: that would be enough and you might move on. You 211 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:21,839 Speaker 3: would say, of course, that's probably the way it is, 212 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 3: since so many people are leaving California. And again had 213 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 3: a forty million people. Yeah, if a few hundred thousand 214 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 3: livres were all like, oh, that's a significant, insignificant percentage, 215 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 3: but it represents an incredible reversal from decades of people 216 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:41,080 Speaker 3: more people coming here than leaving here. And what you 217 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 3: take out of this is immigration, you know, birth's deaths 218 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 3: and all that. We're just talking about residents who leave 219 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 3: for another state. So the writer for this, because apparently 220 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 3: this poll came from some sort of coalition of nonprofits, 221 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 3: it's a classic El Segondo time staff writer where they'm 222 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 3: a Benjamin or so this is what he writes because 223 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 3: you know what the assignment or is the idea is, Well, 224 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 3: you know, it's a reality that people are more people 225 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 3: are leaving California than coming in from other states. 226 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: So we've got to do a story. 227 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 3: We have this poll here where forty percent say that's 228 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 3: what they're thinking of doing. 229 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 1: So let's do the story. But let's soften the blow. 230 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 3: How can we take the questions in this poll and 231 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 3: package them just so so this doesn't look like everybody's 232 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 3: abandon in California. And you know the joke, last one out, 233 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 3: turn out the lights. So here's how we started this. 234 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 3: With its unmatched natural splendor and cultural attractions, California is 235 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:44,439 Speaker 3: a beacon that attracts people from around the world who 236 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:48,199 Speaker 3: put down roots and call it home. Holy Mackarel, how homespun? 237 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 3: Is that it like he's writing for some great literary novel. 238 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 3: About seventy percent of residents say they're happy living here. 239 00:13:56,440 --> 00:14:00,960 Speaker 3: See remember the headline was bad. But make sure, because 240 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 3: some people only read the first few paragraphs of your story, 241 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 3: make sure you shove what is at all considered to 242 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 3: be the good news in the front of this. It 243 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 3: says here seventy percent are happy living here, crediting the 244 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 3: state's diversity. That's another important one. Check that one off 245 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 3: economic opportunities and an enjoyable lifestyle as reasons to stick around. 246 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 3: Why they didn't stick the weather in there. There's a 247 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 3: lot of people say you can't beat the weather out here. 248 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 3: Although this has been a kind of a more or 249 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 3: less tougher year, yet large swaths. It's another way to 250 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 3: soften it, just large swaths, large swaths. That's hard to 251 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 3: of residents are also considering packing up and leaving. Many 252 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 3: also believe that the state is headed in the wrong direction, 253 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 3: and they're anxious about the direction of the economy and 254 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 3: their ability to pay their bills. So these polls came 255 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 3: from these local nonprofits, and I was sure it was 256 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 3: an also going to do Times poll because the answers 257 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 3: are used. Actually, what they do with this is kind 258 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 3: of a weany way to ask people a question. But 259 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 3: when I ask you the following question, tell me, for instance, 260 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 3: whether or not you would consider yourself very happy, somewhat happy, 261 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 3: not too happy, not happy at all, or you're not sure. 262 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 3: So that's where they got the seventy percent from, because 263 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 3: it says here that between very happy and somewhat happy. Well, 264 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 3: you got your seventy percent right, But actually only thirty 265 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 3: eight percent of Democrats said they're very happy, eighteen percent 266 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 3: of independence and only twelve percent of Republicans, which is 267 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 3: another theme of this poll. People who are Republican and 268 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 3: conservative had many more issues with the state above and 269 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 3: beyond the fact that it costs a lot to live here. 270 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 3: They had complaints, of course about the political climate in California, 271 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 3: all the regulation and the homelessness and the crime and 272 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 3: everything else that's unchecked by a governor that really wants 273 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 3: to run for president, you know. And then they called 274 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 3: in the usual political expert with their analysis of this, 275 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 3: and then they wanted to make sure that the seventy 276 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 3: percent of Californians said that what best describes the state 277 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 3: is its diversity. Really, that's the first thing people say 278 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 3: when they're asked to describe California. 279 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: It's diverse. 280 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 3: Californians were divided even Lee when asked whether the country 281 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 3: has overcorrected and gone too far in its attempts to 282 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 3: give everyone equal rights. They stuck that one in a 283 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 3: majority of white Californians agreed. That was not the case 284 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 3: with Black Californians, and Latino and Asian respondents were closely divided. 285 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 3: The next big question they have here, the answers were 286 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 3: very well, somewhat well, not too well, not well at all, 287 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 3: not sure, And this was most residents said, offering opportunities 288 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 3: to do things I enjoyed describe California very or somewhat well. 289 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:56,479 Speaker 3: But they split, well, that's true about their second priority, 290 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 3: feeling safe. So the first one was opportunities to do 291 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 3: enjoyable things and be happy. Yeah, well, yeah, a clear 292 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 3: majority saying that's true, picking very well or somewhat well. 293 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 3: Feeling safe, though, eh, drop down significantly. Nine percent said 294 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 3: they feel very safe nine percent in the whole state, 295 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 3: twenty th percent not well at all on safety, the 296 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:22,119 Speaker 3: varse population, and there's your seventy percent, opportunities to get 297 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 3: at ehly, fifteen percent picked very well, where sixteen percent 298 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:28,919 Speaker 3: said not too well, and access to good education. 299 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 1: It's the usual kind of questions. 300 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,400 Speaker 3: But they consider leaving. The top answer was they can't 301 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 3: make ends meet, is why they're considering leaving, right and 302 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 3: also among conservatives, that was a big, big answer, very 303 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:44,959 Speaker 3: seriously considering leaving thirty two percent because of the problems 304 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:45,880 Speaker 3: they're having living here. 305 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 1: All right, I got more coming up on the John 306 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: and Kent Show. 307 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,640 Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 308 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 309 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 3: John has some time off. I'm here with the Adebra 310 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 3: marketing up to date on the news, and next hour 311 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 3: your Chance at Money. The keyword contest is backcfi's inflation 312 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 3: compensation contest. You'll hear one more keyword on this show 313 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 3: at three twenty, but it will continue at four twenty 314 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 3: five twenty with Tim Conway Junior on KFI. Coming up 315 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 3: after three o'clock, we'll talk to someone that always knows 316 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 3: this stuff, John Coupaul, with a Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. 317 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 3: We'll fill us in on the dopey phony budget passed 318 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 3: in Sacramento. And the jaw dropping story I heard this 319 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 3: morning that they may want you to vote probably next 320 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 3: year on a fifteen billion dollar ballot measure, fifteen billion 321 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 3: to borrow money to battle climate change. 322 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:44,360 Speaker 1: Unbelievable. 323 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 3: Anyway, we'll get into all this after the news. At 324 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:52,160 Speaker 3: three oh clock, We're going to turn out to CAFI 325 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 3: News Steve Gregory for an update on a shocking story 326 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 3: that popped up over the weekend. Two elderly women apparently 327 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,640 Speaker 3: were murdered by their live in caretaker out in Diamond Bar. 328 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 3: Let's bring on Steve for more on this weird story. 329 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, Ken, It's one of those crazy things where the 330 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 2: time we heard about it Saturday afternoon, a lot of 331 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 2: different rumors were swirling around about this story. It started 332 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 2: around at eight o'clock Saturday when deputies were called to 333 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 2: the Happy Home care for elderly. It's an assisted living home. 334 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 2: It's a converted four bedroom suburban home. And I was 335 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 2: told by sources that know of what the story's about 336 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 2: that this was a facility where Alzheimer's patients were being 337 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 2: cared for, and this had a very specific sort of specialty. 338 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 2: If you will and inside a seventy five year old 339 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:49,160 Speaker 2: Monica Lee and eighty three year old he Sue Park 340 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 2: E Sup Park were found dead in the same room. Now, 341 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 2: there had been a rumor starting that they had been 342 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 2: shot and possibly by somebody that worked and or lived 343 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 2: in that facility. So but my sources kept saying that 344 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 2: was not the case. They were never shot, and apparently 345 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 2: it was an online report. And then Lieutenant his car 346 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:11,719 Speaker 2: from the only county Sheriff's departments homicide Bureau did verify 347 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 2: that the women were not shot. But I did get 348 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:16,439 Speaker 2: it on pretty good authority that they might have been 349 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 2: bound and gagged and their heads covered with plastic or 350 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 2: at least with bags, that it looked like it was 351 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:26,920 Speaker 2: a very specific sort of calculated attack. I was also 352 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 2: told that the person in custody now Jin Chun Lee, 353 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,640 Speaker 2: was a caretaker there, forty years old. He's in jail 354 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,359 Speaker 2: right now, four million dollars bond. He had been taken 355 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 2: into custody as a person of interest, somebody they were 356 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,439 Speaker 2: just questioning at the time. I'd also been told that 357 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,120 Speaker 2: he was the one that actually called nine one one 358 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 2: to report the death of the women, and he may 359 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 2: have actually confessed to that crime on the nine to 360 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 2: one one call. The problem is that there was a 361 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:00,160 Speaker 2: huge language barrier. Apparently he speaks Mandarin Chinese, the women 362 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 2: are Korean, at least I was told that the two 363 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 2: women were Korean, and primarily the residents in that home 364 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 2: are Korean, So a big language barrier. Possibly some interpretation issues, 365 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 2: But right now the big question is why. 366 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, what are the leading theories? Was there 367 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 3: some money involved here? Was this assisted suicide? You come 368 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 3: up with all possibilities when you have two elderly people 369 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 3: whose lives ended this way. 370 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, No one is really saying much. And the information 371 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,680 Speaker 2: I was able to get over the weekend was pretty 372 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 2: unlimited to what I just told you. And in fact, 373 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,400 Speaker 2: just about an hour ago, we were at the Homicite 374 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:46,120 Speaker 2: Bureau doing a recording for our show this week, and 375 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:48,880 Speaker 2: I reached out to Lieutenant's car while I was there, 376 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 2: and he couldn't make himself available to me because I 377 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 2: wanted hoping to get some new information. But he's pretty 378 00:21:56,280 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 2: swamp right now with this case. And I'm with you, 379 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 2: it's hard to make out what something like this, I mean, 380 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 2: if you think back to the crazy case of the 381 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 2: Bishop being murdered in his own home and then by 382 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 2: someone close, you know, someone with knowledge of the home 383 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 2: and someone who had an intimate knowledge of the place 384 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:22,119 Speaker 2: like that. This seems very reminiscent of that, and we 385 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 2: still don't know what the motive was for that killing 386 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 2: as well. 387 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: So but you're saying this guy lived there and took 388 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 1: care of these women. 389 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:28,880 Speaker 3: Yeah. 390 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 2: The thing is I was getting two reports that he 391 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 2: simply worked there in the night shift, and then somebody 392 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 2: else had said he only he not only worked there, 393 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,920 Speaker 2: but he also lived there. So I'm not sure yet 394 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 2: exactly how far that goes. 395 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:41,879 Speaker 1: But. 396 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 2: This is something that we're monitoring because it's such an 397 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:49,920 Speaker 2: unusual I mean, and for God's sake, it's two elderly 398 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 2: people presumably suffering from Alzheimer's because that's what I was 399 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 2: told that the home specializes in. And so you're right, 400 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 2: it might have been a whole assistant to us. I 401 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 2: think are assisted, you know, assisted sort of I don't 402 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 2: want to say murder suicide. 403 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 1: But they were found tied up, huh. 404 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 4: Yeah. 405 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 2: I was told they were bounding bags over their heads. 406 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 2: Bound yeah, bound and covered and had bags on their heads. 407 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 1: Wow. 408 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,119 Speaker 3: So you and you don't know if he knew them 409 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,440 Speaker 3: at all and not related to them, just a worker. 410 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 2: Not related, most likely not related because again he I 411 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 2: think he was a of Chinese descent and the women 412 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:36,959 Speaker 2: are Korean descent, and the the issue is what his 413 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 2: role is there. And in addition to being a nurse, 414 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 2: you know, how close was he with these women? How 415 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,160 Speaker 2: long have the women been there? All that stuff they're 416 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 2: obviously trying to look at right now. But it is 417 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 2: really really a disturbing case. 418 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, and he is being held. That says four million. 419 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 2: Dollars, Yeah, four million dollars. And the place has the 420 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:03,879 Speaker 2: ability to house six residents and the other four and 421 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 2: so it was maxed out, so the other four were 422 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 2: not harmed. So this was this would appear on surface 423 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 2: at least to be a very targeted attack. Whether it 424 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,959 Speaker 2: was something like you said with this assistant suicide angle, 425 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 2: or whether this guy suffered from something, or whether this 426 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 2: guy was seeking revenge. These are all the things that 427 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 2: Lieutenant his car and others on the case are going 428 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,159 Speaker 2: to obviously get to the bottom of, hopefully. 429 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, was it a guy that was just tired of 430 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,640 Speaker 3: his job and caring for these people and just said 431 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 3: let me put him out of their misery. 432 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,360 Speaker 1: I have no idea, yeah, or you know, was it something? 433 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, if you have Alzheimer's, you probably you 434 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 3: can't consent to assisted suicide. You have no idea where 435 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 3: you are half the time. So right, exactly hard to 436 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 3: believe you we even do it for those reasons. But 437 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 3: I think as you uncovered this case, some more interesting 438 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 3: things might be found because the only other motive that's 439 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 3: common is money. Right, He's after some kind of money, 440 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 3: but we don't have any indication of that yet. 441 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,440 Speaker 2: So but here's the thing on something that hype. Why 442 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,439 Speaker 2: do it in a fashion that's extremely high profile and 443 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:07,159 Speaker 2: extremely uh you know, got a lot of exposure to 444 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 2: where you kill the two women in the same room 445 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,160 Speaker 2: in a in a very execution style fashion. 446 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 1: It's just like you're trying to hide the bodies or 447 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:17,360 Speaker 1: do anything. 448 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, any attempt to do or you know, you know, 449 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,199 Speaker 2: if it's an assistant suicide, most assistant suicides that I 450 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,199 Speaker 2: know of, anyway, the person's in a bed. It's a 451 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 2: very quiets, very somber moment. It's not you know, it's 452 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 2: not brutal like that. It's usually you know, some sort 453 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 2: of a medication assisted But this is just seems very 454 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,640 Speaker 2: very unusual in all forms. 455 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: And it has half the component of an unsolved doesn't it. Steve, Yeah, yeah. 456 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 3: But we don't really have an incredible reason why you 457 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:49,640 Speaker 3: would take the lives of these two women. 458 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 1: I can't think of anything that makes sense. 459 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 2: Now here's you know, here's another theory too. If that's 460 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,199 Speaker 2: a theory we're talking to another detective about. You know, 461 00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 2: if it was an assisted suicide of some kind, it's 462 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 2: not like everyone knows how to do and assist at suicide. 463 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 1: Now, it's not. 464 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 2: Something that you know, you know, and that's what they're 465 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 2: gonna do. They're also going to look at all of 466 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 2: his digital footprints. They're going to look at his phone. 467 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 2: They're going to find out if he's searched for things, 468 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 2: if he looked maybe looked on how to kill people 469 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 2: or whatever, and if he's got the words assistant suicide 470 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 2: in his search, then that might give him some direction. 471 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 2: But you know, it's not like everyone's an expert at 472 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:21,719 Speaker 2: doing this. 473 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,200 Speaker 3: All right, Steve, thank you very much, And if you 474 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,880 Speaker 3: give anything further, let us know. Steve is covering the 475 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 3: deaths of two women got an assisted living facility in 476 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 3: Diamond Bar, And the detail that I had not seen 477 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 3: over the weekend that he just reported is that they 478 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 3: were apparently bound and gagged and then they were given 479 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 3: what we call the Johnny Ken Show exit bags, plastic 480 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 3: bags over their heads and knocking out their oxygen supply, 481 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 3: and they died. And they have arrested a caretaker, but 482 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,359 Speaker 3: we do not know what the motive was and the 483 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 3: connection he had to the two women. 484 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:53,639 Speaker 1: So it's a strange one. 485 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,199 Speaker 3: John and Ken KFI AM six forty were alive everywhere 486 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:58,959 Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio. 487 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 5: App listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 488 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 489 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 3: Coming up after at three o'clock, we're gonna be talking 490 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 3: to John Coupoul Howard Jarvis Taxpayer's Association. California has a 491 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 3: thirty billion dollar plus deficit, but they easily pass the 492 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,439 Speaker 3: budget before the June fifteenth deadline. Recently, it's phony and 493 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 3: that's what they've been doing for quite some time. After 494 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,119 Speaker 3: the voters passed the law that they have had a 495 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 3: balanced budget, and they don't get paid, so they pass 496 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 3: a phony one and then they deal with it later 497 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 3: with what are known as trailer bills. We'll talk to 498 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 3: John Coupol about that and this ridiculous idea I heard 499 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 3: this morning that there might be a fifteen billion dollar 500 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:45,200 Speaker 3: ballot measure to borrow money to battle climate change. Good lord, 501 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:49,400 Speaker 3: and people are so easily deceived by borrowing. They just think, oh, yeah, 502 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 3: it's borrowing. Nobody's taxes are going up. It's just money. 503 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 3: We're going to borrow and pay back. Yeah, paying backs 504 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:57,959 Speaker 3: the tough part. We tend to not do that very 505 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,959 Speaker 3: well in California. And also next hour, the idea that 506 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 3: will not go away. The mileage tax story ran over 507 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 3: the weekend from the Associated Press that a number of 508 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 3: states are considering putting some sort of device in your 509 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,359 Speaker 3: car to track your mileage and charge you for miles 510 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,600 Speaker 3: driven to take care of the roads which are not 511 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 3: taking care of anyway in California. But a lot of 512 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 3: this comes out of the fact that more and more 513 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:28,360 Speaker 3: people are buying evs, electric vehicle zero emissions, so they're 514 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 3: not buying gasoline. The gas tax money is dwindling. 515 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 1: What do we do. 516 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 3: We need another revenue source. This will cover everybody on 517 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 3: the roads, the mileage tax. So giving update on that 518 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 3: story too, coming up in the three o'clock hour this 519 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 3: story to pass. 520 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 1: Along to you, And of course I did read a 521 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: story over. 522 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 3: The weekend that speculates that one of the reasons that 523 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom is spending a lot of his time looking 524 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 3: like he's running for president but mostly attacking states like 525 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 3: Florida and Texas, is that he's honed in on Florida 526 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 3: because he wants to distract Ron DeSantis from attacking either 527 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 3: Trump or Biden. 528 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: And you might say Trump, well, yeah. 529 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 3: There's a prevailing theory that if Trump is the Republican 530 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 3: nominee for president, he cannot beat Biden, which he supposedly 531 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 3: did not do in twenty twenty and now at the 532 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 3: legal problems that have come up, they believe there's too 533 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 3: much of a negative factor associated with him to get 534 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 3: enough votes in twenty twenty four to dethrone Biden. So 535 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 3: we leave Trump alone and we focus on his main competition. 536 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 3: Although I saw a poll over the weekend, overwhelmingly it 537 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 3: looks like, and you know why, that these people actually 538 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 3: end up voting in Republican primaries. Trump's going to win 539 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 3: that nomination. It doesn't matter what happens. Don't have any 540 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 3: more indictments only makes them stronger. With the I guess 541 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 3: the Republican primary voters, we'll say they're going to turn 542 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 3: out next year. They decided that he As a matter 543 00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 3: of fact, it says it right here. Donald Trump's dowes 544 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 3: a vice grip on GOP voters, but high ranking Republicans 545 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 3: fear he's not the right candidate. Well, that's that's the 546 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 3: lead theory of the Democrats that if we get Trump 547 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 3: against Biden, that's going to work out for us. We 548 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 3: get the Biden against somebody else like DeSantis, lesser known, 549 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 3: maybe people will be like, yeah, it is time to 550 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 3: get rid of the old guy. We'll go with Ron DeSantis. 551 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 3: No matter how much they try to paint him as 552 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 3: another Trumpster, people don't know him well enough, and his 553 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 3: personality isn't that much off putting. 554 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 1: If anything, he's a bit boring. So that's the theory that. 555 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 3: The Newsom is working in cohoots with the Biden people 556 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 3: to try to distract everybody on DeSantis and attack de 557 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 3: Santas and try to. 558 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: So that Trump becomes Anyway, it's crazy, but. 559 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,440 Speaker 3: Someday I believe, and you know, I saw another story 560 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 3: where he's denying he wants to be president. Newsom has 561 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 3: his eyes on something bigger, and it would have to 562 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 3: be the presidency. It's bored with being governor, has a 563 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 3: lot of money saved. I mean, witness years ago that 564 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 3: magazine profile he and his former wife did where they 565 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 3: look like they were the Kennedys, right. They went to 566 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 3: I think the Hurst Estate and they posed and all 567 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 3: sorts of pictures like really wealthy elites. That was the 568 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,960 Speaker 3: idea back then. That's still in his brain. He didn't 569 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 3: grow up in a family that was close to the 570 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 3: Gettys and get all this support and wealth not to 571 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 3: want to be president of the United States. 572 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 1: So that's nonsense. Another thing that. 573 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 3: Popped up is that, well, this could be his opponents 574 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,040 Speaker 3: someday our esteemed vice president Kamala Harris. 575 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 1: A new poll came out that. 576 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 3: She has the biggest unpopularity gap in at least thirty 577 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 3: years for a vice president. Forty nine percent of registered 578 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 3: voters have a negative view of Kamala Harris. Thirty nine 579 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 3: percent went so far to say that their view is 580 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 3: very negative. Now, granted they're probably all mostly Republicans, but 581 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 3: when you start hitting fifty percent negative view, that goes 582 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 3: beyond that. Thirty two percent viewer positively only eleven percent 583 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 3: of a very positive view of Kamala Harris. The seventeen 584 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 3: point unfavorability spread is the favorability spread is the lowest 585 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 3: for a vice president in the history of this poll. 586 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 3: From an NBC News you go back four years and 587 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,880 Speaker 3: Vice President Pence had thirty four percent positive to thirty 588 00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 3: eight percent negative. And in that case, you could see 589 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,480 Speaker 3: a lot of people basically had no opinion of Pence 590 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 3: because he doesn't really. 591 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,600 Speaker 1: Move the radar much either way. 592 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,760 Speaker 3: Views of Biden now thirty four percent positive thirty three 593 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 3: percent negative when he was Obama's vice president and Dick 594 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:49,040 Speaker 3: Cheney was forty seven percent positive twenty four percent negative 595 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 3: in May of two thousand and three as examples in 596 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,400 Speaker 3: this poll going back twenty or thirty years, even al 597 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 3: Gore did better. So they know they have a problem 598 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,760 Speaker 3: as the backup for Biden. So that's why Newsom is 599 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 3: waiting in the wings. Oh and now we have one 600 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:10,520 Speaker 3: final animal story for Deborah Mark m Well, this one's 601 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,479 Speaker 3: kind of funny. You're not a cat lady, you're a 602 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,000 Speaker 3: dog lady. Correct, never had cats. 603 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 6: No, I'm allergic. I like cats that I'm allergic a. 604 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 3: Florida woman has left her entire inheritance to her seven 605 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:32,720 Speaker 3: Persian cats, Cleopatra, Goldfinger, Leo, Midnight, Napoleon, Snowball, and Squeaky. 606 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 3: Her name is Nancy Sower, and she put it in 607 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:40,120 Speaker 3: her will in her estate that all of her money 608 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 3: and her home be left to the cats. She died 609 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:49,400 Speaker 3: in November, and she gave them money to cover their expenses. 610 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 3: So I guess they had a caretaker and lived in 611 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 3: this mansion alone, which is kind of bizarre. For six 612 00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 3: months they lived in her home alone except for somebody 613 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,960 Speaker 3: came by, I guess to feed them. Wow, you don't 614 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:03,920 Speaker 3: walk cats. 615 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,440 Speaker 6: So well, no, you just have to make sure they 616 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,000 Speaker 6: are little boxes and they're changed. 617 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,280 Speaker 3: Can they don't die young if they get no exercise. 618 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:14,520 Speaker 3: Like dogs, cats are on effective they live a long time. However, 619 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,120 Speaker 3: there was a ruling recently by a probate judge that 620 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,960 Speaker 3: this isn't this isn't in their best interests, so they've 621 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 3: been removed. 622 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 1: Well wait a. 623 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 6: Second, that's not If she has somebody there or taking 624 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 6: care of them, and they're living this life of luxury 625 00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:36,160 Speaker 6: in this home, why would anybody really care? Well, I 626 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 6: guess they're not getting the attention. But maybe then the 627 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 6: caretaker needs to. 628 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,120 Speaker 3: I don't think the caretaker lives in. I think the 629 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,359 Speaker 3: caretaker just comes in and takes care of them. 630 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 6: Well, then the owners should have thought something else. 631 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,600 Speaker 3: Well, the owner left enough money for food, medical and 632 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,280 Speaker 3: grooming bills, it says here, And they're only five years old. 633 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 1: But the judge thinks that they're going to go for adoption. 634 00:34:56,120 --> 00:35:00,359 Speaker 6: But they want to be together. No, no, I think 635 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,840 Speaker 6: the judge should The judge should find someone that's willing 636 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,560 Speaker 6: to live there for free and take care of the animals, 637 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 6: and then they'll have it. They'll all be together and 638 00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,719 Speaker 6: they'll have somebody there obviously an animal lover, somebody a 639 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 6: cat lover who loves cats. 640 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,919 Speaker 3: If they live to like thirty years old, as twenty 641 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,840 Speaker 3: cats do not live that there is a cat I 642 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:19,880 Speaker 3: think that's lived to thirty. 643 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,239 Speaker 6: Oh, I think isn't there a dog? I mean, come on, 644 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:23,480 Speaker 6: maybe dog. 645 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 1: Cats can live to twenty though I've seen that a 646 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:26,399 Speaker 1: number of times. 647 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,720 Speaker 6: Well, then get a young caretaker so they could. 648 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,440 Speaker 1: Be fifteen years all right. 649 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,440 Speaker 3: When I come back, my guest will be from the 650 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 3: Howard Jarvis Taxpace Association, John Coopaul to talk about this 651 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 3: phony budget passed by the idiots in Sacramento, so they 652 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,759 Speaker 3: get around the provision that they're not going to be 653 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,120 Speaker 3: paid unless they pass a budget. Anyway, we'll talk about 654 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,719 Speaker 3: what's really not in it, which is probably a way 655 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,560 Speaker 3: to take care of the deficit. Also, later in the hour, 656 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,960 Speaker 3: the idea of a mileage tax will not go away. 657 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 3: That's right, California and a number of other states. A 658 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,960 Speaker 3: few states I've already adopted it. We'll be looking at 659 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,280 Speaker 3: putting some device in your car to track your mileage 660 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:05,760 Speaker 3: to tax you that way for your driving. 661 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,200 Speaker 1: John and Ken KFI AM. 662 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,399 Speaker 3: Six forty live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. Debra Mark has 663 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,680 Speaker 3: the news. 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