1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Caf I AM six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: and Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 2: Do you have time blindness? 4 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:12,799 Speaker 1: Can we help you? Oh no, it's kind of time 5 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: for about two more minutes. But I'm here the John 6 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: and Ken Show, John Cobelt and Ken Shampeau KFI AM 7 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, and we're 8 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 1: on the radio from one until four, and then after 9 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: four o'clock the John and Ken on demand podcast, and 10 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: you can access that on the iHeart app as well. 11 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 2: If you want. We'll wait two minutes. 12 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 1: And you short changed the news too, it's one o five. 13 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 2: She's fine. 14 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm kind of surprised because normally you would follow me. 15 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 3: I don't know what you do these days. You'd follow 16 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:47,879 Speaker 3: me out of the office into the studio. You'd know 17 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 3: it was time because you had no time since you're 18 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 3: just staring at a screen. 19 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 2: So yeah, that's right. I don't know what makes you 20 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 2: wander in now, is what I've wondered. 21 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: Sometimes I usually spend a few minutes talking to Deborah 22 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: the latest Vegan update, and then so when she has 23 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,479 Speaker 1: to start her newscast, that's my cue now to walk 24 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 1: in here. 25 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:08,559 Speaker 2: Oh that would make sense. 26 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, provided you know what time to wander 27 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 3: in to see her just before she does her news. 28 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 3: Sure you can be in place to go here, right, yea. 29 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 3: But something knocked you off by two minutes today. 30 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:22,319 Speaker 1: So I left my chair. Oh I don't. I didn't 31 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 1: remember where I left the chair. I had to go 32 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: look for it. They we're gonna hire you an attendant. 33 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: But then there were budget issues. Yeah, that lost my chalk, 34 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 1: that got scrapped. 35 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 2: Oh guess what. 36 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 3: I took a look at the keywords today, so I 37 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 3: know them too, right, all three of them. 38 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 2: John and Ken show you one and three twenty and 39 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 2: you got the real list. I will not. Well, yeah, 40 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 2: yesterday I had two lists yesterday. 41 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 3: One on your list anyway, one twenty that's what we'll 42 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 3: shoot out the first keyword and you'll be listening, and 43 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 3: you know, follow the directions. 44 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 2: You could win the money. 45 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 3: We're gonna start the show with a piece of audio 46 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 3: because it's priceless. What better thing to have happened then 47 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 3: for CNN to go to San Francisco to do a 48 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 3: live segment on Oh you know, these right wing conservutive 49 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 3: media outlets are reporting that every San Francisco store is 50 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 3: just full of shoplifting. Let's send a reporter there to 51 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 3: see if this is true. She'll do a live shot. 52 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 3: It's a San Francisco Walgreens, and well, we got a 53 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 3: few minutes of the audio. 54 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 2: Her money's worth that of this CNN. CNN's Jung Law. 55 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 4: Richie Greenberg, walked into a San Francisco there Is when 56 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 4: he saw in the frozen food section. 57 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:38,919 Speaker 5: This change heavy chains that went from padlock to padlock 58 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 5: on both sides. 59 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 6: Of the doors. 60 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 5: And this was bizarre, something I've never seen before. 61 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 2: This is just more icing. 62 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 5: On the cake, telling us that rampant crime is has 63 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 5: become a regular part of life. 64 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,679 Speaker 4: So typical that in the thirty minutes we were at 65 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 4: this Walgreens, we watched three people, including this man steel. 66 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:05,839 Speaker 7: Did that guy pay? 67 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 5: Did that guy pay? 68 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:10,679 Speaker 1: He didn't pay. 69 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 4: Walgreens says this Richmond neighborhood store with aisles of products 70 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 4: like mustard locked behind plexiglass, has the highest theft rate 71 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,079 Speaker 4: of all. They're nearly nine thousand US stores hit more 72 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 4: than a dozen times a day. Okay, He started to 73 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 4: cleaning out ice cream and frozen burritos. Workers grew so 74 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:32,119 Speaker 4: frustrated they resorted. 75 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 2: To the chains. 76 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 4: They were ordered down by corporate because of the negative messaging. 77 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 4: But Walgreens isn't the only retailer impacted in San Francisco. 78 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 2: We have to ask an employee for help. 79 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:48,119 Speaker 4: At this store, frozen food is controlled with a cable lock, 80 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 4: fake eyelashes locked. 81 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 2: Behind fasy eyelashes. 82 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 4: Along with lotion and nail polish. At another grocery store, 83 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 4: fourteen dollars bags of coffee under lock and key. 84 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: What is this? 85 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't understand why coffee? 86 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 7: Oh? 87 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 6: Here, she is right. 88 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 2: Oh, it's become kind of like a police state in 89 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 2: San Francisco. Were also describe her. It's not part of 90 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 2: city life. 91 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 6: It's not part of the way people should be living, right, 92 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 6: and that includes folks who are committing the crimes. 93 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 4: Mar John Philaur, mom of three small business and community advocates, 94 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 4: says these visible problems in our city are leading to 95 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:33,359 Speaker 4: renewed activism driven by residents, like the recall of the 96 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 4: city's district attorney last year. 97 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 6: I think what we've seen, especially in the past couple 98 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 6: of years, is less tolerance, more exasperation, and more movement 99 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 6: to action. By everyday San Franciscan is to change how 100 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,919 Speaker 6: their city is run. It's not enough right now, but 101 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 6: there is a change, and I think ultimately we will 102 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:54,159 Speaker 6: get there. 103 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 4: San Francisco City Supervisor mad Dorsey, former police spokesman and 104 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 4: recovering drug addict, sees the ramp and shoplifting as a 105 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 4: systemic problem, from city leaders to an understaffed police force 106 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 4: to the fentanyl crisis. 107 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 8: When you're seeing that level of retail theft that tends 108 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 8: to be subsistence level retail theft, people are hungry. 109 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 2: People are hungry. 110 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 8: There is a level of romestation playing out in many 111 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 8: parts of our city. It's happening at levels we really 112 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 8: haven't seen in San Francisco. What I'm hearing from my 113 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 8: residence and what I'm hearing from San Francisco's is it's 114 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 8: time for tough love. We are not doing any attic 115 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 8: in the city favors by enabling behavior that is potentially 116 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 8: deadly in ways we have never seen. 117 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 4: In a statement to CNN, Walgreen says it is focused 118 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 4: on safety and preventative measures, but that retail theft remains 119 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 4: one of its top challenges. Here's some important context, though, 120 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 4: on the city erin property crime and violent crime at 121 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 4: the end of last year was actually lower than it 122 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 4: was for the pandemic. So what's going on here? Low 123 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 4: level drug use as well as the sort of retail 124 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 4: theft may be considered lower level crimes, but they're uniformly 125 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 4: and widely felt by so many they're not even report. 126 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 2: Did Walgreens call the police? 127 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: Do they call the police twelve times a day for 128 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: the twelve shoplifts that they Plus the question is, thanks 129 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: to I sticks like Prop forty seven, if somebody steals 130 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,280 Speaker 1: less than nine hundred and fifty dollars and you do 131 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 1: report it, but does it actually count in the crime 132 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: statistics because it's now it's like a citation thing. Yeah, well, 133 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: well twelve a day, said, that would be eighty four 134 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: a week. You think they called the police eighty four times? 135 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: Eighty four reports are filled out, eighty four times the 136 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: police show up at the Walgreens to mark down. 137 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, look at three times. Did you notice the 138 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 2: reporter had to ask the cash here a couple times? 139 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 2: Did that guy pay? 140 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 3: You know, he just walked out by the way, they 141 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 3: pixelated his face the shoplifted the guy did Oh really 142 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:53,239 Speaker 3: they did to his own safety and protection. 143 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 2: They didn't show his identity, his face, and they blurred 144 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 2: it out, and then you get. 145 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: The Wiener San Francisco gonna go, well, you know this 146 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: is this, These staffs are for sustenance. 147 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 2: Sustenance, sustenance. 148 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: The guy the mustard. The guy can't afford mustard. He's 149 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: so hungry he's got to have some mustard, and he 150 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: can't afford it. 151 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 2: You know what. 152 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: You know how you fight that, You go get a job, 153 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: then you. 154 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 2: Can buy all the mustard you want. Just go, that's 155 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 2: too much job. 156 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 1: In fact, go get a job at the mustard manufacturing company. 157 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 3: If you look at the video and I did, well, 158 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 3: that was playing that chain lock across the frozen section. 159 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 2: That's really I don't know how you. 160 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 3: I mean, if you want something from there, it takes 161 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 3: somebody a while to unchain it, get the items out. 162 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 2: It's not like a simple lock. It's a I love. 163 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: The Walgreens response is like, well, now you have to 164 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: take the chain down because we don't like the messaging, 165 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: the messaging. 166 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 3: That we don't trust you, that you're gonna rip us 167 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 3: off when most customers don't. So, yeah, you hurt that 168 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 3: one guy in there, it's like a police state. 169 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: Somebody is stealing from you eighty five times a week, 170 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: eighty five times a week, and you're. 171 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 2: Worried about the messaging. They were there and. 172 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 3: There are thirty minutes and they saw three shoplifters. 173 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 2: We're stealing for sustenance. 174 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 1: What is the guy living out on the street stealing 175 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: frozen food? Where's he gonna where's he gonna cook that? 176 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: Stealing a frozen pizza? Where he's gonna heat that up? 177 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 2: I saw another store in the Bay Area. 178 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 3: They're now putting in a barrier, so you have to 179 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 3: actually take your receipt and sort of wave it at 180 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 3: the so it opens the barrier so you can get 181 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 3: out past the register. That's another thing they're trying. 182 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: And all these dumb clucks you heard, who did you? 183 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: I want I want their voting records. If I was 184 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,079 Speaker 1: at CNN, mandatory question for every person in the street, 185 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: you interview and tell me who you voted for in 186 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 1: the last three elections. 187 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 3: Debra Mark, do you whar fake eyelashes? They do not, Okay, 188 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 3: because that was that's under lock and key. And I 189 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 3: wondered if they're expensive, Well, some of. 190 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 2: Them are expensive. 191 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 9: It's more expensive to actually get the fake eyelashes glued 192 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 9: on when you go to a salon or people. 193 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 3: That's oh right, those are the more certain ones. But 194 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 3: the ones you might buy in a drug store kind of. 195 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 9: I've never bought them, but I don't think they're expensive. 196 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's part of SUS students. 197 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 9: You got to have your fake I'm just having an 198 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 9: allergy attack the other day and I went to Target. 199 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 9: I literally thought I was dying and I needed Zertac. Okay, 200 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 9: it was lock and key. I had to wait for 201 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 9: somebody to go and open the friggin case so that 202 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 9: I can get my allergy medication. 203 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,079 Speaker 1: Sometimes they had that stuff locked up behind the pharmacy desk. 204 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 1: It's like on a back shop. 205 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 9: I know it wasn't. I went to the pharmacy and 206 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:39,080 Speaker 9: they said, no, it's over on aisle whatever, and you 207 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 9: have to wait and get somebody. And I'm pushing a 208 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 9: button and nobody's coming. 209 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 2: For SUDA fed. You have to give your ID. 210 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:46,679 Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to give your license and they make 211 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 3: sure you haven't bought too much of it. 212 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: So that's yet they keep track because that could be 213 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: made into meth. 214 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, they swiped it through the system. And they figure 215 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 3: out if you bought too much of a certain number 216 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 3: of eight. 217 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: Meantime, there's forty billion pounds of meth coming over the border. 218 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 2: But by my twelve pack of Suita fed, we got 219 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 2: to stock the world from that. Jeez. 220 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 3: Alright, uh, we got more coming up, and oh yeah, 221 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 3: we'll go back to the Bay Area for another good 222 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 3: story sort of related to all this. One of the 223 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 3: things I want to point out this is coming our way. 224 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 3: I mean San Francisco starts there, then California looks like that, 225 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 3: and then people think the country is going to look 226 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 3: like that. This is the dream of Gavin Newsom and 227 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 3: all these California politicians who think we have it so 228 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,320 Speaker 3: great here the rest of the country should be like California. 229 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 2: So you start with San Francisco and what's going on 230 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 2: there and the. 231 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 3: Takeover of the homeless and the drug addicts and the shoplifters. 232 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 3: All right, more coming up. Oh the keyword is next. 233 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 3: Johnny Ken, kf I AM six forty Live Everywhere, the iHeartRadio. 234 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 1: App and Deborah Mark, which is there's nothing fake about her, right, 235 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: that's correct. 236 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 10: Everything you're listening to John and Ken on demand from 237 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 10: KFI AM six forty. 238 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 3: All right, well, we were just talking about a Bay 239 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 3: area of Walgreens. It's singing in center. Border up there 240 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 3: to check on all the shoplifting legendary stories. And while 241 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 3: she was there, place got ripped off three times in 242 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 3: thirty minutes. 243 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 2: Now we move to another. 244 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 3: Bay Area city, and again the point is, all of 245 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 3: this is coming to California if we don't stop it. Lovely, Vallejo, 246 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 3: they're about to declare a state of emergency. 247 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:20,079 Speaker 2: Now in La. 248 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:23,439 Speaker 3: What it means declare a state of emergency over well, COVID, 249 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:28,320 Speaker 3: but more recently homelessness. All right, that's not what's happening 250 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:29,959 Speaker 3: in Vallejo. And I'm sure they have their share of 251 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 3: homeless people. It's because they don't have enough cops. The 252 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 3: Vallejo Police Department has reached a critical stage. They have 253 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 3: just forty three sworn officers to patrol the entire city, 254 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 3: and they're going to vote on whether to accept the 255 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 3: staff's request to declare a state of emergency. Although one 256 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 3: city council member meant, oh, I don't know if what 257 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 3: that might mean to people if we declare a state 258 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:53,199 Speaker 3: of emergency, you. 259 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:57,960 Speaker 2: Know, like it might be too alarming or you know, 260 00:11:58,040 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 2: it's alarming not to have any police are. 261 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 3: All they have is nine supervisors and thirty four officers 262 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 3: available for patrol. They lost five cops since March. And 263 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 3: one of the reason is if you could guess, yep, 264 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 3: there was a police officer involved shooting the kill demand 265 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:16,840 Speaker 3: a couple of years back, and since then, you can 266 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 3: guess what's been going on with protesters and defund the police, 267 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,199 Speaker 3: and just some cops decided they're not going to do 268 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 3: this anymore. 269 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 2: They're gonna do this in another place. 270 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 3: They even mentioned that some of them went to the 271 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 3: police departments like Phoenix or I guess if you can 272 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 3: handle one hundred and twenty degree weather, yeah, you might 273 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 3: be better off working there. 274 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 1: There's air conditioning in the patrol cars. You know what 275 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 1: good these cities deserve it. Okay, if you're going to 276 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: treat the police badly, if you're going to side with 277 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 1: all the criminals, have at it, enjoy the criminals. 278 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 2: They're going to multiply like cockroaches. 279 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: And the police are going to go to a nice, 280 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: warm environment where the resident appreciated. Residents appreciate and have 281 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 1: respect for the cops, follow orders when they're pulled over, 282 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: don't flip the off to the cops. 283 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:03,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, you go go in a civilized place. 284 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 5: Lay hoo. 285 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 2: Let it go to hell, all right, San Francisco and 286 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 2: go to hell. 287 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: Let all the defunct partland, all these defund the police cities. 288 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 2: Good, You're gonna get what you deserve here. You get 289 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 2: what you voted for, You get what you support. 290 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: Instead of chasing the activists out of town, you chase 291 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: the police out of town. 292 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 2: Okay, let's see what happens here. 293 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 3: We saw this recently when one of the officials with 294 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 3: the LA Police Department union put out on social media 295 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 3: that maybe you folks should consider working somewhere else if 296 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 3: you're not appreciated here, and of course response was they 297 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 3: were gassed. There was a lot of pearl grasping. How 298 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 3: could you say that you're with LAPD, you're a part 299 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 3: of the union, and you're saying maybe they can find 300 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 3: a better place to work. 301 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,680 Speaker 1: Wow, someone's gonna come and steal your pearls. 302 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 2: You ought to be grasping this because of the truth 303 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 2: to it. 304 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 3: It's just stunder Oh did you notice, by the way, 305 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,439 Speaker 3: it's like one of the lead stories today. Police Chief 306 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 3: Moore did come out and talked about all homicides are down. 307 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,320 Speaker 3: Seither're bragging about slightly lower crime statistics. You don't see 308 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 3: them when the numbers rise, But whenever they take a drop, 309 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 3: no matter how small, they just come out. Property crime, 310 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:06,959 Speaker 3: he said, was flat, but homicides were down. 311 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,319 Speaker 1: They wanted to get proper news property crime. Well, the 312 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: homicides are just gang people killing gang people. That that's 313 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: most of the murders. Or homeless people killing home that's right, 314 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: homeless people killing homeless people. So no credit for that. 315 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe maybe enough gang guys have knocked each other off. 316 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 1: There aren't that many left to kill. 317 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 4: Uh. 318 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 2: In Valayo. 319 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 3: One piece of good news if you're there, they have 320 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 3: no more traffic division. They have temporarily disbanded it because 321 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 3: they don't have enough officers to worry about people running lights. 322 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: And so you can do you can do drag racing 323 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: all day and night speed right, Yeah, and then we're 324 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: gonna hear and then and then we're gonna hear about 325 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 1: little children being run over and how we need some 326 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 1: traffic calming investment in the city. Okay, remember Vallejo. I 327 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 1: just looked it up to check. But Vallejo declared bankruptcy uh, oh, yeah, 328 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: that's right. Fifteen years ago. Yeah, it was that long ago. 329 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 2: Yes, do you remember we did talk about that. 330 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 3: They have one hundred and twenty six thousand people, by 331 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 3: the way, so forty three officers seems a little light 332 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 3: for one hundred and twenty six thousand people. So and 333 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 3: he claims they have a lot of visitors and people 334 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 3: come into the city to do business, so they think 335 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 3: it's extremely low police staffing. 336 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 2: You might enjoy this. 337 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 3: What a stat they spend ninety eight percent of the 338 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 3: time there were alarm calls turn out to be false. 339 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 3: Do we have that problem in La? 340 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 7: Two? 341 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 2: Ninety eight percent of the time ninety eight. 342 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 3: Percent of the time alarm calls are false, and they're 343 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 3: working with the city attorney to make it legal for 344 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 3: them to stop responding to these calls. 345 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 2: Well, how do you know which ones are false until 346 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:41,000 Speaker 2: you go there? Well, ninety eight percent, you're going to 347 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 2: be right most of the time. That's a good point. 348 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 3: You're right, that is, yeah, but that two percent, that'll 349 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 3: be a big story if somebody died because you didn't 350 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 3: get there to I know, in. 351 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: LA, if you're if you have a fake false alarm, 352 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: they charge you if the cops show up and don't 353 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: you get You're get a number and then they start charging. Yeah, 354 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: if it keeps happening. I remember we got a notice 355 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: an alarm went off. The wind blew really hard while 356 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: we were out of town, and yeah, the window rattled 357 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: which set off the alarm and we got to notice 358 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 1: for it. I don't think we had we got fined. 359 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: I think we got a warning. This is some years ago, right, 360 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 1: but I didn't even know they did that. It's like, 361 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: what the hell is this? But you understand, you got 362 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: you get a big wind store, but you're gonna have 363 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 1: thousands of alarms going off. 364 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 2: Yeah. 365 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 3: The Valetjo police officers told the city council that it 366 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 3: is a big problem with morale, lack of support from 367 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 3: the community, and the council delays in building a new 368 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 3: police station. They don't have a finalized contract with the city. 369 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 3: All of these things together are causing officers to leave. 370 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 3: So they're down to just forty three. You know, we're 371 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 3: in an era, and I think the pandemic accelerated this. 372 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 3: We're not only office workers realized they don't have to 373 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 3: live in a disgusting environment like San Francisco because of 374 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 3: remote work. But the police are realizing, you know what, 375 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 3: we can move too. Everybody can move. There's always have. 376 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 2: To literally get a new job. You can't work from 377 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 2: problems the police office. 378 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:06,920 Speaker 1: But the Phoenix is one of the fastest growing cities 379 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 1: in the country. In fact, their population is like top ten. 380 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: Now it's become a big city in terms of population 381 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: and other cities like Houston and Dallas. You know, people 382 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 1: used to not want to deal with the weather, but 383 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 1: now it's like, you know what, these people in Arizona 384 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 1: and Texas respect the police. I mean, not going to 385 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 1: put up with so much, you know, defund nonsense and 386 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 1: the mayor calling you a killer and your police chief 387 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: taking a knee to worship the activists. It's like they're 388 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:39,719 Speaker 1: not doing that in Phoenix or Dallas. 389 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 2: All right, when we come back, we'll bring it back home. 390 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 3: Guess who's the new head of the Metro transit system 391 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 3: for Los Angeles County. 392 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 2: It's Mayor Bessetti. 393 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:53,360 Speaker 3: Right, she has big plans, but we're going to bring 394 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 3: a little reality into this. So she made a very happy, 395 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:59,360 Speaker 3: boisterous kind of news conference essay to announce that we're 396 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 3: going to make this the art and I love this 397 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 3: part mass transit will be the first choice of people. 398 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 3: When we get done with this, they'll say right away, 399 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 3: I want to take that bus. 400 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:14,400 Speaker 1: Oh like inside Safe and the Homeless. Really alright, we'll 401 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: get to that coming up. 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Sam Kenonis is going to join us. 412 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 3: He's a journalist, the author of four books. The latest 413 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 3: is The Least of Us True Tales of America and 414 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 3: Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and meth. And we're 415 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:58,639 Speaker 3: gonna talk to him. He wrote a piece for The 416 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:02,119 Speaker 3: Atlantic recently, America's approach to addiction has gone off the 417 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 3: rails and the time of fentanyl and myth, we need 418 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:08,159 Speaker 3: to use law enforcement differently and more often. We'll talk 419 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 3: to him about the silliness and folly of harm reduction, 420 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 3: and the one we learned about yesterday John contingency management. 421 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 3: That's where you hand out gift cards to get people 422 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 3: off meth. Yeah, I know it sounds ridiculous. They they're 423 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 3: doing it, I know, and they're claiming at work. So 424 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:24,680 Speaker 3: we'll ask him about that. 425 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 2: I know. I won't done a lot of research into this. 426 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 2: I won't even address that. He's one of the same. 427 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 3: Voices with everybody else in charge in California likes this 428 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 3: harm reduction model. Let's give them needles, let's stand by 429 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,440 Speaker 3: with something to them. 430 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:44,440 Speaker 2: It's all failure. 431 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 1: I've never seen a time where so many politicians are 432 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:53,359 Speaker 1: invested in failure. All their ideas suck. It's been five 433 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: ten years of this. They all suck. The prep forty 434 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 1: seven ideas suck, you know, seven fift the jails tolerate 435 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: the drug use, housing first, harm reduction, all their BS nonsense, 436 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 1: all their slang, all their terminology, all their jargon, and 437 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: all is a failure. Point to me, one success. They 438 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 1: don't have one. What big issue has has their nonsense 439 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: made better? 440 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 2: Not one? 441 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 1: But of course they know that and they don't care. 442 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 1: They're there to take the money. Every one of these 443 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: issues means billions of dollars for these fake nonprofits. 444 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 3: So yesterday Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bessetti became officially the 445 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:45,400 Speaker 3: chair of the entire Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 446 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 3: that of course, is the trains, the buses, the whole 447 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,400 Speaker 3: mass transit system for the county. And of course everybody 448 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 3: was all smiles at the big event where she actually 449 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 3: took the gavel, and she's made a bunch of promises. 450 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,400 Speaker 3: They're gonna make this the first class transit system. They're 451 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 3: gonna make it your first choice for transit. That's right, 452 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,360 Speaker 3: you'll say, I'm gonna take the train today and forget 453 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:13,359 Speaker 3: that car because it's such a beautiful experience. Of course, 454 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 3: if we've told you there's already been fifty people who've 455 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 3: died on the system this year. 456 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 1: She does she smoking with Kamila Harris smokes, well, she's 457 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 1: a good cheerleader. 458 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 2: But he says, yeah, there are problems, but it's gonna 459 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 2: get better. But she's spouting nonsense. 460 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: Join me, could you think of something stupid or to say, then, 461 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:35,680 Speaker 1: we're gonna make La Metro the first choice Cohi, everybody 462 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 1: be creative in your head, just come up with something stupider. 463 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 2: And what reality is that ever gonna happen? 464 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 1: I mean, And the thing is, I don't think she's delusional. 465 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 1: I think she's just a big public wire. She knows 466 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 1: that nobody's and gonna ever look at Metro as a 467 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 1: first choice. 468 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 3: There are some people that believe if you're a leader 469 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 3: who always got to be optimistic, even if it means 470 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 3: spinning her lines, it's always got to be the voice 471 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 3: of happiness and spout not get people inspire. 472 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:01,959 Speaker 2: Nobody said, but nobody's inspired. 473 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 3: Well, they got five years before the Olympics are here, 474 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 3: and they want to make it the go to transit 475 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 3: system for the Olympics. No cars, they say, people get 476 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 3: stabbed to death. We're gonna have that thing happening again, 477 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,479 Speaker 3: like a nineteen eighty four. Everyone's going to fear that 478 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:18,439 Speaker 3: all the roads are going to be locked with all 479 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 3: the visitors trying to get to Olympic events. 480 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: You take a train, you got a pretty good, pretty 481 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: good chance of a drug addict peeing all over you, 482 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: or sitting next to a dead body, sit next to 483 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 1: a dead body, or sitting on some poop. 484 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:34,399 Speaker 3: They touted the fact that they're saying that the homicides, 485 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 3: then the crime is down in the last few months 486 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 3: on the transit's time the crime. One guy actually, in 487 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 3: an article of reading said there's too much police. They're 488 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 3: everywhere now on the buses and trains, so they had 489 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,120 Speaker 3: to make a move because the publicity is really bad. 490 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 2: Now why interview that guy? Why even interview. 491 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 1: If their claims are true and the crime is down 492 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,919 Speaker 1: and it's because of the police, then why not print 493 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 1: quotes related to how the police presence is inhibiting the crime? 494 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 2: Why? Why? 495 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,879 Speaker 1: Why are you one of these like progressive whack jobs 496 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 1: saying it's like a police state. You know what, here's 497 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 1: a good thing about police states. Not too many bad 498 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 1: things happen. You're not gonna be a victim of a 499 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 1: guy peeing on you, or pooping on you, or stabbing 500 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,120 Speaker 1: you or setting you on fire. If that's the definition 501 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: of a police state, I'm ready to salute I really 502 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: am the chasey were curious new cops in every train car. 503 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 2: It's a nine billion dollar system. That's the budget. 504 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 3: Do you have any idea how much of it comes 505 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 3: from fair revenues on the bus and rail system. Fifty cents. Well, 506 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 3: I mean the total of nine billion, No, of total 507 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 3: of fifty cents comes from me, it's three hundred and 508 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,399 Speaker 3: three million. That is such a spec out of nine billion, 509 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 3: my god. But then they also grab one hundred and 510 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 3: thirty eight million from the toll lanes, right, the money 511 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:54,919 Speaker 3: that people are paying to use the one, ten, and 512 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 3: ten metro express lanes. They do that in cities like 513 00:23:58,280 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 3: New York. They grab money from the bridge and tom 514 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 3: and throw it over to the massively loser subway system. 515 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 1: Right that nobody takes accept criminals, drug addicts, and mental patients. 516 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: And so when you take the freeway and you want 517 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 1: to get somewhere faster and you're in a toll lane, 518 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 1: they take ten bucks from you, and that goes to 519 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 1: subsidize the system so that vagrants have somewhere to sleep 520 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: all day. And people put up with this, and then 521 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,800 Speaker 1: they vote for the likes of Karen Bassetti, who's deranged 522 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 1: here this little speech she gave taking over the board. 523 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 2: She's completely deranged. The first choice was there a laugh 524 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:36,679 Speaker 2: track that accompanied this? 525 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 3: And but you have twenty four teams now of homeless 526 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 3: outreach people. That means overall, one hundred homeless outreach workers 527 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 3: on the entire metro system. 528 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: I know they've hired a lot of people and they 529 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:52,479 Speaker 1: pay them well, but how many fewer homeless are on 530 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:56,639 Speaker 1: these because outreach doesn't do anything. You have to forcibly 531 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 1: toss their bodies out of the train and then chase 532 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: them off the platform into the street just for starters. 533 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 3: Oh no, we want to usher them into help and 534 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 3: change their lives. That's what the outreach teams are all about. 535 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, except it doesn't work. That's a failure. You have 536 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: to call bs on all this stuff. All this stuff 537 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 1: is a failure, has been a failure for many years, 538 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: and it should stop. All these programs should be defunded, 539 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: all of it now because none of it works. If 540 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 1: you had just gotten rid of outreach entirely, we would 541 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,919 Speaker 1: have the same number of homeless people here. Outreach doesn't 542 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,400 Speaker 1: work because they end up back on the street one 543 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,920 Speaker 1: way or the other, because they're crazy, they're addicted to drugs, 544 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: and they have no desire to work. 545 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 2: And that's the truth, and everybody knows that's the truth. 546 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: Show me counter evidence, show me any counter evidence that 547 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: any of the stuff has worked. I'm not aware of it. 548 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 3: Now they're building out this system. Now the vagrants will 549 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 3: be able to get from downtown to the west side. 550 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,400 Speaker 3: By twenty twenty seven, they can hop on a rail line. 551 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 3: They'll take them all the way over to the west side. 552 00:25:58,040 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 3: So as bad as Santa Monica is now with vaguan 553 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 3: and they could be even more piling. And that's been 554 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 3: the complaint number communities, including Long Beach and what was 555 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 3: that town at the end of the Gold Line. Was 556 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 3: it Azusa or somewhere They claimed that they Yeah, they 557 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 3: were getting off at the end of the the subway 558 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 3: line and hanging out in town. 559 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 2: Oh yeah. 560 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,400 Speaker 3: The more they build these subways as the more vagrants 561 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,360 Speaker 3: to use them. Just when they're kicked off the train. 562 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 3: Now they hang out in your town for a while. Yeah, 563 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 3: they can till they can get the next train back 564 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:22,879 Speaker 3: to this right around. 565 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:27,919 Speaker 1: It's the most insane system, the most insane waste of money. 566 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: You know what, There should be a team that follows 567 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: Karen Bass around all day and just yells. 568 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 2: Failure, failure, failure. 569 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,239 Speaker 1: Should have happened to Garcetti. Just yell failure at all 570 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: these people, That's what they are. They're failures. They don't 571 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,879 Speaker 1: believe what they're saying, she doesn't think it's gonna be 572 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,439 Speaker 1: anybody's first choice, she doesn't think it's gonna be a 573 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,439 Speaker 1: world class transit system. She's full of it, and she 574 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,400 Speaker 1: knows she's full of it. And everybody there yesterday knew 575 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,399 Speaker 1: she was full of it. All the reporters knew she 576 00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:59,119 Speaker 1: was full of it. It's just kind of some weird ceremony. 577 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:01,640 Speaker 3: Hey, you're wondering. A lot of the money comes from 578 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 3: sales taxes. There's some federal money that comes in. But 579 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 3: CMBC did the story on mass transit systems and they 580 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 3: say that the La Metro system may have a one 581 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 3: billion dollar budget gap by the end of twenty twenty 582 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 3: six billion dollars short. Yeah, and they don't even get 583 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 3: that much from fair revenue. That pays but price nobody, 584 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,119 Speaker 3: nobody pays people. 585 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 2: Well, they want to make it free. Remember they talked 586 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:24,360 Speaker 2: about that. 587 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: It practically is they only get those numbers. You said, 588 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 1: it's like, what four percent, that's a third. 589 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,680 Speaker 2: Five million out of nine billion, right, right, So it's 590 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 2: a few percent, four or five percent, that's it. 591 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 3: It might as well be free because they're not getting 592 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:45,160 Speaker 3: much from the from the writer. All right, we got 593 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 3: more coming up. 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Our 602 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 3: guest after two o'clock, Well, welcome back to the show. 603 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 3: A journalist Sam Canonis, who's written a lot of books. 604 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:20,400 Speaker 3: He was on our show a few months back talking 605 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 3: about the least of Us. He knows a lot and 606 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,960 Speaker 3: has studied very carefully the whole drug problem in the 607 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 3: United States, and with the introduction of fentanyl on top 608 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 3: of meth, he says this idea of handing out drug 609 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 3: kits and standing by with narcan and all this harm 610 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 3: reduction stuff is not going to work. 611 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 1: He also this article he wrote, it's pretty shocking because 612 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: the direction he sees this going. I didn't know that fentanyl, 613 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 1: he says, is driven heroin out of the market. And yeah, 614 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: I think he told us that we had him on 615 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 1: a few months ago. Yeah, and now they're lacing all 616 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 1: the drugs with fentanyl, and so it'll turn a casual 617 00:28:56,080 --> 00:29:00,160 Speaker 1: weekend cocaine user into a fentanyl addict. And as one 618 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 1: addict says, there's no such thing as a long term 619 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 1: fentanyl user. It'll eventually kill you. And I'm wondering, So 620 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,000 Speaker 1: what's the future here is they're going to be bodies 621 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: piling up everywhere. 622 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 3: Unless we can get there with the narcan enough times 623 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 3: right to revive people. I don't know that's the idea. 624 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 3: Everybody has narcan. Oh, we'll talk about this next hour two. 625 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 3: Reggie Jones sawyer John. He wants to put on a 626 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 3: bond measure for overdose drugs five billion dollars. Yeah, dost 627 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 3: to vote on it. 628 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 1: You can't give narcan to everybody every day, though, you'll 629 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 1: get them out of danger in that one moment, and 630 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: then what you go home and they go back to 631 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: their alley way and then they have another another fentanyl 632 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 1: snort or pill or how they injected. This isn't like 633 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 1: managing marijuana or something. This is not really hard. And 634 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 1: the way Pinonas explains what happens to the brain that 635 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: overdoses on fentanyl and how brain changes from some of 636 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: these drugs. 637 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 2: I mean it is. You can't wait to get him on. 638 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 2: He's a fascinating guest. He'll be on after two o'clock. 639 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 2: Of course. The big story here locally that broke. 640 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:17,120 Speaker 3: This morning, although it happened yesterday. Bronnie James, the son 641 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 3: of lakerstar Lebron James. He's Lebron Junior, but they call 642 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 3: him Bronni, had a cardiac arrest at a basketball workout 643 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 3: for USC yesterday. He was in intensive care briefly, but is 644 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 3: now listed in stable condition, which according to most medical 645 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 3: experts is a good thing. They took him out of 646 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 3: ICU that quickly, Buddy. He supposedly lost consciousness and they 647 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,080 Speaker 3: had to take him with the three lights in a 648 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:47,720 Speaker 3: siren to see there's medical center. Shortly after the ambulance arrived, 649 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 3: they ushered him to the hospital very quickly. So kind 650 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 3: of a scary situation, and this does happen from time 651 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:57,240 Speaker 3: to time with athletes. 652 00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:59,760 Speaker 2: We'll have to wait and see you what. 653 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 3: The diagnosis is with his cardio problems, whether it's in 654 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,080 Speaker 3: a regular heartbeat or some other condition, and whether or 655 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 3: not he can ever play again, or play one year 656 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 3: at usc and join his father in the NBA, which 657 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:12,280 Speaker 3: is the dream. 658 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,800 Speaker 1: Never had a clip of a doctor on the news 659 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:19,440 Speaker 1: who said that certain percentage of athletes, especially young black athletes, 660 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,960 Speaker 1: I think one in twenty thousand, have this cardiac arrest situation. 661 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 1: I mean, you might be born with a little glitch 662 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:30,880 Speaker 1: in your heart, right, and most of us would know, right, 663 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 1: because most of us don't put that kind of stress 664 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 1: on our system. Right, if you just lay there on 665 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 1: the sofall day, you're not going to be. 666 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,840 Speaker 2: Overworking your heart exactly right. 667 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 1: And so only somebody like Lebron James or his son 668 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 1: would ever encounter a situation where that little tiny defect 669 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 1: would matter. 670 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 7: Shaquille O'Neil's son had something something similar happened to him 671 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 7: while he was going to be a freshman at UCLA. 672 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,280 Speaker 7: He was having some health problems. They put a heart 673 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 7: monitor on him and then they found something with one 674 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 7: of his arteries and he had to have actual surgery, 675 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 7: like open heart surgery, and he was never the same 676 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 7: and hasn't really played basketball since. 677 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't know. That's too bad. Yeah, God, that's 678 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,400 Speaker 1: got to be really devastating. Now, they and Obviously, the 679 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,360 Speaker 1: family has been waiting for this. They're very excited that 680 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,560 Speaker 1: he was going to go to USC and stay local 681 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 1: and hopefully next year being in the NBA with his father. 682 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: Somehow they would maneuver that to get on the team together. 683 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 3: I would imagine in other news, we talked about this 684 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 3: story the other day and we got the results. Universal 685 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:37,560 Speaker 3: Pictures has been fined two hundred and fifty dollars for 686 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 3: trimming trees. This is the story that apparently because the 687 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 3: workers who are striking in southern California, the Writers Guild workers, 688 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,200 Speaker 3: the belief was that they were trimming the trees to 689 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:55,920 Speaker 3: take away their shade. Amazingly enough, the Los Angeles City 690 00:32:55,920 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 3: Controller opened an investigation into the tree trimming and decided 691 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 3: that the city did not grant the necessary permits to 692 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,240 Speaker 3: trim the fighters trees outside of Universal's Gate eight. So 693 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 3: he has issued a two hundred and fifty dollars penalty, 694 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,600 Speaker 3: but it could be more. The finds can go to 695 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 3: one thousand dollars if the violations continue. 696 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 1: You know, that has to be one of the pettiest 697 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,880 Speaker 1: things I've ever seen management due to anybody in any 698 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:26,600 Speaker 1: circumstance to cut the shade away from the striking workers. 699 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,360 Speaker 3: That was literally where they were walking up and down 700 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 3: the sidewalk, because I haven't really seen where they are. 701 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:35,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, that those trees provided them shade. Well, that's why 702 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 1: they were cut. It's not the regular cutting. That's what 703 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: the Universal spokesholes were lying about. We do this every year. No, 704 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,360 Speaker 1: you don't, because you would have gotten a permit and 705 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 1: you wouldn't have gotten fined by the city. The fine 706 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,040 Speaker 1: and the permit situation proves that you did it on purpose, 707 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,760 Speaker 1: just to boil your workers who are on strike. 708 00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 3: And they must have done it like off hours, because 709 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 3: the workers came back to the picnic line and found 710 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,480 Speaker 3: the trees trimmed, so they must have done it at 711 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,840 Speaker 3: night or early in the morning or something. 712 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,759 Speaker 1: The second is they're acting like really nasty bastards. They 713 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 1: really are, well because they want to replace all the 714 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:13,760 Speaker 1: human beings. 715 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:16,560 Speaker 2: What we said the other day, there's a lot of 716 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,799 Speaker 2: people want to be actors, you know. I don't know. 717 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,200 Speaker 2: There's always a long line for those jobs. 718 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,560 Speaker 3: It's not like there's a shortage of people want to 719 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:24,560 Speaker 3: get into that profession. 720 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,240 Speaker 1: But they're putting out hundreds of thousands of people connected 721 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:31,520 Speaker 1: to these shoots. Yeah, this goes on a year. I mean, 722 00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 1: you're going to see serious economic damage, all right. 723 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,440 Speaker 3: When we return, our guest is Sam knonis the journalist. 724 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,440 Speaker 3: He's been on our show before, but we brought him 725 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,760 Speaker 3: back because we need him to talk about this story 726 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,840 Speaker 3: he did for Atlantic atlantic dot com about the skirch 727 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:52,040 Speaker 3: of fentanyl and meth and how America's approach to addiction 728 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,560 Speaker 3: has gone off the rails. We need a different approach 729 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 3: and a lot of what we're talking about here is 730 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,520 Speaker 3: dopey harm reduction, where you stand by with narcan and 731 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,400 Speaker 3: on the front, you give them all they need to 732 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,839 Speaker 3: take their drugs. Ridiculous, ridiculous way to go, and things 733 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,720 Speaker 3: are only getting worse. Johnny Ken, KFI AM six forty 734 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:09,880 Speaker 3: Live everywhere iHeartRadio app. 735 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,040 Speaker 2: Deborah Mark laid in the twenty four hour Cafisram. 736 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,279 Speaker 3: Hey, you've been listening to the John and Ken Show. 737 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,000 Speaker 3: You can always hear us live on KFI AM six 738 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,400 Speaker 3: forty one pm to four pm every Monday through Friday, 739 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 3: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.