1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: Welcome everybody. Don't forget our voter guide at KFI AM 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 1: sixty dot com. If you have some things you'd like 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: to consult with us about, you'll see our picks. All 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: the statewide ballot measures a lot of the races, and 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: of course some local races, including the La City Mayor's 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: race and brand new Paul that came out this week 7 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: from the Southern California News Group does have Rick Caruso 8 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 1: ahead of Karen Bass by three percentage points among likely 9 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:32,919 Speaker 1: voters roughly forty to thirty seven, with twenty three percent undecided. 10 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: It's a big difference than what the Ali Times was 11 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: selling about a month ago. And Rick Caruso is here, Rick, Hello, John, Hello, Ken, 12 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,520 Speaker 1: How are you? How are you doing good? You must 13 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: be feeling good after that pole came out yesterday. Huh 14 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 1: is that what you're feeling on the campaign that people 15 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: have been warming up more and more to your message? Well, 16 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: I think what's happening? Yeah, I do feel good. I 17 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: feel great, actually, and I'm all over the city every day, 18 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: from the top to the bottom of it. And what 19 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: I am hearing is people are more focused now in 20 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: the election. We're getting close for nineteen days away, and 21 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,320 Speaker 1: so I think that's being reflected in the polls and 22 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 1: they're agreeing with my message. Listen, everybody's living the same 23 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: problems in this city, so it's they're looking for solutions 24 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 1: to it now and tired of excuses. Yeah, that's what's 25 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: interesting about this election because usually it's ten different boutique 26 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: issues that different groups have, but this homeless and the 27 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: crime is something that everybody is dealing with and experiencing. 28 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: And what I have noticed with some of the people 29 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 1: who are not hostile to your candidacy but skeptical, is 30 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: they say something along the lines of yeah, yeah, we've 31 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: heard a lot of guys say that they're gonna take 32 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: care of homelessness and build this and build that. And 33 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: I was wondering if you could explain some of the 34 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: details of your plan. You don't have to get in 35 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: to the weeds too much, but you know, how do 36 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: you start about giving shelter to thirty thousand people? Like 37 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: who do you contact? Where do you go the departments 38 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: to vendors? Like what what's the vision in your head 39 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: to actually execute this? Because they think people need to 40 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: see it in their mind's eye in some way. Yeah, 41 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,839 Speaker 1: and I completely understand that you start out by being 42 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: a builder, which I am, and knowing how to build, 43 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 1: knowing how to get through the entitlement process, the permits. 44 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 1: You know, I've been building in my private life my 45 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: company for thirty five years. And if you don't know 46 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: how to build, you'll never solve a housing and the 47 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: homeless problem. And so it starts there. Declare a state 48 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: of emergency. All your great listeners can go onto crusoecan 49 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: dot com and read a very detailed plan, but state 50 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: of emergency. So we bring the authority into the mayor's office. 51 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: I want to be held accountable right now, it's broken 52 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: up between fifteen different council districts. What I know we 53 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 1: can't do is do what we've been doing. We're spending 54 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 1: a billion dollars a year in this city of taxpayer money, 55 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: and the problem continues to get worse. We have over 56 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: forty four thousand people living on the streets and we've 57 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,519 Speaker 1: got around thirteen thousand that are women. They're going to 58 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: go to sleep on the streets tonight. It's terrible, it's 59 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: inhumane what's happened. There's multiple ways to build shelter and 60 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: housing very quickly. There's actually I'm having a press conference 61 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: Saturday at the corner of Ventura and Havenhurst at a 62 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: shopping center with a boxable unit that can get built 63 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: in sixty by costing only sixty thousand dollars. One is 64 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: made off an assembly line every ninety minutes. It's about 65 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 1: four hundred square feet and it's amazing. Has a bedroom, 66 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: living room, kitchen, bathroom, big windows. There's a decency and 67 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: a dignity to moving in there, which I believe we 68 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: have to give the homeless. And while we're treat it, 69 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: we need to have the proper treatments for psychiatric care, 70 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: drug addiction care. And there's programs out there John and 71 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: Ken that are working, like People's Concern Downtown Women's Center, 72 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 1: and we need to build upon those. You don't need 73 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 1: more of bureaucracy. We need to build upon what's working. 74 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 1: So I've got a detailed plan. It's going to be 75 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: a tough job, but I've got to proven experience to 76 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: do it, and I will do it. I've seen that 77 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: boxable unit online. What you just describe the sixty thousand dollars, Yeah, 78 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 1: I've seen those online. I don't know the same company, 79 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 1: but it does look like a fascinating, fascinating way to 80 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 1: address the problem because they can make them so quickly. 81 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: It's an amazing way to address the problem. And again, 82 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 1: it's got the space and it provides some dignity. Listen, however, 83 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 1: and wa, somebody ends up on the streets. We need 84 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: to deal with it right, and we're not going to 85 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: deal with it in the conventional ways that our career 86 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: politicians have been dealing with it. And we've had, you know, 87 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: ten years of Eric Garcetti and everything's gotten worse. And 88 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 1: Karen Bass has represented the city of la in Congress 89 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: for over ten years and it just continues to get worse. 90 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: One of them the house. She thinks she's got the 91 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,280 Speaker 1: answers right now. It doesn't make any sense because she doesn't. 92 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: One of the nuttiest things I saw in coverage on 93 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: the homeless situation was city officials complaining that they couldn't 94 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 1: navigate through their own permit system, that they couldn't get 95 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: stuff built fast enough because of their own rules. And 96 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 1: I would be screaming, you know, at the screen, saying, well, 97 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: then change the rules. But you know what this is, 98 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 1: This is another great example of the system is broken. 99 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: It's not only broken, it's obviously full of corruption, which 100 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: we've seen and that's why the problems continue to get 101 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: worse and nothing happens. And going around this city every 102 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: day for the last six months and talking to people, 103 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: really people are fed up with the excuses and you 104 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 1: got to cut through it. You have to have leadership, 105 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: you have to have courage and let's go get it done. 106 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:30,719 Speaker 1: It can be done, and have a person that got 107 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 1: managerial experience and some business experience to cut through this stuff. 108 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 1: The career politicians never going to do it. We know 109 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: that we've had that. What are you going to do 110 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: with the city council? The place is obviously a disaster 111 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,919 Speaker 1: right now, we all know the stories. Yeah, and you 112 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 1: know they have a lot of control. I mean, you've 113 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: got they're going to be your partners the whole way. 114 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: How are you going to approach that whole body? Well, listen, 115 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: this is what leadership's about and having a lot of 116 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:07,599 Speaker 1: experience and being a leader and managing very complex organizations. 117 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: You know, I managed as chair USC and you know 118 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: I had sixty fellow trustees to work with. I did 119 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: it at LAPD with fellow commissioners and turned LAPD around 120 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: saying with DWP, I've worked for three mayors. I understand 121 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: how city hall works. I also understand how it fails, 122 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 1: and it's failing now. You know the city council. They 123 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: need a mayor that provides some leadership and stability and guidance. 124 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: I can do that again. I've got the experience in 125 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: doing that. There's no doubt they need a lot of help. 126 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: We've got to get you know, the two other council 127 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: members that were part of this discussion to resign and 128 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: start doing the business of the city. We've got a 129 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: lot to get done. All right, Can you hang on, 130 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: We'll do another segment. Yeah, all right's Rick CARREERSO. He's 131 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: running for La mayor and he's winning by three points 132 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: in the polls over Karen Bass. All right. Also, when 133 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: we come back, you'll have a chance to win with 134 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 1: our keyword for the inflation bonus money kf I am 135 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And we 136 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: continue with Rick Carrosso who's running for mayor, leading in 137 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: the polls by three points over Karen Bass as of 138 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 1: this week. Yeah. Rick. The other big issue obviously on 139 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: people's minds in Los Angeles's crime. I'm sure you're hearing 140 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: that as you can't paint around the city. What's your 141 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: perspective on what brought us to this? We have Prop 142 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: forty seven, we have the No Bailed movement, we have 143 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: George Gascon, we have defund the police, all of these things, 144 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 1: any of these things. Where are you going on this? Well, 145 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: it's all of those things. And again it goes back 146 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 1: to lack of leadership and doing what's right for the 147 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 1: residents of Los Angeles. Right. And so we're down about 148 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 1: eight hundred officers and we've got crime. You know, murder 149 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 1: rate is up fifty percent, incidents are up two hundred percent. 150 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's really terrible what's happening in our 151 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: great city. And people just don't feel safe in their 152 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 1: communities and their neighborhoods. So I've got a very detailed plan. 153 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: You know, years ago, as you know, under Jim Hana 154 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: was a president of a police commission and I hired 155 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: Bill Bratton, and with my fellow commissioners and Bill, we 156 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 1: drop crime by thirty percent. We instituted community policing. We 157 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 1: got to do that again, respect the communities we serve. 158 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: Brain senior lead officers back. But my plan is to 159 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:42,959 Speaker 1: higher fifteen hundred officers, and we have to let officers 160 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: actually do their job. I mean, obviously hold them accountable. 161 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: That's the only way you can have good policing and 162 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 1: build trust. But we have to actually allow them to 163 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: do their work and hold the criminals accountable also, and 164 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: we will start preventing and reducing crime in this I 165 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 1: promise it. I've done that before. Karen Bass has never 166 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 1: been responsible for LAPD or any police department, and she 167 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:10,959 Speaker 1: frankly doesn't know what she's doing on it, and her 168 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,839 Speaker 1: plan doesn't make any sense. But we need more officers 169 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:18,839 Speaker 1: on the street, well trained, good officers. Do you know 170 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:23,079 Speaker 1: or do you have a sense that the police officers 171 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: have been told in a lot of cases to stand 172 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: down because many people who've called us on the show 173 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 1: say they've called LAPD. Let's say they have a screaming 174 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: homeless person on the front lawn doing unspeakable things, yelling 175 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 1: all kinds of insanity. They call the police and they say, 176 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, our hands are tied. Tell Garcetti, tell your councilman, 177 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: And repeatedly we hear that same phrase, which makes me 178 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: think there is an official order or an unwritten order 179 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:55,959 Speaker 1: just not to respond anymore. Well, listen, you're absolutely right, 180 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: and I experienced it. I rode Metro with a young mother, 181 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: cass Andra, who wanted me to experience what Metro was like, which, 182 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: by the way, is horrifying, dirty, filthy, full of encampments. 183 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: But ran into three officers and I asked him, I said, 184 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: why does it look like this? And they said, we 185 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 1: are not allowed to enforce the rules. And I said, 186 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 1: does that come out in roll call in the morning, 187 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: and they said absolutely yes. So we've got leadership of 188 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: our city that has directed the cops to stand down. 189 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:33,079 Speaker 1: The cops are frustrated, they're demoralized. We've got a lot 190 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: of police that are retiring now, and we've got to 191 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: stop at and turn it around and get people to stay, 192 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: but also rebuild it through the academy. And we're having 193 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 1: a tough time recruiting because if you're a man or 194 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 1: a woman that wants to serve and protect in the 195 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,439 Speaker 1: best ways, why would you want a job in LA 196 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:55,080 Speaker 1: where you're not allowed to do your job. So I 197 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: can change that, We've got to change the culture. Just 198 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: on my block. In the last week, it was a 199 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: break in seven homes for me. The guys sat in 200 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 1: a fake Amazon truck and they watched a couple leave 201 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 1: on a Friday morning. They were going down to del 202 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 1: Mar where they have a weekend getaway, and then they 203 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: watched a housekeeper leave, and then they waited and then 204 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 1: they stormed in the place and for an hour they 205 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: ransacked the place and it's all on video, ring video, 206 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: or they were never caught. Of course, they jumped in 207 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 1: and they got away. And then the same week people 208 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: have hired private security cars to drive around and the 209 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 1: security guys found an expensive car parked on the street. 210 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: It was stolen, and it had a GoPro in it, 211 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: like somewhere in the on the windshield, and it was 212 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: recording the comings and goings of everybody in the neighborhood. 213 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: And presumably the bad guys were watching a video feed 214 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 1: of the GoPros so they could see who was leaving, 215 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 1: the time they were leaving, and then they were casing 216 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 1: the neighborhood and they were going to break in once 217 00:12:55,960 --> 00:13:00,559 Speaker 1: they got a pattern, and that was really scary, and 218 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: that's really sharry. I mean, it just goes to show 219 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: you the sophistication of what's going on. Out there and 220 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: what can happen when you don't have a police force 221 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,080 Speaker 1: able and ready to do their job because of a 222 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: lack of staffing. But things are even worse than that. 223 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:22,839 Speaker 1: You know Christy Vega who owns Cossa Vega out in 224 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 1: the valley. You know, it's been in business for sixty 225 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: years now, owned by the daughter Christie, a woman owned business, 226 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 1: Latina owned business. One of her employees was getting off 227 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: the bus. I was out there the other day. She 228 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 1: was telling me the story was stabbed, thank god, Okay, 229 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: stabbed in the stomach. To call the police. The police said, 230 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: is the person still there? He was a homeless person. 231 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,319 Speaker 1: They said no, he took off and they said, we'll 232 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: file a report online. Now that's just stabbing. Yeah, So 233 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: we've got to change the direction of the city. It's 234 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:02,679 Speaker 1: just we've got a change the leadership, the culture and 235 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 1: the system is just really has imploded. And just to 236 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 1: you know, bottom line it, Karen Bass is a product 237 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:15,439 Speaker 1: of the system. When you're a product of a broken system, 238 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:18,559 Speaker 1: it's impossible to change the system. And it's going to 239 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: need to have an outsider that isn't beholding to anybody 240 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: that is just going to make the decisions of doing 241 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: what's right for the residents of LA because there's some 242 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: really tough decisions that the mayor is going to have 243 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 1: to make to reset the course of the city, and 244 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: we got to do it. What is your relationship with 245 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: her from the past, because it's been said that you 246 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 1: two have been friends. How have you known each other? Well, 247 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: we've known each other just through political circles and you know, 248 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 1: being active in LA. She's represented the city for twenty years, 249 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: you know, so we've cross passed and and that's how 250 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: we know each other. She called me before she announced 251 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: her run and you know, was curious on what I 252 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: was going to do, and I said there was a 253 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 1: high likelihood I was going to do it, but I 254 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: had made my final decision yet. But you know, so 255 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: we've known each other, and she's a legislator, you know, 256 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 1: and that's that's her skill set. But the legislative skills, 257 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: we've seen that in city Hall for the last ten years, 258 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: and everybody knows where we're at. It's not the right 259 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: skill set to lead a city, especially one as complex 260 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: and large as LA. A lot of coverage dealing with 261 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: both of you and your connections to USC do you 262 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: feel she still has some questions to answer about her scholarship. 263 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: Absolutely she does. I mean, the federal prosecutors are very 264 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: clear that she never applied, never reported at ninety five 265 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. And on the debate, you know, she said 266 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 1: she'll show her application, and what she gave was a 267 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 1: one page, one page, unsigned piece of paper. That is 268 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: a request to sit in a lass with no intention 269 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 1: of getting a degree. Now. I don't know about you guys, 270 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: but I don't remember any scholarship program or any master's 271 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: program where your application is one page. I wish I 272 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 1: knew it was that easy. I would have saved a 273 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 1: lot of money with my kids. Yeah, but you know, 274 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: it's even worse than that, and clearly she's not telling 275 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: the truth. What's even worse than that is she took 276 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 1: a scholarship from somebody that was deserving somebody. I just 277 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: left a family today down in South LA. The daughter 278 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: is on a scholarship that my wife and I provided. 279 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: We provide hundreds of scholarships. This one is through Operation Progress. 280 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: The family is added below the poverty line. They collect 281 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 1: and sell trash to make the ends meet. Beautiful and 282 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 1: credible family. The daughter is on a scholarship going to 283 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: out at Riverside. A woman like that should have had 284 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: a ninety five thousand dollars scholarship to USC not a 285 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:07,119 Speaker 1: highly paid member of Congress. And that's really bad. Yeah, 286 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 1: it makes a lot of people really angry, and it should. Rick. 287 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 1: I want to thank you for coming on. No you 288 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: got more? Please? No, I'm good, I'm good. Thank you 289 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:19,479 Speaker 1: for the opportunity. I love talking to both of you. 290 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:21,200 Speaker 1: Keep and I hope we can talk to you again 291 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: before election day, and good luck and every day we 292 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:27,360 Speaker 1: tell people to vote for you. Thank you very much, 293 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 1: appreciate it. Rick Caruso businessman and of course on the 294 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 1: ballot to be the next mayor of la Part of 295 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 1: me wanted to just ask him, would you really want 296 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,880 Speaker 1: that job? We got more coming up Johnny ken caf 297 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:43,480 Speaker 1: I am six forty live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. 298 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 1: It'd be interesting to talk to him a year from 299 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 1: now IFEW wins. Really if you're just tuning in, we 300 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 1: had Rick Carusian for the last half hour, and if 301 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 1: you want to hear him, we've got the Johnny Kent 302 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: podcast that you can access on the iHeartRadio app. Later 303 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:00,880 Speaker 1: on we invited Karen Bass. We have not heard back. 304 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:03,639 Speaker 1: We did. We wanted to be you know, even handed. Oh, 305 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 1: I'd love to talk to her. He's a very nice lady. Actually, 306 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:10,199 Speaker 1: she does come off you said that once. She does 307 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 1: come off very pleasant. Yes, she seems publicly very pleasant. Yeah, 308 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: as an nice smile at all. And but she has 309 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 1: no real passion or interest in the two overwhelming issues, 310 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 1: and that's the homelessness in the crime. It's just not 311 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:28,439 Speaker 1: something that she's voted. No. In fact, she's campaigning with 312 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:32,119 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris on abortion. Yeah. Now it's like that's just 313 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 1: not relevant. What possibly could the Mary Los Angeles have 314 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:41,120 Speaker 1: to do with abortion? They just think it drives turnout, 315 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: they don't care. But I think of the practical nature. 316 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 1: Of course, we got we got forty things, you know what. 317 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 1: This must work because they've been doing it for decades. 318 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 1: All politicians, especially on the Democrat side, campaign on this well, 319 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: even if they're irrelevant to actually changing the issue, So 320 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: it must work. I can only conclude that, well, do 321 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 1: they do research and find out what it does push 322 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:06,879 Speaker 1: a few people to vote, Well, it changes the subject. 323 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 1: Because most of the Democrats don't want to run on 324 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:14,160 Speaker 1: the economy and inflation. So now especially yeah, you changed 325 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: the subject. I don't know. The last last poll I 326 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: saw is the economy inflation was top issue for forty 327 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 1: five percent of the public and abortion for four percent 328 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: of the public. And I'm just guessing that four percent 329 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: was voting Democrat anyway. I don't think there's any new 330 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:29,919 Speaker 1: converts there, but they may not vote. They may just 331 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 1: sit it out until you push them with it, because 332 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: that's what they care about. That four percent of tight race. 333 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 1: She's down three points there, you go. Seems like there's 334 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,919 Speaker 1: a much bigger ocean with the forty four percent. But 335 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: when it's your economy and you cause the inflation, I 336 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: guess you don't want to bring that up. But the 337 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 1: LA Mayor has got nothing to do with that abortion issue. 338 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: We want to tell you that the moistline is tomorrow, 339 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: so we're still collecting calls. You can either do it 340 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: through the iHeartRadio app, the microphone and Icono called the 341 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: toll free number one eight seven seven moist eighty six 342 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: one eighty seven to seven six six four seven eight 343 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 1: eight six. After five o'clock, A candidate on your ballot 344 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 1: for Attorney General, Nathan Hackman we'll join us. He's the Republican. 345 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: His opponent is the incumbent Rob Bonta, who was appointed 346 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 1: to that position by Gavin Newsom when Kamala Harris became well, 347 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris went to the Senate. But Hackman is an 348 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:27,399 Speaker 1: excellent candidate to be attorney general, and he's exactly what 349 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 1: attorney generals are supposed to be. He is, he's got 350 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:35,719 Speaker 1: a prosecutor background, and he knows his stuff. You hear 351 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:37,639 Speaker 1: him talk, you read what he says, you look what 352 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: he's done, and that's exactly the kind of attorney general 353 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 1: you want in a normal, rational world, which I understand. 354 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: Rob Banta just came from the legislature and that's about it. Yeah, 355 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:51,479 Speaker 1: he's a goof long time Assembly hack and we're waiting 356 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: for a verdict. In the story out of UCLA, James 357 00:20:55,440 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 1: Heaps was a gynecologist oncologist there for thirty five years, 358 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,160 Speaker 1: but just a few years back it came to light 359 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: from the claims of a number of women that during 360 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:11,920 Speaker 1: his examinations he may have been sexually molesting them. So 361 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,919 Speaker 1: more than five hundred lawsuits came out of this, eventually 362 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 1: settled for a big bundle of money. But this is 363 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,919 Speaker 1: the criminal case, and we got the word about an 364 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,440 Speaker 1: hour ago that this jury did reach a verdict. It's 365 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 1: expected to be announced this afternoon, I would imagine before 366 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: five o'clock because everybody probably wants to go home. They're 367 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 1: just trying to probably assemble everybody because they were at 368 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 1: this for a while. In fact, they had to replace 369 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,680 Speaker 1: a couple of jurors with alternates because situations going on. 370 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: So when that comes out, we'll let you know. From 371 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 1: the Meat Too movement, John Guess, who was well was 372 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:51,400 Speaker 1: found not liable in a civil case Kevin Spacey, the actor. 373 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 1: His decision came down today in Manhattan. I saw that 374 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: this was the case from a guy who claimed doing 375 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: it when he was fourteen, that Spacey did unpleasant things 376 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:07,680 Speaker 1: to his body. This is actor Anthony Rap. This happened 377 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighties, because today Rap is fifty, Spacey 378 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 1: sixty three. It was a three week trial. The civil 379 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 1: lawsuit was looking for forty million dollars in damages. But 380 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 1: the verdict, the jury concluded, I guess more likely than not, right, 381 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 1: that's how it goes in a civil case that Spacey 382 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 1: did not molest Anthony Rap. I remember when he went 383 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: public with this claim, after the whole movement and a 384 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 1: whole bunch of other men, I think he was conferred 385 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 1: with the first one. Yeah, he was the first one 386 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 1: to kue Spacey of something like I see are one 387 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 1: of the very early ones. And the real like horror 388 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 1: is that he claimed he was fourteen when you know, 389 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 1: this terrible thing happened and I supposedly some sort of 390 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:56,160 Speaker 1: a party and the claim rap is that Kevin Spacey 391 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: rap went because he was fourteen, he went into a 392 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: back bedroom to nap as well. There he was a 393 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: child actor and that Spacey came in and then late 394 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,680 Speaker 1: on top of him. Well, when you're when you're accused 395 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,920 Speaker 1: of something like this, the two alternate stories are either 396 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:15,199 Speaker 1: it never happened or it was consensual. Now would that 397 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: kid being fourteen consensual? Doesn't fly? So all you're left 398 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: with was it never happened. And I wasn't paying attention 399 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 1: to the trial, but I'd be curious, like why the 400 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:32,120 Speaker 1: jury didn't believe this guy and why they basically said, hey, 401 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,160 Speaker 1: more likely than not, it didn't happen. Yeah, that's how 402 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 1: they felt. Both of them took the stand and both 403 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 1: of them told their stories, but which means which, which 404 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,640 Speaker 1: means they're implying that the fifty year old is so 405 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: crazy he actually pushed this, this thirty six year old 406 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: incident into a three week long trial, and he was 407 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:56,959 Speaker 1: making it up. He claims that Spacey picked him up 408 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 1: and briefly laid on top of him on a bed 409 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: in his apartment, and this would be Spacey's apartment. He 410 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 1: testified he wriggled out and fled, only to find a 411 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,399 Speaker 1: drunk Spacey at the door ask him if he was 412 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:13,879 Speaker 1: sure you want to leave? Was that the extent of it, 413 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: just laying on top I think that was kind of 414 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: the extent of it. Yes, I guess it's a full 415 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,359 Speaker 1: out Yeah, I guess there's that's another option. Then it's like, 416 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:25,680 Speaker 1: well that's not much. So Space's attorney says it's possible 417 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 1: that Rap invented this because he had appeared in a 418 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 1: play called Precious Suns, in which actor Ed Harris picked 419 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 1: up Raps character and lays on top of him, mistaking 420 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 1: him briefly for his wife. That was a good one 421 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 1: to put in there for the jury, wasn't it. Well 422 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,640 Speaker 1: it does make you wonder because some actors are kind 423 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: of crazy and they kind of blur reality and fiction 424 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: in their heads. Or maybe it was a dream he had. Yeah, 425 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 1: I mean this is nineteen eighty six. I mean I've 426 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: had dreams of all kinds of people being on top 427 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: of me and it seemed real at the time. Do 428 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,639 Speaker 1: you have oh, yeah, people being on top of you? 429 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 1: Anybody we know? People I know, well, well I know 430 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: some of the people. You know. I will not give up. Well, no, 431 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 1: it wasn't you somebody large? Is it a sexual or 432 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,120 Speaker 1: is it kind of just trying to do you think 433 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,640 Speaker 1: like you're doing grade school. You have to say, uncles, 434 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 1: it was, you know, I guess fantasy dreams. All right, 435 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: you know what else we're gonna do? What's that? What 436 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 1: did you think it would be? I don't know. I've 437 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: never had a dream that someone's laying on top of me. 438 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: I couldn't figure it out. I have really bizarre dreams, 439 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: but that's never one of them. Debora, Mark you no, no, 440 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 1: I have not no that. Could you breathe? John? Is 441 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: that what it was? And woke up because it couldn't 442 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: breathe or it got good? Biden Audio, You don't want 443 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 1: to get inside my mind, especially in the middle of 444 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,159 Speaker 1: the night. Old Joe's been on a tear. I call 445 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 1: him the snapping turtle because his several stories where he 446 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 1: snapped at a reporter. Oh, I want to I want 447 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 1: to hear these clips, asking him about abortion, asking him 448 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 1: why nobody wants the campaign with them. Yeah, he got 449 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,679 Speaker 1: he got testy today, yesterday, bad mood. All right, we 450 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: got that and more. And of course Nathan hockmital he 451 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 1: are guest. After five o'clock. They accounted it for California 452 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: Attorney General Johnny ken k IF I am six forty 453 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,719 Speaker 1: live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We had Rick Roushaw 454 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 1: on earlier in the hour, and if you missed it, 455 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 1: you could hear it on our podcast, John and Kinn 456 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: podcast on the iHeartRadio app as well. Coming up in 457 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: a few minutes after five o'clock, Nathan Hackman, who is 458 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 1: the Republican candidate for California Attorney General against the incumbent 459 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 1: Rob Bonta. Yes, and we'll have we'll go to Bidenville. 460 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 1: Joe was snapping out reporters in the last twenty four hours. 461 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:56,879 Speaker 1: Snap snap, snap, not liking it. We'll get to that. 462 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 1: We're also expecting a verdict in the UCLA, the former 463 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 1: UCLA guy ecologist James Heap's trial, or a number of 464 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,439 Speaker 1: women it's a criminal case against him, accused him of 465 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:13,400 Speaker 1: sexually molesting them during the course of their examinations from 466 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 1: the Fednyl front Wow, a couple of stories. They grabbed 467 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 1: thousands of suspected fentnyl pills hidden in candy boxes at LAX. 468 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 1: Someone tried to go through security screening with look like 469 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:32,920 Speaker 1: boxes of Whoppers or Skittles and sweet tearts. Instead there 470 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: was feddyl pills inside Happy Halloween. Oo oh boy, exactly 471 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:43,159 Speaker 1: twelve thousand pills. Sees how scary is Halloween? Now? Huh? 472 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 1: I guess they figured the scanner would just you know, 473 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 1: sweethearts fentnyl. How did they pick it up? I guess whoever? Well, 474 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 1: you make fun of them, But whoever was at the scanner, 475 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,199 Speaker 1: it didn't think it looked like a Whopper. It couldn't be. 476 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,399 Speaker 1: Couldn't be the guy at the scanner, Well, who else would? 477 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 1: I don't know if they were just on alert, if 478 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: they've got special agents on alert for this sort of 479 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 1: thing now, yeah, or maybe it says here's so much 480 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 1: of it resembles candy. It does. I mean, look at 481 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 1: it the picture. I mean it looks like they were 482 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,439 Speaker 1: different colors the pills. I don't know, rainbow colors. I 483 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 1: mean they look like they look like sweet tarts to me. 484 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,119 Speaker 1: The photos we tart to be a good one to 485 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,159 Speaker 1: disguise a drug. I mean a looper because it's a 486 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,639 Speaker 1: chocolate coating. It's like a I don't know if that 487 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 1: will work in skills skills if you're a parent, what 488 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 1: do you do. I don't well, I don't know that 489 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 1: this was a Halloween thing. No, but I'm thinking about Halloween. 490 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 1: This is the first time I've seen a deadly drug 491 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 1: being marketed in huge amounts like ordinary candy, like the 492 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 1: candy you'd get. I think that was just to smuggle 493 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: it in. You really think it was to you know, 494 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: I disperse it somehow? Is pretending with candy? Well maybe 495 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,160 Speaker 1: because Fendel you can make good money, you wanted to 496 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: hand out like candy. You see the picture of the 497 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 1: Whopper's box, it's a bunch of blue pills. And no, 498 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 1: I know it's not that the cartels would do it, 499 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: but you know, a mistake could happen, or there could 500 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 1: be some you know, dark evil psycho who might want 501 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 1: to hand it out to the kids. I thought you 502 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: thought that was largely urban legend. Oh no, I think 503 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 1: I think weird stuff now. The razor blade in the 504 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 1: apple and the yeah, I mean most of that didn't 505 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 1: pan out, But it bothers me. It's just a visceral thing. 506 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 1: It bothers me to see the fentomil look like sweet tarts, 507 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,960 Speaker 1: knowing that's the kind of candy that you're get in 508 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: a bag. And there's just so many psychos now around. 509 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 1: I mean, there's literally tens of thousands of psychos wandering around. 510 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 1: So it's the whole atmosphere, the whole world bothers me 511 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: right now. The suspected trafficker fled but has been identified. Okay, 512 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,840 Speaker 1: I guess they know where to find him. Or so. 513 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 1: They tried to go through security with all the no 514 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 1: pills and when they got caught they read off. How 515 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 1: easy was that. Meanwhile, in northern California, San Joaquin County, 516 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:13,720 Speaker 1: a place called Concow, I don't know, Concow against the Cow. 517 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 1: The parents of a toddler, it's a two year old. 518 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: He apparently ingested fetnel. They took him to the local hospital. 519 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: They said to the hospital workers. He was in the 520 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 1: care of someone else, so we don't know what he 521 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 1: took into his mouth. Well, because the kid was acting lethargic. Yeah, 522 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 1: maybe it looked like candy showed signs of opioid poisoning. 523 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 1: Hey guys, we have a breaking news. Yes, so James Heaps, 524 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 1: the former UCLA gynecologist, he has been convicted of five 525 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 1: counts and acquitted of seven. Came over. Now we just 526 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 1: got confirmation. So that's what has been released as of now. 527 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,040 Speaker 1: Oh that's good though, Yes, I guess five counts is 528 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 1: still a lot of prison time. I would imagine. Yeah, 529 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: I'm not sure. It's like weird. I want if they 530 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 1: believe some of the women didn't believe others. I don't 531 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,239 Speaker 1: know what. Well, Corbyn Carson, he is going to be 532 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 1: he'll have a report coming up so hopefully he'll have 533 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: all that infot they'll have more detail. All right, that's 534 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: the doctor, James Heaves, the former ucl A gynecologist oncologist. 535 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 1: Good and he's going to go to prison too. I 536 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 1: would think if he's convicted. Yes, I'm sure they'll appeal 537 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,080 Speaker 1: because he got not guilties on some of them. But 538 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: we would have to learn what the breakout is and 539 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: all the charges. The hint in this story, by the way, 540 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 1: they got a search warrant and they found some fentnel 541 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: in the parents car. They found meth in the home. 542 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: And here is of course the big part. The home 543 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,360 Speaker 1: is a trailer. Oh so it was just in the 544 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 1: air there because you know, if they had some fentanyl 545 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: powder just laying on the table, you know, just a 546 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,560 Speaker 1: few grains, if the kid got it in a system, 547 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 1: then now you told me he can kill you. Yeah, yeah, 548 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 1: to well, a lot of people survive over things. So 549 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 1: what they're not taking enough in it? Well, it's there's 550 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 1: a dose the body can stand, but it's a very 551 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 1: very small amount. I mean, they use fentanyl in hospital 552 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 1: settings for pain killing purposes, but it's it's a micro amount. Yeah, 553 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 1: And when you're just casually and the problem with the 554 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 1: with the with the candies or the pills, right, they're 555 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,080 Speaker 1: they're made to look like other pills, and you don't 556 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 1: know how much fentanyl is in a single pill because 557 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 1: these these drug cartel guys are mixing the batches and 558 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 1: trailers and they've got a lot of powder that eventually 559 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:45,120 Speaker 1: they'll mold into a tablet. But how many grains of 560 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 1: fentanyl you want? You want a little bit so you know, 561 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 1: the customer gets a nice high off it. But if 562 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:57,800 Speaker 1: they're just you know, mixing, slashing around large quantities of powders, 563 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 1: you're gonna get fentanyl pills that are overloaded. All right. 564 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 1: When we return, our guest will be a manned by 565 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 1: the name of Nathan Hackman. He would like to be 566 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,480 Speaker 1: the next Attorney General of the state of California. He's 567 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,320 Speaker 1: the Republican candidate on your ballot. 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