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The John and Ken Show live 11 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. John is gone. He is, Yeah, 12 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: he went to the All Star Game, so the Dodger stadiums. 13 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: It's a few miles from here, but it's probably gonna 14 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: take forever to get there, so he left early because 15 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: he's a baseball head. You still have a chance to 16 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: win a thousand dollars. Two more keywords coming, the first 17 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: of which will be it around for twenty This is 18 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: called our Inflation Vacation. You just enter the word on 19 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: the website and you might get email noticed that you're 20 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,959 Speaker 1: all winner, So stand by for that. We'll be talking 21 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: about Barbara Ferreira, the La County Health Director, and the 22 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 1: move online to get her removed. One of the petitions 23 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: that change dot org will be the subject we'll be 24 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: talking about in about thirty minutes. We start the hour 25 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,479 Speaker 1: talking about a move by federal prosecutors in New York 26 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: and the US Department of Labor to take a closer 27 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: look at what's going on at these Amazon warehouses and 28 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: what it takes to get your package there, sometimes the 29 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: same day or the next day. There are lots of 30 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: reports about tough workplace conditions. Let's bring on Alex Stone 31 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 1: for more on this story. Alex, I'll be John for 32 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: you newm Nah. No, it's pretty generic, but it's not bad. Well, 33 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: there you go, but but it works. So yeah, Amazon workers, 34 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: they've been pretty vocal claiming that they're overworked. That they 35 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,559 Speaker 1: say can additions in the fulfillment centers is not good. 36 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: They say that from heat, to working hours to what 37 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:14,519 Speaker 1: they're demanded to do, that they're being treated inhumanely and 38 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: now investigators they're going to be looking into it. They're 39 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: beginning to do that now New York Prosecutors, US Labor 40 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:26,519 Speaker 1: Department as well. And this is coming while Amazon workers. 41 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: They've been on the picket lines. They want unions, they 42 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: have been trying to unionize, they have been out there 43 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 1: doing this. They claim that most of us don't understand 44 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:40,119 Speaker 1: what they're dealing with to get us packages the next day, 45 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: same day some cases, and they want to have a union. 46 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: So the question is is it that bad or are 47 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,519 Speaker 1: they making the claims to get a union. And that's 48 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: what investigators have to figure out. You know, It's like 49 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: the airline industry where pilots will say it is horrendous, 50 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: it's not safe, and then they get a contract and 51 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: they go, this is really great. It's the greatest company 52 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: in the world. So is there more to it or 53 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: our conditions really that bad? What kind of things that 54 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: were talking about? Do have examples of what they claim 55 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: is happening to them? Yeah. Alicia Johnson, she says she 56 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 1: was fired this year because she had had enough of it. 57 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 1: But she says she was working back to back twelve 58 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: hour shifts on the warehouse floor. That you were not 59 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: allowed to take a day off, you were not allowed 60 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: to have vacation time, sick time. Everybody's quitting she can 61 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: quit two. I mean lots of jobs out there, Yeah, 62 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 1: she says this, we work like a dog there. We 63 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: worked very hardstan and our feet for twelve hours. No 64 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: one cheers. That's not right now. She claims the company 65 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: required them to work overtime unless they could show a 66 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 1: doctor's a note for not working the overtime shift. That 67 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: they were told, no, it's not an option that we 68 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: needed filled and you got to do it. Drivers are 69 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: claiming that they have so many deliveries and lack of 70 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 1: public bathroom, specially during the pandemic, that they've had to 71 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: urinate in the bottles to keep going. I've heard of 72 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 1: that one. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes it takes poops on people's lawns. 73 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: I've seen two because they that wouldn't be good. Is 74 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: that why my neighbors have that don't poop on my 75 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: lawn signal? But yeah, not the Amazon workers. I have 76 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: seen reports of Amazon workers having to do that because 77 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: you know, sometimes number two comes up, what a ups 78 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: drivers do and FedEx and police officers and everybody else's 79 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 1: out there in the public for hours or out of daum. Yeah, 80 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 1: and so the warehouse workers, they say safety rules are 81 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: being ignored, that they're being told to run where they've 82 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: got to go. That They say that's not safe, that 83 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 1: it's incredibly hot inside the fulfillment centers, that they're doing 84 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: repetitive movement where they're going to get injured where they 85 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 1: don't have safeguards against it. Amazon increaser pay, starting paid 86 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 1: eighteen bucks an hour, but workers are saying that is 87 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: not enough for what they're having to endure and that 88 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 1: they should be one not having to deal with all 89 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,159 Speaker 1: of this, but making more moneym eighteen an hour, that's 90 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: a barely livable wage. So Amazon says it is cooperating 91 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:07,359 Speaker 1: that they're going to be able to show that the 92 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: warriors are unfounded. They say that none of this is 93 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: true and that they care about their workers and that 94 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: they're taking care of their workers. But the federal prosecutors 95 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: in US Labor Department, they are doing visits, unannounced visits 96 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 1: to fulfillment centers. They've been in Chicago, New York, and 97 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:29,040 Speaker 1: Orlando walking in what they call sweeps to go in 98 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: and say, show us what's going on of is it 99 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: ninety five degrees in here, let me see the work schedules, 100 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: talk to some of the employees, look at the records 101 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: and figure out what is going on. And he is 102 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 1: Amazon breaking the lawn and we don't know that yet. 103 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: Is there a criterion or a threshold for federal prosecutor 104 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: in New York of the Department of Labor to do this? 105 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: They have to get a certain number of complaints or 106 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 1: are there someone in there who likes unions decides it, 107 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: let's go after Amazon. We'll help out our union buddies. Yeah, 108 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: his work. At this point, there have been a lot 109 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: of complaints, and so they seem to have enough to 110 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: say they they've got to begin investigating and that they 111 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: feel like that there could be a crime committed there, 112 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: But is there more to it and that we don't 113 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: know if there are political reasons why some of the complaints. 114 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 1: And Amazon is a very big company, and are some 115 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: of these Are you going to get reports here and 116 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: there of one office that aren't the way that the 117 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 1: company operates in general. Look, when they go in, they're 118 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: probably going to find something everywhere they go. If they 119 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: went into KFI right now, they would find something. If 120 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: they came into my office, they would find something. But 121 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 1: is it going to be the big stuff? And that'll 122 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: be the question. Do they go in and say, yeah, 123 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: that they're being forced to work twelve hours on their 124 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: feet and then work more over time without the option 125 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: of going home, then that would be bad. But if 126 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 1: that's really going on yet, nobody knows. Yeah, I'm looking 127 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: up stories on the unionization thing at Amazon. Apparently we 128 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,480 Speaker 1: remember the big Alabama story was that last year where 129 00:06:57,480 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: the workers yea, they moved not to unionize, and then 130 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 1: they took another vote, right, and supposedly we know that 131 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: that Amazon has been spending millions of dollars but not 132 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: that uncommon to hire consulting firms to try to persuade 133 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: against going union their workers to go union. Delta Airlines 134 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: has done something similar. Starbucks is going through that right now. 135 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: They don't want them to go union, so and there 136 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: are some workers that do want to go that way. 137 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: In New York, they voted down going union the Amazon 138 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: workers there and now their claims that they were intimidated 139 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: and other things. But Amazon is spending a lot of 140 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 1: money trying to convince them not to go down that road. 141 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: And now you've got a fight between the company and 142 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,239 Speaker 1: some workers. Well that's how you get cheap stuff online 143 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: at Amazon is suddenly their labor costs skyrocket because of 144 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: unionization and all of the wage rules and all of 145 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: the benefits had come with that. It's the same thing 146 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: that Walmart was going through. You're probably going to lose 147 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: the cheap goods and the ability to get a lot 148 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: of customers because you can sell it shipped over night. 149 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: I mean, it is amazing that you order something at 150 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: nine o'clock at night, at eight o'clock next morning, it's 151 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: there and you know you have something to arrive. I 152 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: do it shows up at nine at night and you're thinking, 153 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 1: what took you so long? And then even though you 154 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: ordered it not that many hours before, and that there 155 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: are humans involved in it. I've gone in and done 156 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: stories and fulfillment centers and yeah, they got a lot 157 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: of robots moving things around, but still the humans go 158 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: and pick those items they box the mom. You should 159 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 1: go on to cover Alex. You should go into cover 160 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: It at for filming center and tell us what it's 161 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: like to work undercover boss and put on a fake mustache. 162 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: See if any of this is real or if it's exaggerated. 163 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: Wings to eighteen bucks an hour, you got it. You 164 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: could you could do that, all right. Thanks for coming 165 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: to We appreciate it yet it Thanks good Alex Stone 166 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 1: ABC News for KFI. The continuing drama at Amazon, which 167 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: is such a behemoth that of course the unions want 168 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 1: to unionize the workers. Can you imagine the union dues 169 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: you could grab from all the workers at the Amazon warehouses. 170 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: So we now have a situation where federal prosecutors in 171 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: New York and the US Department of Labor are conducting 172 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: sweeps at Amazon warehouse as these are in New York, Chicago, 173 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: and Orlando, to see just what the working conditions are like. 174 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: But as I said, if you don't like it, you 175 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 1: can quit. We're still in a situation now where there 176 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 1: are plenty, plenty, plenty of jobs out there. There have 177 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: to be other options. I mean, you feel like you're 178 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 1: trapped in the warehouse. We're forced to work over time. 179 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 1: It will be fired. Once people start saying no supply 180 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: and demand, they'll start changing their demands. All right, when 181 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 1: I come back. First thing we're gonna do, first order 182 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: of business is to give you the keyword that you 183 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 1: use to perhaps win a thousand dollars with our inflation 184 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 1: vacation keyword contest. John and Ken Show on KFI report 185 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: this afternoon that the US housing market could be on 186 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: the verge of a meltdown. According to a top economist, 187 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 1: there's been a collapse in home builder confidence in July. Well, 188 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: this is naturally what happens when mortgage rates are going 189 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: up in the f keeps raising the rates to fight inflation. 190 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: Then this is going to deter people who we're thinking 191 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:07,560 Speaker 1: about taking out big mortgage loans because the rates are 192 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: running too high. It's the natural consequence of this. It's 193 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 1: the whole problem with fighting inflation. If you fight it 194 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,679 Speaker 1: too aggressively, we could end up in a big business downturn. 195 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,839 Speaker 1: And one of the places that's kind of overdue seriously 196 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: is housing. I mean, home prices have just been going 197 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 1: up and up and up for years, and we haven't 198 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: had big problems as the two thousand and eight mortgage meltdown. So, 199 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 1: as they like to say in market jargon, a correction 200 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: of some kind is due, Just a correction. We don't 201 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: want a big slump, we don't want a big depression 202 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: or recession, just a slight correction coming up after the 203 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: news at four thirty, My guest is one of those 204 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 1: people that wants Barbara Ferrere to turn out the lights 205 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: in our office and go the La County Health Director 206 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 1: wants La County to be, from what we know, the 207 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 1: only one in the country that's going to reimpose an 208 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: indoor mask and eight. No one else is doing this, 209 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: not even in whacky northern California Santa Clara County where 210 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 1: they have a health director that went way off the charts. 211 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: Not so over COVID they're not doing this. But La County, well, 212 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 1: you know, we want to be extra cautious. We'll talk 213 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: The petition is a change dot Org. I think there's 214 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 1: a couple of them, but we'll talk to the group 215 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 1: behind one of them coming up after the news at 216 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: four thirty. Haven't talked about gas prices on the show 217 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: in a while. In southern California, they're actually coming down. 218 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: In many places they have dropped below six dollars a gallon. 219 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: This is a natural consequence of perhaps people cutting back 220 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: and the fact that we always have a run up 221 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: in the spring, and of course we have all this 222 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:50,959 Speaker 1: with the supply and the fact that they don't want 223 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 1: to drill from our oil and blah blah blah. So 224 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: this is probably what's going to happen. I mean, I 225 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 1: remember their predictions. We could be spending seven seven fifty 226 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,680 Speaker 1: gas by August doesn't look like that's going to happen, 227 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: but it's still very high. It's very high compared to 228 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 1: a year or two years ago, and people around the 229 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: country who hit five dollars a gallon, we're freaking out, 230 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 1: which brings us to this story apparently gas theft. Oh. 231 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:22,680 Speaker 1: I just want to mention one other thing. Diesel prices 232 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: are still very high, and they're warning that the trucking 233 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: industry is going to be severely impacted. That there's already 234 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 1: been supply chain issues, but with the price of diesel 235 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: remaining very high, you're going to pay for that. You're 236 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: going to continue to pay for that and all this 237 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 1: stuff you buy that gets shipped by truck. Anyway, police 238 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: have arrested a number of people around the country. They're 239 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 1: either digitally manipulating computers that manage gas pumps or they're 240 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: installing homemade devices to discount their fuel. Whenever I see 241 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:59,959 Speaker 1: a story like this, I always think, well, these are 242 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: people that really did their homework and they're really hell 243 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 1: bent on being the high gas prices. But do you 244 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: think maybe they're smart enough to do something else with 245 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 1: their life that they weren't being so devastated by the 246 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 1: high gas prices. We've had gas theft obviously for decades, 247 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 1: and it really took off after Hurricane Katrina when there 248 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: are shortages around the country. But now with this run 249 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 1: up and gas prices that nobody's really seen, it's happening 250 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 1: more frequently, and we have a new go round, and 251 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: of course it's being twenty twenty two, there's more technology. 252 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 1: They talked to a fuel industry veteran by the name 253 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: of Len Denton is the founder of something called Guardian 254 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 1: Payment Solutions Corporation. They make security products for gas stations, 255 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 1: and he says, yeah, we're getting more and more theft 256 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 1: complaints from station owners and the police just in the 257 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: last few months. Most American gas stations use pumps from 258 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: just one of two Manu factors. So the reason that 259 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: this is easy for some thieves. They come in the 260 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 1: off hours. Some of them steal the gas from the 261 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:14,079 Speaker 1: underground storage tanks. We talked about that before, but now 262 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: let's talk about the hackers and the way this works. Apparently, 263 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: fuel dispensers have a remote control option to allow station 264 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: owners and fuel inspectors to get to them easily, but 265 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: the remotes are not regulated. An NBC News found that 266 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: many of them are on sale. There are for sale 267 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: online in places including eBay. So basically they use the remote. 268 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: They have to enter a key code, but many station 269 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: owners never change the key code from the default setting, 270 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: so it's pretty easy for these hackers. They buy the 271 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: remote online, they use the default setting key code, which 272 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 1: is the same as the one that guy got at 273 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: the gas station, and they're able to access the pump. 274 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: Apparently they talk to one such thief who said, you 275 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: can just pump as much as you want. Of course, 276 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: the easy solution is to just change the code when 277 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: pumps are installed, but a lot of station owners they 278 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: don't bother that. The other trick is to get a 279 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: gas pump to dispense more gas than attracts. Gas pumps 280 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 1: have a device called the pulsor, which measures how much 281 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: gas comes out of a pump, telling it how much 282 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: to charge you. Well, apparently some of these thieves have 283 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: made some homemade devices. They get parts from a hardware store. 284 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 1: They can slow the pulser so registers only a fraction 285 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: of the actual gas that it's dispensing. They're tricking it 286 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: into believing that you're buying less than you really are. 287 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 1: A thief still needs to open up a gas pump 288 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: panel to install the pulsor, but many of them use 289 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 1: a Staerdize key, and many of those keys are widely 290 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 1: available for sale online. So with the advent of the 291 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: Internet and more technology, you got some guys out there 292 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: that figured out a way to steal gas in a 293 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: new way. All right. Coming up next, there is a 294 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: couple of petitions out there for people who are behind 295 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: the movement to have Barbara Ferrare removed as the LA 296 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 1: County Health Director. Barbara Ferrere wants to impose another indoor 297 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 1: mask mandate for Los Angeles County based on a ridiculously 298 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 1: low metric allegedly from the CDC. A lot of people 299 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 1: not happy with this. We'll talk to a representative from 300 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: LA uprising as one of those petitions that change dot org. 301 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: That'll be my guest coming up next, John and Ken 302 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: Show on KAFI. Come it up. I'm going to talk 303 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: next hour about that new six street bridge that opened 304 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: in downtown Los Angeles. Too much fanfare. Garcetti and the 305 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: rest of city officials showed up and they're very excited. 306 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 1: Costs a lot of money too, it's already been vandalized 307 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 1: with graffiti, and last night there was a street takeover 308 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 1: where the police had to close the new bridge. Nice. 309 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: That's the state of things today. I'll talk about that 310 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 1: in the five o'clock hour. A quick reminder that the 311 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 1: Moist line comes back in three days. Already leave your 312 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: message with the iHeartRadio app. It's a little microphone icon 313 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: you used to talk back to the show or call 314 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,239 Speaker 1: toll free one eight seven seven Moist eighty six one 315 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:35,879 Speaker 1: eight seven seven six six four seven eight eight six. 316 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: We talked about this earlier in the show. We talked 317 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 1: about this yesterday. She must be stopped. This is the 318 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 1: La County Public Health Director, Barbara Ferrere. We do not 319 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,440 Speaker 1: call her doctor because she's got a PhD in social 320 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:52,119 Speaker 1: work for something like that. Ever since it began, she's 321 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:55,880 Speaker 1: had an agenda, and the agenda is something about health equity. 322 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 1: In fact, it's kind of pointed out in today's press 323 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 1: release from the La County Public Health Department as BA 324 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: DOT five fuels increase in COVID metrics, residents and areas 325 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: of high poverty hospitalized at a faster rate. Keep in mind, 326 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,439 Speaker 1: we learn from a top doctor in the La County 327 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 1: Hospital system that this is a lot of media hype. 328 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:24,160 Speaker 1: The hospitals are not being overloaded. In fact, one epidemiologist said, 329 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 1: we don't have anybody needs to be intebated. It's just 330 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 1: not happening right now. It's like a bad cold. These 331 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:31,879 Speaker 1: are the people on the front lines. Why are we 332 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: listening to them giving this woman the power. I'm going 333 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 1: to talk now to Julie Hammill. She's with a group 334 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 1: called La Uprising and they're one of those that have 335 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:45,120 Speaker 1: started a petition at change dot org to have Barbara 336 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:49,919 Speaker 1: for Rare removed. Julie, welcome to the show. Thank you 337 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 1: so much for having me. Yeah, explain it again what 338 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 1: LA Uprising is about. So. LA Uprising is a group 339 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: of people who've been fighting back again harmful restrictions on 340 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: our children for about two years. And we have a 341 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 1: petition going Scott thousands of signatures, and that petition is 342 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 1: to fire Barbara Frere. And as you said, anyone who 343 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 1: is not data illiterate has known for a while that 344 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 1: Ferrer's office is completely out of control. Her statements are 345 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 1: not based in fact, her data, when she chooses to 346 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 1: use it is completely unreliable, and she has to be stopped. Yeah, 347 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:37,720 Speaker 1: she's apparently trying to impose her own personal social work 348 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 1: agenda on the entire county, where she decides that certain 349 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: neighborhoods of LA County have too many COVID cases. And 350 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:52,120 Speaker 1: by the way, today's report twelve new deaths. That's really low. 351 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: In fact, that deaths have averaged single digits to somewhere 352 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: between twelve and twenty. Because I get this email every 353 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: single day, and as you pointed out, the data doesn't lie. 354 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 1: We're at a point now where whatever this variant is 355 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 1: BA five be a point to seven five b A four, 356 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:12,360 Speaker 1: they're not harming people at any rate like they did 357 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:15,679 Speaker 1: last year and the year before. And to continue to 358 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 1: impose these massive broad restrictions on everybody, bringing back the 359 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: indoor mask mandate, and what if the numbers continue to rise, 360 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 1: we're going to go back to a lockdown. I mean, 361 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 1: are you guys getting a big response to your petition? 362 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: So we've got an uptick. There have been about five 363 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: hundred news signatures since the news came out about the 364 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: LA County and USC Hospital town hall. But it's been 365 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: really interesting to watch this play out, and the data 366 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 1: really doesn't lie. Everyone listening right now can go on 367 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 1: to the La County Department of Public Health website and 368 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: look at the data for themselves, and I encourage everyone 369 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,640 Speaker 1: to do that. I was looking for vaccination data from 370 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 1: my school district, and it turns out the county's numbers 371 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: show there are more vaccinated children aged five to eleven 372 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: than actual children aged five to eleven in my district. 373 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,879 Speaker 1: So that means the vac rate is more than one 374 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: hundred percent for that age group, which is obviously spatially false. 375 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:19,719 Speaker 1: So I emailed my supervisor's office, Janathon, asking for an explanation. 376 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,119 Speaker 1: Two months later, I got a very long winded email 377 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: from the Department of Public Health saying, no, the numbers 378 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:31,160 Speaker 1: aren't really precise. There's some estimation going on. So right, 379 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 1: my takeaway from this is they are using faulty data, 380 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,919 Speaker 1: and they're twisting that faulty data to make COVID sound 381 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:42,160 Speaker 1: much scarier than it is. And this whole fear narrative 382 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 1: really the lid was blown off of it when we 383 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 1: heard the head medical doctors in our county speaking at 384 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,400 Speaker 1: that town hall. Yeah, did you see what? Did you see? 385 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 1: What happened after that, Julie? Because yes, later in the 386 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:57,879 Speaker 1: day yesterday, the county issued a statement that that was 387 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 1: a private meeting between workers and it does not represent 388 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: the opinion of the health department. Apparent that's part of 389 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 1: the Department of Health Services, which is separate from Barbara 390 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: Farrere's department, and they were trying to trying to play 391 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 1: it down. But those were top medical professionals saying this 392 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:19,679 Speaker 1: is no big deal, and apparently they've all been terrified 393 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: out of speaking to the media now, so I don't 394 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,879 Speaker 1: know what's going on. I find it very scary that 395 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:30,679 Speaker 1: our county of more than ten million people is taking 396 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: public health direction from a social worker and not from 397 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 1: our top medical doctors. By the way, one of whom 398 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,199 Speaker 1: is an epidemiologist, the other one is the CEO of 399 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,120 Speaker 1: the hospital. The other one was a CMO of the hospital. 400 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 1: They're not dummy, they know what they're talking about. So 401 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,879 Speaker 1: why are we taking advice from the social worker and 402 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 1: not these medical doctors who are actually treating patients. Yeah, 403 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: this this press release today, Barbara Farrere, PhD, MP, m 404 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 1: D direct through a public health All of it nonsense. 405 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 1: She's just a glorified social worker. Explain to people, though 406 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 1: you want to present this petition. You want to get 407 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: to seventy five signatures and hand it over to the 408 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 1: Board of Supervisors. Do we really have any chance here 409 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 1: of affecting any change in this leadership of this department. 410 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 1: I certainly hope. So, you know, it's hard to have 411 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: hope anymore in California. But she needs to resign or 412 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 1: she needs to be fired by the Board of Supervisors. 413 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: This is the same board that just voted to put 414 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 1: a measure on the ballot to fire a duly elected sheriff. 415 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 1: They actually have the power right now to fire Barber Fair, 416 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,119 Speaker 1: but they won't do it. Yeah, they appoint her, they 417 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 1: can remove her. They appoint her right, yes, And I 418 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: think it's because their data illiterate and their donors are 419 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,719 Speaker 1: somehow benefiting from prolonging the sphere. And so what I 420 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:57,200 Speaker 1: really hope happened is that your listeners and people with rational, 421 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 1: common sense brains will look at this data and be 422 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:06,199 Speaker 1: reassured and start asking more questions. You notice that no 423 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: La County, No La City politician has come out and 424 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,679 Speaker 1: talked about what you've been talking about, and we've been 425 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 1: talking about here on the show, that those top doctors 426 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 1: with LA County's hospital system. That's the event that they 427 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 1: held of employees where they talked about how this particular 428 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 1: round of COVID is not resulting in any critical hospitalizations 429 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 1: and it's all media hype, no politicians. Julie has ceased 430 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: on that to challenge fair. That disappoints me. Oh, it 431 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,159 Speaker 1: disappoints me too. I'm running for school board in my 432 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: district and College Verdes. I'm tired of this. I'm not 433 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 1: going to take it anymore. Good for you, all right, 434 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,120 Speaker 1: So people can find this a change dot org. How 435 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:52,639 Speaker 1: else did they search for it? La Uprising dot com. 436 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,399 Speaker 1: La uprising dot com is a place to go if 437 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,400 Speaker 1: you want to be a part of the petition asking 438 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:02,119 Speaker 1: the La County Board of Supervisor to remove Barbara Ferrere 439 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: as the head of the health department. All right, Julie, 440 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 1: thanks for talking to me. I appreciate it. Thank you 441 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:11,160 Speaker 1: so much. All right, Julie Hamill, she's with La Uprising. 442 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: La uprising dot Com is the website, and of course 443 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: they've been fighting from the beginning against the over the top, 444 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 1: one size fits all restrictions imposed by not only the governor, 445 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: but many county leaders. And I like to it. The 446 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 1: Times finally mentioned that La County Hospital System employee town 447 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: hall where that top doctor and the epidemiologists said this 448 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: is all media hype. But they immediately followed it up 449 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 1: because the county responded to it by saying, Oh, don't 450 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,399 Speaker 1: look over there, don't look over there. We have the 451 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 1: data here. That's that's not to be taken seriously. All right. 452 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 1: We got more coming up on the John and Ken 453 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,640 Speaker 1: show on K five, coming up after five o'clock. Oh 454 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,359 Speaker 1: my gosh. Already they opened up to much fanfare a 455 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: new bridge in downtown Los Angeles Street. Took years to 456 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 1: build it. They had the grand opening just a few 457 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 1: weeks ago. It's already been defaced and apparently for a 458 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,199 Speaker 1: couple of nights running has been the scene for some 459 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: what they call street takeovers. People like to drive on 460 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: the bridge and do all sorts of car tricks, spinning 461 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: around stuff like that. Accidents have happened. The bridge has 462 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 1: been closed. It's already a mess. That's the state of 463 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:27,119 Speaker 1: the world today in LA with our criminal justice system 464 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,199 Speaker 1: and just no consequences for anything. I'll bring you the 465 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,479 Speaker 1: story and the detail after the news at five o'clock. Well, 466 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,919 Speaker 1: alas have a chance next hour to talk to a 467 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,359 Speaker 1: woman who said she was also attacked by this same 468 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: man who attacked the Olympic volleyball player. Her name was 469 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: Kim Glass. She made news a couple of weeks ago. 470 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: She actually made a video showing her injuries. This guy 471 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: came up with some sort of a rod and bashed 472 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 1: her with it. He's been doing this for years, attacking 473 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 1: women with any type of tool or implement he could find, 474 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 1: golf clubs, hammers. We'll talk to a woman who said 475 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:03,880 Speaker 1: that she was attacked two years ago by the same man, 476 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,680 Speaker 1: and of course her jaw dropped when he was back 477 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:11,159 Speaker 1: on the streets again attacking the Olympic volleyball player. That 478 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 1: will come up in the five o'clock hour, along with 479 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 1: one last keyword for today that you can enter on 480 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:21,360 Speaker 1: the website possibly win a thousand dollars. It's all ahead. 481 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,879 Speaker 1: One more note on this whole attempt to make us 482 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 1: do indoor masking again in La County if the numbers 483 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: don't improve by July twenty ninth. The numbers, I mean 484 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 1: the metric. The metric is that we have ten and 485 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 1: a half new coronavirus positive hospitalizations for every hundred thousand residents. 486 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 1: What they shop in here is a lot of percentages 487 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: to make you think that the problem is more out 488 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,879 Speaker 1: of control than it is. Oh, it's up fifty percent 489 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,920 Speaker 1: from the previous week. The numbers are still and that's 490 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 1: all you should look at. Low. But the chrick itself, 491 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: moving above ten per capita pushed La County into the 492 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: high COVID nineteen community level. I don't know where we 493 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,640 Speaker 1: got this goalpost. I don't know how current it is, 494 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: but this is ridiculous because clearly, right now we have 495 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:23,359 Speaker 1: a virus that is continuing to mutate, and it's mutating 496 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:27,120 Speaker 1: to stay alive, which means it wants to be as 497 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: transmissible easily as possible, and it's succeeding in doing that. 498 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,159 Speaker 1: But along the way, it's losing some of its power 499 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 1: because you know, I actually said this two years ago, 500 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: but I read a couple of articles where some experts 501 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 1: pooh poohed the idea that suddenly the coronavirus is going 502 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 1: to get less deadly because it continues to mutate. It. 503 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 1: I think it's mutating itself to less seriousness in terms 504 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 1: of illness, and the numbers are proving that. And the doctors. 505 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 1: They leaked that internal eating that they had. One of 506 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 1: the top doctors of the La County Hospital system agrees 507 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 1: that this is hype. We are not in any serious 508 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: hospital situation. Everybody needs to calm down. He didn't say that. 509 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: I added that, but now we have a Department of 510 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 1: Public Health led by Barbara Fair and because her agenda 511 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,480 Speaker 1: is I don't know what her agenda is, Like I said, 512 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 1: she comes from social work background, which means she cares 513 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: so much about the poor people underserved communities that she's 514 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: being ridiculous. People have to get on with their lives. 515 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 1: They're not going to mask forever, and they're not going 516 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 1: to do this every few months because you decide, based 517 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 1: on some crazy over the top metric that we have 518 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 1: too many cases. People need to fight back. And you 519 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: would think there'd be some public official in the county 520 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,480 Speaker 1: that would use as evidence what this La County Hospital 521 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 1: doctor sat along with this epidemiologist that this is over 522 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 1: the top. All right, here is a story, of course. 523 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,719 Speaker 1: The big story this week also was the investigative report 524 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:10,440 Speaker 1: out of the school shooting in Yuvaldi, Texas. It occurred 525 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 1: on May twenty fourth, nineteen fourth graders and two teachers 526 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 1: were slaughtered. You know by now the police response was pathetic. 527 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: Seventy seven minutes standing outside the school, then outside the 528 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:28,680 Speaker 1: hallway of the classroom, nobody entered for seventy seven minutes 529 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: to take out the shooter. This report that came out 530 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 1: from a legislative investigation has something in it that the 531 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 1: media just seized on which is unbelievable. They say that 532 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: it's possible that because of illegal immigration, which is plaguing 533 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:54,040 Speaker 1: Texas border towns, that it may explain a lax response 534 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: to the Yuvaldi school shooting. You might think, how could 535 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:03,239 Speaker 1: that be, Well, apparently it's not an uncommon occurrence that 536 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 1: border patrol is tracing migrants who are sometimes in vehicles 537 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 1: running from the border. This apparently causes an alert, and 538 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 1: many times the Uvaldi School district gets the alert, basically 539 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 1: telling people heads up, it's possible there's going to be 540 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 1: somebody out there involved in a police chase or border 541 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: patrol chase. It might be dangerous on the roads, especially 542 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: if school children are concerned the buses, kids walking around. 543 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: It happens so often that it's possible these security alerts. 544 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: Some of the people at rob Elementary, some of the 545 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,640 Speaker 1: people the Uvaldi School district. Police thought that when the 546 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 1: shooter crashed his car outside the school, he eventually got 547 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 1: out with a gun, started walking around and then entered 548 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:58,000 Speaker 1: the school. It may have just been another border patrol alarm. 549 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: It may explain why there was a lackadaisical response to 550 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 1: the idea that because I think the first reports were, oh, 551 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: somebody just crashed a car outside the school, police responding, 552 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,600 Speaker 1: and someone said, ah, it's probably just another boarder patrol chase. 553 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 1: Just ignore it, and it could be why they didn't 554 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 1: go on to high alert immediately. I don't know when 555 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:22,720 Speaker 1: the first reports came out that he had a gun 556 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 1: and he was walking around outside the school, and he 557 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: eventually shot at a couple of people across the street 558 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: before he went into the school. But it says here 559 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 1: one of the factors contributing to relaxed vigilance at rob 560 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,600 Speaker 1: Elementary was the frequency of what they call security alerts 561 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:40,720 Speaker 1: and campus lockdowns resulting from a recent rise, and they 562 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:45,200 Speaker 1: referred to them as bailouts. These are trigger security alerts. 563 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 1: Bailouts is when we're dealing with a situation where board 564 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 1: to patrol could be chasing illegal immigrants, can you believe that. 565 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 1: So there's another possible explanation for the slow or sort 566 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:00,120 Speaker 1: of non response, at least initially to the evol the 567 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 1: school shooting. All right, when I come back, Oh boy, 568 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,520 Speaker 1: just another day in La That new sixth Street bridge 569 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,400 Speaker 1: which has a hefty price tag. They opened it up 570 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,920 Speaker 1: in downtown LA City officials were trumpeting it. Well, it's 571 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 1: already been the scene of a bunch of street takeovers, 572 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: car accidents, graffiti. Talk about all this coming up on 573 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 1: the John and Ken Show on KFI. Mark Ronner has 574 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 1: the news. Now, it's never been more important to diversify 575 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,600 Speaker 1: your financial portfolio. Well, that's right. The S ANDP is 576 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 1: down twenty percent from the last year, and this year 577 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 1: looks even worse. Gold and precious metals offer a hedge 578 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,720 Speaker 1: against inflation and stock market volatility, and Legacy Precious Metals 579 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,800 Speaker 1: is the company Cannon I trust. 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