1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Calf I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: and Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Yeah, 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:12,119 Speaker 1: welcome everybody to another hour on from one to four. 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: If you miss any it's all posted up there just 5 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 1: after four o'clock on the website for you to enjoy 6 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:19,639 Speaker 1: all three hours of the show. Yes, you do have 7 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: to send the stories anymore. We know that Garcetti was 8 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: confirmed as ambassador. Didn't you think you don't look at 9 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: any new story? When's that happened? Well? Johnson denied, Are 10 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: you kidding? 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As we said, Garcetti 21 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 1: is confirmed as ambassador to India. What's pending next is 22 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: the possible confirmation as US Secretary of Labor of a 23 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 1: woman by the name of Julie Sue. You've probably never 24 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:20,479 Speaker 1: heard of her, but she was running the Employment Development 25 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: Department here in California when thirty billion dollars was given 26 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 1: away to criminals around the world. That was the unemployment 27 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 1: money during COVID. Yeah, she was ahead of California's Labor 28 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: Department so that they oversee edd and she pretty much 29 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: opened the floodgates because when people started applying, it was 30 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: like a let's let go some of the checks on this. 31 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 1: We've got to get the money out to the people, 32 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: and the all the scammers find this out quickly. She 33 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: cost US thirty billion dollars and got promoted from California 34 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: Secretary of Labor too. It looks like US Secretary of Labor. 35 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: I just just mind boggling. Garcetti and Julie Sue. Well, 36 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: there's a sub rebellion against this. Yeah, there was a 37 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: rally today at the Capital in Sacramento among a couple 38 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 1: of politicians, of which we're going to talk to. One 39 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: Congressman Kevin Kilie, Republican from up in the Rockland area, 40 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: and Kevin used to work in the California legislature. For 41 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: now he's a congressman. Kevin, how are you doing well? 42 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: How are you guys? This is great. I mean, the 43 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: bigger boob you are, the bigger failure, the better job 44 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: you get with the Biden administration. Yeah, it's failing up. 45 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: You know, it's a great, great concept, right. Yeah. So 46 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 1: go through all of the problems with Julie Sue. Well, 47 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: problem number one is the EDD So she was Gavin 48 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: Newsom's labor secretary and so you know, Newsom has just 49 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: shut the state down. Millions of people have lost their 50 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: jobs on the government's orders, and then they're applying for 51 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: these unemployment checks to their own ode and people just 52 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: can't get them. The department is so incompetent myself and 53 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: any other legislator at the time. A number one thing 54 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: we're dealing with is people who could not get their 55 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: checks for weeks, for months and definitely couldn't provide for 56 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: their families. That's number one. Number two at the same 57 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: time is the thing you just mentioned that, as you know, 58 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:16,079 Speaker 1: law abiding, hard working people couldn't get the checks that 59 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 1: were entitled to criminals are easily able to get checks. 60 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: They're flying out the door to the tune of some 61 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,799 Speaker 1: thirty billion dollars in fraud, largest fraud of tax payer 62 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: dollars in history. And number three is she was an 63 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: architect and the enforcer of the law known as eighty five, 64 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: which basically banned independent contracting California, cut thousands of people 65 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: in their livelihood, not to mention that California had the 66 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: highest unemployment rate in the country when she was Labor Secretary. 67 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: So you know, this whole idea Gavitt Newsom has that 68 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: our state is somehow a model for the whole country. 69 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: This is that idea being brought to horrifying fruition. Why 70 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: where the fraudsters so easily able to get the money, 71 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: but the unemployed citizens of California had so much trouble? Like, 72 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: why why didn't the fraudsters have trouble getting money? Yeah, 73 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: it boggles the mind. You know, they were able to 74 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: easily figure out how to game the system because Julie 75 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: Sue made the sort of inexplicable decision not to put 76 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 1: in place at basic fraud detection measures like most other 77 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: states did. The federal government, for example, advised very early 78 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 1: on to cross check unemployment claims against the prison roles. 79 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: She did not do that. As a matter of fact, 80 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: you had lots of checks that went straight to the 81 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: correctional facilities themselves. You know, the fraudsters. They wouldn't even 82 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:40,840 Speaker 1: try very hard. They use names like John Doe, they 83 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: use names like Diane Feinstein, and they got their checks. 84 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: And I remember, you think this is such a waste 85 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 1: of money, thirty billion dollars. What could we have used 86 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: this for? It was worse than a way. This is 87 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: money that went to hardened criminals, criminal syndicates to perpetrate 88 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: and carry out further criminal actors. What do you think 89 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: was wrong with the EDD that regular citizens couldn't get 90 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: the check X? How could I how could a million 91 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:06,359 Speaker 1: people get their unemployment claims denied? Well it was sheer 92 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 1: incompetence is the simplest answer. I mean, you know, not 93 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: all of this can be later the feat of Julie Sue. 94 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: I mean we had outdated technology systems. The EDD was 95 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 1: in the mixt of an eleven year upgrade of its technology. 96 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 1: If you can imagine that eleven years to do basic 97 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 1: technology upgrades would be outdated by time they finished the 98 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 1: project exactly, it'd be outdated within a year, and it 99 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 1: takes eleven years. But if you look at other states 100 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: that actually handled the influx of unemployment claims, well, they 101 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: quickly pivoted to things that would work with that, you know, 102 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 1: cloud based solutions, and that would allow them to process 103 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 1: claims in a timely manner. But the stuff that was 104 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: happening at the EDD, I mean, you can look at 105 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 1: the reports that the state auditor did, the independent State Auditor. 106 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: You can look at the letter that sixty one Assembly members, 107 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:56,239 Speaker 1: mostly Democrats, wrote a few months into this in twenty twenty. 108 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: What was wrong with her? What is wrong with her? Well, 109 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: I think that the basic thing that is wrong is 110 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: that she is not someone who has been elevated based 111 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 1: upon her capability, but rather based upon her readiness to 112 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: simply rubber stamp the agenda of special interest groups aligned 113 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: with Gavin Newsom. So you know, if you look at 114 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,360 Speaker 1: who was supporting her for this nomination. As soon as 115 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: Marty Walsh announced he was leaving hers a vacancy, it 116 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: was all the big unions that were behind av five 117 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: that run the capitol in California immediately put out a 118 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 1: letter saying Biden should nominate Juisu and uh, and I 119 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: guess Biden's people don't care that she was such a 120 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: failure here. Well, they don't seem to characters. They nominated her. 121 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: They nominated her for Deputy secretary, by the way, And 122 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:49,039 Speaker 1: why is that though? Do they? They did they want 123 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 1: her to screw up the US Labor Department now it 124 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 1: would appear. So, I mean, I think that this is 125 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 1: just a matter of Biden feels like he needs to 126 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 1: give this gift to the special interests who've been pushing Sue. 127 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 1: He even said the other day he said, if Sue 128 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: were not nominated, and he used the passive voice, which 129 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: were a little which was a little odd since he's 130 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: the one doing the nominating, but he said, if Sue 131 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: were not chosen, he would be run out of town. 132 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: So you know, at that point, the President himself is 133 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: sort of admitting he's not the one driving the train here, 134 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: that he is deferring to those who have profited immensely 135 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: from Sue's purrup policies. So are we seeing any opposition 136 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: in the Senate? I mean, with the Garcetti nomination, it 137 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: certainly took a while, and there was definitely some doubts, 138 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: other doubts about Julie Sewer is this is going to 139 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: sail through. It's not going to sail through. When she 140 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: was up for Deputy Secretary, she only was confirmed by 141 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: about a fifty to forty seven. It was strictly party line. 142 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: And so now it's a very different dynamic because you 143 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 1: have you know she's up to the top job. There's 144 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: going to be a lot more scrutiny. There's a lot 145 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: more on the line. And you also have a number 146 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: of Democrat senators in more right leaning states that are 147 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: up for election in twenty twenty four. So I'm trying 148 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: to make it very clear for anyone who votes for 149 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: her exactly what they are associating themselves with, Number one 150 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: being that thirty billion dollar fraud. I got one more question, 151 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: because you spend a long time in Sacramento as a 152 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: representative and now you're in Congress, which is worse. You know, 153 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: the jury is still out on that. I will tell you. 154 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: It's better being in the majority, that's for sure. And 155 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: it's better having sort of a government where there some 156 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:32,440 Speaker 1: measure of accountability, some checks and balances, Although there are 157 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 1: obviously a lot of very deeply rooted problems with the 158 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 1: culture of DC. But you know, one of the reasons 159 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: I ran for Congress is that a lot of the 160 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: problems that we have in California are starting to go 161 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: national and so you know, Julie Sue's nomination is really 162 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: a major or sort of step in that direction that 163 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: we want to make sure we avoid. Well, I want 164 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 1: to point something else out, Kevin. I saw the and 165 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: it's not well read, but the Sacramento b was going 166 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: after you because you've been pointing out all the tr 167 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: troubles with Newsom and they're wondering, why is he obsessed 168 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:05,079 Speaker 1: with Newsom? Well, I think that you just made the 169 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: point that California policies maybe starting to flow around the 170 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: country and you want to point out the flaws. That's 171 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: that's the right. And Newsom himself has explicitly said that 172 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: is what he's trying to do, that California is a 173 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: model for the nation. And so you know, and yeah, 174 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: the Sue nomination of the perfect case in point I 175 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 1: mentioned eighty five, the independent contractor law that she was 176 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 1: a huge part of. They are trying to nationalize that 177 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: right now. It's called the pro Act, which actually passed 178 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:32,679 Speaker 1: the House, lass Congress. And then there's also a rule 179 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: in the very labor Department that Sue would read that's 180 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: going through rulemaking right now that would essentially nationalize this 181 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:44,079 Speaker 1: law that California has. And so yeah, the Sacramento b 182 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: they always have a lot to say, but I think 183 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: that you know, if you're not looking closely at what 184 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 1: the Gavin Newsom policies have done to California, then I 185 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 1: wouldn't be doing my job, all right, Kevin Kylie, congressman 186 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 1: up up in the Rockland area, Thanks for coming on. 187 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 1: They've done all right. It's again trying to oppose the 188 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: nomination of A. Julie Sue is the US Secretary of Labor. 189 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: She was California's labor secretary. And of course we lost 190 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 1: over thirty billion dollars to fraud. John A. Ken kf 191 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: I AM six forty we're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. 192 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from kf 193 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 1: I AM six forty. Coming up after two thirty. We 194 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 1: don't talk much about Russia Ukraine, but there's a fully 195 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 1: a few stories float around the news this afternoon that 196 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 1: you gotta hear, including what appears to be another purge 197 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 1: by a Vladimir Putin of some people, some Russian people 198 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: who doesn't approve of the change. Thirty nine prominent Russians 199 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,199 Speaker 1: all committed suicide. Well, you see, wow, they got a 200 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: little depressed over how it's going and that it's been 201 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 1: a bad must be a bad winner in Russia. We'll 202 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: talk about that, and we'll talk about Putin had to 203 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: say in a little update on Ukraine Russia coming up 204 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,839 Speaker 1: after the news at three thirty. We've already mentioned several 205 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:01,839 Speaker 1: times and we're only going to mention it again here 206 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: because we're gonna talk about somebody connected to this person 207 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: that yoga pants Garsetti has been approved by the United 208 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: States Senate as the next ambassador to India. That's it. 209 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: It's done with. So after a year and what nine 210 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: months was it since he was nominated, Yes, that this 211 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 1: stuck around. Now. One of his other legacies, in addition 212 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: to the crime and the homelessness and the filth and 213 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 1: the potholes, is corruption. And although he has never been charged, 214 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: we do have a deputy mayor of his who's been 215 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: on trial dealing with this corruption with the real estate developers. 216 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: His name is Raymond Shan he's being accused of being 217 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 1: a key member of what prosecutors called the Council District Enterprise, 218 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:53,679 Speaker 1: a conspiracy in which former La City Councilman Jose we'z Are, 219 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: assisted by others, used his office to give favorable treatment 220 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 1: to real estate developers who finance and facilitated bribes and 221 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 1: other illicit benefits. And some of this, says we know, 222 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 1: branched out to the world of sex, poker, chips, you 223 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 1: name it. It was really like a good old fashioned 224 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: bride case. Of course, cash in large amounts. And We's 225 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 1: are of course pled guilty in January and back a 226 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 1: couple of years ago. It's Englander, former LA City councilman. 227 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,199 Speaker 1: He also got some trips to Vegas and wink wink, 228 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:30,200 Speaker 1: some little side action from the developer. Yeah, because you 229 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: you know, you need city Hall's cooperation if you're going 230 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: to build a big tower, so you have there has 231 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 1: to be somebody corruptible inside Garcetti's office. So that's whose 232 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: Raymond Shann is. He is a former Los Angeles deputy mayor. 233 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 1: When you're a deputy mayor, that means you're appointed by 234 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: the mayor, and the mayor is Garcetti so this is 235 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 1: as close as this case got to Garcetti. This guy 236 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 1: decided not to take a plea deal. He decided to 237 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 1: go to trial. The trial started a few weeks ago, 238 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: but it may be over for rather unusual reasons. We 239 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,840 Speaker 1: had mentioned when the trial opened that the attorney for 240 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:15,319 Speaker 1: Raymond Chan is none other than Harlan Braun, a name 241 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,079 Speaker 1: that may be familiar to people that follow the legal field. 242 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 1: He's an eighty year old now. He's had celebrity clients 243 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: over the years and include Roman Polanski, Roseanne bar John Landis, 244 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:30,559 Speaker 1: Gary Busey, Chris Farley. He was also involved in representing 245 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 1: a police officer, I think, in the beating of Rodney 246 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: King over thirty years ago. So he's in the news 247 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: and the trial is on hold because apparently Harlan Braun 248 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 1: collapsed in his office on March second. He returned to 249 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: his office after the day's trial and his adult son, 250 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 1: with whom he shares an office suite, found him gravely ill. 251 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: They took him by ambulance to UCLA Medical Center, where 252 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: they gave him treatment. He underwent emergency surgery. We don't 253 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: know what this was, but he was in the high 254 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: spital for ten days. Then he got out. But the 255 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: medical team says he cannot participate in the Chan case 256 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:10,560 Speaker 1: and he faces an indeterminate but significant period of further 257 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:14,680 Speaker 1: medical treatments and convalescence. It sounds like a stroke or 258 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: something along those lines where you know you have to 259 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: do a lot to come back with physical therapy and such. 260 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 1: I don't know what it is though, but they think 261 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: it will be at least three months down the line, 262 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 1: if not longer, that he can resume any kind of 263 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 1: practice of law. So Chan wants a mistrial. Yeah, he 264 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: wants a mistrial and start all over again with a 265 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 1: new attorney, with a new attorney, which is probably what's 266 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: going to happen, because otherwise, what do you do? Doesn't 267 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: let him defend himself if he's innocent, watch an attorney. Attorney, 268 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 1: he's innocent, right, you just go up there and say 269 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 1: none of this has happened. If he pleads your own case, 270 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: I didn't take any money. I didn't give anybody money. 271 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 1: The judge could say, find another attorney. Now, I don't 272 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: want to halt this trial. But you have an expensive, 273 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: famous attorney. When you're guilty, then you're trying, you hire 274 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: the attorney to confuse the sub zero IQ jurors that 275 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: they got the wrong guy. Right now, it's on hold 276 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: until March twenty seventh, so there's still some time before 277 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: the judge decides whether or not to check this trial. 278 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: Or Chant is facing a dozen criminal counts racketeering, conspiracy, 279 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: bribery on a services fraud, lying to federal agents. This 280 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: guy is really the end of this entire scandal. Everybody 281 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: else has either been found guilty or pled guilty. Right, 282 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 1: So he's sixty six years old and he's been in 283 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 1: city government a long time, and so they're trying to 284 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: act like this man is innocence. He's never done anything 285 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 1: like this before. You have no cases before this. That's 286 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: not a defense. All the evidence says he did it. Yeah, 287 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter that they didn't catch him twenty years ago. 288 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: I love diversions that attorneys used, which work on some people. 289 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: It's like, well, he never did this before, Well, how 290 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: do you know that, and what does that matter? Well, 291 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: he was deputy mayor who oversaw economic development for Garsetti 292 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen. He's charged with arranging 293 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: what they call indirect bride payments to city officials. By 294 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: lining up employment contracts for the officials relatives. Oh that's 295 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: a good one. So I guess it was another side 296 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: park to the bride. Right, So could you find a 297 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: job for my dud nephew. Sure, yeah, if you have 298 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: Eli be Chan's job, if you have a big family. 299 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: There's a lot of duds there, you see. Yeah. Braun 300 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: said that he's an innocent public service who just got 301 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 1: swept up in the case by ambitious federal prosecutors. Get 302 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 1: swepped up. They have evidence of his involvement. They do 303 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: probably have texts or emails or stupid for other people saying, 304 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: how come my mother never got swept up in a 305 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: corruption case they wanted her workplace? No, but she never 306 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: she never committed your your mother my mother? Right, They 307 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: never got arrested. They were got swept up at a 308 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: case because they didn't do anything wrong. People who do 309 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: stuff wrong end up getting swept up. While they're saying, 310 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: you know, because he was part of this whole developer 311 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 1: real estate stuff for the city of la and all 312 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 1: these people were corrupt, it doesn't mean he's corrupt. Yes, 313 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: you just saw his name on a paper and said, 314 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 1: grant him too. That's the job description. You have to 315 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: manage the corruption that comes through your office, and it 316 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 1: looks like he was the go between. That's well, of course, 317 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:19,439 Speaker 1: what they're not saying here is what he got in 318 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 1: terms of money or you know, what his renumeration was 319 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 1: for doing this. I don't see that, but I'm sure 320 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:25,960 Speaker 1: it'll come out of the case. All right. We got 321 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: more coming up. John and Ken k I I am 322 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: six forty live everywhere the iHeart Radio app. You're listening 323 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 1: to John and Ken on demand from kf I AM sixty. 324 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: We're on from one to four on the radio after 325 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,400 Speaker 1: four o'clock. 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Find out my evaluation of Debra's I that 335 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 1: was in the first hour. We're gonna have a special 336 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: guest after three o'clock. It's one of those cases where 337 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,479 Speaker 1: this person will remain anonymous. It is a fifth grade 338 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 1: LA Unified School District teacher who is not happy that 339 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 1: there could be a strike. In fact, I think the 340 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 1: union today is supposed to have a rally and announced 341 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 1: the date of the three day or whatever strike. We'll 342 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,639 Speaker 1: talk to this teacher coming up after the news at 343 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 1: three o'clock. And again, this is mostly not about the teachers, 344 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,159 Speaker 1: although they want a big pay raise. It's about the 345 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: other workers, the people in the cafeteria and the offices, 346 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 1: and the people who serve the slop. The administer. The 347 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 1: teachers are going to go on strike because the people 348 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 1: who serve the slop don't get paid enough. You have 349 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: never had in La Unified School District cafeteria meal. How 350 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: do you know? It's sly. I have never had a 351 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 1: cafeteria meal in my life. You didn't even have your 352 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 1: own skill because the first day I went to a 353 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: public school cafeteria, I looked at it and I said, wow, 354 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: that's a lot of slot. So it is called the 355 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: MQ DASH nine Reaper drone. I feel like the tables 356 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 1: turned a bit here. Remember the Chinese by balloons that 357 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 1: were flying over the US, and they were cut down 358 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: eventually by our military and we went and right now, 359 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 1: both the US and Russia wants to get their hands 360 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,960 Speaker 1: on this US drone which went down over the Black Sea. 361 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: Now the Black Sea, of course borders several countries, of 362 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 1: which Russia Ukraine are a big part of the Black Sea. 363 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 1: What was it doing there, we don't know, but it 364 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 1: apparently got clipped by a Russian fighter jet and the 365 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: US decided to bring it down because it was inoperable. 366 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: Now we want to go get it because we don't 367 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 1: want the Russians to get it if there was anything 368 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: valuable to be learned from it or whatever it's collected 369 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 1: in terms of data. The Russians are say, well, there 370 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 1: you go. That's the US trying to help out Ukraine 371 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: with that drone doing something up there. And the US 372 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,440 Speaker 1: isn't saying much about what the drone was doing over 373 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:12,359 Speaker 1: the Black Sea, however, spying on the Russians because the 374 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: yeah or doing something to help Ukraines figure out Russian 375 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,440 Speaker 1: troop movements things like that, right, I mean, we're giving 376 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: him tens of billions of dollars of assistance. Yeah, so 377 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 1: that that's part of it. We're giving them a lot 378 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 1: of equipment. But the Russians are right because they're saying, well, 379 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 1: this is proof of the direct day that the US 380 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: is actually sending their own equipment directly over the area 381 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 1: to help Ukraine. I didn't think that was in dispute. 382 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: I assumed, you know, well, then you've got to take 383 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:37,440 Speaker 1: to the bunker, because that means that they were in 384 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 1: the war and it's gonna be World War three. Oh, 385 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 1: I'm convinced that this could turn out very badly. Still, well, 386 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: I mean it's been a year, so I'm just asking 387 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 1: huh yeah, okay, because he's insane. I can't I can't 388 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: believe how many young men he is fed into this 389 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:58,879 Speaker 1: meat grinder. Yeah, you think there would be a bigger, 390 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: bigger rebellion Russia. I mean I see the numbers. I 391 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:05,400 Speaker 1: mean they will lose family members like this, you think 392 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: will be in the streets, they'll kill you. It's all 393 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,120 Speaker 1: young men. There's the entire generation of young men gone. 394 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: There's gonna be nobody to marry in that generation. They're 395 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 1: not going to ever have kids. And these families are 396 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 1: going to live with his grief for the rest of 397 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: their life and for what. Although I hear now a 398 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 1: lot of the soldiers getting killed. Have you heard of 399 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,639 Speaker 1: the Wagner Group. Yeah, the Wagner group of mercenaries or 400 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:33,959 Speaker 1: mercenaries and prisoners. Putin opened up the prisons and forced 401 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 1: them into service, but they're untrained for military, so the 402 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,239 Speaker 1: prisoners are getting slaughtered. The mercenaries are getting slaughtered. The 403 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: guy who runs the Wagner group is angry with Putin. 404 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: He's been publicly critical that this is a disaster here 405 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 1: because most of the Russian troops are either young men 406 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: forced into duty, or prisoners or mercenaries. A lot in 407 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,159 Speaker 1: the first way of Russian troops have all been murdered, 408 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 1: killed by the Ukrainians. This is a new story in 409 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 1: the New York Post that Russia's Wagner mercenary group is 410 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 1: so hard pressed to replenish its ranks they're turning to 411 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 1: porn hub to recruit soldiers. That's pretty funny. They're urging 412 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: male viewers, yes, to stop pleasuring themselves and instead apply 413 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: for a job at Wagner. That'll make a good soldier. 414 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,159 Speaker 1: You're a commercial, a blonde woman wearing red lipstick is 415 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 1: seen twirling an oversized lollipop in her mouth, while a 416 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,439 Speaker 1: husky female voice purs in the background. We are the 417 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:33,440 Speaker 1: bleeping coolest private army in the world. We're recruiting fighters 418 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,400 Speaker 1: from all regions of Russia. Oh no, does it really 419 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 1: say this? Don't whack off? Go to work for PMC. Wagner. 420 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: Wow in a telephone number appears on the screen. You 421 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 1: have to be direct. Oh, they actually have the ad 422 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: here the woman with the lollipop there she is to 423 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 1: porn hub ad. Well, that's real. That's why I think. 424 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:00,040 Speaker 1: I think eventually Putin's going to realize this was the 425 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:02,959 Speaker 1: worst war that Russia ever tried to fight. It's going 426 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,199 Speaker 1: to be the biggest loss and embarrassment, and he's going 427 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 1: to fire off news. They had a bloodbath in Afghanistan 428 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,439 Speaker 1: in the late seventies, but I think this is going 429 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 1: to top that. This well, and right now, how are 430 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:18,159 Speaker 1: you going to get prisoners, mercenaries and teenagers who were 431 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 1: forced into battle? How are you going to win with that? What? 432 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,679 Speaker 1: So far? According to another story in The New York Post, 433 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 1: there had been thirty nine bodies. These are Russian citizens 434 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: who apparently some of them are well off. Sergey Grishin, 435 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 1: a financial fraudster, an oligarch who sold Harry and Meghan 436 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: their Montecito, California mansion for fifteen million dollars, apparently died 437 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 1: from sepsis on March sixth. Coincidence or not. It happened 438 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 1: after he criticized Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But somebody injected 439 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:59,919 Speaker 1: sepsis into a system. It's possible. There's a we mentioned 440 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:04,679 Speaker 1: the Sky last week. Guy who works with viruses, Andrei Botakoff, 441 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,440 Speaker 1: who helped develop the spot nick five COVID vaccine, which 442 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 1: John Cobelt took. By the way, Uh, he apparently died 443 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 1: from a belt around his neck. I think he died. 444 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 1: He's a belt around his neck and his apartment got 445 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,640 Speaker 1: broken into by a thief who strangled him to death 446 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: with it. Is that right? Yeah, although the thief, of 447 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: course could have been sent there. That's that's yeah, you 448 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 1: think yeah. Wow. It says that a lot of the Kremlin. 449 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: According to a Russian expert, they have their fingerprints on 450 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: the deaths of thirty nine people who are connected to 451 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 1: the Russian government but have been outspoken critics of the war. Effort. 452 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,880 Speaker 1: I'd love some of these, some of these people their stories. 453 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,439 Speaker 1: Colonel Vadam Boyko, he was the chief of mobilization for 454 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 1: the Ukrainian War. They said he committed suicide, but he 455 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: was shot five times, which if you want to kill yourself, 456 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,119 Speaker 1: you want to be sure, so you shoot yourself five times. 457 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: Usually a bullet in the mouth does it. But yeah, 458 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 1: I don't know how you get the next four shots off. 459 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 1: Let see Marina Yankina, Russian defense official. Sixteen stories fell 460 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,160 Speaker 1: out of the building. There was a lot of falling deaths. 461 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,880 Speaker 1: I remember that, yeah, yeah, and they were all alleged suicides. 462 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 1: They took a fall, yeah, says here. Another oligarch, Sergey Protoena, 463 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 1: formerly the CEO of Novotec, a company with ties to 464 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,479 Speaker 1: the Kremlin. He and his family were enjoying life in Spain, 465 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: but on April of last year, his wife and two 466 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: daughters were found at their villa, chopped up by an axe, 467 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 1: probably an accident though, and he was hanging from a noose. 468 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 1: The government said it's murder suicide. However, his son says 469 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 1: that is a lie. He loved my mother, especially Maria, 470 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 1: my sister. He would never do an He chopped up 471 00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,679 Speaker 1: his family with an axe and then hung himself. Right, somebody, 472 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 1: an oil boss died last year of a drug induced 473 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: heart attack. They will attending a Shamanaic ritual. They all 474 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 1: had publicly criticized Pootin. So you say one bad word 475 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 1: about Poutin and you're getting a knock on your door. 476 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: But that's how strong men stay in power. They eliminate 477 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: their opposition. It works, and they do it ruthlessly. So others, no, 478 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 1: shut up, that's right. And so that's how he gets 479 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:28,200 Speaker 1: away with killing one hundred thousand of the Young Band 480 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 1: of Russia. Right, that's how you do it, because people 481 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:36,919 Speaker 1: don't care as much about the the murdered soldiers. They 482 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,479 Speaker 1: care about their own life. All Right, we got more 483 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,680 Speaker 1: coming up. John and Ken kf I AM six forty. 484 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 1: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You're listening to 485 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: John and Ken on demand from kf I AM sixty. 486 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: A couple of quick things. We're excited to announce that 487 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 1: the moistline has plenty of openings, So drop your messages 488 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,359 Speaker 1: using the iHeartRadio app, the microphone icon or dial up 489 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 1: PTol free number one eight seven seven Moist eighty six 490 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 1: one eight seven seven six six four seven eight eight 491 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 1: six Hell the world, how you feel about Eric Arsetti 492 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: becoming the new ambassador to India? That really happened. That 493 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: should work up a few people to call. We did 494 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:18,119 Speaker 1: not play the moist line last Friday, so there should 495 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 1: be a lot to be released during the three o'clock 496 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 1: hour coming up. Speaking to the three o'clock hour, we're 497 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,679 Speaker 1: going to talk to anonymous. John. We love talking to anonymous. 498 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 1: This is a fifth grade teacher at LA Unified with 499 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: over twenty plus years of experience, who is very upset 500 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,880 Speaker 1: that there's going to be a strike. Well, they're gonna 501 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 1: strike because janitors want more money. The teachers are walking 502 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,440 Speaker 1: out because the janitors want more money. And that's right. 503 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,919 Speaker 1: They're they're unified with them and the slop servers in 504 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 1: the cafeteria. These and s and who else is bus drivers? Yeah, 505 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,679 Speaker 1: so these are some of the security aids, teaching assistance. 506 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 1: They want a thirty percent raise. I saw the other day. 507 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 1: I don't know over how many years this how people 508 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,879 Speaker 1: don't just go out and get better jobs. Why is 509 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 1: that there's eleven million jobs that are still unfilled in 510 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 1: this country? Why is it good though. Well, I just 511 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,600 Speaker 1: saw the other day of the story the restaurant business 512 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:20,919 Speaker 1: is making a booming comeback. They're one of the biggest 513 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,359 Speaker 1: hiras right now. I saw another story that a lot 514 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,399 Speaker 1: of people who have been staying home have decided they 515 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: got to go back. Inflations too much, they got to 516 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: bring more money into the houseow they got to work. Huh. Well, 517 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,160 Speaker 1: some of it was women who couldn't get daycare because 518 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 1: the daycare people gave up during the pandemic. But now 519 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: they're coming back deal because of inflation. The problem is 520 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 1: everybody getting more money by coming back to work. There's 521 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 1: going to spend more money, and there'll be more inflation 522 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,640 Speaker 1: than maybe idah, Yeah, that's what happens actually, because everybody 523 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 1: asked to get raises, and the raises have to roughly 524 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 1: match inflation, so everything keeps spiraling upwards. Now we're gonna 525 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 1: talk about one of your favorite topics of the week. 526 00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal did a great story the party 527 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: is ending for French retirees. You may have heard there's 528 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 1: been some civil unrest in the country of France because well, 529 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: like our social security system, their retirement system is going 530 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: big time into debt and they want to raise the 531 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 1: legal retirement age of oh my gosh to sixty four. 532 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: The story stars has been sixty five for about ninety years, right, 533 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: and with ours, the longer you wait, the more you'll 534 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 1: get in social security. So it's an incentive. Ninety years 535 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 1: ago we came up with sixty five and Francis balking 536 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: at sixty four. Francis is better than our social security system. 537 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: They talked to a seventy five year old guy here 538 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,440 Speaker 1: who's been retired for fourteen years. He used to work 539 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,280 Speaker 1: in the airline industry. He gets a check every month 540 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 1: for almost seven thousand dollars. That's pretty good. So he's 541 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,720 Speaker 1: enjoying the beach life with his partner, it says here. 542 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: He sleeps in and strolls the beach. Right, God, is 543 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: it boring? Then? What do you do on the second day? 544 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: I feel like a teenager, he said, Well, until my 545 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 1: parents said when they were retired, it's like back in 546 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 1: high school. They call their friends and they go play 547 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: golf or they go out to lunch. I worked when 548 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: I was in high school. Yeah, I don't understand this. 549 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 1: You're I don't understand doing nothing. You've got your dad's genetics. 550 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: In you. It's like your head down. You want to 551 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,600 Speaker 1: just keep working until you croak over the table, because 552 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: otherwise you're sitting there. He will, Deborah Mark, He'll die 553 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 1: right there in the studio. Well, I won't be here 554 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 1: on the beach. Good. You know, I've never asked your 555 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: attitude about retirement versus working. What is it? I think 556 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 1: I would be bored. I think he retired a few 557 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 1: weeks ago. I need to do something. But so there 558 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,120 Speaker 1: are two types of people. People look forward to retirement 559 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 1: and people say, oh no, no, I'm going to keep working. 560 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 1: I'm not criticizing either one. I'm just saying days a week, 561 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 1: three days a week would be perfect. Oh okay, so 562 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 1: you'd like to cut back a bit back then, i'd 563 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 1: you would continue to do that into your seventies or eighties. 564 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:03,000 Speaker 1: Maybe voice over work where I could do it from home. Yeah, 565 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 1: anything else. She does have a plan where I don't 566 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: even have to sit up. I just dophone. Yeah on 567 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 1: the beach. Well. People are living longer, and the population 568 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 1: of France is growing older, and they have this problem 569 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:20,000 Speaker 1: that a lot of Western European and other countries have 570 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 1: is that they had more than four workers for every 571 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,720 Speaker 1: retiree back in the sixties. Well it's going to fall 572 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: to one and a half over the next decade. See, 573 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 1: I don't Apparently everyone in France is illiterate, mathematically illiterate. 574 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 1: I don't know what the word is. When you can't count, 575 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: you can't do math. But they stopped having babies, and 576 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 1: now they want to stop working. What do you was 577 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: going to pay for? That is the question. In order 578 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 1: to pay for your early retirement, you have to create 579 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 1: more babies. But the birth rate fell so sharply that 580 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 1: there have not been enough workers for a long time 581 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,560 Speaker 1: to keep the fun solvent. Right. France has one of 582 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 1: the lowest rates of retirees at risk of poverty because 583 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 1: their pensions are pretty spectacle. I guess they are other countries. 584 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 1: They stopped having sex, they stopped having children. Now they 585 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,040 Speaker 1: want to stop working. Everybody is supposed to just lay 586 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,960 Speaker 1: on the beach and take a check from the government. 587 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,520 Speaker 1: Now they can't raise tax as they say, because France 588 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:24,240 Speaker 1: has some of the highest taxes out of thirty eight 589 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,600 Speaker 1: What is it OECD countries? What does that stand for? OECD? 590 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 1: I think that's an economic real countries. Their their tax 591 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: rate is at forty five point one, US, by comparison, 592 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 1: is only twenty six point six. Yeah, so that's why 593 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 1: they don't want to use taxes to get this extra 594 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:43,800 Speaker 1: and then some money. They just want to raise the 595 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 1: retirement They take forty five cents out of every dollar 596 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 1: here in this country. They might take forty five cents 597 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 1: out of a wealthy person's dollar, but they are on 598 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 1: average it's twenty six cents. Yeah. But yeah, but on 599 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 1: average in France it's forty five. Well, their life expectancy 600 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 1: there is over eighty two. The US is at seventy seven. 601 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 1: So they do live longer. See John's drinking wine is nice. See, 602 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,360 Speaker 1: they won't die either. They're not only not having sex, 603 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,560 Speaker 1: not raising kids, they're not working, and they're not dying. WHOA, 604 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:19,800 Speaker 1: Well that that can't That can't go on anymore. Either 605 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: you got to have the kids, or you gotta work, 606 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:23,440 Speaker 1: or you've got to die. One of the three has 607 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 1: to happen. So, if you've been hearing about it, this 608 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,200 Speaker 1: is why people have taken to the streets to protest 609 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 1: against raising the retirement age to culture it. At one 610 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 1: point it was sixty but eventually went up. This is 611 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,959 Speaker 1: what you have to explain the children when they're in school. 612 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 1: You've got to explain how the world works. It's like, 613 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 1: here's the deal. You've got to go to work, and 614 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 1: you've got to work for at least this much. If 615 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:56,080 Speaker 1: you don't, you're going to die of starvation. You also 616 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,120 Speaker 1: have to have a few kids along the way, because 617 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 1: they have to work in order to keep the retire 618 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 1: and benefits going. You have to work, you have to 619 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 1: have some children, and at some point you do have 620 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,960 Speaker 1: to die. Thank you for all of that, rundown. That's 621 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 1: what I'd be, That's what I'd be teaching in the 622 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,239 Speaker 1: public schools. Someday you do have to die, you do. 623 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 1: I mean, if a bench of everybody listen to one 624 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,200 Speaker 1: hundred and two, we're all gonna go bankrupt. We can't 625 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,719 Speaker 1: have that. I just I feel like, you know, to me, 626 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 1: life is short, so you might as well, you know, 627 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,600 Speaker 1: take advantage of having more a leisure time. That's right, 628 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:31,680 Speaker 1: life is short, needs to be shorter. Coming up next, 629 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,479 Speaker 1: we're going to talk to an anonymous person who says 630 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,359 Speaker 1: that they're a teacher with LA unified for more than 631 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,759 Speaker 1: twenty plus years fifth grade, and I don't like the 632 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 1: strike possibility. Johnny Ken k if I AM six forty. 633 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 1: We're live everywhere the iHeart Radio app, Mark Latin, the 634 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,719 Speaker 1: twenty four our caf I newsroom. Hey, you've been listening 635 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 1: to the John and Ken Show. You can always hear 636 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,880 Speaker 1: us live on caf I AM sixty one pm to 637 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,239 Speaker 1: four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime 638 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,520 Speaker 1: on demand on the iHeart Radio app.