1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, we're here. Let's kick off. Let's go. 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:06,520 Speaker 1: We got to get it all it in three hours now, right, 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 1: there's shootings everywhere. I know your old neighborhood. Oh my god. 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: Are we going to talk about that now? Yes. Blank 5 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:16,960 Speaker 1: will be on later with more detail, but you can 6 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: certainly fill us in. When I saw Bennettic Canyon, I 7 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: thought of you, this was really one block from my 8 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: old house. Yeah. I didn't recognize this drive. And well, 9 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: actually I'd be hard pressed to remember the street you 10 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: lived on too, because it's been a while, you know, 11 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: memory works. Yeah, well, we lived there for fourteen years. 12 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: You did live there a long time. Yeah. And there's 13 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: this road, oak Pass, which led right into our front driveway. 14 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: Oh all right, and we were facing like a t intersection. 15 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: I remember that. You had a weird intersection there. Yah. Yeah, yeah. 16 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 1: And if you go up a block, oak Pass became 17 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: Ellison and one of the first houses on Ellison this 18 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: is like a let's the three minute walk from my house. 19 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: That's where this shooting went on. Seven people got shot. 20 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: Three women were killed in a parked car, and then 21 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: four others were shot and wounded. Two of them ended 22 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: up in the hospital. Is this gang related. I mean, 23 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 1: these women are from Arizona and Illinois. That's kind of weird. Well, 24 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 1: we know it's an airbnb situation or yeah, yeah, Well 25 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:22,839 Speaker 1: I shouldn't say it's a short term rental. I can't. 26 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: I don't want to disparage it's it's likely that though 27 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: it's it's airbnb or what's that other one vrbo, Yeah, 28 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,479 Speaker 1: that's the other one here. Yeah, Well, because we still 29 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 1: have friends who lived there. When we got there back 30 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:41,479 Speaker 1: in the nineties, it was a mix of actually older 31 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: celebrities who had bought in the early seventies houses were 32 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: going for sixty one hundred thousand dollars of you believe 33 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: we got there, the houses were considerably more than that, 34 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 1: but still affordable to some extent. And it was a 35 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: mix of these old celebrity and then these new families, 36 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: and we were one of them. In fact, we probably 37 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: had a half a dozen other families that were regularly 38 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: socialized with. All our kids were the same age, you know, two, three, 39 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 1: four or five years old. So we went to a 40 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,919 Speaker 1: lot of parties in the neighborhood. Birthday parties, New Year's parties, 41 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 1: you know, Christmas, Passover, whatever. My wife's sister lived there 42 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: for a while, so that that was. That was a 43 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: busy area for families and children. In fact, you had 44 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: an old celebrity lived next door to you. That's right, 45 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 1: we had an old We had an old actress next 46 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: to us, an old actress across the street. A TV 47 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: host and his wacky beauty queen wife was up the block. 48 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: There was I remember that. It was it was, it was. 49 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: It was a coming them. They were really normal. Used 50 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 1: to pick you up for work sometimes and to check 51 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: out the area. It's probably shady drives and probably the 52 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,919 Speaker 1: favorite place I ever lived in my life, because I 53 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: really love canyon living. I really loved being isolated from 54 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: the city area. Yes, you weren't there far from Beverly Hills, No, yeah, no, 55 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: you could drive. You could drive, you know, ten minutes 56 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: down here in Beverly Hills, ten minutes down here in 57 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 1: Sherman Oaks. So it was pretty. It was good. Eventually 58 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: we had to move because the kids went to a 59 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 1: school and all of life went down the hill and 60 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: down the road. But it was good. But I mean 61 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: it was as quiet and peaceful and safe as you 62 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 1: possibly could want, really was. It was just idyllic. And 63 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: when I heard that there was this, this triple murder, 64 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: seven people shot, It's like, oh, there's a story here. 65 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: This is not It wasn't one of your celebrity neighbors 66 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: gone amuck. No, it isn't our old friends and neighbors. No. No. 67 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: And what I thought of that too, I said, either 68 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: it was a wild party or it could have been 69 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: a rental because a lot of people are doing this 70 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: now to make a lot of extra money. They could 71 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: even buy homes and just to rent them out as 72 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: short term rentals. Says this one can take. Well, the 73 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: listings are six hundred dollars to seventy five hundred dollars 74 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: a night for homes in that area listed on short 75 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: term rental website seventy aug You tonight, Yeah, well because 76 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: when that's a lot of money. When we were living there, 77 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: there was no such thing. But what I understand happened 78 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: is some of the older residents died and these investor 79 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 1: types bought the properties and immediately turned them into hotels. 80 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:18,840 Speaker 1: Yeah right, I mean, when you're gonna get seventy five 81 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: dollars a night for a place, but yeah, that's got 82 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: to be lucrative. Yeah, extremely lucrative. Even if the home 83 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: costs you a lot in the mortgage is high, so 84 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: that's still quite a lot of money to rank in. 85 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: So from what I understand is there was a guy 86 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: in the neighborhood and he started renting this his place 87 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: out for a lot of money. And I don't know 88 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 1: what showed up, but it was a bunch of guys 89 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: with guns, and these women were all shot up in 90 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: the car. So you've got bit unusual to have three 91 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: women be the dead people. Yeah, you know, I usually 92 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: guys at their gangs engage in. Yeah, I think it 93 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 1: was an exchange of gunfire from what I understand, Yeah, 94 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: some kind of some kind of gang shootout, and you know, 95 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: these were the women of the gang members or who knows? 96 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: Do you have any inside information anybody used to live 97 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: they're telling you anything, or they didn't know other than 98 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: in the middle of the night. There were a lot 99 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: of helicopters and sirens and police cars and take cordoned off. 100 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: I saw interviews with some of the locals and everybody 101 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 1: just said the obvious thing, like nob but what they 102 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 1: said is increasingly these homes have been rented out and 103 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: you're getting these wild parties, and you're getting people who 104 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: don't normally live in the neighborhood showing up just for 105 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: the weekend. Well, they don't live in the neighborhood at all. 106 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: They're just showing up for the for the for the 107 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 1: party weekend, or to attend the parties. And sometimes that 108 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: part of the LA or Beverly Hill is the government there. Yea. 109 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: By the way, the news stations got everything wrong, you 110 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: know they did. They kept calling it Beverly Crest. Yeah, 111 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:54,919 Speaker 1: why are they calling it Beverly Crest. I thought it 112 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: was been in the Canyon area of fourteen years. I 113 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: never heard that term once. Nobody called it. You're on 114 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 1: the crest of Beverly Hills. I looked it up on Wikipedia. Actually, 115 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:11,559 Speaker 1: and the Beverly Crest neighborhood goes east of cold Water. 116 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 1: We are west of cold Water. It's it's it's completely wrong. 117 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: I was watching all the TV coverage the other night, 118 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: and every one of them at Beverly crests as the graphic, 119 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: and I'm screaming at the TV, and I know some 120 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: people in the newsrooms, you're all wrong. It's not Beverly Crest. 121 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 1: It was It actually is Los Angeles it's north of 122 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: Beverly Hills, and they drew the Beverly Hills Post Office 123 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: district into that neighborhood, so we all knew it as 124 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: Beverly Hills post Office, but it was it was Los Angeles. 125 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 1: And yeah, and the story in the Times here is 126 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 1: calling it just the Benedict Canyon section, right. The Times 127 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 1: eventually corrected it. None of the TV stations everybody had 128 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: it early on as Beverly Crest. And I stared at 129 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: that and said, really, and I never mentioned it was 130 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: called that. No, No, I never heard that term once. 131 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: The TV stations also, I mean, nobody updated the stories. 132 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: Even at eleven o'clock at night, they were saying it 133 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: was two guys and a woman who got killed. Well, no, 134 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: it was it was three women, and by you know, 135 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: by that afternoon, it was three women. So they ran 136 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: old taped packages. I guess nobody works on the weekends anymore. 137 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 1: Nobody does editing, nobody does rewrites. It's just all gone 138 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: to hell. And what I noticed is, well, the LA 139 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 1: Times did about one hundred and seventeen stories on the 140 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: Monterey Park shooting, right, and a lot on the half 141 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: Moon Bay shooting. It was hardly anything about this. They 142 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: had one story, and every few hours, because I kept 143 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: checking every hour, they kept updating it one paragraph at 144 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 1: a time, one quarter at a time. And then when 145 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: right before came in the studio, it was the same 146 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: story from two o'clock yesterday afternoon. I guess they couldn't. 147 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: They weren't able to learn much. No one seems to 148 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 1: be the police are saying nothing about it at all. 149 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 1: No one seems to be curious as to who put 150 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: this party on, who are the combatants and the shooting. 151 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: They're all tiptoeing around this. What's the deal. I've never 152 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: seen such such secrecy. How come the other mass shootings 153 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: got you know, one hundred and seventeen anguished stories. Well, 154 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: one thing they did say pretty quickly was this was 155 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: not a random shooting. Now you could have probably figured 156 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: that out. These were groups disputing with each other it 157 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 1: was I think that makes some ease off on the 158 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:31,239 Speaker 1: story a little bit. It's not a crazed mass shooter, 159 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: gunman out there killing people randomly. It was a known shooting. 160 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 1: They probably knew each other, and uh, well it's not 161 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: likely to happen everywhere. Yeah, I'm sure there was a 162 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 1: lack of respect or a lack of payment involved. I mean, 163 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: what else. But it's it's some kind of some kind 164 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 1: of gangs or some kind of drugs, or somebody owned somebody. Body. 165 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: Often what happens is they have a party in an 166 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 1: open house and they put an invitation out there on 167 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 1: social media, and I'll get you. Two warring gangs showed 168 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: up and it's like you're here, No, I'm gonna shoot you. 169 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, but the women killed in the car, 170 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: I mean just sitting in the car. Yeah, Now how 171 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: come they got it? Like what? They were on the 172 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 1: wrong side of the on the wrong Imagine somebody came 173 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: up to the car and just quickly shot all three 174 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 1: of them dead, and then maybe the others who got 175 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: wounded outside the car heard the noise or nearby and 176 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: they started shooting. This air this airbnb thing is toxic. Well, now, 177 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 1: I wonder if that's going to lead to calls in 178 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: your old neighborhood for no more of these There's yeah, 179 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:27,839 Speaker 1: there's some cities that banned this sort of thing they do, 180 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 1: and well, they tried to do it in my town, 181 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 1: but it got a little too hard to enforce. So 182 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: now they kind of have a quiet one because people 183 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:36,959 Speaker 1: found other ways to advertise their home and just keep 184 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: it on the down low, you see, right. Yeah, they 185 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: didn't go with the major vrbos and stuff. They went 186 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:45,959 Speaker 1: to other places popped up to advertise rentals. So people 187 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 1: did some workarounds. Look and it looks like nobody does 188 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: any any background checks on who they're renting out to either. 189 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 1: Holy moly, I meant they pay cash. Yeah, I know, 190 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: you get thousands of dollars for night. Why would you 191 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: inflict this on your neighbors? I mean, do you have 192 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: any conscience at all? Why would you do this? And 193 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:09,719 Speaker 1: is this now going to be the scourge of all 194 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 1: the neighborhoods. Some a haul on the block is so 195 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 1: greedy that they're going to rent out to any any 196 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 1: group of gangsters think about to shoot up the neighborhood 197 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 1: at night. For years, your concern was, oh, the guy 198 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: next door is going to rent out his home. But 199 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: often people would sign like a one year lease. Yeah, 200 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:28,439 Speaker 1: sometimes they were riff raff, a lot of times they weren't. 201 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 1: But now short term rentals three day party house for 202 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,319 Speaker 1: a weekend. Yeah, oh if that opened up next door 203 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: to me, I would probably lose it. You'd have to move. 204 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: And the thing is, if it's a lot of homes 205 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: in the neighborhood, that means it's constantly going on like this. 206 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 1: It says here in the story, Well, this idea of 207 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 1: renting out homes really popped up during COVID because allegedly 208 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: people didn't want to go to clubs or clubs were closed, 209 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:54,679 Speaker 1: so they started renting private houses to have their big, 210 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 1: wild parties. That's still care you know what do it? 211 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: And a more proper neighborhood, all right, not not these 212 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 1: neighborhoods come. We'll see what Blake Trolley knows later on 213 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 1: in the show. We will talk to him when we return. 214 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 1: You have a chance for money, we do. We're continuing 215 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: to have the keyword for a chance of a thousand 216 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: dollars in the calf I cash refiled contest. And this 217 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 1: is unusual to say. We have a trifecta of Tesla stories. 218 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,199 Speaker 1: How's that? Three three stories involving Tesla's And again I 219 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 1: asked the question, why is it important we know, like 220 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 1: in the headline of the story that that the Tesla 221 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: vehicles involved. And I still don't understand that. But we'll 222 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,679 Speaker 1: get to the trifecta of Tesla stories too, coming up, 223 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 1: Johnny ken Calf, I am six forty live everywhere the 224 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app more hits than a Chevy, I guess. And 225 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: we got a big ground to rain last night. See 226 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: it's not all gone, or is it just me? Sometimes 227 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: someone rains over my house. Yeah, you've got that dark 228 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: cloud that follows. The cloud just kind of follows around, right. No, 229 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: it rained on me too. No, it was pretty heavy 230 00:11:58,120 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: for a while there. Because I was looking at the 231 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: weather last night. I just said it is a thirty 232 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:04,719 Speaker 1: percent chance at four am, and I thought usually those 233 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:07,199 Speaker 1: storms peter out. But then I woke up to this 234 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: noise and that was a tremendous amount of rainfalling for 235 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: a few hours there. All right, So we promised you 236 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: a trifecta of Tesla stories. It's somewhat of a mystery 237 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: to me sometimes that they have to include Tesla in 238 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:23,959 Speaker 1: the headlines of the stories involving cars that he were 239 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 1: involved in something I don't remember seeing Fort Explorer mentioned 240 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: as much. Volkswagens. No, okay, John thinks it gets more clicks, 241 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 1: I guess. Yes. The first one is the crazy guy 242 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: who was driving around in his Tesla and apparently when 243 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 1: he didn't like something that another motorist did, he'd come 244 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: to a stop in front of you and get out 245 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: and start whacking your car with a pipe. Remember that story. Yes, 246 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: that these ten people came forward with stories that they've 247 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: had frightening encounters with this man various places in southern California. 248 00:12:57,880 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: The one that got a lot of news was the 249 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: two Freeway and Lendale. Turns out he was driving a 250 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 1: Tesla Model X, which is the more high end Tesla. 251 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 1: So what a waco And they caught him, and we 252 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: have to give a nod John. It looks like to 253 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:23,559 Speaker 1: TikTok because popular internet sleuth Tizzy Ent began sharing eyewitness 254 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:27,239 Speaker 1: news videos to his five point three million TikTok followers, 255 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: and several people came forward with the suspect's name. He 256 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: passed it along to police. They made an arrest in Torrance. 257 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: Do I know for sure that's exactly how they did this? 258 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: I do not know that, but well, all right, they 259 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 1: arrested him at a car wash in Torrance yesterday afternoon, 260 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: thirty six year old Nathaniel Walter Radamac. I'm not sure 261 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 1: what he does for a living and driving a twenty 262 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 1: twenty two Tesla model Axellence, it's a lease. He probably 263 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 1: has a decent job. I mean that's a significant purchase. 264 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: Uh Is bail is five point one seven five million 265 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,320 Speaker 1: salt for the deadly weapon to outstanding warrants for him. 266 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: But they believe that they've caught the car basher, the 267 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:17,559 Speaker 1: Tesla driver car basher. They also must think he has 268 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 1: a lot of money too, that's why they gave him 269 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: such a high bail. Or well, he is a threat. 270 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: I mean he's out there bashing people's cars. Who knows 271 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: before he would kill somebody. Yeah, what kind of a 272 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: screw loose is that? I have no idea. I don't 273 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: think he ever hit anybody. He just smashes your car 274 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: and then drives off, just gets off on the intimidation. 275 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: But being the king master of his universe, I guess 276 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: I and he didn't wear a mask or any kind 277 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 1: of covering. I remember seeing his face pretty clearly, I 278 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: think I do, And I'm thinking, oh, yeah, he did 279 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 1: wear a mask, but you can see his eyes in 280 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: his head, the top of his head, so yeah, there 281 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 1: were there. We can't believe he and he had he 282 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: had like no plate in the back. Yeah. I'm looking 283 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: at the video gain he was wearing like a bandana mask. Yeah, 284 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 1: and I'm seeing a number of videos where he did 285 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 1: not have a mask on. Yeah. So how long does 286 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: he think he was going to get away with this? 287 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 1: I don't I don't know he's got he's got wackos 288 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 1: don't really know. Racos don't think they react to whatever 289 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: adrenaline charge they get. Now, whether he's that thin skinned 290 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: that if somebody would it because someone cut him off, 291 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: or he would just randomly stop the car in the 292 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 1: middle of the road and do this for sport. The 293 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: best I can remember, it was a mix of story. 294 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: Some people couldn't figure out what happened that he just 295 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: stopped in front of him and got out and sort 296 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: of smashing their car. Other people said, yeah, there was 297 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 1: probably some incident between us, which you could call road rage. Oh, 298 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: he did punch a woman in the face. She had 299 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 1: a black guy. This was October of twenty one, So 300 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: he did assault somebody, thankfully not with the pipe, but 301 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: still punch. What's this psychos life? Like? These guys are 302 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 1: wonderus about. I mean, how much how much damage has 303 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 1: he done in life. How did he get this expensive 304 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: tesla because even if you're leasing one, you need some 305 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: money for that. And the fact that he wrote around 306 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 1: without any backplate. A lot of Tesla drivers don't have 307 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 1: the front plate because they don't like the way it looks. 308 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: But backplate tells me, yeah, you're up to no good. 309 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: You know what, anybody is he just jacked up on meth? 310 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: I mean, what what? What? What? What you said when 311 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 1: we did this story, because there's probably some sort of addict. 312 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: But yeah, because there's extreme violence for a little or 313 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: no reason, something's got to trigger it. And I have 314 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 1: found in my life when I the few people I've 315 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: known who've acted bizarrely, I later found out they were 316 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: on drugs. Like let's say they had tempers, that they 317 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: had erratic behavior. Then you find out, oh, they were 318 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: taking bills or they were on cocaine or something. And 319 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 1: that is often and now even more than ever. The 320 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: second tesla story concerns the doctor from Pasadena, Darmesh Patel, 321 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 1: who apparently loaded up his family in a Tesla, drove 322 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: north to northern California Pacific Coast Highway, and then drove 323 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 1: off a cliff with the family inside. This wasn't an 324 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:06,159 Speaker 1: amazing story because they all survived. There was some hospitalization necessary. 325 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: It was he and his wife and their seven year 326 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: old daughter and four year old son. The place was 327 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 1: called Devil's Slide. This is Highway One, about fifteen miles 328 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 1: south of San Francisco. This car went tumbling down two 329 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty to three hundred feet. Rescuers said, we 330 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: don't see really anybody alive after this. This has happened 331 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 1: numerous times and most of the time they're dead, and 332 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 1: this family survived. That's when we brought up the fact 333 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: that I think he was driving a why and they 334 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 1: have like the side air bags. It's really loaded up 335 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 1: with their bags. They think that may have played a 336 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 1: part in sparing the life. This guy's a radiologist at 337 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: Providence holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills. He's in 338 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:46,199 Speaker 1: the news today because they finally have formally charged him 339 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: with attempted murder, although although at the end of the 340 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 1: story they say the district attorney are examining the Tesla 341 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 1: to rule out the possibility of a mechanical problem. You know, 342 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:00,440 Speaker 1: that's why I thought this is the one story, or 343 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 1: I thought putting tesla in the headline might make sense 344 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 1: because of self driving cars and maybe the defense is 345 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: going to be out to know what happened. It just 346 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 1: took over the Steve wagstaff is the DA said, did 347 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: the brakes fail? Were the brakes working? Were there any 348 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: other mechanical malfunctions that would have led them not to 349 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 1: be able to stop the vehicle? We're having the car 350 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 1: looked at from top to bottom. Well, but you charge 351 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: them first with yeah, they said there was probable cause 352 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 1: to believe the crash was intentional. And they said that 353 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: pretty quickly after this happens. But now they're checked, they're 354 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,879 Speaker 1: not they're not telling us what that is, what evidence 355 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 1: they had that this was intentional. But now you're saying 356 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 1: they're not ruling out the possibility of a mechanical And 357 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: that's what's weird because usually you'd rule that out first, 358 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: and when you rule it out, then you say, okay, 359 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 1: we can do the attempted murder charge. You would think so, right, 360 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,439 Speaker 1: But they did the attempted murder charge first and then said, hey, 361 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: why don't we look at the brakes unless they want 362 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:57,640 Speaker 1: to just preempt a defense defense strategy, which I think 363 00:18:57,760 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 1: is coming. And by the way, how would they get 364 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:01,879 Speaker 1: the idea that it was attempted murder or not an accident. 365 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,880 Speaker 1: I understand this is true. He did a U turn 366 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 1: and then decided to go off the edge. But did 367 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 1: his wife for kids say, yeah, daddy said he wanted 368 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: to kill us? All yeah. I wonder if there was 369 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 1: any discussion in the car that led anyone to believe. 370 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 1: But Daddy's going to take us off a cliff. That's 371 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,160 Speaker 1: a good question, because they doesn't mention that. I mean, 372 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 1: when the case makes its way through the courts, we'll 373 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:24,199 Speaker 1: hear all of this stuff in detail. I mean, they 374 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: claimed that because all the neighbors they were a beautiful 375 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: idyllic family. It's always a bad sign. It's so strange. 376 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:32,919 Speaker 1: Remember he delivered point setti as to his neighbors for Christmas. 377 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 1: I don't trust that guy. I don't trust beautiful idyllic 378 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:39,399 Speaker 1: families put on a front. They're coverance uthing up. I 379 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 1: like the people who fight on their front law and 380 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: I know they're real all right now. The third Testless 381 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: story is next, and it's a beauty. It's an editorial 382 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,919 Speaker 1: from the El Segundo Times. California electric car sales are 383 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: zooming too bad. They're mostly testless. The first one I 384 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: saw the headline, I thought, oh, they hate Elon Musk. 385 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: But that's not really what they're complaining about. But John 386 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:01,880 Speaker 1: is a of course, touched on this many many times 387 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 1: because this car is out of reach for most people's budgets. 388 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 1: It's the same story for ten years. But but these, 389 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: these these wieners at the Times won't accept it. I 390 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 1: don't understand. All right, we're coming up Johnny ken camf 391 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,880 Speaker 1: I AM six forty live everywhere, the iHeart Radio app. 392 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 1: They were on from one to four, so if you 393 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 1: miss any of the show live, it's easy to just 394 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,400 Speaker 1: get the podcast downloaded at KFIAM six forty dot com. 395 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: It's put up there as soon as we finish, or 396 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: of course go to the iHeart Radio app. We're going 397 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: to the border at two oh five. Mark Rakorian for 398 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: the Center for Immigration Studies will talk to us about 399 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 1: the sleight of hand from Joe Biden and the Biden 400 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: administration to make the media go away. There was another 401 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 1: flashpoint where they were covering the huge influx of migrants 402 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 1: at the border or illegal aliens, and then they kind 403 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: of pulled back because Biden announced, oh, big changes in 404 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 1: our border enforcement. Not really. Mark can explain it all 405 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 1: in about thirty minutes on the On and Ken Show. 406 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 1: All right, so we promised a try effect of testless stories. 407 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:10,159 Speaker 1: Here comes number three, the Elsa Gondo Times Ways in California, 408 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:15,200 Speaker 1: electric car sales are zooming, but too bad. They're mostly testless. 409 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:17,360 Speaker 1: And like I said, I saw that, I thought, oh, 410 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 1: they hate Elon Musk and I want people buy in Tesla's. 411 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: He's in the new Trump But it wasn't really that. 412 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 1: They start off by telling us that in twenty twenty two, 413 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: almost nineteen percent of new vehicle sales were zero mission cars. 414 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,439 Speaker 1: That's a jump from twelve percent the year before, but 415 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 1: seventy percent of them were testless. So because the Tesla 416 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: is out of reach for many middle and lower class 417 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: Californians who suffered the most from the dirty air and 418 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: their communities, how is this going to help us achieve 419 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 1: a more equitable and healthy California. They're really they can't 420 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: just be happy that more evs are being sold. They're 421 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,200 Speaker 1: now worked up about who's buying them. Well, because if 422 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: you take out the Tesla's it looks like it's about 423 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:11,520 Speaker 1: six percent of the new cars are electric and that's 424 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: about the same percentage as the rest of the country 425 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: six percent. So the big boost in California is the wealthy, 426 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 1: and we have more wealthy than any other state in 427 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,640 Speaker 1: the Union. And it's I was talking about this other 428 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: day with somebody. This has become a status car. Now 429 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: that's what it is. The way the BMW used to be. 430 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: There were certain luxury cars that if you had one, 431 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,679 Speaker 1: you're telling your neighbors, look at me, I'm succeeding. And 432 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 1: now it's the Tesla. They're all over my neighborhood. But 433 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 1: the three, which is the low end you can but 434 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,400 Speaker 1: it's still forty five thousand. Yeah, I know. I say 435 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,120 Speaker 1: low end because they're saying, if you want to Tony 436 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 1: on a camera, that's only twenty seven thousand up right, 437 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: So it's like half the price. And the camera is 438 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 1: one of the best selling cars in America because twenty 439 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: seven thousand is all people can afford to buy, and 440 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 1: they tend to keep their cars for at least six 441 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 1: years before they trade in for a new one. And 442 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 1: the average car on the road has been on the 443 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: road for eleven years. So these teslas are the wealthy 444 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 1: people who can trade cars every year if they want 445 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 1: or three times a year, and often it's their extra 446 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: car because if they if their family age, they've got 447 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,240 Speaker 1: big SUVs that they're carting the family around. Ten Well, 448 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: they say that you can get the Chevy Bolt in 449 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,639 Speaker 1: the Nissan Leaf. These two cars have been around for years, 450 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: for less than thirty thousand, but there's a supply chain problem. 451 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: You can get it there waiting lists. Yeah, yeah, that's 452 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 1: why they're not selling so many. They're not making so many. 453 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,399 Speaker 1: It's just hard to get them. Those cars are like 454 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:43,400 Speaker 1: motorized tricycles. They are it's are they really? They're they're 455 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,160 Speaker 1: They're tiny. They're small. They're tiny, Yes, you're right, small 456 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 1: little electric tin boxes. You're right. The Tesla, the Tesla 457 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 1: Model Y is a little smaller than the X, but 458 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: it looks like an suv, but you call the crossover, 459 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 1: so it's kind of a combination. I've never drove in 460 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,640 Speaker 1: a Tesla, but I've sat in one, and it seems cool, 461 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 1: like a spaceship, and I could see why every wealthy 462 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: guy wants his own spaceship. I don't have one either, 463 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: but i've driven to them. You will never find a 464 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: car really with more pickup Yeah, it's absolutely stunning, but 465 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: it is like driving a golf cart. You take your 466 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,719 Speaker 1: foot off that gas pedal and whoop, the car just whoop, 467 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: immediately decelerates. It's very difficult. I was driving my friend's card. 468 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 1: It's like you've really got to get the footwork right 469 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: because it's not like driving a gas powered car. When 470 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,360 Speaker 1: you slowly take your foot off the accelerator, the car 471 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: slowly slows down. The Tesla just kind of op. Yeah, 472 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 1: that's why you like a golf cart. If you think 473 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 1: about a golf cart, some of them are golf carts. 474 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 1: So that's why you don't trust the headlines. So it 475 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 1: turns out when you look into the details, the electric 476 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: vehicle boom in California isn't that big. It's wealthy guys 477 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: buying the third car because their wives got it, got 478 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 1: an suv that they're driving the kids around all week. 479 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 1: And he's got a gas parrot suv as well, because 480 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,879 Speaker 1: I've noticed a lot of families have twin SUVs. Then 481 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:00,440 Speaker 1: he takes a Tesla just to screw around with or 482 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: maybe go to work. But it's it's not this revolution 483 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: and the problem is the stuff we've been talking about 484 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 1: it at least for ten years. It's too expensive. It 485 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 1: just the average person camera if they average median income 486 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 1: in this country, not talking California, but the median income 487 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,360 Speaker 1: in this country is seventy two thousand dollars per family, 488 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 1: that includes everybody her family. The hell they're going to 489 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:30,640 Speaker 1: afford a seventy thousand dollars electric car. You'd have to 490 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,919 Speaker 1: expire it on lease or by it on time, Yeah, 491 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 1: which they don't, So they buy a toy to camera. 492 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:39,640 Speaker 1: So then they they mentioned the incentives because they were 493 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:43,679 Speaker 1: given some people credits, rebates and stuff. But apparently in 494 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,640 Speaker 1: California could get up to ninety five hundred dollars towards 495 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: the purchase of a car. But this is not operated 496 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: well because of course it's a California government program and 497 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,159 Speaker 1: they're a long waiting list. A lot of people are 498 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 1: not going to get in on that. Sure, if you 499 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 1: take tax money from people and give it to electric 500 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: car buyers, of course you're going to create a market, 501 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: but it's an artificial markets. It's bumped up eight to 502 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,879 Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars of free money. Now let's turn to 503 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 1: the story that goes along with this, because we love 504 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 1: these stories. It was a front page website story as 505 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 1: the Daily Mail today, the shaming images that show where iPhones, 506 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 1: laptops and Tesla cars really come from the truth about 507 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 1: Congolese minds where kids are paid two dollars a day 508 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: to dig for cobalt. Did you look at these pictures, John, 509 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 1: and it is like they actually literally are there with 510 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:42,120 Speaker 1: their their tools and devices. They're either digging or sifting 511 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:46,119 Speaker 1: trying to find any cobalt in like this mountainous region 512 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 1: where they're working, and it's all sorts of people. Woman's 513 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 1: carrying an infant, there's an older guy, and there's a 514 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 1: bunch of children carrying sacks on their back and sifting 515 00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 1: and digging with shovels. China pretty much own these mines, 516 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: and apparently the response from Tesla, Microsoft, Apple and Google 517 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: is that we don't control this. China actually owns the 518 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 1: minds and they hire the people to sift for the cobalt. 519 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 1: We just buy it from a middleman, right that is 520 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: that is the classic corporate dodge, We buy it from 521 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 1: a middleman. They know that the Chinese mining companies are 522 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:26,159 Speaker 1: abusing these African slaves, they don't care. They create a 523 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: little bit of distance what they think is plausible deniability. 524 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, that that we buy it from 525 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 1: the refiners and the smelters. We don't buy it from 526 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 1: the actual mining companies. But we don't know what's going 527 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 1: on there. We don't have any say in that. You've 528 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 1: created the market for the slavery. You created the slave market, 529 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 1: and then you're aren't on us. A many years ago, 530 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 1: they made so much about blood diamonds, right, diamonds that 531 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:55,159 Speaker 1: were well, apparently diamonds aren't toxic, but cobalts can do 532 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:59,400 Speaker 1: damage to your lungs. Oh, it's not dreamely toxic. Barefoot 533 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,920 Speaker 1: children covered in chemicals, endlessly smashing open rocks for two 534 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,880 Speaker 1: dollars a day. So you, you smug Tesla owners who 535 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:11,920 Speaker 1: think that you're being socially correct, and you're showing off 536 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 1: how much you care about the climate and the planet. 537 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,960 Speaker 1: You're you're poisoning these African children who are working literally 538 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: for two dollars a day, it's un exaggeration, two bucks 539 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: a day. They're getting coated with toxic dust from the 540 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: cobalt mines, and you're driving around preening in the mirror. 541 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:34,159 Speaker 1: You're simply Tesla thinking you're me being environmentally sensitive. No, 542 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 1: you're not. You're involved in the slave trade. There's a 543 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 1: chart from twenty nineteen the world's cobalt reserves, and while 544 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 1: the Congo stands out at it reaches almost four million. 545 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: I don't know what. Oh, this in tons, way ahead 546 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 1: of Australia than Cuba. So that's why countries like China 547 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 1: go to the Congo to get their cobalt, because apparently 548 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: that's where they believe the largest reserves of that material is. 549 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 1: You should go to the Daily Mail and see these photos. 550 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: They have photos, an aerial shot of what looks like 551 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 1: thousands of workers all clustered together in this huge pit 552 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 1: surrounded by rocky walls, and I guess they're all bent 553 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 1: over scooping up the cobalt. Yeah, they're scooping, they're digging, 554 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: they're sifting there and they're also they can't. Almost looks 555 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: like one guy's in a river and he's got like 556 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: a sifter. They're trying to see what he can get. 557 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 1: You get any cobalt from they pulled it out of 558 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 1: the water. Something. They show a little kid like eight 559 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 1: years old carrying a sack of rocks on the back 560 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: of his head, on his shoulders. Oh and look look 561 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 1: look at Look at what's done to their skin. They're 562 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 1: covered in all this cobalt dust. Prolonged exposure to cobalt 563 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: can lead to lung disease, deafness, and of course birth 564 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 1: defects and informs a cancer. Look at little kids standing 565 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 1: in this dirty pond. No, I mean it's it's it's 566 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:08,959 Speaker 1: sickening stuff, absolutely sickening stuff. Yeah. Apparently it's found in 567 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: the rocks, so they have to smash them or otherwise 568 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 1: sift through them. Wow. Yeah, it is pretty disturbing. But 569 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: so so you got the you got the La Times 570 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 1: rooting on Can you imagine the irony hair rooting on 571 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 1: the African slave trade in the cobalt mines so that 572 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:37,760 Speaker 1: we can save the planet with electric cars. Wow, we 573 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 1: got more coming up to Ken show. You see any 574 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 1: editorials on that. You see any editorials about the La 575 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: Times admitting that they encourage an African child slave trade 576 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 1: for two dollars a day? No, I don't think so, 577 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 1: Tony Ken Chow KF I Am six forty live everywhere 578 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app all right, run from one to 579 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: four weekdays here on KFI. You miss any of the 580 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,680 Speaker 1: show live picking up on the podcast at kfi amix 581 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 1: forty dot com, or of course, the iHeart Radio app. 582 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 1: We'll be joined by Mark Krikorian at two oh five 583 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 1: to tell you what's really going on with the US 584 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 1: border as the Biden administration tries to make the media 585 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 1: back off and go away. We've put out new policies 586 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 1: and procedures to get a handle on the influx of migrants. 587 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: Far from the truth. In fact, we did mention this 588 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,520 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, but Mark can explain it. Well, 589 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: they've come up with a new trick so that people 590 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:33,320 Speaker 1: won't be considered illegal immigrants anymore, to be categorized a 591 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 1: different way, so when they come into the country, they 592 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 1: won't be included in the official number of illegal immigrants 593 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: who into the United States. And he'll explain what they're 594 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,640 Speaker 1: doing with that. It's something called parole. It's coming up 595 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 1: at two oh five on the Johnny Ken Show. Well, 596 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 1: there is sorry to say, I'm not sorry, but one 597 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: more quick Tesla story. I'd forgotten this when a listener 598 00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: just sent it. Apparently a test slamnoles spontaneously caught fire. 599 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:07,360 Speaker 1: This was up I think in Sacramento area The reason 600 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 1: it made news, this is Highway fifty, is that it 601 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 1: took them six thousand gallons of water to put out 602 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 1: the fire because of the battery fire, the whole electric fire. 603 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, six thousand gallons of water were needed to 604 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 1: extinguish the car fire. Um, it was a burning battery 605 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 1: and it ken released toxic vapors. They have to be 606 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 1: careful when you're dealing with that. So let's see, let's 607 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:33,960 Speaker 1: let's review here. We've got testily connected to a horrible fire, 608 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:38,120 Speaker 1: a child slave labor in Africa. Yeah, the guy who 609 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 1: drove off the cliff in northern California with his family 610 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,160 Speaker 1: on board. Yeah, right, and the guy that was bashing 611 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 1: cars with the metal pipe. They're very different stories. And 612 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,000 Speaker 1: like I said, they could have been any well, some 613 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 1: of them could have been any car. Sure, the pipe 614 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 1: could have driven a Ford, and the guy that tried 615 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 1: to kill his family could have driven. And it's good 616 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:58,800 Speaker 1: that he was driving a Tesla because that's probably why 617 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 1: think they survived. I don't think it's a positive story. 618 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 1: I think it's great marketing for Tesla. He's like, you know, 619 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: you could drive off the road and fall hundreds of feet, 620 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,600 Speaker 1: flying off a Cliff, everybody survives and walks away. How 621 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:15,720 Speaker 1: about that. Let's see that in a commercial. All right, Well, 622 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 1: you know we loved it when some of the world's 623 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 1: richest people are tortured. And this time we circle back 624 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:26,440 Speaker 1: around to Bill Gates, the Microsoft co founder and billionaire, 625 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:32,720 Speaker 1: decided to go on an Australian TV show ABC seven 626 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,160 Speaker 1: point three zero. I guess that's the dial position. I 627 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 1: don't know that the hostess, Sarah Ferguson, wasn't she married 628 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,560 Speaker 1: to one of the royals. I'm guessing it's a different one, Okay, 629 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,720 Speaker 1: don't Well I gave it a shot. Yeah, she was 630 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:48,600 Speaker 1: married to Andrew. She was, that's right, another member of 631 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 1: Epstein's crowd, which is what surprised me a few weeks 632 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 1: ago when you actually admitted you're watching the Crown. I 633 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 1: was kind of surprised by that. I was surprised by 634 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 1: that too. You were suffered into it or no? No, 635 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:07,240 Speaker 1: I voluntarily decided that. Well, my wife suggested it, and 636 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:11,560 Speaker 1: I went along with it, and I, you know what, 637 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:16,000 Speaker 1: It's entertaining just on its own, but it confirmed everything 638 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,880 Speaker 1: I thought about the royals now, so I'm pleased to 639 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,640 Speaker 1: see that. And it seems that the royals feel the 640 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,439 Speaker 1: same way on the inside, but it's just too good 641 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,400 Speaker 1: a gig to give up. Ye. Well, it seems like 642 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 1: they know they're ridiculous, although they say sometimes and you 643 00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 1: hear them say this, I feel trapped because you know, 644 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:35,360 Speaker 1: you have to have this dopey life. We're going around 645 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:39,080 Speaker 1: appearing at ceremonies and making speeches and it's just like 646 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 1: and they're constantly chased by the paparazzi. Yeah, but there's 647 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 1: a lot of upside to be in a royal You 648 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,640 Speaker 1: see how they live. Yeah, they don't have to worry 649 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:51,359 Speaker 1: about anything. They don't have to worry about anything, which 650 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,040 Speaker 1: which is its own curse. As you watch this thing, 651 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:57,040 Speaker 1: you realize they don't have a purpose because they don't 652 00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,200 Speaker 1: have to worry about anything, and their purpose is just 653 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:05,480 Speaker 1: pointless obligations to appear all right and to represent but 654 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 1: there is an actual usefulness to what they do. Well. 655 00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:10,760 Speaker 1: We don't know why Bill Gates went on this show, 656 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:15,000 Speaker 1: but apparently the host does start asking him about Jeffrey 657 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:19,480 Speaker 1: Epstein The Dead Hold on, hold on, I'll let you 658 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,719 Speaker 1: know when we're gonna go. I have to set it up. 659 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,279 Speaker 1: I shouldn't have paused that was my Eric's very good, 660 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:30,399 Speaker 1: but he sometimes that's right, he's waving his arms. Now, yeah, 661 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,080 Speaker 1: I should say. I'll usually say something like here we go, 662 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:38,360 Speaker 1: let's go. But just to set it up again. Of course, 663 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,120 Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein is dead. We don't know whether or not 664 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,600 Speaker 1: he killed himself or he committed suicide in prison. But 665 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,879 Speaker 1: of course he was chasing after young girls for most 666 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,359 Speaker 1: of his life, and he was assisted by some well 667 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,719 Speaker 1: and people. There are questions about Bill Gates, who had 668 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:57,480 Speaker 1: some sort of relationship with and in this interview, it's 669 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:02,879 Speaker 1: kind of also talking about Gates's xe Melinda French Gates 670 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:07,120 Speaker 1: that part of the reason that their marriage ended was 671 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,239 Speaker 1: that she didn't like his relationship to Epstein. All right, 672 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,120 Speaker 1: now we can play this. One of the issues that's 673 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,200 Speaker 1: dogged you is that of your relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. 674 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,520 Speaker 1: Do you regret the relationship that you maintained with him 675 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,319 Speaker 1: against Melinda's advice and wishes. Oh, I'm said that. I mean, 676 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,719 Speaker 1: this is you're going way back in time. But yeah, 677 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,239 Speaker 1: I knew audience. I will say for the you know, 678 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:32,040 Speaker 1: over one hundred times, Yeah, I shouldn't have had dinners 679 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:37,080 Speaker 1: with him. Epstein had a way of sexually compromising people. 680 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:41,360 Speaker 1: Is that what Melinda was warning you about. No, I 681 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 1: mean it's no, I had dinner with them, and that's all, 682 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:52,160 Speaker 1: and that you regret the relationship, the acquaintance that I 683 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:56,280 Speaker 1: had dinner with him, and the relationship between the Foundation 684 00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,520 Speaker 1: and Epstein, which there never was any relationship of any kind. 685 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,720 Speaker 1: It sounds like he's getting a deposition. Well, to reduce 686 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,279 Speaker 1: it to one dinner. I don't think that's exactly what happened. No, No, 687 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,360 Speaker 1: it wasn't just a dinner. He doesn't say dinners. He 688 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,840 Speaker 1: just keeps saying dinner. Here's here's why I dinner with 689 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:18,640 Speaker 1: them once? Why asking me this? Gates has a background 690 00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,160 Speaker 1: in this all. Right, Before he got married, he was 691 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:23,520 Speaker 1: and he got his money, right, he had money, he 692 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,840 Speaker 1: was running Microsoft. He was known to frequent all kinds 693 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 1: of strip clubs, right, yeah, right, And then he hosted 694 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:37,200 Speaker 1: parties where people were running around nude, swinger type parties. 695 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:41,239 Speaker 1: He was into that scene. Got married late. You know, 696 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,480 Speaker 1: I don't know what the wife did to earn her 697 00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:49,200 Speaker 1: her position as wife, but he probably got bored with 698 00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:53,600 Speaker 1: the marriage, had an affair with another Microsoft employee, and 699 00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,719 Speaker 1: then started flying out to see Epstein. Now, there's too 700 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,719 Speaker 1: many people who went to these Epstein dinners who were 701 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,600 Speaker 1: ruined or to have sexual issues. Right, Not only Prince Andrew, 702 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,840 Speaker 1: but Woody Allen showed up at these dinners. Clinton, Clinton 703 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,239 Speaker 1: showed up at these dinners. Kevin Spacey showed up at 704 00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:15,359 Speaker 1: these dinners. That's right, Okay, it's weird. Yeah, it's not 705 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:22,879 Speaker 1: a coincidence that like people hang out together, that's right. Strange, right, 706 00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,319 Speaker 1: And he had he had a plaineful of well known 707 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,480 Speaker 1: people that he would rarely take many times to his 708 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:34,600 Speaker 1: pedophile island. All this is documented, is real. Nobody's ever 709 00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,319 Speaker 1: going to admit to it, right, I've yet to see 710 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,080 Speaker 1: a guy who's going to stand up and say yeah, 711 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,200 Speaker 1: unlust after fourteen year olds. Even if you do, you 712 00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,240 Speaker 1: don't say it out loud. And even if you did something, 713 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:45,920 Speaker 1: you're never going to admit to it. You're gonna take 714 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:47,960 Speaker 1: that one to the grave. What did you talk about 715 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:51,239 Speaker 1: it all those dinners? Oh? Just business? That's philanthropy. He 716 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,600 Speaker 1: was into money raising. Right. Well, I'm guessing the reason 717 00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,359 Speaker 1: this keeps coming up with different reporters year after year 718 00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:03,400 Speaker 1: is you hear stuff. There's people who probably talked and 719 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:08,000 Speaker 1: they saw Gates in certain situations, right, But as as 720 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,839 Speaker 1: an interviewer journalist, you can't prove it because now you're 721 00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:14,279 Speaker 1: you're you're dealing with slander, right, You're dealing with defamation. 722 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,000 Speaker 1: So you can't say, hey, back in the March of 723 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:22,560 Speaker 1: ninety nine, we weren't you with the sixteen age girls 724 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,919 Speaker 1: in one of Epstein's mansions. But you can't do that. 725 00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,080 Speaker 1: So what you do is you hint around and try 726 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,839 Speaker 1: to make him as comfortable as uncomfortable as possible. And 727 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:36,440 Speaker 1: that's why Gates sounds so halting there, because he knows 728 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:40,160 Speaker 1: what he did and he's worried that maybe she's gonna 729 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,799 Speaker 1: blurt something out that's going to destroy his life. Right, 730 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,440 Speaker 1: can imagine you're on live television. I didn't even know 731 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,720 Speaker 1: why he does these interviews. I mean, there's no upside 732 00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:49,200 Speaker 1: to this for him, right, He's not going to make 733 00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,000 Speaker 1: any more. I don't think he expected that she was 734 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,000 Speaker 1: going to bring up this topic, and even there for 735 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:56,120 Speaker 1: a for a different reason. But so I just think 736 00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,359 Speaker 1: people hear stuff and they want to see if they 737 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,840 Speaker 1: if they can just get him to snap. Finally, all right, 738 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:03,600 Speaker 1: we got more coming up, John and Ken kf I A, 739 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,279 Speaker 1: I'm six forty live everywhere, the iHeartRadio app, and Debra 740 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,160 Speaker 1: Mark Live in the twenty four hour calf News Room