1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: If I am six forty, you're listening to the John 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:08,799 Speaker 1: and Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. We're 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: on the radio from one until four, and then after 4 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: four o'clock joined the enormous hordes of people who download 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 1: on the iHeart app the John and Ken on demand podcast, 6 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 1: so you could listen to what you missed. 7 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: Still basking in the glory of markred Lee Thomas going 8 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 2: to prison, I went out and drank last night. 9 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: I want to climb up on that bridge and tear 10 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:34,239 Speaker 1: down the sign with my bare hands. Well, that's what 11 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: I'd like to That is what I were on your 12 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: own on that one. I was thinking. I was thinking 13 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 1: of how high is the sign up there. I've never 14 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: been there. 15 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 3: I don't know. 16 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I have no idea. It's just 17 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 1: over Lost Siena. Yeah. I was just fantasizing about it 18 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: today as I was driving around, thinking. 19 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:55,639 Speaker 2: Then you can go to the wellness center and take 20 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 2: down his name the wellness center. 21 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: You know. The bridge bothers me more. The bridge is 22 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: a big structure. 23 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 2: As I read another ELSEI goundo. Times columnists try to 24 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 2: say that he will be long held in esteem despite 25 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 2: I keep thinking of the Trump comparison. These are the 26 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 2: same people who, you know, dedicate themselves to a political figure, 27 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 2: and too many political figures are corrupt or have other problems. 28 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 2: And yet I don't believe it. It's because they're so 29 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,680 Speaker 2: dedicated to that person. Doesn't matter, oh convicted? 30 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: Why Why do human beings need these daddy figures, these 31 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: political figures? What is it inside of them? Right? Did 32 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:36,680 Speaker 1: you not have a dad? Did you not have an 33 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,839 Speaker 1: uncle or somebody? You need this man in your life 34 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: that you have to worship? Or was he or were 35 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: you on the take with him? Did he get like that? Latter? 36 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: Who the writer is? But I wonder about these people. 37 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: How much money did you get from Mark Wordy Thomas 38 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: passing bills authorizing spending, you know, going to various nonprofits 39 00:01:56,160 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: and charities and subsidies and grants to businesses and all 40 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: that stuff. And then in return where they all asked 41 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: to write glowing op ed pieces in the newspaper. I 42 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: suspect that's what it is, because I don't know a 43 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: human being who worships a politician to the point where 44 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: they're going to write a long eulogy to their political 45 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: career after they're convicted of corruption and bribery, Like you 46 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 1: think about why would you do that? He's a politician, 47 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: He's an old guy who's this big bully who's constantly 48 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 1: waving the race card around to protect them from criticism. 49 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: He's got a long history, he's got a long history 50 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 1: of doing questionable things. And it's obvious what he is 51 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:50,919 Speaker 1: and so what is it that you want to write 52 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: for him? Exactly? Like how much did you get what 53 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:58,079 Speaker 1: benefit did you get over the years from this guy 54 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 1: Ano Beach in Manor? It's like he wanted to be 55 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: treated like royalty. Oh yeah. 56 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 2: He had this deepaulting voice, big everything I say is 57 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 2: incredibly important, one of the bigop everything and. 58 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: Listen, one of the biggest egos, one of the most 59 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: pompous buffoons. And I had I had some close up 60 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 1: experience with him because of a friend of mine who's 61 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: politically involved asked me to moderate or host a question 62 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: and answer thing where he was the guest of honor, 63 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 1: right and the public. It was like a kind of 64 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: like a town hall thing. I don't want to get 65 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: into who it was. And I did it just for 66 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: my own amusement, right, And it was like the longest 67 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: hour of my life, because every question he was asked, 68 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: he walked in this deep, rumbling, ponderous and he liked 69 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: not only hearing the sound of his voice, but hearing 70 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: the sound of his voice vibrate in his jowls, vibrating 71 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: in his cheeks. And so I'm sitting up there and 72 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: the sound system is just reverberating with him. And this 73 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: guy droned more than anybody ever droned, I mean, and 74 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: it was all deep, rumbly. It was hard to understand 75 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: actually much of the time, and I thought, man, this 76 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,799 Speaker 1: guy's got an ego. There was no quick answer to anything. 77 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 1: Every answer is about like six and a half minutes, 78 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: and at the end of it, you forgot what the 79 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 1: question was, and he didn't remember what his answer was. 80 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: All right. 81 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 2: The rest of the show will be dedicated to reading 82 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 2: the names of all the cooling centers that are open 83 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 2: today because of the heat. We begin with Lakeview Terrace 84 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 2: Recreation Center on foot you know, do you think I'm kidding? 85 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 2: Fred Roberts Recreation Center on Hondura Street. So a couple 86 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 2: of things I found in this story that I thought 87 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 2: were interesting, and of course, again. 88 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 1: The overreaction to a hot day it's. 89 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 2: Still summer, right, ninety seven Burbank, ninety eight Woodland Hills. 90 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: Oh, that's nothing. A couple of years ago, Woodland Hills 91 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: was one hundred and twenty one. 92 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 4: It was one hundred and something yesterday. 93 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all guest, has there ever been on August 94 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: where it wasn't like around one hundred degrees in Woodland Hills? No, 95 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: I mean we're coming out to Burbank. For almost twenty years, 96 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: I think every August been Burbank, it's been around one 97 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 1: hundred degrees. 98 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 4: And next week it's gonna be cooler. 99 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, even this weekend. And we're all gonna 100 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: survive the heat today, right, all of us are going on. 101 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: We're all gonna live. They have something they call augmented 102 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: cooling centers. I'm not sure what that is ten am 103 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: to nine pm today. Also all of the public libraries, 104 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: what's left to them with the homeless? Oh, cooling centers. 105 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: Go there. I'm gonna go there and watch guys inject 106 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: themselves with heroin and fentanel. 107 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 2: Okay, sure, we did that story publics ago about the 108 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 2: lat Library system. 109 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: Guys, you know you have to sit next to a 110 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: meth addict and he might stab you on the neck, 111 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: but at least you'll be cool. 112 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 2: Mayor Bascone has got the Office of Public Safety working 113 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 2: to coordinate with the Emergency See Management Department, the Police 114 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,239 Speaker 2: and Fire, the res and Parks, Department of Water and Power, 115 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 2: all of them to respond to the heat wave. You know, 116 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 2: so drink plenty of fluids, stay indoors in an air 117 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 2: conditioned room, and check up on your relatives and neighbors. 118 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: You're far more likely to be killed by one of 119 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 1: the vagrants than you are by the heat. Wait, there's more. 120 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,599 Speaker 2: Children and pets should never be left inside vehicles without 121 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 2: air conditioning for any length of time, unless that's can 122 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 2: occur in minutes. 123 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: It's one way to get rid of the dog. 124 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 2: You don't like them, I know, but you see, you know, 125 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,280 Speaker 2: the Tesla's have the pet mode, so you can put 126 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:38,239 Speaker 2: the dog in there and it'll keep the car cool. 127 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 2: And it actually says it on the big screen, so 128 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 2: anybody that walks by in panics it's not supposed to 129 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 2: break the windows. The dog says, everything's okay, we're in 130 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,719 Speaker 2: climate cool. Yeah, it's called climate mode or cooling mode, or. 131 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: So the dog, oh pet, the dog sets off the 132 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 1: cooling detector. No, you have to set it before you go. 133 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 4: It's really cool. My friend was showing me in her car. 134 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, you just set it before you leave the car. 135 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 2: You put it in pet mode and it'll keep the 136 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:04,280 Speaker 2: car temperature regulated for the animal. 137 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 4: Yes, and it's a big screen. 138 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 5: Like Ken said, So if I were to be walking 139 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 5: by and I see this poor dog in this car 140 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 5: in a hot day like today, I'm not going to 141 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 5: bash the window because it's going to say that the 142 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 5: car is cool. 143 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 4: We know it's pet mode. 144 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: How are you going to bash the window? Going to say? 145 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 5: You have shoes sometimes spikes on them. 146 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:30,239 Speaker 1: Ninety pounds of brude forest. 147 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 2: And not to be forgotten, this is a new term. 148 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 2: Free climate stations will operate on skid row. They've got 149 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 2: areas for people to stay cool. What's under a tree? 150 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 2: They will offer cold beverages, seating and activities for the vagrants. 151 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: What's what the safety bongers? Free climate stations. See that 152 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: a little bit of propaganda in there. Nobody ever used 153 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: the word climate. Climate. He has a term I only 154 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: heard in the science class. Right ten minutes you hear 155 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 1: climate right, because it's never hot in southern California and 156 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: August almost never happens. Oh look, look what's happened with 157 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 1: the climate? Yeah, summer arrived. What do you know when 158 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: we come back? We just hate the world, I really do. 159 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: I really hate. I hate all the safety A long 160 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: time out. No, because I was watching some of the 161 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: hurricane coverage today because yeah, I'm interested in weather and 162 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: meteorology and bizarre weather events, right appeals to my science side. 163 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: But man, it's all ruined by the safety bongers. Oh geez, 164 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: but what is this? What is this? What is it 165 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: with everybody in the media. 166 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 2: It just constantly treating you because they want people to 167 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 2: live whereas you don't. 168 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 1: No, they don't want people. They don't care. It's what 169 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: I'm saying, Look at all that goes on in the world. Right. Well, 170 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: I guess I've done using your argument. It draws viewers. 171 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 2: Maybe not you, but other people want to hear thee 172 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 2: want to hear the safety preaching. 173 00:08:58,360 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: I guess, like. 174 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 2: Out here, your mantra is that they won't repeat something 175 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:03,080 Speaker 2: that doesn't work. 176 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: How dim do you have to be not to know 177 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: what to do when a hurricane's coming? Leave? Like if 178 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 1: they're telling you there's like a six foot surge. I mean, 179 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: how low does your IQ have to be not to 180 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 1: get in your car and drive a few blocks in there? Oh, 181 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 1: because then you say that's hype. It won't be six feet. 182 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 2: They exaggerate everything, right, right, but my hand is waving 183 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 2: at the TV and kids. 184 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: You didn't know, Okay, so then Darwinism then you then 185 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: you drown. But do you do you think any anchors 186 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 1: care if people really do drown. Look at the hype 187 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: last week over Hillary that was going there, So I know, 188 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 1: I know how many people died from Hillary. Nobody, nobody, nobody. 189 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,679 Speaker 2: They were on super alert and dragging people, not even 190 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 2: vagrants when in the rivers. 191 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: Right in the I think I saw the story. All right, 192 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:53,559 Speaker 1: well we come back speak at a vagrants. 193 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:55,079 Speaker 2: There is an update on a story we did a 194 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 2: few weeks ago in Factor we threw this person in 195 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 2: the dumpster. Remember the supervisor Holly Mitchell John and the 196 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 2: big encampments out there in East GARDENA. Yeah, they're supposedly 197 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 2: it's like more than one hundred RVs. Well they have 198 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 2: made an announcement concerning that problem. We'll talk about it. 199 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 1: Johnny Kenfiam six forty live everywhere. 200 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 3: iHeartRadio Act you're listening to John and Ken on demand 201 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 3: from KFI AM six forty. 202 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:24,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, there was pretty good local TV coverage. And it's 203 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 2: not the first time of homeless encampments. Remember the one 204 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 2: in Silmar with the RVs that that lady who had 205 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:31,319 Speaker 2: plunked on her yard. 206 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: Channel seven did a lot on that. 207 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 2: They also did some stories about what is really the 208 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,079 Speaker 2: largest RV encampment in all of southern California, and it's 209 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 2: in East Guardina and West Rancho, Domingas. And we talked 210 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 2: about this a few weeks ago, five hundred plus. There's 211 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 2: hundreds of RV's parked there because it's unincorporated I'm saying 212 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:53,719 Speaker 2: East Gardena and West Rancho, Domingas. 213 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 1: But it's not like. 214 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 2: The only person that has any governmental jurisdiction over this 215 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 2: is in La County Supervisor of Holly Mitchell, which is 216 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:03,839 Speaker 2: why this is probably allowed to fester so long. But 217 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 2: that doesn't mean there aren't people living there, people in homes. 218 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: I mean. So this was unbelievable amount. 219 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 2: Of debris and fecal waste and a series of stories 220 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 2: done by a couple of local television stations. It brought 221 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 2: this to light to the point where we threw Holly 222 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 2: Mitchell into the dumpster. So this memo, it's a media release, 223 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 2: tells you just how big and vast the homeless industrial complex. 224 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 2: This comes from the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative. It's 225 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 2: a woman who works for the LA County government. So 226 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 2: you see this time, no cities involved. The county had 227 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:43,319 Speaker 2: to step in and do something. A woman by the 228 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 2: name of Christina Villa Court, and she immediately introduces us 229 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,839 Speaker 2: to another aspect of the homeless industrial complex, a nonprofit 230 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 2: called Pathway Home, and they are bragging in this press 231 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 2: release that they have housed fifty eight people in the 232 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 2: r V encampment and taking twenty I'm sorry thirty RVs 233 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 2: off the streets in East Guardina. They began this initiative 234 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 2: a few weeks ago and what they claim that they're 235 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 2: doing is they're putting them in. 236 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: Hotels and motels. 237 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 2: Now, if they really are five hundred RVs there, they 238 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 2: got a long way to go in removing thirty. But 239 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 2: it just shows you though a little kick. The problem 240 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 2: is now that the media coverage is pulled back, this 241 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 2: might be all that they do, and they brag about 242 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 2: in the press release and maybe no further updates. 243 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: It's the quick catline. Karen Bescone does this, NEWSOM does this. 244 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 1: When there's intense television pressure, they respond, but that's the 245 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 1: end of the response. It's the one press conference or 246 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: press release. It is the initial roundup of a small 247 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 1: number of homeless or a small number of RVs, and 248 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: then the next week they're back to not doing anything. 249 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: There's no enforcement by the way. Here. 250 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 2: They go in there and they send their teams and 251 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 2: they talk to the people gentling and I want to 252 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 2: know how we can help you. It's we provide you 253 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 2: with jobs services, mental health services. Would you please come 254 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 2: and go to a motel. That's how they do it. 255 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 2: It's why it's slow and often ineffective. 256 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 1: It's theater. It's a charade. Everybody knows it doesn't work. 257 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: You know. The people who do this every day, right, 258 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: the ones who actually go up to these psycho vagrants 259 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 1: and try to talk them into some kind of shelter. 260 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 1: They get turned down ninety nine percent of the time. 261 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,199 Speaker 1: They know they're wasting their time, but they're getting paid. 262 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:32,199 Speaker 1: I like this. 263 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 2: Following a comprehensive clean up, the County is taking steps 264 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 2: to prevent the site from being reoccupied. 265 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: That's rather vague, isn't it. 266 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 2: And my favorite is a quote from Sherry Todoroff, who's 267 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 2: believe it or not, executive director of the Los Angeles 268 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 2: County Homeless Initiative. You may never have heard of this office. 269 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,679 Speaker 2: It's part of the LA County Chief Executive Office. Do 270 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 2: you remember years ago, John, we talked about how much 271 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 2: money the LA County Chief Executive is paid. It's an 272 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 2: incredible whopping sum of money. And no one's heard of 273 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 2: this person. I think they're appointed by the Board of Supervisors, 274 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 2: but they have the title of CEO of LA County. Well, 275 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 2: they have an office of a homeless initiative. And here's 276 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,679 Speaker 2: her quote. Our the encampments cannot be resolved by simply 277 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,079 Speaker 2: posting no parking signs. Well, yes they can, Yes they can, 278 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 2: because I've seen it. I've saw it happened Redondo Beach. 279 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 2: There was a whole bunch of vans in RVs that 280 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 2: would park overnight as much as they could think. There 281 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 2: was one day where they swept so they had to move. 282 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 2: They came back, there was debris on the street. There's 283 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 2: riff raff in there. One day they came along. They 284 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 2: put up red curbs and parking meters. Those people are 285 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 2: gone that. 286 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: Place because once you put up the sign, it gives 287 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: the city the authority, the authority to then you ticket, 288 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: and then you give them twenty four hours or whatever 289 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 1: to move the RV. And if they don't, you toe 290 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: them and you put them in a tow yard. And 291 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: if they don't reclaim it within thirty days by paying 292 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: the fine and the towing fee, then you sell it. 293 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: You sell it for scrap. That's what you did. You 294 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,400 Speaker 1: have it destroyed. And they can destroy all five hundred 295 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 1: of those RVs, and they should simply be putting up 296 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: a sign that says, oh, the Great Way is no 297 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: overnight parking. You see that everywhere in most civilized streets. 298 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: You see no overnight parking. By the way, my wife 299 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: was in New Orleans for a few days because one 300 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: of my sons is going to go to school there 301 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: is going to school there. She said, there wasn't a 302 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 1: single homeless person in the street in New Orleans. Right 303 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: we went up to Wyoming, the town's up. There not 304 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: a single homeless person in the street. In fact, as 305 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: we were walking around It's like, what am I missing? 306 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: There's there's nobody sprawled out face down, by the way. 307 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 2: It's this being the John and Ken show, I had 308 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 2: to notice. I found two homeless people in Vienna and 309 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 2: two in Prague. Total, yeah, total, from my three days 310 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 2: in each city. 311 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: That's a homeless Austrian line. They were disheveled. They look 312 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: like they hadn't bathe. 313 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 2: They had to guess there are probably some form of 314 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 2: homelessness in those countries, but in minimal Yeah, just a couple. 315 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you think they do? 316 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 2: No, no encampments, no big tents and tarps all over 317 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 2: the streets. 318 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 1: Now you know when you when there's one what they do? 319 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 2: There's one guy that they get down in a bow position, 320 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 2: their heads all the way down, their hands are out 321 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 2: like a downward dog. Right Mark, okay uh, he says 322 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 2: a yoga position. John might not know anyway. And they 323 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 2: have like a little bowl in front of them. They 324 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 2: don't say anything, They just sit there. They just kept 325 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 2: they had their bowed down with their bowl out looking 326 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 2: for money. 327 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: I saw two of those guys. 328 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 4: Did you give any money? 329 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: No? 330 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 2: No, never, do not give money to vagrants. That does 331 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 2: not help the problem. All right, we got more coming up. 332 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 2: Johnny kenkf I AM six forty Live everywhere iHeartRadio app. 333 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 3: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from kf 334 00:16:50,800 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 3: I AM six forty after the name. 335 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 2: Right now today there are still some faces your player, 336 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 2: NIMBYs and fearful mans. 337 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 1: Don't invest in high speed rail. We'll do this long 338 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:14,640 Speaker 1: and difficult generation of two. You're dollaright, let mean be real. 339 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: I like train. Yeah, I know that sounds like Jerry Brown. 340 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: That actually was a vagrant. Yes, that was just a 341 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:27,360 Speaker 1: crazy vagrant. We captured audio. Oh, the whole thing there, 342 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 1: the whole thing there. Yeah, oh that was not the governor. 343 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: Vagrants like high speed rail two. See Johnny can Show, 344 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: John Cobalt and Ken Champell caf I AM six forty 345 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 1: live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app on the radio from 346 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: one till four after four o'clock, John and Ken on 347 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 1: demand podcast on the iHeart App. 348 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 2: Well, we do this from time to time. It was 349 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 2: November two thousand and eight when the voters approved the 350 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 2: dopey California High Speed Rail Bond Initiative ten billion dollars. 351 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:59,640 Speaker 2: Here we are fifteen years later, and John a big 352 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 2: move just came up. They're gonna purchase rail cars. They're 353 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 2: not gonna use the high speed train cars. They don't 354 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:11,120 Speaker 2: have any track to put them on. 355 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:12,640 Speaker 1: But they don't have any money. 356 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 2: They don't have enough money to finish this one little 357 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 2: segment in the Central Valley Bakersfield to Merced. It's one 358 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 2: hundred and seventy one miles. It's called a starter. They 359 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 2: don't have the money to do that. How do they 360 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 2: have the money to buy electric train cars? I don't 361 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 2: even understand. 362 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 1: To give the impression that the project is progressing. 363 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:40,679 Speaker 2: The authority spokeshole is Micah Flores, who wrote, well, we 364 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 2: are actively pursuing federal funding. 365 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:43,879 Speaker 1: Now. 366 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 2: Last time, last time, we were put on high speed 367 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 2: rail by the way, the Republicans, because all the budgets 368 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,959 Speaker 2: start in the House. Republicans control the House, and they 369 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 2: zeroed out California high speed rail money. We're not going 370 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 2: to give any I imagine it'll be some compromise to that. 371 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:03,920 Speaker 2: But because of that holding the line right away, they're 372 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:06,239 Speaker 2: not gonna get much from the federal government. This is no, 373 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:07,520 Speaker 2: it did another pipe dream. 374 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 3: No. 375 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's fifteen years when something doesn't happen 376 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:13,920 Speaker 1: for fifteen years. It's never gonna happen. I know it's now. 377 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 1: It's uh. I think the project would have been killed. 378 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: I think Newsome it would have killed the project, but 379 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:27,680 Speaker 1: the labor unions bullied him and he got true. 380 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,160 Speaker 2: Remember he made that speech right after he took office 381 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 2: where it sounded like he was killing the project. Everybody ran, 382 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,199 Speaker 2: all the media ran and wrote stories. Newsom says it's 383 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 2: over for a high speed mail and he had to 384 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 2: come out and clarify that. No, no, no, I just 385 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 2: meant we're going to start with that central Valley segment 386 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 2: for now, and I talk about the other parts of 387 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 2: the state. 388 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: Because he got he got a bad phone call from 389 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: a union leader, or maybe there was a dead animal 390 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: in his bed, something like that. Hmm. Well that's what 391 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,439 Speaker 1: they do, yeah, end up with a dead fish in 392 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:00,639 Speaker 1: your mailbox. Or Deborah mar Is sad. 393 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 4: I'm very sad. 394 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: That's how union's inforced. You know, their business. 395 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 4: Needs, well, they need to figure out something else. 396 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,160 Speaker 1: Like the Godfather with a horse hand. 397 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:11,639 Speaker 4: Oh god, that was awful. 398 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 1: The Godfather with the horse head. Yes, that's that's what 399 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: That's what union guys do. The governor wakes up on 400 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 1: morning go, oh my god, what the hell is that, Jennifer. 401 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:24,119 Speaker 1: This is so bad. It's actually humorous. 402 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,199 Speaker 2: Officials are looking to begin operating that first segment in 403 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 2: twenty thirty but oh, the timeline could stretch out to 404 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,120 Speaker 2: twenty thirty three, according to a progress report. See every 405 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,199 Speaker 2: six months they put out a progress report, and the 406 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 2: timelines keep stretching further and further into the future. 407 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:39,680 Speaker 1: Well you were, Jerry, I'm sorry. 408 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 2: You heard that vagrant in the opening say this could 409 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 2: take a generation or two. 410 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 1: This is right. 411 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 2: So how many years is a generation? Roughly ten twenty years. 412 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,120 Speaker 2: About twenty years is a generation. Yeah, so this could 413 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:50,880 Speaker 2: Jerry Brown could be right, it could be forty years. 414 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,679 Speaker 1: Now if there was there was, there's anybody in the 415 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: media with a sense of humor, right, they would they 416 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,159 Speaker 1: would do like men on the street interviews and and 417 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:04,239 Speaker 1: say to Bakersfield residents, so are you excited about the 418 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,679 Speaker 1: about the train that'll take you to Merset within the 419 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 1: next fifteen years, Bakersfield to Brucett and approach the Mercet 420 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:14,639 Speaker 1: residents the same way. It's like, you know, in fifteen 421 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,119 Speaker 1: years you'll be able to go to Bakersfield just to 422 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 1: see the looks on their face. 423 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 2: That's a big commuter throughway there, Bakersfield. So I like 424 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:27,360 Speaker 2: the way they call them train sets. High Speed World 425 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,399 Speaker 2: wants to obtain at least ten train sets. It sounds 426 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 2: like a kid's toy. Yeah, that can operate at two 427 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 2: hundred and twenty miles per hour and reach speeds of 428 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,479 Speaker 2: two forty two. We want to produce two prototypes by 429 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 2: twenty See, this was their FIRPR release, right. 430 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: They're never going to go that fast. No, they can't 431 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: in most parts of the state. They can't. No, this 432 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,920 Speaker 1: is nothing but a payoff to unions. Ya. 433 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 2: That's saying there's thirty active high speed rail construction sites 434 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 2: in the Central Valley and they have a picture. 435 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: Again it's those bridges. That's all they've been doing. I've 436 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: been seeing those bridges for ten years, those viaducts and 437 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,120 Speaker 1: those whatever, those things that look like stoneheng structures. 438 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,400 Speaker 2: Oh, and the time's finished off with the Great One Line. 439 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 2: The authority has tomate the trains between Elling and San 440 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,159 Speaker 2: Francisco could shuttle. 441 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,920 Speaker 1: Thirty one million riders per year. So they still print 442 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 1: that stuff. Who wrote that? Who wrote? They have a 443 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 1: new reporter, Vanessa Radondo. 444 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, Ralph Obedianne he was pretty good at least giving us. 445 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 1: A lot of the truth. Yeah, he wouldn't, he would. 446 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,360 Speaker 1: This woman just took the press release and rolls. Did 447 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: you see it? I wonder if she's telling everybody in 448 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:36,199 Speaker 1: the newsroom. Did you hear they think thirty one million 449 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,120 Speaker 1: people are going to be riding on this high speed 450 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: rail train. 451 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 2: Perfect put that in the story. That'll make people react positively. 452 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 1: Last year, I was talking to my friends in high 453 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 1: school and we were all excited about the high speed 454 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 1: rail to take us to Bakersfield. 455 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 2: And this hack the agency's chief executive, that Brian Kelly, 456 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 2: he's been there a long time taking money these train 457 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,120 Speaker 2: sets ensure that we're procuring the latest generation of high 458 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,880 Speaker 2: speed trains for this first in the nation project. 459 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:06,639 Speaker 1: This whole story is a press release, Yeah it is. 460 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 1: That's what They even. 461 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,119 Speaker 2: Have a link to the press release, but it probably 462 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 2: won't look much different. 463 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, Vanessa Rodondo, good journalism there, thorough reporting. Why didn't 464 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: you go in the archive and read everything that Ralph 465 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 1: Vardibedian used to write for many years for the same newspaper. 466 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: Why don't you look that up? All right? 467 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 2: Dah, Johnny Ken caf I AM six forty We're live 468 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 2: everywhere iHeartRadio app. 469 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 3: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 470 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 3: AM six forty. 471 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Moistline is coming back in three days. 472 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 2: We invite you to leave messages. We got a full 473 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 2: week of shows, so we can really call out for 474 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 2: a lot more product. 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And it 484 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 2: doesn't take long before you see the insidious political message 485 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 2: paragraph two. Starting with the Inflation Reduction Act in twenty 486 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:34,159 Speaker 2: twenty two, the last two decades have seen massive efforts 487 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,639 Speaker 2: to clean up transportation all around the US and throughout 488 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,359 Speaker 2: the world. Does anyone really believe that's gonna happen? Notion 489 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 2: Reduction Act. No starts right off with the really dismiss 490 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 2: this is propaganda. Electric and hydrogen powered vehicles have replaced 491 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 2: gas guzzling cars. Many people have actually forsaken car ownership 492 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 2: altogether in favor of much more economic and widely available 493 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:02,160 Speaker 2: solutions like are you ready bikes, robot taxis, and there 494 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,439 Speaker 2: it is public transits. It will be on that metro. 495 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 2: I can get stabbed as well as anybody else. 496 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 1: Robo taxis right as long as the Wi Fi works. 497 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:19,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, he has this dream that California and La wants 498 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 2: the world's greatest car city will transform. No more haze 499 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:27,920 Speaker 2: and small. It'll now glisten unto the southern California sun. 500 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 2: No traffic jams along the four or five, the five 501 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 2: and the one oh one, because and there. 502 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 1: It is, John. 503 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 2: The introduction of congestion pricing on the eve of the 504 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight Olympic Games wiped out the traffic and 505 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 2: it never returned. 506 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 1: Really, is that their plan? That's their plan? Is that? 507 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,239 Speaker 1: That is that what's gonna happen in twenty eight? This 508 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: is his dream. They're gonna do it. He's he's fantasizing. 509 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 1: He admits that do you think he was pleasuring himself 510 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,680 Speaker 1: when he wrote this. I don't know he really took 511 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 1: this all the way. What's really interesting. 512 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 2: He started off the column by talking about how air 513 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 2: China led the way with the making planes. It's a 514 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 2: flight from Beijing. It's one of the generations of hydrogen 515 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 2: powered wide body jets. That's China, the biggest consumer of 516 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 2: fossil fuels in the world. 517 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: He is the founder and CEO of a company called 518 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 1: co Motion, the conference and media platform focused on future mobility. 519 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:35,239 Speaker 1: Now that's it. So I what I Well, anybody can 520 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 1: write a fantasy. I mean, people have been writing science 521 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: fiction fantasies, you know, forever. So I don't I don't 522 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,400 Speaker 1: see the point of this. Why they why they would 523 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 1: publish this. 524 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 2: Now related to this, there was a protest in London. 525 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 2: As you know, London does have congestion pricing. New York 526 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 2: is about to adopt it. LA wants to do it someday. 527 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,359 Speaker 2: And if you don't know what that is, quite simply, 528 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 2: it means if you bring your car into certainly heavily 529 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 2: trafficked areas during certain hours, you will be assessed an 530 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 2: extra fee for driving. But looks like London took this 531 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,919 Speaker 2: one step further in that they now are able to 532 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 2: detect whether or not your car is more polluting than others, 533 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 2: and also assess you a fee. 534 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,640 Speaker 1: And charge you sixteen dollars a day. 535 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,680 Speaker 2: So people are vagelizing the cameras that pick up the 536 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 2: shading cars. I have a license plate reading cameras. 537 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: I'm not going to cross the line because you're not 538 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: supposed to advocate any kind of violence or collectivity. You 539 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,439 Speaker 1: do not do that. But yeah, I'm going to do that. 540 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,200 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if this stuff comes to Los Angeles, 541 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,439 Speaker 1: we've got to take control and destroy the cameras that 542 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 1: are going to be tracking our cars so that they 543 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: could give us their pollution tax. 544 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 2: So not only be charged for coming into an area 545 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 2: of London when there's a lot of traffic, but if 546 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 2: you have a high polluting car, you be charged even more. 547 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,880 Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah, they call this the ultra low emission zone. Yeah. 548 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 2: Wow, you're right to always say this. They take something 549 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 2: and they keep going with it. They just charge people 550 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,639 Speaker 2: congestive pricing. Now, let's get rid of the high polluting cars. 551 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 1: That's right. You never give an inch because they're not 552 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: interested in an inch. They're interested in controlling your life. 553 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,639 Speaker 1: Now they're going to dictate what time and where you drive. 554 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 1: And now now they're dictating what you're driving in this 555 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: certain geographical area at this certain time of day, and 556 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: little by little they get control over your life. Now, 557 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 1: if you say, hey, I want to go drive down 558 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,720 Speaker 1: and go to that department store in downtown London, it's like, 559 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 1: well you can't. You have the wrong car, this is 560 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,160 Speaker 1: the wrong time of day and that store is in 561 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 1: the wrong location. 562 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 2: Sixteen dollars daily charge on most gas cars and vands 563 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,280 Speaker 2: built before two thousand and six. So, by the way, 564 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 2: this who does it hit the poor? Of course course yes, 565 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 2: poor fact, that's what somebody says right here. It's going 566 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 2: to make poor people poorer. This is what's fascinating. 567 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 1: All this stuff is an assault on poorer people and 568 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: middle class people. The wealthy don't care about these things. 569 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 2: We'll be talking more about this kind of stuff in 570 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 2: the three o'clock hour because we've been following what's going 571 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 2: on in Sacramento with that speed camera bill, and there 572 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 2: is an update to bring you. 573 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: We'll be talking to Jay Biebers and that that is 574 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 1: the first incremental step. You let them put a camera 575 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 1: up there. It's not just going to detect your speed, 576 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 1: all right, This is the beginning of it. That's and 577 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: they and they know this, and and I'm telling you, 578 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 1: don't give an inch. Don't let them have a camera 579 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: to track you around, all right. 580 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 2: Coming up next, we'll check in on the hurricane that's 581 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 2: about to hit the Gulf Coast to Florida. Johnny Ken 582 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 2: k if I AM six forty Live everywhere, iHeartRadio. 583 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 1: App nevermark live in the twenty for our Cafe newsroom. 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