1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Caf I Am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: and Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 2: Doug mcatar in for John and Ken. Actually, I'm just 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 2: in for Ken today. I can't I can't sub for 5 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 2: both of them. It's asking too much of one man. 6 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 2: It really is, so thank you, So I'm just gonna 7 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 2: I'm just gonna be in for Ken today and we'll 8 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 2: slog through this the way southern California slog through Tropical 9 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 2: Storm Hillary. And hopefully you are amongst the many millions 10 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 2: who got through this with minor inconveniences. Obviously that's not 11 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:34,639 Speaker 2: the case for everybody. We've got a lot to talk 12 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 2: about today until four o'clock when Conway comes up. By 13 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 2: the way, you are listening to kf I Am six 14 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 2: forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. So we have 15 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 2: all had a day in our lives that was awful 16 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 2: for us, when everybody else seemed to be going on 17 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 2: about their business just in a normal, just an maybe 18 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 2: even a great day. I experienced this recently. My mom 19 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 2: passed away on July twenty ninth, which is very said. 20 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,319 Speaker 2: She was ninety one. She had a peaceful exit from 21 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 2: this world. But as I'm standing on the church steps 22 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 2: in New York after the funeral, waiting for everybody to 23 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 2: get organized to get into their cars, I see people, 24 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 2: you know, with dry cleaning over their shoulders, or a 25 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 2: guy drove by with a kayak on the roof. He's 26 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 2: off to have some kind of an adventure. I meanwhile, 27 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 2: I got a dark cloud over my head psychologically. And 28 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,040 Speaker 2: we've all experienced moments like this where you where you've 29 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 2: had some personal blow and you can't understand how the 30 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 2: rest of the world could even be rotating. How did 31 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,119 Speaker 2: the sun rise this morning on everyone else? And that's 32 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 2: kind of how I look at what happened with Tropical 33 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 2: Storm Hillary, because fortunately, blessedly most of us got through 34 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 2: with just a lot of rain. Maybe you had some flooding, 35 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 2: maybe you had a couple of branches come down, or 36 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 2: the leaves or in the pool or whatever. And then 37 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 2: there are those in this vast area of southern California 38 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 2: that had a hell of a hard time, a really 39 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 2: bad time. And the cautionary tale here, as we've seen, 40 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 2: for instance, with the Rolling Hills of state, it's likely 41 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 2: that the previous heavy rains in the winter time may 42 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 2: have caused those landslides that destroyed neighborhoods, and we've seen 43 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: that happen up after heavy rains up in the Santa 44 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 2: Barbara area, where hillsides have come down months afterwards, that 45 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 2: these problems can have a long tail. But because the 46 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 2: vast majority of southern California, the big La Metro Orange 47 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 2: County areas, got through it, fortunately with very little inconvenience, 48 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:31,639 Speaker 2: it's easy to dust this off as an insignificant event, 49 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 2: and it hardly was. That. One of the areas that's 50 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 2: still actually digging out from this literally in some cases 51 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 2: is those folks living up near the San Bernardino Mountains. 52 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 2: Just down from those mountains. Let's bring on board KFI 53 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 2: is a blake, trolley blake. How are you hey? 54 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 3: I'm doing good, Doug, And yeah, that's definitely true. You know, 55 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 3: when you're over in the La Orange County area, would 56 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,079 Speaker 3: seem that the storm was relatively minor. But the damage 57 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 3: that we saw up today in the Oak Glen area 58 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 3: and the mess that was left behind, I think the 59 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 3: people living in that community, they definitely feel like this 60 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 3: was a pretty significant storm. And really just other mountain 61 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 3: communities in the sanmar mountains got hammered as well. Lake 62 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 3: Arrowhead got eight inches of rain, Rightwood got about six 63 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 3: inches of rain, and Big Bear got about four inches. 64 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 3: I was told yesterday many businesses in Lake Arrowhead actually 65 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 3: ended up closing early because the rain was coming down 66 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 3: so hard. But we go over to the Oak Glen area, 67 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 3: this is where I focused my attention today, and there 68 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 3: is debris scattered through the roadway, a big mess in 69 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 3: the road, a building Doug was actually completely taken out 70 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 3: by a landslide. And these both of these landslides, there 71 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 3: were two in the area, one in Oak Glen and 72 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 3: one in Forest Falls. Both of them were the result 73 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 3: of heavy rains pounding down on a burn scar. There 74 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 3: were two different burn scars in the area, and I'm 75 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 3: told both of them got about a foot of rain 76 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 3: throughout this entire storm in certain areas. 77 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 2: You see, when we talk a significant event, yeah, Blake, 78 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 2: when we talk about a foot of rain, I mean 79 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 2: we're used to hearing stories about, Okay, in the mountains, 80 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 2: you got a foot of snow and all the skiers 81 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 2: go yep, b But a foot of rain is a 82 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 2: true I mean, it's a staggering amount of water to 83 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 2: come down, and of course it can take a couple 84 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 2: of days for that water to reach lower lying areas 85 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 2: because it will obviously head towards the ocean. And we've 86 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 2: seen this all over the country when you have these 87 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,599 Speaker 2: big rainstorms that move into mountains and then oftentimes you 88 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 2: see flooding takes place a couple of days later downstream. 89 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 2: So it's possible, as I mentioned earlier, that this could 90 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 2: have a longer tail for some people who live in 91 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 2: those areas that are prone to flooding. So it's a 92 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,799 Speaker 2: two be continued story, especially with the landslides. I am fast, 93 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 2: and I'm not hardly a geologist. In fact, I have 94 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 2: no credentials of any kind which should be apparent to 95 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 2: anyone listening. But you know, the geologists oftentimes will see 96 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 2: landslides take place long after these events because the ground 97 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 2: water is sitting there and it just takes one little 98 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 2: thing to trigger it. The next time the next thing 99 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 2: in o a hillside comes down. 100 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to wonder what kind of lingering effects 101 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 3: could come down with that amount of rain. And just 102 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 3: on top of that, Doug, the cleanup's gonna take a while. 103 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 3: I spoke with Devin Riley today. He and his crew 104 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 3: have been cleaning up the mess left behind by all 105 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 3: of this. 106 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 4: Oh, this will take us weeks to get back to 107 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 4: some semblance of where it was. I mean, we're we're 108 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 4: our crew is our orchard crews out here just helping 109 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 4: us get stuff cleaned up enough to where we can function. 110 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 4: And then we've still got apples to pick. 111 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna say, so you guys win. So 112 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 3: are you picking apples right now? 113 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, apples have started. We started with our earliest variety, 114 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 4: so we've got lots on the ground from from the weekend. 115 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 4: So we're gonna try and salvage what we can for 116 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 4: making hard sider and then everything else, we're gonna. 117 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:56,679 Speaker 3: Gonna be going through the mud trying to get these things. 118 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 4: They're not in the mud. Fortunately up there it's higher 119 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 4: elevation and the mud really didn't hit that, but just 120 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,359 Speaker 4: the wind knocked a lot off. 121 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 3: But so that really hurts your harvest. 122 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 4: Well it's you know, we've got a good harvest, so 123 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 4: but I wouldn't be surprised if I got about twenty 124 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 4: percent on the ground right now. 125 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 2: So that, yeah, that hurts. 126 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 3: And the other thing, Doug is, you know, mud went 127 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 3: through one of his shops. He has a shop and 128 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 3: mud just breezed right through it. So right now they're 129 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 3: working to clean the mud out of that shop as well. 130 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to apply to FEMA because we've got 131 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 2: an apple tree. We've never gotten a single apple off 132 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 2: at the squirrels get them before we do, So maybe 133 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 2: I can get a trailer or something out of or 134 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 2: some cheese or something from FEMA to make us whole again. 135 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 2: All right, well, obviously you know the we're gonna have now. 136 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 2: By the way, as the temperatures go right back to 137 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 2: southern California in August, we're gonna have Houston weather. We're 138 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 2: gonna have humidity like we can't believe with eighty to 139 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 2: ninety degree temperatures by the end of the week. We'll 140 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 2: all be complaining about that. But you know something, when 141 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 2: we get back to just complaining about routine things, that 142 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 2: means that we all got through it in perfect shape. 143 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 2: So all well and good Blake, thanks so much for 144 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 2: being with us, and we'll continue to update you throughout 145 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:08,480 Speaker 2: the course of the day. That's Blake Trolley Cafi's covering 146 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 2: this story from the San Bernardino Mountains. Palm Springs obviously 147 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 2: got hit big with lots of road closures down there, 148 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 2: and all the places that you would expect to have 149 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 2: been hit hard were hit hard. We're very fortunate that 150 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 2: despite the heavy rains that for the most part, all 151 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 2: the vulnerable areas here in southern California got through it 152 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 2: pretty good. We haven't hear any reports of big mud 153 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 2: slides or landslides up in Malibu and the cliffs and 154 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 2: all that. Yeah, to Peggy Canyon is open and that 155 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 2: usually closes just if somebody sprinklers go off, so that's 156 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 2: kind of astonishing. And the roads are clean. I gotta 157 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 2: say one thing driving around I was last week. I 158 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 2: was on the East Coast. I was in Boston, New 159 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 2: Jersey and New York and then back on Thursday night. 160 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 2: And one thing that struck me immediately being in Boston 161 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 2: was how clean the streets were, I mean really all 162 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 2: over the city. And that shocked me because I guess 163 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 2: I've gotten numb that streets supposed to look like the 164 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 2: ones that we drive on here in LA and it 165 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 2: turns out other people don't live like that. But driving 166 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 2: to KFI after this heavy rain, he said, Wow, it 167 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 2: looks like department of Sanitation got it. No, no, no, 168 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 2: it was mother nature did it. Anyway, lot's talk about today, 169 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 2: including later on. A couple of local landmarks have gone away, 170 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 2: had nothing to do with tropical Storm Hillary taking them away, 171 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 2: but we'll talk about those. And millions of kids are 172 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 2: missing weeks of school all across the country. We're going 173 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 2: to discuss the implications of that. Joe Biden going off 174 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:36,559 Speaker 2: to Maui finally to be the shoulder to cry on 175 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 2: in chief, which is what I guess we expect of 176 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 2: presidents these days. So lots of things to get into. 177 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 2: But I also want to talk about these natural disasters 178 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 2: because we had a week of hype about tropical Storm 179 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 2: Hillary coming into southern California, where responsible people were giving 180 00:08:55,760 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 2: responsible warnings that people took responsibly and to prevent themselves, 181 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 2: probably prevented a lot of damage, maybe even saved lives. 182 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 2: But now that we brushed it off relatively, you know, 183 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:12,959 Speaker 2: without major harm, does that set us up for future 184 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 2: disasters because people won't take it seriously. We'll get into 185 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,199 Speaker 2: that in just a bit, but right now I'm macutarre 186 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 2: in for John and Can on a KFI AM six 187 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 2: forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 188 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 189 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: AM six forty. 190 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 2: We got lots to talk about a couple including a 191 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 2: couple of landmarks in Los Angeles that are gone bye bye, 192 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 2: and nothing related by the way, to Tropical Storm Hillary. 193 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 2: So we'll get into that. And millions of kids across 194 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,319 Speaker 2: this country are missing weeks and weeks of school the 195 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 2: implications of that, So we'll get into all that more. 196 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 2: But on the subject of the way we responded and 197 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 2: the way we came through Tropical Storm Hillary, for the 198 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,559 Speaker 2: most part really well. There are obviously places that were 199 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,119 Speaker 2: hit back, and there were lots of homeowners and businesses. 200 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 2: They're going to suffer a lot of damage. The water 201 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 2: damaged and mudslides and things like that. Terribly disruptive. But 202 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 2: for the most part, we got through it really well. 203 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 2: And let's face it, we had lots of heads up 204 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 2: that this was coming and to prepare for it, and 205 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 2: we got lucky that Fortunately the winds depending on where 206 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 2: you were on my bly, I live in the West 207 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 2: San Fernando Valley, we had no wind. It all look 208 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 2: like an oil painting with rain. But didn't you get 209 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 2: a lot of wind in the middle of the night 210 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 2: that woke me up. Almost no wind whatsoever. It was 211 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,439 Speaker 2: astonishingly quiet. And the trees that came down. There's these 212 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 2: decorative trees. Robin Bertolucci knew what they were. I didn't, 213 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:38,439 Speaker 2: though I don't know anything about nature. I mean, I 214 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 2: believe in the great indoors. But there are these trees 215 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 2: with flowers all over them, and they they collected so 216 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 2: much water. The weight of the water and the flower 217 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 2: petals pulled the trees over. I took the loppers and 218 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:50,839 Speaker 2: went down and cut the branches off. So I got 219 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 2: my car off the block to come here this morning. 220 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 2: But there was no wind damage. We just didn't have 221 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 2: any wind whatsoever. We just had a lot of rain. 222 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 2: So for the most part, we got through it. But 223 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 2: we also had lots and lots of media hype saying 224 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 2: this thing is coming. We had everybody from emergency services 225 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 2: everywhere is saying take it seriously, be very careful with this, 226 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. And for the most part, I 227 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 2: think people did, unlike those hurricane stories to see in 228 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 2: the East Coast where they've had lots of them, and 229 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 2: people decide I'm going to ride it out. How many 230 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 2: times have you seen that guy on you know, on 231 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 2: the outer banks of North Carolina, you know where Wilbert 232 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 2: Orville flew. And the guy says, I've written out every 233 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 2: storm since nineteen oh aught and since you know, the 234 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 2: right brothers were here, and I'm going to ride this 235 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 2: one out too. And for the most part, people successfully 236 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 2: do those things, and then along comes a big one 237 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 2: and the next thing you know, they're gone. It's like 238 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 2: that guy Harry Truman who is up on Mount Saint 239 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 2: Helen's and refused to evacuate until the volcano blew up, 240 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 2: and that was the end of Harry Truman, not the president, 241 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 2: the guy who lived on the volcano. So we had 242 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 2: this event and it turned out for a lot of 243 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:01,320 Speaker 2: people to be rain. Now the question is is as 244 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 2: we go forward with a hotter Earth and more freak 245 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:08,839 Speaker 2: storms seemed to be happening everywhere, and more freak weather 246 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 2: conditions seemed to be happening everywhere, what if this becomes 247 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 2: a regular pattern. And now this was our first taste 248 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 2: of a quote unquote tropical storm. Because I got to 249 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 2: tell you, having grown up on the East Coast where 250 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 2: we had a lot of these things, one of my 251 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 2: earliest childhood memories, and I mean that one of my 252 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 2: very earliest childhood memories is from nineteen sixty one, and 253 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 2: it was Hurricane Donna that came across Long Island, and 254 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 2: I remember my dad taking me for a walk up 255 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 2: the block and there was a cabin cruiser. We lived 256 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 2: nowhere near the water. There was a cabin cruiser that 257 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 2: was in the middle of the road shredded. You could 258 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 2: see a trail of lumber that had come off the hall. 259 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 2: It was scraped right up the street and shredded. And 260 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 2: that was a very exciting thing to see as a 261 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 2: little kid. So, you know, we used to have those 262 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 2: storms on a fairly regular basis. In fact, about two 263 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 2: weeks before I moved to California, there was a fast 264 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 2: moving hurricane that came across New York and I had 265 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 2: a convertible a time at a sixty six Ford Galaxy 266 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:07,840 Speaker 2: five hundred. The thing was a three iron from the 267 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 2: trunk to the hood. It was an enormous car. He 268 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:11,839 Speaker 2: used to go through about a half a tank of 269 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 2: gas well parked. You know, it's just enormous, exactly the 270 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 2: wrong car to drive cross country in. But I was 271 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 2: getting the radiator replaced, and it was in a shop 272 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 2: and the guy had a Junkyard dog that he did 273 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,199 Speaker 2: not take indoors during the hurricane. He left it outside 274 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 2: during a hurricane. So I went to pick up my 275 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 2: car the next day and the roof is shredded, and 276 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 2: he's trying to tell me that the hurricane did it. 277 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 2: I said, no, this claw prints. The dog freaked in 278 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 2: the storm, because like an idiot, you left the dog 279 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 2: out in the hurricane and it was terrified and it 280 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 2: ran over all the cars. There's paw prints and he 281 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 2: shredded the roof of my car. That did more damage 282 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 2: than the hurricane did. But here we are with a 283 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 2: storm now that was hyped up like so many things 284 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 2: are by US media types and public officials who don't 285 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 2: want to be accused of not turning the sirens on, 286 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 2: like that dope in Maui who didn't turn the warning 287 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 2: sirens on. They turned them on a Disneyland, by the way, 288 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:08,959 Speaker 2: during the storm. Did you hear that. Gary Hoffman did 289 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:11,839 Speaker 2: that story the roller coaster some rides were going when 290 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 2: the rain. I liked it. By the way, they didn't 291 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 2: shut Disneyland down. California Adventure, so they turned the sirens 292 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 2: on at Disneyland. They didn't in Maui while people are 293 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 2: burning alive. But so public officials will always overworn so 294 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 2: that you can't say we didn't tell you up front, 295 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 2: and then you have all the political fallout. But what 296 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 2: happens is when we have a big event that is 297 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 2: promised to be catastrophic, life threatening, and everybody says, there's 298 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 2: just a lot of rain. We've been through that before. 299 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 2: They do this in Seattle fifteen times a year, what's 300 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 2: the big deal. Then the next time you have one 301 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 2: and whammo. Now people said, hi, do who knew? Who 302 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 2: knew was going to happen? Well, everybody who has ever 303 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 2: been through an actual hurricane and even tropical storms where 304 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 2: there's real wind knows that they could be tremendously impactful, enormously. 305 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:04,359 Speaker 2: We just but this is what we do with earthquakes. 306 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 2: By the way, if they have a three point two 307 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 2: tembler in New Jersey, people are talking about it for 308 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 2: a month, but we don't even get out of bed 309 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 2: for less than five six Siah, we don't even think 310 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 2: about it. You know, maybe I have a couple of 311 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 2: the pictures on the wall or crooked you know, we 312 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 2: get to apply for a government grant to get that, 313 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 2: you know, repaired, But for the most part, you just 314 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 2: get numb to whatever the natural hazard is in your area. 315 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 2: And I also it's one of the oddities, by the way, 316 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 2: the prettier the place, the more things there are that 317 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 2: nature can dish up that can kill you. It's absolutely true, 318 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 2: either geologically or climactically. That's what makes places pretty is 319 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 2: you know, you go up to Big Surrey to see 320 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 2: all those beautiful trees that are sort of arked over. 321 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 2: They're bent over from the wind coming off the ocean. 322 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 2: Well that's because you've got wind coming off the ocean 323 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 2: twelve months out of the year at sixty knots. That's 324 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 2: going to leave an impact on mother and on the landscape. 325 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 2: But the prettier the place is we gotta place up 326 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 2: in Oregon, in Tillamook County, where there's tsunami warnings everywhere, 327 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 2: and there's the ocean, there's a bay, there's five rivers 328 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 2: coming down, there's farms, there's cliffs, there's seagulls, there's sea otters, 329 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 2: there's eagles, there's all kinds of stuff. By the way, see, 330 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 2: I only see it through the window. I never go 331 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 2: out into any of it. But the point is that 332 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 2: it's beautiful, but it's constantly at risk of killing us, 333 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 2: either knocking the house off the hill or being swallowed 334 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 2: by a tsunami. So that's one of the ironies. The 335 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 2: prettier the place, the more likely it is that something's 336 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 2: gonna get you. On a day and day out basis, 337 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 2: in southern California, it's earthquakes, riots, floods, and fires. Okay, 338 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 2: that's the four seasons, right, and perpetual gridlock. Let's stop 339 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 2: speaking of stopped and gridlock. Let's stop for some headlines. 340 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 2: He's Deborah Mark. 341 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 342 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: AM six forty. 343 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 2: Next our Royal Oaks is going to talk to us 344 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 2: about how how in the world the Purdue Pharma people 345 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 2: are still not in jail and the Supreme Court agreeing 346 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 2: with the Department of Justice over a settlement that shields 347 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 2: the Sackler family, who are the owners of Purdue Farm 348 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:15,959 Speaker 2: and the opioid really the ones who fueled the opioid 349 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:18,959 Speaker 2: crisis in America and around the world. So we'll get 350 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 2: into that with Royal later on. Obviously, update you latest 351 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 2: as any news comes in on the aftermath of Tropical 352 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:27,439 Speaker 2: Storm Hillary. There are places, especially up in the San 353 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 2: Berandino Mountains areas Palm Springs, that were badly affected by it. Luckily, blessedly, 354 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:34,199 Speaker 2: for most of us, we got through it with just 355 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 2: a lot of rain. A couple of landmarks are no 356 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:39,919 Speaker 2: more in LA and it has absolutely nothing to do 357 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:45,680 Speaker 2: with the weather. Gladstones out there on Pacific Coast Highway 358 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 2: is closing their doors, I think September fifteenth. Now here's 359 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:54,120 Speaker 2: the thing about Gladstones. Everybody's been there and nobody's ever 360 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 2: enjoyed the vote. I got food poisoning from there. I 361 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 2: believe it, I absolutely believe it. But it served a 362 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 2: purpose because for me, Gladstone's was planned b two Universal Studios. 363 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 2: When someone came from out of town, you got you 364 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 2: got your cousins in town. It's day three. You've got 365 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:18,959 Speaker 2: nothing left to say. You've already brought them to Universal Studios. 366 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 2: So that box has been checked. What are you gonna do? 367 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:25,639 Speaker 2: Drive out and feed French fries to the seagulls all 368 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 2: right while you're trying to just swat, you know, birds 369 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 2: that are crapping on your hamburger while you're trying to 370 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 2: get through the meal. But Gladstones, I guess, operated on 371 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 2: a lease and the lease has expired. They're going to 372 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,199 Speaker 2: bulldoze the place, build something new, and I think Wolfgang 373 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 2: Puck is gonna build a restaurant there. So Gladstone's going away. 374 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 2: And another landmark has folded its tent, and that is 375 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 2: the Pickwick Bowl in Burbank, the place where so many 376 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:57,199 Speaker 2: over sixty years, how many eleven year olds had their 377 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 2: birthday parties at Pickwick Bowl and the Bowling Alley. I 378 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:02,879 Speaker 2: think the ice getting rink is staying open, but the 379 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 2: catering hall and the bowling Alley has closed after sixty years. 380 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 2: I actually had an agent in my writing business back 381 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 2: in my TV days. I had an agent who through 382 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 2: the agency Christmas party at Pickwick Bowl, and the caption 383 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 2: to that was thousand hours at play because I realized 384 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 2: nobody getting a three picture deal from Paramount was at 385 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:31,400 Speaker 2: that event. There was nobody from Endeavor or CIA who 386 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 2: is throwing gutter balls at Pickwick for the Christmas party anyway, 387 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 2: So we got those stories. Now, this is a really 388 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 2: significant story, and part of this is the long tale 389 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 2: of COVID protocols. But I saw this piece in the 390 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 2: La Daily News that millions of kids are missing weeks 391 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:56,159 Speaker 2: of school every year now across the country, students have 392 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 2: been abstin at record rates since school's reopened. During the 393 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 2: pandem more than a quarter of students missed at least 394 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,640 Speaker 2: ten percent of the twenty one to twenty two school year, 395 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:09,440 Speaker 2: making them chronically absent. According to the most recent data, 396 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,639 Speaker 2: and before the pandemic, only about fifteen percent of students 397 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 2: missed that much school all told, and estimated six point 398 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 2: five million additional students became chronically absent. This is according 399 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 2: to a study done by Stanford University and it's data 400 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 2: crunch from Washington d C, forty States and Washington d C. 401 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 2: Absences were more prevalent among Latino, black and low income students, 402 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 2: which is almost always the case when we see these 403 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:37,640 Speaker 2: things happen, and we can spend the rest of our 404 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 2: lives trying to get to the bottom of that. But 405 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,680 Speaker 2: this one story is told by an eleven year old 406 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:49,719 Speaker 2: student named Rosemary Negron. Her eleven year old son noticed 407 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 2: a change after COVID parents were no longer allowed in 408 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:57,119 Speaker 2: the building without appointments. Punishments were more severe, everyone seemed 409 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:00,080 Speaker 2: less more angry, and the kid didn't want to go 410 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 2: go to school, so she didn't feel it was safe 411 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 2: for him to be there. He ended up missing. Get this, 412 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 2: he missed five months of the sixth grade. Five months, Deborah, 413 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,479 Speaker 2: I see your mouth hanging on. I can't believe that, 414 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 2: consider how little our kids are learning going to school. 415 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,400 Speaker 2: Can you imagine what it's like to have a kid 416 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 2: going into the seventh grade after having missed five months 417 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,400 Speaker 2: of the sixth grade? And this is apparently happening all 418 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 2: over the place. We've got Elmer rolled on a Communities 419 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 2: in School of Los Angeles executive said, for almost two years, 420 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 2: we told families that school can look different and that 421 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 2: schoolwork could be accomplished in times outside of the traditional 422 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 2: eight to three day. In other words, all these zoom 423 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 2: classes and taking things remotely. So people are either opting 424 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:52,199 Speaker 2: out or they're just literally letting your kids, you know, 425 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 2: stay home from school and just missing school. And you know, 426 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 2: when you consider how short the school I no parents 427 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 2: hate hearing this, but the American school calendar is microscopically 428 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 2: short compared to other countries, especially the Asian countries in Japan, 429 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 2: where kids are like school thirteen months a year. I 430 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 2: don't even know how they do it. They're there twenty 431 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,199 Speaker 2: five hours a day, thirteen months a year. They're in school, 432 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,880 Speaker 2: and our kids show up occasionally and then belly ache 433 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 2: like crazy, as if they're being asked to work an 434 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 2: assault mind or to go looking for those minerals they 435 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 2: use in the LED batteries for Tesla's, you know, like 436 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 2: it's some kind of hardship to go to the fifth grade. Now, 437 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:31,879 Speaker 2: that's not to say that there aren't problems. There is 438 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 2: all kinds of problems that kids face today that I 439 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:36,359 Speaker 2: did not have to face when I was in the 440 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 2: fifth grade. There's cyber bullying, there's fears of live shooter 441 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 2: drills and all this crazy stuff and all these mandates 442 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,919 Speaker 2: that are piled on. But the bottom line is is 443 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 2: that American kids are not in school a lot, and 444 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 2: we are short changing them in terms of the fundamentals. 445 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 2: They're read and write and arithmetic stuff, American history, things 446 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 2: like civic This is one of the reasons. I'm absolutely 447 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,399 Speaker 2: convinced of this that one of the reasons we have 448 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,679 Speaker 2: such low voter turnout is we don't teach how government works, 449 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 2: and therefore why would anybody pay attention to it. It's 450 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 2: like I don't watch English rules football because I don't 451 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 2: know what the hell it is. Cricket and all those 452 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 2: sports that are on Channel eight hundred, I fly right 453 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 2: past them because I can't make heads or tails of it. Well, 454 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 2: if you don't teach how government works, well then when 455 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 2: people just say this isn't for me, but they you know, 456 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 2: they understand season eight of The Bachelor. You know, they've 457 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 2: seen all that stuff. So the priorities are kind of 458 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,919 Speaker 2: screwed up, to say the least. But this is really astonishing. 459 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,400 Speaker 2: I mean, if you miss a key week in school, 460 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 2: you can literally miss like the entire Civil War. You 461 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 2: could you could learn nothing about the Civil War if 462 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:48,880 Speaker 2: you have the flu, for one. If if if you're 463 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,719 Speaker 2: the flu lines up in the right week, then you 464 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,159 Speaker 2: could go through the rest of your life knowing nothing. 465 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 2: And that's how you end up with those YouTube videos 466 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,439 Speaker 2: of people say, you know, they go up to somebody 467 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:01,920 Speaker 2: man on the they asked some young person who fought 468 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 2: in the Civil War. They'll say Germany. It was Germany, 469 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 2: wasn't it. It had something to do with Hitler al 470 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,159 Speaker 2: Hitler or what you know? And you shake your head, go, 471 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 2: oh my god, how is it possible for this person 472 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,640 Speaker 2: to function being this ill informed. I don't even want 473 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,160 Speaker 2: to say stupid, because it doesn't mean that people are stupid. 474 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 2: It just means that they are ignorant in the true 475 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,879 Speaker 2: sense and the definitional sense of what ignorance is that 476 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:30,680 Speaker 2: they don't have the information. And you know, baby boomers 477 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 2: are constantly doing this online. I see this all the 478 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 2: time of my peers. Can you believe we saw all 479 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:40,239 Speaker 2: of the good bands? That's just such a bs arch. 480 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 2: Don't throw that in a young person's face, because, believe me, 481 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,919 Speaker 2: the people that were screaming like crazy at you know, 482 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,679 Speaker 2: the swifties at Sofi Stadium are having the time of 483 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,919 Speaker 2: their lives. They don't want to hear about when you 484 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:55,359 Speaker 2: got high it a led Zeppelin concert forty five years ago. 485 00:24:55,600 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 2: They've got their own memories. But some things aren't experience 486 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,919 Speaker 2: that is interchangeable generationally, Like you should know what the 487 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,439 Speaker 2: freezing temperature of water is, you should know what the 488 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 2: boiling point of water is. You should know how a 489 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 2: bill becomes a law, and not just hope that your 490 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 2: kid sees Jack Sheldon singing it on school House rock. 491 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 2: You know, we basically punted civics to a cartoon for 492 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 2: fifty years. So but you know, let's start with something 493 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 2: so fundamental. Kids got to go to school, they have 494 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 2: to be educated, and you know, then we made all 495 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 2: this stuff. We started putting all of these social you know, 496 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 2: I'm not trying to not use the w word, the 497 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 2: woke word, but there's all this kind of these extracurricular 498 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,160 Speaker 2: isms that have been attached to academia, where some things 499 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 2: are just foundational. Basic mask is, Look, I'm an imbecile 500 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 2: when it comes to mathematics. My wife doesn't let me 501 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 2: take the check book out of the house, and for 502 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 2: good reason. All right, was with a point zh three 503 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 2: percentile in mathematics scores, which meant ninety seven percent of 504 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,719 Speaker 2: the country tested higher in math than I did as 505 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 2: a kid. All Right, I could barely read the page 506 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,160 Speaker 2: numbers in the math book, forget about the actual math. 507 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 2: But thank god, somebody knows how to do it, because 508 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 2: otherwise I don't want to drive over the bridge. I 509 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 2: don't want to drive over a bridge that was built 510 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 2: on an opinion. I'd like somebody ton't know how to 511 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 2: read a slide role. So we teach people things a 512 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 2: foundation of information in those grade schools, and then some 513 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 2: people find their lanes and some people will go into 514 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 2: the arts, some people will go into the sciences, some 515 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 2: people will be mathematics. Some people will end up in crafts. 516 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 2: They'll end up as carpenters or plumbers or whatever. We 517 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,199 Speaker 2: need those people too desperately. But the idea that you 518 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 2: could be in the sixth grade. I missed five months 519 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 2: of the sixth grade because you don't feel like going 520 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 2: to school. That's on the parents. 521 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 522 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 1: AM six forty. 523 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 2: Coming up next hour, we're going to talk with Royal 524 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 2: Oaks about the opioid addiction and Purdue Pharma in the 525 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 2: Sackler family. They're the ones who got a lot of 526 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:16,160 Speaker 2: people hooked on opioids, and how the Supreme Court has 527 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,879 Speaker 2: agreed with Department of Justice to review a settlement that 528 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 2: shields the Sackler family. And we'll get into all of that, obviously, 529 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 2: update you on all the conditions in the areas that 530 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,880 Speaker 2: were badly hit by Tropical Storm Hillary. How we got 531 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 2: other stuff to get into throughout the course. Is your 532 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 2: starter home also going to be your finisher home. It 533 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,159 Speaker 2: very well could be your finisher home. So we'll get 534 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,680 Speaker 2: into all of those things and more throughout the course 535 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:44,879 Speaker 2: in Conway at four o'clock. Meanwhile, President Biden is on 536 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,120 Speaker 2: his way to Maui to be the shoulder to cry 537 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 2: on in chief. This is a role for presidents that 538 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 2: has really kicked into high gear. I think that you know, 539 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 2: presidents have gone to visit disaster sites periodically throughout our history. 540 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 2: But when Bill Clinton went to Tulsa, Oklahoma after the 541 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 2: Mere Building bomb bombing, uh, it actually saved his presidency. 542 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 2: Shortly before that time, there were literally he had lost control, 543 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,479 Speaker 2: nuke Gingrich had become the Speaker of the House. There 544 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 2: were conversations, open conversations. At a press conference, he was 545 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 2: once asked whether or not his presidency was still relevant, 546 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 2: and he Hamanahamedid through the answer it with Amenamani had 547 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 2: to kind of come up with an answer. And then 548 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,199 Speaker 2: the Mere Building bombing took place, and he went and 549 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 2: he hugged a lot of people and people cried in 550 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 2: his arms, and he handled it with empathy, and it 551 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 2: actually turned his fortunes as political fortunes around well. As 552 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 2: you know, George W. Bush was late going to Hurricane Katrina. 553 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 2: He had a very good reason for doing that, because 554 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 2: when a president shows up at one of these places, 555 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,920 Speaker 2: they bring the Secret Service, have to go, They got 556 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 2: to shut down streets, they got to do all that stuff, 557 00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 2: even in the middle of a disaster. In fact, even 558 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 2: more so in a disaster, the Secret Service is concerned 559 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 2: because of the chaos. So it's an intrusion onto an 560 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 2: already overtaxed emergency response system. And he was heavily criticized 561 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 2: for that. And then, of course it didn't help that 562 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 2: when he got there he told the head of FEMA, 563 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 2: you're doing a good job, brownie, And meanwhile people were drowning. 564 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 2: And by the way, just as a diversion digression, I 565 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,719 Speaker 2: should say, that was another storm that people were fully 566 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 2: warned of, huge front page pictures on the newspaper in 567 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 2: Orleans Times, picky you, and of the entire Gulf of 568 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 2: Mexico filled with a hurricane coming right for them. And 569 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 2: they didn't get the school buses out. They let him flood, 570 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 2: you know. So that was on them. But that has 571 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 2: a lot to do with why people now over warn 572 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 2: people about these disasters, because people somehow block it out 573 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 2: like in Maui where they didn't turn on the sirens. 574 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 2: Maui's on fire, possibly hundreds of people. The locals are 575 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 2: saying it's over four hundred people. The official town account 576 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 2: is over a hundred of people who lost their lives. Well, 577 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 2: now President Biden is over there, and he was criticized 578 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 2: for not going right away. But again there's the issue. 579 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 2: If you go right away, it's a disaster. The infrastructure 580 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 2: of Maui has been wiped out. The last thing they 581 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 2: need is a helicopter coming in, bringing in you know, 582 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 2: armored limousines and all the things that come with a president. 583 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 2: So he's going now. But this is now a it's 584 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 2: a symbolic perhaps role of the modern era where apparently 585 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 2: the president is damned if he does and damned if 586 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 2: he doesn't. If you go, you're accused of exploiting a 587 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 2: tragedy for political purposes. And if you don't go, you're 588 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,080 Speaker 2: a heartless bastard. You know, it doesn't care about the 589 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 2: suffering of Americans. And that's that's where Joe Biden is 590 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 2: right now. He's on his way over to Maui. Because 591 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 2: in the picture era of news, I don't believe that 592 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 2: in previous era that in the Johnstown flood, the president 593 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 2: had to go there and talk paper towels to the 594 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 2: people of Pennsylvania, like President Trump did down to Puerto Rico, 595 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 2: where he was throwing spirals of bounty the quicker picker 596 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:12,240 Speaker 2: upers of the people in Puerto Rico. By the way, 597 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 2: that didn't play very well either. How you behave once 598 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 2: you show up at a natural catastrophe also has a 599 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 2: lot to do with how you are received politically as 600 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:27,720 Speaker 2: a result of one of these natural catastrophes. But anyway, 601 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 2: the president, at eighty years of ages on Air Force one, 602 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,280 Speaker 2: flying halfway around the world to go to Maui to 603 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 2: see with his own eyes, even though there's no secret 604 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,880 Speaker 2: as to what happened, there was a horrible tragedy that 605 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 2: unfortunately may have been preventable. It may in fact have 606 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,840 Speaker 2: been preventable if we have another situation like down power 607 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 2: lines that they had been warned about apparently for decades 608 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 2: that were not safe. And we've seen that. We've seen 609 00:31:55,760 --> 00:32:00,200 Speaker 2: that movie before, haven't we far too many times? So anyway, 610 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,840 Speaker 2: we got that. We also got Donald Trump not going 611 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 2: to go to the presidential debate at Iowa, so I 612 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 2: have finally something in common with Donald Trump because I'm 613 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 2: not going to go to the Iowa presidential debates either. 614 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,080 Speaker 2: I'm not going to watch it. I'm just way too early. Sorry. 615 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 2: That's like watching a spring training split squad game. You know, 616 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 2: where the angels are playing the angels. When you're watching 617 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:26,160 Speaker 2: the Iowa caucus debates and there's forty three people in 618 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 2: the debates, that is you will you really have to 619 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 2: examine how into politics you have become, because that is 620 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 2: that is a cry for help, It really is. Anyway, 621 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 2: so we got all that, hey, shameless self promotion. I 622 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 2: got to remind you, I got this book called Frank Shadow. 623 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 2: A lot of you were kind enough to come out. 624 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 2: There were this amazed me. There were people who listened 625 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,240 Speaker 2: to Tim Conway Junior who came to Barnes and Noble, 626 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:57,000 Speaker 2: and I'm pretty sure that if Conway himself had showed up, 627 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,400 Speaker 2: it would have been the first time he ever set 628 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 2: foot in the bookstore. But anyway, the people listening to 629 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 2: Conway's show came to the bookstore. So Frank Shadow. It's 630 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:10,080 Speaker 2: available at Bornes Andoble dot com and at Amazon dot 631 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 2: com and at Doug McIntyre dot com Byle you can 632 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,080 Speaker 2: get sign copies and my Lovely Bride Penny Pies or 633 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 2: her wonderful show. Sonets from Suburbia is making an appearance 634 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,920 Speaker 2: September sixth and the twentieth at seven pm at the 635 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:26,280 Speaker 2: Stephanie Fury Theater on Melrose. And this is gonna be 636 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 2: the September sixth, so coming up quickly and September twentieth, 637 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,840 Speaker 2: seven pm at the Stephanie Fury Theater on Melrose. And 638 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,560 Speaker 2: it's a great night out, if I may say so myself. 639 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 2: It's one fifty eight lock coming up. We're here until 640 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,240 Speaker 2: four with Conway. Right now, let's go get some headlines. 641 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 2: He's Debra Mark. 642 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: Hey, you've been listening to the John and Ken Show. 643 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,960 Speaker 4: You can always hear us live on KFI AM six 644 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,360 Speaker 4: forty one pm to four pm every Monday through Friday, 645 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,000 Speaker 4: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.