1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,720 Speaker 1: Around the radio from one until four. After four o'clock, 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: go to the app for the John and Kent podcast. 3 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:08,160 Speaker 1: John and Can on demand as hoardes and mobs of 4 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,559 Speaker 1: JOHNA can listeners who are doing now and you can 5 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: hear what you miss. 6 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well, we're going to begin this hour 7 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:18,280 Speaker 2: with a subject that has been making headlines from California, 8 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 2: although in fact I even ran to somebody this weekend 9 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 2: who asked me about it. You see, back in twenty twenty, 10 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 2: when George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, politicians from all 11 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 2: over the country we're trying to find a way to, 12 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 2: how else do I put it, capitalize that with some 13 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 2: sort of major change. We follow a lot of their 14 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,160 Speaker 2: actions over the years. One thing that happened in California 15 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:41,159 Speaker 2: was Assembly Bill three to one to two to one, 16 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 2: and here it is the Task Force to study and 17 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 2: develop reparations proposals for African Americans with a special consideration 18 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 2: for African Americans who are descendants of persons enslaved in 19 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 2: the United States. 20 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 3: So here we are. 21 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 2: Three years later and they're pretty much done and coming 22 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 2: out with their record commendations. It has immediately raised a 23 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 2: firestorm because the recommendations include millions of dollars in payments, 24 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 2: and they doesn't have the money. First of all, we 25 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 2: even caused Gavin Newsom last week to say something that 26 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 2: everyone jumped on when he said, well, you know, it's 27 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 2: not just about cash payments. Well, sort of downplay. 28 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 1: Because there was an estimate that it would cost California 29 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: eight hundred billion dollars, which would be almost three times 30 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: our annual budget eight hundred billion billion with a B. 31 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:36,039 Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm actually looking at the task force members. 32 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 2: One of them were actually threw in the dumpster a 33 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 2: couple weeks ago. State Senator Stephen Bradford from Guardina, remember that. 34 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, he thinks it's cool that drug pushers are 35 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: killing your teenagers with feandel, right, because that was the 36 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 1: bill that you could put fentanyl pushers in prison for 37 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: murder when their fentanyl kills your teenager. 38 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 3: He's against that, Oh, he's passionately that. 39 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 2: But they's part of the crowd that doesn't want anybody 40 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 2: else in the prisons. But he's he's on the task force. 41 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 2: And we have a report here from Fox forty and 42 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 2: Sacramento reporter named Nikki Lorenzo talking to Bradford did listen 43 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 2: carefully because he's kind of drawn a curtain on this 44 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 2: idea of one point two million dollars to every black resident. 45 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 3: Let's listen. 46 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 4: So I want to ask you about the outcome. Not 47 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 4: only is the member of this task force not only 48 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 4: as a state lawmaker, but as a black man. What 49 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 4: a success to you? 50 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 5: Success for me is first to apologize and recognize the 51 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 5: harms and admit to the fact that California, Northish Nation 52 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 5: would be who we are today if it wasn't for 53 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 5: two hundred and fifty years of involuntary servitude by African 54 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 5: Americans and Jim Crow laws that existed for ninety years 55 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 5: after that. First and foremost second is some level of 56 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 5: programs stood up, whether it's continued education, home own assistance, 57 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 5: business assistants, forgiveness of state taxes. We have to have 58 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 5: something concrete and substantial that we offer to African Americans 59 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 5: here in the state of California in order for this 60 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 5: to be real. In order for it to be a success, 61 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 5: it can't be aspirational. It has to be tangible benefits. 62 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 4: So I want to follow up one more time with that. 63 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 4: If cash payments aren't part of that I mean, you know, 64 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 4: how how folks have been at these hearings around the state. 65 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 4: That is the first thing that they ask about. If 66 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 4: that's not part of this, are Californian is going to 67 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 4: see all of the work that you and your colleagues 68 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:32,519 Speaker 4: have done as not successful. 69 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 5: I would hope not, because again, if you understand the 70 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 5: commitment one hundred and sixty years ago regarding reparations, it 71 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 5: was about land. It was forty acres in a mule. 72 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 5: So if we can provide land to Californians at black Californians, 73 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 5: that would be a success. I mean, we're looking at 74 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 5: closing land a few prisons here in the state of California, 75 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 5: making that land available to descendants of slavery. I mean, 76 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 5: we have ways to compensate people sent cash payments, So 77 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 5: I want to set the table that, you know, if 78 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 5: we don't get cash payments, is other ways to you know, 79 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 5: provide reparations to descendants of chadow slavery here in California. 80 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 3: So who's land? 81 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 2: But he really came in the back door of there. 82 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 2: I'm kind of po he wants to close prisons. And 83 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 2: now he's saying, all right, oh, I want to close 84 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 2: prisons anyway, let's give the land to the descendants of slaves. 85 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,799 Speaker 2: Here's the reality, John's Wright. They don't have the money, 86 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:31,679 Speaker 2: and the money is an amazing amount. 87 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 3: They don't have. 88 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:35,359 Speaker 2: We're in a thirty one billion dollar deficit according to 89 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 2: the new numbers. They can't even give a down payment 90 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 2: on the mill. 91 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: When I first heard this, it really seemed like they 92 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: had taken some kind of some kind of crazy drug 93 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:47,799 Speaker 1: that caused severe hallucinations. 94 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 3: But all these numbers are absurd. There's no such thing. 95 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: It'll never happen. Zero percent chance, zero percent chance. We're 96 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 1: handing out eight hundred billion. It's not even going to 97 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 1: be eighty billion. It's not going to even be eight billion. 98 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: Nobody's getting this money. 99 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 2: Apparently they're recommending a minimum of a three hundred and 100 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 2: sixty thousand dollars. 101 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: Because I think it's even going to be that. It's 102 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: not gonna be no, it's gonna be nothing. It's gonna 103 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,919 Speaker 1: be nothing because you know, blacks are like, what is 104 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: it here? I've got the census thing up here and 105 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: where they're like six percent of the state. So you're 106 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: not gonna get the other ninety four percent to pay 107 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: their tax money for this, and what kind of land 108 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 1: are you gonna give them? There's nothing in Los Angeles 109 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: here prison land. He just said, you're gonna give them 110 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: a prison. What in Susanville wherever they're Clinton Corporate. 111 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 2: I don't think they're gonna close them all. Look, you 112 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 2: know what else they're recommending. And again, this is just 113 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 2: the task force. We shouldn't take this too seriously, but 114 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 2: black people should be given priority in the renting and 115 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 2: buying market, and a state agency should have veto power 116 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 2: over real estate decisions to lessen the racial segregation. They 117 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,239 Speaker 2: really went full tilt on this. They thought of every 118 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 2: angle what they believed to be a severe. 119 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 3: Imbound But you know what, that violates the Constitution. 120 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: You can't give preferences based on race when it comes 121 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: to renting out private property. 122 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 3: There's no such thing. 123 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: This stuff violates so many laws and so many parts 124 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 1: of the Constitution. And it is just really a fever dream. 125 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of drug these people snorted, 126 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 1: but they got a hell. 127 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 3: Of a high out of it. It's ridiculous. 128 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 2: They're also calling on the state to raise the state's 129 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 2: minimum wage, already the country's second highest of fifteen dollars 130 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 2: and fifty cents to a living wage. Well, they went 131 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,359 Speaker 2: for everything here. So now there's a lot of stories 132 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 2: over the weekend that this is a nightmare for Newsome 133 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 2: because he doesn't what to do with this. He's a 134 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:53,039 Speaker 2: man that's fasting himself to be president. Most of the 135 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 2: rest of the countries look at this reparations idea like 136 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,280 Speaker 2: are you kidding me? But then he doesn't want to 137 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 2: piss off right, you know, elements of his political background. 138 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 1: Party, but people who actually thought that they were gonna 139 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: get millions of dollars each it doesn't want to. 140 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of people that thought that 141 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 2: this is real. 142 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 3: Yeah really, well, well good. 143 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 1: I hope they're really bad at him because you got played, 144 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 1: you got snookeered, you got suckered. Newsom was never going 145 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: to give you millions of dollars. He knew that all along. 146 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: This was what you said at the beginning. It was 147 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and let's all compete to be the best 148 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: virtue signaler out there. And you'll have black scanning getting 149 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: excited because they're gonna get a check. And then you'll 150 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: have those weird, white, wealthy, woke women who feel so 151 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 1: guilty about the beautiful mansions they live in, and it's 152 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: not really fair because there's so many oppressed people. And yes, 153 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: I want to give up my tax money, please please 154 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: take my bed. 155 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 3: In fact, why why don't we do that? 156 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: Have all the wealthy white woke women give away their 157 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: mansion to a black family. 158 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 3: Go, Okay, there's your reparations. 159 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: Because you people feel so guilty about everything, you are 160 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: so woke, you were so in favor of reparations. You 161 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: give reparations. You donate your land to a poor black family. 162 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: All right, and then you'll finally be relieved of your guilt. 163 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: The burden will be off you and you won't have 164 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: to walk around feeling sad and a shamed any more 165 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: of all the money you have. 166 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 2: All right, we got more coming up. Johnny Ken KFI 167 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 2: AM six forty. We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app Biggest Phonies. 168 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 6: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 169 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 6: AM six forty. 170 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 3: Yeah. 171 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 2: Coming up after two thirty, Carl demiole Be on the 172 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 2: show Reform California, a host on Coco Radio, to update 173 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 2: us on what would have been the next Avenue sum 174 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 2: Maybe this is Nathan Fletcher, who was on the Board 175 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,199 Speaker 2: of Supervisors in San Diego. He had plans to run 176 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 2: for the state Senate and eventually be governor of California 177 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 2: one day. But it's all gone downhill. First he announced 178 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 2: he was going into rehab, that he was exhausted. But 179 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 2: then we learned there was a lawsuit of sexual harassment 180 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 2: from a woman used to work on the board that 181 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 2: he's a member of. So today is officially his last day, 182 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 2: is resigning from the Ellie County Board of Supervisors of 183 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:11,959 Speaker 2: these San Diego County borders. 184 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 3: What are we gonna do without the next Gavin Newsom? 185 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 3: Is that a blow or what? I think? 186 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,599 Speaker 2: This is a good thing. They're probably another idiot like 187 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 2: this somewhere out there. But this guy was definitely leading 188 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 2: the pack in terms of believing he was the up 189 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 2: and comer. 190 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: There's got to be another idiot, right There Always is 191 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: another idiot. 192 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 2: Now on to the subject, and we can talk about 193 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:36,839 Speaker 2: this in a while. Your car and the war and 194 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 2: you're driving. There is a consideration by the Los Angeles 195 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 2: City Council that would remove peak travel time lanes on 196 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 2: the streets of Los Angeles. You see sometimes during peak 197 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 2: periods of driving let's say from six to ten am 198 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 2: in the morning or three to seven in the afternoon, 199 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 2: they open up a lane camp park there, right, you've 200 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 2: seen that, Okay, so you get to use that lane. 201 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:04,839 Speaker 2: So there might be three lanes in each direction during 202 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 2: this particular time of day. Well, the proposal is to 203 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 2: get rid of that and perhaps turn it over to bicyclists. Yeah, 204 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 2: like driving down the buses only, driving. 205 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 1: Down Wilshire Boulevard going home. Sometimes this lane is runs 206 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:22,200 Speaker 1: along the right side and they clear everybody out. Nobody 207 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: can park there between four and seven and traffic moves 208 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: a lot better. And so what this is going to 209 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: do is it's going to stop up traffic on the 210 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: most congested boulevards. 211 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 2: Right And I'm gonna want you to consider alternatives, because 212 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 2: that bus is going to motor on by, you know what, 213 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 2: along with that guy in the bike and his lycra. 214 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: When I run into these bike and bus lanes, I 215 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,199 Speaker 1: just driving them because there's never any cops around and 216 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 1: I don't care if that lane is there is something 217 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 1: are that way all day their bus only or something. 218 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: They are various. Santa Monica has these. For example, Santa 219 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:57,319 Speaker 1: Monica is always ahead of the curve when it comes 220 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: to creating congestion, and you're just simply driving them because 221 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: it's it's practically not enforceable. 222 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 3: That's like the car. They paint them red, right, and 223 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 3: they have you know, they have big lettered signs bus only, 224 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 3: bike only, no cars, Bob Ba, just drive on it. 225 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:15,839 Speaker 3: It's just paint. 226 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: And I think everybody ought to do if they actually 227 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: go through with this, just drive on my eyes. 228 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 2: Deceiving me. Emotion was authored by council members Bob Blumenfield 229 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 2: and Mike Bonard. He's not a council member anymore. Is 230 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:30,319 Speaker 2: this some old thing that they are just passing on 231 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 2: to a committee? 232 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 7: Uh? 233 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 2: Says here. Most peak our lanes were installed many years 234 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 2: ago in an era where vehicle throughput Oh there's a 235 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:43,559 Speaker 2: Gavin Nousseom word throughput was the primary or only consideration 236 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 2: of street design, and the need for a desirability of 237 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,679 Speaker 2: these lanes has not been evaluated since their installation. In 238 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 2: other words, they're saying, oh, we're all moving over to 239 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 2: buses and bicycles. 240 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: This is just outdated that people still have to drive 241 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: their cars to work. Somebody must have inadvertently given Bob 242 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: lumenfeld A Lobottom. Cars are ninety five ninety eight percent 243 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 1: of the choice for a commuter. Bikes are less than 244 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 1: one percent. I mean, it's it's a made up fantasy. 245 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 1: It's stupid. It's just going to create congestion. 246 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 3: You know what. 247 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: One of the stupid things they've created are those stupid 248 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:24,559 Speaker 1: white ballards that they put at the end of blocks 249 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: now at traffic lights or intersections, so you can't make 250 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 1: a right hand turn from the right lane. Oh it's 251 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 1: supposed to cut down on pedestrian deaths or some garbage line. 252 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 1: How do you make you can't or you have to 253 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 1: do it from the middle lane, but you can't sneak 254 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:45,679 Speaker 1: up and do it right on red. 255 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 3: That's what it was trying to stop. 256 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 2: Right on red. Yeah, a lot of people. 257 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: You're trying to get rid of the right on red 258 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: in a lot of places because it keeps traffic moving. 259 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:55,679 Speaker 2: No, I think it kills people. 260 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 3: No, it doesn't, It doesn't kills people. Maybe you know 261 00:12:58,160 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 3: what they've done. 262 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 2: Where I live, they've done the light turns green first 263 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 2: for the pedestrians only, and then it eventually turns green 264 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:06,960 Speaker 2: for the cars. Have you seen that little tactic yes, 265 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 2: to get my head start into the crosswalk. 266 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:12,440 Speaker 1: Except the people who get run over are are drunkent 267 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: homeless people. So why don't you get the drunk of 268 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:16,599 Speaker 1: the homeless people off the street and you'll see the 269 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 1: number of pedestrian deaths go way down. 270 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,839 Speaker 3: We have those follars. Those follards make me want to 271 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 3: get an axe out. And you I haven't seen them because. 272 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: All they put them in Santa Monica and they put 273 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 1: them on the west side of La. 274 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 3: Oh God, they're just awful. 275 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,439 Speaker 1: There's one they put to block me from making a 276 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 1: right turn into the grocery store I go to. 277 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 5: They put it up so. 278 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:42,079 Speaker 3: You could make it right on red to. 279 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: Go into the grocery store, because the grocery store entrance 280 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 1: is right at the traffic light. Yeah, but if you're 281 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:48,680 Speaker 1: in the next lane over and there's nobody in front 282 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 1: of you, aren't you going to make a right on 283 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: red anyway? If there's nobody in front of you, Yeah, 284 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: there's nobody in front of you going straight, but the 285 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 1: right lane, you know people would go with there too. 286 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,040 Speaker 1: That would be the default everyone gets into, right, I 287 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: ain't to make a right on red. 288 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 3: To take them right on red and that would ease 289 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 3: the traffic. 290 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 2: I'd not heard of this. 291 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:04,679 Speaker 3: Yeah yet. 292 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: No, there there's no end to their idiotic ideas. And 293 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 1: it's all so if you're in the right lane, you 294 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: can only go straight because there's bollards preventing you from 295 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: going right. The bollard stop you dead. You have to 296 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: get out of the lane. Oh my god, Yes, I'd 297 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: run them over. 298 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're pretty sturdy, That's what I'm saying. 299 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 2: You know, you get myself a tractor. 300 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 3: Oh I am. 301 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 2: I got a bulldozer. 302 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 1: I'm wishing somebody gets drunk one night and and bulldozeres 303 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: these things, I really do. I hate them so much. 304 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: I hate them so so much. I curse them all 305 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: the time. They're always in the way. All they do 306 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: is block movement. 307 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 2: I take a picture of them. I'd like to see 308 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 2: them sometimes I will. 309 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 3: I will. I'll probably go buy one today right now. 310 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 1: The other thing I have to keep an eye on 311 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: is a nonprofit. 312 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 5: Uh. 313 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 2: And of course I'm very suspicious by the name streets 314 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 2: are for everyone. They have an Assembly bill they're introducing. 315 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 2: They claim it's to go after the people that do 316 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 2: the street takeovers, but really they want to put up 317 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 2: speed cameras. This is just a cover story and other 318 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 2: unsafe driving behavior. 319 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 3: You know this. 320 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 1: A little alarm went off of my head when I 321 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: read this story. You know, how you get rid of 322 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: street takeovers. Have the cops show off, show up, impound 323 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: the cars, and sell the cars. That's what you do. 324 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 1: Those cars are important to those You do that for 325 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 1: one weekend, there'll never be another street takeover. 326 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 3: Just just pass the law. It says. 327 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 1: The penalty is if the police witness you, then they 328 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 1: take your car, and then the cars are sold, you know, 329 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 1: to a to a recycler, so they'll put the cars 330 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 1: into one of those compactors and turn them into a 331 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: little tin box. 332 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 2: Because the way these groups attack these problems, they got 333 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 2: to punish everybody. Well, yeah, nobody likes street takeovers, but 334 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 2: if you're going to put in speed cameras and all 335 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 2: these other safety cameras everywhere, a lot more people are 336 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 2: gonna get grabbed in your net that are actually involved 337 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 2: in the don't care. 338 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: They don't care about street takeovers. They care about taking 339 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: money from us, and they care about making driving more 340 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: difficult for us. Everything is about making driving slower, more congested, 341 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 1: more annoying. Because then we're going to take a metro 342 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 1: train so he could get stabbed in the stabbed in 343 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: the neck with an ice pick. 344 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 2: All right, when we come back, we'll be talking to 345 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 2: Carl Demayo from Reform California. He's been watching this story 346 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 2: involving an up and coming politician from San Diego who's 347 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 2: no longer up and coming. He's been deflated. His name 348 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 2: is Nathan Fletcher. 349 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: He was on the Board of Supervisors, has his eyes 350 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: on being governor someday, but he finally has resigned officially. 351 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: This is his resignation day, and he went out there 352 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: and said, yeah, it almost sounds like he's thinking about 353 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: a comeback at some point, because he tried to downplay everything, 354 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: including this sex harassment story against him. More coming up 355 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: Johnny Ken KFI AM six point forty, we're live everywhere 356 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. 357 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 6: You're listening to John and Ken on demand KFI sixty. 358 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: We're live on the radio from one until four after 359 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 1: four o'clock. Going to the app Johnny Kent Podcast, Johanna 360 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:11,479 Speaker 1: Cannon Demand and you could pick up whatever you had missed. 361 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 2: There was a San Diego County supervisor by the name 362 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 2: of Nathan Fletcher, whose many no followed the politics of 363 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 2: the state. He had his eyes in becoming California governor. 364 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:23,679 Speaker 2: One day, he's come up on our radar a few times, 365 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 2: even though we don't cover every issue in that county. Anyway, 366 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 2: he was going to run for state Senate and he 367 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 2: suddenly changed his mind, said he had to go for rehab. 368 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 2: And then the hammer really fell when a big loss. 369 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:39,719 Speaker 2: It was filed against him. A former Metropolitan Transit System 370 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 2: public relations officer by the name of Grecia Figueroa has 371 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:48,199 Speaker 2: sued him for a sexual harassment retaliation and on and 372 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 2: on and on. That made it more difficult for him 373 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 2: to actually say I'm going to return to the board. 374 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 2: So he announced his resignation, which officially just took place, 375 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 2: and he issued a letter to his stituents insisting it 376 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:06,119 Speaker 2: was consensual that none of this is true. We're going 377 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,440 Speaker 2: to talk now to Carl Demiel, Reform California and COGO 378 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 2: radio host who knows a lot about this story on 379 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:14,359 Speaker 2: the devise of this awful politician. 380 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:18,400 Speaker 1: The story says he was kissing and groping her, including 381 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:23,639 Speaker 1: at a conference in a conference room at the headquarters. 382 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:32,679 Speaker 7: Yeah, this is a pretty detailed complaint. The alleged victim 383 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 7: was terminated from her employment the same day that Nathan 384 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:42,119 Speaker 7: Fletcher announced his big campaign for state Senate, and the 385 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 7: complaint actually has text messages from Nathan Fletcher showing that 386 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 7: he was pursuing her, and she says that she felt 387 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 7: like her job was on the line and that's why 388 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 7: she had to kind of grin and bear it. She 389 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 7: is accusing him of two counts of sexual assault as 390 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 7: well as playing a hand or playing a role in 391 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 7: her wrongful termination from this government agency. Now, I think 392 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,959 Speaker 7: people should also know the listeners should also know that 393 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 7: Nathan Fletcher, while he's a politician, he's married to the 394 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 7: most the most powerful labor union boss in the state 395 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:24,439 Speaker 7: of California, former State assembly Woman Loreena Gonzalez, who she 396 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:28,480 Speaker 7: has styled herself as a champion of worker rights, a 397 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 7: champion of women, who she basically has been out there 398 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 7: with the me Too movement and she has authored a 399 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:40,440 Speaker 7: number of laws that strengthen rights for women and others 400 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 7: who claim sexual harassment in the workplace. Interestingly enough, in 401 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:51,439 Speaker 7: paragraph of forty nine of this complaint, Lorena Gonzalez is 402 00:19:51,640 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 7: accused of basically extortion retaliation herself against this woman, the 403 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:06,360 Speaker 7: woman's attorney. The attorney is claiming that Lorena Gonzalez threatened 404 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:10,239 Speaker 7: the woman that if she didn't stay quiet, that her 405 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 7: reputation would be destroyed permanently. And so here you have 406 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 7: people in the upper echelons of Democrat politics in the 407 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 7: state of California once again showing that there are a 408 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 7: bunch of hypocrites. And so Nathan Fletcher stepping down today. 409 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 7: But the real accountability I don't think is going to 410 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:31,360 Speaker 7: be there, which is, you know, what will we do 411 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:35,200 Speaker 7: to hold someone like Loreena Gonzalez, this labor union boss, 412 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 7: accountable for her alleged misconduct as well. 413 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not getting a lot of comforts that part 414 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 2: of it that you've been talking about. 415 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:46,400 Speaker 7: Of course not because the way that this has been, 416 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 7: you know, kind of scripted, is that everyone knew that 417 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 7: this was coming out. And what they're trying to do 418 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 7: is protect Loreena Gonzalez because she is immensely powerful in 419 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:01,879 Speaker 7: the state of California. She oversees millions of dollars of 420 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:05,920 Speaker 7: campaign contributions. So all of these Democrat politicians who are 421 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 7: trying to cover all this stuff up now in San 422 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 7: Diego and frankly across the state, they don't want to 423 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:13,239 Speaker 7: be on her bad side because they're afraid that she 424 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 7: will retaliate against them politically and with old campaign contributions. 425 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 7: Everyone knows that this is what's going on, and that 426 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 7: Lorena is just having her husband step out of politics. Now, 427 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 7: mind you, he is going to keep a million dollars 428 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 7: in his campaign account surplus funds, and he's going to 429 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,359 Speaker 7: stick the tax beyers of San Diego County with multi 430 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 7: million dollar legal bills and litigation costs because this woman, 431 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:47,680 Speaker 7: she's got a pretty darn good claim against the county 432 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 7: for wrongful termination and at least sexual harassment a hostile 433 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 7: work environment. But Nathan Fletcher is going to stick tax 434 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,680 Speaker 7: bearers with that bill. But he's going to walk off 435 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 7: with a million dollar cash balance in his state senate 436 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 7: campaign account. This is outrageous. He should hand that over 437 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:05,439 Speaker 7: to the treasury to try to defray some of his damage. 438 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:07,680 Speaker 1: You think he's going to try to make a political 439 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 1: comeback after this lawsuit somehow resolves. 440 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:15,440 Speaker 7: Absolutely? Oh absolutely, this guy, This guy is a narcissist. 441 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 7: When when when he initially reacted publicly to this lawsuit, 442 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,359 Speaker 7: you know, two days before it came out, he said 443 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 7: that he was struggling with PTSD because he was a 444 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 7: veteran who served and thought for our freedom. 445 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 3: So he said because of. 446 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 7: That he had yet he had to go get treatment. 447 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 7: And of course I immediately tweeted when that came out. 448 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 7: Anyone who knows Nathan Fletcher knows that he's that there's 449 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 7: something else happening. And of course, within forty eight hours 450 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 7: the lawsuit dropped and he blames he blames sexual harassment 451 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:50,959 Speaker 7: on on PTSD. 452 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:56,399 Speaker 1: So outrageous, PTSD so so serving in the military causes 453 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,120 Speaker 1: like a weird surge and sexual hormones when you walk 454 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 1: by a woman you're attract No, of. 455 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 7: Course, not no, no no. And this is why he 456 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 7: what he's doing is a disservice to any veteran who 457 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,119 Speaker 7: struggles with the very real issue of PTSD is that 458 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:10,640 Speaker 7: he's using that as an excuse. 459 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:12,120 Speaker 3: Oh, I know, I know, I'm just. 460 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 7: Yeah, but it's not associated not associated with sexual assault. 461 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 7: It is associated with suicide, which is why this guy 462 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 7: is a dirt bag. This guy is so bad that 463 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 7: he's hiding behind veterans and PTSD to try to explain 464 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,160 Speaker 7: away his misconduct. 465 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Carl, thank you so much for coming 466 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 1: on and setting it straight on this man and his wife. 467 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:33,160 Speaker 2: Thank you very. 468 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 1: Much, absolutely, thank you to hear PTSD makes you grab 469 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: a woman in a conference room. 470 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,400 Speaker 2: It's called Demio from Reform California and Coco Rady. 471 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 3: He's also blaming uh child abuse as a child. 472 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,679 Speaker 2: Yeah, the saga of Nathan Fletcher and that wife of his, 473 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 2: Larina Gonzalez. 474 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,919 Speaker 1: She's the one who ruined everybody's freelance jobs in the 475 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,400 Speaker 1: Assembly Bill five creation. She's the one that called those 476 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 1: jobs nothing jobs. 477 00:23:58,400 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 2: Anyway. 478 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: She is a political monster. And I guess is there 479 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: a marriage an arrangement? Is that thing real? 480 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 6: Yeah? 481 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 2: I know because now he says, well, I have to 482 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 2: heal my marriage. Time to Okay. 483 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 1: People in politics are so disgusting, aren't they. They're really 484 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 1: like gross people. You wouldn't want to know any of 485 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: them more. 486 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 2: Coming up, Johnny Kaed KFI AM six forty Live Everywhere 487 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. 488 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 6: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 489 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:29,440 Speaker 6: AM six forty. 490 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 3: We're on the radio from one until four. 491 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 1: After four o'clock, you can listen to the iHeart app 492 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:38,719 Speaker 1: John and Ken on demand. 493 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,679 Speaker 3: The podcast, catch up on what you missed. 494 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 2: All right, we got a lot to get to in 495 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,919 Speaker 2: the three o'clock hour, we'll update you on the border situation. Obviously, 496 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 2: the coverage is tamped down significantly over the weekend, but 497 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 2: there's a reason for that. You need to know. It's 498 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,120 Speaker 2: just the same thing they're doing with the criminal justice 499 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:57,719 Speaker 2: system in California. It's just a way of reclassifying things. 500 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 2: That's how they can sneakily say, oh, yeah, you know, 501 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:04,400 Speaker 2: aren't that many encounters or aren't that many because. 502 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 1: The illegals are not considered illegals anymore. That's exactly the 503 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: way criminals are not classified as criminals. Crime without your 504 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: phone and set yourself up and come on in and 505 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 1: we'll see you in twenty five years in court something 506 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: like that. 507 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,639 Speaker 3: Yeah, so the massive influx is still going on. 508 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,879 Speaker 1: Just that nobody and all the liars in the media 509 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,920 Speaker 1: and all the liars and government don't want to admit 510 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 1: it anymore because they'd be very unpopular if they did. 511 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 2: We'll also talk about that San Francisco tech guy that 512 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 2: was stabbed to death, Bob Lee, a couple of months ago. Well, 513 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,439 Speaker 2: the leads in the story is he was living a 514 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,880 Speaker 2: certain lifestyle. Let's just say it involves sex and drugs, 515 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 2: and that eventually got him into trouble with the brother 516 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,680 Speaker 2: of a woman he was seeing for some of these 517 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,919 Speaker 2: sex and drug parties. We'll talk about all this in 518 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 2: the big three o'clock hour. You may have heard. I 519 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 2: guess we need bad control. A man with a metal 520 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 2: baseball bat walked into the Virginia offices of US Congressman 521 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 2: Jerry Connolly asked for him, he wasn't there, so he 522 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:17,120 Speaker 2: began hitting workers with the bat. He hit an intern 523 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 2: who was on the job the first day. That's really 524 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,399 Speaker 2: not a first day. First day, the intern came to work, 525 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 2: they got slug with a bat by this wacko. Well, 526 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 2: welcome to Fairfax City. Police got there within minutes. They 527 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 2: don't know why he did this. It's a forty nine 528 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:40,360 Speaker 2: year old man, obviously Asian. It's Hui Ka tran Fam. 529 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 2: That's the best I can do with it. Juan Ka 530 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:48,160 Speaker 2: tran Fam, forty nine years old from Fairfax. Didn't say much. 531 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 2: Apparently he just wanted to talk to the congressman, who don't. 532 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,439 Speaker 3: Know what his issue. I don't he wanted to talk. 533 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,919 Speaker 2: Well, he commanded to see him think told no, we 534 00:26:58,040 --> 00:26:59,119 Speaker 2: just began hitting people. 535 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,159 Speaker 3: He wanted to club the congressman over the head. That's 536 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 3: what he What he want. 537 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 2: Charge is a malicious wounding and aggravated malicious wounding. Malicious wounding. 538 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 2: Both of them, though, are conscious, they were not. One 539 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 2: was hitting the side. I think nobody seriously hurt, but 540 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 2: the intern. That's a tough day. That's a tough first 541 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 2: day on the one crack of thehead could kill you, obviously. 542 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:25,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think they were hitting the head. I 543 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: know one guy was hitting the side. So this guy 544 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: wasn't trying to kill them, just punished, just. 545 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:36,959 Speaker 2: Lashing out and angry. Yeah, so far they've not released 546 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 2: any motive what his issue was and going to this 547 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 2: congressman's office and starting to bash people with a metal 548 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 2: baseball bat. But very weird, and of course the stories 549 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 2: now and you knew where this was going to go. 550 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 2: Congress people are in such danger. What happened to Nancy Pelosi, 551 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 2: Look what happened on the baseball field a couple of 552 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 2: years ago to those congressional Republicans. 553 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,639 Speaker 1: You know what, it's just the lamess chase, that's politician 554 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 1: spew This one of the senators in Virginia, Mark Warner said, 555 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 1: intimidation and violence, especially against public servants, have no place 556 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: in our society. 557 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 3: Wait, my father even writing. 558 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 2: That, you know, doesn't that seem to be the case? 559 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 3: I mean, explaining crazy guys hitting people with a bat. 560 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 1: Your tweet isn't going to stop the next guy from 561 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 1: doing Oh wait a second senator, Warner said, this has 562 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:24,880 Speaker 1: no place in society. 563 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 2: I will put my back down, pomp his ass. What 564 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 2: I keep thinking about. And this happened over the weekend. 565 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,399 Speaker 2: You may have heard a couple of weeks ago in 566 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,959 Speaker 2: New York City a man apparently restrained a homeless man 567 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 2: on a subway at a chokehold, and the homeless man died. 568 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 2: It's a big story there, and they're now charging him 569 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 2: with manslaughter. And apparently he's already raising millions of dollars 570 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 2: in his defense fund because others see him. Remember Bernie 571 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 2: gets John and so well, he was. 572 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 3: This guy, this homeless guy was in the top fifty. 573 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 1: New York City had a top fifty list problem, right 574 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: a crazy homeless people. What do you have to do 575 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: to get into the top fifty in New York? 576 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 3: No less? 577 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 1: And if you were in the top fifty, Then why 578 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: weren't you put away and forced into uh some kind 579 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: of incarceration or mental health treatment. 580 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 2: So now all the stories about this are all about, well, 581 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 2: this is the effects of untreated mental illness on the streets. Well, duh, 582 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 2: it's going on everywhere. It's half the homeless problem. It's 583 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 2: probably explains this crazy guy that walked into the congressional 584 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 2: office today. 585 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 1: Every day people say the same lazy, stupid cliches every 586 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 1: single day, every news story, everyone says the obvious. 587 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 2: And so what are we gonna do something about the obvious? 588 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 2: This idea that we're gonna take away everybody's guns is 589 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,040 Speaker 2: not gonna happen. What are we gonna do about all 590 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 2: the mental patients that are everywhere? Now, I'm glad that 591 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 2: that guy he was a marine, right, Yes, next time, 592 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 2: I'm glad that he jumped this guy. 593 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: And if I'm sitting in a subway and I'm never 594 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: going in a subway again, If I'm sitting in a 595 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 1: subway and a crazy guy starts acting out, I hope 596 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 1: there's a marine next to me willing to willing to 597 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 1: do that, because I don't. 598 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 2: Think that's gonna be He's gonna say, self defense. He 599 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 2: thought this mand was gonna possibly hurt somebody on the 600 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 2: train because he was saying things that were desperate, in suicidal, 601 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 2: and even homicidal. So he said he took action because 602 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:18,720 Speaker 2: he was afraid that then he certainly didn't intend to 603 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,560 Speaker 2: kill him. In a normal world, he'd be a hero. 604 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 2: The whole choke hold thing, though, was so now you 605 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 2: can't do that because well, hey, maybe. 606 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 3: Maybe you have to. 607 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,000 Speaker 1: If you got a crazy guy threatening to kill people 608 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 1: in the train car, you gotta do what you gotta 609 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,320 Speaker 1: do and then hope you can explain it to the jury. 610 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 1: I mean, the guy's a hero. He's over a million 611 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 1: dollars has been put into his defense. 612 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 3: Funt. 613 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was quick too. I know he was just charged. 614 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 2: I think on Friday. 615 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 3: I think that's a verdict of a fellow New Yorkers 616 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 3: who ride subways. 617 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,240 Speaker 2: All right, we got more coming up. 618 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,600 Speaker 1: Johnny Ken k IF, I am six forty live everywhere, 619 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app and Debora Mark is off. Today we got 620 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 1: Amy King live in the twenty four Hour Cafe in 621 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 1: his room. 622 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 3: Hey, you've been. 623 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 2: Listening to the John and Ken Show. 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