1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: Well you did hear Deborah's lead. The bass lead is 2 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: now over twenty nine thousand votes in the mace for mayor. 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: Wasn't it ten thousand? We started the show less than 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: ten thousands, Now it's twenty nine thousand. That was a 5 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: big pick up today. I guess they just did a 6 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 1: vote dump. Yeah, where's where these votes coming from? Four 7 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: these people? This happened in June two. He won that night, 8 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 1: he was up by several percentage points, and then he 9 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: ended up losing by seven or eight percentage points. So 10 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:35,480 Speaker 1: the same thing's happening. The time says it's young people 11 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: who vote late, young people, young girl than like probably 12 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: sixty when it comes to voting, that's considered young. You 13 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 1: want to know the demographic that is happy with forty 14 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: thousand homeless people in the streets, encampments, in front of schools. 15 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: Oh it's Caroso was like Trump, I don't want him. 16 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: I don't want a business guy running my s A. Yeah, 17 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: that's a bright person. Huh, that's I believe the assessment 18 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: of many. Yeah that's really smart. Or maybe they just 19 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: I feel bad for the homeless. Why are you people 20 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: bashing them? They deserve ours health and sympathies. People should 21 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 1: have homeless encampments in their kitchen. Honestly, everybody voted for 22 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: Karen Bass. You're gonna get five guys living in your 23 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: kitchen tomorrow morning. Is punishment. It's not over. But we'll 24 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: give you an update coming on later on this hour, 25 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: we're gonna look closer at the latest release of votes 26 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 1: by the La County Registrar of Voters. Last Friday, we 27 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: talked about this story out of Long Beach, specifically downtown 28 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: Long Beach, where they are dealing with some serious problems 29 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: along the same line that John just mentioned. Prominent downtown 30 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: businesses say they may close if safety concerns are not 31 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: addressed by the city. They have had a huge uptick 32 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: in homeless population. According to city numbers, Long Beach is 33 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: unhoused population surged sixty two percent since twenty twenty. Overall 34 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: property crime in downtown is up twenty three percent this year. 35 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: We mentioned this before. In October, the city had to 36 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: temporarily close the Billy Jean King Maine Library due to security. 37 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 1: Can you imagine that nobody can use the library? It's 38 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: gotten that bad. I am twenty two point four percent 39 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: of office spaces in downtown were vacant as of the 40 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: second quarter of this year. You, Karen Basketbots, it's going 41 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: to come to your neighborhood too. You're gonna lose your library, 42 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: You're gonna lose your favorite restaurants, your favorite shops. It's 43 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: happening in Santa Monica. It's devastated. It's happening in Long Beach. 44 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: It's got to happen in all the all your favorite 45 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: neighborhoods in La too. Well, we have a deli owner 46 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: and we also have a manager of a nearby condo complex, 47 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: who are going to come on and talk about the situation. 48 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna talk with or some Modica. She's 49 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: the deli owner, and Joe Harding, who manages the kind 50 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: of conflicts. Welcome, Orsa, how are you hi? Hi? Thank 51 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: you for having us and Joe welcome as well. Yeah, 52 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 1: thanks thanks for having us on. All right, we'll start 53 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 1: with you, Orsa. Describe what's going on in your neighborhood 54 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: and talk about the half naked man then came into 55 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:27,919 Speaker 1: your restaurant. Yeah, that's definitely one of the topics. Right, Well, 56 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: what's going on is that we have a search here 57 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: sixty two percent. That's the fact, sixty two percent of 58 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: homeless people here in Long Beach and four percent in LA. 59 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: We are dealing with the homeless that are mental health, 60 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: drug addiction. We have to police our own neighborhoods. I'm 61 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: policing my own patio and I have individuals that come 62 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: in And that one story that you've heard about the 63 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: naked man coming in to my restaurant, He's not the 64 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: only one. That was the one that really kind of 65 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: struck a nerve for me because I'm a mother, and 66 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: it really hit me hard to see a man naked 67 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: from the waist down come up to a table where 68 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: there were three children between the ages of five and eight, 69 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 1: and he grabbed their lemon egg. They were there for 70 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: a birthday party. Oh my god, yeah, birthday party. The 71 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: grandmother and two mothers, and the grandmother lives two buildings 72 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: down and the children have not been in here since 73 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: I used to be their favorite restaurant. Had no He 74 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: had no pants or underwear on. Is that what you said? 75 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: Nothing there not a shirt, just the shirt. Joe, Joe, 76 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,919 Speaker 1: talk about what you're experiencing managing the condo. Yeah, So 77 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: we have one hundred and seventy three condo complex condo 78 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 1: units there and eight commercial units, and we're risking losing 79 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:07,840 Speaker 1: our commercial tenants because they they've had enough. You can't 80 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: sit outside at the parklets and have have a drink 81 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: or just have a meal because you're you're costed five 82 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 1: or six times while you're just sitting there. Um, it's 83 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: as Urso said, it's it's the violent, it's the it's 84 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 1: the drug and mentally unstable, drug addicted and montally unstable, 85 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: and it's the perpetually homeless. We're not talking about the 86 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:29,919 Speaker 1: group that are struggling and coming down to the pantries 87 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: and picking up food to go and picking up diapers 88 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: on Fridays and some of the other things that we 89 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: have here in the neighborhoods. We're talking about the trouble. 90 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: The trouble ones, the ones that are violent and addicted 91 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 1: and mentally unstable. We're not trained to deal with all 92 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: these things that they're we've just been forced to deal with. 93 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: Why do you think there's been such a surge Sixty 94 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 1: two in two years is a huge increase. You had 95 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: sure part of it, you know, we we took We 96 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: have a small group here that that have been active 97 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 1: and we're taking a creative look at all the different 98 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: things that might be adding to this. And one of 99 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:02,799 Speaker 1: the things was the end of the line metro drop 100 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: with the last fourt trains of a nighter coming in 101 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 1: and dropping everybody getting making everyone get off the train 102 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: whether they want to be on Long Beach or not. 103 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 1: And that that's part of the surge. And another one 104 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,119 Speaker 1: is that we have this in the in the downtown area, 105 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 1: we have this organization that provides meals twice a day. 106 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 1: Now the city moved their services where everybody can go 107 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 1: inside and talk to counselors and get to get help. 108 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 1: They moved that to the other side of town and 109 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: left the food service here. So where do you think 110 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 1: everyone's staying? And like I say, it's the perpetually homeless. 111 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: I think it's a cruel policy to just keep feeding 112 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: them and sending them back onto the streets with no 113 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: hope of ever having anything happened to them. Right, that 114 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: just the current place, yew Ian I just said that 115 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: sustains them in their current place, so there's no incentive 116 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: to change anything. No, no, And they hang around the neighborhood, 117 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: they never leave. And then when the new one's coming 118 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,840 Speaker 1: into town. They meet new friends and they up over 119 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: at this place and we're just inundated, and we have 120 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,359 Speaker 1: urine and feces and needles and drug use and screaming 121 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: and mental behavior and violence, and a residence that have 122 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 1: been clocked in the head with a pipe and sent 123 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: to the hospital in ICEU for eleven days with a 124 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: broken eye socket and a broken arm, people being chased. UM. 125 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: I was sitting having lunch with with our city council 126 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: member and a crazy guy walked by and all I 127 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: did was looked at him in case I needed to 128 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 1: provide a description with him for three seconds and came 129 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: over to the edge and that he was threatened to 130 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:32,239 Speaker 1: kill both of us, and everybody's sitting at the table. 131 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: You know, you can't even have lunch sitting outside. UM, 132 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: response you when you tell these stories to city leaders, 133 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: what is the response? I think you people are just 134 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: you know, fringe stories or did they take you seriously? 135 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: I think they're facts. And the councilwoman was there at 136 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: that lunch at Joe was talking about so these are 137 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: things that a lot of people are experiencing. They understand 138 00:07:55,840 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 1: that it's going on. So we're definitely seeing that they're 139 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: they're listening, but we need something done. Well, haven't they 140 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: been hearing these stories for years? Though they have, They've 141 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: been hearing these stories for years. Yeah, okay, so listening 142 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: isn't enough here. What do they tell you why they 143 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 1: refuse to do anything concrete? No, we keep going to 144 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: these meetings and they keep hitting us with all the 145 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: figures if they have seventy seven or fifty five million, 146 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: we heard boats, and they keep talking about the services 147 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 1: that are being provided, which is wonderful. Let's get these 148 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: people off the streets. Okay, they want to get off 149 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: the street. There's more and more people on the streets. 150 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: So whatever their services, it's not doing the job here. 151 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: They're failing. It's not services, it's yeah, they're failing, or 152 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 1: the services are attracting more people. Absolutely. I mean you've 153 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: got the Metro that's the mobile homeless shelter, right, Yeah, 154 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: it gets kicked off in the middle of the night, 155 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,079 Speaker 1: and in the middle of the night when we need 156 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: services for them and they don't know where they're at 157 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: the services. They're all at home sleeping in their beds. 158 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: But Joe and I are goping out there and we're videotaping. 159 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: Joe's interviewing these people, and these people are lost. They 160 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 1: don't even know where they're at. These people, it's a crime. 161 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 1: What's happening to these people? All right? Can you both 162 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: hold on? Yeah, all right, we're talking to Orsa Monica. 163 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: She owns a Delhi Monica's Delhi in downtown Long Beach. 164 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:29,719 Speaker 1: The other person on the line is Joe Harding, who 165 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: manages a nearby condo complex. They are part of the 166 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: business owners in downtown Long Beach who are just telling 167 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 1: the city the homeless crime, drug problem. It has led 168 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: to a lot of vacancies already with businesses in downtown 169 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 1: Long Beach, and they said it discontinues. They may have 170 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: to close up too if the city doesn't do something 171 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 1: about this problem. I mean, we'll repeat that statistic because 172 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: it is unbelievable. But according to their own stats down 173 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 1: in Long Beach, there's been a sixty two percent increase 174 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: in Long Beach is homeless population. Since I think about that, 175 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:06,599 Speaker 1: and it makes sense because when the pandemic hit, who 176 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: was left to take the mass transit? John right, the vacants. Yeah, 177 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: so they were riding that blue line down a long 178 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: Beach and to the line you gotta get off, you 179 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 1: need to clean the trains and to stay in. That's 180 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 1: some of them, not all of them, but clearly a 181 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: lot of them. John and Ken KF. I am six 182 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 1: forty oh when the keywords coming next live everywhere in 183 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. All right, we'll give you this sad 184 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: update on the latest vote count coming out of Los 185 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,679 Speaker 1: Angeles County Registrar. After the news at four thirty, we 186 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: continue now talking to Orsa. Orsa Mootica runs a Delhi 187 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: in downtown Long Beach. Also on the air is Joe Harding, 188 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 1: who manages a condominium complex. They were among business owners 189 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 1: who are saying that the increasing crime and homelessness are 190 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: really affecting their ability to conduct their businesses in this 191 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: area of the city. Now, Orsa, I mean, I know 192 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: Joe can't really close a condo, but or you could 193 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: close or move your business. Are you starting to consider that? Well, 194 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 1: I mean for the first time a month ago. And 195 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: let me just state, I've been here for twenty seven 196 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:14,079 Speaker 1: years in business in downtown moll Beach and I have 197 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: never seen this in twenty seven years. What's happening today? 198 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: And yes, I hit a point where I was like, 199 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: I don't know how much more I can take of this. 200 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 1: You know, we did have that meeting last week, and 201 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: I am hopeful. There was so much frustration that was 202 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 1: heard in the room that day, and we did have 203 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,719 Speaker 1: at the end of the meeting, Mary Zendeja, our councilwoman 204 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: for District one, state that they were going to do 205 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: a public health emergency. And I'm just hoping and praying 206 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: that all of these things are going to happen and 207 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,839 Speaker 1: hold you know, every official accountable for what they say 208 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,439 Speaker 1: they're going to do. And I will continue to voice 209 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: what I really strongly believe in because I feel like 210 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 1: as a business owner, I have everything to lose. Joe, 211 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: did you get a sense that they were finally willing 212 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:13,839 Speaker 1: to take action? Is this meeting different than the other 213 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:17,679 Speaker 1: meetings in any significant way? We do have other players 214 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 1: that are involved now, so other people have come on 215 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: board that that also have a significant voice to help 216 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 1: us move this forward. So I do. I am hopeful, 217 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: like the Convention of Visuals Bureau, the Chamber of Commerce, 218 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: some other prominent businesses in another area of town that 219 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: we haven't heard from before, like the Promenade area, so 220 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 1: it's nice to see that these other people are not 221 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 1: no longer afraid to step forward. It's it seemed like 222 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: a negative thing to do, as if we're anti homeless 223 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:48,719 Speaker 1: or or something to that effect. Is that they were 224 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: afraid to step forward publicly because they didn't want to 225 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 1: be labeled as anti homeless. You know, that's part of it. 226 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: We started We started out with a petition, and part 227 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: of it we got backlash that because people were saying 228 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 1: that the petition was wrong because we need to help 229 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: the homeless, and and you know, so people weren't looking 230 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: at it in the full picture. They're looking at more 231 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 1: of a nimbi kind of thing, like not in my backyard. 232 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 1: And we've been doing this like this one. Yeah. And 233 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 1: I do have eight commercial properties on the ground floor 234 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: of our condo complex, so I do have the risk 235 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 1: of losing business as well and having to worry about 236 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: filding those back up again. And I have residents that 237 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:25,199 Speaker 1: are afraid to walk. I've been asked to walk people 238 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: to and from the to the Terrace theater just around 239 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:29,439 Speaker 1: the corner here because these people are afraid to walk 240 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: by themselves. Did the mayor come, Robert Garcia, No, mayor's 241 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: been absence since he started running for federal office. So 242 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 1: he's been absent. He's going to be and there's not 243 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: been a press conference. It's not we've heard nothing from him. 244 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 1: Your your mayor is about to be in Congress, and 245 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: your your police chief's about to be La County sheriff. Correct, 246 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: So is who's who's going to be the new mayor? 247 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:54,719 Speaker 1: Rex Richardson is what we what we think so far? 248 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 1: They have him in the official announcement, but he was 249 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: he was ahead and the you know what his attitude 250 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: is on this. We've not heard much from him at 251 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 1: all as well. Well. Unfortunately this came up at the 252 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 1: October fourth City Council meeting and we felt a little 253 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:14,439 Speaker 1: slighted because they were too busy there they're politicking to listen. 254 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: So you get a chance to pay attention to that 255 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: meeting and see what it took to just get the 256 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: city to authorize a letter to going to Metro producted 257 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: if we were asking for ten million dollars. I mean, 258 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: business is down by over twenty five percent. There's a 259 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: lot of vacancies in downtown Long Beach. Businesses just closed up. 260 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: I mean, what do they what do they think causes that. 261 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: Don't they want to do anything about that. We've been 262 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: talking about it. Yeah, go ahead, you go. No, I 263 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: mean they better think about that because this is the 264 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: engine the entertainment area in Long Beach. And if they 265 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: don't pay attention to these these vacancies which you walk 266 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: down the street, there's a lot of vacancies already, we're 267 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: going to have a lot more. What is it? What 268 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: is the Chamber of Commerce doing to help you guys? Well, 269 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: at this last meeting, he was there and I just 270 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: speak Tom briefly, and I do feel like he's on 271 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 1: board to help us out. I'm hoping to have a 272 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 1: meeting with him shortly. We are, Joe and I are 273 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: trying to meet with every single person that we can. Well, 274 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: let me just read you his quote here in the 275 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: Long Beach Business Journal. His name is Jeremy Harris, the 276 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: CEO of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce. This I 277 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: don't like this quote. Well, I don't think the city's 278 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: done enough to address issues. But Long Beach is not alone. 279 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 1: This issue is unfolding across all major cities in the 280 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: country right now. That to me is a dodge. It's 281 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 1: trying to say, well, now we're all overwhelmed. What can 282 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: we really do right now? Because everyone's facing this now, 283 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: you need somebody to say, we're ending this here now, 284 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: exactly right, yeah, exactly, we need to end this now. 285 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: We need to take this conversation that's making everyone uncomfortable 286 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: and start talking about it and then coming through the 287 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: red tape. I mean, I don't know what they need 288 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: to do. Yeah, it is going around throughout the country. 289 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 1: Then make it a state emergency. Let's get FEMA in here, 290 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: Let's get a tent out here, let's get the services 291 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 1: out here, cut through the red tape. There's things that 292 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: they can do, and but they're afraid. They're afraid to 293 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: do what it is. They're afraid. They're afraid of the 294 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: pro homeless crowd. They're afraid of being labeled with their 295 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: insulting names, and that these people are so cowardly. It's 296 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 1: infuriating how these these these progressives have mastered the art 297 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: of shaming people into science, into silence, so that you 298 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: can't even complain if somebody's defecating on your front lawn. Exactly, well, 299 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 1: let's look at it and turn it around. What are 300 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: they doing for them? It isn't not a crime to 301 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: see these people on the street with no food, no services, 302 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: no mental health, uh support. I mean, come on, that's 303 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: about it is a crime, you know about this. That's 304 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:15,119 Speaker 1: a crime. All right. Well, I'm glad. We thank you 305 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 1: both for coming on, and uh we hope the more 306 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 1: voice you get in the media, you know, you get 307 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:23,919 Speaker 1: some action taken. We appreciate your bringing light to us. 308 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: We were let's stay in touch and we're talking in 309 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:30,119 Speaker 1: all right, and if you keep running into barricades, let 310 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 1: us know. All right, sounds great. Well, we got to 311 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 1: turn the tables on these progressives and there their shaming 312 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 1: routine and their dimidation routine. They they've they've warded over 313 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:46,879 Speaker 1: everyone long enough. Now that's two downtown Long Beach business 314 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 1: people who just came on our show to talk about 315 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:52,640 Speaker 1: the problem with homelessness, crime, drug use. More and more 316 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:55,480 Speaker 1: businesses are folding up and leaving, and you know they're 317 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 1: at their end. They may have to do the same 318 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 1: thing more coming up, John and Ken KF. I am 319 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: six forty. I've everywhere on the iHeart radio appe. Hey, Mike, 320 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,439 Speaker 1: glad you can join me for some great seafood, me too. Wait, 321 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:08,959 Speaker 1: why are you dressed in fishing gear? You say we 322 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 1: were going out to catch great seafood, right, yes to Popeyes? 323 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 1: Do you even know how to fish? No? I thought 324 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 1: you need. Oh yeah, I can catch you pretty good 325 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:20,439 Speaker 1: seafood at Popeyes. Let's go. Let Popeyes do the fishing 326 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 1: while you enjoy our delicious signature seafood. Get Popeyes flounder 327 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 1: fish saying which your shrimp tackle box? Before they're gone? 328 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 1: Living the time at participating US restaurants. I just feel 329 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 1: bad for those long beach business owners and just something 330 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: you hear in too many places. They're just overrun with 331 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 1: homeless people, crime and drug use, and they're losing customers 332 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 1: and as you heard, they're losing some tenants. When these 333 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 1: progressives figure it out, like crack the code that you 334 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: shame people, you bully them, you call them names, you 335 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 1: assign NIMBYism to their views. Right, everyone always gets defensive 336 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: when you're called a nimby. Not in my back yard. No, 337 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: not in my backyard. Embrace it, saying you're right, I'm 338 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:05,680 Speaker 1: a nimbie. I don't want a guy living in my 339 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 1: backyard in a tent about that. I don't want to 340 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: child molester living in front of my kids' school. Yeah, 341 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 1: not in my backyard. You're absolutely right. They're anti homeless 342 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:17,440 Speaker 1: because I paid for my back Yes, I'm anti people 343 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: living in the streets. Absolutely and and you know what, 344 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 1: you have to embrace this stuff. Don't be intimidated, don't 345 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: be cowardly. These people are superficial bullies. And they have 346 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 1: perfected the idea that if they charge you with some 347 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: kind of ism, some kind of phobic reaction, right, they've 348 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,680 Speaker 1: got a whole list of names for you and just 349 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 1: accuse you of not being kind enough and nice enough 350 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: and humane enough. And they've totally flipped reality on its head. 351 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,919 Speaker 1: When their policies caused people to die by the thousands 352 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: in La alone, thousands in the streets, It's incredible. It's 353 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: like jiu jitsu. How'd you do that? What a trick 354 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 1: You're polishings are killing people, You're bringing a lot of suffering, 355 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:09,640 Speaker 1: and you've got everybody else intimidated by by accusing them. Wow, 356 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 1: nice going, that was such like that's such a mind track. 357 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: At it worked. We have told you that while remarkably 358 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:22,400 Speaker 1: homelessness was the top issue really for Ellie City voters 359 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 1: in the mayor's race, As these results continue to crawl in, 360 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:32,399 Speaker 1: the trend is clear Karen Bass is overwhelmingly winning the 361 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: ballots that are still being counted by the Ellie County 362 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 1: Registrar Recorders Office. The update that came out this afternoon 363 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: was supposedly nearly seventy six percent of the expected vote 364 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:48,400 Speaker 1: in Her lead is now twenty nine thousand votes over 365 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:52,120 Speaker 1: Rick Caruso. This latest dump, she took in sixty three 366 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 1: percent of more than seventy six thousand newly counted. This 367 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:00,159 Speaker 1: is terrible. This is the death nail for Los Angeles. 368 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 1: So I don't know how many more years. The people, 369 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: the smart people, the people who actually worked for a living, 370 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 1: they're gonna move out. They're just going to have to 371 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,679 Speaker 1: move out. Yeah. I think he was the last hope 372 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 1: for us, got the status quo with the homelessness and crime. Oh, 373 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 1: I've always been intrigued by Detroit, and Detroit was was 374 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 1: a very big, powerful city. You know, it was late 375 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,360 Speaker 1: in the nineteen fifties. They had tremendous amount of industry, 376 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:38,880 Speaker 1: right the automobile industry was there, and U very powerful 377 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 1: working middle class that came from the unions and um 378 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,480 Speaker 1: Then in the sixties, things started to started to rot, 379 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:53,399 Speaker 1: and by the seventies it was it was completely destroyed. 380 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: And I know a guy who actually bought a huge 381 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: partial landed Detroit for a dollar because he's a businessman 382 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 1: and he develops real estate, builds factories and things. And 383 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:07,680 Speaker 1: he told me one day, he goes, yeah, I bought 384 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 1: it for a dollar. See what happens. And they're what 385 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:19,919 Speaker 1: happened to Detroit? Killed it almost for good for like 386 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:24,399 Speaker 1: fifty years, and this will happen in Los Angeles. It 387 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 1: will because every normal person I know talks out loud. 388 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: They if they haven't moved, or they haven't like part 389 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: time moved, they're tied down with kids or a job. 390 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,400 Speaker 1: But everyone's got the same attitude. First chance I get 391 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: when the stars aligned in my life, I'm not going 392 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: to live like this. The City Council election of interest 393 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 1: to John Cobelt and people on the West Side the 394 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: eleventh district is still Tracy Park. She's got a fifty 395 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:58,119 Speaker 1: four percent to forty six percent advantage over Aaron Darling 396 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:02,919 Speaker 1: ittyt five election night, so it may have dropped one percent, 397 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 1: but she's still hanging on well to nearly a six 398 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 1: thousand vote lead. That's really interesting because the West Side 399 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,160 Speaker 1: we had the worst councilman. He was the most pro 400 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: homeless fanatic. Ohotel was him and that MITHI aram and 401 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:19,719 Speaker 1: vote no on any attempt. And I've talked about him 402 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,640 Speaker 1: a thousand times, and I have met him and I've 403 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: argued with him in public in front of other people, 404 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:29,120 Speaker 1: and he is absolutely a miserable, miserable human being. And 405 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 1: what's fascinating is you are not going to get an 406 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: area more white, woke, wealthy than the West Side. And 407 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 1: I always tell you, be where are the four ws. 408 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:45,679 Speaker 1: There's there's a demographic white woke, wealthy women and they 409 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: vote very democratic, and they're behind a lot of these policies. 410 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 1: Like many of the bad bad candidates, like gascon candidates. 411 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,879 Speaker 1: It is wealthy women who were married to big tech husbands. 412 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 1: Maybe they had a divorce or maybe they're still married, 413 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: but they have a control of a fair amount of 414 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,880 Speaker 1: money and they love tossing money into these progressive causes. 415 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but you have a 416 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 1: lot of that on the West Side, and they turned 417 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:17,119 Speaker 1: against bonded apparently, and maybe you have to have like 418 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:21,360 Speaker 1: the whole city experience. What the West Side experienced before. 419 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: Finally you get enough people to turn and maybe there's 420 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,440 Speaker 1: too many areas in LA that are untouched day to day. 421 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: You could see on the West Side it was infiltrating 422 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 1: normal neighborhoods, like all over Venice, people who were doing 423 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,360 Speaker 1: really well in life had all these atrocities going on. 424 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: And then you know in Brentwood we had that homeless 425 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:47,880 Speaker 1: encampment at the VA. So it was starting to distort 426 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:52,679 Speaker 1: real life even in places that had lived comfortably. And 427 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: maybe there's still too many places in LA who that 428 00:24:56,040 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 1: hasn't quite reached them yet. But if it could go down, yeah, 429 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 1: I know now he quit. They loved him. Yeah, they 430 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:11,639 Speaker 1: won his last election with se and and and finally 431 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 1: he was he was nearly recalled, he was forced out 432 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:20,919 Speaker 1: quit and and now his his protege is two point zero, 433 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 1: is losing by eight points and there's about a quarter 434 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:28,640 Speaker 1: of the vote left, so we'll seat that holds. But man, 435 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: that that that'd be huge. All right, we got more 436 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 1: covered up. It is the John and Ken Show kf 437 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. 438 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 1: I was looking over the weekend. One of the local 439 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:48,439 Speaker 1: newspapers published the twenty twenty two election California count and 440 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,479 Speaker 1: it's a map, a graphic of the state broken up 441 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: by the fifty eight counties. Uh, just shows you the 442 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 1: statewide offices were of course won fairly easily by Democrat candidates. 443 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 1: For instance, the attorney general is going to be Rob Bonta. 444 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,639 Speaker 1: He will be elected now of that position if to 445 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: be appointed by Newsom, the Republican Nathan Hawkman. It was 446 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,400 Speaker 1: about fifty eight percent at least of the vote count 447 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 1: at this point for Banta, about forty two percent for Hawkman. 448 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 1: But when you look at the county map which shades 449 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,439 Speaker 1: in each candidates, you know where they got the plarity 450 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 1: of votes. It's it's it's so loposited, it's bizarre. It 451 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 1: looks like the United States electoral map, right, like everything 452 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,119 Speaker 1: in the middle is read, but on both coasts is blue. 453 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: The entire coast, pretty much of California voted for Bonta 454 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: in this example, right, all those counties that come right 455 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,919 Speaker 1: down the coast, but the many, many, many numerous inland 456 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: counties all voted for Hawkman. Yeah, that could have been 457 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 1: a few voters in some of those counties. That's the 458 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 1: reason that it's just is it like a bizarre when 459 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: they call them coastal elites. They're not kidding kind of thing, Oh, 460 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 1: they really are. Yeah, because they're rich. They live where 461 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,240 Speaker 1: the urban areas along the coast where the people or 462 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,360 Speaker 1: the votes come from are all. They live by the ocean, 463 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 1: and they don't care about other people's problems at all. 464 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: They preach this this progressive nonsense about you know, caring 465 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 1: for others. They don't care for other They just vote 466 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: party line right, yeah, and the oh that's the party 467 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 1: of Trump. I'm not voting for those people. But but 468 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,679 Speaker 1: but maybe even before Trump they said that. But you 469 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,919 Speaker 1: know what, the red part is probably should separate from 470 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 1: the blue park in California and take it all the 471 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 1: way up to Oregon. That do you want to build 472 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: a super state beyond just Greater Idaho. You could draw 473 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 1: a line probably like all the way down to Riverside 474 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,439 Speaker 1: County would be more east and west than north and 475 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 1: southeast and west all all the western county because because 476 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: all politicians in Sacramento, they care nothing about the people 477 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,119 Speaker 1: who live in the eastern half of the state or 478 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:58,880 Speaker 1: the eastern two thirds of the state. They don't care 479 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 1: the same thing in Oregon too, and and that's a 480 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 1: whole different life and sensibility. And they have no representation 481 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:10,679 Speaker 1: in either state capital because they're outnumbered in population. The 482 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 1: one thing that did happen, though, it's kind of funny, 483 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 1: those gambling propositions twenty six and twenty seven. A majority 484 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 1: of people in every single county voted to down both 485 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,440 Speaker 1: of them. That really surprised me. I suppose one of 486 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 1: the most lopsided votes in proposition history. I I'm I 487 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: guess I'm out of touch without how people feel on gambling, 488 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,880 Speaker 1: because I see so much gambling in public life. Right, 489 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,760 Speaker 1: You watch any sporting events and you're inundated with commercials 490 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: for fan duel and what's the other what's the other one? Draftings, 491 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: draft kings? Right constantly, sports talk hosts are constantly they 492 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: now what they had. There's like that station that Marktoskosco. 493 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: It's an all betting format. You now see it, you 494 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 1: know on on football sportscasts and pregame shows. There's all 495 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 1: this stuff about betting and the spread and then this 496 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 1: and that, and it's it's like, well this will be 497 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 1: a slam duck. Look how crazy people are about the 498 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 1: lottery look at all the people in California, or go 499 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: to Las Vegas. And when I saw that, so a 500 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: number of other states allow online gambling, I thought, California 501 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 1: doesn't seem anymore uptight. Yeah, I would have expected, you know, 502 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 1: people in Oklahoma and Utah to say, no, we're morally 503 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: the loosest state, the least religious state, the least uptight state. 504 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 1: When it comes to all these social issues, we're you know, 505 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 1: we're busy legalizing you know, marijuana for example. I mean, 506 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 1: there's not much restrictions on private life here, right, you know, 507 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: you go enjoy your abortion everything. It's not. But when 508 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 1: there's gamble, thought it was overwhelming, it'll addict people and 509 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 1: just make more homeless people. Maybe No, I don't know. 510 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: I don't know. When when you have that overwhelming a margin, 511 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,080 Speaker 1: there must be a bunch of reasons. And I realized 512 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: people are probably very swayed by the absurd TV commercials. 513 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 1: And unfortunately, people are swayed by absurd TV commercials, right, 514 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 1: But I mean, I you know, I tuned a lot 515 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 1: of them out. I's it's just that's what I think happened, 516 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 1: some coophony of No. Some people just said, I don't 517 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 1: want to hear anything about this anymore. I'm voting no. 518 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 1: I feel like it's going to come one day because 519 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 1: it's just the damn is breaking on all this stuff, 520 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: like anything that religion used to ban is has fallen 521 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 1: by the wayside. And maybe gambling out here is the 522 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: last bastion. Yeah, it could be that way. All right. 523 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 1: We got more coming up in the five o'clock hour. 524 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: This is the final keyword of the day, just that 525 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 1: quickly is here for your chance of a thousand dollars. 526 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: By the way, John, we got a nice email. A 527 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,560 Speaker 1: woman really wanted to thank you because you read the 528 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: keyword twice. Doesn't see the other host do that, And 529 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: John read the keyword twice and it gives me a 530 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 1: moment to capture it again. So they wow, look at you, 531 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 1: Look doing you. There's DJ work. There's a purpose for me. 532 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 1: Finally there's a purpose. All We got more covered up 533 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 1: John and Ken's show kf I Am six forty live 534 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: everywhere on the iHeart Radio app and Debra Mark Live 535 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 1: in the twenty four Hour Cafe Newsroom.