1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Well, the word from San Francisco General Hospital is that 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: Paul Pelosi underwent successful surgery to repair a skull fracture 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: and serious injuries to his right arm and hands, but 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:15,159 Speaker 1: they do expect a full recovery. Eighty two year old 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: Paul Pelosi, of course, the husband of how speaker Nancy Pelosi, 6 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: was attacked by a man with a hammer in Pelosi's 7 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:26,640 Speaker 1: own home in San Francisco early this morning. In one hour, 8 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: we will talk to Alex STONEYBC News for KFI for 9 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: all the latest on this story. Yeah, but the guy 10 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:38,200 Speaker 1: had a history online of writing all kinds of crazy stuff. 11 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: It's the same story. He's a wacky nudist activist, right, 12 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:46,480 Speaker 1: He's part of a nudist group who believes in various 13 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:51,199 Speaker 1: other conspiracy theories went on, and that's a really strange mix. Right. 14 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: Let's see what happened with the La City Council today. 15 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: They finished up a week of well in person meetings. Yeah, 16 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: where did they come? They went back to uh sitting 17 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:05,119 Speaker 1: together inside the council chambers. How are things different today? 18 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: Let's bring in Blake tulk if I News to see 19 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: what we can find out as to how this went Blake, 20 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: what's going on? Yeah, John Wilton, Well, to answer your question, 21 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: protesters were back today, so that was similar to days 22 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: we've seen prior, but today they were hit with a 23 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 1: stop sign at the front door. Police told them that 24 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 1: the chamber was that capacity, so they just stood outside 25 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 1: chanting and that went Yeah, they're saying, let us in, 26 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:39,479 Speaker 1: and that went on for a little while. In fact, 27 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 1: LAPD officers with riot gear did at one point approach 28 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 1: the front door. You know, it didn't get too intense, 29 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: but they definitely let their presence be known. You know, 30 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: next time you have to cover one of these meetings, 31 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: ask about half a dozen of them what they do 32 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: for a living. I'll make sure to get to that. 33 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 1: I did speak to ask them if they it's paid 34 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: by the People's City Council, which is an activistory. I 35 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: did speak to a couple of them. Here is the 36 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: first one, and again all of them telling me the 37 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: same story that when they went to the door, they 38 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,119 Speaker 1: were told that there was a capacity issue and that's 39 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: why they weren't allowed inside. And we're not being allowed in. 40 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: They're claiming that, you know, the house is full, but apparently, 41 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,399 Speaker 1: you know, the media is saying no, it's not full. 42 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: I mean, there are people inside, so there's obviously you know, 43 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: they are completely denying the people the right to go in. 44 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: I mean it says they're supposed to be a public 45 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: meeting and this is the council is supposed to be 46 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: holding it, and this is what people But they're just afraid. 47 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:38,639 Speaker 1: They just don't want people to go in. Why Why 48 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: do you think they're afraid because they know that what 49 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,239 Speaker 1: people are demanding, people are on the side of the truth, 50 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: and they people just owned one business to continue as 51 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: usual because like you know, we see the kind of 52 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: corruption that is being that's going on. Okay, So I 53 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: understand you're saying they are not allowing you in. What 54 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: I mean, how does that feel to you as somebody's 55 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: trying to get your message across. Well, that is completely 56 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 1: that flies in the face if any notion of democracy, 57 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 1: That flies in the face of any notion of civic participation. 58 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 1: So you know, that's that's basically what it really comes 59 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 1: down to. So they they're just trying to keep people outside, 60 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: and but it's business as unual because they always want 61 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: to silence people's voices. So I talked to a couple 62 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: more and very similarly, they said that, you know, they 63 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 1: felt like they were being silent. So I headed up 64 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: just to you know, take a check of capacity, since 65 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 1: that's what they were being told, is that you know, 66 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: they're not allowed in because essentially they've got a full house. 67 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: The benches inside the chamber were pretty full. There were 68 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: a lot of union guys with LADWP. One of the 69 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: agenda items today was a renewal, a big employment contract renewal, 70 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: So the benches were filled up, you know, with LADWP workers. 71 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: That said, there has been some back and forth on 72 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: if there were enough LADW people and other people to 73 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: really reach the capacity. The sign outside the chamber says 74 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: the capacity is two hundred and thirty four people. People 75 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: have estimated there were no more than one hundred and 76 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: fifty people in the chamber at certain times in the meeting. 77 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: But of course this is where the pandemic comes in. 78 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: A spokesperson for Council President Paul Kerkorian says when when 79 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: the chamber was reopened in April, capacity was reduced to 80 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 1: around one hundred people. Now, one thing people have pointed 81 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: out is that there was no mention of the new 82 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: capacity in a news release announcing the chambers opening in April. 83 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: I'd looked through the news release myself. It made no mention. Yeah, 84 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 1: literally just making stuff up. They had a cover story 85 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 1: today because the DWB guys showed up and they just said, oh, 86 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: looking around, it looks like we're all full today. Sorry, 87 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 1: say uh yeah, how does it work? Is it first come, 88 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 1: first served to get the seats or how does that work? 89 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: Well that it actually is in a way, because somebody said, well, 90 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:44,799 Speaker 1: what about when people spilled out of here, why wouldn't 91 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,599 Speaker 1: you let them in after? And they said, well, once 92 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,359 Speaker 1: we reach capacity, there's no you know, it's not a 93 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 1: revolving door at that point you can't. Besides, everybody got 94 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: the message. They've been yelling the same thing for two weeks. 95 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 1: They want Shunio and de Leon to resign, and those 96 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: guys said no. So message received and rejected. Yeah, what 97 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: can the council do about that? It's up to They 98 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: can't remove them. So, yeah, they have to go and 99 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 1: talk to de Leon and to deal on protest outside 100 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 1: their homes or their offices or there whatever. Why don't 101 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: they send the money that they're getting for these protests 102 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: and use it to pay for a recall well, you know, 103 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: of course, you know, the recall effort is underway now 104 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: with Kevin da Leone. I do want to point out 105 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: a couple of things though, that that are of note here, 106 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: and that is that, yeah, we're probably going to be 107 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: seeing this type of rhetoric towards protesters going forward. On Wednesday, 108 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: protesters ra asked to leave the chamber. They were given 109 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 1: a dispersal order, and they did. They ended up leaving peacefully. 110 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 1: But when the meeting came back, City Council President Paul 111 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: Kricorian really made it clear that at this point in 112 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: time he's not going to be letting protesters get in 113 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 1: the way of these meetings. So I do think going 114 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: forward we're going to be seeing a lot a lot 115 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,239 Speaker 1: more of this and maybe just more straightforward than today. 116 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 1: It's going to be hit capacity earlier and earlier. Well, 117 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: they have to get exhausted at some point, these protesters. 118 00:05:57,600 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: I don't know whether or not you think it's the 119 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: same number of people start showing up, not if you're paid, well, 120 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 1: it does seem like so there was kind of a 121 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: big influx of people when this first happened, and you've 122 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: seen that group kind of get narrowed down and get 123 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: narrowed down. But there are these I would call them 124 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: core protesters because you see a lot of the same 125 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: faces as you cover more of these meetings, and they 126 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: seem very dedicated to showing up and they're protesting all 127 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: kinds of things. They're not They're not just from protesting 128 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: delely On and Sadia. They've been protesting other things. The 129 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 1: City Hall's notorious Daniel Guests has talked about this for 130 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 1: having the same crowd of disruptors show up for years 131 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: and years and years, and you have to cover as 132 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: many meetings as Gus has to realize it's like, you know, 133 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: I've talked to these people one hundred and seventeen times already. 134 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 1: It's just their hobby or what they do for a living. 135 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 1: It doesn't represent the public. All right, Blake, thank you 136 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:58,559 Speaker 1: very much. All Right, thanks guys. All right's Blake Trolley 137 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: in k if I News who was there each day 138 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:03,280 Speaker 1: this ie can to stay had three of these meetings. 139 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: I think you know all the conventions of the way 140 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: everything is covered the way and not Blake like did 141 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: a good job there. I'm talking about just the media 142 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: in general and the way politicians conduct themselves. It's all 143 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: like some weird formulas, some weird ritual that is not 144 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 1: the public that's clamoring to get in the public has 145 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: little to no interest after two weeks in Sado and 146 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: de Leone because most of us don't live in either 147 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: one of their districts, never visit their districts. Most of 148 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: us don't care really, I mean, Sadio is out in 149 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: two months anyway, And so you left with one guy 150 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: who lives in an area that most people don't travel to. 151 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 1: He has little effect on the world really as one 152 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 1: of fifteen councilmen. And so exactly how are you going 153 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: to gend up public revolt against what well making a 154 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: Louis Vaton handbag joke. Oh, I think you brought up 155 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: the right point that they have to direct their efforts 156 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: and their money towards that recall. Yeah, it's it, but 157 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 1: but that's where they need to go, and only but 158 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: where they need to go if they want something faster, 159 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: as the problem, they don't want to wait a year 160 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: for a recall. Ye Do they want something faster or 161 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: do they just want to get paid every day? And 162 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: so they got today's script. Okay, today's script as we've got. 163 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: You need to do your own investigation into that paid thing, 164 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: because you don't have proof of it. You're just saying 165 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 1: it every day. Yeah, because that's what's happening. No, I 166 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: know you make it so just because it says so. 167 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: It doesn't make it so. Yes, it does. I know 168 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: human maying in your own little mind and words. No, No, 169 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:32,440 Speaker 1: because I know human nature. You actually thinks enough care well, 170 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: I don't need you don't need proof. If somebody does 171 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:38,559 Speaker 1: an investigation to see that they're paid, do the investigation. Oh, 172 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 1: it's not my claim, it's yours. I'm not doing an investigation. 173 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: I know what I know. There it is. I was 174 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: waiting for it. I know what I know. The People's 175 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: City Council and other related groups pay protesters to show 176 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: up at everything. There are very few genuine protests in public. 177 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 1: There aren't because most people don't care that much, and 178 00:08:58,120 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 1: they certainly aren't going to show up for two weeks 179 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: over an issue that doesn't affect their lives. That's human nature. 180 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: I know human nature. You know human nature. There are 181 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: definitely exceptions to your ideas of human nature. Very few, 182 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: and even your friend Michael Schellenberger wrote about these people. 183 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: He's psychoanalyzed them, but he didn't say they're paid a 184 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,959 Speaker 1: lot of mare paid. Though this crowd is paid. You 185 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:23,319 Speaker 1: just kept repeating in an assertion, Weth because it is, 186 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: because it's true they're paid. What do they do for 187 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: a living? I don't want to repeat though, it's the 188 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 1: definition of mental illness. And what do they do for 189 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 1: a living? I have they're probably artists. They're probably wandering 190 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 1: around trying to figure out their lives. Yeah. I'm not 191 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,680 Speaker 1: saying they have any great jobs anywhere. But you have 192 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:40,319 Speaker 1: to beat because most of them are camped out inside 193 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,680 Speaker 1: deli Own's home. They're basically homeless. Okay, but you make 194 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: it sound like to getting paid one hundred thousand dollars 195 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 1: a year to do this. They can't be. You know, 196 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: it's small, a small amount to get them by as 197 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,599 Speaker 1: much as they would make pandandley. I know this is 198 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 1: hard for you to believe, but not one hundred percent 199 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: of the world is motivated by money. It's just not. 200 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 1: It does if you're at of work and you need 201 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: it to eat every day. They don't care about that stuff. 202 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 1: They get by. You've been a responsible adult with your family. 203 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: You think about these things. They don't you can get enough. 204 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: They have a whole different mindset just by sitting in 205 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 1: a tent in front of de Leone's house. That you 206 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 1: know that that beats begging in the street. One last 207 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 1: thing I want to read before we move on. Uh, 208 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,200 Speaker 1: this is really funny. They're mentioning what di Leone has 209 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 1: been doing television and radio interviews. He wants to regain 210 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: the trust. You want a spokeshole for Sidio said, but 211 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: he's at a place of reflection. I just thought that 212 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: was funny. Sado right now is just at a place 213 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: of reflection. There's another part of the ritual, the spokeshole 214 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: saying something absurd. Do you think he's really in a 215 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: place of reflection? Is there a room where you go 216 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: and to sit and reflect? It's like John in the 217 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: showers stall reflect. All right, as soon as we come back, 218 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: you can win with the keyword and you'll find out 219 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: how you enter that keyword that's come up in a 220 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 1: few minutes, and then we'll talk about just the corruption 221 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: at city Hall and a try And the reason I 222 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: want to talk about this story is there's some absurdity 223 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 1: in it. You remember the developer scandal that ensnared Jose 224 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: We Saw and Mitch Englander. Well, there's another one coming 225 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: up related to that, John and Ken Kfi Am six 226 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Well, the real 227 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: crime coming out of the La City Council concerned several 228 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: council people involved in actual criminal corruption, and that would 229 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 1: be the whole thing with the developers and taking money 230 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: from the developers to help them get permission to build 231 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: their buildings. Mitch Englander, of course, has already gone to 232 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: prison and return to the real world. The one that's 233 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: coming up is Jose We Saar. Now, his trials not 234 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: till next year. What's beginning this week. Coming up is 235 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: a criminal trial of a well, this is what's weird 236 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: about the story. They're putting a corporation on trial. You see, 237 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 1: there's a company owned by a Chinese developer named Wei Wang. 238 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:55,439 Speaker 1: He's the one that bribed Jose We's are with a 239 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: million and a half dollars. Yes, but he fled. He's 240 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: of the country. He's probably whether he's in China or 241 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: what country he's in. He's come in here. He's not gonna. 242 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 1: They're not gonna. So they're putting the company on trial. 243 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: So like when they put PG and E on trial 244 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 1: John for murder, Right, so great, go ahead, have a 245 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: courtroom for us. You'll find the incorporation guilty. Then what 246 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 1: do you have any assets to seize? Anything you can do. 247 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 1: I don't really understand the point of this, but nevertheless, 248 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 1: there they're putting a company called shen Zen New World 249 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: one on trial. Is that based here or is that 250 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 1: a Chinese company? Well, it's a I think it is 251 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:36,839 Speaker 1: based here. It is owned by him, but I couldn't 252 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:38,719 Speaker 1: tell you where it's in corporate I just wonder what. 253 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: But he does own some properties here, so maybe they 254 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: could seize the properties if But this isn't a civil trial. 255 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 1: This is a criminal trial. So I I don't really 256 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 1: don't really understand. Maybe there's more logic to it than that, 257 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:59,719 Speaker 1: but uh, but nobody's gonna suffer because where PG and 258 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,599 Speaker 1: E got hit with it, it says here it's in 259 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: a position for killing those people in that remember that 260 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:11,679 Speaker 1: fire paradise, not just paradise but the gas pipe explosions, 261 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: and I think it was San Bruno right, they got 262 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:19,080 Speaker 1: they got convicted criminally of something, But so what what 263 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: does it mean? Doesn't mean anything? So well, But because 264 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: they're utility that has to keep standing. I guess that's why. 265 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: But this is a company, Shenzen New World one is 266 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 1: an arm of Wang's development company in China. Three bribery charges. 267 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: This guy also owns the Sheridan Hotel Universal Studios, but 268 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: it's mostly on this plan for a skyscraper at the 269 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: La Grand Hotel. The sight he owns at West third 270 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: in Figaroa Streets. You know, it's also interesting about this. 271 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: Scheduled to testify at this trial of this corporation is 272 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 1: the wife, mother, and brother of Jose We's are. They're 273 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: going to testify that they helped him launch of the money. 274 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: He's a key. He got two hundred and fifty thousand 275 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: dollars in casino chips. We'se are cashed it out. Remember 276 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: those pictures from the casino of him and a loan 277 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 1: of about six hundred grand which we are never repaid. 278 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:15,959 Speaker 1: And oh I forgot about this used to settle a 279 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 1: sex harassment lawsuit that his staff were brought against him. Yeah, 280 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: remember that stories are I was busy. He took twenty 281 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: trips to Las Vegas, yes that Wang paid for also 282 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: to Pebble Beach also to a casino in Australia. He 283 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 1: was living the high life. This is what these guys 284 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: are about. And tell me, tell me you don't have 285 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: other guys on the city council saying Wow, that's pretty cool, 286 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 1: that's a good deal. I want that of course. Well 287 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: that's what Englander was doing, and there must be other 288 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: guys who did it and just didn't get caught yet. 289 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: I mean, you're watching. We aren't take twenty trips to 290 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: Las Vegas along with the casino chips and the hookers, 291 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: and it says here that they would what they should do. Well, 292 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 1: they're going to include is a million dollars in travel 293 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: expenses that Wang picked up for Weezar. Now Wang didn't 294 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: pay it, but because he's a high roller in Vegas, 295 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: he got comped by the casinos, including luxury transit and accommodations. 296 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 1: So the casino will pay for the politician you're bribing. Apparently, 297 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: So can you do a favor for my friend if 298 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: you're a high roller? I think the answer is sure. Sure, 299 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: Oh it's the Oh it's an LA councilman. Oh, Mikey's 300 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: the fifth one we've had here this week. Sure, Oh, 301 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 1: the guy with all the casino chips at the young 302 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: cashing window. Yeah, we want us to give him hookers 303 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: in a beautiful suite and give him a limo to 304 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: take around the city. Sure, Sure, we'll give him an 305 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: extra large one so we could fit extra hookers in there. 306 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 1: So these people are disgusting, all right. I don't know 307 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: if this trial is worth much since it's a corporation 308 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: on trial and be convicted of three bribery charges. Okay, 309 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: then one can they seize, But that's fame, that's not 310 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 1: companies owned by a Chinese company. I don't know what 311 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: the jurisdiction would be. Yeah, I don't Do you have 312 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: as good a chance as getting the guy that owns 313 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: it who's now flipped. Do you want to lay it 314 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: down for the record. I suppose they've done all this investigating, 315 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: spent all this money. At least they could claim they 316 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: have these convictions and if if Wang ever re enters 317 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 1: the US now they could nail him. All right, when 318 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 1: we come back, we got an email from a listener 319 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 1: and here on the Johnny Ken's show, we want to 320 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 1: try to save the beach sand. CLEMENTI is losing a 321 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: lot of sand. It's a big issue there, even involving 322 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: the railroad running through They had to close it down 323 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 1: because of a dramatic decline in the sand. We have 324 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: a listener who wrote to us who says that this 325 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: is all was all preventable and was kind of the 326 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: consequence of decisions. It sounds like we'll find out, John 327 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 1: and Ken KF I am six forty live everywhere on 328 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. All right, we'll get the latest at 329 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: four oh five from ABC News Alex Stone for KFI 330 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: about the attack on Paul Pelos. See, the wife of 331 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi was hit with a hammer early this morning 332 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 1: in the Pelosi home in San Francisco. He has undergone 333 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,360 Speaker 1: surgery for on his skull as well as his arm 334 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:13,199 Speaker 1: and hands, and a lot to be said about the 335 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: attacker is one weird combination of things. A nudist with 336 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: right wing conspiracy theorists beliefs. Paul Pelosi's a woman. Now, 337 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: what happened? You called Paul Pelosi her wife? Oh? I did, 338 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 1: I did? I just I don't know where is he 339 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: identifying Paul Pelosi her wife? Is that what I said? 340 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 1: You said? I don't know that. You Eric Hard It 341 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: all right? Whatever I think everybody understands Paul and Nancy Pelosi. Right, 342 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 1: So cut Alex Stone after the news at four o'clock 343 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: here on K five. So Steve Lang is coming on. 344 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,920 Speaker 1: He's one of our listeners. The headline is San Clementi 345 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:05,640 Speaker 1: is losing beach sand. The city is hiving a consultant 346 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 1: to find a solution. It's even stopped the railroad from 347 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 1: running through there because it's very close to the edge. 348 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:18,640 Speaker 1: Railroad damage caused by strong surf and high tides. They 349 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 1: have halted commuter service along the coast in southern San 350 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 1: Clementi until at least mid December, where they can make 351 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: emergency repairs. Now, yeah, John mentioned Steve Lang. He wrote 352 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 1: to us with Obviously he's a resident and he can 353 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,439 Speaker 1: tell us a lot more about this and what he 354 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,639 Speaker 1: thinks is the problem. So let's get him on. Let's 355 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:42,119 Speaker 1: get Steve here. How are you, Steve good? Can you 356 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:46,440 Speaker 1: hear me? Yes? We can. So. According to your letter, 357 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,720 Speaker 1: ten years ago, there was eighty yards of beach and 358 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:54,399 Speaker 1: San Clementi and now there's nothing. Yeah. I live in 359 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: a community called the Cyprus Shore and it's right at 360 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:02,640 Speaker 1: the border of the San Diego Orange County line. Right 361 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:05,680 Speaker 1: where the old Nixon Whitehouse was. It's called Cotton's Point. 362 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: It's a famous serve break. We have lower tressels, upper chessels, 363 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 1: cottons and it's a big surrup break. And so our 364 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:18,120 Speaker 1: beach we have, we have our own beaches side the shore. 365 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 1: This few hundred yards wide and it used to be 366 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,159 Speaker 1: eighty two one hundred yards wide. We had four volleyball courts, 367 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 1: We had barbecues, picnic tables, swing sets, showers and the like. 368 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 1: And now we have a breakwall. All the sand is 369 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:35,959 Speaker 1: one hundred percent gone. I think you guys some pictures 370 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 1: photos there, Yeah, we can see that they're dramatic. What's 371 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:44,120 Speaker 1: caused this? Is this gradual or was there some monster 372 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 1: storm that took out most of the sand at once? 373 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: It's both. Um. The city of San Clementi has had 374 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 1: a stand replenishment program in the works for twenty five years. 375 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 1: Stand comes from San yeah, exactly. B sand comes from erosion, 376 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: mainly the riverbeds. So we have our riverbed feeders. The 377 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 1: main one we have is San Juan Creek which comes 378 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: out at Dohiti and in uh San Juan Capistrano, and 379 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:20,880 Speaker 1: then we have San Mateo Creek and Santino fri Creek, 380 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: and when it rains, water runs down the Alquefer from 381 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 1: all the valleys inland and it washes out into the ocean, 382 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 1: and then the waves distributed onto the beach, and so 383 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: our beaches in South Orange County are I don't know, 384 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: billions of years old. I don't know, but they've been 385 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 1: there forever since I was a little kid. And and 386 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: so once we've developed all of the communities and all 387 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 1: along the coast, everywhere we've we've basically eliminated natural standard plishment. 388 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 1: So this is not new. It is not new news. 389 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,199 Speaker 1: The government knows about it, everybody should know about it. 390 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: But nothing happened for a long time. And there's a 391 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,440 Speaker 1: lot of reasons. I don't want to see anybody into 392 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 1: the bus because I can't really speak to that so much. 393 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 1: But in twenty fourteen, we had a hurricane named Marie, 394 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: and it was a Category five hurricane, and I had 395 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 1: the storm was ninety miles off of our coast, and 396 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,199 Speaker 1: so when Marie came with all the surfers, you know, 397 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 1: all the magazines were talking about it for weeks and 398 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: weeks and weeks. It was the best biggest surveys had 399 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 1: in southern California maybe fifty years and uh so, and 400 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: the surfer will he called it going off. It was 401 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: everything was really good. But she came in in the 402 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 1: ways where it lasted for days and they were, you know, 403 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:47,360 Speaker 1: twenty foot faces plus and she destroyed took so much 404 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 1: stand off of our beaches. It was it's incredible. And 405 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:56,640 Speaker 1: so after that, each succeeding south swell that came in 406 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: would take more and more stand and it's just it's 407 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:06,360 Speaker 1: disappeared dramatically rapidly, and like you said in your lead 408 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: in the city of San Clementi's hired an environmental engineering 409 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:16,639 Speaker 1: consulting firm to investigate why the stand has gone so fast, 410 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 1: But most all the surfers, all of us know that 411 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: it's just been going and it doesn't come back. And 412 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 1: so we've been pussibly been in a drought for I 413 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: think sixteen out of the last twenty years, and so 414 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: there's been no natural sand replenishment. And so now we 415 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 1: are at the focal point at Cotton's Point. So are 416 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,680 Speaker 1: we probably got hit the worst, but all of the 417 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,440 Speaker 1: beaches south and north of us have been devastated over 418 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 1: the last few decades, and there's no natural replenishment. Is 419 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:54,719 Speaker 1: this something the city doesn't want to pay for? Well, 420 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 1: the city there they've got a there's a federal grant 421 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: and a state grant, and this is what I've been told, 422 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 1: and the city has put their money in to pay 423 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:06,639 Speaker 1: for this. The marit sant Co Many, his name is 424 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 1: Tim Brown, was the mayor, I don't know five eight 425 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,640 Speaker 1: years ago. He was the mayor twice. Actually in two 426 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:17,120 Speaker 1: seventeen he made a video in sant Co Many about 427 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: getting the Sandary plans from two th seventeen, which would 428 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 1: have helped then. But now there's so much sand has gone. 429 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: The Sandary plans from program that's supposed to be now 430 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,919 Speaker 1: instituted it's twenty five years is now supposed to be 431 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:37,080 Speaker 1: here next fall. That is like putting forty gallons of 432 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,120 Speaker 1: water in your swimming pool. It's it's nothing. And so 433 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: I guess what I'm wondering, is this chest part of 434 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: the natural cycle of life along the shore because there 435 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:52,360 Speaker 1: has been a drought for like you said, sixteen out 436 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: of the last twenty years, and so you're not getting 437 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 1: all the sediment rushing off the rivers anymore, and you're 438 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,399 Speaker 1: getting storms that occasionally about the sand, Like, is this 439 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 1: something that there's no point to spending the money because 440 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:08,680 Speaker 1: you could have a few bad years where nature goes 441 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: the wrong way and you're you're back to zero again. 442 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 1: You got to spend the money all over again. No, 443 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: it's I disagree in my opinion is that we let 444 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 1: it get so bad that it's now become devastated and 445 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:26,439 Speaker 1: so the man it's a man made problem. Man has 446 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 1: eliminated erosion. We've in there's concrete companies in San Juan 447 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 1: Creek that have been taking sand out of the out 448 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,479 Speaker 1: of the creek for decades and decades and decades and 449 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: so h and then a lot of the river beds 450 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: are cemented, and then all the hillside and bluff side 451 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:48,719 Speaker 1: development does not allow for natural standard plenishment. So it's 452 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: the only way that we can fix it or rectify 453 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 1: it is do it ourselves. I see. Uh yeah, I 454 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 1: don't have an opinion on it. I was just I'm 455 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 1: just asking, uh, what what about? What does it do 456 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 1: to the town? I mean, do you end up getting 457 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 1: hurt economically? Are there fewer visitors? Did the beaches attract 458 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of people? Yeah? You know, yeah, 459 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 1: there's signs on the freeway that says Beach City's next exit. 460 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,639 Speaker 1: And if you get off and there's no beach, what, 461 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: you know, what's happening? And uh, it's it's dramatic, there's 462 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: it's you know, you can see from those pictures. Yeah, 463 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: and the railroad tracks are so close to the ocean 464 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:30,119 Speaker 1: now it's bizarre looking. Yeah, And the railroad tracks have 465 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: been there forever. But there was a buffer of sand 466 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,439 Speaker 1: between the mainland on the other side of the tracks, 467 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: and and the tracks themselves and the ocean. There was 468 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:45,120 Speaker 1: the sand buffers. Yeah. What kind of trains go down 469 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 1: that track, Well, it's the surf line. I think they 470 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,879 Speaker 1: call it, the Amtrak trains, the Amtrak train. Well, then 471 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 1: they also run freight at night. Well, well then you 472 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 1: need that track, right amtrack and the freight lines. That's 473 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 1: big priority here. It's a big priority. And it's uh. 474 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,640 Speaker 1: And so because of the loss of sand in our neighborhood, 475 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 1: we have a landslide that that's devastated our neighborhood dramatically. 476 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: And the sand act is a natural buffer. Once the 477 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: sand left, water basically roughly soaks underneath the railroad track. 478 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,120 Speaker 1: I was thinking the federal government would have a big 479 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 1: interest in replenishing the sand because otherwise that railroad track 480 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 1: is going to be gone. Amen, brother, But they're not 481 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 1: doing anything exactly. Well, no, they are doing something right 482 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:44,160 Speaker 1: now that the amtracker octa is um has a plan, 483 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 1: an emergency plan because this landslide has not stopped yet. 484 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 1: It's still moving slightly. And the landslide in our neighborhood 485 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 1: moved about four feet drop four ft, so we have 486 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: a new four foot cliff. There's two inside of our neighborhood. 487 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 1: There's two houses that are red tag that are sliding, 488 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:06,680 Speaker 1: and um, it's it's just been devastating. So the railroad 489 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,199 Speaker 1: has a plan right now to spend twelve million dollars 490 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 1: to a point one mite I believe, to put a 491 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 1: tie ac system in to arrest this landslide, and that 492 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: and in the railroad line itself is in jeopardy of 493 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:26,120 Speaker 1: having uh you know, our neighborhood fall on top of it. 494 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,399 Speaker 1: So they are they are working feverishly right now to 495 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:34,919 Speaker 1: fix that. And they've stopped pedestrian rail service for I 496 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,880 Speaker 1: think until December. I've heard the train the trains haven't 497 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: been running for a few weeks. I think three weeks. 498 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: All right, Steve, we gotta go, but keep us posted. 499 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 1: This is a really serious, awful situation for this portion 500 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,360 Speaker 1: of Saint Clementi. We thank you for reaching out to us. 501 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,679 Speaker 1: All right, have a good one. Thanks. All right. That's Steve. 502 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,120 Speaker 1: He lives in Saint Clementi. And as you have been 503 00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:01,119 Speaker 1: hearing the beaches disappearing, the Saint is disappearing. It's so 504 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: disastrous that, as we just said, they've had to shut 505 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: down part of the rail line through their the Amtrak 506 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 1: service because there's just the tracks almost look like they're 507 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: in the ocean, they're that close to it. I'm more 508 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 1: coming up, John and Ken KF. I am six forty 509 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 1: live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. In less than thirty minutes, 510 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,880 Speaker 1: you'll get another keyword that you chance for the inflation 511 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 1: bonus cash. You'll hear the keyword and follow the instructions 512 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 1: carefully to have a shot at the money. After four o'clock, 513 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,400 Speaker 1: our guests will be Alex Stone, ABC News for KFI 514 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 1: to talk about the latest in the Paul Pelosi case. 515 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: He was beaten with a hammer by an intruder at 516 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: the Pelosi home in San Francisco. He's working su Yeah, 517 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: he's undergone surgery apparently his arm in hand who had 518 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: some damage that they had to repairs. He expected to 519 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 1: make a full recovery. But it's one wild story and 520 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 1: one wild attacker's background. Alex Stone will bring us more 521 00:28:55,160 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 1: at four oh five. Now, there's been talk for too 522 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 1: many years now about raising the wages of the lower 523 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 1: end workers. We take you now to Denver, Colorado. We're 524 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: two years ago a coffee shop by the name of Amethysts. 525 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 1: Amethyst made the news because they were raising the barista 526 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: wages to fifty thousand dollars a year annual they would make. 527 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 1: They had six staffers. To do this, though, they had 528 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: to raise the prices by fifty percent. A couple black 529 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 1: coffee to go went from three dollars and twenty five 530 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: cents to four fifty. The price of a latte rose 531 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: from four to fifty to six seventy five. We're talking 532 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: about them today because they're closing back Monday would be 533 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: their last day. Oh wow. The official story is they're 534 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 1: just burnt out the owners. The official story is they 535 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 1: probably were going bankrupt because they were paying their employees 536 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 1: too much and their business probably was going down because 537 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: the coffee was too expensive, but they're not going to 538 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 1: admit that. Socialists never admit that their ideology fails. In 539 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: the end, people are shopping for a cup of coffee 540 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,720 Speaker 1: and there's a billion coffee houses. Would they really want 541 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 1: to pay like eight or nine dollars for a cup 542 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: when they can get it like half as much down 543 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: the street, right, especially when you find out that it's 544 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 1: all going to give an outrageous salary to people who's 545 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,200 Speaker 1: people who poor coffee for a living. Well, they got 546 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 1: rid of the tipping system at the coffee shop, but 547 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 1: they raised their wages so that they were making fifty 548 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 1: grand a year, which you know, I don't know how 549 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: many hours they work, but that's way too much money 550 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: to pour coffee. Yes, and they had a hope that 551 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 1: they were going to set an example that people will 552 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: pay higher prices in order to give others a living wage. Whoops, 553 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: it was described as a stable living wage. In other words, Well, 554 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 1: it worked for a while, but maybe not. They Well, 555 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: they have good will for a little while, but eventually, 556 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 1: especially with inflation going up, people have less money to 557 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 1: spend on luxury coffee. I mean, they thought they could 558 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 1: repeal the laws of market economies, you can't no, and 559 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: the laws of competition, Yeah, because if your competitor is 560 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,479 Speaker 1: not doing this, well, that's where folks are going to go. 561 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:28,240 Speaker 1: I mean, the whole economy is based on corporations trying 562 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,720 Speaker 1: to give the best product at the lowest price. That 563 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 1: is the foundation of the entire economy. So here's how 564 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 1: you're gonna do. How it broke out, they were now 565 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,720 Speaker 1: getting twenty seven dollars an hour under this system. The 566 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,920 Speaker 1: fifty grand wages about thirty five hours a week. Before 567 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 1: the pandemic, they were getting twelve dollars in it. The 568 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 1: value of pouring coffee is not twenty seven dollars an hour. 569 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: You know, people have a hard time understanding this. But 570 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 1: when you got your social justice degree from the State 571 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 1: College and couldn't find real work, you ended up pouring 572 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,120 Speaker 1: coffee for a living. But you still thought it was 573 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 1: a social injustice to make twenty seven dollars an hour 574 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,520 Speaker 1: or to make you know, really you should make eight 575 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 1: dollars an hour, right, so you think it's a social injustice. 576 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: So it's like, well, I deserved twenty seven dollars. I 577 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 1: deserve it. I mean, I'm working hard here pouring coffee. 578 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,480 Speaker 1: That way, there's not the value in what you do. 579 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,200 Speaker 1: What the company said back in twenty twenty one, one 580 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 1: customer said, I'm not going to pay seven dollars and 581 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: fifty cents for amocha. Here's what the company said back. 582 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 1: By saying that you wouldn't pay seven to fifty for amocha, 583 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 1: you're effectively devaluing the coffee itself and the labor of 584 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 1: the barista. You're saying that the barista doesn't deserve a 585 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,520 Speaker 1: quality of life that is subject to people tipping or not. 586 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 1: Because the other thing they were pushing is we're getting 587 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 1: rid of the tipping system. Yes, we are devaluing the 588 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,680 Speaker 1: work of the barista. And by the way, that's another 589 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,880 Speaker 1: word that ought to be bad. What the fancy? Okay? 590 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:59,840 Speaker 1: Is it Spanish or I forget waitress, waiter? Coffee? Poor barista? Seriously, 591 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: and people actually repeat that. I hear people talking about it, Commo, 592 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 1: Well the berista, the hell are you talking about? You? Gal? 593 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 1: Don't they shops some of them have a more upscale clientele, 594 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,200 Speaker 1: so they wanted a more upscale word. Barista could be 595 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 1: a foreign word for penis and you would know it. Wow, 596 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 1: it's no it careful. Yeah, no, people just do trendy stuff. 597 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:24,000 Speaker 1: It's like the barista stop twenty seven dollars an hour, 598 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: Sure that business will work. Why why did you stop 599 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,200 Speaker 1: at twenty seven? Why don't you make a thirty seven? 600 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 1: All right? When we return, we'll be talking to Alex Stone, 601 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,760 Speaker 1: ABC News for KFI the latest and the attack on 602 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:39,880 Speaker 1: Paul Pelosi, the husband of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of 603 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: the House, the home in San Francisco. He was attacked. 604 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,120 Speaker 1: John and Ken KF I Am six forty live everywhere 605 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,320 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app, and Debra Mark Live in the 606 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 1: twenty four Hour Cafe Newsroom