1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: Kf I Am six forty. 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John and Ken Show on demand 3 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio. 4 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: App on the radio one to four. 5 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 2: Then after four o'clock, the iHeart app has the John 6 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 2: Again on demand podcast. 7 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 1: Listen to What you missed? All right? An update on 8 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,920 Speaker 1: the out of control border, a story that really ought 9 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:22,120 Speaker 1: to be getting a lot more attention like it did 10 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: earlier this year. It's not the numbers are startling migrants 11 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: entering the United States. Got a couple of stories dealing 12 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: with that coming up in a few minutes. We begin 13 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: the hour, though, with a big story concerning one of 14 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: the biggest behemoth sellers of goods there is on the planet, Amazon. 15 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 1: The Federal Trade Commission and seventeen state attorneys general have 16 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: filed a lawsuit against Amazon. We're going to find out 17 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 1: the details of this now from ABC News Technology reporter 18 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: Mike Dubusky. Mike, welcome, How are you uh doing well? Guys? 19 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 1: There are you? What's just great? Yeah? What is this? 20 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 3: So? Again? As you mentioned there, this is the Federal 21 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 3: Trade Commission in seventeen state attorneys general filing a really big, 22 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 3: far reaching lawsuit against Amazon, specifically their e commerce business. 23 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 3: Right Amazon is a huge, sprawling tech company. They cover 24 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:21,960 Speaker 3: everything from streaming video to e commerce to even robotic 25 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 3: vacuum cleaners. But this particular lawsuit is taking aim at 26 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 3: the Amazon that we are probably most familiar with, which 27 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 3: is Amazon dot com, the place where you buy and 28 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,759 Speaker 3: you know, if you're a small retailer, you can sell 29 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 3: stuff on Amazon as well. The FTC alleges that this 30 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 3: company has engaged in monopolistic practices, using their dominance in 31 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 3: the market to basically sort of shoulder out other competitors. 32 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 3: They've jacked up prices, they've degraded the quality of their 33 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 3: own products to save money, and that has unfairly impacted 34 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 3: the consumer in the government's estimation. And they say that 35 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 3: this is illegal and they are taking it to court. 36 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 3: Now Amazon is firing back. They say that this the 37 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:12,359 Speaker 3: government fundamentally misunderstands retail and they are ready to take 38 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:14,519 Speaker 3: this to court. They put out a long, far reaching 39 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 3: statement sort of detailing a lot of the concerns that 40 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 3: the FTC brings up in its lawsuit, But overall, it's 41 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 3: a big legal action for both a big regulatory body 42 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 3: and a very big tech firm. 43 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, what would be an example of this. Can you 44 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 1: cite anything that they're saying, you mean online, they're punishing merchants. 45 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 1: It says here for offering lower prices elsewhere. Yeah, that's right. 46 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 3: So essentially the idea that the government brings to the table. 47 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,079 Speaker 3: For one, this is a one hundred and seventy two 48 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 3: page lawsuit, so. 49 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 2: They out wow, number, we'd like to read the whole thing. 50 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 2: We've got time. 51 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:51,920 Speaker 3: Look, I've been I've been going through it as fast 52 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 3: as I can, guys. But the idea here essentially boils 53 00:02:55,800 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 3: down to this fact that Amazon both owns the retail space, right, 54 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 3: they own the online marketplace that where you buy and 55 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 3: sell goods, and they also sell things that their own 56 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 3: things on that marketplace. One example that the government cites 57 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 3: that that has gotten a lot of attention in the 58 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 3: hours since this has been out is the idea that 59 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 3: if you're a third party retailer, Let's say you sell 60 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 3: generic charging cables for cell phones, and you don't if 61 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 3: you kind of operate in that space, which Amazon also 62 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,359 Speaker 3: operates in, right, they sell their own generic charging cables, 63 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 3: then Amazon disadvantages you as a third party seller by 64 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 3: not giving you the same Amazon Prime benefits the same 65 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 3: sort of fast shipping you would get if you were 66 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 3: Amazon itself, and the idea is that that's unfairly biased 67 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 3: against consumers. 68 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 2: This is not a joke. That's the package I'm waiting 69 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 2: for this afternoon. Charging cables. 70 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 1: That's weird. I have no idea everybody needs charging gase. 71 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:04,119 Speaker 1: I might be part of this lawsuit. 72 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, if you want to hop on, you Letitia James 73 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 3: and Lena Cohn from the FTC. They got the good group. 74 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: I gotta look to see who I bought it from. 75 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: So this must have been a complicated investigation. Mike, How 76 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: did they They put this together over a period of 77 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 1: time or they did? 78 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, so this got started back in twenty nineteen as 79 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 3: a matter of fact, So they've been looking at this 80 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 3: particular aspect of Amazon's business for a while. It's been 81 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 3: rumored that we were going to get a kind of 82 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,919 Speaker 3: high profile lawsuit like this for several months as a 83 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 3: matter of fact, and worth mentioning guys that the FTC, 84 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 3: as we've sort of alluded to here, not just targeting 85 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 3: e commerce when we're talking about Amazon. They're investigating the 86 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 3: company's acquisition of I Robot, which is the company that 87 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 3: makes room robotic vacuum cleaners. They're investigating the acquisition of 88 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 3: MGM Studios, which is the movie studio that owns the 89 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 3: James Bond franchise. Earlier this year, we saw the FTC 90 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:04,839 Speaker 3: file aw lawsuit against the Amazon Prime business, the sort 91 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 3: of aspect of their e commerce company, alleging that consumers 92 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 3: were unfairly tricked into signing up for this subscription service 93 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:18,479 Speaker 3: and then Amazon made it sort of unfairly difficult to unsubscribe. 94 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 1: From Amazon Prime. 95 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 3: The company is facing sort of headwinds from a number 96 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 3: of different perspectives here, and worth mentioning as well that 97 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 3: the FTC has really taken big tech to task over 98 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 3: the past year or two under Lena Khan, who's the 99 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 3: FTC chairwoman. Under her leadership right now as we speak, guys, 100 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 3: there is a lawsuit against Google alleging a number of 101 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 3: anti trust practices. There by an administration really kind of 102 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 3: focused on big tech in a big way. But none 103 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 3: of these lawsuits, none of these legal actions have really 104 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 3: led to anything yet a number of these lawsuits that 105 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 3: the FTC and other government bodies have filed against big 106 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 3: tech firms have either been dismissed or settled outside of court. 107 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 3: So whether this will actually become anything, I think remains 108 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 3: a pretty open question. That being said, though, it is 109 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 3: a product that a lot of people use Amazon, you know, 110 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 3: they're sort of e commerce marketplace, So I think a 111 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 3: lot of people are going to be paying a pretty 112 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 3: close keeping a pretty close eye on this. 113 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: There's nowhere you can go to find such an array 114 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: of products like there is on Amazon. I mean, there 115 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:30,160 Speaker 1: is no competition, and that. 116 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 3: Is part of the government's argument, right, is that you 117 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 3: know Amazon, that's by design from Amazon's Yeah, but. 118 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 1: You know, see, this is what happens. 119 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos came up with an idea, executed on an 120 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 2: idea that nobody else had, and a lot of people 121 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 2: are mad that he's really rich, and the government's mad 122 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 2: that he's one of a kind in that way. 123 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: But what he's supposed to do. 124 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 2: He came up with the idea nobody else had anything similar. 125 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, Worth just kind of putting into contact. Jeff Bezos 126 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 3: is no longer the CEO of Amazon. It's actually Andy Jassey. 127 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 3: But yeah, the sort of ethos that Jeff Bezos came 128 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 3: up with when he founded Amazon in the nineteen nineties 129 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 3: in his garage, as many Silicon Valley tech firms were, 130 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 3: you know, as sort of this e commerce you know, 131 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 3: book retailer right as they sold books online. Did you 132 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 3: ever see a picture really filed out and became this 133 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 3: much bigger thing. And the government alleges that you know, 134 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 3: if we had, as consumers more options, if there was 135 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 3: you know, a bigger presence with eBay or Shopify or 136 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 3: any number of other startup sort of e commerce platforms, 137 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 3: that we as the consumer would get better prices and 138 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 3: better quality products just by nature of competition. Amazon says 139 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 3: that if this lawsuit goes through that that's not the case, right, 140 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 3: that prices will go up, the amount of time it 141 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 3: takes to ship you a product will become longer. We're 142 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 3: just gonna have to see how it plays out in court. 143 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 3: As we mentioned, you know, the FTC has not been 144 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 3: particularly successful in this sort of big tech effort recently, 145 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 3: but this could very well be the exception and that 146 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 3: proves the rule. 147 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: All right, Mike, thank you very much for that report. 148 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: We appreciate it, of course. Guy. Take care. Hi. That's 149 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: Mike Dubuski, the technology reporter for EBC News for KFI 150 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: about this FTC lawsuit against Amazon The chair of the 151 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: FTC is a woman named Lena Khan, and she's apparently 152 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: been after this for years. He has and she failed 153 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: in cases, as you heard Mike mention against Microsoft and Meta. 154 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: You know, I always hear snarky comments about Jeff Bezos 155 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: and Amazon if you go on Google right, there's a 156 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: photo of him in this rented garage somewhere in the 157 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:39,319 Speaker 1: Seattle area now, and it's him sitting at a card 158 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: table with a vinyl Amazon banner tacked to the wall 159 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: behind him. 160 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 2: That was the start of Amazon. He really had an idea, 161 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 2: a card table and a banner, and he's sitting there. 162 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 2: It's the mid nineteen nineties. He actually has a little 163 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:56,079 Speaker 2: bit of hair, and say had this vision and started 164 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 2: with selling books and then CDs at the time, and 165 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 2: then but well, so who is the other guy who 166 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 2: had that idea? 167 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 1: Nobody and I nobody. That's perfect. But what happens often 168 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: is these conglomerates grow and they get bigger, and they 169 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: can hire more people and more logistics people and legal people. 170 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: They figure out ways to make sure there is no 171 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 1: competition by perhaps leveraging. 172 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 2: And works really well. I don't feel like I'm getting 173 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,079 Speaker 2: bad deals on Amazon. 174 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: No, well, this is about the vendors that are on 175 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 1: there that they're being basically strong armed to make sure 176 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: they don't undercut Amazon's prices. I think that's what part 177 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: of this is not really you as the buyer, as 178 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: much as some of the vendors are being you know, 179 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: pushed to make sure that they don't undercut in any 180 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: way on their own websites. Wherever else they sell their crap, 181 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:50,679 Speaker 1: they sell it lower than Amazon's prices, so they remain competitive. 182 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk more. By the way, my charging 183 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: cords did arrive? Is that for your bunker? 184 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,840 Speaker 2: No, no, no, we're actually no, there's this new and 185 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:00,560 Speaker 2: nonoying thing. 186 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 1: The the the. 187 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:09,439 Speaker 2: Next wave of charging cords is us B c c 188 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 2: right right. 189 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: So we're renting a. 190 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 2: Car this weekend and it has USBC plugs for the 191 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 2: for the iPhones. So I had to order this this 192 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 2: new upgraded charging cord I which I did yesterday, and 193 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 2: it's your. 194 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 1: Phone in the car and with directions and all that. 195 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: It's going to be annoying. All right, We're coming up 196 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 1: Johnny ken k IF I am six forty. We're live 197 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: everywhere iHeartRadio app. 198 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 4: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 199 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 4: AM six forty. 200 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: I'm just reading this story from Houston. There's now a lawsuit. 201 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: This family simply says they went to a drive through, 202 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: a Jack in the Box, and they ordered like a 203 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 1: family meal, and when the meal came out through the 204 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: drive through window, it didn't have the curly fries. So 205 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 1: you know, they complained they had kids in the car, 206 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: gotta have those curly fries. So the next thing they know, 207 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 1: one of there's two people in the drive through. One 208 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:09,079 Speaker 1: starts throwing condiments and something else at them, and then 209 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: eventually gunfire. They drove off running from gun. They just 210 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: released that video. You saw it. Yes, yeah, the video 211 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: just came out of this. But the lawsuit is from 212 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: this actually happened to Early Laughter or twenty one. It 213 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: happened in twenty one. 214 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, a woman working inside the restaurant, she's got a 215 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 2: gun and she actually opened fire out the order window. Yeah, 216 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 2: and they sped out of there because, oh, lay crazy 217 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 2: people are in this world. 218 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:42,839 Speaker 1: You know, a Jack in the Box drive through at night? 219 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: Who's working there? 220 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:44,080 Speaker 3: Right? 221 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 2: This is the asta I'd never Yeah, probably a bad 222 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:48,319 Speaker 2: a neighborhood. 223 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: I would never do that. Now, back to the world 224 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 1: of the border and the drug wars. A Riverside County 225 00:11:56,280 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: Sheriff's correctional deputy that means like a prison deputy. He's 226 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:04,439 Speaker 1: been charged with drug trafficking, possession of over one hundred 227 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: pounds of fentanyl, and they believe he has ties to 228 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: a Mexican drug cartel. This is all we need now, Huh. 229 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,319 Speaker 1: They got their tentacles in our law enforcement in the 230 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:15,839 Speaker 1: United States, just like they control a lot of a 231 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 1: Mexican army. And yeah, oh, I'm sure they at least 232 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: and stops fed. 233 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 2: I think they must. There's no explanation for how deep 234 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 2: fentanyl has penetrated. There's no explanation other than law enforcement 235 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 2: and government. Enough people are on the take from the 236 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 2: cartels up. 237 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: He's resigned his position. Apparently they pulled him over. I 238 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 1: don't know what the suspicion was, but they had one 239 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: of those drug sniffing dogs with them and the dog 240 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 1: was on alert, so they conducted a search and they 241 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 1: found one hundred and four pounds of packaged fentanyl in 242 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: his vehicle, along with a loaded handgun. He was apparently 243 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: driving in the area the ten Freeway and County Line 244 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: Road in Kalamsa when he was stopped. This is back 245 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: on September seventeen. No, No, he does get five million 246 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: dollars bail. But this is the La County. 247 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 2: There's that, yeah, right, what I am really puzzled by 248 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 2: the silence and the lack of action towards what's going 249 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:22,559 Speaker 2: on at the border, and and the tremendous amount of 250 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 2: drugs put put the migrants aside. The migrants the one, 251 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 2: drugs are another. And how could you not come to 252 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 2: the conclusion that with so many billions of dollars slashing around? 253 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 2: And it's been clear that the cartels, you know, own 254 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 2: the Mexican president, they own local governments, they own the military, 255 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:50,559 Speaker 2: and they own whatever law enforcement officials, the Mexican police, 256 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 2: state police, whatever they call them. Why wouldn't they own 257 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 2: a lot of Americans as well, American politicians, the American 258 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,680 Speaker 2: American police, anybody that can get in their way, right, right, 259 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 2: I mean. 260 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: It's got to be that, because you can't. 261 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 2: Have a government two parties, right, because they they fight 262 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 2: about the border, right, and they fight about the the 263 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 2: the immigration, they don't fight about the drugs very much. 264 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 2: Neither side really takes a stand. Neither side says anything. 265 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: And yes, AGD is growing. The fentanyl problem is bigger 266 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: than ever. 267 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 2: Are because can you imagine how much weaponry the cartels 268 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 2: have because of the profits they make. I mean that 269 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 2: that's where a lot of the profits goes to reinforce 270 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 2: more weaponry, to train more of their you know, one 271 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 2: hundred I mean they have one hundred and seventy five 272 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 2: thousand employees right well, they have their own they have 273 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 2: their own army basically, and I think that's that's part 274 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 2: of the reason the Americans have been reluctant to take 275 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 2: them on. Not that we couldn't take care of them, 276 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 2: but they have a lot to shoot with. And I'm 277 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 2: just I'm convinced there's a story there, and I think 278 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 2: the journalists are afraid to investigate it because they don't 279 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 2: want to get shot, because in Mexico, lots of journalists 280 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:15,479 Speaker 2: get shot, lots of politicians get assassinated. 281 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 1: They got these pictures that the New York Post circulated 282 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: of migrant children howling in pain. They're crawling through razor 283 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: wire to get into the United States. This is that 284 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: Eagle Past Texas problem. Yeah, somebody took pictures of the 285 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 1: kids crawling through the razor wire. I mean, that's gotta hurt, 286 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: isn't Isn't that child abuse? Well we put it there, 287 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: somebody put it, no I know. But the parents are 288 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 1: carrying all through the razor wire. Oh, in some case 289 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 1: the kids are just crawling on their own. Looking at 290 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: the pictures here, Now, if you saw somebody doing like 291 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 1: trying to get to an obstacle course or trying to 292 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: crouch down to get between the wires. 293 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 2: If you saw somebody doing that dragging a child through 294 00:15:57,880 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 2: razor wire here in America, what would happen? 295 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: But would come and the parents would get arrested. It 296 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 1: would be child abuse charges. Oh but then it's turned 297 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 1: around on us because we put the razor wire there. 298 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: We're hurting the children. 299 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, right, because because these immigrants can't choose to not 300 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 2: go through the razor wire. 301 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 1: Well, it's it's not us, it's them. Those parents ought 302 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: to be arrested. Desperate to get here, they'll crawl through 303 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: razor wire. Don't you see how they turn this around? 304 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: Do you have to be desperate to get here? 305 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 2: Oh? 306 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: My god, even got a picture of a double amputegue 307 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 1: crawling through the razor wire. The borders are what I 308 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: don't a woman missing both legs below the knee. How 309 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 1: long before the crowd in Washington d C Uses these 310 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: pictures to say say, that's why we should have an 311 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: open border. 312 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 2: Yes, they can always manipulate people, but why doesn't anybody 313 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 2: fight back? Why doesn't say the crimes here is on 314 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 2: the Biden administration for letting them in. The crime here 315 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 2: is is these parents dragging their kids through razor wire. 316 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 2: You couldn't do that in this country and you shouldn't 317 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 2: do it. You ought to be put in prison. Your 318 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:07,919 Speaker 2: kid ought to be taken away. Why is it an 319 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 2: immigrant does it? Kid is screaming, he's bleeding. 320 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: It's like, oh how Nobles like what are you? Any 321 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:19,119 Speaker 1: is everybody like hit their heads? We got more coming up. 322 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: Johnny Ken kf I AM six forty we're live everywhere iHeartRadio. 323 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,160 Speaker 4: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 324 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 4: AM six forty. 325 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,879 Speaker 2: We're on the air from one until four and then 326 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 2: after four o'clock. Maybe you missed stuff. John Ken on 327 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 2: demand podcast is posted after four o'clock and. 328 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:43,639 Speaker 1: We're collecting moistline calls through the app. You can use 329 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 1: the microphone icon to connect to the moistline for calls 330 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:48,920 Speaker 1: to be played Friday during this hour, or call the 331 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 1: toll free number one eight seven seven Moist eighty six 332 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,919 Speaker 1: one eight seven seven six ' six ' four seven 333 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 1: eight eight six. All right, Well, there's probably one city 334 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 1: in California, in really in the whole country that is 335 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 1: really seeing a criminal justice meltdown. Now, John had mentioned 336 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: earlier the target is closing stores in some of the 337 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 1: cities we normally pick on. But the one that's been 338 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: in the news a lot lately, and today there was 339 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: an action taken by small businesses in this city. They struck. 340 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 1: They closed down for several hours to day to protest 341 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,639 Speaker 1: the lack of enforcement and the high crime. And the 342 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 1: city we're talking about is lovely Oakland, California. I don't 343 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: know if you've seen some of the crime statistics coming 344 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: out of the Bay Area. City reported violent crime has 345 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: increased twenty one percent of the past year. Robberies have 346 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: gone up thirty three percent, according to Oakland Police data. 347 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 1: They have a mayor there and they have a da 348 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: for Alameda County that has got people really worked up. 349 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:57,680 Speaker 2: So this is a complete failure, and this is what 350 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 2: these politicians want to. They wanted, you know, no police, 351 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 2: no bail, no laws enforced anymore. So this is what 352 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 2: you're gonna get. There's plenty of bad guys out there, 353 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:13,920 Speaker 2: and they'll do this all day, every day. 354 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,440 Speaker 1: Just they put out a release today Oakland businesses will 355 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:20,880 Speaker 1: go on strike. They'll close for two hours on Tuesday 356 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 1: nine twenty six. Some might close to the entire day. 357 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: I am told roughly two hundred businesses will join. They're 358 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 1: fed up with rising crime and demanding city leaders to 359 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:34,920 Speaker 1: do more. A tipping point occurred recently when apparently the 360 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 1: mayor of Oakland failed to apply to audition for additional 361 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 1: state funding to fight crime. And people scratch their heads 362 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 1: at that they missed. 363 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,399 Speaker 2: Some deadline because then the papers stay to get more 364 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:48,760 Speaker 2: money to fight crime because they don't want to fight crime. 365 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 2: And they don't want to fight because fighting crime means 366 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:54,399 Speaker 2: you're going to arrest people and put them in jail. 367 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 2: They're going to go to prison. This woke left wing 368 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 2: crowd is about destroying our way of life. It's about 369 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 2: destroying cities. I don't know why people don't believe it. 370 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 2: You could see what they're doing that they say it 371 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 2: out loud. We want all bottlers like the Burbank mayor 372 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 2: the other day we played. They want to abolish the police. 373 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,919 Speaker 2: They want to abolish prisons. So naturally you're gonna get 374 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 2: rampid crime, massive theft, violence against innocent people. Of course 375 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:30,160 Speaker 2: you will, and then that brings down American cities. That's 376 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 2: what they want. 377 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,479 Speaker 1: They hate what I mean. To take it further, they 378 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:37,880 Speaker 1: would like government ownership of property. There's no private property ownership. 379 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 1: That mayor also touched down on that video the fact that, oh, 380 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 1: we're all going to own the company, so we get 381 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:47,119 Speaker 1: rid of owners entrepreneurs who start companies. It's all going 382 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: to be employee owned. You're gonna be your own boss, 383 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: is the way he phrased. 384 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 3: It. 385 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 1: Isn't that great. It doesn't work on the parts. No, 386 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: of course it doesn't. It didn't work one hundred years ago. 387 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,880 Speaker 2: Did you see James Carville, who used to be Clinton's 388 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 2: top political advisor back in the nineties. He did an 389 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 2: interview yesterday and he's a very partisan Democrat, but he 390 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 2: said the woke people and his party are the stupidest, 391 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 2: most naive people he's ever seen. 392 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 1: Because they're just stupid. This is just stupid. You can't 393 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: argue with this. You have to stop it. The Oakland 394 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,920 Speaker 1: people have to vote for others. 395 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 2: You voted for this whoever that mayor is, and the 396 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 2: last mayor was the same species. 397 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: Stop voting for them. One restaurant owners said, when they 398 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: tried to discuss the situation with government officials, that would 399 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,880 Speaker 1: be all the break ins, the problems they're having. They 400 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 1: were told, invest in your own private security. Yeah, that's 401 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 1: like the story we get. Remember when we had all 402 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: the street robberies here. Don't wear flashy jewelry or watches. Then, 403 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: don't carry that expensive phone around because you're the ones responsible. 404 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: Take care of yourself. 405 00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:00,919 Speaker 2: They hate America, They hate capitalism, they hate businesses. They 406 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,960 Speaker 2: hate successful businesses and enrich people even more right, and they. 407 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 1: Think that poor people are doing this out of desperation 408 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 1: and they should be protected rather than in Britain. They're communists. 409 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 1: They believe in Marxism. 410 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,439 Speaker 2: They say so, if you go to their websites, if 411 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 2: you listen to them speak, that's what they tell us. 412 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 2: And I think most people are going on, oh, come on, no, no, 413 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 2: nobody wants that, nobody believes in that. 414 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: Yes they do. 415 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:29,360 Speaker 2: Look at Oakland, look at La None of this existed 416 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:30,440 Speaker 2: even five years ago. 417 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, Oakland's got a DA just like George Gascone. Yes, 418 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 1: out there one another, one of these George Soros types. 419 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,400 Speaker 2: They got they got into Portland, they got into Seattle, 420 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 2: they got into San Francisco, they got into Philadelphia, Chicago, 421 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 2: New York and look you see in the news every 422 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 2: day those cities are overwhelmed with violence. There's no enforcement 423 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 2: of the law, the police aren't allowed to do anything. 424 00:22:55,640 --> 00:23:00,199 Speaker 2: And this is was the this is what these candidates advertise, Ey, 425 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 2: this is what they're proud of. I mean, I'm just 426 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:10,920 Speaker 2: amazed how long, how dense the public is. They think 427 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,640 Speaker 2: it's still a left wing, right wing debate. That's republican democratic. 428 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 1: No, it's not. 429 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 2: It's about normal people against anarchists. That's the divide. You 430 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 2: have to get rid of the anarchists. And they're they're 431 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 2: they're the mayors now, they're the city council people, they're 432 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,439 Speaker 2: district attorneys, they're they're they're police chiefs. 433 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 1: Sometimes. I was reminded to look this up because you 434 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,399 Speaker 1: mentioned the dopey mayor of Burbank who we threw in 435 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 1: the dumpster on Friday, Constantine Anthony apparently there's a petition 436 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 1: out there to recall him. But he's running for the 437 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 1: Ellie County Board Supervisors and I just looked it up. 438 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: The fifth district Katherine Parker is running for reelection, so 439 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: he's trying to challenge her. She's not turned out, so 440 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 1: that's an easy pick there. Yeah. But this is what 441 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 1: amazes me because I'm listening to you go on and 442 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 1: I'm thinking, and these people somehow continue to ascend them, Okay, 443 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 1: to higher office. This guy wants to go from mayor 444 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: city council member burbank to La County supervisor. 445 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 2: And Kantherine Barger may be sane, but the other four 446 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,959 Speaker 2: county supervisors, all women, curiously, are insane. 447 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:16,360 Speaker 5: Yeah. 448 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,639 Speaker 1: He fed right in with them, right, and so like 449 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 1: they've had the complete monopoly. 450 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 2: Shila Kule left from the West Side, but was replaced 451 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 2: by the former West Hollywood Horvath. 452 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,200 Speaker 1: Who's just as nuts. Oh what did I read the 453 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 1: other day? 454 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:35,120 Speaker 2: The crazy anarchist councilwoman Katie Aeroslavsky. 455 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 1: She used to work in Sheila Quell's office. Oh, it's 456 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,719 Speaker 1: all insane to us. Yes, she did. That's I think 457 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,479 Speaker 1: we brought that up a few months ago. They're all 458 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,680 Speaker 1: communist anarchist types. But Haadie Young Yaroslavsky. 459 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 2: Yes, but you know people, they're women and they people 460 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 2: don't feel it right. They don't look like revolutionaries, they 461 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 2: don't act like revolutionaries, but they sure vote that way. 462 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: All right, We got more coming up. Johnny Ken KFI 463 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: AM six forty live everywhere iHeartRadio app. You'll see we're 464 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: always right. 465 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 4: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 466 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:12,680 Speaker 4: AM six forty. 467 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,880 Speaker 1: Well, this is not the first story I've seen. The Times. 468 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: El Segonda Times did a story this week. I saw 469 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 1: one last week two along the same lines that you 470 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 1: have to be careful of political alliances because sometimes they 471 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 1: can collapse quickly. In apparently a couple of places around 472 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:41,200 Speaker 1: the country, there are Muslims who are protesting LGBTQ plus 473 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 1: acceptance when it comes to the schools. Some parents have 474 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:50,359 Speaker 1: shown up in Montgomery County, Maryland, dressed in traditional Muslim 475 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 1: religious ware, protesting anything being discussed in the classrooms discerned 476 00:25:55,600 --> 00:26:01,639 Speaker 1: concerning LGBTQ plus people. And there was another story that 477 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 1: came out of Michigan. This is the one I saw 478 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: last week. Ham Ham Track, Michigan, The All Muslim City 479 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,680 Speaker 1: Council recently cited with Muslim activists and banned the Pride 480 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:19,959 Speaker 1: flag on city property and community members from LGBTQ said, now, 481 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 1: wait a minute. A couple of years ago, you wanted 482 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: to broadcast you're called to prayer from mosques. We defended 483 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: you when you were being hit with hate crimes. We 484 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,239 Speaker 1: stood up and we said stop this. We opened our 485 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: arms when you were refugees. 486 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 3: You know. 487 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,360 Speaker 1: Now they're like, uh oh, because if you're a religious belief, 488 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:36,159 Speaker 1: you're turning on us. 489 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:41,880 Speaker 2: Exactly because what in the Muslim. In the Muslim's mind, 490 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 2: the ones who are protesting this, this is a grievous 491 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:49,919 Speaker 2: violation of the relation of their religious They're not going 492 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 2: to tolerate in their city this stuff. They're not going 493 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:57,440 Speaker 2: to tolerate it. In the schools, they were waving American flags. 494 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 2: Hundreds of religious parents have been rallying outside of a 495 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 2: Maryland school because there are books featuring gay families wave 496 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 2: American flags. 497 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 1: They chant again, some of these people come from countries 498 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: you could be put to death. Yeah, so this is curious. 499 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,399 Speaker 2: Now when when there's white Christians, there's all sorts of 500 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,360 Speaker 2: the vitriol in the media right about the hateful white 501 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,720 Speaker 2: Christians nowice this La Times story. 502 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,400 Speaker 1: They tippered tiptoes around this kind of gingerly they did. 503 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 1: You know, it's not they used a Muslim writer, I 504 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 1: think to write the story. Muslims are once reliable allies 505 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 1: and a coalition of rachel racial, religious and sexual minorities 506 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 1: courted by the left. No, but they never ever embraced 507 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 1: the gay agenda. Never. That's right. You've talked about that 508 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 1: too with regards to Latinos in terms of their religious 509 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: beliefs when it comes to abortion and some of the 510 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 1: other issues that are central to the far left Democrats. 511 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:54,359 Speaker 2: This this social this social woke, progressive stuff is hitting 512 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 2: a wall with a lot of religious minorities like Muslims 513 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:02,119 Speaker 2: and like Hispanics who are called uly conservative Catholics. 514 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 3: Right. 515 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 2: So, but you know, this has been known for twenty years, 516 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 2: but the media doesn't whip up any hatred and anger 517 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 2: about it. They just kind of lived with it. But 518 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 2: now there are enough Muslims in some areas of the 519 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 2: country where they're the majority on a city council, they're 520 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:24,960 Speaker 2: running the city, and so they're invoking basically their religious law. 521 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just interesting to me how some groups who 522 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,199 Speaker 1: feel like they're a minority and they're persecuted, well, all 523 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 1: the other persecutive minorities, I'm sure will join with us. 524 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 1: And then they look over and like, you're surprised that 525 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 1: religious Muslims are probably not too happy with LGBTQ issues. 526 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 1: You're surprised by that zero tolerance many of them have. 527 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: So that's going to be interesting to see the place out. 528 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 1: And of course the story makes it sound like they 529 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: don't really have much political power in the US at 530 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: the moment. 531 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 2: Musclim No, but there's only three million of them. Yeah, 532 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 2: so that's less than one percent of the population. But 533 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 2: it's these isolated cities. Now, are we going to see 534 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 2: angry uh gay demonstrations in these cities against the Muslims. 535 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 1: Against the blowback? Right, it's the most attacking because they're 536 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 1: they're imposing their their religious beliefs here. That's the one 537 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,960 Speaker 1: person's story said, I feel like it's a theocracy. Now, 538 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 1: how can they do this? 539 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, exactly, that's what they do in a theocracy. 540 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 2: That's what they do in much of the Muslim world overseas. Uh. 541 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 1: We have Conway hey now, and then Mark t live, 542 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: Mark Thompson, I'm trying to fix the set. 543 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 5: Oh, you don't need it for there? Right, Ken talks, 544 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 5: I can here, Okay, hey, Ken, then I won't talk. 545 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 5: I'll he said, he won't talk. 546 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave now. 547 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 5: He says he's going to leave now, and that he 548 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 5: hasn't said anything after that. 549 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 1: Okay, so far, so far, you haven't missed anything. You 550 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 1: got that? 551 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 5: Sorry about that. 552 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: No, it takes your time. 553 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 5: I mean things broken, and they expect me to come 554 00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 5: in bring my own headphones and fixed. 555 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: We're just talking killing time between the commercials. 556 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 5: Here, we're gonna walk today. We're gonna on the schedule. 557 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 5: We're gonna walk Mark Thompson through his first day on radio. 558 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 1: Every week obviously every week. 559 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 5: It is amazing, like this is the most successful station 560 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 5: in the entire iHeart family, right and still like little 561 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 5: crap like the headphone jack isn't fair, just like you 562 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 5: got to bring your own headphones again. 563 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 1: With some it has to do with the employees. 564 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 5: I will go out on live and say I've wor 565 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 5: did three stations. The guys who run this station are 566 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 5: by far the best in the world. God, that's a 567 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 5: guy's making too much money. 568 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 1: That's kind of the guy world. 569 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 5: The guys three technically put this station together are the 570 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 5: best in the world technically put together. 571 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Yes, Matt and the whole crew. All right, 572 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: he's such a company guy. He's got a brand new baby. 573 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 2: Don't get down on it, don't get down on off their. 574 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 5: I don't know. I like the angry, irritated Conway. You 575 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 5: hated everything and everyone. 576 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 1: I just love life. Now. 577 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, you know the guy, the 578 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 5: the mayor of Burbank, Constantine, who got yes, I gotta 579 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 5: I called him. 580 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:14,800 Speaker 1: I gotta deal with him now. 581 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 5: I don't trash him on kf I, but he's going 582 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 5: to try to extend me the first pot license in Burbank. Yeah, 583 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 5: so we both could be thrown in prison by the 584 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 5: FBI for this one. No pot shops in Burbank. 585 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 1: How about that? Not one you cannot buy pot and Burbank. 586 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 5: That's wild. They've got two gun shops, No, they got nine. 587 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 5: I guess they didn't want both. Yeah, you know, they 588 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,000 Speaker 5: hit the pot shot first. And then my daughter pointed 589 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:52,360 Speaker 5: this out when she was very young, She's about five 590 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 5: or six. She goes, Dad, there's a gun shop, right, there, 591 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 5: and right next to it is a jewelry. 592 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 1: She goes. Nobody ever thought of maybe separating those two 593 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:03,480 Speaker 1: a little bit bit. I don't know. I don't know. 594 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 1: We got a ton of stuff to get into tonight. 595 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 1: Of course. Uh, I'm I don't want to do that. 596 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 1: Oh Uber, Uber is launching me in this for the 597 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: first time. 598 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 5: Uber's launching a brand new partnership with Yellow Cab. So 599 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:20,800 Speaker 5: when you call an Uber, you might get a Yellow Cab. Uh. 600 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 1: Well, I like cabs better you do. 601 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 2: Oh my god, I got this weirdo driver when I 602 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,240 Speaker 2: was in Florida, an Uber driver, an Uber driver. 603 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 1: And he uh uh. There was no air conditioning and 604 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 1: it was a night. There was quite an aroma that 605 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 1: he had. Oh yeah, and he's he's got some weird 606 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 1: uh I'm smoking something. I don't know what it was. 607 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 2: He it sounds like Mono picked you up, gospel music 608 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 2: blasting out of the radio. I mean, it was just 609 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,480 Speaker 2: a really unpleasant atmosphere. And I'm thinking, yeah, I know, 610 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,920 Speaker 2: I don't like this Uber thing. You just don't know 611 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 2: what you're getting. 612 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,080 Speaker 5: But you can give him, you know, that two stars 613 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,800 Speaker 5: or something for that it's that bad lot. Then he'll 614 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 5: come to your house and shoot you, kill you. 615 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 1: I'll kill you for that. 616 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 2: I always think about it, that one. They've got my address, 617 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm not gonna stiff him on the tip. 618 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,320 Speaker 2: So it's us for three hours. All right, Well, it's 619 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,760 Speaker 2: better than nothing. I mean, it's better than some other crap. 620 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 3: It was. 621 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,560 Speaker 5: Wow, it's kind of a tipper. That's the slogan for 622 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,240 Speaker 5: the show. It's better than seem. 623 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:20,000 Speaker 1: Very excited about it. 624 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,800 Speaker 5: He's on autopilot for the show. It's better than some 625 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 5: other crap. He does come to life though, when it's 626 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 5: actually yeah, okay, all right, well you're. 627 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:27,840 Speaker 1: Here to inspire him. 628 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:32,320 Speaker 2: Tag dog Conway Thompson Grocer is the news live the 629 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:33,800 Speaker 2: for our newsroom. 630 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,000 Speaker 1: Hey, you've been listening to the John and Ken Show. 631 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: You can always hear us live on kf I Am 632 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:42,120 Speaker 1: six forty one pm to four pm every Monday through Friday, 633 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,720 Speaker 1: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.