1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Caf I Am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: and Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. These 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: goofs that have been leading police on a chase for hours. 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: One of them jumped out of the car and he's 5 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: not standing in someone's driveway in West Carson. He's standing 6 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: in front of the garage door, behind two of the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: parked cars, and he was standing with his arms up. 8 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: Now he's on the ground. Now he's got his arms 9 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: spread and the cops are surrounding him and they're handcuffing 10 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 1: and presumably yes, two guys. I guess, older guys walk 11 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: away from that house. I guess they have been out 12 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: front there like we're getting out of the way. They 13 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: didn't run, They just kind of walked away from the scene. 14 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: Now there was this doesn't look good. There was a 15 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:48,480 Speaker 1: second guy. Where's he ended up? I saw him running, Yeah, 16 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: he was running two but I lost track when this 17 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: first happened and they both hopped out. The one guy 18 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: you're talking about it, he seemed to be walking away, 19 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: but the guy in the white was really just so 20 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: let's kicking it. Is a white T shirt, dark shorts, 21 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 1: tail of some kind of bushy hair with the hair 22 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: with a ponytail. He's got his hands up, he's surrendering. Yeah. 23 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 1: So now he's being led away by cops down the 24 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: driveway between the two cars. So he's probably the attempted 25 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: murder suspect maybe, or maybe maybe the other. I'm thinking 26 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: this is the one, But I think this one got 27 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 1: out of the passenger side, am I right? I don't know. 28 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: I don't know he was. He was sprinting into this 29 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: residential neighborhood, running full but you could tell by his 30 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: body wasn't gonna last long. Now, Oh, they're not beating 31 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 1: on him. You know, sometimes they get little carried away. No, 32 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:39,559 Speaker 1: I know. I wish they might catch up to these guys. 33 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 1: You wait all this stuff that stole that horse years ago. 34 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: How they wailed on him. Yeah, I know, a couple 35 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: of baton wax. I mean, we need a payoff here 36 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: at the end. No, we do not. We don't, okay, 37 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: particularly in this ugly era of to fund the police. 38 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 1: We do not advocate. But I don't know that anything 39 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: like that happened. Yeah, yeah, he's got something coming to recap. 40 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: This started in the twelve o'clock hour, where the police 41 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 1: were chasing one vehicle, like a pickup truck, I think, 42 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 1: with what they thought was an attempted murder suspect inside, 43 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 1: and eventually it looks like the tire blew out on 44 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: that thing. So we think what happened next was he 45 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 1: had called somebody to pick him up. This is in 46 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: the southeast Los Angeles area, so we had a second 47 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: police chase where they were chasing an suv and that's 48 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: where this just ended up in Carson, where the two 49 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 1: of them eventually slowed down and they just jumped out. 50 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 1: I'm guessing this is the attempted murder suspect because he's 51 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 1: got he got the most attention, he's got six cops 52 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: escorting him. Then I even show what happened to the 53 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: other person. Yeah, he ran into a residential neighborhood and 54 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: ran down a few streets going left and right, and 55 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: eventually they found him in front of the house on 56 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: a driveway, taking him back to the main road where 57 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 1: the U I guess that's Vermont Avenue and West Carson. 58 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: That's the main road that the cops have about eight 59 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: cars littered about and they're blocking traffic in both directions 60 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: until they get him in a patrol car. The excitement's over. Yeah, 61 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:22,079 Speaker 1: there you go, talk about two hours of that thing 62 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,079 Speaker 1: to begin and end. Two vehicles. And again the mystery 63 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,239 Speaker 1: was the suspicion, was he in carjack somebody getting that 64 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 1: second car, that suv, But we think that he actually 65 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: called somebody on the cell phone. And you know, you 66 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: know it's funny. Yeah, I was watching Channel seven and 67 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: Channel five, and as soon as the guy was caught, 68 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: as soon as he was handcuffed, Channel seven cut out, 69 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: and it's playing a soap opera. Now. It really is 70 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: no real postgame show. No, it's really entertainment programming. It's 71 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: like here's a chase special. Oh that's over. As you said, 72 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: they know, they know that as soon as the guy 73 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: has captured, there's a big two out, so you might 74 00:03:57,920 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: as well go back to the soap opera as fast 75 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: as you can. And those people don't really care to watch, 76 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: so seamlessly like I didn't even notice how quickly they 77 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: switched back. And you'll ever hear about the story again, 78 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: we'll never have any idea whether you know what he 79 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: was specifically charged with, and he brillion attempted murderer and 80 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 1: what who did you try to kill? And it's just 81 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: entertainment is yeah, a live America just lives off the moment. 82 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:25,919 Speaker 1: And as I said, these things are best on TV. 83 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: Radio can only do so much. And then you're right, 84 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 1: nobody cares hours later. Stupid animals, aren't we? Oh look 85 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: at Jase, Jase shiny objects over now. I speak of 86 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: a crime. This story happened yesterday. Metro, of course, is 87 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 1: having a real problem with ridership. It's down to homelessness 88 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: and criminals and people have been venting at these town 89 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 1: hall meetings we talked last week attracted thousands to phone 90 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: in and say, are you kidding me? It's not safe? 91 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: So they were response was We're gonna hire ambassadors who 92 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: walk around with cool little vests, can I help you? 93 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: And three thousand of them have been assigned to Metros, 94 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: subways and buses. But yesterday was particularly ugly. I don't 95 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 1: know how many ambassadors were hanging around the uh what 96 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: they call the bee line used to be known as 97 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: the Red line, the Metro B line. I don't think 98 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: anyone's ever going to use the B line. I just 99 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: have this feeling that the colors are going to stick. 100 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: You do, because in New York City, they're there letters 101 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: the evening. They started out that way. That's true when 102 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 1: you have a couple of generations that know it as 103 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: the as the red line. Yeah, they're they're using both 104 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: in most stories because they don't want to confuse people. 105 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: Hollywood and Western Station, around five o'clock, an adult male 106 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,479 Speaker 1: was hospitalized with several stab wounds to the stomach. It 107 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 1: was temporarily closed. And then around eight thirty Westlake and Magarthur, Well, 108 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,239 Speaker 1: we talked about that, that's the one with the classical 109 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:01,479 Speaker 1: music playing. Well else, suspect arm of the large knife 110 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: stabbed another adult male. Maybe the classical music made him 111 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: really ornery. The victim received cuts to his neck and well, 112 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: they told us all the crime was down now at 113 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 1: that station since they started blasting classical music. They said, 114 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: it's working, and I don't mind if it's working. It's working. 115 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:19,280 Speaker 1: We played some of it on the air. I think 116 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:22,159 Speaker 1: it was yesterday and it is pretty loud. The victim 117 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: had cuts to his neck and his torso also hospitalized. 118 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:28,840 Speaker 1: Suspect gone by the time the cops arrived. They don't 119 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 1: know if the two incidents were related to each other, 120 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:35,679 Speaker 1: But my question is where were the ambassadors. They're supposed 121 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: to stop this or phone it in. I don't know 122 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,679 Speaker 1: this ambassador things was taken off. In fact, I heard 123 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:45,359 Speaker 1: Ukraine has hired ambassadors instead of soldiers to deal with 124 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: the Russians. I didn't realize. Yes, they're sending in squadrons 125 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: of ambassadors wearing shiny vests and they go up to 126 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 1: and talk to the Russians that you know how to 127 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 1: deal with the anger that they have, and that please 128 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 1: leave our country alone, please stop the invasion. And it's 129 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: a it's an amazing effect. That's why the Russians are losing. 130 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: But ambassadors all this while, Yeah, I don't think that's 131 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: really the best. But what is this with the ambassadors? 132 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: Like who came up with the stupid idea? And in 133 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: a normal world, the guy who came up with the 134 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: ambassadories they would have been laughed out of the out 135 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: of the room. This isn't hard to figure out. It's 136 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: defund the police. They believe there's a sensitivity out there 137 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: to arm police officers, so they're trying to come up 138 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: with some middle ground. Dude, they will make people feel safer, 139 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: but they won't be cops with guns. They they come 140 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: up with the idea of ambassadors and ambassador such a 141 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: it's such a Garcetti name that. Yeah, I know it 142 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:46,239 Speaker 1: sounds mild, I know, because that was his dream, non confrontational. 143 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: But it's just it's just they hold all these town 144 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: halls and they have him in person, and they have 145 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:54,679 Speaker 1: him on zoom and people are calling in and everybody 146 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: keeps telling him the same thing. Right, They had these 147 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: hot lines, people calling them the hot lines, and everybody said, 148 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: there's nothing but mental patients and drug addicts. And they're 149 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: shooting and they're stabbing, and they're lighting people on fire, 150 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: and they're vomiting and they're defecating and they're urine and 151 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: they hear the same story a hundred times a day, 152 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: and they keep on plotting along. Most of the new 153 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: ambassador we have, they're insane. They're absolutely insane. These Metro people, 154 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: they're just a bunch of young people that wear vests 155 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: and they see something that's supposed to call security if 156 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: it looks like they need an armed responsor is the 157 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: purpose of destroying all the West Coast cities? Like when 158 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 1: did this become the great idea for the twenty first century? 159 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: Because they want to welcome everyone and they don't want 160 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: to be judgmental, and they don't want enforcement of any kind. 161 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 1: Those are the simple rules to understand. But look at 162 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:49,319 Speaker 1: the consequences no enforcement. Do the consequences matter? Does it 163 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: matter that you're destroying these huge, beautiful cities. I mean 164 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: some of the understands, because I'm kind of a true 165 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: libertarian at heart. But you can't have crime, and you 166 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 1: can't take over public spaces. There's a limit to that. Again, 167 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: John and I say, go to slab city. If you 168 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,079 Speaker 1: want to say, I don't care if you destroy it 169 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 1: your own waist, We don't care. You go destroy your 170 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:13,079 Speaker 1: brain somewhere else. Go out in the desert. There should 171 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: be like designated areas where people well, I give them 172 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 1: bus shuttles and fast track them. It's like here's the meth, 173 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: here's the fentanel, go to it, have a party. But 174 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 1: you're doing it out there in the desert. But then 175 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: they would say, well, how do we refuel? We won't 176 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: have stores and drug paraphernalia out there will be so isolated. 177 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 1: How do we get build your own stores? Were build 178 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 1: people to rob We build our communities. You go build 179 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 1: your communities. When we come back. An update on a 180 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: story we covered a lot yesterday. The skid Row Housing 181 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,319 Speaker 1: Trust is about to go belly up. It's a nonprofit 182 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: that runs these buildings in downtown LA for the homeless. 183 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: It's supposed to be permanent supportive housing, but it's a 184 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: disgusting mess because nobody can. It's just what we're just 185 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: talking about. They don't care that you use drugs, and 186 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: drug dealers run rampant in these buildings. People are dying 187 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 1: of overdoses. There's and there's a lot of people not 188 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: living there anymore. So the uh nonprofit is about to 189 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: go financially under. We'll talk more. John and Ken kf 190 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 1: I AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 191 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from kf 192 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: I AM six forty. All right, let's look around. No 193 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 1: police chases, nothing, no no sam So the soap operas 194 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: have a lot of very attractive people on the soap Piper. 195 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:29,839 Speaker 1: It's like the same keep it out. I saw the 196 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: Young and the Restless still aras today. I saw the popup. 197 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm looking at. General hospital or 198 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 1: yeah seven right, yeah, yeah, the general hospital, General Hospital. 199 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 1: I used to watch General hospital when I was a kid, 200 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 1: back in the Luke and Laura days. Some of the 201 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:49,559 Speaker 1: same people are on these shows too. They're like in 202 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 1: their eighties now. I know they're being pushed around and wheelchairs. 203 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,680 Speaker 1: My mom has it set to record every day really 204 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: still every day. Wow, that's I remember. My mom had 205 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:06,559 Speaker 1: one sob Ober she watched for decades. Get another name 206 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:11,439 Speaker 1: of it was one as the World Turns, As the 207 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: World Turns. She called it my story. Hope my story 208 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: is on. Couldn't talk to her. Why did that catch on? 209 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 1: A lot of old women used to say that my stories. Yeah, 210 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: I don't know. It just sounds infantile, but you know 211 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 1: my story. Um in one hour, two things a chance 212 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: in a thousand dollars will occur on this show with 213 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 1: a keyword the inflation compensation contest and hello moist line people, 214 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: we'll talk to them. Yesterday during the three o'clock hour, 215 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: we had quite a conversation about skid Row and the 216 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: skid Row Housing Trust. The Reverend Andy Bales with the 217 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 1: Mission in downtown Los Angeles, came on the air to 218 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 1: talk to us. There was a report that three people 219 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: died of overdoses in one of the Buildings that is 220 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: run by the skid Row Housing Trust. They have twenty 221 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 1: nine residential buildings they have fallen into, to put it mildly, 222 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: as the time says here, extreme disrepair. The skid Row 223 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,319 Speaker 1: Housing Trust is about to go financially belly up. In fact, 224 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: the receivership probably will occur today. A judge will consider 225 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 1: request from the Los Angeles City Attorney to have the 226 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: properties taken over by a court appointed receiver so they 227 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: can figure out what to do. But what we learned 228 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 1: from the Reverendy Bails is it's what they call the 229 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: harm reduction theory. Basically, you get people into housing and 230 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:38,679 Speaker 1: this is supposed to be permanent supportive housing, and it's 231 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 1: a mess, and you leave them alone. You don't there 232 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: are people there that if they want to deal with 233 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 1: their drug and their mental illness problems, I guess you 234 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:49,439 Speaker 1: can get help. But if they don't, you don't do anything. 235 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: So it's been overrun well by drug dealers and drug users. 236 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: And even worse than that, you cannot have federal money 237 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 1: unless you allow the free flow of drugs and alcohol 238 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:07,199 Speaker 1: in your building. You can't declare a sober zone, you 239 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 1: can't have any rules that deny the right. Not only enforcement, 240 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: it's it's it's pretty much enables and encourages it, because 241 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:18,319 Speaker 1: you can't sit there and tell them not to do it. 242 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: That violates their h that's judgmental, violates their civil rights. 243 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 1: You have to let them have as many drugs and 244 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: as much alcohol as they want, or you lose your 245 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: federal funding. And all these disgusting parasites in this homeless 246 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: industry would rather have the money. They give themselves fat salaries, 247 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: and they let their their clients continue their addictions until 248 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 1: they die, until they destroy the apartments and they die, 249 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: which is what's happening in the in the skid Row 250 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:55,439 Speaker 1: Housing Trust Corporation. Their their clients are dying after they 251 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 1: destroy their apartments. The Times has finally done a series 252 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: of articles. Today's is finally about all the drug use 253 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 1: that's rampant in these buildings. But I just learned in 254 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:07,679 Speaker 1: this story the three people that died of the overdose, 255 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 1: they died in one of the newer buildings. It was 256 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: just opened in twenty twenty one. It's called six forty 257 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: nine lofts, and I think that's the one where Garcetti 258 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:18,679 Speaker 1: was there in the video praising the program. And the nonprofit. 259 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: He's so full of it. Garcetti is evil. Garcetti killed 260 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: lots and lots of these homeless people with that silly 261 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 1: smiling face of his. What a ghouls. It's like, you 262 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: couldn't create a program to ensure more death and more 263 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: suffering than this program. And Garcetti stands there with his 264 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: fake sincerity and compassion in his well rehearsed lines. And 265 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 1: it's totally not that they all knew. They all knew 266 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: that the program led to death. They all knew that 267 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: the program created the destruction of all the apartments that 268 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: were built. Yeah, some of the same tenants that are 269 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: there spoke to the Times. One of them said, people 270 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: use drugs. When people are high, they destroy light bulbs, 271 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: they damage the property. So that's what's been happening with 272 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: these buildings from the skid Row Housing Trust. The high 273 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: people are just destroying everything, and they have to constantly 274 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: spend money to rebuild, and they can't keep up with 275 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: whatever they get to place these people there. It's not 276 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: keeping up with the damage it's being done. And that's 277 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: why they are going financially under because this does not work. 278 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: You cannot just turn the homeless people more in the 279 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: building and say, sure, don't do what you want to do. 280 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: Now we've got you in housing. This is not a 281 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: debatable theory. Of course, it doesn't work. If you presented 282 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: this idea to somebody and say, hey, we'll build apartments 283 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: for these people and we'll let them to continue their 284 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: addictions to alcohol and drugs. Okay, give us money for it. 285 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 1: And you know what a person said, get out of 286 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 1: here's the most stupidest idea I've ever heard of. What 287 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: really amped this up, and I'm seeing that in this 288 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: story is fentnel. They think that the people that died 289 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: the other day probably they could have had Tranquick is 290 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: the horse what they're doing. They're lacing fentyl with this 291 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 1: horse tranquilizer called xylazine, and I think that's made this 292 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 1: ten times worse because fentyl is incredibly addictive. It's a 293 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: killing seventy thousand people a year, Fentanyl seventy thousand. Did 294 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: you even hear of fentanyl? Ten years ago? I never 295 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 1: heard the word. I remember our guest Sam Canonis, who 296 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: came on our show a couple of months ago. He's 297 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: written a book about this. I think it's called The 298 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: least of us. And when he talked to people, he said, 299 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: there's no coming back from fentyl. Those people just die, right, 300 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 1: he said. Other drugs some people make a recovery from. 301 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: But fentnyl. Man, it takes so little to kill you. 302 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: It is pleasant. It is a deadly poison. It's beyond 303 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: a drug. It's something that shuts your kills your body. 304 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: I'm just astonished at this. And we let billions of 305 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 1: dollars of fentinel into the country. Don't you wonder what 306 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 1: the story is here? I mean, we were looking at 307 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: he's pile up in Los Angeles the last five years, 308 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 1: and everybody's getting bogged down in the same tired, stupid debates. 309 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 1: And I was always thinking, wait a second, something big 310 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: has changed. This has never happened before. It is so widespread, 311 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 1: it is so deadly, it is so crazy. Something else 312 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 1: is going on. And the something else was an enormous 313 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 1: amount of meth which made people erratic and insane, and fentinel, 314 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: which was killing them. And you can't function on either 315 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:36,679 Speaker 1: one of them. You end up dead in attent all right, 316 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:38,640 Speaker 1: we got more coming up. It's the Johnny ken Shaw 317 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: and KF I am six forty we're live everywhere the 318 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:44,439 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app And why doesn't the US government want to 319 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 1: stop the flow? Why? What's in it for them? What's 320 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: the upside for our federal officials to let this keep 321 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: going on? There's a story there. You're listening to John 322 00:17:55,840 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: and Ken on demand from KFI AM six forty. We're 323 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 1: on the radio one to four live and then after 324 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 1: four o'clock the podcast Today you'll have a new show 325 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 1: right after four o'clock Today's show. But I would be 326 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:13,879 Speaker 1: another new show. It'll be today's show. I would recommend 327 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:19,160 Speaker 1: yesterday's three o'clock hour and listen to the Reverend Andrew Bales, Yeah, 328 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:22,159 Speaker 1: from the Union Union Rescue Mission, Union Rescue Mission, and 329 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 1: he will lay out what's wrong has gone wrong with 330 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 1: housing the homeless, this idea that primitive support of housing 331 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: doesn't need any rules. They can just run rampant in there. Yeah. 332 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 1: So so they had been, and that they allow the 333 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 1: the drugs and alcohol to flow, and they allow the 334 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: damage to destroy the buildings. They pay themselves huge amounts 335 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:49,120 Speaker 1: of money, and everybody has bought into the cone of silence. 336 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 1: Nobody ever speaks out about all the destruction of human 337 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 1: lives and all the property. And the thing it pisses 338 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:00,639 Speaker 1: me off is that disgusting propaganda rag. The LA Times 339 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:04,679 Speaker 1: knew about this for years, Andrew and he said, he 340 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:06,440 Speaker 1: said that they just didn't want to do the story 341 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 1: that he was telling him as there he had a 342 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 1: ninety minute meeting with the editorial board last year and 343 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,679 Speaker 1: they scoffed at him. And you know what now now 344 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 1: as as the thing is going bankrupt, this this, this said, 345 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 1: and as three people were found dead the other day. 346 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: Skid Rolls did a story today about the drug problems. 347 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: They're gonna do a series and they're gonna get themselves 348 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,680 Speaker 1: a Pulitzer Prize and they're gonna be crawling about how 349 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: they cracked the story. They broke the news on the 350 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 1: dilapidated skid Roll Housing Trust and it's long history of 351 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,879 Speaker 1: incompetence and alfeasance. It's like it's been there. Everybody's telling 352 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 1: you about it, but you thought, well, no. Our narrative 353 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:48,360 Speaker 1: is that is that housing first works, and we will 354 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: not let any facts or truth and reality get in 355 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 1: the way because we're not interested in facts and truth 356 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:56,439 Speaker 1: and reality. For the Los Angeles Times, we create an 357 00:19:56,520 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: alternate fictional paradise. The press of you Topia, who says 358 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 1: we're not about any good news on the homeless front. 359 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 1: Saw this report spotlighted last night on NBC four. It's 360 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:12,919 Speaker 1: investigative reporter Joel Grover and things are looking up in 361 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 1: Venice when it comes to the homeless problem. Let's play 362 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 1: the story. It seems remarkable that the sidewalks on Third 363 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:22,640 Speaker 1: Street and on Hampton Drive in Venice have been completely 364 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 1: clear of tents since early January. Remarkable because, as the 365 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:31,120 Speaker 1: I Team has documented, those same sidewalks were covered with 366 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,879 Speaker 1: wall to wall tents for years, like right in front 367 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 1: of world famous Gold's Gym. Did you ever expect to 368 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:42,120 Speaker 1: see the streets around Gold's gym this clear of tents? Never? 369 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 1: I thought it was hopeless. Venice resident Karen Kitchell works 370 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 1: out at Gold's gym and says she used to be 371 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 1: afraid to walk there from her nearby home. And I 372 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: love to walk, and I love to walk at night, 373 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: and I wasn't going to walk, Yeah, because of all 374 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,440 Speaker 1: the tents. Yeah, that's the IT team has been reporting 375 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: on crime from arson fires two assaults around Venice encampments 376 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,959 Speaker 1: for years, like this incident. We first showed you. In 377 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, a homeless man trying to break into 378 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: this Venice bungalow owned by Janice. He was lunging at 379 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: the window saying he was going to kill me. A 380 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 1: month after taking office, LA's new mayor, Karen Bass announced 381 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 1: her Inside Safe program to get the homeless off the streets, 382 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:31,880 Speaker 1: and she started by clearing homeless encampments in Venice, which 383 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: had grabbed headlines around the world. Outreach workers fanned out, 384 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 1: offering services to the unhoused, shuttling them to motel rooms 385 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,639 Speaker 1: and clearing out the tents. Do you and other Venice 386 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 1: residents feel safer now that the encampments are gone? Venice 387 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: resident and business owner George Francisco, Yes, people feel safer. 388 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:56,440 Speaker 1: Safer because, according to the LAPD, crimes are overall way 389 00:21:56,520 --> 00:22:00,920 Speaker 1: down almost twenty four percent since those Venice encampments were 390 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 1: dismantled compared to the same time a year ago. Even 391 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 1: more dramatic the area around the famous Venice Boardwalk, where 392 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 1: there used to be hundreds of tents but is now clear. 393 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 1: It's seen on nearly forty eight percent drop in crime, 394 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,919 Speaker 1: according to the LAPD. I'm not walking around breathing easier 395 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,119 Speaker 1: but I'm walking around a downward trend in crime that 396 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: residents hope will continue. I don't see a single tent 397 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 1: on this street. Are you confident it could stay this way? 398 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 1: I'm optimistic, but not confident that it will stay clear 399 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 1: of tents. Why. I believe that the City of Los 400 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 1: Angeles has not proven that it can maintain a sustained 401 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 1: effort to work in a departmentally to provide some basic services, 402 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:48,639 Speaker 1: either to homeless or to residents. Skeptical, but hopeful that 403 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,919 Speaker 1: the sidewalks of Venice will remain clear of tents and 404 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,880 Speaker 1: the neighborhoods will be safer. Where is it from NBC four, 405 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,679 Speaker 1: Jola Grover? Where's the praise for Tracy Parking? All this 406 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 1: about Sheriff vian Aueva that started the ball rolling on 407 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,680 Speaker 1: this a couple of year or two ago. She's the 408 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 1: heroine here. This didn't happen under Bond and remember Bond 409 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,879 Speaker 1: and destroyed Venice. Tracy park came and said she was 410 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: going to clean up the worst areas of Venice, and 411 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 1: she's partnered with Karen bass. I think it was both. 412 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 1: Vieneueva came first to get the people off the boardwalk. 413 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: Remember that, and then Bonden tried to clean credit for 414 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 1: that by pushing his nonprofit in there, and then there 415 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: was nothing for a while, and then you're right, Tracy 416 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: Park came in and she worked with Bessetti to say, 417 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 1: this is what I want cleared on the list, and 418 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 1: that's happened now, But I also want to that guy's 419 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,199 Speaker 1: right in there. Can this be sustained well? Because what 420 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: they're doing right now is they're taking them to hotels 421 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: all over the place and dumping them there. And as 422 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,359 Speaker 1: we as we just talked about with the skid Row 423 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,679 Speaker 1: Housing Trust, if they're going to allow people to use 424 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 1: drugs and go on rampant criminal behavior, it doesn't hold 425 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,880 Speaker 1: very well. It doesn't seem like the long term solution. 426 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 1: But if you live in this district of Venice, the 427 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: team of Tracy Park and Karen Bassetti far far exceeded 428 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:12,160 Speaker 1: the performance of the evil Mike Bonnen and the idiot 429 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:16,120 Speaker 1: Eric Garcetti, Right, I mean, I mean those two were 430 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: the biggest, most disastrous team of politicians you will ever see. 431 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:24,680 Speaker 1: You'll never see worse politicians than Garcetti and Bonnet. So 432 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: Tracy's doing a far better job. And I'll give credit 433 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 1: to Garon Bass. She got him out of that neighborhood, 434 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: and we'll see how it goes. I do want to 435 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 1: see a year from now whether or not this pattern 436 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 1: holes that these people who are supposedly housed remain housed somewhere, 437 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,719 Speaker 1: or it's not just a revolving door. You put him 438 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,400 Speaker 1: in the front of the hotel and then a group 439 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: is coming out the back door. This is a this 440 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:51,680 Speaker 1: is a temporary gold star for this specific district for now. 441 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,440 Speaker 1: That's probably a good way to look at it. Meanwhile, 442 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,159 Speaker 1: the county is trying to and you figured this is 443 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 1: going to happen, They're trying to hire a whole bunch 444 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 1: of mental healthcare workers. That's the problem with this idea 445 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: of trying to help the homeless and dealing with, you know, 446 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: crime itself, is that this crowd loves to say, well, 447 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 1: we believe in help, not incarceration. Well, apparently the infrastructure 448 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,119 Speaker 1: is not there. There's just not enough people in the 449 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: mental healthcare profession. That's what it hit me is where 450 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: are these hires coming from? I don't know. Says they're 451 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,159 Speaker 1: on a recruiting binge. The Los Angeles County Department of 452 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:38,120 Speaker 1: Mental Health they're trying to offer signing bonuses, student loan forgiveness, 453 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,959 Speaker 1: and streamline applications for those who want to join their 454 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:44,200 Speaker 1: mental health teams. And they actually have these street response teams. 455 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,120 Speaker 1: We've talked about this before. So could anybody get these 456 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,199 Speaker 1: jobs or do you have to have a college degree 457 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 1: or something. You have to have some mental health training, right, yea, 458 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 1: some mental health training. I mean there's a finite number 459 00:25:55,080 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 1: of people, and I'm not aware that there's all these 460 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 1: unemployed mental health workers sitting at home. The mental evaluation 461 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: teams are supposed to respond to nine one one calls 462 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,640 Speaker 1: where people say that there's some situation with mental illness 463 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: going on here, but apparently they don't have enough workers 464 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,400 Speaker 1: to answer all the calls. No, they don't have enough 465 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: of anything. They don't have the clinics, they don't have 466 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 1: the lockdown mental facilities. They don't have the personnel to 467 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,360 Speaker 1: do this. And I do America's number one problem. It's 468 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 1: not just California, but you have to This explains a 469 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 1: lot of the mass shootings. There's just so much mental 470 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 1: illness out there, but you have to have people who 471 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: are educated and trained to deal with it. You have 472 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 1: to want to get into that line of work. You know, 473 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: that's a very limited number of people who want to 474 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,400 Speaker 1: do this. We're a living and it doesn't always pay well. 475 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 1: My favorite is the quote near the end of this 476 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:52,360 Speaker 1: story from Holly Mitchell, the Eli County supervisor is a disaster. 477 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,160 Speaker 1: The younger generation has lost faith in government. We've lost 478 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,679 Speaker 1: a generation of people who value government work. We need 479 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 1: to tell them, hey, look, you can be part of 480 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,199 Speaker 1: a solution. They don't want to work. Of course, they 481 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:06,120 Speaker 1: watch faith in government because it doesn't work. They can 482 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 1: see what's going on. They how could you say any 483 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: any government in LA has worked for the last ten years? 484 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 1: All right, speaking to government, why would you want to 485 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,359 Speaker 1: get a job doing that? When we come back speaking 486 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 1: of government, not on the topic of homeless or mental illness, 487 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 1: but you'll hear the topic. We kind of knew this 488 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 1: was coming all along. John and Ken kf I AM 489 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 1: six forty. We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. You're listening 490 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: to John and Ken on demand from kf I AM 491 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:40,959 Speaker 1: sixty coming up in the three o'clock hour. Well every Friday, 492 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 1: pretty much we bring in the Voiceline folks. They will 493 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 1: be here. We have two hacks to throw into the 494 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 1: dumpster after the News at three thirty. Big story that 495 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 1: we talked about for a bit a couple of hours 496 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 1: this week, who they will be thrown into the dumpster 497 00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:00,440 Speaker 1: as punishment for their involvement in this issue. We're gonna 498 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 1: start next hour by talking about a story we love 499 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,400 Speaker 1: to come back to every now and then, and that's 500 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: the fact that if everything is going to go electric 501 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:12,400 Speaker 1: in California, your car, your home, utilities, all of it, 502 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 1: do we have enough power? No answer is not right now, 503 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 1: not even close. And the money we're gonna have to 504 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 1: spend to build the infrastructure is mind bottling. We will 505 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 1: talk about all this after the News at three o'clock. 506 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,439 Speaker 1: One quick story though, I found for you, which I 507 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:35,160 Speaker 1: found rather amusing from NBC News. Climate change is leading 508 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: to more home runs in Major League Baseball. Climate warmer 509 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 1: temperatures helped at least five hundred more long balls sale 510 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 1: over fences from twenty ten to twenty nineteen. Dartmouth College, 511 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: John That is not true, but there is complete nonsense. 512 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: Air density is inversely proportional to temperature. Oh that's just ridiculous. Well, 513 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: why do the balls fly farther in Colorado though their density. No, 514 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 1: well that's because the altitude, well altitude air density isn't 515 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 1: that well, yeah, the air is less dense in Colorado 516 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 1: because of the altitude. But what I'm saying is that 517 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: the home runs went up because they started trying for 518 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: home runs. They got they got locked into the launch 519 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 1: angle because that's what the computer nerds told them to do. 520 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 1: You go for war home runs. You're gonna hit war 521 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: home runs. And the batting averages took a beating. Yeah, 522 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 1: what was the years you said, ken ten to twenty nineteen, 523 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 1: and some of years the one hundred additional home runs 524 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: according to this startment three and some years they juiced 525 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: the ball, and then some years they dead in the 526 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 1: ball well, and the dead ball started about twenty twenty, 527 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, right, and the home runs went into 528 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 1: the toilet. So if current climate trends continue, by the 529 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 1: year twenty fifty, they'll be two hundred more home runs 530 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: and five hundred more by twenty one hundred. Baseball looked 531 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: like in twenty one that what a load of crap 532 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: they actually spent money on that they did. Yeah, it's 533 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 1: a but this is really freaking religion isn't it. But 534 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: it was only one percent of home runs, the extra 535 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: five hundred home runs from twenty ten to twenty nineteen. Yeah, 536 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: apparently there's it's yeah, well, yeah, there's there's five thousand 537 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 1: home runs a year. So they analyzed the air temperature 538 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 1: in all thirty Major League cities over a ten year 539 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 1: period during the time that the games were played. Is 540 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 1: that I guess trying to tell I don't have all 541 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 1: the details of the research. This is just a name, 542 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: did they did they know that they about They not 543 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 1: only temperature, but the humidity and the wind patterns and 544 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 1: the juiciness or the deadness of the ball. Yeah. They're 545 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: supposed to account for all factors except for the one 546 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 1: dealing with climate change and the change in the player's 547 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 1: approach to try to hit more home runs. Yeah, right 548 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 1: now back to government. Yeah, well, we were just reading 549 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: a quote from Holly Mitchell, the LA County supervisor that 550 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 1: young people are not interested in government jobs. What is 551 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 1: the expression they used to use? If we only knew 552 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 1: then what we know now. Remember back in twenty twenty 553 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,960 Speaker 1: and twenty twenty one, there was a big issue with well, 554 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: especially twenty one vaccinations and a lot of government entity 555 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,960 Speaker 1: said you ain't working here unless you get the COVID 556 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 1: nineteen vaccine. In La County. Of course, that caused problems 557 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 1: in the Sheriff's department and also in the county fire department, 558 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 1: as there were a number of firefighters who did not 559 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 1: want to get the COVID nineteen vaccine. Remember all that, 560 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,320 Speaker 1: and I think Sheriffian Uavis says it's resulting in staff shortages. 561 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,960 Speaker 1: You couldn't be hired. And of course there was a 562 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 1: mandate that if you worked on the force, you'd have 563 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 1: to get the COVID nineteen vaccine. Well here we are 564 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, three years later, it's all gone. 565 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 1: La County ended the employee vaccination requirement. And you look 566 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 1: at that and think, well, wait a minute. If it 567 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 1: was life saving and that important, and COVID nineteen is 568 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: still here, why would you repeal the vaccine? Because they did? 569 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 1: They didn't what was it? Why was this so important 570 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 1: to you back then that you screamed and shouted about 571 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 1: it and you took people to court over it. And now, 572 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,840 Speaker 1: oh well, well, I mean you can see how much 573 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 1: the whole COVID thing just really collapse this year just 574 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 1: completely collapsed. Yeah, because they're there. They were drunk on power, 575 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 1: on controlling people, and they created a panic. And when 576 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:31,400 Speaker 1: you create a panic, humans become very obedient. It's like children. 577 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: Your children will listen to you. If you were run 578 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: around like Arizon fire, you'll scare them and the children 579 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 1: will comply. Now, officially, all they're saying is, oh, it's 580 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,920 Speaker 1: because the official county state of emergency ended, so we're 581 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 1: ending the vaccine requirement. But that doesn't make sense to me. Also, 582 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,520 Speaker 1: there's if you really believe that the science was behind 583 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,200 Speaker 1: you and you gotta have employees vaccinated, you'd stick with 584 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,760 Speaker 1: it forever. Because COVID's not gone. It doesn't because it's 585 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 1: not consistent. The vaccine didn't turn out the way they 586 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 1: said either. You know, people did get the infection anyway, 587 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,880 Speaker 1: they got the virus anyway. They ended up with paxlovid 588 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 1: to treat the virus, and and and you know, well 589 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 1: they made children get vaccines. Right now, the official CDC 590 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 1: recommendation is no vaccine for children unless you wish, because 591 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,600 Speaker 1: children don't transmit the diseaves very much. Oh yeah, that 592 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 1: happened recently too, right, CDC says kids don't need to 593 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 1: be vaccinated unless they have some sort of underlying conditions. 594 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,520 Speaker 1: A lot of their claims, a lot of their science 595 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 1: was wrong. Just you know, it was just wrong. It 596 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:44,600 Speaker 1: killed mostly the elderly, and mostly people with some pre 597 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 1: existing physical issues, medical issues. That's it, that's really mostly 598 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 1: it killed. I'm looking I was looking at at a 599 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,240 Speaker 1: whole spreadsheet somebody published just a couple of days ago, 600 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: still holding true. It is still age related and medical 601 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,200 Speaker 1: condition should related. It was like that they knew that 602 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 1: in the first three months they had definitive statistics on it. 603 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 1: There was no need. There was no need for all 604 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,080 Speaker 1: the closures, there was no need for the for all 605 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:13,759 Speaker 1: the mandates. Just take care of the elderly and those 606 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,680 Speaker 1: with medical conditions. Well, the thinking behind the vaccines was, well, yeah, 607 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 1: you're still gonna get COVID and you can still transmit COVID, 608 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:23,960 Speaker 1: but you're allegedly won't be a sick if you've been vaccied. 609 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,719 Speaker 1: But that's your danger. You're creating for yourself. That's your business, right. 610 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:29,400 Speaker 1: But I'm just talking about what was supposed to be 611 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,759 Speaker 1: the benefit of the vaccines. Oh yeah, And I was 612 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 1: not someone who believed the first day that I can't 613 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 1: get COVID if I'm vaccinating. I think you did. I 614 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,279 Speaker 1: think you had this construed kind of feeling that you're 615 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,000 Speaker 1: you're immune from infection because you have the vaccine. But 616 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,760 Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't believe that. Well, they were claiming 617 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,920 Speaker 1: at the beginning, you were going to get ninety percent immunity, 618 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,640 Speaker 1: like the COVID would bounce off of you because there's 619 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:53,960 Speaker 1: always superhero. That's why. On the same subject, they are 620 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,600 Speaker 1: coming out with some other booster, but apparently nobody's interested. 621 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,839 Speaker 1: Well why would they. It's already ap They're talking about 622 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:02,719 Speaker 1: a spring shot, and I'm like, well, spring will be 623 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,360 Speaker 1: over in a month. I saw that that was That 624 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,080 Speaker 1: was another else segundo time it was, but they could 625 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,920 Speaker 1: admit that the interest is waning. Well, yes, And it 626 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,279 Speaker 1: took it took like forty two paragraphs for them to 627 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,880 Speaker 1: explain that since the autumn, there hasn't been much COVID 628 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:20,600 Speaker 1: to begin with, and probably it's because of all the 629 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:24,160 Speaker 1: vaccines and boosters that we've all taken. It's worked and 630 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:31,279 Speaker 1: it's given most people enough of enough of an immunity response. Right, 631 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:36,279 Speaker 1: So let's uh, that's why, let's check with the fearful one, 632 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:41,479 Speaker 1: Debra Mark, you get another booster definitely not definitely, not now, 633 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,360 Speaker 1: but in the fall. Maybe, Oh, you'll treat it like 634 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,279 Speaker 1: the flu shot. Yeah, exactly. She's still walking around with 635 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,080 Speaker 1: paper time, but it's not because of COVID. I don't 636 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:54,360 Speaker 1: want to touch door handles where people sneeze in their 637 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 1: hand and then there they're snots on the door handles. 638 00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,440 Speaker 1: I just I think it's gross. And I'm a germaphobe 639 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,040 Speaker 1: when it comes stuff like that. Wheels before they do not. 640 00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,920 Speaker 1: But I was awesome, But but Ken, I always carried 641 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,040 Speaker 1: purell and I was always putting it all my hands 642 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,320 Speaker 1: after I touched everything. So now instead of doing that constantly, 643 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,200 Speaker 1: I grab a paper towel when I go What door 644 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,359 Speaker 1: here has snot on it? I don't know. I'm sure 645 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:21,520 Speaker 1: they all do. There probably is, John, very people is 646 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,279 Speaker 1: there invisible snot on the door handles? And plus people 647 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:28,360 Speaker 1: have these colds and I don't. I just people are ikey, 648 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,920 Speaker 1: aren't there? They are? And I'm trying not to catch 649 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,919 Speaker 1: anything because then I'll hear from you if I call 650 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,840 Speaker 1: in six, So I don't need that greed. All right, 651 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,600 Speaker 1: We got more coming up, John and Ken KF I 652 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,920 Speaker 1: AM six forty. We're live everywhere the iHeart Radio app, 653 00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:44,880 Speaker 1: Mark Latin, the twenty four hour Calfineers Room. Hey, you've 654 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:46,560 Speaker 1: been listening to the John and Ken Show. You can 655 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,879 Speaker 1: always hear us live on CAF i AM sixty one 656 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,799 Speaker 1: pm to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of 657 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,080 Speaker 1: course anytime on demand on the iHeart Radio app.