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Moll Kelly in for John and Ken. 16 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: And just in case you didn't know, there's some new 17 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: laws which are going to be taking effect July first. 18 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: Oh no, no, really really not genuine first July first, 19 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 1: new California laws, gun control schools start, all sorts of stuff. 20 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you make everyone mad Let me just 21 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: show you new gun control laws. Beginning July first, California 22 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 1: is extending its microstamping requirement for handguns. Of course, you know. 23 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 1: Microstamping is that process of imprinting these tiny markings on 24 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: cartridges that have been fired from the weapon so police 25 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 1: could more quickly identify the origination point. The law will 26 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:39,839 Speaker 1: also direct the DOJ to remove three older, less safe 27 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: semi automatic pistol models from its roster of handguns certified 28 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: for sale here in California, and for every new certified 29 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: microstamping model. California is also expanding what weapons can legally 30 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: be seized under gun violence restraining orders. Talking about those 31 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: red flags laws here in California, the existing ones allow police, 32 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: along with family members, colleagues like I'm looking at Tuala 33 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: Tuala's you know, seeming kind of sketchy. I can you know, 34 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: let the police know about him, have his gun, take 35 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:21,679 Speaker 1: it away. Employers and teachers to ask judges to take 36 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 1: firearms from those they fear are a possible threat to 37 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: themselves or others. This new law takes effect Friday and 38 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: includes what are known as ghost guns in the definition 39 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: of what may be seized. We've heard more and more 40 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: about ghost guns recently in juststication You didn't know, I 41 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: know you do, but still just reiterating. These are those 42 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: guns which are assembled from parts and may not be 43 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: registered or purchased through a dealer legally as the other 44 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 1: firearms which are legally owned. That's going to be changing 45 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 1: as of July first, as in tomorrow, as in Friday. 46 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 1: Now something else, and I love talking about this next 47 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: new law which takes effect because producer of the show today, 48 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: tall As Sharp, is also an administrator at a special 49 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: needs school. So this law is going to directly impact 50 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: him and other teachers and other administrators and other parents 51 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: for that matter, in the sense of when you're going 52 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: to be taking your kids to school. This new law 53 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: says that middle schools are required to begin no earlier 54 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: than eight am, and high schools can start no earlier 55 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: than eight thirty am. The law exempts rural school districts. 56 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: Supporters of the new laws say that teens and preteens 57 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: need extra sleep for their health and development. I'm a kid. 58 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: I had a zero period in high school which started, oh, 59 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: dark thirty. I don't know, it's like seven o five 60 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: am or something like that. I can't remember, but first 61 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: period started at eight fifteen. I don't know how that 62 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: would be impacted by this law today because I know 63 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: that high schools would still have zero periods. Does that 64 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: consider Is that considered start of school or not? Kind 65 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: of I'm trying to think of how this affects my 66 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: kids and how they go to school. Also have one 67 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: middle schooler and one high school Yeah, so I'm kind 68 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 1: of like, do they also consider individuals whose workday starts 69 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: at nine and who may not live in that close 70 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: a proximity to whatever school their kids go to? Because 71 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 1: this is also Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, so forth, 72 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: and so on. Well, I wonder who is this for? 73 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 1: Yet you say it's for students who made it. Need 74 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: a little bit of extra sleep. These mother fathers just 75 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: need to go to bed earlier. There's that. I mean, 76 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: since since when do they need nine hours of sleep? 77 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: Because if they're getting up and let's say seven o'clock, 78 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: if they go to bed at eleven PM, correct me 79 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, that's eight freaking hours. What are we 80 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: talking about? Seriously, I get up at six so I 81 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: can get to work. My son also has to get 82 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,840 Speaker 1: up at six hiller and it's one of those you 83 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,239 Speaker 1: need to go to bed, because the thing is he's 84 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: not catching the bus. You are driving the perverbial bus, 85 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:18,479 Speaker 1: and so if he's going to be on the bus 86 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: with you, then he needs to make sure that his 87 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 1: butt is at the bus stop at the appointed time. Yes, sir, Eric, 88 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: you were going to say, I was going to say 89 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: that I had zero period basketball practice in high school 90 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 1: and we would have to get to school at like 91 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: five thirty six o'clock and then we'd have practice for 92 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: two hours up until eight o'clock when school starts. Hiller, 93 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 1: So what happens with all of that? Yeah, I had 94 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: zero period band marching band practice. I had also basketball 95 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: practice after school. So the obvious question is, well, if 96 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 1: it can only start no earlier than a certain time, 97 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: are you limiting how late school can go to which 98 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: goes back to the question of parents and picking up 99 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:01,679 Speaker 1: and getting and getting students to school on time, because 100 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: I know that there is an issue with parents not 101 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: picking up their kids on time. There is, and they 102 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,039 Speaker 1: do have after school programs which lots of times we'll 103 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 1: go all the way from five to thirty, even there 104 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 1: are some at six. There are even some programs where 105 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: you can pay extra if it's a paid program. Some 106 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 1: of the free programs, they're like, no five o'clock, be 107 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: here to get your kid. So that part isn't as 108 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: much of an issue. But I don't know if this 109 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 1: takes into account life in Los Angeles as it stands. Yeah, 110 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: I don't know if you're actually helping the parent or 111 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: the student. If you're saying school cannot start any earlier 112 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 1: than a certain time, is there going to be a 113 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 1: waiting area holding area? Let's say I want my you know, 114 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 1: I can't drop off my kid at seven forty five am. 115 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: I need to drop off my child at seven o'clock 116 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: or seven thirty. You know? Can I go to the cafeteria? 117 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: Do they have like breakfast that can serve? I know 118 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: they did in my high school. That's the only reason 119 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: I have. They did in Boo. No, now I don't 120 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: think they do that fifth grade. A fifth grade you 121 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: could uh drop off they would have you know whatever 122 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: morning nutrition right now, I don't think so. I gotta 123 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: ask deb Mark. I hate to get your personal business 124 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: out there, but you are the only one outside of Twala. 125 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: I guess who would have more recent experience with taking 126 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: a child to school. Did you have to take your 127 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: daughter before eight am? No? I never had. Fortunately I 128 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: was I was fortunate the way my schedule always worked. 129 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: I was able to bring them to school when school 130 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: started and picked them up when school was over. We're lucky, you, 131 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: I know, I know. Are you just completely but let 132 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 1: me tell you. But but I do know a lot 133 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: of people with their schedules that it is. It's very 134 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: very stressful to figure all of that out. And if 135 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: you're a working parent and get it. I have always 136 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: been a working parent. But again, it was just it 137 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: was just luck. Yeah, I just call bs on the 138 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: supposed reason of making sure kids get enough sleep. I 139 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: a twelve year old child is not staying up or 140 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: should not be staying up to two three in the 141 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: morning and only getting five hours sleep or something, and 142 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: can't get the class on time, or you know, be 143 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: awake enough to be the kid isn't driving. There's no 144 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: responsibility now. And they're also not saying that administrators teach 145 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: your so for and so on are getting there any later. 146 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: So does the is the school building not open at 147 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: that time? If the school building is open, what about 148 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: those parents who say, like me, who have kids that 149 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 1: go to two separate schools in two separate cities, that 150 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: I have to account for that time to drop them off. 151 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: How about if the parents are there, or if the 152 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: children are up and ready, how about you accept them. 153 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 1: Stop trying to make sense. This is the Johnny kensha 154 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 1: up Kelly and for Johnny ken Camp, I am six forty. 155 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: When we come back, your chance to win some money. 156 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:04,559 Speaker 1: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I remember 157 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: at the beginning of the program it was Eric and 158 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,559 Speaker 1: Deborah Mark who were rubbing it in as to not 159 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:16,559 Speaker 1: working on the fourth of July. Oh yeah, I wouldn't 160 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 1: say rubbing it in. Well, you you asked. If I 161 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 1: was asked if I was working on Monday, and I 162 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 1: just said I wasn't, that's rubbing it in. You should 163 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: have declined to answer. All right, I pleaded the fifth. 164 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 1: But since you have answered, I gotta ask. Given the 165 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: price of gas, there's I'm going somewhere with this, no 166 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 1: pun intended. Given the price of gas, do you think 167 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,439 Speaker 1: that you're going to drive somewhere? And if so, we're 168 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: not just a price of gas have any bearing on it, Deborah, 169 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: I'll let you go first, I'm not going anywhere. I'm 170 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 1: just hanging out with family, So I'm not I'm not 171 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: going anywhere. But if I was going to go somewhere, 172 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: yeah I would. I wouldn't let the gas prices hold 173 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 1: me back because life's too short. Okay, dar Am not 174 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 1: I'm going somewhere, but I will not be driving because 175 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: I will be drinking. But I have definitely changed my 176 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: lifestyle since gas has gone up, because I have to 177 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 1: make conscious choices of when I have to fill up 178 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 1: in how much money I'm spending on gas. The reason 179 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 1: I asked that because since California's fiscal year officially begins tomorrow, 180 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: you will be paying more for gas. And it comes 181 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:34,959 Speaker 1: amid the more recent news. You've probably heard Debra Mark 182 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 1: and others report on this that gas had been coming down, 183 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: it had been decreasing for the past few weeks, but 184 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 1: it's going to go back up as of July first, 185 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 1: because of the gas text. And this is something which 186 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: I think infuriates you and me and just about any 187 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:57,679 Speaker 1: reasonable person. It is a standing annual increase, an additional 188 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 1: three cents per gallon at the pump per gallon standing 189 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:09,319 Speaker 1: annual increase, and at present that increase is at fifty 190 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: one since per gallon, and say it with me, the 191 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 1: highest in the country. And if that didn't piss you off, 192 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: If that wasn't enough to piss you off, here's something 193 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: else for you now. Both Democrats and Republicans at the 194 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: state capitol had been vocal in the past few months 195 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 1: about wanting to suspend the gas tax for a year 196 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 1: and give residence like you and me money to keep 197 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 1: up with this rising inflation. Regardless of whom you may 198 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: blame for the inflation or believe that the president should 199 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: do more to counteracting inflation, there are things that we 200 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 1: can do on a state level, separate and distinct from 201 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: that which can impact how much we feel it at 202 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 1: the pump. Governor Gaffevin Newsom initially proposed halting the gas 203 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: tax increase for a year in his January budget draft, 204 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: but his efforts were opposed by lawmakers concerned about the 205 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 1: effect this would have on funding transportation projects. Remember when 206 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: I started talking about civics at the beginning. We live 207 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: in California. The Democrats have a supermajority and a Democratic governor. 208 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: If the governor is for something civics, they already have 209 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: the votes to do whatever the Democrats want to do, 210 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: and if they don't suspend or rescind the gas tax 211 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: or do what is necessary, then that's on the Democrats. 212 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,319 Speaker 1: And you can also say by extension Gavin Newsom, because 213 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 1: he could actually whip his party into doing this. He 214 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 1: has the bully pulpit on a state level. That's not 215 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 1: being partisan, that's not being political, that's just general civics. 216 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 1: The Democrats have a supermajority, they decline the opportunity to 217 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 1: remove the gas tax or spend the gas tax for 218 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 1: a year as proposed by the Democratic governor. Is everyone's 219 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: still paying attention? The tax increase is part of California's 220 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: budget plan, which Newsom and the legislature reached an agreement 221 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:18,839 Speaker 1: on over June twenty six. Now if it's finalized, it's 222 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: not completely finalized, but if it were finalized, it would 223 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: have a one year suspension on the diesel tax, which 224 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 1: we're going to affect October first. That's great, but I 225 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 1: don't drive diesel, and that's October. Who knows what this 226 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: will look like in you know, how many months from now. 227 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:39,439 Speaker 1: These are the things where I understand why people, including myself, 228 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 1: are so cynical in nature about the nature of politics. 229 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:47,239 Speaker 1: What did I say about politicians being criminal and dishonest? 230 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:49,560 Speaker 1: These are the things that I'm talking about. These are 231 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:51,080 Speaker 1: the easy ones. And I always say, if you ever 232 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 1: listened to the mo Kelly Show, get the easy ones right. 233 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: This was an easy one. You have the capability, you 234 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: have the power and the possibility. All you had to 235 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 1: do is just say yes. Just say yes. You could 236 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 1: have suspended the gas tax and nobody would have been 237 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 1: mad at you for that, not in terms of voters. 238 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: You wouldn't have lost any constituency. It would have been 239 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: like Gavin Newsom was going to be in danger of 240 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 1: losing his governorship or anything like that. It wasn't like that. 241 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. He had this primary which he didn't 242 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: know if he was going to survive. No, that was 243 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: not even on the table. This is post primary, post recall. 244 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: It is very popular in the state and he couldn't 245 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: even get people in his own party to support it. 246 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 1: What does that tell you? What does that tell you? 247 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: Can we have an honest conversation. That's not good for you, 248 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 1: that's not good for me, that's not good for Californias. 249 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 1: And I know Governor Newson, if he were here, he 250 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: would say, well, look at our state budget surplus. Look 251 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: at this surplus. Look at all this extra money we have, 252 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: which doesn't mean a g damn thing if it's not 253 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 1: you to the betterment of Californians like you and me. 254 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: What's the point of having the surplus if we're just 255 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: going to pay more into the surplus. Oh lookie, we 256 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: are going to pay more into the surplus starting tomorrow, 257 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 1: an extra three cents at the pump, every single gallon, 258 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: in perpetuity until nextra life first, well, there'll be another 259 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 1: three cents added on that, and we're going to feel 260 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: it even more right now because of inflation. There are 261 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 1: certain things that we can and can't control. We cannot 262 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: control inflation writ large. We love capitalism, while with capitalism 263 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 1: comes inflation. But there are certain legislative decisions that we 264 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: are making which makes it more difficult for us to 265 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 1: deal with the inflation. And we have no one to 266 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: blame but ourselves. This is the John A. Ken Show, mo' 267 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 1: kelly and for Johnny kink If I am six forty, 268 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 1: we're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. O'Kelly and for 269 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: John and ken as host of them' kelly Show Saturdays 270 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: and Sundays from six to apm. You can always find 271 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 1: out more about me at my personal website mister m'kelly 272 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: dot com, Mr m ok e l y dot com. 273 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: Social media at mister m'kelly on Twitter and Instagram. You 274 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: can always send me a longer missive or message at 275 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: Facebook dot com, forward slash Tom Kelly Show. And if 276 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 1: you're not familiar with who I am, what I do, 277 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 1: what I love to discuss, I always look at what 278 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 1: has been missed or is being missed in a present conversation. 279 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: Looking forward, it is like you may want this, I say, 280 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: who whoa whoa slow down. It may not be what 281 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 1: you think you want. I mean you think you want it, 282 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: but if you've considered everything, you probably don't. And a 283 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: clear example of this, and something I've been discussing for 284 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: literally years, is the idea of raising the minimum wage. 285 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 1: The idea and I always say, let's get the easy 286 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 1: ones right. There's the federal minimum wage, which has not 287 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 1: been raised in I don't know when, and that needs 288 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: to be raised. I'm not a person who's tied to 289 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 1: it's got to be fifteen dollars an hour. It's got 290 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 1: to be eighteen dollars an hour, because I understand fundamentally 291 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,119 Speaker 1: when you tie it to a specific number and don't 292 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:15,400 Speaker 1: take into account that you can't get it done immediately. 293 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: And inflation, I was talking about inflation long before it 294 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 1: became a thing. Then you put yourself in a position 295 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:25,680 Speaker 1: where you may get what you want, but don't get 296 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:27,679 Speaker 1: what you want. And what I mean by that is 297 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 1: many people were protested, they were fighting, they were marching 298 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,199 Speaker 1: for fifteen dollars an hour, and they tied it to 299 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,960 Speaker 1: these California bills where it would have been incremental in 300 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: nature back in twenty eighteen, and they would eventually get 301 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: to fifteen dollars an hour and twenty twenty two, and 302 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:43,480 Speaker 1: we get to twenty twenty two when we realize that 303 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 1: fifteen dollars an hour isn't it really is much just 304 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: fifteen dollars an hour anymore because of inflation. And I 305 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,120 Speaker 1: tried to tell them then and I'm gonna remind them now. 306 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: If you do not tie minimum wage to inflation, you're 307 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:02,919 Speaker 1: wasting your time. And now that we are here in 308 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two and inflation has been skyrocketing, all those 309 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 1: fights for fifteen dollars an hour have met virtually nothing. 310 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: I won't say absolutely nothing, but virtually nothing, as fifteen 311 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,160 Speaker 1: dollars an hour doesn't buy as much as it did 312 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 1: two years ago. California's minimum wage could go up to 313 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: eighteen dollars an hour by twenty twenty five for some 314 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 1: workers if this ballot measure is approved by voters for November. 315 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 1: Can you see where I'm going with this? The minimum 316 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: wage is already going to go up from fifteen dollars 317 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:46,399 Speaker 1: an hour for the city of Los Angeles. Let me 318 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 1: be specific, It's going to go up from fifteen dollars 319 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: an hour to sixteen dollars and four cents tomorrow. And 320 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,480 Speaker 1: that's nothing to sneeze at. That is going to help 321 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: some people, do not get me wrong, But it's not 322 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: going to be enough because it's not keeping up with 323 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: the rate of inflation. And I believe if you were 324 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 1: intent on helping the most amount of people, what you 325 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 1: should have been fighting for was not a flat or 326 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 1: an arbitrary number. But having enough foresight to know that 327 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: what you're fighting for has to take into account the future, 328 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: which you cannot control. You can't control the forces of inflation, 329 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 1: but at the minimum there should have been some sort 330 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 1: of caveat, some sort of clause which would have protected workers. 331 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: And since you only fought for fifteen dollars an hour, 332 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,120 Speaker 1: over the course of maybe four years, you got exactly 333 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:43,679 Speaker 1: what you asked for and no more. And now you 334 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:47,160 Speaker 1: realize fifteen dollars is not enough. We've been hearing about 335 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: fifteen dollars an hour, at least on a federal side 336 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 1: from Bernie Sanders for many, many years. We've heard about 337 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 1: it here in California, and some businesses pay more than that, 338 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,639 Speaker 1: and God bless them, but we're talking about all businesses, 339 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:03,679 Speaker 1: and not all businesses can't afford it. And I said, 340 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 1: it's one thing, if you ask for that for minimum wage, 341 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 1: I got that, But there are also some unintended consequences 342 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 1: for that. In other words, if the minimum wage, and 343 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 1: I don't want to disparage anybody's jobs, I won't say 344 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:22,239 Speaker 1: anything specifically. I'll just say the guy who is, you know, 345 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: spray water on the sidewalk, don't want to offend anybody. 346 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 1: You know, it's twenty twenty two. You can't offend anyone. 347 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,880 Speaker 1: The guy spraying water on the sidewalk, cleaning the sidewalk 348 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: is going to get fifteen dollars an hour, So what 349 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 1: does his manager get? What do other employees who are 350 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:43,199 Speaker 1: above him or her in that matrix get. It's not 351 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: just you're going to raise the minimum wage and not 352 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,640 Speaker 1: anyone around them. And I understand, and there's something else 353 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: to this. Every business is moving towards automation. It is 354 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,159 Speaker 1: a lie to say that raising the minimum wage is 355 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: going to hasten automation or is going to kill jobs. 356 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 1: No, no no, no. If you've ever been a small business 357 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: owner or a business owner, your goal is to get 358 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 1: rid of employees. Your goal is to get rid or 359 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 1: decrease those variable costs, the cost of labor or payroll taxes. 360 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: You've always wanted to get rid of that. Just raising 361 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: the minimum wage is not going to spur that on 362 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,880 Speaker 1: or even healthcare. The goal is always to get rid 363 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 1: of that. So I don't want you to conflate those arguments. 364 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 1: What I am saying is there hasn't been enough conversation 365 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,679 Speaker 1: about the unintended consequences which are real and have not 366 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 1: been recognized, and are unavoidable and directly connected to raising 367 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 1: the minimum wage. If you raise the minimum wage, then 368 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 1: the other employees salaries if you will, or hourly wages 369 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 1: will have to be raised as well. Some businesses will 370 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: do that, some businesses will not do that, but all 371 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 1: the businesses are have to going to take into account 372 00:21:55,440 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: whether these employees are worth they will be paid relative 373 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 1: to the bottom line. And also the fifteen dollars you 374 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 1: ask for back in twenty eighteen, it's not worth fifteen 375 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 1: dollars an hour now, And there's really nowhere for you 376 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 1: to go because you spent a lot of social capital 377 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: marching and protesting and complaining for fifteen dollars an hour, 378 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: and now you're gonna get sixteen dollars an hour tomorrow 379 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: to bring it home, and it's not going to be enough. 380 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 1: So now you're gonna have to ask for eighteen dollars 381 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,199 Speaker 1: an hour by twenty twenty five. Can you see the 382 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 1: cycle now? Can you see how this math, this treadmill 383 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,479 Speaker 1: will you will never be able to catch up, And 384 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: you always have to do these ballot measures because you've 385 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:49,400 Speaker 1: not had enough foresight to work into this some tie 386 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: to the economic price index where you will be protected 387 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,880 Speaker 1: as a minimum wage worker. And then there's the other 388 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,640 Speaker 1: part of the discussion, which I always have where if 389 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 1: you personally talking about you selfishly, if you are still 390 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,640 Speaker 1: working minimum wage four or five years into this debate, 391 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:11,919 Speaker 1: then you are doing something wrong. If you are fighting 392 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 1: to raise the minimum wage for you yourself, and you 393 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 1: started fighting for this in twenty seventeen and you're still 394 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: fighting to raise the minimum wage for you or yourself 395 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:25,119 Speaker 1: or your family, you are doing something wrong. And I 396 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 1: know that sounds elitist, but it's the truth. It's the truth. 397 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I could get on the radio and sit 398 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 1: there for John and Kidd and lie to you, but 399 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 1: you don't want me to lie to you. You want 400 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:36,119 Speaker 1: me to tell you the truth. So I'm going to 401 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: tell you the truth. And we should be fighting for 402 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,400 Speaker 1: that which is going to help the not just you, 403 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 1: but the people who come behind you. And I know 404 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 1: there's an argument to be made that, hey, we raise 405 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,199 Speaker 1: you know, rising tide lists all boats, so we raise 406 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: the minimum wage, more people are helped. Yes, but only 407 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:55,399 Speaker 1: in the short term. This has to be a long 408 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 1: term approach, because let's say you get that ballot measure 409 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 1: on the ballot four November and they'll raise the minimum 410 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: wage to eighteen twenty twenty five. What is going to 411 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,439 Speaker 1: be the cost of milk in twenty twenty five. I 412 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 1: don't know what it's going to be, but I damn 413 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 1: sure no, it is going to be more than what 414 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 1: it is right now. So we have to make a 415 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 1: fundamental decision. Is it about a dollar amount or is 416 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 1: it going to be about making sure that minimum wage 417 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: is somehow tied to or reflects the rate of inflation 418 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: and then workers can be protected. If it's about protecting workers, 419 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: then you must do that. You have no choice but 420 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: to do that. It would require that. And if you're 421 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 1: not talking about that, not only are you an idiot, 422 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:49,640 Speaker 1: you're not going to help get done what you want 423 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: to get done. I know that sounds harsh. I know 424 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 1: that sounds means mean, but you know what, it is 425 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 1: the truth Because after so many years of talking about 426 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,879 Speaker 1: minimum wage here in California and nationally, nobody is talking 427 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:06,960 Speaker 1: about tying it to inflation. Why is that? This is 428 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:08,959 Speaker 1: the JOHNA. Kin Show, Mo Kelly for John kink If. 429 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 1: I am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 430 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 1: I'll be with you all the way today and tomorrow 431 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 1: and even the fourth of July, be broadcasting live from 432 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,119 Speaker 1: Chateau le mo The home studio since I do have 433 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 1: to work in Eric, who's running the ones and twos 434 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: on the board, doesn't have to work, and he keeps 435 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 1: rubbing it in my face. He came into the studio 436 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 1: just now to show how what he's going to be 437 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: doing on the fourth. Isn't that what you showed me 438 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 1: on your phone? No? Are you sure? I'm sure? But 439 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 1: what I did show you on my phone. People are 440 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 1: gonna want to stay tuned for Maybe today we'll get 441 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: to it. Maybe tomorrow we'll see. Well, and we need 442 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,560 Speaker 1: a keyword, like we have a cash keyword, we need 443 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:54,119 Speaker 1: a keyword for this story. Tomorrow the keyword will be threesome. 444 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 1: All right? Perfect? Am I lying? Though? No? You are not? Okay? Okay, 445 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 1: Well that's a tease for either later today or some 446 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 1: type tomorrow. Now, back to the business at hand, keep 447 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 1: me alive in local we've all heard of gun buy backs, right, 448 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:16,680 Speaker 1: bring back your gun, no questions asked, Turn it in. 449 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: We'll give you a gift card. As strange and ridiculous 450 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 1: as that may sound, I have something even stranger and 451 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: more ridiculous. LA wants to buy back your Fourth of 452 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 1: July fireworks. Yes, Los Angeles officials are hoping to cut 453 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: down on the use of illegal fireworks by giving people 454 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 1: a chance to turn them over before the holiday. As 455 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 1: I said in exchange for gift cards. Now and do 456 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 1: remember to be serious. All fireworks are illegal within city limits, 457 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: even if you buy them elsewhere legally. There are some 458 00:26:55,560 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 1: cities where you can legally buy fireworks and use them 459 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: in those cities in southern California, but very few, very few. 460 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 1: City council member Monica Rodriguez said the fireworks buyback is 461 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: a way for residents to be a part of the 462 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 1: solution quote because frankly, fireworks not only pose a public 463 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 1: safety threat to wildfires, but the health and safety of 464 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 1: those individuals who are using these explosive devices. And also, 465 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: she added, there's the fear that it elicits in our 466 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,359 Speaker 1: pets and our seniors invets close quote, I am not 467 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: disputing any of that. As far as the issue of 468 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 1: the fear it may elicit. If you know someone who's 469 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: ever dealt with PTSD or the negative effects on pets, 470 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 1: I would not make light of that. I know that's real, 471 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:48,880 Speaker 1: but this is not the solution to address that. If 472 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: you and here's another thing, don't you know, if you 473 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 1: live in any city unincorporated or even the city of 474 00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, you can hear the professional firework shows. It's 475 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 1: not like that there's going to be less noise because 476 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 1: my friend down the street turns in his fireworks. You've 477 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 1: been to my house on the fourth of July. Yes, 478 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 1: you can see all those professional fireworks shows going off 479 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 1: and hear them. It looks like a rose bowl on 480 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: every corner in your neighborhood. We had some pop off 481 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 1: in my neighborhood last night. Oh, they've been popping off 482 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: my neighborhood since April. I'm just being real, it's almost 483 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 1: like a year since the pandemic started. Yeah, the same 484 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,200 Speaker 1: thing in my neighborhood since the pandemic, on and off. 485 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 1: It's so annoying, And honestly, I know all of them 486 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: are illegal, and they're purchasing them illegally from any number 487 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 1: of sources. I don't want to speculate, but are you 488 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 1: really expecting someone who paid good money for those fireworks? 489 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 1: Because they're not cheap, they're professional grade. Do you know 490 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: how many people have garages full folk can say? You 491 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,240 Speaker 1: know what, let me just come up real quick, get 492 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: some gift cards, maybe paid for the barbecue. Maybe baby 493 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: that there's something up. Oh, yes, yes, do you know 494 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 1: how easy it is to get bulk fireworks? Oh? I know, 495 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: I'm just saying right outside, it's really easy to h Yes, 496 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I think. Oh no, no no, no, I get that. 497 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:22,959 Speaker 1: It just seems like it wouldn't be worth the effort 498 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 1: only because it's gift cards. You'd be surprised what people 499 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: will do. What kind of gift cards are they? Like 500 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 1: Amax or Chili's super plantations they're talking about it doesn't 501 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 1: say it's probably one of those nondescript visa. Yeah, you 502 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 1: can just use it on whatever you are going to 503 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 1: scam this. Yeah, I mean, now, with gas prices being 504 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:44,959 Speaker 1: so much, you might want not want to drive all 505 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: the way to the high desert to buy some fireworks. Well, 506 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 1: here's the thing. If they promised a gas card, that 507 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 1: might be a little more enticing. You know, you could 508 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 1: actually use that in a certain way. But I'm thinking, like, 509 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 1: is this really going to generate the type of interest 510 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 1: that would make a difference. Would it be some people 511 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,959 Speaker 1: who want to scam the system? Probably, and they know 512 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:05,920 Speaker 1: that and they don't care. They want to get the fireworks, 513 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 1: But at the same time, I don't know if they're 514 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 1: actually making a dent because I see fools getting these 515 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 1: fireworks from any number of places and sources and just 516 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 1: you know, turning them in, But you're not really limiting 517 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 1: the decibel volume. On the fourth July again, in your neighborhood, 518 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: every single corner has fireworks. If I do, if I've 519 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 1: turned in, mind, I know my neighbor is still going 520 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:34,200 Speaker 1: to set theirs off. We're good, right, it doesn't it 521 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. And um, e, what part of town do 522 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 1: you live in? I live in the San Fernando Valley, 523 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 1: So they're they're gully like that down in Tarzana with 524 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 1: the fireworks on the border Tarzana and Receiver. Yeah okay, receiver. 525 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: Yeah that makes sense. Yeah, okay, yeah, that makes sense. 526 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 1: I live right across the street from Recida High School. 527 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 1: Oh it's going down and you made it into work safely. 528 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. I'm kid, I'm kang. It's not that 529 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:03,000 Speaker 1: violent and receipt anymore. It's changed. It's upward mobility now 530 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 1: towall has been my house. I'm like hood adjacent. I'm like, yeah, 531 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 1: you're so far right, Yeah, I am next door to 532 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: the hood. In other words, you drive through the hood 533 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,719 Speaker 1: and if you blink you'll miss my house. I'm like 534 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 1: right next to it. Yes, I can't say for him. 535 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 1: Fact I saw it during the day and I don't 536 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 1: know it was this hood right down the street from 537 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 1: your house. Hey, my credibility is intact. Okay, I'm amongst 538 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,720 Speaker 1: the people's that's all it. Most well connected, well respected. Hey, look, 539 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 1: don't try to come in my area and think that 540 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,600 Speaker 1: you can roll upon me because you might get got 541 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 1: They know my name, they know my name, what site. 542 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 1: But but my point is this, this serious point is 543 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: I understand the need and I can agree with the 544 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:55,720 Speaker 1: desire to lessen the amount of dangerous and illegal fireworks. 545 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,880 Speaker 1: That's the serious conversation. But I think it's silly to 546 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 1: think that this, along with gun buybacks, is going to 547 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 1: make any measurable an amount of impact. And there are 548 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 1: those who probably would say, hey, fewer fireworks is good, 549 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: end of story, end of discussion, and that's enough for me. 550 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 1: I would hope that if we're going to spend money, 551 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,840 Speaker 1: and we are spending money because the gift cards are 552 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 1: not free, presumably if we're going to spend money, that 553 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: it's it's effective in nature, that it is sensible in nature, 554 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:31,480 Speaker 1: and it is impactful most importantly in nature. Where if 555 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 1: we're going to get fireworks off the street, that this 556 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 1: is a part of a multi pronged approach and more 557 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,960 Speaker 1: than just hey, you know, here's a gift card for 558 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 1: bringing us your five piccolo pets? Is that what we're 559 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: doing here? I mean, you're going to bring in five sparklers, 560 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 1: you get a gift card? How does this work? Actually, 561 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 1: I'm being serious? Do I get two gift cards for 562 00:32:52,680 --> 00:33:00,720 Speaker 1: three m eighties? Because those things are loud? They either way, 563 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 1: whether people give the fireworks back or not, we're still 564 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: getting that shot on the eleven o'clock news of all 565 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,960 Speaker 1: the fireworks across the city, and it's gonna look great. 566 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: It's gonna look great. And every single year I usually 567 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 1: post on my Instagram at mister bo'kelly the different fireworks shows, 568 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 1: and not the house that I'm living in now, but 569 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 1: the house I used to live in, my condo. It 570 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,680 Speaker 1: sounded like ordinance, a scene out of maybe Bay Route. 571 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 1: Some of it was actual gun play, but that's a 572 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,360 Speaker 1: different story. But you would hear Deverer markets laugh I'm 573 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 1: actually being serious. No, I mean actual gunfire, because in 574 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 1: the hood they will shoot off their guns because it's 575 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 1: a fireworks of the different kind. But you know, that's 576 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,760 Speaker 1: a different discussion. But my point is it's not going 577 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,920 Speaker 1: to change anything, and it's going to be just as loud, 578 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 1: it's going to be just as out of control, and 579 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 1: there'll be more gift cards floating around, and we need 580 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 1: to do something about all these gift cards. People have 581 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:58,280 Speaker 1: a gift card turn in program and get fireworks in exchange. 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