1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Canf I and six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mar Antonio Villa Ragosa. 4 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 3: Oh come on, come on, let's go. 5 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 4: You know I want fantastic, but the final Jebel Kent Champago, 6 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:41,160 Speaker 4: canf I and six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. 7 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:45,239 Speaker 5: I'll tell you, yeah, one of my very fond memories 8 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 5: is Tony Vallar. I tell you, I'll cherish the years 9 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 5: he was mayor. He and you said the same thing 10 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 5: because Scarcetti followed him. Yeah, but he provided so much 11 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 5: material for us. Any good years is Mayor Valar's years 12 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 5: were We're terrible, but they shine in comparison to Garsida. 13 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:05,559 Speaker 6: That's the thing. Look where we're going. 14 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,199 Speaker 1: I know we didn't have the homeless and the crime 15 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: during the Via Grocie years, right. 16 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:11,199 Speaker 6: So I was going over. 17 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 5: The governors today too that have been in charge of 18 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 5: California since I've been on the air here at KFI, 19 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 5: and I was thinking that's also gone downhill. 20 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. We came in during the time of Pete Wilson. 21 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: Pete Wilson then the best of the lot since we 22 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 1: were here, right, you know, we we have a special 23 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: guest who recorded a message for you, and I wanted 24 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:32,759 Speaker 1: to start the show with it. 25 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:34,399 Speaker 6: So if you're ready, I. 26 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 5: Don't want to do anything today. I look, you want 27 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 5: me to sing songs, I'll sing songs. I can do 28 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 5: that for three hours. I don't want to work. I 29 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 5: just want to bang on the drum all day. 30 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what you're gonna be singing. That is environment 31 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 6: so on Thursday afternoon, and that's you know, sitting on 32 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 6: your back deck. No, I've arranged for my own guest 33 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 6: this hour because yours are not impressing me as much. 34 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 6: So all right, well, maybe do you like this one? 35 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 6: All right? 36 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 7: Rood Eric, this is Gray Davis. Now, I know some 37 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 7: of you may be wondering why I'm calling to wish 38 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 7: Ken well. 39 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 6: Well. 40 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 7: I do wish him well, but I'm calling primarily to 41 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 7: make sure he's actually retiring. And John, if you're listening 42 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 7: when the time is right, I'm happy to wish you farewell. 43 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 6: Now. 44 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 7: I know you guys advertise yourselves as equal opportunity critics. 45 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 7: I never really believe that, but shortly after I left office, 46 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 7: I think four days has passed, and you were criticizing 47 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 7: poor Arnold. 48 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 6: He just got there. 49 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 7: I can't remember exactly what you were criticizing him for, 50 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 7: but at the very end you said even Grey Davis 51 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 7: would not have done that, and I thought to myself, 52 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 7: maybe these guys really do criticize everybody. 53 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 6: Wow, how did you get that one? He never came 54 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 6: on the show. I know if he had come on 55 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 6: the show and showed that sense of humor, he would 56 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 6: not have gotten recalled. Maybe. 57 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 5: Uh, you know, he haunted me after that recall. I 58 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 5: kept running into him on flights up to the Bay Area. 59 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 5: I'm like, oh my god, du it's Gret Davis. And 60 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 5: I think twice three times that happened on my trips. 61 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 6: I did not know. I did not You didn't introduce yourself. 62 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 5: This was not long after the recall, so I didn't 63 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:17,519 Speaker 5: know what I would get if I did. 64 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 7: That, right, I'm quite like a Bengal tiger. 65 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 6: Yeah, that guy. 66 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 5: I'd Ken Johnny Ken show who we had a lot 67 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 5: to do with your demise. Thanks, but it looks like 68 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 5: the wounds have healed. He was, So what did you 69 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 5: reach out to like his Uh? I don't know what 70 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 5: his staff anymore? 71 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: Ray pulled this off. It just he Ray sent me 72 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: the message last night, the recording, and I just I 73 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: couldn't believe you were shocked. 74 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, I reached out to a bunch of people 75 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 6: who who I thought would and great Davis did it. 76 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 6: I gotta give him credit. Yeah, he said, yeah, sir, Well, 77 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 6: like we were always said, he's kind of a strange 78 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 6: wild card in some respects and boring with his turkey 79 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 6: sandwiches and what was it, broccoli or broccoli? 80 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: I think steam broccoli and turkey, right right, or stein 81 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: in turkey and broccoli. 82 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 6: I don't know. 83 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:06,839 Speaker 5: It's weird that you were you were going to play 84 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 5: that because I was just talking about the governors and 85 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 5: we don't prepare no, no, sorry, you'll. 86 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 6: Pulled out one. 87 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: Our plan was to surprise you with that to open 88 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: the show, and then you I. 89 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 6: Mentioned the governor, the governors, y G. 90 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 5: I was thinking about the mayors of LA and the governors, 91 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 5: and of course a lot of our show has about 92 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 5: been kicking politicians butts around. Yeah, for all these years. 93 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 5: That's a big element which I never saw coming for 94 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 5: people who don't know. I got into radio because I 95 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 5: loved pop music in the nineteen sixties and seventies and 96 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 5: into the eighties. That's all I did is listen to 97 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 5: the top forty and pop music in Casey's Countdowns. And 98 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:42,599 Speaker 5: I wanted to be a DJ. 99 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 6: But you know, life has a way, right. 100 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,280 Speaker 5: And when you and I first got teamed up, yeah, 101 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 5: we were playing some songs, but we talked a lot. 102 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:51,920 Speaker 5: And then talk radio was coming down the pike as 103 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 5: a very popular format and we just kind of rode 104 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,679 Speaker 5: that wave as it took off from the late eighties 105 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 5: into the nineties. But this is not what you played 106 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 5: do with your life. Not well, no, not as far 107 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 5: as radio. I was a kid, I always wanted to 108 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 5: be in radio, yeah, but I didn't really have a 109 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 5: concept of this kind of format. You know, it didn't 110 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 5: the sixties and seventies. We didn't exist, It did not exist. 111 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 5: I had no idea that we were going to end 112 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 5: up doing this. In fact, it didn't exist at the 113 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 5: time we started doing it, right, right, right, you know, 114 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 5: And I don't know how particularly well, I guess you 115 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 5: could say, because we're in Atlantic City, which is a 116 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 5: cesspool of corruption for years between the mob and just 117 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,920 Speaker 5: the bad political leaders, right, And that's kind of how 118 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 5: we latched onto our first. You know, let's go after 119 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 5: the elected people, right with the city council there. 120 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 6: The mayor. 121 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, Donald Trump was the good guy in that era 122 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: in Atlantic. 123 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 6: He was right, he was, he was kind of the 124 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 6: good guy. 125 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 5: And then we moved over to another station in Trenton, 126 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 5: which covered big area of New York, New Jersey and 127 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 5: even Pennsylvania. And did that governor there. You know, Jim 128 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 5: Floria was an idiot too, So this kind of gathered 129 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 5: steam on its own based on just the corrupt, inept 130 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 5: politician before us. 131 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 6: And then we got the Grey. 132 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 5: Davis and that was a nice message, well kind of, 133 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 5: although there was a tone to it. 134 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,280 Speaker 6: You're right, it's like Joe and you're ready to retire. 135 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 6: I'll be glad to because I want you out. I'll 136 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 6: be happy to shovel on your grave. 137 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 8: Yeah. 138 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 6: We just had the twentieth anniversary of the recall not 139 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 6: too long ago. Yes, I was. I was repick on 140 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:23,159 Speaker 6: Schwarzenegger within a week. 141 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: Maybe we did, I don't, Wow, that's Davis's memory. He said, 142 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:27,359 Speaker 1: there's four days. 143 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 6: He said four days. Even Grey Davis wouldn't do that. 144 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 6: I know, I remember getting frustrated with him. 145 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 5: More into two thousand and five when they had those 146 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 5: special measures they put on the ballot. He wasn't campaigning 147 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 5: and it sounded like he was just bending with the wind. 148 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 5: That I remember better, but I don't remember days after 149 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 5: we took office. 150 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 6: But it's always possible. 151 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: So if you haven't heard because you weren't paying attention, 152 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: Today is Ken's last day. I am going to take 153 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 1: a few days off and then I'm going to do 154 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: the show solo starting Tuesday, December twelfth, and then Ken 155 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:00,039 Speaker 1: goes to his rest home. 156 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 6: And we I tell you what we yes, No, it's 157 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 6: you have a rest home for me. Huh oh yeah, yeah, 158 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 6: well in Bidenville. H Yeah. 159 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 5: It's gonna be weird because it'll seem like a few 160 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 5: days off too, just like you're doing. Sure, I don't 161 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 5: know what I think it's going to be next year 162 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 5: before I really realize, Oh that's right, I'm done with this. Yeah, 163 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 5: after the holloway because we're rolling into the holidays and 164 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 5: all that stuff, you don't really think about that. 165 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 6: And we usually took a lot of time off at 166 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 6: the end of the year. 167 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 5: At the end of the year, right, So yeah, it'll 168 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 5: and again the reason it's today, Wednesday, December sixth, is 169 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 5: because this is the end of the real ratings period 170 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 5: for radio. 171 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 6: But I just picked that Nielsen ratings. Right there you go, 172 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 6: and you're that's silly thing. 173 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 5: You weren't going to work when it doesn't matter that 174 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 5: December is often to write off rights music that's played, 175 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 5: people are distracted exactly, doesn't become. 176 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 6: Really worth but too heavily involved. 177 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: On the show today, we have three three montages to 178 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: play which will take you roughly the first twenty years 179 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 1: of the show. 180 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 5: And I thought that was I think about that yesterday 181 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 5: or the other day. There's like nothing from the last 182 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 5: ten years. 183 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 6: What happened? Did we stink? No, it's just a lot 184 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 6: of it's the same. I didn't think there was any 185 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 6: point in going over COVID Trump clips and COVID clips 186 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 6: and homeless clips. We're still living with all that. 187 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: Okay, this is the stuff a lot of people will 188 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: have forgotten about, or maybe we're never remembered. They weren't 189 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,559 Speaker 1: listening back then. They weren't even old enough to listen 190 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 1: back then. So for those of you on the older side, 191 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: you will remember a lot of these clips, And for 192 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: those of you on the younger side. This is what 193 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,719 Speaker 1: we used to do back in the nineties and two thousands. 194 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: We also have a number of recorded guests to wish 195 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: you farewell, and we're going to try to squeeze all 196 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,559 Speaker 1: this in. It could be some walk in people here 197 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: in the building might walk in. 198 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 6: Is that right? 199 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 9: Yeah, it could be well, and I want I would 200 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 9: I would like to say goodbye to Ken too on 201 00:08:58,880 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 9: the air. 202 00:08:59,440 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 6: Yeah. 203 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 5: Have you been doing that for like weeks? No, she asked, 204 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 5: specially the longest goodbye if she can announce that November. 205 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 5: That's about it, Yes, right, picture's always with you in them. 206 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly. 207 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:14,959 Speaker 5: Well, you know it's always about remember this at the 208 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,079 Speaker 5: end of the John and Ken Show, The John and 209 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 5: Kennon DeBras Show. 210 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 9: I know, but I'm part of you, right, So I 211 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 9: just wanted to You're a part of me. 212 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 6: You can sing that song. You're a part of me. 213 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:29,679 Speaker 6: See you get John to sing then you know we're 214 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 6: on all right, we come. 215 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: Back, we'll play a farewell message and we'll cover the 216 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: news of the day, and then later in the hour 217 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 1: we're going to play the one montage from the nineteen 218 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: nineties to amuse you. Johnny Ken Show KFI. 219 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am 220 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 2: six forty. 221 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:57,319 Speaker 6: But here's another farewell message. 222 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 10: Hey Ken, it's Gary, you know, one of the fun 223 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 10: bunnies from the Gary and Shannon Show. 224 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 6: Listen. 225 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:08,319 Speaker 10: Huge congratulations on finally pulling the plug on this radio thing. 226 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 10: You have been consistently one of the anomalies in this 227 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 10: place or any radio station, someone who I think truly 228 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 10: cares about other people. You always had a great ability 229 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 10: to ask what was going on in other people's lives. 230 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:24,200 Speaker 10: And amazingly, every place I've worked since I started in 231 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 10: radio and Sacramento in ninety eight, nineteen ninety eight, that is, 232 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 10: it carried some version of the John and Ken syndicated show. 233 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 10: It was in Sacramento, I moved to Seattle, and that 234 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 10: was I followed you there basically. And I realize that 235 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:40,559 Speaker 10: Shannon and I have a lot of work to do 236 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 10: to come even close to matching the success that you've 237 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:48,079 Speaker 10: had with John. So congratulations on the retirement. Enjoy the travel, 238 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 10: and most importantly, enjoy the quiet. 239 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 5: Oh that's very nice, Gary Hoffman, Gary Affen from the 240 00:10:55,679 --> 00:11:00,199 Speaker 5: gar We played Shannon yesterday, So Gary and Shannon shining again. Yes, yeah, 241 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 5: there you go. You made the right connection. I have, yeah, 242 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 5: a lot of interest in everyone else's life. 243 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 6: Did you do right? Everything should be nice today. Let's 244 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:12,079 Speaker 6: be nice, even if you have to make stuff up right. 245 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 5: Oh my god, No, all right. I just sent you 246 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 5: all a picture of Johnny Ken from nineteen ninety three. 247 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 6: So cute. 248 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, you guys look so adorable. 249 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 6: So young. Yeah, so young, Oh my gosh. 250 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 9: Ken, You know you look wow what actor? You look 251 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 9: like an actor there, But I'm trying to figure out who. 252 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 5: But I'm trying to figure out is what happened to 253 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 5: my hand? I don't remember that injury. 254 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 6: You see you have a bandage there. Yeah, I don't. 255 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 5: I don't remember that. Yeah, I broke my hand, but 256 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 5: it was years before that. Playing softball one time they 257 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 5: got ran into my right hand. I think it's my 258 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 5: left hand action low heeler. 259 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 6: But I don't remember what that was. So, but that 260 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 6: was Jack's bicycles. 261 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 5: I know that because it's got a date on the 262 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 5: back of June of nineteen ninety three. 263 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:54,199 Speaker 6: I remember that. 264 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 5: Yeah, and was one of Yeah, one of our first 265 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 5: big appearances is KF. I used to do a big 266 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,679 Speaker 5: event there with Jack's bicycles and Orange County. I don't 267 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 5: remember what city, do you remember, John, or was Hington Beach? 268 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 6: I think Huntington Beach? Okay, yeah, I don't know if 269 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 6: that's still there. 270 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 5: Yeah, and I don't even know how I got this picture. 271 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 5: Obviously it's like an old Yeah, obviously it's before digital. 272 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 5: It's like an old Polaroid camera or something like that. 273 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 5: I had a copy of it lying around. 274 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 6: So oh, well, yeah, we got a dever. You got 275 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 6: to post this online. Yeah, I'm posting it right. Oh, okay, 276 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 6: all right, the posters are at work, all right. 277 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 5: One note from the news which is certainly worth bringing 278 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 5: up because he's an idiot and I will not miss 279 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 5: him unless you're gonna play me a Gavin Newsom message 280 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 5: later on, you know, Okay, sure, I don't great, Davis, 281 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 5: that was pretty big. 282 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:39,959 Speaker 6: Yeah, I know. I don't know if we can top that. 283 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 6: Schwarzenegger coming on. I don't know. Oh, that's an I 284 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,199 Speaker 6: don't know. I don't know. Okay, Okay, well you said 285 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:51,319 Speaker 6: no right away to newse them. He's in the Bahamas. 286 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: We actually tried, and I think he would do it, 287 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 1: but he's shooting a movie. In the Bahamas or something, 288 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: or he's being detained there. 289 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:01,599 Speaker 6: I don't know. We're trying to get him between Yeah, 290 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,839 Speaker 6: he is shooting a movie. So, oh my god. You 291 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 6: know what schedules are like? 292 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 5: Newsom can canceled the in person annual holiday tree lighting 293 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 5: at the Capitol. They postponed it a day and they 294 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 5: moved it online, which means it's going to be tonight. 295 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 6: It'll be streams. Isn't that often? 296 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,439 Speaker 5: Because he's running from the Palestinian protesters. 297 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 1: Those are his voters. They are, yeah, clearly, and he's 298 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:30,440 Speaker 1: afraid of them. And so what he did is he 299 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: penalized all the Christians and everybody else who wanted to 300 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: celebrate the lighting of the Christmas tree. How come everybody 301 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,680 Speaker 1: else lost out? That tradition has been going on in 302 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: Sacramento ninety two. 303 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 6: It would be the ninety second annual tree lighting. 304 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, since the nineteen thirties, so since the nineteen thirties, 305 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 1: and Gavin Newsom cancels it because of some terrorist protesters. 306 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 6: I'm sorry. 307 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 1: If you are protesting for the Palestinians, you are supporting 308 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: Hima at this point, you are? They showed up anyway, 309 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 1: two hundred people ended up at the Capitol anyway, despite 310 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 1: the cancelation of the in person ceremony, So they did come. 311 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 6: They knew they were coming, and he thought it would 312 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 6: be disruptive. Really spirits of them. So they win. So 313 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 6: two hundred that's how I felt too. 314 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 1: Two hundred crazy people get to cancel Christmas for everybody else. 315 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 6: Boy that that that that's wrong. He said, for the 316 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 6: safety and security of members and guests. How about you 317 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 6: create safety and security. 318 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: How about it's your job to make it secure so 319 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 1: that all the all the citizens who pay taxes here, 320 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: let them celebrate their holiday. 321 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 6: Can you imagine canceling? Uh? 322 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: Oh, you could list the groups if we canceled their 323 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 1: holidays or their special days right by Christian people celebrating Christmas, 324 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: the hell with them? 325 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 6: I had that that that is one of his worst decisions. 326 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 5: You can't give in because this is what they're doing. 327 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 5: They're going to go to any big public event and protest, 328 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 5: and if you start can't see the events, are gonna 329 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 5: feel like they won. All right, we sent everybody back inside. 330 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 5: No Christmas tree public lighting ceremony, so. 331 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 1: We can't enjoy a Christmas tree being lit up because 332 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: there are too many crazy people supporting a terrorist group. Right, Well, 333 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 1: that's that's a good day in America. What a coward 334 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: he is? What a simpering, simpering weasel, coward, coward. I 335 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: can't even speak, all right. 336 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 6: When we come back. Well, I've arranged for a guest. 337 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 6: How about that. 338 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 5: I see this is someone who's known me longer than anybody, 339 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 5: including you, anybody. I shouldn't say anybody. My family's known 340 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 5: me longer than anybody. 341 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 6: But we're talking about fifty years. Wow. 342 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 5: Yeah, he calling from the home too. You can ask 343 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 5: him does he have phone privileges? I do keep in 344 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 5: touch with them, and I don't think that's the case. 345 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 5: But you can certainly ask him. 346 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 6: About the home. 347 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 5: No, I don't want to embarrass him because he is 348 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 5: sort of retired. Well, we'll explain that Ken kf I 349 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 5: AM six forty live everywhere iHeartRadio app. 350 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM 351 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 2: six forty. 352 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 6: Ken's last Day. 353 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: We're on the radio tal four and if you missed 354 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 1: the show, I want to hear the entire Felaware Farewell, 355 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 1: it'll be on the It'll be the podcast John and 356 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: Ken on demand on the iHeart app. 357 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 5: Farewell, Fairware, fair felwell you want to hear the entire 358 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 5: fairwere Fairware. I don't make a lot of speeches today, 359 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 5: I really am. So here's the first one. 360 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 6: Goodbye. 361 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 5: I keep them short, That's what I like to do. 362 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 5: You did most of the talking during these thirty five years, anyway. 363 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 6: It was like five. I always have to wait for 364 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 6: just a little gap, he breathed, so I get a 365 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 6: chance to say something. 366 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 5: Look, I won't say a word today, is that right? 367 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 6: Seconda ask? 368 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 11: Right? 369 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 6: Yeah? All right? Uh So I'm hearing from people from. 370 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 5: My life obviously that I reached out and told him 371 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 5: that I was ending it on December sixth. 372 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:05,120 Speaker 6: One of them left me a voicemail this morning. 373 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 5: And the reason I'm putting him on the air, well, 374 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:08,360 Speaker 5: other than that he's a longtime friend and I don't 375 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 5: think he's ever been on the show either, is that 376 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 5: The voicemail transcripts as follows. My Google question today is 377 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 5: to find out how do I get on the John 378 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 5: and Ken Show on Ken's last day. 379 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 6: So your wish is our command, right, All you have 380 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 6: to do is ask. 381 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 5: Now you have to do is ask our producer got 382 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,880 Speaker 5: him on. Let's talk to one of my longest friends. 383 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 5: His name is George Sunstrom. 384 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 6: George, good afternoon, Welcome there you go. 385 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:41,880 Speaker 8: You're on you Thanks, it's amazing on your Fairway show 386 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,479 Speaker 8: today that I got a chance to be on. 387 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 6: Well, all right, this is your moment. What do you 388 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 6: have to say? 389 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 5: Since you googled and you were searching hard to get 390 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 5: on the show, this is your moment. 391 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 8: Well, I'm sitting around this morning doing nothing. I figured, 392 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 8: you know, I could give you a call at home, 393 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 8: or I could try to surprise you. But I couldn't 394 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 8: find a phone number, so I called you at home 395 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,159 Speaker 8: and told you what I did. I googled out to 396 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 8: try to get on the show. 397 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 6: So you and Ken were friends in high school? 398 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 8: Yeah, we actually met in junior high or we both 399 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,639 Speaker 8: tried out for the junior high basketball team. He was 400 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,239 Speaker 8: a tall guy who could shoot from the outside but 401 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 8: couldn't defend on the inside. And I was a small 402 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:26,199 Speaker 8: guy who could shoot on the inside but got my 403 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 8: shot blocked by the big guys who were inside and 404 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 8: we both got cut. 405 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 6: So between the two of you, you might have been 406 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 6: a player. This must be an alternate unfort but I'm 407 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:42,360 Speaker 6: enjoying this. So what was he like in junior high. 408 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 8: You know, well, I would say that Ken and I 409 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:52,640 Speaker 8: were both just kind of studious. We were good students. 410 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 8: We were smart enough to be in the classes with 411 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,360 Speaker 8: the smart kids, but not as smart as them. We 412 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:02,639 Speaker 8: were attic, but not as athletic as the jock so 413 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,680 Speaker 8: we didn't fit in the jock circle. Uh. We certainly 414 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,880 Speaker 8: weren't in the popular crowd. So we kind of gravitated 415 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 8: to each other through a number of our friends who 416 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 8: you know, we hung out together during high school and 417 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 8: junior high and high school and and that kind of 418 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:21,679 Speaker 8: fit into our own little niche there. Yeah, and then 419 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 8: you know, became good friends through high school and I've 420 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 8: managed to stay in touch all through the years. Ken 421 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 8: is godfather to my youngest child, you know, yes, and 422 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 8: he he comes from a great family. We were all 423 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 8: very blessed that each of our parents, of our of 424 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 8: our friends, our circle of friends, uh, accepted us, welcomed 425 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 8: us into their homes at any time. So we were 426 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 8: kind of boring as teenagers. We didn't go out and 427 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 8: get in trouble. 428 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,120 Speaker 6: No trouble you tell him what we did on many 429 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 6: a night. 430 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:01,160 Speaker 8: Well, so I I did think about. 431 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 6: This, but hardly. We played cards. We played cards constantly. 432 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 8: We did play cards. But the other thing we did 433 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 8: that we had more fun doing was there were psychiatric 434 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 8: hospitals in two psychiatric hospitals within about twenty minutes of 435 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 8: where we lived, and at that time was just they 436 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 8: were just beginning to outpatient the patients from the psychiatric 437 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:29,399 Speaker 8: hospitals and the eventual draw down and remove an elimination 438 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:33,440 Speaker 8: of those And there was a I guess, for lack 439 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 8: of a better term, a halfway house in the neighborhood 440 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,919 Speaker 8: in our town based Shore where we grew up, and 441 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 8: we'd harass these people. You know today it's not acceptable, 442 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 8: but then, but we would go and harass these people. 443 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:50,880 Speaker 6: This is the story you're going to tell. 444 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 8: Well, which is one of them? 445 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 6: I should have put me with your sister on dang it. 446 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,639 Speaker 6: I made a mistake because. 447 00:20:58,359 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 8: It leads to your career in broadcast. 448 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 6: Oh all right, if you want to put it that way, 449 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:04,679 Speaker 6: that's the only reason you could work with me. 450 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,880 Speaker 8: So Ken would. So we would go out and kind 451 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:14,399 Speaker 8: of harass and have fun with it. But Ken also 452 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:18,160 Speaker 8: in the days of cassette recorders. Sorry folks who don't 453 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 8: know what that is, but He had a casette recorder 454 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 8: with a microphone, and he would go out and interview them. Now, 455 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 8: some of them were sharp and understood where they were 456 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 8: and how they lived and everything, and some of them 457 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 8: thought they were still living in the forties and the 458 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 8: fifties when they were young. And those made for priceless recordings. 459 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 8: I don't think he has them anymore. 460 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 5: But if I could ever get a hold of those, 461 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 5: well that was yeah. But that was the work of 462 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 5: our friend Lewis. 463 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,920 Speaker 6: He did that. Well, I was there, you were right. 464 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,119 Speaker 6: I was there too. I asked questions, But Lewis, didn't You. 465 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 8: Were asking the questions. You were the one who was 466 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 8: asking you were you were the front man at that point. 467 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 6: This was his early broadcasting career, interviewing and and. 468 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:04,919 Speaker 8: And I did. I do want to say, you know, Ken, 469 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,199 Speaker 8: and I know he's talked about it is he was. 470 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 8: He went to school for accounting. He was a successful accountant, 471 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 8: worked for a major firm in New York City, traveled 472 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 8: the country, was very happy, but then made the decision 473 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 8: to make the change to go to broadcasting, and the 474 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 8: commitment that he made to go to and I don't 475 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,119 Speaker 8: know if it's the right place the Cannadtate School of 476 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,640 Speaker 8: Broadcasting or one of the broadcast schools where he would 477 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:32,640 Speaker 8: actually go to work during the day, work his full 478 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,359 Speaker 8: time job and then go to school at night to 479 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 8: uh take a little job in Elmira where he ran 480 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 8: into somebody he knows for thirty six plus years. 481 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,199 Speaker 5: Now, that's right, Yeah, but don't forget it could have 482 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,119 Speaker 5: been the George and Ken show. I wanted you to 483 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:50,919 Speaker 5: get into radio two. Yeah, and you had you know, 484 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 5: I started a family very young, so you had a 485 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 5: lot of commitments. 486 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 6: You had the interviewing site. 487 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:00,120 Speaker 8: That's time to change, change, change things around. 488 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 6: But it did. You had a lot of commitments, right. 489 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 8: But you know, I was always impressed by his willingness 490 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,640 Speaker 8: to make that big change and his commitment to it. 491 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 8: And obviously you and you know, both you and John 492 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 8: getting together in really in Atlantic City, even though I 493 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 8: know you met Almira, you know, and your success here 494 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,679 Speaker 8: on the East Coast and then translating that out to 495 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 8: your success on the West coast just you know, just tremendous. 496 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 8: And you know, thirty six years. I retired recently after 497 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,119 Speaker 8: thirty five years with the company I worked with, so 498 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 8: I know what it is in today's marketplace, where people say, 499 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 8: if you're there more than two years, you're a knucklehead. 500 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 8: But to be somewhere and to do something at such 501 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,919 Speaker 8: a high level for such a long time is doesn't 502 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,400 Speaker 8: happen very much anymore. And I'm very impressed with both 503 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 8: of you, even though John, I'd never officially met you. 504 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 1: But I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation and would love to 505 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: have more of them. 506 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I know he helped move me John from 507 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 5: Elmira to Atlantic City. Yes, and then we ran right 508 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 5: to the casinos after that and put a whole quarter in. See, 509 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 5: we're very exciting place. 510 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 8: We were not big gamblers. We liked card games, but 511 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 8: we didn't gamble. 512 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,920 Speaker 6: We didn't gamble, we didn't drank, we didn't gamble. 513 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,159 Speaker 8: I think we I think we spent more time in 514 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:23,439 Speaker 8: the bowling alley at the casino that and then the 515 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:27,440 Speaker 8: casino before the drive home and his Camaro at the time, 516 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 8: which was a nightmare drive because it was snowing. 517 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 6: That car didn't have much I remember the Camaro, Yeah, yeah, 518 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 6: you had that when we met. Didn't change the oil, 519 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 6: and I blew the engine in your car. I've done 520 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:43,440 Speaker 6: that too. You've done that, George, thank you for coming on. Yeah, 521 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 6: buddy's pleasure, major wish come true. You wanted to be 522 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 6: on the show, my last show, you got it? 523 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 8: You go. I finally I finally got on the air. 524 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:50,439 Speaker 7: Well. 525 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 8: I just wanted to say congratulations, enjoy your retirement. I 526 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 8: know that eventually you'll have a lot of plans. I 527 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 8: know you love to travel, and hopefully we get to 528 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 8: see you a little bit more frequently on the East 529 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 8: Coast and talk to you more than just a couple 530 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 8: of times a year. And John's success in your solo effort. 531 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 6: Thank you. 532 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 8: I hope you do well and hopefully some point in 533 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:10,640 Speaker 8: time in the future I get. 534 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 6: To meet you. I hope so too. Thanks George. All right, 535 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 6: there you go. 536 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,880 Speaker 5: It's one of my longtime friends, George, who reached out 537 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 5: to me today. 538 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 6: You wanted to know how we could get on my 539 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,640 Speaker 6: last show harassing psyche patients. You never told me this, 540 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,399 Speaker 6: you know, why would I? 541 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 5: Well, actually I have mentioned it, kind of not I 542 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 5: didn't tell the story the same way. But we had 543 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,719 Speaker 5: the same experience as we had in California where they 544 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 5: started to release people from all the cyclists because they 545 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,439 Speaker 5: were deemed to be horrible places, and they did put him, 546 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 5: as George said, like on a sort of a halfway house, 547 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 5: sort of hotel, actually not far from my home, and 548 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,160 Speaker 5: they began to wander the streets. They go into the church, 549 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 5: they'd stand around. 550 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,159 Speaker 6: So you did man on the Street interviews. Yeah, it 551 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,119 Speaker 6: was my other friend's ideas Lewis. 552 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 5: It was his idea to actually bring out a cassette recorder, 553 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 5: and I forgot that, but George is right, that did happen. 554 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,679 Speaker 6: All right, we got that's just great. 555 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:02,000 Speaker 5: More coming up, couldn't be KFI AM six forty. Well, 556 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,680 Speaker 5: I was preparing for the days with you, obviously. 557 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 6: When we come back. 558 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: We're going to play clips from the nineteen nineties, stuff 559 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,159 Speaker 1: that many of you probably have never heard, and maybe 560 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: some of you will remember. Johnny kenho KFI. 561 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 2: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 562 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:24,160 Speaker 2: six forty. 563 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 1: We've got two more hours of Ken and we have 564 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff to play. Farewell messages, montage clips 565 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:35,639 Speaker 1: from a year's past. 566 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,200 Speaker 6: We're going to play one right now. 567 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,119 Speaker 1: This one has a couple of short things that we 568 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 1: played within the last few weeks, but the whole package 569 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 1: is from the nineteen nineties, especially in the first few 570 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 1: years when we ran into all kinds of natural disasters 571 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: and controversies. This montage, I'll just explain a little bit 572 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: so you know what you're listening to. Starts with our 573 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,439 Speaker 1: first appearance on KFI as a guest with Darryl Eights, 574 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 1: the controversial police chief from the Rodney King era. He 575 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,439 Speaker 1: left his job as police chief and became a CAFI host, 576 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,680 Speaker 1: and we then replaced him in that time slot back 577 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety two. You're gonna hear some clips from 578 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: our first show, a number of callers who instantly criticizing, 579 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: they were just disgusted with us. A little clip on 580 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 1: the start of the Three Strikes movement and the Menendas 581 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 1: Brothers and our hunger strike, and then us up in 582 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,400 Speaker 1: helicopters over the fires in Laguna Beach. 583 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 6: So let's roll. We have a new team. 584 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 7: There's come to KFI for more stimulated talk radio or 585 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 7: John and Camp. 586 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 6: You know what makes me nervous, I'll be honest with you. 587 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 6: They tell me you have a gun here in the studio. Well, 588 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 6: you see, you haven't been on long enough to have 589 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 6: prets against you. 590 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,159 Speaker 5: I can understand you have a little bodyguard strapped to 591 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 5: your leg that jumps out in caseer's drum. 592 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 6: True k FI. 593 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:01,399 Speaker 1: AM six forty more stimulating talk radio, and welcome to 594 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:02,440 Speaker 1: the John and Ken Show. 595 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 6: I'm John Cobout my partner Ken Champeau. Yes, that would 596 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 6: be me. 597 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,640 Speaker 5: You know, we've been asked, probably one million, two hundred 598 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 5: thousand times over the past week, what do. 599 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 6: You sound like on the year? What do you do? 600 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 6: What are you gonna talk about? 601 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 7: What? 602 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,439 Speaker 5: Shut up and listen, because because we don't know, we 603 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 5: don't know, we're gonna argue, we're gonna entertain. It goes 604 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,200 Speaker 5: back and forth between us, between the callers. 605 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 7: You're not stimulating in any way. 606 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,440 Speaker 5: You haven't been stimulated there, Oh my country bumpkins. You've 607 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 5: decided all this in twenty five minutes. 608 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 8: Can get the character of an right away. 609 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,440 Speaker 6: You don't think we're intelligent, you don't think we have character. 610 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,879 Speaker 6: We haven't talked about it. Some people it takes more 611 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 6: to stimulate than others. 612 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 11: The two morning DJs that Howard Stern. 613 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 5: Knockoffs, that actually is the worst thing that's been said. 614 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 6: So we're twenty eight minutes. This is an unbelievable tough crowd. 615 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 5: Right. 616 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: Okay, we have been following why Richard Allen Davis was 617 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 1: allowed to walk the streets to strangle Polycloss even though 618 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: he had twenty years worth of crimes and felonies on 619 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: his record. The three strikes you're out bill should be passed. 620 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: Three violenter serious felonies and you've got life in prisonments. 621 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 1: And then his brothers, as you know, hung jury and 622 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 1: Garcetti all along has complained he didn't have enough money 623 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: during the Menendez trial, so we organized the yard sale, 624 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: sold a live junk raised four thousand dollars. 625 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 6: Hundreds of people came. 626 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 5: After Garcetti refused to take the money. John went on 627 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,719 Speaker 5: a hunger strike, which began fifty one hours ago. 628 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 6: We also had a guy giving up his liver medication 629 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 6: in Long Beach to begin his numbers. We can check 630 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 6: us if he's stile alive. We've put in a call 631 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 6: to him. He isn't answering the phones. He's not answering 632 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 6: his phone. He's not answering what if he's. 633 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 5: Lying on the floor reaching for the medication and last 634 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 5: each effort to save himself. 635 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:39,720 Speaker 6: It's gonna be how's that gonna look on the news. 636 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 6: It's gonna be on Garcetti's head and yours. I didn't 637 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 6: tell him to do it. You did a Gandhi and 638 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 6: prompted him to get into this. 639 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 11: John cobelea Cat Champeau are broadcasting in a helicopter over 640 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,000 Speaker 11: the Pacific Ocean right now. Yeah, we are facing directly 641 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 11: and looking at the look going to be saying as 642 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 11: completely overcapped, with huge flames extending from here to the beach. 643 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 11: Wouldn't win. Nothing left. There's just a few shards of timber. 644 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,959 Speaker 11: The air is south smelling. It's accurate. It makes your 645 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 11: eyes burn. It by mountain throat or dry. And there's 646 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 11: helicopters all over the place. They're like mechanical vultures floating 647 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 11: through the air. 648 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 6: There you go. I was look at that. 649 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 5: You're right, the nineties, that was all in the first 650 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 5: couple of years we were here. That was this place 651 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 5: was insane. Yeah, but they'll always be proud of three strikes. 652 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 5: I mean, and you know they've been trying it well, 653 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 5: they've been ripping that apart for all these decades, I know, 654 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 5: but it's still standing. It's a big reason there were 655 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 5: low crime rates for a while. 656 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 1: That's right. And Governor Wilson signed it. I remember the 657 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: day we had him on the show. Yeah, and he 658 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: signed the bill. It also passed a second time, I 659 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 1: think as a as a referendum, right, And you don't 660 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 1: know how many people aren't dead because that passed, you see, right, 661 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 1: you know how many people were not victims. I think 662 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 1: sadly this year Mike Reynolds, who was behind that movement 663 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 1: to get that passed to just he died. I believe 664 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 1: this year Mike Reynolds remember him? 665 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 8: Yes? 666 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 6: Many? Yeah, of course Mark Klaus, Polly's father too, was 667 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 6: a big part of that. 668 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 1: There's a documentary out there somewhere of the passage of 669 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 1: three strikes because I know we were in it and 670 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,960 Speaker 1: they interviewed. Maybe you could find it on YouTube somewhere. 671 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 5: Oh and of course the Times thinks it's like Prop thirteen. 672 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 5: It's the scourge of California, right, Yeah, Prop thirteen and 673 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 5: three strikes have really hurt the YEP compared to everything else. 674 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 6: It's but it's from Sacramentos. 675 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 1: Violent felons are in prison and that upsets all those 676 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 1: little weasels. 677 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 6: All right, So we'll be right back. 678 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,880 Speaker 5: Johnny kenkfi am six forty We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. 679 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,480 Speaker 1: You havever Mark live in the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, 680 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,360 Speaker 1: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You 681 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 1: can always hear the show live on KFI Am six 682 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 1: forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 683 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.