1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,200 Speaker 1: All right, Monday, right at this very time, we'll be 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: our Hour of Candidates. It's just a few days away. 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: If you're running for anything, we'll give you thirty seconds, 4 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,879 Speaker 1: So you line up Monday to get on the show. 5 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,039 Speaker 1: In fifteen minutes, the last keyword of the day we'll 6 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: be revealed. Following that, they'll be given instructions as to 7 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: how you can possibly win the cash. You're on CAFI. 8 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 1: All right, We've got Rick Caruso coming on running for 9 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:24,799 Speaker 1: mayor of Los Angeles against Karen Bass and we're just 10 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: a few days away. Rick, how are you? Ricky there good? 11 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm here. How are you doing. We're doing great. 12 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: So it's just a few days away. How are you 13 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 1: feeling walking the streets and talking to people like, what's 14 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: your what's your confidence level for Tuesday? You know, I 15 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: actually am feeling really good. Yesterday I spent a whole 16 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: bunch of time and south La Watts, went all the 17 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: way up to downtown and back around, ended up in 18 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: the Windsor Square area, Deco Union area. We had enormous 19 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 1: amount of support. I really do feel like the momentum 20 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: is with us. But I feel good about it, and 21 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: I just spent a few hours actually walking skid Row 22 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: with Ostella, who was the head of the Business Improvement 23 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: district down there, with a bunch of business owners and 24 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: care providers, and boy, that's a tough situation down there. 25 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: It's just inhumane what our elected officials, career politicians have 26 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: allowed to happen down there. Wait, I don't know if 27 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,399 Speaker 1: I'm feeling good. Did you read that LA magazine story 28 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: which featured her in it about just how difficult it 29 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 1: is trying to deal with going What's going on in 30 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: skid Row is really eye opening. You know, it's amazing though, 31 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: but think about this, there are ongoing businesses. I was 32 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: walking with business people that have been down there thirty 33 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: forty fifty years, three four generations. You know, skid Row 34 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: is not just a place where there are people living 35 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: on him dying on the streets. There's actually people going 36 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: to work every day and it's part of our economy. 37 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: And what they told me today, I had a meeting 38 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: with twenty owners. They're completely unheard. There's no response from 39 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,919 Speaker 1: the city, there's no help. Fires get lit at night, 40 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 1: the side of their buildings burned out. I drove by 41 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 1: one building, four story building completely burned out. You know, 42 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: it's I just don't understand how our career politicians in 43 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: city hall within a mile away every day turned their 44 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: back on this and allow people to just die in 45 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: the streets. We were just talking about how we feel 46 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: like Arsetti has given up the last few years. Do 47 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: you feel that way? You know, I don't know where 48 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: he's been, but where is he now? I mean, I 49 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: have no idea, but it's our system is broken. I 50 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: mean it's more than just our stity, the system is 51 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: literally broken. You talked to the firefighters who endorse me. 52 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: They have ablems getting supplies. Let me just give you 53 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: one quick statistic. They will tell you how mismanaged the 54 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: city is. We've got less firefighters today than we did 55 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty five, yet there's twice the population in 56 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 1: the city of la and ten times the amount of 57 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: incident calls. The men and women of the fire department. 58 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: Paramedics are literally exhausted. I was with thirty of them 59 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:33,079 Speaker 1: yesterday in the Watts station. They are literally exhausted. There 60 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: are a lot of those calls homeless people with medical emergencies. 61 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: Isn't that what's going on there? You know, many of 62 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: these stations, eighty to ninety percent of their calls are 63 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: responding to the homeless situation, whether it's a fire, this 64 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: lit or somebody's overdosed. They run out of narking. This 65 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: city really needs to change directions. We're just it's the 66 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: more I'm involved, the more I can't believe what I 67 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: see in here. Well, you're talking about you're going to 68 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: build housing, and there's real questions being racist to how 69 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: you can do that with all of the regulations in 70 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: the way, and all the nimbies in the way, and 71 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: all the other problems that everyone else is encountered in 72 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: building more housing. How are you going to be different 73 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:19,119 Speaker 1: with it? Well, listen, I've lived my life doing things 74 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: that everybody told me I can't do, and dealing with 75 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:24,160 Speaker 1: a lot of bureaucracies and a lot of regulations, and 76 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: there's always a way to cut through it. I've got 77 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: executive skills, Listen. I come to this job serving three 78 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: mayors and being involved in three departments. Right, Department of 79 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:38,279 Speaker 1: Water and Power, was on the Coliseum Commission, more importantly, 80 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: on the President of the LATD. You know that was 81 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: twenty years ago. With Jim Han stept through a lot 82 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: of stuff we form. That department brought down crime thirty percent. 83 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: Hired Bill Bratton. I know how government works. I also 84 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: know how it fails. And I've built a business at 85 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: one employee for the last thirty five years. I've had 86 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: to manage through a lot out of bureaucracy and regulations. 87 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: We gotta deregulate the system. You know, have fast tracking 88 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 1: for affordable homes. The affordability in the city is terrible. 89 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 1: Fast tracking for homeless housing. Look at boxable that I 90 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 1: brought out here. That unit is sixty thousand dollars. LA 91 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:25,039 Speaker 1: has been spending seven hundred thousand a unit. So it's 92 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: it's you don't ask government to try to fix these 93 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: complex problems because they just fail. And our leadership has 94 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 1: clearly failed. But I think the system's broken and somebody 95 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,480 Speaker 1: from withinside the system like Karen is never going to 96 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: be able to fix it. It's going to be more 97 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 1: of the same. There's a there's a quote today in 98 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: an article by Peter Savadnik for Substack, and he talked 99 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 1: about Garcetti and one Democratic fundraiser said he spent his 100 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,840 Speaker 1: entire time doing whatever he could to piss off the 101 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:04,840 Speaker 1: fewest people possible. And he wound up pissing off everybody. 102 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 1: And the writer says, nearly everyone I spoke to said 103 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: some version of this. So it implies that you take over, 104 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: you're going to have to get a lot of people 105 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: upset and where others shy away from that, are you 106 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: gonna be able to embrace it well, of course, because listen, 107 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: I'm not looking for a career change. I'm not looking 108 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: for an office after this. I want to go be mayor, 109 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: work hard, do a good job, Sir of Angelinos, and 110 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: then go back to private life. You know, all these 111 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: elected officials, all they're worried about doing is keeping everybody happy. 112 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: So they either get reelected or they go on to 113 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,720 Speaker 1: another office. And there's going to be people that are 114 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:48,840 Speaker 1: going to be upset with me because I'm going to 115 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: make some tough decisions, but I'm going to do it 116 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: if they're in the best interests of the city and Angelino's. 117 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 1: So I'm not worried about being politically popular. I'm worried 118 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: about everybody have a better city, a safer city, getting 119 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: people off the streets, and giving homeless that are dying 120 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: in the street a better path forward with humanity and 121 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: compassion I mean, it's it's just really sad when you 122 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: walk around the streets because with us, I had some 123 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: insiders tell us that some of the politicians are afraid 124 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 1: of the activists because the activists have all day long 125 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 1: to scream and rant and bang on doors and rang 126 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: them in their offices, call them all day, email them 127 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: all day. And that didn't city council chambers. They neutered 128 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: some of the city council just through their their their 129 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: aggressive efforts. And you know you're gonna have to deal 130 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: with that too. I'm sure you know that I'm not 131 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,559 Speaker 1: worried about that. It really doesn't worry me at all. 132 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: And I dealt with this when I was reforming LAPD 133 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: twenty years ago. I fired, along with my Fillip Commissioners, 134 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 1: a very popular chief of police. He was the wrong 135 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: chief of police. Crime with skyrocketing officers were leaving the force. 136 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: They used to burn me an f and you know, 137 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: my wife would call us him my god wreck, you know, 138 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 1: try to put political pressure on me to keep them. 139 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: It didn't matter to me because I was driven by 140 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: doing the right thing. I wasn't looking for a political career, 141 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: and we brought him Bill Bratton. You know, and turn 142 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: the city crime right around. So I've been through that before. 143 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: I'm not worried about that at all. I'm not beholding 144 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: to anybody. By the way, I'm funding this myself. I've 145 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: got no special interests. You know, I got the freedom 146 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: to wake up every day and do us right. Do 147 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: you think we're going to see the same situation we 148 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: saw in June where you maybe ahead on election night, 149 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: but as the days go by and the ballots continue 150 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: to come in, Karen Bass passes you by. You know, 151 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: what I need is for everybody to get out and vote, 152 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: you know, to be honest, we need to really have 153 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: a big vote. We're basically in a tide race here 154 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:58,959 Speaker 1: and every vote counts. And I'd say I would also 155 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: ask people to vote like now that we may have 156 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: some rain coming in on Monday or Tuesday, and we 157 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 1: don't want people to worry about the weather. So voting 158 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: centers are open this weekend, and you feel better voting 159 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,079 Speaker 1: in person, going person this weekend, and let's get the 160 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: vote out and you know, frankly take this town back 161 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: they claimed up. You know, we get a an email 162 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: every day all your appearances, and it seems just reading 163 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: the run Dewn every day. You've gone to just about 164 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:34,319 Speaker 1: every neighborhood in the city. What surprised you? I mean, 165 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 1: you must have seen I know you've been in La 166 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 1: all your life, but you must have gone to places 167 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: you've never been before. Is there any anything that really 168 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: stands out that surprised you about the city or the people, 169 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: or an experience where you just learned something you didn't know. 170 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you something, I have loved every minute 171 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 1: of it, and I've got the incredible blessing that I've 172 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: got my kids, like my daughter, and Johanna was with 173 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 1: me today on skid Row along with Gregory, walking it together. 174 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 1: I tell you what has reaffirmed my love for the 175 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: city in every corner of the city. The dearness, the genuineness, 176 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: the hope that people have, just the desire to have 177 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 1: a better city. But it's hard working, it's good, The 178 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: people are good, and they feel so unheard and left behind. 179 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: I don't care where you are. You could be on 180 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 1: the West Side, you could be down at Pico Union, 181 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: you could be in the poorest district like I was 182 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 1: yesterday down in Watts People just feel unheard, but they 183 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,319 Speaker 1: don't complain they just want it fixed. But the dysfunction 184 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: where you go into certain areas, just please have the 185 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: lightbulbs change on my street lights. I mean, it's crazy, 186 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: guys that the city can't even manage that, And so 187 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: neighborhoods are dark. People feel unsafe, of course they do, 188 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 1: and they are unsafe by the way. So it just 189 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: fuels me because I look at it. So many of 190 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: these problems are so easy to change if you actually 191 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,679 Speaker 1: have courage, strength and executive skills and just go get 192 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: it done. All right, Rick, Good luck Tuesday. Good to 193 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,959 Speaker 1: talk to you again. Get the vote out, appreciate it. 194 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: Thanks for the time, love your showy, thanks for coming 195 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: on Cruso of course, candidate for La City mayor and 196 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 1: on our voter guide for you to vote for him, 197 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 1: John we'll do that on Tuesday. Yes, he'll get through 198 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,839 Speaker 1: the rain. That's right, all right. The key word is next, 199 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: Johnny ken KF I am six forty live everywhere on 200 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. The weather flashed on the TV during 201 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: the commercial break, and Rick was right, Tuesday is supposed 202 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 1: to have an inch of rain. What yeah, I had 203 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: heard showers. Now it's an inch of rain, inch of rain. 204 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: For Tuesday. Probably it's been Monday. I thought Monday was 205 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: gonna rain. It's gonna rain some on Monday and big 206 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: rain on Tuesday and some more rain on Wednesday. What So, 207 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: if you're really delicate, Yeah, maybe you should go out 208 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: and vote today. Yeah, there's early voting centers. Yeah, go 209 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:12,560 Speaker 1: to the early voting center because you're gonna get up 210 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 1: Tuesday and you're gonna go, oh, it's so wet out, 211 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 1: and then it's gonna be some lame excuse because we're 212 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:24,839 Speaker 1: in an emergency situation here. I'm dead serious here, we're 213 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 1: in an emergency situation to Los Angeles, and you gotta 214 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: vote for Crusoe. He's gonna do far better than card Bass. 215 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: He will. I think I need to go harvest the ballots. 216 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 1: Maybe you should do that. You know what, I've been 217 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 1: growing my own crop. Well, you need to make a 218 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 1: path around your neighborhood and further out and just start 219 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:49,200 Speaker 1: going door to door and say, look, it's important you vote. 220 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 1: I got the guy Rick Caruso from Mayor. People have 221 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: to get away. I mean, he spent so little, we 222 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 1: really don't know much about him. We got to get 223 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: away from thinking about politics. We got to look at 224 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: people who accomplish things, who get up in the morning 225 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: and do stuff and make the correct decisions. That's what 226 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 1: it's exhausted by all the other stuff, Exhausted by all 227 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 1: the other issues and all the rituals that everybody goes 228 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: through in politics, and the silly things they argue about 229 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 1: in the cliches and the labels. Crusoe gets up in 230 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: the morning, he does things, He accomplishes things. We need 231 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: that running the city clearly, all right. We've had nobody 232 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: running the city now for about ten years, maybe twenty years, 233 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 1: and just look around. We have to get out of 234 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: the political machine. Give it to somebody who accomplishes things now. 235 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 1: He's obviously the choice over Karen Bass. This idea of 236 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: the housing first thing still bothers me because I don't 237 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: think that's the be all end all to this problem. 238 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: We talked earlier in the show about the men that 239 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: are not in the labor force anymore. That would include 240 00:13:57,520 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 1: the homeless. There are some people that have just checked 241 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: out of society. They need to be woken up and 242 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: told you cannot just squat anywhere you feel like it, 243 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 1: use drugs, hang out all day and live off the grid. 244 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 1: Because these are public places. As we've said on the 245 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:15,319 Speaker 1: show a billion times, you want to go out to 246 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: the desert where there's nothing around, go out there and 247 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: have your life off the grid. What's that place we 248 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 1: always talked to. We want to send them to the 249 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 1: rock or the slab city. You want to go to 250 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: slab City. There's a lot of guys. There's no government, 251 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: there's no regulation. You go down there and poop on 252 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: the ground, and oh, I think we should be running 253 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: a shuttle buses. You and I are kind of libertarian. 254 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 1: People should live the life they want to live. But 255 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 1: you just can't do it. I'm not that's around the schools, 256 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 1: the public places, the parks. You can't take over our 257 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: public spaces, people in our faces. I'm not asking anybody 258 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 1: to conform to my way of looking, but you just 259 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: have to respect public public areas. You can't have to 260 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 1: respect for the districtors and the fear that you bring 261 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 1: to other people. And if you want to go, you know, 262 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: snort math and a trailer. There are a lot of 263 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: empty spaces out there that I'll drive the trailer. I'll 264 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: take you out there, I know. But they want to 265 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: be where you are because you got money that you 266 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: might give them, not you, but there are people that 267 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 1: hand stuff to the homeless. They come out here. So 268 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: if they're all by themselves, that they're homeless people, they'll 269 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 1: just end up fighting each other. And well, they come 270 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: out here from all the other states, most of the homeless, 271 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: or from other states, or at the very least other 272 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: cities and counties in California, and they come here because 273 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: it was heavily publicized that Los Angeles is not enforcing 274 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 1: any laws, any rules, any customs that people who are 275 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: used to living civilized embrace. We just threw out everything. 276 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 1: We threw out at all normal customs of civilized life. 277 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 1: And so they come. So every lost soul in the 278 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: world comes here. Everybody who got thrown out of the 279 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: house because they were stealing money and jewelry from their 280 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: parents ended up here with their addictions and their and 281 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: their mental illness. Well we can't absorb America's insane and 282 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: America's drug addicts. And people used to come here for 283 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: opportunities and entertainment in other fields. Now it's just homeless 284 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: people who know, well, I won't be bothered there. See, 285 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 1: if you grew up in an era where this sort 286 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 1: of thing was not tolerated, and most people did grow 287 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 1: up in that era. Then we didn't have it. It 288 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: just wasn't permitted. This is the first era that in 289 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: my life living in this city in Los Angeles, where 290 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 1: it was embraced, where it was yet come here and 291 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: live in the streets and engage in any kind of 292 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 1: degrading behavior, any kind of deviant behavior imaginable, And so 293 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 1: they do. And you know what Rick was talking about. 294 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: You can't get the basic stunt. You can't get a 295 00:16:55,880 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 1: lightbulb changed in your neighborhood, can't get the garbage picked up. Yeah, 296 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 1: and that's like that's often the union stranglehold too, with 297 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: all of the issues that they have and all of 298 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: the regulations and contract clauses. That's what that becomes. Another 299 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 1: issue that he has to surmount too, is the public 300 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 1: employ the union hold on government. It's going to be 301 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,440 Speaker 1: a difficult job. Not everything is going to be a success, 302 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:20,679 Speaker 1: Not everything is going to be accomplished. We've dug a 303 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: deep hole. Okay, Garcetti has been the disaster of all disasters, 304 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: and he had nine and a half years to destroy 305 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: the city. But what you have here is a clear choice. 306 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:33,160 Speaker 1: Who is going to give it the best shot. Who 307 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: is going to accomplish the most, not who's going to 308 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: accomplish everything immediately. But you know at the end of 309 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: the four years, which la is going to look better. 310 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 1: But Karen bass I have no doubt it will look 311 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: worse because again she's from the family of Gascon Bonden 312 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 1: via Reghosts of Garcetti. That's her people. Now it's often 313 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,640 Speaker 1: hands off, tolerate, Oh, and housing. But I don't get 314 00:17:57,640 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: the housing that I'm not doing anything, and they got excuses, 315 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: and they got philosophies, and they've got you know, all 316 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:05,640 Speaker 1: is you know, all the woke crap no more. Don't 317 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: want to hear it. All Right, if in Washington, d C. 318 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: The Republicans take the House of Representatives, we can tell 319 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:13,719 Speaker 1: you coming up next who they're going after right away 320 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,680 Speaker 1: from the Biden administration. Johnny Ken kf I AM six 321 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: forty Live Everywhere and the iHeart Radio added her. But 322 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: Karen bass I no doubt it will look worse because 323 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: again she's from the family of Gascone bonding via Reghosts 324 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: of Garcetti. That's your people. Yeah, it's often hands off, tolerate. Oh, 325 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: in the housing but I don't get the housing now, 326 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 1: I'm not doing anything. And they got excuses, and they 327 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: got philosophies, and they've got you know, all is you know, 328 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 1: all the woke crap no more. Don't want to hear it. 329 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: All Right, If in Washington, d C. The Republicans take 330 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 1: the House of Representatives, we can tell you coming up 331 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:51,400 Speaker 1: next who they're going after right away from the Biden administration. 332 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: Johnny ken k I AM six forty Live everywhere and 333 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: the iHeart Radio app. We will have the Moist line 334 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 1: back tomorrow during this hour and you can leave a 335 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:02,440 Speaker 1: message at one eight seven seven moist eighty six one 336 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:04,880 Speaker 1: eight seven seven six six four seven eighty eight six, 337 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: or use that iHeartRadio app with the microphone icon to 338 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:12,439 Speaker 1: leave the message, and don't forget Monday, not tomorrow, but 339 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 1: Monday when we come back on the air, five o'clock 340 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 1: hour will be the Hour of candidates if the Democrats 341 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 1: lose control of the House of Representatives to the Republicans 342 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 1: next week. One of the big issues that clearly has 343 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:32,199 Speaker 1: been missed by Biden and his boobs in terms of 344 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:36,360 Speaker 1: understanding where the American public is, obviously, is the economy 345 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 1: and inflation but a second issue not far down the list. 346 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 1: It isn't paid attention to buy a lot of Americans 347 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 1: because they don't live near the border, they're not affected 348 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: by it. But is the unbelievable amount of migration into 349 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 1: the United States legal and illegal and largely illegal. And 350 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: if the Republicans take over the House, one of the 351 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:00,919 Speaker 1: first things they're doing is they're going after this dope Mayorcas. 352 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:06,400 Speaker 1: The Homeland Security Secretary is Alejandro Majorcas. He has largely 353 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:10,400 Speaker 1: been shielded from scrutiny because the Democrats run all the committees. 354 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:12,920 Speaker 1: He's in the House of Representatives. They said they don't 355 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: want to call a meeting on it. They don't have to. 356 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,199 Speaker 1: He's a lapdog for the open borders movement. He is. 357 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: He is a sieve. He's like a stone wall. He 358 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 1: says very little. What's that. No, he's a human siev si. 359 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 1: Look at him. He's got holes. All of that doesn't 360 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 1: care anything. It just goes through him. The top Republican 361 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 1: and the Oversight and Reform Committee is a man by 362 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:40,120 Speaker 1: the name of James Comer, and he is already making 363 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 1: noise that if we do get the House come January, 364 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: this is somebody We're gonna want to talk to a 365 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: lot because this has been undercovered, underreported. How many times 366 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:53,400 Speaker 1: we said the only time that most of the media 367 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,360 Speaker 1: paid attention was all those Haitians running that bridge in Texas, 368 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:58,200 Speaker 1: remember that story, like a year and a half ago. 369 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 1: Whenever it was that was too spectacular for the media 370 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: to ignore. But oh yeah, but they're they're getting thousands 371 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:08,640 Speaker 1: and thousands every day, coming over millions in almost two years. Millions. 372 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 1: I remember the Biden administration was complaining because Bill Malusion, 373 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 1: who was an excellent reporter for Fox and Fox eleven, 374 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,400 Speaker 1: was getting you know, the the video evidence I guess 375 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 1: drones were showing Fox Fox invested in some drones. Yeah, 376 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: and the Biden administration was mythed because they're making this public, 377 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 1: they're letting everybody see this. Oh yeah, this is They 378 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: were just very upset reporting. This is the most stubborn 379 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 1: administration I've ever seen because they're so wrong. Obviously right, 380 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 1: it's not debatable, because this is another thing where it's 381 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: not like two philosophies that you can debate, you know, 382 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:53,439 Speaker 1: for eternity, this is okay, you guys had your chance. 383 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: Your policies have been in effect for two years and 384 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 1: they're clearly disastrous, clearly, and they don't give an inch 385 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: on anything. They don't change course in the slightest. It's 386 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 1: just fascinating to me. They don't admit anything's wrong, They 387 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:17,920 Speaker 1: don't admit any of the problems. Well, and they completely 388 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: out of it. You've told me that there's been some progressives. 389 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 1: They were running policy White House hardcore, Yeah, which includes 390 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 1: you know, things like an open border and all these 391 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 1: woke policies. Yea, let's make sure that everybody you know 392 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,239 Speaker 1: has the right bathroom or whatever. That they look what 393 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 1: they did, they what you were talking about before. They 394 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: sent so much money to people in their homes that 395 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: a lot of people haven't had to work for the 396 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:48,920 Speaker 1: last year or two seven million men between the ages 397 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 1: of twenty five and fifty four are just lying around. 398 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,479 Speaker 1: They're not working. And it is like that universal basic 399 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,959 Speaker 1: income experiments that they were doing on a very limited 400 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: basis in a couple of cities, And this was like, uh, 401 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,440 Speaker 1: and I have to believe that they knew what they 402 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 1: were doing here. They know that they're leaving the border open. 403 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: They wanted to have two million illegals here. See, that's 404 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: the thing it's their policy, and maybe I misstated it before. 405 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: It's not like we tried it their way and it 406 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: didn't work. We tried it their way and it worked 407 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 1: according to what they wanted to happen. Two point four 408 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: million migrants in the country. Yeah, and so that's intolerable. 409 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,600 Speaker 1: That's the mind boggling. It's the most ever that the 410 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 1: number for the last fiscal year. You know, you know, 411 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: the Republicans are owned at best. They're going to have 412 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:40,160 Speaker 1: the House and Senate, but they don't have any more 413 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,159 Speaker 1: much direct control over immigration policy. That really is a 414 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,919 Speaker 1: president the White House. You know, I don't know what 415 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 1: they could do in terms of the budget. I mean, 416 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,680 Speaker 1: they've talked about impeaching Mayorcis. I don't know how that's 417 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: gonna Well, they're not going to actually remove him, but 418 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,920 Speaker 1: I think it's a great excuse. If they do, they'll 419 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: find another studge because Biden's got two more years, I know, 420 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 1: but but it would be great to see him roasted 421 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: on a spit for about two weeks. And again some 422 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 1: people could yeah, could people could understand of course, Oh, 423 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: this is Josh politics. That's how they'll cover it. You know, 424 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 1: we haven't even talked about is the fendyl. It's not 425 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 1: just the migrants, but the drugs getting into this country 426 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,679 Speaker 1: is also a record highs. Yeah. Well, yeah, the fentol 427 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: deaths are coming from the open border. Yeah, that's another 428 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 1: thing that's also underreported undercover. They do like to talk 429 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 1: about the problems with fentyl, but they're not really getting 430 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 1: into the source of it, which is how much is 431 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,360 Speaker 1: coming over the border. Yeah, the open border. No, the 432 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: Mexican cartels. It seems that the American government is afraid 433 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 1: of the Mexican cartels. And there's a story there, and 434 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 1: I don't know why we don't mix it up, but 435 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 1: they have conceded. I mean, they've conceded so much. The 436 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 1: cartels are killing tens of thousands of Americans now every 437 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,679 Speaker 1: year they're killing them the slaughter. But we got more 438 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,160 Speaker 1: coming up, John and Ken k by AM six forty 439 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,880 Speaker 1: live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. One more thing on 440 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 1: the border. This story is from the other day, but 441 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,440 Speaker 1: border patul agents were attacked by a large group of 442 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 1: Venezuelans who were trying to get into the border in Texas. 443 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,160 Speaker 1: How do we know that they were waving their flag? Yeah, 444 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,360 Speaker 1: and as you know, the Biden administration changed the policy 445 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 1: on Venezuelans. They decided to take a group that applies 446 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 1: and they have to have a background check, and they 447 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 1: have to have a sponsor in the US. The restaurant 448 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 1: going to be automatically led into the country anymore. So 449 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: I'm guessing that this incident could be part of the 450 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: blowback from that that they decided, well, we're just kept 451 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,360 Speaker 1: to get in like everybody else does and push our 452 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: way in. You know. Apparently they had to fire pepper 453 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:48,639 Speaker 1: balls to control the cloud. It's great. Yeah, how many 454 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: countries are having that happening at the border? Huh? Stuff 455 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,160 Speaker 1: like that. I did read something funny today about the border. 456 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 1: There's one of the political websites has a long, long 457 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 1: story of angry Hispanic voters in Texas who were formerly 458 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,359 Speaker 1: Democratic and now they've turned on the Democrats over the border. 459 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 1: That's one of the underreported stories is that Hispanic voters 460 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 1: in that region cannot stand what's going on. But the 461 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:20,400 Speaker 1: funniest thing was one of the men interviewed is a 462 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:25,120 Speaker 1: former Dreamer. He was actually taken over the border when 463 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 1: he was two or three years old, and he qualified 464 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 1: for Obama's a Dreamer program, right, DOCA, he's pissed off. 465 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 1: Not even the Dreamer kids that have grown up can 466 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 1: take what's going on at the boarder. Tomorrow could be 467 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 1: an interesting day in the world of corporate employment. Twitter 468 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: may announce it's possible. We're hearing that they're gonna dump 469 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:54,199 Speaker 1: fifty percent of the workforce. Good. How many people you 470 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 1: think worked for Twitter? I didn't know, but I story, yeah, 471 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 1: I thought of the more than five. I don't know why, 472 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:03,719 Speaker 1: but I don't know why you need more. I just 473 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 1: I don't know what's so well known that you know. 474 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 1: I don't know that, but the company made la. There's 475 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:15,920 Speaker 1: a lot of content moderators. Uh. Signs that the recession 476 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,120 Speaker 1: could be coming include the fact that Amazon has gone 477 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 1: with a corporate hiring freeze, which I found a little 478 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 1: bit strange because we're heading into the big holiday period 479 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 1: here and that seems kind of out of sync with 480 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,399 Speaker 1: what they should normally be doing. Well, they were pausing 481 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: hiring across their corporate workforce. The the shopping patterns changed 482 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 1: as COVID faded away. That's true. Yeah, so the you 483 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 1: know all the uh Well, in fact, I just got 484 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,159 Speaker 1: that right from the Wall Street Journal, pairing back a 485 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 1: shopping pattern's changed after the pandemic. Very good, you just 486 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: exactly maybe I read that. I'm looking right at it. 487 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 1: I'm like he just said that. Uh yeah, so uh. 488 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 1: The also reports that some other companies, Oh, well, Lift 489 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,880 Speaker 1: and there was another company that the Lift co founder 490 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 1: is announced that the company's going to jop drop seven 491 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: hundred jobs. Thirteen percent of their staff is also going 492 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 1: to be let go. Yeah. I wonder if Lift and 493 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 1: Uber are going to be around years from now. Lift 494 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 1: has more than five thousand employees, not including drivers. Can 495 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: I tell you a couple of weeks ago, Friday night, 496 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: and I wanted it's a like a three mile drive 497 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,360 Speaker 1: from my house to my friend's house. I was going 498 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: over his house for the evening, right, three miles? Three miles, okay, 499 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 1: and to take your bicycle that I order, I order 500 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: a Lift ride or I try to. It's fifty one 501 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 1: dollars to go three miles. Search pricing, well, I tried to. 502 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: I tried to reserve the car the day before. Oh 503 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: and it was fifty one dollars the day before. And 504 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: it was fifty one dollars right in the moment. Wow, 505 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: I guess they had nobody that they could reserve for. 506 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: You end up thinking well, this is like if you 507 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 1: really want it, this is what it's gonna cost. This 508 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 1: business is going under if they think they're gonna charge 509 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: fifty one bucks for three miles. I mean that because 510 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 1: you did something else. They they ran out of a 511 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 1: venture capital money. Well, because I also try what you 512 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: do that as you check the next day live and 513 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: see whether or not it's nobody has drivers. I tried 514 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: lift one day. Guy never showed up. Twenty minutes. I'm 515 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 1: looking at I'm looking at the screen and it's just 516 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 1: a little things. Gave the license plate and everything of 517 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 1: the driver name. Never ever did never did. I reserved that. 518 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 1: That's happened to me. Yeah, I reserved reserved it the 519 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 1: day before. And when it came to the moment, I 520 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: got the big spin, the big death circle spreading around. 521 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 1: We're searching for a driver. We're searching for a driver. 522 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 1: It's twenty after seven. I looks like I'm gonna drive myself. 523 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: M gonna have to cancel the evening waiting for the 524 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 1: guy to pick me up. I think they're in the 525 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 1: death now. Uh ah, Thompson's here, Yeah, I actually am here. 526 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: I just got I'm a lift driver on the side. 527 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 1: That's a side hustle since kgo and under Yeah, and 528 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: I got a I got a call. Yeah, I think 529 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: you're my ride that I need to take. But I'm sorry, 530 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 1: another disappointment. I one of those chatty drivers, wouldn't you 531 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 1: I would be I would be chatty and if you 532 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 1: don't like it, you can I'll drop you off here. Yeah, exactly. Uh, 533 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: Conway is sick tonight. If you're wondering, that's so. Yeah, 534 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 1: the bat bean went up Materie hangover. Yeah that maybe 535 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,680 Speaker 1: I didn't inquire, but I did ask always a COVID, 536 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,800 Speaker 1: which is kind of what you always ask. And apparently 537 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: it's just some crud that he's got, So he'll be back. 538 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: But we've got an OC bust strike, we've got a 539 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 1: tragic accident. We've got Dean Sharp who comes in on Thursdays. 540 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 1: He's not a tragic accident. No, no, he has anything, 541 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 1: but he's If if a tragic accent Careen's into your home, 542 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 1: then you need Dean Sharp to help you. Twitter losing 543 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:58,080 Speaker 1: more than a million users and almost a million users 544 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 1: accounts deactivated as it turned out suspended fake people nap 545 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 1: some but others, I guess have just been suspended with 546 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,760 Speaker 1: not the best chances of being reinstated. I'll give you details. 547 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 1: Oh I can yea and magic mushrooms that may actually 548 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 1: go from the world of psychedelics into treatment for depression. 549 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, me too. It's uh, they never got ballot. 550 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 1: They were gonna put magic mushrooms on the ballot, but 551 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 1: they never got enough signatures. I think, well now, and 552 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 1: and that's that's it's a synthetic, right, It's based on 553 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: the magic, the actual mushroom, but it's a synthetic, I believe. Okay, yeah, 554 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: the what did you take some? Have you ever had 555 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,040 Speaker 1: a magic mush No? I never, I never had much. 556 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 1: It seems a little like a little too far from me, 557 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 1: a little too far, you know. I got a pot 558 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 1: or an edible. I'm cool with that, but it's a 559 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 1: little too Yeah, that's just a little over the action 560 00:31:55,080 --> 00:32:00,400 Speaker 1: for two Los Angeles and Orange County live everywhere in 561 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:01,320 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app