1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Kf I AM six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: and Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome everybody. 3 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: We're on the air from one to four here on 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: k five. If you cannot listen to all three hours live, 5 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: shame on you. But you can pick us up on 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: the John and Ken on demand podcast. It'll be available 7 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,240 Speaker 1: at KFI AM sixty dot com and on the iHeartRadio 8 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: app just after four o'clock. 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I promise I'll tell you when it's story 19 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 1: is ready. All right, So we have this big story 20 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,680 Speaker 1: this week about a twenty one twenty one year old 21 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: Massachusetts Air National guardsman by the name of Jack to Shara. 22 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: He's an enlisted member of the hundred and second Intelligence 23 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: Wing located at Joint Base Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Why is 24 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: he in the news, Well, he was apparently hanging out 25 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: with some gamers. Gamers right, what is it like a 26 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: chat room? Is that what they called it or something 27 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: like that, and he was sharing classified government documents with them. 28 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: It's been going on a while before they caught up 29 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,199 Speaker 1: and arrested him, and he made a court appearance today 30 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: and faces charges. We're going out of Royal Oaks, ABC 31 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: News Legal analyst for more details on the charges and 32 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: just what kind of prison time this this young guy 33 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: faces Royal How are you yeah? I'm doing great? John 34 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: Can the fifteen years is the answer? Could be doing 35 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: some hard time in a federal prison if he's convicted 36 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: on both charges the Feds have alleged against him, and 37 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,959 Speaker 1: and can you did not bury the lead twenty one? 38 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: Is his age. That's the thing that is so shocking 39 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: to people. He's accused of leaking hundreds of classified documents 40 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: about the Ukraine War, Pentagon intelligence site, situation maps, intelligence briefings, 41 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 1: detailed stuff about the US intelligence communities information and again 42 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: inquiring mind as well, and know how it does a 43 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: twenty one year old National guardsman. He had a computer 44 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: related job. Of course, he was supposed to keep the 45 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: Air Forces communication networks running. But I mean twenty one, 46 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: I mean, of course, Bretta Fundberg, who's convinced half the 47 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: planet we're going to get swallowed up in a twenty 48 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: I was looking up today and it turns out it's 49 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: not uncommon. There's there's hundreds of thousands of service people 50 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: under the age of twenty five, and he is only 51 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: a couple of notches off the bottom rank. So it's 52 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: how a guy so slowly ranked got access to all 53 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: the information he did. And apparently he was exactly he 54 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 1: was working in it, and he had access to some 55 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: kind of worldwide intelligence database. Yeah, and so that's what 56 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 1: people are asking, how is it that he would have 57 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: access to top secret stuff. He was apparently like the 58 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: leader of the pack of a twenty thirty person group 59 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: of young man that they were bonding over guns and 60 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: video games and international politics. And they've got a platform 61 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: where they're playing the games, but at the same time 62 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: they can chat with each other's sort of on the side, 63 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: And so he started telling telling everybody about what's really 64 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: going on in the Ukraine War, and they were maybe 65 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: a little skeptical, and he said, well, I can prove 66 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: it to you, and so then he releases all this 67 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: information and it's been out there for a couple of months. 68 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: They found it in Europe. It wasn't even Americans that 69 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: located what's going on. And so it's really something that 70 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: where the mill terry has so much explaining to do 71 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: about how this could have happened. They could shake up 72 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: everything in terms of how they classify people and how 73 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: they get access to stuff. I would imagine, yeah, I mean, 74 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: you know that they're going to crack down on this 75 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: because it's one thing to complain about, you know, Trump 76 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:18,919 Speaker 1: and Biden having stuff in their rumpus room that they 77 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: shouldn't have taken away from the White House, but for 78 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: this to happen, I mean this. The weirdest thing is 79 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,159 Speaker 1: the way they caught him was about as low tech 80 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: as you can get. An online gaming profile and his 81 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: name connected him to a photograph of the location where 82 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 1: pictures of these leaked documents were taken, and it was 83 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: a kitchen countertop inside his childhood at home, as some 84 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: one of his buddies looked at it and said, hey, 85 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: you know, that's that's where he grew up, and that's 86 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: how they busted him because it wasn't a cyber thing. 87 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:49,919 Speaker 1: A lot of people are relieved that it wasn't some 88 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,600 Speaker 1: sort of a Julian massage or Snowden deal where he 89 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:56,039 Speaker 1: has this real motivation or some sort of a political 90 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: extra grind. He basically just wanted to be a big 91 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:02,160 Speaker 1: dude to his path owls on the internet. And now 92 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: you're saying he can face how many years? Yeah, fifteen 93 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: years is the total he could get if the two 94 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: charges go against him. But a lot of people are saying, hey, 95 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: they didn't this kind of sound like treason, And of 96 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 1: course that would be a bigger deal because they can 97 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: execute you for treason if anybody still believed in the 98 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: death penalty. But as of now, the only two charges 99 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 1: the fads of alleged against him are fifteen Well, I 100 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: wonder when you invoke treason if you have to look 101 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,039 Speaker 1: for a motivation. He was betraying the country to who right, 102 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 1: to Russia, to China for what reason? You know they 103 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: were paying him ten million dollars to smuggle out the secrets. 104 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,039 Speaker 1: I think the treason charge would be more. But some 105 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: of his gamer friends were from out of the country, 106 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: weren't they. Do we know who they were that we're 107 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,359 Speaker 1: seeing all this stuff. Yeah, I don't know exactly where 108 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: all of them more, but I've heard that, yes, some 109 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,159 Speaker 1: of them were outside the country and there was a 110 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 1: total of twenty five or thirty of them, So you know, 111 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: it's it's a pretty good bet that you did have 112 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: some folks overseas. And it's very embarrassing to the Ukraine 113 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: government because the gist of some of the stuff he 114 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: was releasing as well, it's going a lot worse for 115 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: Ukraine than they're willing to admit. And so now that 116 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: we're getting a bit a lot of pushback on embarrassing, 117 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:10,600 Speaker 1: I've I've heard different reports royal as to how important 118 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: these documents really are in terms of, you know, security. 119 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 1: Some are kind of saying they weren't that bad, and 120 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: others are saying this is not good. Yeah, it's not 121 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: the nuclear codes. It is stuff that the US intelligence 122 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 1: community has developed, you know, situation maps, intelligence briefings within 123 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 1: the Pentagon, Pentagon intelligence sites, you know, basically hardcore stuff 124 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 1: that only people who acts absolutely have a reason to see. 125 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: Top secret stuff should have access to. And here he is, 126 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: you know, playing World of Warcraft or whatever he's planned, 127 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 1: and you know, during their downtime, he's distributing this stuff 128 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 1: that he has absolutely no basis to release. I wonder 129 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: if he even understood what a lot of it was about, 130 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 1: or just just came upon and decided it's a school. Yeah. 131 00:06:55,400 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 1: I mean, he worked, Washington Post says access to an 132 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: internal Defense Department computer network for top secret information. It's 133 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: called the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System, and that would 134 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: have allowed him to read and print documents classified all 135 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: the way up to top secret. Yeah. But I think 136 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: you're you're right on your point about him not understanding it, 137 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 1: because you know, he is a twenty one year old 138 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: computer geek guy with this job in the military. But 139 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that he really has a good understanding 140 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: of all of this super secret stuff. He used Discord, 141 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: which is an app where the League documents were found. 142 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: It's a it's a social media messaging platform where folks 143 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: communicate with each other while they're playing games. And there 144 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: are one hundred and fifty million active users on Discord 145 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: every month, So you know, detailed US and NATO plans 146 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: for building up the Ukraine military. Really hardcore, serious stuff 147 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: and he just just sprinkled it out over the internet. 148 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: There is a staggering amount of young men who spend 149 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: their days at playing Minecraft after World of Warcraft, and 150 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: spent all day chatting online and they played for hours 151 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: and hours every week. Left the labor force here. Yeah, 152 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: they have especially teenage part of it. And part of 153 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: the deal is, as I mentioned, it isn't just you know, 154 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: staring at the screen playing the game competing. It's also 155 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 1: a social thing where you know, over to the cider's 156 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: a little box where it's an instant messaging thing in 157 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: the back and forth. And that's how it came up. 158 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: These guys were all interested in guns, of politics and 159 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: so on, and he again was the leader of the 160 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:35,199 Speaker 1: pack and he just wanted to solidify his role as 161 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: the alpha alpha male here and he did it by 162 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: sharing all this super secret stuff. But meantime he's going 163 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: to be playing games behind bars probably if the SAIDs 164 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: have their way. All right, Royal, good to talk to 165 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,959 Speaker 1: you again, Thanks for coming on your bet. Thanks Royal Oaks. 166 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: ABC News legal analysts of the John and Ken Show 167 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: about this check to share of the twenty one year 168 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:01,079 Speaker 1: old who was a Massachusetts are National Guards. Yeah, he 169 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 1: job in the Intelligence Wing and I'm responsible for the 170 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 1: military hardware maintenance. He leaked these documents. He told his 171 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: buddies that he worked as a technology support staffer for 172 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: the International Guard at a base on Cape Cod and 173 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:16,440 Speaker 1: that's how he's able to access the class of high 174 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: documents and the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System. Just before 175 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,200 Speaker 1: he got arrested, he sent out a message to his 176 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: game of friends. I never wanted to get it to 177 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: get like this. I prayed to God this would never happen, 178 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: and I prayed and I prayed and I prayed. Only 179 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,079 Speaker 1: God can decide what happens from now on. No, it's 180 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 1: going to be a judge. Yeah, it's it's in this case, 181 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: you're praying Judge as your God. They found a post 182 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: from the one hundred and second Intelligence Wing, one of 183 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 1: the military divisions, and that's headquartered at Otis Air National 184 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 1: Guard Base on Cape Cod and they congratulated a Jack 185 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: to Shariff for his promotion to Airman first class back 186 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: in July. Huh so, I you know whether he crack 187 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: young because he started in twenty nineteen he's only twenty 188 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: months and eighteen. Yeah, I was looking up the age thing. 189 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 1: A stunning number of people. Hundreds of thousands of military 190 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: are in their teams in early twenties because they need them, right, Yeah, 191 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: so if a recruitment has been tough for years now, 192 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: so they take what they can get as young as 193 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 1: they can get. You grab, and a lot of these 194 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: guys have really trained strange useful abilities, all these gamer people, right, Yeah, 195 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: they could be really useful in since even warfare is 196 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: getting more technology oriented, Internet oriented, and so a guy 197 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,080 Speaker 1: like him is probably useful. All right. More coming up, 198 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 1: Johnny Ken kf I AM six forty. 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That'll be followed 207 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: by round one of the Moistline, another round of the 208 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:15,559 Speaker 1: moistline is coming up at the end of the show 209 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 1: and in between, just after the news at three thirty, 210 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: we're throwing some hacks in a dumpster and they've been 211 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:23,080 Speaker 1: the waiting room for a couple of weeks because of 212 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: breaking news involving other people that deserve to be thrown 213 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: the dumpster or in one case Satan's Lake a fire. 214 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: So all this is coming up in the three o'clock hour. 215 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: Back to Sacramento. A couple of things happening the man 216 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: that they wanted led to them evacuating the state capital 217 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: in Sacramento yesterday. Name was Jackson Peney, a thirty year 218 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 1: old from Hayward, California. The reason they evacuated the state 219 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:52,079 Speaker 1: capitol apparently he had taken pot shots from his truck, 220 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 1: including he shot at a hospital, and then apparently there 221 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: was an allegation that he threatened to go to the 222 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: state capitol and shoot there too, So they took no 223 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 1: chances and they evacuated the state capitol. They picked him 224 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:10,679 Speaker 1: up late yesterday afternoon, and as I mentioned, long criminal record, 225 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 1: it goes back like a decade. This is a thirty 226 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:14,599 Speaker 1: year old who started committing crimes. Of course in the 227 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: late teams like a lot of them do, and Hazeber 228 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: never gotten enough punishment. And the way things are going 229 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: in the state of California, as we continue to shrink 230 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: the punishment side of this, there'll be more guys like 231 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,680 Speaker 1: this loose. So that's nice to know. Now they're also 232 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: discussing on a completely different topic, and we're looking at 233 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:37,319 Speaker 1: the El Segundo Times editorial board and many years ago, 234 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:42,439 Speaker 1: well it's twenty seventeen, so it's six years ago. California 235 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: decided that they'd had enough of what some other states 236 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:48,439 Speaker 1: were doing, particularly laws that they felt were unfair to 237 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: LGBTQ people, so they passed a travel ban, not that 238 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: you couldn't travel to those states, but there would be 239 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 1: no paid for state travel allowed. Well, when that law 240 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: went into effect in twenty seventeen, it was four states. 241 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: Today it's now twenty three states. It's almost half the country, 242 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: almost half the country, and some of them big states Florida, Texas, Georgia, Arizona. 243 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 1: There can't be any state travel there. That's so there 244 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 1: is a state legislator named Tony Atkins who was drafting 245 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 1: a bill to pretty much scrap the law. And she's 246 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 1: the ldlis gonna do. Times editorial board agrees it's time 247 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: for it to go. As they called it, the well 248 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: intended travel bad. What was it work practically speaking? What 249 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 1: do you mean well intended? He was to punish states. 250 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: Progressive jerks always used that, Well, there were good intentions. 251 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: What's the good intentions of the virtue signaling? Yeah, we 252 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: always have good intentions. We never have bad intentions. I 253 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: understand a lot of people have been murdered, but we 254 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: had good intentions. Get out of here with that. The 255 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,720 Speaker 1: new program that would replace it is a media campaign 256 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: to try to educate people in other states about their 257 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:15,560 Speaker 1: discriminatory laws. That's what's supposed to replace it. Listen to 258 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,679 Speaker 1: this paragraph here in the La Times. I love this. 259 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 1: I read this over and over again. The travel ban 260 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: hasn't influenced legislators in other states, but it has negatively 261 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: affected Californians. For example, the ban bars scholars at California's 262 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 1: public universities from attending academic gatherings, oh well or from 263 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: conducting research in states on the prohibited travel list. And 264 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 1: they can unless they can figure out workarounds. In other words, 265 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 1: private funding. So we're teaching all these college students. We're 266 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: giving them bachelor's and masters and doctorate degrees at places 267 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: like Berkeley and UCLA. Then when they graduate, they can't 268 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: go anywhere to further research or share their research and 269 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 1: discuss their findings and their breakthroughs unless they can find 270 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: a sponsor. How stupid is that We're putting an investment 271 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: in these people to try to make things better and 272 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: learn more about the world, and then after they graduate 273 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: they can't go anywhere. But on the bright side, California 274 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 1: lawmakers have been hampered by the law. They've had to 275 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 1: use political donations to attend conferences. What they go see 276 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 1: the Hooker is one of those shows. Well, sure, why 277 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 1: do you think they're repealing the law? It was the 278 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: National Conference of State Legislators legislatures that met in Tennessee 279 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: a few years back, and Tennessee's on the band list, 280 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 1: So they had to use private donations to go get this. 281 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: Students from public universities had to get private donations to 282 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: compete in athletic games. Yes, i'd academic competitions in twenty 283 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 1: three states. You couldn't even go and play a football 284 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: game or a basketball game, or volleyball or fencing or 285 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: without getting a private donation to pay for the bus 286 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: trip or the plane trip of the hotel. Well, that's stupid. 287 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 1: Oh you really showed them, you know what. You know 288 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: what's funny is not a single state altered a single 289 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 1: law because California pass this band. That's like our climate laws. 290 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 1: Climate laws, they're always so an impact, they're always so 291 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 1: full of horsecrap, just leaking horsecrap. Wow, they're gonna be 292 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 1: a leader here on other streates. You're gonna follow our example. 293 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: Nobody follows the example. The example is absurd, it's ridiculous. 294 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 1: And all you're doing is hurting the scholars, and you're 295 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 1: hurting the athletes, and you're you're, you're other than well, 296 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 1: I know, sympathy for the legislators and their hook are fund, 297 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: but a lot of the other stuff is necessary and 298 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: desides even complicating the abortion fight. Apparently they wanted to 299 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 1: help pregnant women living in states that passed abortion restrictions 300 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: come to California for their abortions. The state could pay 301 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: for them to travel to California, but not for their 302 00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: trip home if they were on the travel ban. Is 303 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: it is that classic Newsom though he gets some cheap 304 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 1: headline showing how progressive he is, and it turns out 305 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: it's a complete botch job. Yes, you can come to 306 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: our state. Come to our state, will pay for your airfare. 307 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 1: You can kill your fetus here. You can't go home though, 308 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 1: at least we're not gonna pay for you to go home. 309 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:21,199 Speaker 1: Good luck, raise the money on your own. All right, 310 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: We got more coming up. Johnny Ken kf I AM 311 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:25,879 Speaker 1: six forty. We're live everywhere the iHeart radio app Virtue 312 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 1: Signaling Buffoon. You're listening to John and Ken on demand 313 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:36,360 Speaker 1: from kf I AM sixty. Well, another quick juicy update 314 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: on the story out of San Francisco and the stabbing 315 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: death of the tech executive Bob Lee. The man who, 316 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 1: of course was arrested for his murder, and that just 317 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 1: happened yesterday was apparently court documents are coming out. His 318 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: name is Nima Momeni, and he's another tech person who 319 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: lived across the bay in the Emoryville area. But the 320 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: name that keeps popping up today is said is Neima's 321 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 1: sister Kazar, And it looks pretty apparent from some of 322 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: what we're learning it's coming through texts and other communications. 323 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 1: It looks like Bob. Lee had some interest in Nima's sister, Kazar, 324 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: who was an attractive woman. They had exchanged intimate text messages. 325 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 1: Yeah they apparently he had had drinks with her at 326 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:23,919 Speaker 1: three thirty pm the day before he died. A friend 327 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 1: also said they were with both of them, though, but 328 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: he claims the friend does that. Lee invited Kazar to 329 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 1: go to his hotel room, but she said no. Once 330 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:36,920 Speaker 1: in the hotel room, Nima called Lee on FaceTime. It 331 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,200 Speaker 1: was about him picking Kazar up from the house where 332 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 1: they had been earlier. He was questioning him about whether 333 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 1: his sister was doing drugs or anything inappropriate. Lee had 334 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:49,439 Speaker 1: to reassure him that nothing inappropriate had happened. They then 335 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,479 Speaker 1: went to the friend's apartment and where they continued to 336 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 1: hang out until twelve thirty am. Lee was seen entering 337 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 1: Kazar's apartment at twelve thirty nine am. Nima had been 338 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,479 Speaker 1: there since eight thirty one pm. Surveillance footage shows them 339 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: leaving together at two oh three eight m, thirty minutes 340 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 1: before the stabbing. Is it starting to come together? Yep? Well, 341 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: because Nima had offered to drive Lee to his hotel instead, 342 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: prosecure to say he took him to a shady downtown 343 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 1: street where he stabbed him three times, once in the heart, 344 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:27,679 Speaker 1: and then he fled. So this almost seems premeditated. An 345 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 1: unnamed witness, who said he's been friends with Bob Lee 346 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:32,919 Speaker 1: for ten years, told police he thought Lee and Kazar 347 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:36,239 Speaker 1: were having an intimate relationship and that her marriage might 348 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 1: have been in jeopardy. Yeah, she's married to a apparently 349 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 1: a prominent plastic surgeon in the Bay Area. It looks 350 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: like the brothers stepped in. The brother got very angry, 351 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 1: and if he was worried that they were drugs involved too, 352 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 1: and then his sister is cheating on her husband, and 353 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 1: maybe I didn't sit well with him. Well, yeah, money 354 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: or romance and some nature is often a motivator in stabbings, 355 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,160 Speaker 1: and it looks like that having this is down. What's weird, 356 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 1: though it wasn't. It wasn't Lee and Nima fighting over 357 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: the same woman. It was Noma thinking he was protecting 358 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 1: his sister, even though it looks like the sister's marriage 359 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 1: or the sister was voluntarily entangled with Lee. Right now, 360 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 1: your business? Really. The day after the murder, a friend 361 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,120 Speaker 1: called Kazar and asked whether Bob Lee had gone round 362 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: to her apartment. She said he was here for a second, 363 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 1: but that she fell asleep and didn't know when she left. Yeah, 364 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 1: and we now know that she left with her brother 365 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,480 Speaker 1: and that he was taking him back to San Francisco 366 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: to his hotel, but instead standing to death and left 367 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: him in the street. Wow. What a story. Huh Yeah, yeah, 368 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 1: this is This is definitely a soap opera level. All right. 369 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:52,360 Speaker 1: Now we take you to another story, completely different, which 370 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: we're going to try to sort through over the coming 371 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: weeks because it can be a little confusing, but it's 372 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: also very odd. Going to take weeks to explain it 373 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: actually or also to see how it plays out, because 374 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: the way the stories being written in various media outlets 375 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:13,359 Speaker 1: is a little odd and a little disguised. I'm talking 376 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 1: about your electricity bill. I'm talking about the three major 377 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: power companies in California, one of which is well known 378 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 1: for people here southern California, Edison. They passed the law 379 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 1: in Sacramento which was I think part of their budget bills. 380 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: They actually called it a trailer bill. But whatever, it 381 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: leads these power companies to possibly make some changes and 382 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: how you're build for electricity and those changes could be 383 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:42,679 Speaker 1: linked to your income. You know, when I saw this, 384 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: I said, this makes sense. This is another avenue for 385 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:49,360 Speaker 1: the socialists to try to even out, you know, equity 386 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: in the playing field. Well, when it comes to utilities, 387 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,639 Speaker 1: let's find a way to help the poor and tax 388 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 1: the rich, so to so, wealthy people pay more for 389 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: electricity because they use more electricity. Generally, if you've got 390 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,399 Speaker 1: a seven thousand square foot mansion, you're gonna lose use 391 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,479 Speaker 1: a lot more power than somebody living in a thousand 392 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,679 Speaker 1: square foot apartment. True, but this is dealing with what 393 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: they call the fixed fee that's on your billy. So 394 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 1: your bill comes with charges related to how much electrician 395 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:20,200 Speaker 1: you use, and there's also a fixed amount. I guess 396 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,920 Speaker 1: it's kind of their overhead that they charge people. And 397 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,720 Speaker 1: they have decided that households who earn less than twenty 398 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,440 Speaker 1: eight thousand dollars a year would pay a fixed charge 399 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 1: of fifteen dollars a month on the electric bills. If 400 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: your income jumps between twenty eight to sixty nine thousand, 401 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 1: it moves to thirty bucks. If you earn sixty nine 402 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 1: to one hundred and eighty thousand, it moves to fifty 403 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: one bucks. And finally, if you make more than one 404 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty grand, you're now paying ninety two dollars 405 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: a month for your fix. This is a attax on 406 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 1: the wealthy. This is exactly what it is, right, It 407 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:01,119 Speaker 1: is exactly that. Again, they're constantly searching a Sacramento for 408 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 1: ways to help the poor, and they've heard so many 409 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 1: stories about people can't pay their utility bills. Electricity and 410 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,120 Speaker 1: natural gas are so expensive. Well, yeah, they jacked up 411 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 1: the price electricity with all their cockamami green energy nonsense. 412 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: Now that it is truly hurt This is an admission 413 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: that it's hurting the poor in the middle class. So 414 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 1: they came up with a deal. All right, will only 415 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: charge so much in these special fees to the poor 416 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 1: and middle class, and will soap the wealthy again. Now, 417 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,120 Speaker 1: the Arts County Register versions is the monthly bills would 418 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: have two components, a fixed charge based on your household 419 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 1: income level, and an electricity charge at a reduced rate 420 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 1: that would fluctuate based on your monthly energy consumption. That 421 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: tricky word. At a reduced rate, PG and E says 422 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,679 Speaker 1: many customers would ultimately pay less for electricity. Although the 423 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: distinct possibility remains at an unknown and potentially significant number 424 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,920 Speaker 1: of more affluence customers might end up paying even higher 425 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: electric bills. Now, it's kind of a zero sum game. 426 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: It isn't like suddenly a PGAD And so Caldis was saying, Oh, 427 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 1: don't worry, we may shift around the bill so poor 428 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,360 Speaker 1: people pay less, but nobody's going to pay a lot more. 429 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 1: That's b I don't buy this at all. Oh no, no, 430 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 1: this story looks so odd and disguised. And at the 431 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 1: end of the story, an official says, the problem is 432 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: the skies the limit for how much PGNE can request 433 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: for electricity and gas rates. The sky is the limit 434 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: for what the Public Utility Commission can approve, and that 435 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:32,360 Speaker 1: we need to limit rate increases to the annual consumer 436 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: price index, the inflation rate. And that's Mark Tony says 437 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 1: this executive director of the Utility Reform Network. Maybe there 438 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 1: has to be some kind of some kind of ballot 439 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 1: referendum that limits electricity increases to the rate of inflation. Yeah, 440 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 1: they're not going to make his final decision on all 441 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: this billing structure until July of next year, the Public 442 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 1: Utility Commission. But they're floating this out there now, probably 443 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 1: and possibly to see how it's received by the media 444 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 1: and by consumers. But it's it's a little disguised and 445 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:09,720 Speaker 1: a little baffling. But you know, I think you might 446 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 1: start wondering if eventually this will be the case with 447 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 1: all of your utilities. They'll figure out a way to 448 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,480 Speaker 1: give oh yeah, low income people a break, and they 449 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 1: already do in some cases they give people break depending 450 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,959 Speaker 1: on your income. But there the real problem is that 451 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 1: the electricity bills in this state are rising and are 452 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,880 Speaker 1: going to rise even further as that they think they're 453 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 1: going to move us all towards you know, electric everything, 454 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: all the green energy nonsense that cannot work. I actually 455 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:45,160 Speaker 1: read a fascinating story today, you know, the the Justice Department, 456 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 1: not the Justice Department, the Biden administration had announced they 457 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: want sixty seven percent of automobiles in twenty thirty two 458 00:25:54,320 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 1: to be electric. There is another agency within the Department 459 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 1: of Energy which printed like a reality check on that, 460 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: and they said by twenty thirty two, only about sixteen 461 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 1: percent of the country will be driving electric cars, not 462 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: sixty seven percent. And they went through the immense, incredible 463 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 1: problems that our country. In California specifically, is going to 464 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,360 Speaker 1: have building an electrical grid, just how much work it entails, 465 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 1: how much money it's going to cost, Just the practicality 466 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 1: of doing it. Yeah, it's a pipe is immense. So 467 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: all these goals, and they're well intentioned, it's just total 468 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:45,159 Speaker 1: fantasy nonsense. But it's amplified constantly by the idiot progressives 469 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 1: that have infiltrated every media outlet. Don't believe it's going 470 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,880 Speaker 1: to happen. It can't happen. They're never going to build 471 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 1: an electrical grid anytime soon to handle all this. It's 472 00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: simply impossible not to mention them massive materials shortages to 473 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 1: make the electric batteries and the other lithium and the cobalts. 474 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,880 Speaker 1: The other question here, of course, dealing with your new 475 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:12,360 Speaker 1: electric bill in this six charges, how are they really 476 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,639 Speaker 1: going to know your income If you're lying about it, 477 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 1: they have to spy on you. They're thinking about bringing 478 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 1: in the State Franchise Tax Board to check I guess 479 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,680 Speaker 1: in your tax returns to make sure that because they've 480 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,400 Speaker 1: said that people if they just ask people to self 481 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 1: declare their income, everyone's gonna say, oh, yeah, they make 482 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 1: twenty eight thousand a year. Sure, Yeah, chives me the 483 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 1: lower amount. Yeah. Well, there's already another story here. There's 484 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 1: a story almost every day about wealthy residents departing the 485 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: state and causing tax revenue shortages in the cities and 486 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 1: in the state. This is going to accelerate. The people 487 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,400 Speaker 1: who make money in California often don't have to live 488 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 1: here anymore. They don't. They can work anywhere they want. 489 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: That wasn't true ten years ago. Now it is. You 490 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,679 Speaker 1: cannot tax them to death. They'll move to another pretty place. 491 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: There's a lot of them, and they can afford to. 492 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 1: And that's the bulk of your income tax revenue. Right 493 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 1: all right, We got more coming up. Johnny Ken kf 494 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,920 Speaker 1: I AM six forty Live everywhere the iHeart Radio app. 495 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from kf 496 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:22,400 Speaker 1: I AM sixty. Coming up after three o'clock, our guest 497 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 1: will be Vince Fong, the Assemblyman from the Central Valley. 498 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 1: It's about an oldie but goodye, California's high speed rail. 499 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,159 Speaker 1: He's one of those on the budget. He's on a 500 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 1: budget subcommittee. He is a Republican state assembly member, and 501 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 1: he says that's it. California is expecting to have at 502 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: least a twenty five billion dollar deficit this year. No 503 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 1: more state money for high speed rail. I mean they're 504 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 1: still going to get the bond money or whatever's left 505 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: of it. But of course we've been channeling money to 506 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 1: high speed rail now for years through the backdoor, through 507 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 1: these climate taxes. And he says this is such a bootendoggle. 508 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 1: Let's end all that. He'll be here with all the 509 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: details right after the news at three o'clock. We have 510 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: a quick um Joe Biden clip. Joe's been in Ireland, John, 511 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 1: I don't know if you knew, yes, actually said he 512 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 1: doesn't want to leave. Did you sear that? Yes? And 513 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 1: if we if we did a vote today, a national referendum, 514 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 1: should Joe stay in Ireland? Where do you think the 515 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 1: outcome would be? That's close, Yeah, I could be very close. 516 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 1: We have two clips. The one we understand might be 517 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: a little tough to hear. Guess it was with him 518 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:38,240 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden was hanging out with Joe. 519 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 1: Of course, that's probably safer to be out of the 520 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 1: country if you're gonna appear with the president and you're 521 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden and all the problems he has. But they're 522 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 1: at the airport, and I guess he's being asked about 523 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 1: the keys to success. It's the embassy staff and their kids. 524 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: And you will hear a kid ask him about the 525 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: keys to se excess, and Biden had a lot of 526 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 1: trouble with the question. He could not understand what it was. Right, Yeah, 527 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: it's Hunter is going to help him out. It takes 528 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 1: about a minute to get to that point. But there 529 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: are other gems along the way. Oh good, all right, 530 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 1: so very hard by the way, all of parents, I 531 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 1: want to thank you, because you know, be working in 532 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 1: an embassy. Everybody thanks back home and pretty glamorous. But 533 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 1: I don't want you. Don't want to be around the 534 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 1: way you got to walk home and tell your first 535 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 1: your girl kids, you're not going back to the same school. 536 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: Oh my god, stop dating that girl everywhere and that 537 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 1: for you, like very much, I'm not gonna be around. 538 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 1: So if I want to thank you kids too, I 539 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 1: really made it. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for 540 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 1: taking by your mom and dad. Thank you you didn't 541 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 1: you guys want to ask any questions? Oh there, look 542 00:30:54,800 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 1: at this there for one, I'm here, anybody, what's a 543 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 1: good questions step success? What talk another shot such success 544 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 1: steps making true we know I have work. When you 545 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: talking about text like what's put his success? You know 546 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 1: what I got successes And I'm not trying the best 547 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 1: guy to explain it. These guys can tell you the 548 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: key to success is whenever you disagree with someone, okay 549 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 1: the question or judgment for you, the right or row. 550 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 1: There's never okay to question, vote, question the vote of 551 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 1: that to never get the babble free. So the key 552 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: to success is uh. And by the way, Hunter had 553 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 1: to help boy asked when the confusion was He asked 554 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 1: about the steps to success, and I think that really 555 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 1: threw off all Joe. He didn't know what they and 556 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,240 Speaker 1: he started talking about COVID. He did. He said, dah, yeah, 557 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 1: what's a big key to success COVID ending COVID or 558 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 1: something like that. Hunter had to help him again with 559 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 1: but but kind of question. But he was talking to 560 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 1: the kid. He was standing there with that old man 561 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 1: open mouthed, Look, oh yeah, I don't know what that is. 562 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,479 Speaker 1: I read something once. It's actually a condition you develop 563 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 1: with age and your mouth kind of hangs down. And 564 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 1: that's why old guys are always like, I'm glad you 565 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 1: answered that because I have a lot of old men 566 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 1: in my neighborhood. They're always walking bond me with their 567 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 1: mouth hanging open. I thought it became harder to breathe 568 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,920 Speaker 1: through your nose, so people just they become and read. 569 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 1: I think there's something used to call in bread people 570 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 1: mouth breathers. Mouth breathers, right, yeah, And so he's standing 571 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 1: there with their look on his face, and Hunter's got 572 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 1: to whisper him the question, and and then and then 573 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 1: he starts rambling on about um, you can disagree with somebody, 574 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: but you can't disagree question their motive, question and question 575 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 1: their judgment, not their motive as well. Why can't you 576 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 1: question their motives? Everybody has bad motives at some point 577 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 1: or another. We're trying to act like I'm the remember 578 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 1: when he got elected, I'm going to bring everybody together, right, 579 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna understand both sides at which he didn't do it. 580 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,480 Speaker 1: But he's still talking like he's like that. So that's 581 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: what that means. If you question someone's motive, then you're 582 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,280 Speaker 1: making some sort of an evil judgment, and then you 583 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 1: can never reach any kind of an agreement or compromise. 584 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,600 Speaker 1: That's what I got out of that. Yeah, but it's 585 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:29,720 Speaker 1: it sounds really I got an answer here, yeah, on 586 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:36,600 Speaker 1: the website, one of those question and answer websites. Why 587 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,600 Speaker 1: do so many old men walk around with their mouth open? Oh? Sorry, yeah, 588 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:45,320 Speaker 1: lung capacity decreases with age, Okay, it decreases after the 589 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,480 Speaker 1: age of fifty, and it helps to breathe through the mouth, 590 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 1: you see. And also some people lose muscle tone, which 591 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 1: can cause the face to be more lax, to drop, 592 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 1: so you not only have to try to suck in 593 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 1: more air, your muscles can't hold up your teeth anymore. 594 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 1: Like your jaws too heavy, so your jaw dropes and 595 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,360 Speaker 1: you're sucking in more air, so you look like you 596 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 1: had a stroke. Oh wow, that's funny. I was just 597 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,440 Speaker 1: thinking about that last week. I was watching some old 598 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 1: men go by. They're all like, and then they make 599 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,480 Speaker 1: that check. We throw some popcorn in and they can't hear. 600 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:28,399 Speaker 1: So everything you say to them is I just well. 601 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,920 Speaker 1: Clip number two is a short, but it's a good 602 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,040 Speaker 1: They had a few heads turn in going what Joe 603 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,480 Speaker 1: is talking to a group of Irish leaders with this one. 604 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,520 Speaker 1: There's nothing our nations can't achieve if we do it together. 605 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,440 Speaker 1: I really mean it, so thank you all, God bust 606 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,640 Speaker 1: you all. Let's go, let's go late lick the world. 607 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,960 Speaker 1: Let's get it done. Let's go lick the world. Yeah, 608 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,279 Speaker 1: it kind of pauses, every decides that's that's the phrase 609 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,400 Speaker 1: he's gonna use. Let's go lick the world. That's what 610 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,120 Speaker 1: I'd like. He thought about it, right, He started to 611 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,520 Speaker 1: say lick and and he's trying to come up with 612 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,560 Speaker 1: the word, and it's like, okay, I'll go with lick. 613 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,560 Speaker 1: This sounds inspirational. Let's lick the world. Let's hear that again. 614 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,839 Speaker 1: Let's go lick the world. I'm a I was gonna say, 615 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 1: like the world up or something, right, because he started 616 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 1: to go in a different direction, like the world, like 617 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,560 Speaker 1: the world on fire, Let's lick the world. That's well, 618 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,880 Speaker 1: that's a good old one from the sports pages. John Cobelt, 619 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,480 Speaker 1: I remember the sportscasters and sports pages used to say 620 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:27,960 Speaker 1: Mets licked the Yankees. It was the way of saying 621 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,400 Speaker 1: beat them. I don't know what kind of the newspaper 622 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,320 Speaker 1: you subscribe to. You never saw the over's heard that 623 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,560 Speaker 1: it used in sports that one team licked the other. 624 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,960 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you get a good get a good lick in. Yeah, 625 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,640 Speaker 1: it's like a good butt kicking. Yeah, this must be 626 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,000 Speaker 1: a different lad. Seeing he's younger than me, he's heard 627 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,400 Speaker 1: of it, Eron's heard of it. I've even heard of it. 628 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,600 Speaker 1: You've heard of it. Ye. Lick is also a slang 629 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:52,120 Speaker 1: term for stealing something. Oh it is. I didn't know that. Yeah, Yeah, 630 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,560 Speaker 1: let's go hit a lick. Let's go hit a lick. 631 00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:58,120 Speaker 1: That means to go pull off a robbery. And I 632 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,399 Speaker 1: didn't know what I heard that. That sounds British or something. 633 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,480 Speaker 1: No rap music. Oh it's wrap go ahead a lick. 634 00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:11,120 Speaker 1: You're a big rap guy. Yeah, honestly, you were so pale. 635 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,760 Speaker 1: I hadn't heard that all my life. There's a diverse 636 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,480 Speaker 1: group of people that enjoy all right. When we come back, 637 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:23,040 Speaker 1: our guest will be assembly Member Vince Fong from the 638 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:27,640 Speaker 1: Central Valley. He's a Republican. He's on a Sacramento budget subcommittee, 639 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,239 Speaker 1: and man, he says, this should be the end of 640 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,440 Speaker 1: the line for handing over any state tax money. For 641 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,480 Speaker 1: you may have guessed at California's high speed rail with 642 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,920 Speaker 1: a price tag now is one hundred and twenty eight 643 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:44,560 Speaker 1: billion dollars and growing. And this pathetic first stretch. We're 644 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,880 Speaker 1: said to Bakersfield one hundred and seventy miles. That'll loade 645 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,719 Speaker 1: is up to thirty six billion. We'll get to that. 646 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,279 Speaker 1: We'll also have a chance for you to win a 647 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,920 Speaker 1: thousand dollars and a couple of rounds of the Moistline 648 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,719 Speaker 1: and hacks for the Dumpster. Johnny Ken KF i AM 649 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,719 Speaker 1: six forty Live everywhere, the iHeartRadio app, remark live the 650 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,400 Speaker 1: twenty four hour Cafe Issroum. 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