1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Caf I Am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:09,239 Speaker 1: and Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. This 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 1: is in the New York Post Signature Bank, which just 4 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:18,759 Speaker 1: went down the choote Yes. The chairman, Scott Shay, recently 5 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: had led a seminar for employees on gender neutral pronouns 6 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 1: like Z and her spelled hi r z E and 7 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: hi r M. Employees were instructed for more than an 8 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: hour on how to use the gender neutral pronouns an 9 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: hour and he did it alongside somebody with the Colin 10 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: Lord Community Health Center. And this guy was named Finn Brigham, 11 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:10,559 Speaker 1: who was described as a gender queer transmasculine person. HM. Wow, 12 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: so that's what he was doing. Well. The bank was failing. 13 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: In the bank was failing. They didn't have a risk manager. No, 14 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: they didn't take a closer looked at what they were 15 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: invested in and how much it could all blow up yet. Okay, Ah, 16 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 1: Donn and Ken Show on KFI. Oh exciting news. John, 17 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:30,839 Speaker 1: I don't know if you're aware of this. The Moistline 18 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 1: returns Friday. It'll be the first time in two weeks. 19 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,279 Speaker 1: I know called because we were both were out last Friday. 20 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: I miss it one eight seven seven moist eighty six. 21 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: Fresh messages are always welcome one eight seven seven six 22 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: sixty four seven eight eight six. We're gonna begin this 23 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: hour by talking to Blake Trolley from KFI News. There 24 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: was a press conference by the La County DA George 25 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: Gascon to announce charges against the operators of a care 26 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: facility for dementia patients in the Fairfax districts, something called 27 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: Silverado Beverly Place for what happened back in twenty twenty 28 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 1: when the COVID nineteen outbreak hit and a number of 29 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: residents and even one employee died because of the actions 30 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: thetable to say of the facilities operators. Let's bring on 31 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 1: Blake for more on this story. Blake, welcome. So what 32 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 1: is gascone saying that they did at Silverado. So these 33 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: charges were filed against and I want to start by 34 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: saying these were filed against Silverado's senior living management. The 35 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: managers were hit with elderly endangerment other violations Silverado. I 36 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: know this comes down to that location in the Fairfax district. 37 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: But Silverado is a national chain of memory care centers 38 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: based out of Irvine. They have locations in other parts 39 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:51,959 Speaker 1: of southern California and across the country. Now to get 40 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 1: to this deadly outbreak. This outbreak happened back in March 41 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. It was one of the deadliest COVID 42 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: nineteen outbreaks that any assisted living facility in California. Investigators 43 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: began looking into this when a nurse and lben was 44 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 1: reported dead. Prosecutors alleged that in a financially motivated move, 45 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 1: the care center admitted a patient from New York. The 46 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: patient was admitted from another care center in New York, 47 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,639 Speaker 1: which was a COVID nineteen hotspot at the time. According 48 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: to officials, it was not only at the time of 49 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: the admission in March of twenty twenty, it was again 50 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 1: it wasn't only against the company's protocols to admit that 51 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: new patient, but that patient was never tested for COVID nineteen, 52 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: was never quarantined. So they brought this patient in and 53 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: as Gascon again pointed to, this patient went straight from 54 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: the airport to the facility. Those particular resident began displaying 55 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen symptoms the morning after arrival and tested positive 56 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: for the virus that evening. After the admitting and assisting 57 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: the new resident, Miss Springel. The LBN tested positive for 58 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: COVID March one, twenty twenty, and die in April twenty 59 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. Miss Springel was thirty two years old 60 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: at the time. In addition to Miss Bruno Ringel, thirteen 61 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: residents contracted COVID nineteen and die. There were also more 62 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: than a hundred cases of COVID nineteen amongst residents and stuff. 63 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: So again they're saying because of you know, the company 64 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: broke the their own protocols. Their protocols were put in 65 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: place because they knew it was, you know, dangerous to 66 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 1: transfer patients from these COVID nineteen hotspots into their own company. 67 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 1: They didn't follow that protocol. And then on top of 68 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: not following that protocol, they you know again didn't test 69 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,919 Speaker 1: this patient or quarantine this patient. And there were some questions, say, guys, 70 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: about just the unusualness of this. I got a question. 71 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: You may not be able to answer it, but all right, 72 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: they violated their protocol. They did something wrong. Does that 73 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: automatically translate to a crime though, I mean a felony 74 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 1: every time a hospital violates their own protocol. I just 75 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:06,839 Speaker 1: don't remember hospital personnel then being charged with major felonies. Yeah, 76 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 1: and that's exactly why I wanted to go to this 77 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 1: because there were some questions about this, including one for 78 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 1: me on this, but you know, there were some questions again, 79 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 1: was this an unusual case. The way that they say 80 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: that they're going to try to try this is kind of, 81 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: you know, kind of company negligence, your general company negligence. 82 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: But you know, as far as the criminal charges that 83 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: they're trying to get to stick, the main one here 84 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:32,160 Speaker 1: is elderly endangerment. They're saying, you guys knew that this 85 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: was a bad idea, that this was a date. You know, 86 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 1: it was dangerous to transport this patient from New York 87 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,359 Speaker 1: to California. You did anyways, on top of that, you 88 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 1: didn't test this patient and you didn't quarantine them. So again, 89 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:47,359 Speaker 1: I think it is going to be a little bit 90 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: of an unusual case. I mean, there were definitely questions 91 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 1: about that. This is investigator Mark baartt pushing back on 92 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 1: that because reporters were, you know, immediately that was kind 93 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: of everybody's first question, is is this case a little 94 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: bit unusual given the circumstances, I would not say it's 95 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 1: an unusual prosecution because we often have cases where there's 96 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 1: negligence that causes harm to health and safety of others 97 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 1: dramatically in arson cases, industrial accidents, and we're treating this 98 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: as an industrial workplace accident, which is one of the 99 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: reasons that Department Industrial Relations is investigating this case. And 100 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 1: then I want to go to this clip as well. 101 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: This was my exchange with Mark Barrett. Again, he's an 102 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 1: investigator with the DA's office. I have this question just 103 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: to get an idea of how tricky this prosecution is 104 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:33,559 Speaker 1: going to be, because I mean, guys, we're talking about 105 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 1: people getting sick. But again this is also during a 106 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 1: pandemic when people were just getting sick. In general, they 107 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: can say, well, somebody else got sick, or another staff 108 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: member rock quoted into the building. We do not have 109 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 1: to prove that COVID was brought in by this particular patient. 110 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: We simply have to show that there was a positive 111 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: test and that the protocols were not followed. In particular, 112 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: this patient was never tested when they arrived at the facility, 113 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 1: which was in a breach of logic and also standards. 114 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 1: And also this patient was not quarantined per regulations for 115 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: fourteen days and you could hear their questions. We're getting 116 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: cut off, so we didn't get to ask you a question. 117 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: We will go back to that question. They don't have 118 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: to prove that this patient brought the COVID that killed 119 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: thirteen others. Well, then what's the crime here? Yes, they 120 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: didn't follow the procedure, but it seems at most that 121 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 1: would be that they could get fined by whatever agency 122 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: oversees nursing homes, or there could be a civil lawsuit 123 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: from the fire. There is a civil lawsuit, right, there 124 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: is a civil but it seems like that's as far 125 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: as it goes. Now you're talking about a crime where 126 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: you don't have to prove that the crime was committed. 127 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: The crime here is they knowingly had a COVID patient 128 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: who spread COVID and killed thirteen other patients, but they 129 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: don't know and they're not going to try to prove 130 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: that it was his COVID. That's it just sounds really 131 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: like a stretch. I think this is gonna it's definitely 132 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: gonna be an interesting case to watch, you know, in 133 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: this case, if it does get to trial, it'll be 134 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 1: really interesting to see how they try to prosecute this, 135 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 1: And that's exactly why I asked that question, because I 136 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: you know, you immediately can at least at least for 137 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 1: me as a as a as a common man. You know, 138 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: you start to kind of set up that defense in 139 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 1: your head. But I should point out, guys, that this 140 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: facility has already been sued in civil court by three 141 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: residence families and the family of the nurse who died. 142 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 1: The mother of the nurse who died did an interview 143 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:33,440 Speaker 1: at the la time, saying her daughter didn't know what 144 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: to do. She told her mom, this man was, you know, 145 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 1: was profusely sweating, had a cough and a fever. The 146 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: nurse actually called nine one one the next day from 147 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: his symptoms, and again the day after he was admitted. 148 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,439 Speaker 1: He did test positive for COVID nineteen and also in 149 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: March of twenty twenty, which was the wild West period 150 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:53,439 Speaker 1: where nobody knew what was going on. I mean, that 151 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: was only two weeks into the lockdown. Yeah, and this guy, 152 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: you know, out of all the places he was, you know, 153 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 1: he could have came from, he was coming for New 154 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: York City. And that's one thing prosecutors have pointed out 155 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: is just the added danger of the fact that New 156 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: York City at the time was an epicenter. This was 157 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: a very upscale I see here, more than fifteen grand 158 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: a month to be of this facility. It's considered a 159 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: very upscale care facility. All right, thank you very much. Yeah, 160 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: thank you, Blake. All right, thanks guys, Yeah, said here. 161 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: I looked at a story from three years ago, one 162 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five dementia patients. They offered gourmet meals, 163 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: yacht trips, art shows, live entertainment, and the regular aroma 164 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: of baking cookies. The price tag can run north of 165 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: fifteen thousand dollars a month to be at Silverado. I'd 166 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: rather give that money to my kids instead of living 167 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 1: in dementia. If you have dementia, you don't know. I mean, 168 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: you smell a cookie and then I smell one. That's 169 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 1: where somebody's got to give me the exit bag. It's 170 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: the point of that. That's what you should open. You 171 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: should open exit bag. That's so I'm gonna call my 172 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 1: nursing home chain the exit bag EBA. Really, I mean, 173 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: I mean fifteen thousand months, right, if you're there for 174 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 1: two years, I mean, that's over three hundred thousand dollars 175 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: to go to a bunch of greedy nursing home executive bastards. 176 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: What's the point of that? Just take the exit bag bag, 177 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 1: give that money to your family. And then they bring 178 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: in a guy from New York and he kills thirteen 179 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,839 Speaker 1: the Yeah I guess, yeah, I bet you that's why 180 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 1: they took him in that. Yeah, well, he was going 181 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: to pay a hefty price to get transfermers his family was. 182 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 1: I was just wondering what the financial gain was, like 183 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: fifty thousand a month? Oh man? Now all right, more 184 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: coming up John and Ken kf I AM six forty 185 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 1: live everywhere the iHeartRadio app Let's Go. You're listening to 186 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: John and Ken on demand from kf I AM six 187 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 1: forty coming up after two thirty. This is a camp 188 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: miss and it probably took a lot for the assignment 189 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 1: editors at the El Segundo Times to actually send somebody 190 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: to do a story which is really a couple of 191 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: weeks late on what's going on in the metro system 192 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles County. This is un lievable as it 193 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: starts with a guy who's just sitting there smoking fentyl 194 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: on a metro train and doesn't care and then staggers 195 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:11,319 Speaker 1: off and almost falls down. We'll talk about it after 196 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,199 Speaker 1: the news at two thirty, because it's just more proof 197 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: that there is nobody left on the buses and trains 198 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 1: but the homeless, the drug addicts, and of course sometimes 199 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 1: both homeless drug addicts and the insane wandering around. Wow, 200 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: this story, I mean, it's it's nothing that we didn't know, right, 201 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 1: but there was just something about this story. It's like, really, 202 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:34,559 Speaker 1: when you go on those metro trains, you're just sending 203 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: into hell. It's well, nobody is anymore unless they're homeless 204 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 1: or addictate. They're both. It's it's clear from the story 205 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 1: that's all that's there. Don't take metro trains. Okay, Well, 206 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: I think I think every every same person should boycott 207 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: the metro trains until they either go out of business 208 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,679 Speaker 1: or get rid of all the vagrants and drug addicts 209 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: and mental patients. Yeah, now we're back to the newsoms 210 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: the announced it was made today by the La County 211 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 1: DA's office that they will not seek a new trial 212 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 1: against Harv Weinstein. As you may remember, there were several 213 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: accusers in the trial, but the jury only convicted Weinstein, 214 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: and the case of this Italian model at a hotel 215 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: in la Jane Doe number one, that's the sixteen years 216 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: behind bars that he got sentenced to. The other accusers 217 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:33,560 Speaker 1: include Jane Doe number four, who is Jennifer Newsom, Dippity 218 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:38,680 Speaker 1: Dooe's wife. The jury deadlocked on the case that she presented, 219 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: and the word today is they are not going to 220 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 1: retry Weinstein. Jane Doe number two is the other one 221 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: they deadlocked on, identified as actress and screenwriter Lauren Young. 222 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: Now apparently Young submitted a statement. It's rather Young was 223 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: disappointed about the decision, but Jane Doe number four Newsome 224 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:00,959 Speaker 1: submitted a statement to the judge saying she did not 225 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 1: want a retrial. And we've talked about this before because 226 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 1: we're both of the opinion that when Jennifer Newsom encountered Weinstein, 227 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:14,680 Speaker 1: whatever happened, she was definitely seeing this as a step 228 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:17,480 Speaker 1: up in her acting career. That's what she wanted to 229 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:18,719 Speaker 1: be At the time this happened, I think it was 230 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: in two thousand and four or two thousand and five. 231 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 1: And I think the jury too, was a bit conflicted 232 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 1: because she continued to maintain some type of contact with Weinstein. 233 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 1: Even after what she says was a sex assault. She 234 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:36,960 Speaker 1: sent him emails she asked for his advice after Gavin 235 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: got a lot of bad publicity for having the affair 236 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 1: with I think it was his say it was a 237 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 1: campaign manager, campaign manager Spade's wife. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the 238 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:50,599 Speaker 1: wife right. So, and then we found out that that 239 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: Newsom had drinking problems. All this came out in the media, 240 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: and what does Jennifer Newsom do calls up Harvey Weinstein 241 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 1: for some public relations advice, crisis management wisdom. Wow, that's weird. 242 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,679 Speaker 1: Now if she you know, she gave a she really 243 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: freaked out on the stand. She was crying, she was 244 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 1: very upset. I can't square that with somebody who privately 245 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: is making phone calls for advice when her don't be 246 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: husband's dirty past was coming out. Oh. I've always believed 247 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: that she took advantage of this because her nonprofit is 248 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 1: all about women and the things that they suffer. Remember 249 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: when the me too started, Weinstein was one of the 250 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: first people to be accused. She didn't come forward with 251 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: her story for a while. No, she did not. When 252 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: I was she heard as an actual trial, I think 253 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: that the thought was, well, you know, I might be 254 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: able to gain some publicity office as an accuser. And 255 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 1: does this help Gavin's political career, Yeah, it doesn't help 256 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: my nonprofit. Yeah, I'm going to stand up for women 257 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: who have been assaulted. Yeah, I a lot of questions. 258 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 1: Both of both of the Newsomes are shady. They're definitely shady. 259 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 1: By the way, if you missed it last hour, and 260 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: there's another good reason to check out the podcast. We 261 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: did a story on the Newsom's and the Silicon Valley 262 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: Bank that collapsed. Apparently the Newsome's wineries were big depositives 263 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: and end Apparently a Silicon Valley Bank executive was on 264 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 1: the board of Jennifer Newsom's non project, and Newsome asked 265 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: the Silicon Valley executives to donate a hundred thousand dollars 266 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 1: to one of his slush funds. And people were wondering 267 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 1: why he didn't make this clear when he was asking 268 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: Biden and the federal government to help bailout SVB. He 269 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: should have been more transparent about his connections to the bank. 270 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 1: But again, it's blind trust. We don't know what any 271 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,359 Speaker 1: think about it. Blind trust. Also that what's been revealed 272 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: about the board of this bank only one member of 273 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 1: the board actually had a career in investment banking. The 274 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 1: rest are being described as Obama and Clinton megadotors. Yeah, 275 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: and one of them apparently was so worked up when 276 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen, she cried and 277 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 1: she went to a Shinto shrine to pray because she 278 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: was so upset about your victory by Trump over Hillary. 279 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: They they their board, they liked to brag, was so diverse. 280 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 1: It had one black member, one LGBTQ plus member, two veterans, 281 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: forty five women. But they only had one person on 282 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: the board who had experience in the banking industry. One person. 283 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: That's a joke, that is it's that's what we said before. 284 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: It seems like it was a place just for Silicon 285 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: Valley Democrat donors. One source told The Post. Everyone knew 286 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 1: it was the go to bank for woke CEOs. The 287 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: company's SVB loaned money to all had a woke agenda. 288 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: Kate Mitchell, sixty four, served on the board since twenty ten, 289 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: and she told CNBC back in twenty sixteen that she 290 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 1: went to a Shinto shrine while on a trip to 291 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: Japan to pray. I prayed for me and us to 292 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 1: get beyond our grieving and shock and to figure out 293 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: how to engage and listen to what happened and come 294 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: back together. She had earlier celebrated how ninety seven percent 295 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 1: of the tech industry's donations were going to Hillary Clinton's campaign, 296 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 1: and she also founded a National Venture Capitalist Association an 297 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: initiative called Venture Forward, which focusing on advancing opportunities for 298 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 1: women and underrepresented minorities in the venture ecosystem. Oh my god, 299 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: they the other members done all this woke jargon, don't they. Yeah. 300 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,920 Speaker 1: One of the other members of the board, Elizabeth Busy Burr, 301 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 1: was an improv actor. That was her experience. I learned 302 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: a lot doing improv and it's influenced how I think 303 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 1: about leadership. Yeah, so they put her on the board 304 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: of this back. How how did that help you with 305 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 1: risk assessment? Shouldn't it? Should the board be reviewing every 306 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: month or every quarter where the assets are located and 307 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 1: what the consequences are if you're overloading assets in bonds 308 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:20,440 Speaker 1: whose value is dropping dramatically. Did they have that discussion? 309 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:23,719 Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll talk about this story from 310 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 1: the Ulsagundo Times about the drugs crime death on LA's 311 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:32,159 Speaker 1: metro system. Johnny Ken kf I AM six forty live 312 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 1: everywhere the iHeartRadio app. You're listening to John and Ken 313 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:42,399 Speaker 1: on demand from kf I AM sixty. We're live on 314 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: the radio from one until four and the podcast happens 315 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 1: after four on the iHeartRadio app. It's John and Ken 316 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:53,479 Speaker 1: on demand. So anything you miss, you can hear anything 317 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: you want, anytime you want, all day on the bowl 318 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 1: and the shower. You know you can hear it a 319 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: day later, two days later. Now during sex whatever you want? 320 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, didn't a listeners say they did that with 321 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 1: you when you were on the radio years ago, that 322 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 1: they would have sex to your voice. Yes, in the morning, 323 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:13,879 Speaker 1: in the morning, right and they would wake up and 324 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:15,920 Speaker 1: apparently if they were feeling frisky, I'd be on in 325 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 1: the background while they were grunting and heaving or whatever 326 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:24,399 Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, I don't know, I don't want they 327 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: also Good Times. Finally got around to doing an in 328 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: depth story we brought you weeks ago from other media 329 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:37,439 Speaker 1: sources that Metro's really in a tailspin. The metro system 330 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 1: of Los Angeles County would include the subways and the buses, 331 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:45,400 Speaker 1: and ridership is disastrous. They had thought as the pandemic 332 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,119 Speaker 1: east people would come back. But what really happened in 333 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:51,399 Speaker 1: the pandemic is the homeless drug addicts doubled down on 334 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: getting on the subways and buses. And we learned that 335 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 1: this year alone, which is only a couple of months old, 336 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:01,439 Speaker 1: they already have more overdose deaths on the Metro system 337 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: than they had all of last year. So the story 338 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 1: by Rachel Uraga starts this way. Matthew Morales boarded the 339 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:13,880 Speaker 1: Metro Red line of Magarthur Park as classical music blared 340 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: over the station's loudspeakers. I'll take a moment to tell 341 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:20,639 Speaker 1: you that that's one of their plans. They've been blasting 342 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,640 Speaker 1: classical music to try to drive away people from loitering. 343 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:28,400 Speaker 1: Why would that work? Seven elevens do that. They sometimes 344 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 1: they play really heavy metal, or they play some heavy metal. 345 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:33,440 Speaker 1: I can see classical music is not going to drive 346 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 1: drug addicts away. That's stupid. It was rush hour on 347 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: a Tuesday afternoon to Morales made his way to a 348 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 1: back corner seat, unfolded a tiny piece of foil with 349 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 1: several blue shards of fentyl. As the train started west, 350 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: he heated the aluminum with the lighter. He sucked in 351 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: the smoke through a pipe fashion from a ballpoint pen. 352 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 1: Doors opened and closed, a few passengers filed in and out. 353 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,159 Speaker 1: A grain of the opioid fell to the floor. He 354 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 1: concentrated on trying to pick it up and lost track 355 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: as his body went limp, his shoulders slumped, and he 356 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 1: slowly keeled forward. Welcome to the time. The train arrived 357 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,679 Speaker 1: at the Wilshire Western station. He was doubled over and 358 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: nearly motionless with his hand on the floor. And I 359 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: want to take a moment to say this. For the 360 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,119 Speaker 1: Times to do this story, because all they do is 361 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,919 Speaker 1: promote people to take these dopey trains and bushes. For 362 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 1: them to do this story is kind of a big step, 363 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: because someone must have said, oh my god, this will 364 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: not reflect well on getting people to ride the trains 365 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: and buses. They are constantly lecturing in all their news 366 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,199 Speaker 1: stories and columns that because of climate change that we 367 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: must all transition towards public transportation. No, you will get 368 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: killed or you'll watch people die. No, I don't care 369 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:50,160 Speaker 1: how hot the planet catch. I'm not doing that, even 370 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: though don't be rid yesterday, who's at Sandy roth Yeah, 371 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: who drives around too. Even though he's worried about the climate, 372 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,399 Speaker 1: he still drives around too. He's not getting on these 373 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 1: buses and trains. And then, of course, is his article 374 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,920 Speaker 1: or his opinion column is basically about how white West 375 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: Siders are polluting the air for people of colored neighborhoods. Yeah, ridiculous. 376 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 1: We have people snorting fentonel until they pass out, and 377 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 1: he's worried that we're all racists for driving our cars 378 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 1: on freeways. I mean, I mean, the Times is filled 379 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: with lunatic writers. It never was like this. Yeah, sure, 380 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 1: they're not on the board of SVB the same kind 381 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,160 Speaker 1: of people. It is a brain infection. The woke virus 382 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: is destroying everybody's brains. Nothing is functioning. This newspaper doesn't function, 383 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,640 Speaker 1: The banks aren't functioning. I don't know what the hell 384 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 1: is going on. Everybody's obsessed with nonsense that I don't 385 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,640 Speaker 1: even understand half the nonsense they talk about. Well, here's 386 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 1: the numbers. Since January twenty two, people have died on 387 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,640 Speaker 1: metro buses and trains, mostly from suspected overdoses. That's more 388 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: people than all of what happened in twenty twenty two 389 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,680 Speaker 1: serious crimes are up twenty four percent compared with the 390 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,880 Speaker 1: previous year. They talked to a train operator who said, 391 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,679 Speaker 1: as he drove the Red Line subway, he saw a 392 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 1: man masturbating in his seat, and he calls other people sleepers, 393 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: people who get high and not off on the train. Quote. 394 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,920 Speaker 1: We don't see any business people anymore. We don't see 395 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,639 Speaker 1: anybody going to Universal. It's just people who have no 396 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,640 Speaker 1: other choice than to ride the system, homeless people, drug users. Yeah. 397 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 1: Can you imagine taking your kids on a train ride 398 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,360 Speaker 1: to Universal and sitting next to one guy who's masturbating, 399 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: Another guy is starton fent and know third guys passed 400 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: out on the floor. Fourth guy has a knife sticking 401 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:33,919 Speaker 1: out of his gut. I mean, when we had the 402 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: radio station situated in Korea Town they just opened. I 403 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 1: think it was the Red Line. I remember McArthur Park 404 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 1: Westlake station. I think we took that to Langer's Delhi 405 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,879 Speaker 1: one day. Yeah, apparently in this story that is the 406 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: worst of the worst. The station sit next sits next 407 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: to an open air drug market. About twenty two thousand 408 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 1: people board the trains here daily, but apparently this is 409 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 1: the worst. Twenty six medical emergencies at the station between 410 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 1: November and January, most of them drug overdose. How can 411 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 1: there be such a thing as an open air drug market? 412 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:13,160 Speaker 1: How can that exist even for a day, for an hour? Ah? Well, 413 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 1: where we go? Alison Vow, a spokesperson for act LA, 414 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: a social justice advocacy coalition, all these people need to 415 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:24,440 Speaker 1: go away. What is harassment and jailing people going to do? 416 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 1: If to use drugs to address the drug use rates. 417 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 1: See what these people want, John, They want the injection sites. 418 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,160 Speaker 1: They want the injection sites. They think the homeless will 419 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,719 Speaker 1: go there, inject themselves safely, and then we stand by 420 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: with narcan to revive them. They tried that in San Francisco, 421 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 1: and San Francisco closed it in just a year. They 422 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: ended up with something like seventeen thousand people showing up. Well, 423 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 1: what actually what they wanted to do with San Francisco 424 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 1: is give open air injection sites and then get the 425 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,159 Speaker 1: people coax them into drug treatment. As they got like 426 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,160 Speaker 1: nobody to do it. That's why they closed. They have thousands. 427 00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: It wasn't worth the money because they weren't getting anybody 428 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: into dru treatment. Well yeah, I mean, does this silly 429 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: lady want to pay for this. They don't go to 430 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,360 Speaker 1: drug treatment, they don't want to get off the drugs, 431 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: and we're gonna spend our tax money on this nonsense. 432 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,200 Speaker 1: Even in San Francisco they couldn't do it. The mayor 433 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: had to blow the whistle on it. We're dealing with opposition, 434 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 1: and we've seen this with the homeless and now with 435 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 1: the drug use in the crime that doesn't want any 436 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 1: enforcement action on anything. Tell me why no enforcement of 437 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 1: any kind? Why can't why can't or Karen Bass just 438 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 1: tell them to get the f out of the office. Well, yeah, 439 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 1: you know what, she's got to be smoked out because 440 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,640 Speaker 1: she's on the metro board and she's the mayor, and 441 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:47,159 Speaker 1: all the taxpaying citizens cannot use a metro train or 442 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: a metro bus because all these these these derelicts, these bums, 443 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: the unholved, who are their bodies are laying all over 444 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 1: the place. The guy's masturbading, this guy's dump the feces, 445 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,440 Speaker 1: this guy's urinating. Well, they do say in the story 446 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: they arrested people on the red Line last year, fifty 447 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,120 Speaker 1: of them. But Prop forty seven there's no consequences. Yes, 448 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 1: in California, most charges of misdemeanors are considered lower level offenses, 449 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 1: and that's it. So we've Propped forty seven also defeats 450 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: this enforcement idea. And we've tried that law now for 451 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 1: over eight years, and this is what it produced. We 452 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: now have a multi billion dollar transit system that no 453 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,439 Speaker 1: decent person can use. This way what we got for 454 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 1: billions and billions in tax money and this stupid, stupid 455 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:40,879 Speaker 1: Prop forty seven law. Now you're wanting to compromise the compromises. 456 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: They're putting ambassadors on these trains and subways, unarmed people 457 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 1: that walk around and I what gently nudge you if 458 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,920 Speaker 1: you're a smoken fentel until he's not do that until 459 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 1: the first ambassador gets knifed, which is which is going 460 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:57,120 Speaker 1: to happen. I am afraid that is a very possible. Yeah, 461 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 1: it's going to happen because you have you have hundreds 462 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: of these crazy people and if the ambassador either that 463 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 1: or they're going to be completely ineffective and they're just 464 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,200 Speaker 1: gonna sit there like potted plants. All right, we got 465 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,439 Speaker 1: more coming up after three o'clock. We'll check in with 466 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: Steve Gregory Cafie News, who did cover Biden's visit to 467 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: Monterey Park. See how exciting that was. Johnny Ken kf 468 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,920 Speaker 1: I AM six forty, we're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. 469 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:28,640 Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFIM sixty. Well, 470 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: we'll talk to Steve Gregory, that guy in Cafie News. 471 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,400 Speaker 1: You're familiar with him. He was covering Joe Biden's visit 472 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 1: to Moterate Park, which occurred this afternoon, part of a 473 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,159 Speaker 1: swing from San Diego to La and then over to 474 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Mostly I think to raise money. But supposedly 475 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 1: he's got an executive order on guns. And we'll talk 476 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,479 Speaker 1: about that with Steve and see what he found out. 477 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 1: And maybe Biden slipped well going down the stairs. We 478 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: don't know anything might have happened him. I think he had. 479 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 1: He has had two more stumbles recently going up the stairs. 480 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 1: I did see video, and I'm never sure whether or 481 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,400 Speaker 1: not that's new or older. There were two new ones. 482 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 1: But he's eighty. He can't come downstairs anymore. But I 483 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 1: pointed out what I always point out with this. He 484 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 1: tries to go too fast because he wants to show, 485 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,680 Speaker 1: but he's vigorous, so he slips because yeah, he's eighty 486 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,440 Speaker 1: and he's going too fast. I saw him. He was 487 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 1: like really quick, stepping up the steps in a little stumble. 488 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:27,439 Speaker 1: He's gonna take a header. Also, next hour tomorrow, we 489 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,880 Speaker 1: understand it is very possible that the US Senate will 490 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,399 Speaker 1: vote on Garcetti as to whether or not he's the 491 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: next ambassador to India. A compelling statement was released today 492 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa against Garcetti in 493 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: this nomination. We'll bring all that and plus. Another media 494 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 1: outlet did a story on Garcetti's perhaps connections to the 495 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party. Yeah what's that about? I don't know, 496 00:28:55,120 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 1: but it's full of detail and his connections to some years. Yeah, 497 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: how did how did nobody know this for the nine 498 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 1: and a half years he was in office? You know, 499 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 1: we do business with China too, so it's part of 500 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 1: that dirty stuff. All right, Well, maybe you should run 501 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 1: to Washington with that as they're voting on the Senate floor. 502 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 1: Wave the article he he's a communist? H They also 503 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 1: Gonna Times did another story today, this one quite different 504 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: than the last one, about all the drug use and 505 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 1: homeless on the metro system. This is about people driving 506 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 1: in their cars and using their cell phones, the old 507 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 1: topic of distracted driving, and of course it begins with 508 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: highway fatalities being on the rise in the US forty 509 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 1: six thousand in twenty twenty two. And again I look 510 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:47,240 Speaker 1: at that number and I say, how many hundreds of 511 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: millions of drivers are there? And how many trips are there? 512 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 1: I hate to say this, but I don't get shocked 513 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: by that number. How many billions of miles do people drive? Yeah, 514 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 1: I think on a percentage basis that's actually kind of low. Yeah, 515 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,440 Speaker 1: But because it was up twenty two percent, now we 516 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 1: have to panic and how many of these deaths involved 517 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 1: distracted driving? Now? In this story by Russ Mitchell, a 518 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 1: staff riding with the Elsogundo Times, they admit later on 519 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: it's hard to say, because when you have an accident, 520 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 1: especially if it's a tragedy, you can tell that somebody's drunk, 521 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 1: right obviously by testing them, and maybe it's somebody's high, 522 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 1: or that somebody's driving too fast because there's data. But 523 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: how do you know if somebody was playing around on 524 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 1: the cell phone and was under the category of distracted driving. 525 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:37,959 Speaker 1: They talked to a guy who's part of the National 526 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 1: Distracted Driving Coalition, John, did you join that once distracted 527 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 1: driving Coalition? Yeah? If I did. The name is Bruce Landsberg, 528 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 1: but he's got to be a lot of fun. What 529 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,800 Speaker 1: little kid dreams of joining the National Distracted Driving Coalition 530 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 1: when they grow up? I don't know. So they cite 531 00:30:55,760 --> 00:31:00,720 Speaker 1: a twenty twenty two survey of people's bit's behind the 532 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 1: wheel concerning the cell phone Travelers Insurance Company. Seventy seven 533 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 1: percent say they use the phone while driving. Well, I 534 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 1: mean I do, but his hands free. I just had 535 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 1: the bluetooth, right, So that's minimal distraction, so that that 536 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: takes away some of that number, right, I guess. Uh. 537 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: Seventy four percent use cell phone maps. I don't. We 538 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 1: usually to try to get around well, and a lot 539 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 1: of people put the phone on a stand right next 540 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:30,400 Speaker 1: to the steering wheel. Say you don't have to look 541 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 1: at bar. Before cell phone maps, you had paper maps, 542 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,440 Speaker 1: or you had directions that you scrawled down on a 543 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 1: little slip of paper. So there there's always been something 544 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 1: like that. The next three, though, are a little more troubling. 545 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 1: Fifty six percent do read a text or the email. 546 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 1: Somebody that can be a little harrowing because you have 547 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 1: to start typing with your fingers or unless you have 548 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,239 Speaker 1: the voice command one. I love. That's one of my 549 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 1: little things, tender time myself watching people. If I'm trying 550 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: to make a turn onto a road. I just watched 551 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 1: the cars go by and watching people who are actively 552 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 1: looking at their phone, and you could see them scrolling 553 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 1: while they're driving about, you know, thirty miles an hour 554 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,560 Speaker 1: down one of the boulevards. I'm guilty of. Last week, 555 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 1: I did want to fire off a quick text to 556 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: someone and I was kind of I was behind the wheel, 557 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 1: I was driving. I said, I just want to answer yes, 558 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,239 Speaker 1: because they want to know. Now type yes, while why 559 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 1: don't you type I'm about to die? Then they can 560 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,400 Speaker 1: know the exact moment you hit the tree. Twenty seven 561 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 1: percent This is a good one. Updated or check social media? Yeah, 562 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,960 Speaker 1: that's important while you're driving. What's going on on my Facebook? 563 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,320 Speaker 1: But you know, shouldn't thus people be weeded out? They should? 564 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 1: Yeah that if those people get into a crash, that's Darwinism, 565 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:50,680 Speaker 1: that's right. My favorite nineteen percent nineteen percent shopped online 566 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: while driving, and I thought of Deborah Mark. I just 567 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 1: thought that's something she might do shopped for what. Yeah, 568 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: we should save that her new Leopard outfit or something, 569 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 1: or vegan boots. I don't know. A Leopard steering wheel cover. Yeah, 570 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,280 Speaker 1: there you go. That sounds perfect for her. But she 571 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,560 Speaker 1: with her convertible be prominent while she drives steering wheel cover, 572 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 1: she is probably guilty of all three of those. Email, 573 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 1: social media. I mean it's more complicated to do online shopping. 574 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 1: I mean it's one thing to check your Facebook or 575 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 1: sent out a text, but to sit there and actually 576 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,960 Speaker 1: click through items you might buy while you're driving, that's 577 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 1: I can't do it. A couple of times I tried 578 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 1: to order some food because while you were driving while driving, 579 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,080 Speaker 1: forget it once you just call the number and do 580 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:33,880 Speaker 1: it the old fashioned way is your bluetooth and just 581 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 1: order it while you're driving. That voice although like there's 582 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,800 Speaker 1: one Burger place that doesn't take calls anymore. Oh well, 583 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,080 Speaker 1: you know what I expected that was going to happen. Yeah, 584 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,920 Speaker 1: we only take online orders. Everything's online because that way 585 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,120 Speaker 1: it's very clear they can see what you ordered exactly, 586 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 1: and they don't about the distortion on the phone line. 587 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 1: I even complained to the clerk at the Burger Shop. 588 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 1: It's like, I can't order online when I'm driving. They 589 00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:59,280 Speaker 1: just looked at me. They had a blank look on 590 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 1: their face. All right. When we return, we'll talk to 591 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,959 Speaker 1: Steve Gregreen Cafine News about Biden's visit to Monterey Park. 592 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,400 Speaker 1: John and Ken caf I AM six forty Live everywhere 593 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,320 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio App. In for Deborah Mark who's probably out shopping. 594 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,480 Speaker 1: Mark Ronner Live the Troy for our Cafe newsroom. Hey, 595 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,200 Speaker 1: you've been listening to the John and Ken Show. You 596 00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,839 Speaker 1: can always hear us live on caf i AM six 597 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,240 Speaker 1: forty one pm to four pm every Monday through Friday, 598 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,839 Speaker 1: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.