WEBVTT - Operation Save Skid Row (10/08) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.240 KFI AM 640, you're listening to the John Kobelt Podcast 0:00:04.300 --> 0:00:12.280 on the iHeartRadio app. John Kobelt Show, KFI AM 640. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:16.959 More stimulating talk radio. We're on every day from 3 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.770 to 6, and after 6 o'clock, John Kobelt Show on 0:00:19.820 --> 0:00:23.830 demand on the iHeart app. We are live on X 0:00:24.090 --> 0:00:28.500 and live on YouTube with a video stream. And we 0:00:28.540 --> 0:00:31.240 are going to open here with big news this morning. 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:35.920 This was exciting to see. A big skid row bust. 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:41.290 They went after dozens of drug dealers. And they arrested 0:00:41.310 --> 0:00:48.950 a lot of them. These guys distribute fentanyl, meth, cocaine, PCP. 0:00:50.390 --> 0:00:53.670 And they were arrested at their homes, some of them. 0:00:54.370 --> 0:00:59.090 Bill is sailing. who's the first assistant U.S. attorney for 0:00:59.110 --> 0:01:03.130 the Central District here in California covering Los Angeles. He's 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.860 going to explain this big, big bust. I mean, they 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:12.780 had 100 vehicles in a convoy that rolled into downtown L.A. Bill, 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:14.419 how are you? 0:01:15.340 --> 0:01:18.300 John, we're doing well. It's a great day in L.A. 0:01:18.660 --> 0:01:22.400 Yeah. This was a massive bust. How many of these 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:23.560 drug dealers did you arrest? 0:01:24.750 --> 0:01:28.940 So we have arrested, I want to say, 25 was 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:33.680 the latest count. We had warrants for 28 dealers. We 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.860 had 44 search warrants. It's a massive operation. We spent 0:01:37.900 --> 0:01:43.030 the last four or five months working with LAPD, and 0:01:43.170 --> 0:01:48.090 this is an operation with FBI, DEA, ATF, IRS. This 0:01:48.170 --> 0:01:52.380 is an all-of-government approach and LAPD to figure out who 0:01:52.420 --> 0:01:56.890 the dealers are, who's supplying them, what they're selling, how 0:01:56.930 --> 0:01:59.090 they're selling. And you really got to take a step 0:01:59.150 --> 0:02:01.270 back here, John. When you look at Skid Row, I 0:02:01.290 --> 0:02:02.730 don't know the last time you went down there, it 0:02:02.770 --> 0:02:03.990 looks like a third world country. 0:02:04.150 --> 0:02:04.390 I know. 0:02:04.510 --> 0:02:07.470 And you often wonder like, why is this not ever 0:02:07.510 --> 0:02:12.010 get better? Well, when you have these sleazebags and they're 0:02:12.130 --> 0:02:14.090 members of gangs, you have the Crips and the Bloods 0:02:14.370 --> 0:02:18.350 operating Skid Row, and they are keeping the homeless people 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.950 addicted to So they could steal or take their government 0:02:21.970 --> 0:02:26.730 assistance money. They know they get their public benefits on 0:02:26.750 --> 0:02:29.790 the 1st and the 15th. They're down there like clockwork. 0:02:30.169 --> 0:02:33.660 They're selling fentanyl. They're selling meth. And the one that 0:02:33.700 --> 0:02:37.660 really got me, they're selling PCP. I have not heard 0:02:37.780 --> 0:02:40.730 PCP in a long time. But if you know what 0:02:40.770 --> 0:02:44.280 PCP does, you will then understand why the homeless are 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.540 so out of their mind, why they're so violent, why 0:02:47.580 --> 0:02:53.000 they're so psychotic. PCP is an extremely powerful hallucinogenic, and 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.090 it makes you not feel pain. And it's a bad drug. 0:02:56.650 --> 0:02:59.030 That's what they're doing. They're keeping them addicted for profit. 0:02:59.050 --> 0:03:03.549 I'm looking at the ages of some of these suspects 0:03:03.570 --> 0:03:07.170 that the California Post printed. And you got a lot 0:03:07.190 --> 0:03:10.430 of old guys here, old gangsters. One is 70 years old, 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:20.220 another 65, age 62, 58, 55, 57. These are grandfathers. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.250 They're seasoned gangsters, drug dealers. A lot of them are related. 0:03:25.290 --> 0:03:28.889 They're actual families that run gangs. certain blocks there. Again, 0:03:28.930 --> 0:03:31.730 you have a lot of gangs down there. And historically, 0:03:31.750 --> 0:03:33.700 you would think, oh, Bloods and Crips, they don't like 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.100 each other. But there's a weird truce down there because 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.600 they're all making so much money. So it was explained 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.140 to me that sort of red and blue equals green. 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:43.460 So that's why they all. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:48.070 Kind of coexist there, selling crazy amounts of drugs. And 0:03:48.090 --> 0:03:50.130 the other thing, and we put some of these photos 0:03:50.210 --> 0:03:53.450 up today, When you see the tents down there, that's 0:03:53.470 --> 0:03:55.670 not all homeless people in the tents. Some of those 0:03:55.710 --> 0:03:58.630 tents are being used strictly to deal drugs. So we 0:03:58.650 --> 0:04:01.110 had undercovers go into those tents, and that's where you 0:04:01.130 --> 0:04:04.350 buy the drugs, in those tents. So this is literally 0:04:04.370 --> 0:04:08.309 an open-air drug market. They're opening and operating in broad daylight. 0:04:08.910 --> 0:04:11.150 No one's done anything about it for a long time, 0:04:11.490 --> 0:04:14.660 and a lot of them seem surprised. that they were 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.780 being arrested today. And wait till they hear their prison sentences. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.650 They'll be much more surprised because you're not talking a 0:04:20.750 --> 0:04:23.730 couple of years here. We're talking about 10 years mandatory 0:04:23.910 --> 0:04:25.730 federal prison sentences for these offenses. 0:04:25.870 --> 0:04:30.810 Now, LAPD was part of this bust with your crew 0:04:30.990 --> 0:04:34.270 and the other federal agencies. They played an important role. 0:04:35.430 --> 0:04:38.720 It was a joint operation with LAPD. I mean, I 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.039 really got to credit. They did a tremendous job working 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.540 with us. They were part of the undercover buys. They 0:04:43.580 --> 0:04:46.540 were doing the intelligence. They know who all the players are. 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:51.650 They've just never had the backing from the appropriate authorities, 0:04:51.730 --> 0:04:55.510 from the appropriate prosecutors to do something about it. I mean, 0:04:55.529 --> 0:04:59.810 you had Gascon running L.A. County for his term, and 0:04:59.850 --> 0:05:03.550 he wouldn't lift a finger. So now what's changed is 0:05:03.589 --> 0:05:06.860 you have the Trump administration and you have Nathan Hockman, 0:05:07.310 --> 0:05:10.220 and we're both willing to file charges. And so now 0:05:10.420 --> 0:05:13.279 LAPD has the support they need. I got to also 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.640 give credit to Karen Bass. She has allowed and she 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:21.839 has been working with LAPD on this operation. And so 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.810 while you have some literally lunatics calling to disarm LAPD— 0:05:27.510 --> 0:05:32.910 At least today, LAPD was allowed to operate in this 0:05:33.110 --> 0:05:37.570 operation and take out close to 30 bad drug dealers 0:05:37.630 --> 0:05:38.270 from Skid Row. 0:05:38.670 --> 0:05:40.710 I know you can't get political, but I'll say it. 0:05:40.850 --> 0:05:44.680 I don't think Nithya Raman would tolerate this operation if 0:05:44.740 --> 0:05:45.700 she was running the city. 0:05:46.870 --> 0:05:49.990 Anyone calling for defunding the police, whether it's her or 0:05:50.029 --> 0:05:53.230 anyone else, or disarming the police is a lunatic. And 0:05:53.270 --> 0:05:55.450 not only are they a lunatic, they're on the side 0:05:55.470 --> 0:05:58.370 of these drug dealers. Anyone who wants to weaken the 0:05:58.430 --> 0:06:03.500 police is emboldening and strengthening the criminal elements in society. 0:06:03.510 --> 0:06:06.560 And that's drug dealers in Skid Row. That's human traffickers 0:06:06.620 --> 0:06:10.640 on Figueroa. You're with the gangsters and you're with the 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.760 criminals if you are against the police. It's as simple 0:06:13.779 --> 0:06:14.020 as that. 0:06:15.500 --> 0:06:18.580 You mentioned that this operation was in the works for five, 0:06:18.660 --> 0:06:21.500 six months that you were, I guess, because you had 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.700 to do a lot of undercover work as well. And 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.719 you really have to get all the evidence, strong evidence 0:06:26.779 --> 0:06:32.470 nailed down. When was this first conceived? Was this out 0:06:32.510 --> 0:06:35.850 of your office or how did how does this come about? 0:06:36.970 --> 0:06:39.950 It really came about on the heels of the MacArthur 0:06:39.970 --> 0:06:42.970 Park operations that we did earlier this year. We took 0:06:43.010 --> 0:06:46.950 a similar template on MacArthur Park. First, we took out 0:06:47.010 --> 0:06:51.950 the gangsters, MS-13, 18th Street gangs. We took out their leadership. 0:06:51.990 --> 0:06:56.390 Then we took out the street-level dealers and suppliers. And now, look, 0:06:56.450 --> 0:07:00.030 MacArthur Park is not– it's not great, but it's a 0:07:00.070 --> 0:07:02.750 lot better than what it was at the beginning of 0:07:02.770 --> 0:07:05.150 the year. They've at least removed the worst of the 0:07:05.190 --> 0:07:08.900 worst criminal elements. It gives LAPD and the surrounding community 0:07:08.980 --> 0:07:11.180 a fighting chance to go in there and try to 0:07:11.220 --> 0:07:14.460 fix it. But quickly we saw the drug dealers just 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.980 moved on, right? And so we looked at what's the 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.270 next big hotspot in L.A., and it was Skid Row. 0:07:21.430 --> 0:07:25.050 The people who are homeless, they are addicted. I mean 0:07:25.090 --> 0:07:27.170 it's the only way– who can survive out there in 0:07:27.210 --> 0:07:29.840 their right mind? in the conditions. You really got to 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:34.060 almost be on drugs. So it's crazy. It's wild. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.460 And so we set our targets on Skid Row. So 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.760 on the heels of that MacArthur Park thing, I had 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.340 all the agencies here. I had the police chief and 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.490 I said, we're going to do Skid Row next. And 0:07:44.500 --> 0:07:47.290 they all were in support and we put our sites there. 0:07:47.890 --> 0:07:49.570 But like you said, it takes a lot of work. 0:07:49.610 --> 0:07:53.270 I know people think like, oh, here's a video on Instagram. 0:07:53.570 --> 0:07:54.590 Go arrest people. 0:07:54.630 --> 0:07:55.450 That's not how things work. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:57.740 We have to collect evidence. We've got to write warrants. 0:07:57.780 --> 0:08:00.130 We wrote more than 50 warrants for this. I had 0:08:00.150 --> 0:08:02.950 three attorneys working full time for the last six months 0:08:03.010 --> 0:08:06.550 on this. And we got the judges to sign arrest 0:08:06.590 --> 0:08:08.810 warrants for 28 of these guys because we have to 0:08:08.870 --> 0:08:11.430 prove everything beyond a reasonable doubt in court. So when 0:08:11.470 --> 0:08:15.310 we act, we act with confidence that we're going to 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:16.820 be able to put these people in prison for a 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:17.260 long time. 0:08:17.980 --> 0:08:23.240 Tremendous work. Really, you're doing more good work leading these 0:08:23.300 --> 0:08:26.040 kind of raids than everybody else combined for the last 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.700 20 years. Thank you, Bill. Thank you for doing this. 0:08:28.740 --> 0:08:29.320 Appreciate it. Thanks, John. 0:08:29.350 --> 0:08:32.150 All right, Bill LaSalle, and he's the first U.S. assistant 0:08:32.170 --> 0:08:35.070 attorney for the Central District here in California. We'll give 0:08:35.090 --> 0:08:37.990 you some more information on this because it was quite 0:08:38.010 --> 0:08:42.910 an operation they ran with LAPD and with the support 0:08:42.929 --> 0:08:46.530 of Karen Bass. And he's right about lunatic Nithya Raman. 0:08:47.370 --> 0:08:53.750 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:08:53.750 --> 0:08:57.270 John Kobelt's show. And the video is live on X, 0:08:57.410 --> 0:09:01.580 live on YouTube. And we just had Bill Asselian. I 0:09:01.620 --> 0:09:05.900 tell you, he is doing a tremendous job with the 0:09:06.179 --> 0:09:12.069 support of the Trump administration in cleaning up. areas that 0:09:12.110 --> 0:09:16.030 we're told are intractable, have resisted solutions, and not that 0:09:16.150 --> 0:09:19.540 everything is solved in MacArthur Park and certainly not Skid Row. 0:09:19.900 --> 0:09:25.859 But I don't ever remember anybody trying before. And it 0:09:25.900 --> 0:09:29.770 looks like Karen Bass has finally given LAPD the freedom 0:09:29.850 --> 0:09:34.810 to cooperate with the Department of Justice here. And there 0:09:34.850 --> 0:09:38.150 were many other federal agencies. And they did a huge bust. 0:09:38.620 --> 0:09:42.620 And they arrested 25 drug dealers. And these are the kingpin. 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.780 They remind me of the mafia guys when I was 0:09:44.820 --> 0:09:49.240 growing up. Because their ages range from 32 to 70 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.160 years old. I'm looking at three guys over the age 0:09:52.179 --> 0:10:03.420 of 60. of 60, three guys over the age of 55, 0:10:03.420 --> 0:10:07.190 just below that. That's six guys over the ages of 55, 0:10:07.179 --> 0:10:10.160 just out of the 10 that the California Post listed here. 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:15.110 So these are longtime, truly original gangsters, and they have 0:10:15.130 --> 0:10:19.080 been making huge fortunes. Some of them had settled in 0:10:19.140 --> 0:10:25.800 Pasadena because the FBI busted in on a suspected cocaine dealer. 0:10:25.940 --> 0:10:30.540 Name is Manuel Vons. The agent showed up really early 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.710 in the morning, this morning, carrying automatic weapons. They had 0:10:33.770 --> 0:10:38.670 flashbang grenades. And they called for four suspects to come out. 0:10:39.270 --> 0:10:42.090 And one of the suspects had an attitude. What's your problem? 0:10:42.110 --> 0:10:43.390 Your mom's selling drugs. 0:10:45.710 --> 0:10:46.250 Well, that.... 0:10:48.620 --> 0:10:50.880 That kind of taunting is not going to have an effect. 0:10:51.780 --> 0:10:55.699 He was taken into custody. Now, this is great. Neighbors 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:59.620 were asked by reporters whether they had, if they were 0:10:59.660 --> 0:11:02.470 aware of any crimes. What do you think they're going 0:11:02.490 --> 0:11:07.809 to say? Think they're going to rat out the gang members? 0:11:08.190 --> 0:11:12.710 Nobody saw anything. It was a rundown house on Summit Avenue, 0:11:13.210 --> 0:11:17.230 and they had these gleaming lowrider automobiles parked out front. 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.480 And according to one resident, all they do there is 0:11:21.540 --> 0:11:24.570 work on their cars all day. So if you see 0:11:25.690 --> 0:11:32.570 some young guys polishing their cars all day, what business 0:11:32.610 --> 0:11:37.640 do you think they're in? It's always drug dealers. They 0:11:37.900 --> 0:11:43.080 had been working on this for six months. DEA, LAPD, FBI. 0:11:43.740 --> 0:11:49.420 They used phone taps, undercover officers, drones. Because the hardest 0:11:49.580 --> 0:11:54.860 thing is collecting enough evidence, enough proof to win in court. 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.260 You know what juries are like. You know the biases 0:11:59.300 --> 0:12:05.430 they have and the allegiances they have. You have to 0:12:05.470 --> 0:12:08.910 have evidence that survives all kinds of motions from the 0:12:08.950 --> 0:12:14.890 defense attorneys. All kinds of lies that defense attorneys tell. 0:12:14.950 --> 0:12:17.940 All kinds of fake issues they use to distract. You 0:12:17.980 --> 0:12:19.620 have to have the evidence to be able to stand 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:23.260 above all the nonsense that goes on in our stupid 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:27.929 justice system. So that's why it takes six months. But 0:12:27.970 --> 0:12:31.650 I would love to have seen the convoy. It was 0:12:31.650 --> 0:12:37.490 100 vehicles, cops on motorcycles, followed by dozens of squad cars, vans, 0:12:37.730 --> 0:12:45.469 unmarked SUVs, a helicopter circling overhead. When they actually stopped... 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.840 some of these characters. Well, I searched in the tents. 0:12:48.860 --> 0:12:54.770 There were guys running like drive-through drugstores out of the tents. 0:12:55.870 --> 0:12:59.770 One guy was in a car and the officers pulled 0:12:59.809 --> 0:13:05.050 out wads of cash. They found a gun, a tinfoil 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:11.580 package with drugs was confiscated, scales. And here's how it worked. 0:13:11.660 --> 0:13:15.110 And Bill alluded to this. The addicts get their money 0:13:15.550 --> 0:13:19.709 really from you. All the government programs they're on, all 0:13:19.770 --> 0:13:23.410 these welfare programs, these government assistant programs, it's from you. 0:13:26.170 --> 0:13:29.100 And I don't know what their address is. Probably all 0:13:29.140 --> 0:13:32.660 those fake nonprofits that Nithya Raman uses for fake votes. 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:38.120 Maybe they have mailboxes there. The government checks, which is 0:13:38.179 --> 0:13:42.300 our money, are cashed and then given over to the 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.890 drug dealers. And whatever extra they get from begging, so 0:13:45.929 --> 0:13:49.510 you shouldn't be giving any beggars money. And when all 0:13:49.570 --> 0:13:54.140 else fails, they just steal stuff. And remember, up until recently, 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.260 it was legal to walk in a drugstore or a 0:13:57.300 --> 0:13:59.959 grocery store and just steal stuff, as long as it 0:14:00.460 --> 0:14:04.270 wasn't over $ 950. Do you realize how we had a 0:14:04.330 --> 0:14:09.829 set of laws which enabled the drug trade? which enriched 0:14:10.150 --> 0:14:14.240 drug cartels. We made it easy for drug addicts to 0:14:14.380 --> 0:14:18.640 access money, either through the government checks or by allowing 0:14:18.700 --> 0:14:26.600 them to burst into stores and steal stuff. You know, 0:14:26.620 --> 0:14:30.480 this doesn't solve all the problems, but if they keep 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:34.160 doing this, and then if the next administration keeps doing this, 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.640 why wouldn't you do this? What are we paying for? 0:14:39.380 --> 0:14:41.510 I mean, if we're paying for the drugs, for the 0:14:41.550 --> 0:14:44.290 drug addicts, why don't we pay for law enforcement to 0:14:44.330 --> 0:14:50.150 do these busts and put the drug gang leaders in prison? 0:14:51.890 --> 0:14:54.250 It doesn't make any sense why they would allow this 0:14:54.550 --> 0:14:58.320 to go on for so long. All right, so today 0:14:58.340 --> 0:15:02.540 was a big day. Now, when we come back, Nithya Raman, 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.340 of course, probably would have vetoed LAPD cooperation for this 0:15:06.900 --> 0:15:11.410 because she is... A big defund the police girl. Hates cops. 0:15:11.990 --> 0:15:17.590 Hates ICE. Hates law enforcement. Hates laws. She's a DSA woman. 0:15:18.250 --> 0:15:21.080 And if you look at the DSA website, they hate 0:15:21.140 --> 0:15:23.800 all this stuff. They want it all abolished. We'll talk 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:37.080 about Nithya Raman when we come back. You can't buy 8, 6, 0:15:37.060 --> 0:15:40.790 40 more stimulating talk radio. John Cobell's show. And we're 0:15:40.810 --> 0:15:43.990 on for three to six. We're live on X and 0:15:44.070 --> 0:15:46.950 live on YouTube. And speaking of YouTube and X, this 0:15:47.010 --> 0:15:50.100 morning we did a live stream with the candidate for 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:54.640 state controller, Republican, Herb Morgan. It was a really good conversation. 0:15:55.260 --> 0:15:58.840 And I really, really want you to listen or watch this. 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:03.140 It's now on the podcast and it's now recorded on 0:16:03.180 --> 0:16:05.800 YouTube and X.com. An interview we did. It was a 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:10.600 video interview. We were both on camera. And he explains 0:16:11.140 --> 0:16:15.760 why it's absolutely necessary to have him as state controller. 0:16:15.820 --> 0:16:19.550 He has a long history in finance. I didn't even 0:16:19.590 --> 0:16:23.890 realize this. We have a state controller now named Malia 0:16:23.950 --> 0:16:28.130 Cohen who doesn't show up at work. She just sits 0:16:28.170 --> 0:16:31.980 at home and intentionally does not audit, investigate, or expose workers. 0:16:32.430 --> 0:16:35.690 All the fraud that's going on. He said the state 0:16:35.790 --> 0:16:41.370 controller has constitutional powers that would stop or expose most 0:16:41.410 --> 0:16:45.510 of this fraud. A lot of power. Independent of the governor. 0:16:45.580 --> 0:16:49.560 So it doesn't matter if a Democratic governor wins. Polls 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:53.680 are pretty close because most of the state is fed 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:57.260 up with the fraud. The fraud is cut through. Even 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:02.120 though lying Newsom denies it and do nothing Bonta. Never 0:17:02.180 --> 0:17:06.159 prosecuted it. Everybody knows what's going on. Anyway, I'm going 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:07.980 to play a clip of Herb Morgan in the next segment. 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.660 And I want you to listen or watch it. And 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:16.030 I want you to vote for Herb Morgan. Absolutely. We have, like, 0:17:16.220 --> 0:17:20.630 dead weight. The state controller right now is actually stealing 0:17:20.690 --> 0:17:24.670 our money herself by not working because she's under orders 0:17:24.710 --> 0:17:28.430 not to investigate any of this. It's a criminal machine 0:17:28.450 --> 0:17:32.510 that they have running in Sacramento. Newsom is the top boss. Now, 0:17:32.550 --> 0:17:34.690 this heartened my mood. 0:17:35.990 --> 0:17:36.540 You're welcome. 0:17:36.670 --> 0:17:41.000 Debra had a news story, and I perked up, and 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.220 I'm getting excited, and I want to go watch. Of 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:48.060 course you do. Now, there's going to be an execution, 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.020 a federal execution live streamed. 0:17:50.060 --> 0:17:51.460 Yes, firing squad. 0:17:51.540 --> 0:17:52.040 Tell me more. 0:17:52.609 --> 0:17:56.080 So the Pentagon announced that that execution of that Fort 0:17:56.100 --> 0:17:59.180 Hood shooter is going to be live-streamed, and it's going 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.880 to happen at Fort Hood on December 3rd. And this 0:18:02.940 --> 0:18:06.140 guy was convicted of killing 13 people and hurting 32 0:18:06.140 --> 0:18:10.290 others in a shooting at the military base in 2009. 0:18:10.290 --> 0:18:12.310 The Fort Hood shooting. I remember that one. 0:18:12.430 --> 0:18:16.590 So he was found guilty, and he is to be 0:18:16.710 --> 0:18:20.750 executed by firing squad, and Hegseth decided that it's going 0:18:20.770 --> 0:18:21.840 to be live-streamed. 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.350 Does it have a time on that? December 3rd. 0:18:26.380 --> 0:18:27.109 December 3rd. 0:18:27.109 --> 0:18:28.030 That's a Thursday. 0:18:29.030 --> 0:18:29.470 How do you know? 0:18:29.950 --> 0:18:31.770 I'm looking it up. I got so excited, I wanted 0:18:31.790 --> 0:18:32.590 to know what day it was. 0:18:32.650 --> 0:18:34.530 Okay, let me Google and find out what time. 0:18:34.570 --> 0:18:36.390 See if there's a time. You know what I'd love 0:18:36.430 --> 0:18:40.490 to do? I'd love to hold a station event at 0:18:40.540 --> 0:18:44.500 a theater and project the live stream, you know, up 0:18:44.580 --> 0:18:46.040 on a big screen. We could do it across the 0:18:46.060 --> 0:18:51.010 street at the theater. Yeah, that's right. I know nobody 0:18:51.030 --> 0:18:52.709 in the company is going to do this. Well, I'm 0:18:52.730 --> 0:18:54.210 really bummed because I'm going to be at a wedding 0:18:54.250 --> 0:18:55.830 in Mexico during this, so I can't watch. 0:18:56.130 --> 0:18:57.250 Okay, I found the time. 0:18:57.350 --> 0:18:58.030 What time? 0:18:58.030 --> 0:19:00.369 1 p.m. So is that, let me see if that's 0:19:00.890 --> 0:19:02.790 Pacific or Eastern. 0:19:02.910 --> 0:19:06.920 How many shooters do they use in a, this is 0:19:06.940 --> 0:19:08.859 what they should have done to kill that beast in 0:19:08.900 --> 0:19:14.060 Tennessee who's not only survived, what's her name, Krista Pike. 0:19:14.380 --> 0:19:17.760 She's walking around and she's talking and they tried to 0:19:17.820 --> 0:19:21.800 kill her twice. But nobody walks away from an execution 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:24.399 by firing squad. That doesn't happen. 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:27.560 I'm assuming this is Eastern time. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.399 Yeah, probably. Because where is it going to be? 0:19:30.420 --> 0:19:31.240 In Texas. 0:19:31.570 --> 0:19:34.050 In Texas? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know which 0:19:34.090 --> 0:19:39.410 time they would use for that. Let me see. Well, 0:19:39.430 --> 0:19:42.169 I'd like to... How about a bus trip at KFI 0:19:42.210 --> 0:19:48.950 Listeners to go and attend? Yeah, I remember this guy, 0:19:48.990 --> 0:19:52.470 this guy was, he was a military guy himself and 0:19:52.490 --> 0:19:53.929 he went on the base at Fort hood and he 0:19:54.010 --> 0:19:55.810 started shooting everybody in sight. Yeah. 0:19:55.830 --> 0:19:57.780 It was a huge story, obviously. 0:19:57.859 --> 0:20:03.720 Yeah. See, what I love is the Trump administration doesn't, 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:06.590 doesn't screw around with this. People just, if they're up, 0:20:06.740 --> 0:20:11.150 if they're up for execution, they actually get executed. Meantime, 0:20:11.890 --> 0:20:16.430 that our little baby weasel, Gavin Newsom, there's a story today, 0:20:16.470 --> 0:20:18.040 and I want to see him follow through on this, 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:26.140 that he's going to take the 563 people on death 0:20:26.220 --> 0:20:32.300 row and commute their sentences to life in prison. And 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:35.780 none of them will get executed. Which is horrible because 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:43.010 we have passed several times propositions in favor of the 0:20:43.070 --> 0:20:49.230 death penalty. And you had 563 juries that wanted these 0:20:49.290 --> 0:20:52.330 bastards put to death. And he wants to override all 0:20:52.369 --> 0:20:55.730 of that? And then he screams about Trump being a dictator? 0:20:55.780 --> 0:20:56.060 Really? 0:20:56.080 --> 0:21:00.659 He's going to wipe out 563 death sentences? Thousands and 0:21:00.700 --> 0:21:05.010 thousands of people voted on those juries. And then you 0:21:05.050 --> 0:21:08.449 also had millions of people vote on these three referendums 0:21:08.510 --> 0:21:11.990 over the years. Did you find the time yet? 0:21:13.510 --> 0:21:14.830 Let me see again. 0:21:14.850 --> 0:21:18.980 The U.S. hasn't held a public execution in 90 years. 0:21:19.420 --> 0:21:23.100 There were no specifications either on how many shooters. The 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:26.960 method is basically there's one live round and everybody else 0:21:26.980 --> 0:21:33.010 has blanks. First military execution since 1961. The last military 0:21:33.090 --> 0:21:36.060 execution by firing squad was 1945. Oh, it's. 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:40.400 Central Time Zone. Okay, so that's what it's going to be. 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:42.160 So it'll be 11 a.m. 0:21:42.220 --> 0:21:43.920 Our time. 11 a.m. our time. Yes. 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:45.870 11 a.m. 0:21:46.170 --> 0:21:48.030 Can we do like a live stream? 0:21:48.730 --> 0:21:52.030 John, you're a sicko. How many people really want to 0:21:52.090 --> 0:21:54.790 watch that? I mean, seriously, I mean, I guess a 0:21:54.830 --> 0:21:56.710 lot of your whack job listeners want to. 0:21:58.930 --> 0:22:01.470 If they run a live stream of this, tens of 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:02.619 millions of people will watch. 0:22:02.780 --> 0:22:04.100 I will not watch this. 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:07.959 It's not a puppy or a cat. I know, but 0:22:08.060 --> 0:22:09.980 it's a mass murderer. 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:13.040 No, I'm not saying I'm not giving my opinion on 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:14.260 whether this is good or bad. 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:16.200 I'm just saying I wouldn't want to watch this. 0:22:17.450 --> 0:22:18.450 Are you going Gavin Newsom? 0:22:18.530 --> 0:22:22.530 No, I said, John, you know me better than that. 0:22:23.220 --> 0:22:23.660 Oh, I know. 0:22:24.020 --> 0:22:24.960 I'm just saying. 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:27.200 You have a nasty side. You could kill them yourself. 0:22:28.070 --> 0:22:29.570 I just don't think I would want to watch it. 0:22:29.670 --> 0:22:33.970 I don't know. Well, I got a caveman inside of me. 0:22:34.010 --> 0:22:34.369 Yeah. 0:22:34.530 --> 0:22:36.790 And to watch a bastard like this get shot up. 0:22:37.230 --> 0:22:38.709 This just seems a little creepy to me. 0:22:39.090 --> 0:22:39.389 I don't know. 0:22:39.430 --> 0:22:40.490 This seems archaic. 0:22:40.869 --> 0:22:40.969 Yeah. 0:22:40.990 --> 0:22:42.409 We're going to watch a fiery. 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:44.900 I don't know. We are archaic. 0:22:46.140 --> 0:22:46.300 Yes. 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:47.200 That's what humans are. 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:48.180 Yeah. 0:22:48.380 --> 0:22:48.960 That is true. 0:22:48.980 --> 0:22:52.890 I don't know. I'm sure Ray's going to probably be there. 0:22:53.109 --> 0:22:57.170 Ray will have a concession running. He'll be in Texas. 0:22:57.340 --> 0:23:00.459 He'll be selling stuff. He'll be selling T-shirts and caps. 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:02.320 Oh, yeah. 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:06.600 All right. I'm going to have to do the ramen 0:23:06.619 --> 0:23:09.740 thing next hour because we're out of time here. I 0:23:09.780 --> 0:23:14.919 got way too excited. Coming up next, I'm going to 0:23:14.940 --> 0:23:19.480 play a little clip of Herb Morgan, who's running for Comptroller. 0:23:20.810 --> 0:23:24.149 Just a little teaser so you either listen to the 0:23:24.230 --> 0:23:27.840 audio on the podcast or watch the video on X 0:23:28.170 --> 0:23:31.220 and YouTube because we did this live stream today. But 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:34.899 after that, I got to do this story because I 0:23:34.900 --> 0:23:38.439 don't want to forget this. This is great. There is 0:23:38.780 --> 0:23:48.660 a superbug, one of those drug-resistant infections, sexually transmitted diarrhea. 0:23:50.280 --> 0:23:51.320 And it's on the increase. 0:23:52.140 --> 0:23:52.540 Oh, God. 0:23:52.619 --> 0:23:59.859 People are having sex and transferring this drug-resistant superbug. And 0:23:59.900 --> 0:24:01.959 then I guess you get terminal diarrhea from it. 0:24:02.100 --> 0:24:02.940