1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 1: Can if I am six forty you're listening to the 2 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: John and Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: Chris Marilla and for John kN today k if I 4 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:12,879 Speaker 1: am six forty more stimulating. Talk was just a cruise 5 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: and I whenever we go to a commercial break, I 6 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: open up various news and I kind of rotate through 7 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,479 Speaker 1: just to make sure I'm not missing any you know, 8 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: breaking news or updates or anything like that. And just 9 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:27,639 Speaker 1: so happens, coincidentally, I run across an op ed in 10 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: the La Times that is was this today? That they 11 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: just ran this? I think it is, Yeah, coincidentally, and 12 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: I hadn't even seen this, but I was already planning 13 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 1: a segment on flights. Right. The reason is we were 14 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: talking about holiday travel. We always talk about holiday travel 15 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: this time of year. This look, there's two big topics 16 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: around Thanksgiving weekend. Right. The big topics are travel and shopping, 17 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: and then you can do some other topics about mental 18 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 1: health around the family. You can talk about recipes and leftovers. Well, 19 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: this is just kind of the breakdown of the holiday weekend. Right, 20 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,199 Speaker 1: So I'm looking up stories for the obligatory conversation about 21 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: holiday travel, and there's good news, by the way, and 22 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: that is that LAX is not as bad as what 23 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: you might think. Airports with the most delays. Let's see, 24 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: there's a few ties in here. I'll start with I'll 25 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: start with number ten Dallas love Field. That's where Southwest 26 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 1: goes in Dallas, Newark, Houston. It's the George Bush Intercontinental. 27 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: The kahuli is that how you say that? In Hawaii anyway? 28 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: Hawaiian Airport Miami Chicago Midway sucks. Terrible. Airport Baltimore, Washington, BWI, Denver, Orlando. 29 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: Number two most is Las Vegas, which is listed in 30 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: this study is mcaren but I believe this now, Harry Reid. 31 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 1: And then the worst for delayed departures Fort Lauderdale as 32 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 1: far as canceled flights ten Boston, nine, Austin Bergstrom that 33 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: must be in Texas eight, JFK seven, Denver six, Minneapolis, Dallas, 34 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: Fort Worth, LaGuardia, Newark again Fort Lauderdale, and the worst 35 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: is Dallas love Field. Now the busiest airports, this is 36 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: where LAX comes in at number five. LAX is the 37 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 1: fifth busiest. But you notice it didn't make the top 38 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: ten for canceled flights. It didn't make the top ten. 39 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: It's actually eleven because there was a tie for number three. 40 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: Didn't make the top eleven for the most delays. Lax, 41 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: the fifth busiest in the country, doesn't make the list 42 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: for those more dubious categories. In fact, I believe that 43 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: only let's see la X is number five as far 44 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: as busiest Chicago, not Chicago Midway. Chicago Midway sucks. Denver 45 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 1: is on that list, and Denver had a lot of 46 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: canceled flights and delayed flights. Dallas Fort Worthead canceled flights 47 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: as well, and Atlanta is the busiest airport has been 48 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: for decades. Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International busiest airport. It also 49 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: does not have any It doesn't make the top ten 50 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: forward most delayser canceled plates. So that said, the point 51 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: is Lax not as bad as what we'd like to think. 52 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: As far as the plane's getting out on time. Now 53 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: you getting into Lax on time, that might be a 54 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: different story, like, oh good, we're right here in the horseshoe. 55 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: We've made it, and nope, you didn't. Still didn't get there. Terrible. So, 56 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: as I was looking at travel stories, I run across 57 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: this The story from CNN, right, and evidently there's a 58 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: viral video out there that shows a wheelchair being tossed 59 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: down a plane. Here was the CNN International doing this report. 60 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 2: American Airlines is reviewing a video that went viral on 61 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 2: TikTok showing a passenger's wheelchair crashing onto the tarmac. 62 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: Not even just a little crash either, and you. 63 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 2: Can see it tumble down and bounce over a metal barrier. 64 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 1: Okay, when she says you can see it tumble down, 65 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: you can't because radio. So the wheelchair is obviously the 66 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,840 Speaker 1: cargo holder. Maybe yeah, it's cargo hold, and it comes 67 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:27,720 Speaker 1: out and it goes to the conveyor belt. This is 68 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: the conveyor belt that they would use to drop luggage. 69 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: But it's kind of a steep conveyor belt. So normally 70 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: the luggage would go to the conveyor belt, it would 71 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,239 Speaker 1: come down and then someone would be at the bottom. 72 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: They'd take the luggage and throw it onto the luggage cart. Right, 73 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: So in this case, somebody puts the wheelchair on the 74 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 1: top and then pushes it down, and I mean it 75 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: flies down this conveyor belt again steep, and you've got 76 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: wheelchair on wheels. Flies down, hits that metal barrier, flips 77 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: over the barrier, and then runs into the the luggage 78 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: cart that is I would say, fifteen twenty feet away airborne. 79 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 1: That's somebody's legs. You're doing that too. 80 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:15,799 Speaker 2: It's brought renewed attention to the hardships experience by disabled travelers. 81 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 2: American Airlines released a statement saying, in part quote, this 82 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 2: visual is deeply concerning. 83 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: We'll raise our prices again and then we'll assuage all 84 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: of your concerns. Sorry, it's just me being snarky. 85 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,600 Speaker 2: And we are gathering more details so that we can 86 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 2: address them with our team. We will continue to work 87 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 2: hard to improve our handling of assists assisted devices across 88 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 2: our network, and they also promise to install wheelchair movers 89 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 2: and lifts at airports with high mobility device traffic, but 90 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 2: did not provide a timeline for that. 91 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,239 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, they're going, we're gonna. We're gonna. We're gonna 92 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 1: do good stuff. We're gonna, that's the argument. We're gonna. No, 93 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: but we're gonna. So I just happened again during the 94 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:05,720 Speaker 1: last commercial break. I just happened to see this op 95 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 1: ed this in the Early Times. The Opinion is flying 96 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: while disabled is a nightmare. It shouldn't be this way, Yes, 97 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: Susan costas Road. I live in Boston. I want to 98 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: visit my daughter in Los Angeles. Easy right, book a flight, 99 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 1: visit daughter, fly home. If only I use a power 100 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,799 Speaker 1: wheelchair that costs about as much as a small suv. 101 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: I'm terrified it could be damaged by an airline. My chair, 102 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: a quantum edge is essential to my getting around to 103 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 1: having a life. The quantum and I met two years 104 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: ago and have been inseparable ever since. I like this writing. 105 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 1: Actually this is kind of fun. I didn't see it 106 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: coming our relationship. It never occurred to me that I 107 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: could develop a crippling illness that would eventually require use 108 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 1: of a four hundred pound mobility device. But I digress. 109 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: I like the love story to the wheelchair. So it 110 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: just back to visiting my daughter, or rather not visiting. 111 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 1: To fly to LA I must relinquish the quat them 112 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:02,679 Speaker 1: and pray that it won't be in pieces when I land. 113 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: Airlines mishandled thousands of power wheelchairs each year. More than 114 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: one at every one hundred wheelchairs and scooters transported in 115 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: the cargo hold are damaged. Delayed or lost. Weis did 116 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 1: a story on this few years back, and as I 117 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: was pulling audio for it, I ran across their tail 118 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: and it was following this woman around and the woman 119 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: had this power wheelchair. And I don't recall if the 120 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: audio that I pulled has this part in it the wheelchair. 121 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: They said it was about thirty grand. So when I 122 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: hear the story in the op ed from the La Times, 123 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 1: a woman saying that the Quantum Edge costs as much 124 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: as a small suv. That's in line with what I've 125 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: seen elsewhere. It ain't cheap. And their advanced devices, right, 126 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: I mean these are big, but they are. It represents 127 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: so much. It's independence. It's the legs of the individuals, right, 128 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: and here you've got airlines. They go, oh, no, no, no, 129 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: we'll take really good care of it. It'll be great. 130 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: And the story Wece did, they're following this woman and 131 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: they're talking about it. It just happened to work out 132 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: this way. They're following this woman. She's describing how much 133 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: of a pain it is to fly. Vice has got 134 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: cameras that follow her to the airport. She relinquishes her chair, 135 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: has to face the indignities of being dragged around on. 136 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: It's not even a wheelchair that they use. I mean, 137 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: it's basically a luggage cart that they strap a person 138 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: onto and then drag her onto the plane. She says, 139 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: this terribly humiliating. But then sure enough they get to 140 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: the location where they were headed, they go to get 141 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 1: the chair, and as she goes to the baggage carousel 142 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:54,839 Speaker 1: or whatever, and the chair is brought out, and it's 143 00:08:54,920 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: obvious this chair is wrecked. It's not even a question of, oh, well, 144 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: maybe they just folded it funny or something. No, it 145 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: comes out and you go, I mean, did you put 146 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: that through a trash compactor? And the woman tried to 147 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: keep her cool. I would have been crying. I would 148 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: have been absolutely devastated. So that's kind of what this story, 149 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: the vice story is talking about. 150 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 3: It even worse than all that's required to get on 151 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,439 Speaker 3: the plane can be what happens after landing. 152 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, here it is. 153 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:24,840 Speaker 3: Because wheelchair users don't just entrust their lives to the airlines, 154 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 3: they also have to hand over their custom built medical equipment, 155 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 3: which in Lado's case, costs upwards of thirty thousand dollars. 156 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: Oh there was and there thirty grand thirty grand Oh 157 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: my god, it is broken. And this is when they 158 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:40,320 Speaker 1: wheel it out and you just go, well, of course 159 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: it's broken. You can see that from a mile away. 160 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: How did it break that badly? How it's it's so 161 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 1: badly broken you almost have to think somebody did it intentionally? Really, 162 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I've loaded enough u hols to know 163 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: how to accidentally break things, but I've loaded it in 164 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 1: a few hauls to know how to protect the things 165 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: I really care about. And I gotta tell you, if 166 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: I saw somebody's thirty thousand dollars wheelchair and I'm in 167 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: charge of packing that, I know that's kind of an 168 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: important thing. Oh no, no, that that's supposed to be 169 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 1: firmly on here. And yeah, so it's just in pieces. 170 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 1: And now the control box is snapped off of the arm. 171 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 1: How she even going to control the thing? Okay, all right, again, 172 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: she tried to keep her cool. I would have lost 173 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: my marbles. I'm going to try not to have a 174 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: complete freak out right now. Yep. I have some duct tape, 175 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: duct tape, and we are going to duct tape duct tape. 176 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 1: She actually had to pack duct tape just in case 177 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 1: the airline broke her wheelchair because she knew the chances 178 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 1: are good enough. I may have to Magui for a 179 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: solution to this. At the end. 180 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:55,320 Speaker 3: The US Department of Transportation says last October, airlines were 181 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:59,959 Speaker 3: damaging an average of thirty five wheelchairs and mobility scooters every. 182 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: Day, thirty five a day. Well, we just gave him 183 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: some duct tape and called it God. Nope, not how 184 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 1: that works. 185 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 3: Travelers with disabilities have repeatedly gone viral during busy travel times, 186 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 3: sharing their experiences on TikTok all. 187 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 4: I knew that this would happen to me eventually because 188 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 4: it happens to friends of mine every day. 189 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 1: That's actually breaking our legs. So many people to go 190 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: through this physical and emotional trauma of it. For some kids, 191 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. And so the more I can do to 192 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: call out airlines that are doing this, the better. It's 193 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:45,839 Speaker 1: just ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous. The idea that you are 194 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 1: treating people with dignity is laughable, absolutely laughable. Speaking of disabilities, 195 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: in one case, someone who has prosthetic legs made his 196 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: and then became infamous. He's back in the news again. 197 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: I'll tell you who that is. And why next. I'm 198 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 1: Chris merrill In for John and Ken. 199 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 200 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 5: AM six. 201 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: Forty and you can sign up your business at t 202 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty dot com slash small Business. 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Well, they just don't hold murderers in South 212 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 1: Africa like they do here in the United. 213 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 4: States, making news disgrace. South African Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius 214 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:07,560 Speaker 4: is granted parole. Vistorias was convicted of killing his girlfriend, 215 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 4: Reva steam Camp, almost a decade ago, and it's been 216 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 4: in prison ever since. Vistorias was previously denied parole back 217 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 4: in March. He will be released from prison on January 218 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:18,440 Speaker 4: the fifth. 219 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, so there you go, the guy is out. This 220 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 1: was one of those bizarre stories that kept getting more 221 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: and more bizarre the longer it went on. And I 222 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 1: don't know if you recalled this, but at first we got, 223 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 1: if I'm remembering this correctly, at first we got noticed that, 224 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 1: oh my goodness, Oscar Pistorius's girlfriend was murdered, and then 225 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: it was there's questions about how she was murdered. Then 226 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: there's did he do it? Then he gets arrested and 227 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 1: he said, no, no, I just I thought it was 228 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: an intruder. So he shot her through a bathroom door. 229 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 1: If you don't recall, shot her through the bathroom door 230 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 1: of his house in twenty thirteen. The argument was that 231 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: he was mad, and he said, no, no, I just 232 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 1: thought there was an intruder on the other side of 233 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: that door, and so he just started firing indiscriminately. And 234 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 1: the question was, well, did you notice that your girlfriend 235 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 1: wasn't next to you? Did you check for her anything else? No? 236 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: So this is as it went on. Let me see 237 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: he was convicted. Pistorius was convicted of manslaughter. He pled 238 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: not guilty to one charge of murder and a firearms charge. 239 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: Prosecutor said, no, he murdered her. They had an argument 240 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: and he ended up shooting her. But he was only 241 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: convicted of manslaughter and he got a five year sentence. 242 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: So there were a lot of us that were scratching 243 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: our heads. In fact, we litigated this on the radio 244 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: a few times and we said, Okay, how does this 245 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 1: guy he didn't have his legs on at the time. 246 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: If you're unfamiliar, he was called blade Runner. And again 247 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: if you don't recall this story, he was called blade 248 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: runner because he had these springy prosthetics that almost almost 249 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 1: looked like is it fair to say gazelle like? I 250 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 1: would say they were gazelle like. They were like large 251 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: leaf springs basically, And that's what he used. And he 252 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: was very very fast, a Paralympic gold medalist, and then 253 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: qualified for the the regular I guess regular Olympics. It 254 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 1: feels feels like I'm being prejudiced. But he qualified for 255 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 1: the the Olympics. Okay, So he qualifies for the Olympics, 256 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: and then there was a big debate about whether or 257 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: not he should even be running in the Olympics. Did 258 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: he have an unfair advantage here? He has machinery rather 259 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: than human power. So there was this debate over unfair advantage, 260 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: and then he got smoked, just smoke. But it was 261 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: a feel good story that he made it in the 262 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: first place, and so on and so forth. Had he 263 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 1: won the argument over whether it was okay or not, 264 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: the ethical argument would have continued on and carried on 265 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: for a while, but he didn't. Instead, the next time 266 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 1: we hear about this guy, Blade Runner, is when all 267 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 1: of a sudden his girlfriend is dead, and again he 268 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: gets charged, and we were litigating this and we're going, 269 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 1: how is it possible that he didn't know that it 270 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: was her? He didn't call out, he didn't check that 271 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: she was next to him, and then there were arguments 272 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 1: over carrying her body, but he didn't have his legs on, 273 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 1: and just the stories kept making these weird twists and turns, 274 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: and it became more and more evident, at least in 275 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: the court of public debate. It became more and more 276 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 1: evident that yet he definitely, I mean, we know he 277 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: killed her, but it became more and more reasonable to 278 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: suspect that he did it on purpose. Right, But he 279 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:08,280 Speaker 1: gets sentenced to manslaughter and then and it's a different 280 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:10,920 Speaker 1: court system they have in South Africa. Had he been 281 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 1: sentenced here in the United States a convicted of manslaughter, 282 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: that would have been it. But instead in South Africa, 283 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 1: the prosecution then sends us up to a higher court. 284 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: So a higher court overturned the manslaughter conviction for Oscar Pastorius, 285 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:30,919 Speaker 1: and they said, you know what, that wasn't manslaughter, that 286 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: was murder, and you're not doing five years. You're gonna 287 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:38,880 Speaker 1: do six years because that's murder. Again A little bit different. Take. 288 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: I mean, you get six years for smoking enough drugs 289 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 1: in the United States by yourself without anybody else getting hurt. 290 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: You get six years for that. You had enough possession, 291 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,720 Speaker 1: enough smoking on your own stuff. You're gonna go do time. 292 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:56,159 Speaker 1: South Africa's like you killed your girlfriend of cold blood, 293 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,359 Speaker 1: so we are gonna send you away probably until the 294 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 1: next Olympics. Ish. Anyway, the prosecutors then appealed that sentencing, 295 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:12,440 Speaker 1: and then another court, the Supreme Court of Appeal in 296 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 1: South Africa, said okay, you're right, he should not be 297 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: doing six years for murder. He should do thirteen years, 298 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: but eligible for parole after ten. And that's what's happening. 299 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,440 Speaker 1: So he's been he's been paroled and he's getting out 300 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:32,959 Speaker 1: on January. So moral of the story is do your 301 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,880 Speaker 1: dirty deeds in South Africa. I guess well. He talked 302 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 1: about California being light on crying. God killed his girlfriend, 303 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:48,160 Speaker 1: cold blood victim impact on this one. The girlfriend's mother says, 304 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,680 Speaker 1: you know this is a this is atrocious. I fear 305 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: for others. Now, well that makes perfect sense to me too. 306 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 1: I'd fear for others as well. All right, maybe my 307 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 1: faceavorite story of the last week was the Millionaire Hermit. 308 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 1: If you didn't catch it, sit tight for this one 309 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: because it's one of those I'm not crying your crying stories. Okay, 310 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: all right, that's next. I'm Chris Marrick. 311 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI AMI. 312 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 1: The best story of this last week, no doubt about it. 313 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: If you missed this, I am excited to share it 314 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:28,639 Speaker 1: with you. I'm Chris Maryland for John and KENKFI AM 315 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 1: six forty. It's more stimulating talk. So imagine. And I 316 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 1: don't know if you have this or not, but I 317 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 1: did growing up there. I grew up in a relatively 318 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: poor area. There was a little bit of money, but 319 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 1: we were not unlike southern California. I grew up on 320 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: the shores of Lake Michigan, so right on the right, 321 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:54,439 Speaker 1: on the beaches, right on the shoreline, expensive homes. Not 322 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:58,639 Speaker 1: California expensive, but expensive homes. Once you got away from 323 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:03,639 Speaker 1: Lake Michigan a little bit things tailed off. And it 324 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 1: was funny when I when I went to when I 325 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: first moved to San Diego, everyone referred to certain areas 326 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: as East County, and and I thought, oh my gosh, 327 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 1: that's the perfect description for where I grew up. East 328 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 1: County is very very East County. Just a different, different vibe, 329 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:24,479 Speaker 1: totally different vibe, and certainly not as much money in 330 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:32,640 Speaker 1: those areas. We have in my home town. A lot 331 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:39,120 Speaker 1: of people on financial assistance, a lot of people who 332 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 1: are cooking math no joke, a lot of meth cooking 333 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 1: going on deep in the woods. A lot of people 334 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: who still hunt for their dinners, whether it's in season 335 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 1: or not. That sort of thing. Okay, So where I 336 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: grew up, there was always there were always rumors about 337 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: somebody that would live somewhere in some dilapidated place, could 338 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: be a trailer, could be what always appeared. I won't forget. 339 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:05,920 Speaker 1: There was one that just appeared to be an almost 340 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: broken down barn, and I guess somebody had used that 341 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: as their house. But then there were rumors that that 342 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:15,119 Speaker 1: person in there, you know, they're a millionaire. No they're not. 343 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: Yeah they're a millionaire. No they're not. Some of these were. 344 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 1: I mean this was like, I just imagine, you know, 345 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 1: those kids in Tequila Mockingbird, I just imagine them looking 346 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: at Boo Radley and going, you know, secretly, he's a 347 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: millionaire who eats children, right, I mean that's sort of 348 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 1: what we were as kids. They're secretly a millionaire, and 349 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 1: well why, you know, why are they living that way? Well, 350 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: for some people, blessed or the meek, right, they shall 351 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: inherit the earth. I have some relatives that are like that. 352 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 1: They live very simple lives, very basic lives intentionally intentionally, 353 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,679 Speaker 1: so they are quite frugal. And I know that they 354 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 1: have saved a good deal of money, and I know 355 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,360 Speaker 1: that they've donated a good deal of money, but they 356 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: don't show how much money they have. I always respected that. 357 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,200 Speaker 1: I love that. Right. So there's this guy in New 358 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: Hampshire that fits the bill on everything I've just described, 359 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: kind of a Boo Radley looking dude. Guy's name was 360 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: Jeffrey Holt and he worked for a mobile home park 361 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: in New Hampshire. Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Tiny place, right, So 362 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,200 Speaker 1: this guy lived in one of the mobile homes. He 363 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,159 Speaker 1: had been at one point in his life driving instructor, 364 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: but he didn't own a car. He taught drivers into 365 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,639 Speaker 1: high schoolers, but he didn't drive a car. Instead, he 366 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:43,639 Speaker 1: rode a bicycle, and as he got older and he 367 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:47,119 Speaker 1: had trouble riding the bicycle, he switched up switched it 368 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,159 Speaker 1: up for a riding lawnmower. That's it. He just had 369 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: a riding lawnmower. And he lived in a single wide 370 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:56,360 Speaker 1: at the mobile home park. And if you went into 371 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: his single wide trailer at the mobile home park, they 372 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 1: said he didn't have a whole lot of furniture, no TV, 373 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 1: no computer. They said the legs of the bed went 374 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: through the floor, which would tell me that the single 375 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 1: wide is a little bit older and probably rotting out somewhat. 376 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:18,879 Speaker 1: So his best friend owned the mobile home park. The 377 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 1: best friend's name was Edwin Smokey Smith Smokey. I don't 378 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,479 Speaker 1: know if you've ever met anybody that has the nickname smokey, 379 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:29,360 Speaker 1: but They usually get that nickname because you rarely see 380 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 1: them without a cigarette their hands. That's just what you 381 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 1: call somebody smoky. Good chances because they always got a 382 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:46,360 Speaker 1: dart going. So back in June, this guy Holt, not Smoky, 383 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 1: but Holt, the simple guy, the driver's that instructor. Uh 384 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: lived in the single wide you know where this is going. 385 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: He died and secretly he was a multi millionaire. So 386 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 1: now what do you do with the money. So evidently, 387 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 1: in having a conversation with Smokey, Smokey, by the way, 388 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: runs a trailer park, but at one point had been 389 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,679 Speaker 1: a state legislator, so that's pretty great. Smokey was the 390 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: executor of this guy's estate, and Smokey said that at 391 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: one point he confided in him that his investments were 392 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:31,479 Speaker 1: doing better than he expected. He said, listen, I got 393 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,720 Speaker 1: some investments are doing better than I ever expected. Wasn't 394 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,160 Speaker 1: sure what to do with the money. So Smokey said, well, 395 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 1: remember the town. Smokey said that old Holt old the 396 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 1: Jeffrey Holt actually had a master's degree, had done these 397 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 1: odd jobs, but had been very frugal, had been a 398 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: project manager earlier in his life, and the only thing 399 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,360 Speaker 1: he seemed to spend his money on certainly wasn't vehicles. 400 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,399 Speaker 1: It wasn't a TV, wasn't a computer. He loved model 401 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,360 Speaker 1: trains and model cars. And once they walked into his trailer, 402 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 1: his single wide wall, the wall wall the wall, model 403 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 1: cars up on the wall. Shelving had been built for 404 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 1: these model cars. There were trains that ran through the 405 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,360 Speaker 1: living room, trains in all the bedrooms, a model car 406 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: stacked up on the sofa, on the end tables, and 407 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:24,480 Speaker 1: there was no room for a TV or computer because 408 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: it was full of model trains, model cars. It's just 409 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:33,119 Speaker 1: what he did. He was just chill. And so what 410 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:40,199 Speaker 1: he and Smokey decided is that when Holt passed, he 411 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: would donate all of his money to the town. So 412 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 1: the town only has forty two hundred people in it 413 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 1: and they just got this grant basically a three point 414 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:56,439 Speaker 1: eight million which is pretty dagon cool if you ask me. Now, 415 00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,439 Speaker 1: I believe that this is going to be put into it. Yes, 416 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 1: it's gonna go in to a trust, a foundation, and 417 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: it's gonna dole out one hundred fifty thousand dollars annually. 418 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: So this guy's legacy will live on in perpetuity at 419 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, plus whatever 420 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 1: additional interest is accrued, and blah blah blah whoever's running 421 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 1: the foundation. But I thought that is so great and unsuspecting, right, 422 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: this is just a meager fella lived in a trailer 423 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 1: at the trailer park now has a legacy in that 424 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: town that will live on forever. And if I'm being 425 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,439 Speaker 1: completely honest, I've dreamt about doing this sort of thing before. 426 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: I've thought about what if I hadn't and I don't, 427 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: But what if I had money? What would I want 428 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 1: that to go toward? Well, one, I want my I 429 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:46,879 Speaker 1: want to make sure my family's okay. But also I've 430 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 1: given my kids every opportunity, you know, So my kids 431 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: are okay, and I don't think that they need a 432 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:54,200 Speaker 1: whole lot for me. I don't think I need to 433 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 1: give them everything. If I have an abundance. Yeah, I 434 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,680 Speaker 1: want to make sure that my kids are okay, give 435 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,200 Speaker 1: them a little bit that might help them do good 436 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 1: in their lives, whatever it might be. But numerous times 437 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: I've thought about this. I told you that the town 438 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 1: that I grew up in didn't have a whole lot 439 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: of money. It was a little East County right, But 440 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,679 Speaker 1: man if I didn't have some wonderful memories, and the 441 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,639 Speaker 1: town has really gone to crap, really gone to crap. 442 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 1: It's terrible. Well, when I visit my folks, it's just 443 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 1: it's just bad. I mean, it is one of those 444 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: It's a Midwest town with the main street and all 445 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:38,200 Speaker 1: the windows are boarded up. It's bad. And I've often thought, 446 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,160 Speaker 1: what if I had the money, what would I do? 447 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,159 Speaker 1: And I keep coming back to I don't think I 448 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: want to help the town because they put themselves in 449 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 1: that position, so screw them. But there are a couple 450 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 1: of organizations in that town that always meant a tremendous 451 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 1: amount to me. I thought the Cub Scouts and the 452 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 1: Boy Scouts did a lot of really good work when 453 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: I was younger. They just have run out of people 454 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: who are dedicated enough to help, and I don't know, 455 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 1: maybe they're just tired of selling popcorn. I always thought 456 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,360 Speaker 1: that helping out one of those civic groups for kids 457 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 1: would be important. The other one, speaking of kids, that 458 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: I thought had a huge impact on my life was 459 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 1: playing t ball. Man, I love playing t ball every spring. 460 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:23,359 Speaker 1: There was nothing I wanted more than for the snow 461 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 1: to melt again. It wasn't Southern California. I wanted the 462 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: snow to melt so that Dad and I could go 463 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: out in the yard and play catch. And we would 464 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 1: start early in the year with a tennis ball because 465 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,240 Speaker 1: I was afraid of that hardball. I hadn't seen it 466 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: in a while. But we'd throw that tennis ball for 467 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 1: a few days, and then we'd start tossing the hardball, 468 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 1: and then I got comfortable with that hardball again. I 469 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: couldn't wait for T ball. We go to T ball 470 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: practice out there in my T shirt and my jeans, 471 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 1: because that's what you did when you were a little 472 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 1: kid in the eighties playing T ball. You ran around 473 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 1: a jeans. Right now, everybody's got their cleaves and their 474 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: special practice baseball pants and everything, and they're sliding shorts. 475 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 1: Oh No, we had jeans, an old pair of LA gear. 476 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 1: That's what we had. And I loved it. I loved 477 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: every second of the camaraderie. I loved the influence that 478 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 1: the coaches had over me. I loved the I loved 479 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 1: getting ice cream with the with the other guys after 480 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 1: the game. Those te ball fields have gone to crap. 481 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, just like this guy leaving 482 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 1: four million dollars to his hometown, there's this part of 483 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: me that just says, man, I wish, I wish that. 484 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 1: I wish I could save enough money. I still have time. 485 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 1: I suppose I wish I could save enough money so 486 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 1: that when the time comes, I can put together some 487 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 1: sort of a foundation, just to make sure that those 488 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 1: kids in my hometown have a chance, even if it's 489 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 1: just a little bit of joy when they're six years old, 490 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 1: because Lord knows life is tough in a poor town. 491 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 1: At the very least would give him a head start, 492 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 1: some good ballfields to start with. So yeah, not only 493 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 1: do I love that this guy did this in New Hampshire, 494 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,160 Speaker 1: it inspires me. That's why it's the best story of 495 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: this whole week. And if you missed it, I'm glad 496 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: I got to share it with you. From the best 497 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 1: story of the whole week to maybe the worst story 498 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,720 Speaker 1: of the whole week. And it's not Black Friday, it 499 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: is Brown Friday. All right, we'll flush you down next. 500 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: I'm Chris merril In for Johnna Ken. 501 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 502 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 5: am six forty. 503 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,000 Speaker 1: Hey, Chris Merrill in for Joanni ken k I am 504 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 1: six forty more stimulating talk. I told you I do 505 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 1: a little surfing on the internets, all right. So I'm 506 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 1: on Katla's website, right, and they've got this, you know, 507 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 1: best Black Friday deals whatever. And I was just asking 508 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 1: my wife today what she wants for Christmas. She goes, oh, no, 509 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 1: So I end up clicking on one thing and it 510 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 1: takes me to Amazon, and then Amazon it makes other 511 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 1: suggestions including it's actually called Oh, this is good. It's 512 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:12,440 Speaker 1: the brand name is Horror HRR, and that is exactly 513 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 1: what this is. It's the Horror slack line pulley with 514 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 1: fifty two foot zip line. Oh, also comes to the 515 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:25,360 Speaker 1: Ninja Warrior obstacle. Course. It's backyard toys for kids and adults. 516 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 1: This is exactly what all children need is their own 517 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: ultra smooth zip line. And the photograph has got I 518 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 1: mean it's obviously photoshopped, right, but the picture itself has 519 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: a child who can't be more than three years old, 520 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: hanging on to the zip line with no safety, no harness, 521 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 1: no nothing, just hanging, just hanging on and zipping. Yeah, 522 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get that from my neighbor right there. Oh, 523 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 1: he's got a seven year old that has yet to 524 00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:01,440 Speaker 1: break an arm. This is perfect. Oh, this would be 525 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 1: like it's called zipline, it's the number one best seller 526 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 1: and zip line kits for backyards. This was This is 527 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 1: like when you saw your neighbor come home with a 528 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,520 Speaker 1: trampoline and you thought, oh, someone's getting a casp this year. 529 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,000 Speaker 1: That's exactly what that is. A zipline for children in 530 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 1: the backyard. Not a great plan. Oh, God bless them. 531 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 1: And the picture is a three year old looking like 532 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:29,880 Speaker 1: he's about to fall off. Excellent. God bless the holidays. Really, 533 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 1: God bless the holidays. We are just nuts, aren't we. 534 00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 1: We're just bonkers. Love the headline from Katla too. It 535 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 1: said why plumbers call it brown Friday? And they said 536 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 1: it's not why you think, which I guess I kind 537 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 1: of appreciate Katla's self awareness that the headline is why 538 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 1: plumbers call it brown Friday? Then they know that's clickbaity, 539 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:56,960 Speaker 1: but then they say it's not why you think, which 540 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:03,240 Speaker 1: acknowledges what the clickbait inference would be, but also actually 541 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,120 Speaker 1: adds a second level of clickbaitiness to it, like, well, 542 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 1: if it's not for lots of pooping, then why is 543 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 1: it so good on you? Katie La? Just really well done? 544 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 1: So what is it? Then? What is it? It's actually 545 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,160 Speaker 1: just clogged drains. And you've probably heard a number of 546 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,480 Speaker 1: commercials that we have here on KFI about clogged rains 547 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: around the holidays and things like that. They say clogged drains, 548 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:29,360 Speaker 1: garbage disposals, broken garbage disposals. Is the reason that that 549 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,600 Speaker 1: plumbers call it clogged Friday or excuse me, brown Friday. 550 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 1: They say it's not because of clogged toilets. Huh. Yeah. 551 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,000 Speaker 1: They said that it's more food cooked on Thanksgiving, which 552 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 1: means more waste and people aren't disposing of it correctly. 553 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:46,360 Speaker 1: And as much as you want to say more waste 554 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,800 Speaker 1: coming out of your poop shoot too, Nope, that's not 555 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,600 Speaker 1: the case. Come to find out, an awful lot of 556 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 1: people are throwing everything they can down the garbage disposal. 557 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 1: I grew up in a house like this too, where 558 00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:01,560 Speaker 1: everything went down Banana peels garbage disposal, big shells garbage disposal, 559 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,840 Speaker 1: apple cores garbage disposal. The thought process was if it 560 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,319 Speaker 1: was organic, then it would dissolve in the We had 561 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,759 Speaker 1: a septic tank, but it would dissolve I suppose in 562 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,080 Speaker 1: the sewer system too, So there was everything went down 563 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,120 Speaker 1: the garbage disposal. What the plumbers are saying is now, 564 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:19,560 Speaker 1: don't do that. Don't do that. If you've got things 565 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,840 Speaker 1: that can't be liquefied, don't throw them in the garbage disposal. 566 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,640 Speaker 1: So you got some leftover pancake batter, yeah, turn on 567 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 1: your turn on your sink. Rants hit the garbage disposal. Fine, 568 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,160 Speaker 1: banana peals, don't don't do that. Don't do that. That 569 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:39,439 Speaker 1: can go in the trash can. So not everything should 570 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,719 Speaker 1: go down the garbage disposal. It also talks about they 571 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:47,000 Speaker 1: say brown brown Friday, because certain liquids should not go 572 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,200 Speaker 1: down the drain. Can attest to this as well, no 573 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:56,480 Speaker 1: fatty oils and grease down the drain. Once lived in 574 00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:01,839 Speaker 1: an apartment complex where the people below cook a lot 575 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:06,440 Speaker 1: of ethnic food, and I guess they didn't when they 576 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 1: drained things. They just drained it right into the sink. 577 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 1: And if you're somebody that drains everything of the sink, 578 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,440 Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be ethnic food. It's just in 579 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,040 Speaker 1: their case, it was ethnic food that they were draining 580 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,960 Speaker 1: into the sink, like bacon grease and you're just dumping 581 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,799 Speaker 1: that in the sink. Or maybe you're cooking hamburgers or 582 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:23,560 Speaker 1: tackle meat or something like that and you're draining it 583 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,959 Speaker 1: into the sink. Don't do that. No, no, no, don't 584 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:30,760 Speaker 1: do that. There are other ways to dispose of that grease. 585 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 1: But down the sink is down the drain is the 586 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,000 Speaker 1: worst place to go. They say, it's a common misconception 587 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,239 Speaker 1: that pouring grease and oil down the drain followed by 588 00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:44,200 Speaker 1: hot water will fix the problem. Experts say, no, it 589 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 1: does not fix the problem. Pouring the hot water does not. 590 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,359 Speaker 1: Kind of pushes it down the drain a little bit 591 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:52,960 Speaker 1: further before it solidifies. In fact, I've read articles about 592 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,360 Speaker 1: don't put hot water in there. Instead of pouring the 593 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,200 Speaker 1: liquids down the drain, people should store the liquid in 594 00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,760 Speaker 1: a container or throw it away. We have a little 595 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:04,040 Speaker 1: glass jar, whether it's an old jar of salsa or 596 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,479 Speaker 1: cheese dip or pickle relish or something, there's a little 597 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:11,279 Speaker 1: glass jar that we have. And so when we cook, 598 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,799 Speaker 1: we drain into the glass jar, and then we save 599 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,000 Speaker 1: that and throw it all away at once. And then finally, 600 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,879 Speaker 1: why is it to Brown Friday. According to KTLA, it's 601 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,400 Speaker 1: because toilets are not second trash cans. Experts say toilets 602 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,800 Speaker 1: are only suitable to get rid of human waste and 603 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:31,240 Speaker 1: toilet paper, nothing else. And again firsthand experience on this one, 604 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,520 Speaker 1: those flushable wipes not so flushable. Had a rental I 605 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,719 Speaker 1: was in when I lived in San Diego, and the 606 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:41,759 Speaker 1: toilet started backing up and it came up through the bathtub. Oh, 607 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,759 Speaker 1: I was so disgusting, And come to find out it 608 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:52,040 Speaker 1: was the flushable flushable wipes. They're not they don't really dissolve. 609 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:58,160 Speaker 1: They got stuck and fortunately or unfortunately I suppose, I 610 00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 1: was able to access the dream. There was an access 611 00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,520 Speaker 1: in the garage before it connected with the main sewer 612 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,360 Speaker 1: line out in front of the house, and so was 613 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,439 Speaker 1: able to get into that. And I had to use 614 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,160 Speaker 1: my wife's kitchen tongs and reach down in there and 615 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:19,480 Speaker 1: start pulling out old flushable wipes until I was able 616 00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,160 Speaker 1: to get those all out and the water is flowing again. 617 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:23,680 Speaker 1: It was one of the more disgusting days that I 618 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:29,319 Speaker 1: had to deal with. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, you're 619 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,400 Speaker 1: probably getting ready to sit out and eat your leftovers 620 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,320 Speaker 1: now and Now you just heard me talk about flushable 621 00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,319 Speaker 1: wipes and the sewer dream, so you're welcome. Yeah, leftovers, 622 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,280 Speaker 1: leftovers are for quitters. The only reason you have leftovers 623 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:40,839 Speaker 1: because you didn't do the job right the first time. 624 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:44,840 Speaker 1: Just keep that in mind. All right, big story today 625 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:48,320 Speaker 1: coming out of Israel. The four day truce has begun 626 00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:52,760 Speaker 1: and we have hostages that have been exchanged. 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