1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,080 Speaker 1: I Am six forty. You're listening to the John and 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:09,119 Speaker 1: Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. You can 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: always pick up the show by checking out the on 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: demand John Kenn Podcasts will be posted after four o'clock 5 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: at CAFIAM six forty dot com and also on that 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. John is a couple of days off here 7 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: Debora Markle keep us updated on the news. A lot 8 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: of today's show will focus on the criminal justice system 9 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: and what we have to do to get rid of 10 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 1: some hacks who are really trying to overturn everything. They 11 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,639 Speaker 1: do not believe in incarceration, and on top of that, 12 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: they believe that anybody'd served their time, no matter what 13 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 1: the offense was, needs to be welcome back into society 14 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 1: and given positions, sometimes positions they should be nowhere near anyway. 15 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: The exciting news coming up at three o'clock, I'll be 16 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: talking to the former sheriff of Los Angeles County, alex 17 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 1: Vienna Weeva, who announced he's running for the only county 18 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: Board of Supervisors. Wouldn't that be funny if he won? 19 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: Him against those clowns that he has attacked and fought 20 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: when he was sheriff for so long. We're going to 21 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 1: talk to him in the three o'clock hour. Somebody else 22 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: that I just referred to hacks and the criminal justice 23 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: system just popped up on the radar with a story 24 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: that's gone viral. We're going to talk also later on 25 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:17,120 Speaker 1: about the mayor Burbank now being known as Mayor Spanky 26 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: because apparently he had a fundraiser a drag queen spanked him, 27 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: paddled him. Anyway, he's got some wild views, which is 28 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: more important than the fundraiser fiasco. We're going to begin 29 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: the show. We want to thank KTLA Channel five for 30 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 1: this story that they ran last night on their news. 31 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 1: It concerns the Studio City Neighborhood council. Some cities have 32 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: these things. It's not the city council. These are little 33 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: neighborhood councils where people get together and try to discuss 34 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: things and make recommendations, probably to their council member or 35 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: to other city officials, about what needs to be addressed 36 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: in their neighborhoods. Studio City, of course, in the valley, 37 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: we're talking about the district of Mithya Raman. She's the 38 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: La City council member. For this district story, is that 39 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: the neighborhood Council. The word they're using is imploded. A 40 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: bunch of members quit because they found out that they 41 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: voted in a convicted sex offender to be on the council, 42 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:16,679 Speaker 1: even after they alerted city leaders strange. The guy's name 43 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: is Ian Mitchell King, who presented himself as a nonpracticing 44 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: lawyer and business consultant. He joined the council in mid August, 45 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: but as I told you, most of the members have 46 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 1: now quit. While they voted him in, when they realized 47 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: for sure what they had done, they decided they might 48 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,119 Speaker 1: as well just blow the whole thing up. So key 49 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: to this story is one of the council members, Kim Klements, 50 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: who's going to join me now to give the first 51 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: hand story of what happened. Kim, Welcome to the John 52 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: and Ken Show. 53 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:46,919 Speaker 2: Hi, thank you for having me on. Appreciate it. 54 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, we want to thank Tami five for helping us 55 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: get you on the air. I want to start now. 56 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,119 Speaker 1: You're one of the first people to discover this man's background. 57 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 3: I did in preparation for my meeting that evening. We 58 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 3: have monthly need and in preparation I was just doing 59 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 3: some last minute research on the motions that were before 60 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 3: us that evening, and we had a person looking to 61 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 3: fill a vacant seat on our board, and so I 62 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 3: did some checking into him, and it turns out that 63 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 3: one thing led to another, and as you said, it 64 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 3: as a convicted sex offender. I found it incredibly hard 65 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 3: to believe that that's what I was looking at. 66 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 2: I didn't know if it was the same person. 67 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 4: So I immediately reached out to our neighborhood Council president, Scott Mandel, 68 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 4: and inquired since I knew Scott had his information and 69 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 4: could verify and sure enough that that was the. 70 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: Case, so he confirmed it. 71 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 2: He did. 72 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 3: He confirmed it was the same guy, and he then 73 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 3: reached out to I mean, I had no idea what 74 00:03:58,280 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 3: to do. 75 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 2: So he reached out to. 76 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 3: The Department Neighborhood Empowerment, which is the entity that is 77 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 3: there as a resource that helps us since we are 78 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:16,359 Speaker 3: more lay persons than the la City Council, and he 79 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 3: reached out to them, and I believe the city attorney 80 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 3: that day as well, to see what we could do. 81 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 2: This motion was before us, it was on. 82 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 3: The agenda, and nobody knew. 83 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 2: What to do. 84 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 3: So as far as the Department Neighborhood Empowerment was concerned. 85 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 3: The information we received it forward was confusing as to 86 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:46,039 Speaker 3: how to handle things, and there was little time. It 87 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 3: was just a few hours before the meeting. There really 88 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 3: was little time to truly dig into the issue and 89 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 3: possibly come up with a solution that may have been 90 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 3: beneficial to all of us. But what was was that 91 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 3: this was a concern for people. This was a difficult 92 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 3: situation and a concern, and we we didn't know fully 93 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 3: what we could do and by way of what sort 94 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,720 Speaker 3: of questions we could ask him or not, And we 95 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 3: are bound by certain rules and Brown Act and Code 96 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 3: of Ethics and all kinds of things that had us 97 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 3: not talking amongst each other prior to the vote. And 98 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 3: that was very difficult because only two of us going 99 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,159 Speaker 3: into the meeting new and yet it's still since it 100 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 3: was so new. It was just a complete shock and 101 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 3: disbelief that this was before us. It's not what you 102 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:52,799 Speaker 3: would expect in your neighborhood council, that's for sure. 103 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: So I guess the shocking part to our listeners is 104 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: you did okay him on the council. 105 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 3: We did, even me, And that's why I ended up resigning. 106 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 2: I was so I can't even describe the words. 107 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:18,040 Speaker 3: I was just sick about the lack of direction, clear 108 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:22,479 Speaker 3: direction that we were given. And frankly, the Department of 109 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 3: Neighbored Empowerment their policy is that even the formerly incarcerated 110 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 3: or welcomed to the neighborhood council, they can serve it 111 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 3: is open to such persons. So I don't think that 112 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 3: there was even any avenue that would have kept us 113 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,919 Speaker 3: out of this dilemma and difficult position. 114 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: Five described it as the responses you got from the 115 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 1: city officials you contacted were filled with legalies and warnings 116 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: against harassment and defamation. So it sounds like somebody who 117 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: believed that the formerly incarcerated deserve a second chance was 118 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 1: pressuring you guys to ignore his sex offender background. 119 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 3: Well, the direction was given to our council president and 120 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 3: filtered my way, but it was I can't comment on 121 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 3: all the specifics. 122 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 2: They do have the paperwork. 123 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 3: And I've seen stuff. As I said, I think that 124 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 3: it was definitely unclear. And yeah, basically, if that is 125 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 3: their policy, not much that we could do. 126 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 1: Did you question him? Did you question him at all? 127 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: And publicly? 128 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 3: We tried, We were afraid that saying anything alluding to 129 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 3: his record or anything like that could be. 130 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 2: Problematic, so that we just avoided the. 131 00:07:55,800 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 3: Questions, tried to get information or see if he would 132 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 3: offer that information, but he did not, so the board 133 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 3: at the time of the vote didn't know except for 134 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 3: a couple of us. And as they said, I was 135 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 3: still frankly in disbelief that it was the same person, 136 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 3: and absent any other reason, he seemed like a qualified 137 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 3: and good candidate unless you knew that part. 138 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, well so, yeah. It says here that the full 139 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 1: board eventually learned about this criminal history and eleven of 140 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,439 Speaker 1: the fourteen members resigned. So, as you said, they didn't 141 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: all know this the night of the vote, but you 142 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: did correct, correct, how many would be included in this? 143 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: You knowing this? How many members did know this? Several? 144 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 2: Only no, only two of us actually knew. 145 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 3: And as they said, it, even having seen him his 146 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,839 Speaker 3: photo on the registry and what it still was sort 147 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 3: of unbelievable, Like I couldn't even fathomed that it was 148 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 3: in this situation, and the word yes just came out 149 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 3: of my mouth. 150 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 1: We could have called the time out and huddled with 151 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: the other members and said, look, we have some information 152 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 1: that's just come to light and it's disturbing. 153 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 3: We we cannot we are we can't do anything to 154 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,559 Speaker 3: influence votes ahead of emotion. 155 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 2: That's on the agenda. 156 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 3: That is my understanding, and we because if we discussed 157 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,440 Speaker 3: things ahead and outside of public view, that would have 158 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 3: been an issue. As they said, I think we just 159 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 3: really felt that our hands were tied and just didn't 160 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 3: exactly know what to do, which is the reason we 161 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 3: reached out to Done and city attorneys and Scott had 162 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 3: further conversations with them in days following. But yeah, we 163 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:59,079 Speaker 3: we could it just we were, as I said, I 164 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 3: think we were just really found and gagged by the 165 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 3: system and by what we knew and what we were 166 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 3: told and what we didn't know. 167 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like you could have voted no because 168 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: you knew something that a lot of other members of 169 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 1: the council didn't know. 170 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 2: I could have. 171 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 3: That is true, and that is one reason why I 172 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 3: was just sick about all of it, that I didn't 173 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 3: just say no. But I was in disbelief that that. 174 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 2: Was even. 175 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:32,199 Speaker 3: The actual that he actually was a convicted sex offender. 176 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 1: I just what was the time frame before finding this 177 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: out and then your vote was it ours? What was 178 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: the kind of the hours? 179 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,719 Speaker 3: I think about three and a half hours, four hours, 180 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 3: and I was I was at work at the time 181 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 3: as well, so I had very little time to do 182 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 3: any further research or really let it sync in. 183 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: So clearly, for the record, now you don't believe a 184 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,440 Speaker 1: convicted sex offender belongs on the neighborhood council. 185 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 3: Absolutely not. We have a usemer on the board. We 186 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 3: always do, and we deal a lot with the community 187 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 3: and with the families and other other youth members, and 188 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 3: just it's not it's that's certainly not the. 189 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:18,079 Speaker 2: Face of Studio City. 190 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 3: That is not who you want I believe representing you and. 191 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 2: Handling your business. 192 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know exactly where all that sits. 193 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 3: I know that people would like to get back together, 194 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:35,239 Speaker 3: We would. 195 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 2: Like some resolve. 196 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:39,959 Speaker 3: I don't know exactly what that's going to be. By 197 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 3: the way, we are in two council districts Studio City, 198 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 3: thanks to the redistricting. 199 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 2: That occurred a couple of years ago I guess it was. 200 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 3: Now we are in Paul Grecorian's district and also Nathia Ramins, 201 00:11:55,280 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 3: so that made it particularly interesting and didn't hear from 202 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 3: either of them for weeks. But the La City Council President, 203 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 3: Paul Grecoryan did finally talk to us a few days ago. 204 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 3: And I don't know what will come of all of this. 205 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 2: It is still unfolding, all right. 206 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 1: Kim, Well, thank you so much for talking to me. 207 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Sounds like it was a pretty emotional 208 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 1: time for you. 209 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 3: It's very difficult, and other councils should not face this. 210 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 2: They shouldn't be put in this position. 211 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 3: It just shouldn't be, so I thank you for listening. 212 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 3: Appreciate it all. 213 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: It's a former Studio City Council Neighborhood Council member, Kim Clements. 214 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on the show. We got more coming up. 215 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: John and Ken KFI AM six forty live everywhere iHeartRadio app. 216 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 217 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 218 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: We just had a long conversation with a woman I met, 219 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 1: Kim Clements. She used to be on the Neighborhood City 220 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: Council in Studio City, but she and a whole bunch 221 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 1: of other members resigned because well, they found out that 222 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: somebody had just voted from the neighborhood City Council. Is 223 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: a convicted sex offender, and he's on the sex offender Registry. 224 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,560 Speaker 1: I want to talk a moment about his background. We're 225 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: talking about a man by the name of Ian Mitchell King, 226 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:21,479 Speaker 1: and he basically put himself out there as a nonpracticing 227 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 1: lawyer and business consultant. Also claimed that he had served 228 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: in the US Marine Corps and the US Navy. But 229 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 1: what was missing? And Kim did a little search, she said, 230 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: just hours before the meeting and the eventual vote, she 231 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 1: found out that somebody by that name served thirteen years 232 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 1: in prison for sexually assaulting a young woman. That's what 233 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: we're talking about. Well, on duty is a school resource officer, 234 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 1: that's like the school cop. And yeah, he was on 235 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 1: the California Sex offender Registry. Channel five reviewed documents and 236 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 1: they contacted the Los Angeles School Police Department and of 237 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 1: course the State Department Corrections, and they did confirm his background. 238 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: They learned the person and convicted of sexually assaulting a 239 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: woman as a school resource officer was paroled in twenty 240 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 1: twenty one after serving a full sentence for sexual battery 241 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: and sexual penetration with victim with a foreign object. When 242 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: I see young woman too, I'm think of a school 243 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 1: resource officer. How old was this woman that was attacked 244 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: by this man? This is information you have to tell 245 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 1: people about. We have this ban the box movement now 246 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: that is popular among these socialist democrats. Let's redo the 247 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 1: criminal justice system, meaning no police, no prisons. And the 248 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: other thing they want to say is so if they're 249 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: not even felons, they're just people who are experienced with 250 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 1: a criminal justice system and they should have a chance 251 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 1: in the world. So ban the box means you can't 252 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 1: ask if they have a criminal background that come into 253 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: you clean and fresh. It should be your choice and 254 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: your decision. There are plenty of people out there that'd 255 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: be willing to give guys like this a second chance. 256 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: But if that's not you, you have the right to know 257 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: and to do that. That's the way it should work. 258 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: It sounds to me a lot like and the name 259 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: of it is that she told me I didn't know 260 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 1: the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment in the city of Los Angeles. 261 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 1: You knows how tax money is spent the Department of 262 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 1: Neighborhood Empowerment. How big is that thing? They responded, and 263 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 1: according to Channel five, because I haven't looked at the documents, 264 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 1: the responses were full of legalese and warnings against harassment 265 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: and defamation, which made me believe that there's rules here 266 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: when someone comes before you for this position and you 267 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 1: have to be careful what you ask and what you say, 268 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: basically trying to force them to take on the convicted 269 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: sex offender. What we're going to play for you now 270 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: is a couple of minutes from a recent was a 271 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: few weeks ago Los Angeles City Council meeting. As you 272 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: heard from Kim, there are two council members who cover 273 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 1: this Studio City area. One is Nithi Rama and the 274 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 1: others Paul Grekreyan Nythia Rahman was confronted by some people 275 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: trying to find out what's going on with this convicted 276 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: sex getting on the neighborhood council. Here's part of the 277 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: audio cut two. 278 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 6: The Studio City Neighborhood Council was going with Van Eys 279 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 6: was going to speed about this item, but unfortunately Studio 280 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 6: City Neighborhood Council most of the board members resigned. The 281 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 6: reason why is there was a convicted sex offender named 282 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 6: Eden King that was a former police officer and a 283 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 6: union member that was appointed. The reason why this person 284 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 6: was appointed to speak about this item is because a 285 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 6: person named Seemi Park did a little ordinance that was 286 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 6: approved that said formally incarcerated people may be on the 287 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 6: board even though the government code states clearly prohibitive people. 288 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 1: May not be in city positions. 289 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 6: So on this one, this person wanted to represent with 290 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 6: a youth member that the convicted child molester to promote this. 291 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 6: And my question is why are there convicted child molesters 292 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 6: allowed our neighbor council boards? 293 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 1: If I wanted to general public comments. 294 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:14,120 Speaker 6: If when I've had a volunteer on the library, I've 295 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,640 Speaker 6: had to go through life Scan to get my pawprints done, 296 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 6: But with neighbor council board members, you could be a 297 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:24,159 Speaker 6: convicted child lester registered. Iiden King. If you want to 298 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 6: go in Megans, that's Iden King. But unfortunately a Bloomingfield 299 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 6: has been duped by the Seemi Park that allowed formally 300 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 6: incarcerated individuals including child molesters, rapists, arsonists, people that are 301 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 6: not allowed to own firearms or do anything else, but 302 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 6: they're allowed to be with youth and so forth. So Unfortunately, 303 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 6: mister Bloomfield got duped with this deputy named Seemi Park 304 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,119 Speaker 6: when she got kicked out. In my opinion, at a 305 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 6: department neighborhood empowerment should probably ask why do you prohibited 306 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:04,719 Speaker 6: people under the code allowed to be never council board members? 307 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 6: What about embezzlement? You want them to be treasurer? You 308 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 6: should probably ask see me Park? 309 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 1: Thank you all right? And apparently was not really any 310 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: response from any of the council members. So we'll have 311 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: more on the story later on the show when I 312 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:20,159 Speaker 1: come back. You probably heard about the latest inflation report, 313 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: a bit of a shock. August didn't look too pretty 314 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 1: and what do you know? Gas prices led the way. 315 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: Johnny KENKFI AM six forty Live Everywhere iHeartRadio app. 316 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 317 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 318 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 1: You probably heard the latest inflation report for the country 319 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 1: for August. Not pretty, it was a bit of a 320 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 1: shock and leading the way as usual energy and food. 321 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: So we'll focus on energy. What do you think that 322 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:52,439 Speaker 1: would be gas prices? We're looking at things heading towards 323 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: six dollars a gallon? Was it five forty something? The 324 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 1: average price of a regular gallon of gas in Los 325 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 1: Angeles County. Let's bring on Patrick d'han, head of PATROLLINGUM 326 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,160 Speaker 1: Analysis for guests, Buddy, Patrick, welcome to the show. 327 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 7: Thanks for having me. 328 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 1: So is it the hugeual explanations, refinery problems, special additives? 329 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: What's going on here? People seemed a little bit shocked 330 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: by this wave. 331 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 7: Boy, it sounds like you're already taken my job. That's 332 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 7: basically it. Refinery issues. You know, that's something we often 333 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 7: cite and it doesn't take an expert. Now, I think 334 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 7: I feel like a broken record saying refinery this and that. 335 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:31,119 Speaker 7: It's been such a busy summer at the nation's refiners. 336 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 7: Of course, California had that hurriquake that also kind of 337 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 7: put the gabage on some of normal operations. And so 338 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:39,879 Speaker 7: we've seen the average price of gasoline up quite a 339 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 7: bit in the last week LA up fifteen cents a gallon. 340 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 7: The average now five fifty six, up another penny since midnight. 341 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 7: Price is now seventeen cents hired in last year. So 342 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 7: to your point about the inflation, CPI starting to see 343 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 7: prices higher in the national averages also thirteen cent hired 344 00:19:58,560 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 7: in last year. 345 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 1: Now is there to the country seeing increases too in gas? 346 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:04,199 Speaker 1: That's commensment. We're always way higher with the price, but 347 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: we know that, so are they seeing increases? 348 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 7: You drew larning from like New Mexico up to about 349 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 7: mid Wisconsin. Everyone to the left on the west half 350 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,159 Speaker 7: of that line would be seeing refinery issues, and everyone 351 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,439 Speaker 7: on the east side of that line wouldn't. So this 352 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 7: is really specific. The increases are more rampant the west coast, 353 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:28,920 Speaker 7: the Rockies, even the Mid Continent region as far east 354 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,920 Speaker 7: as areas like Minnesota, some areas of Wisconsin. Everyone else 355 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,399 Speaker 7: is seeing crises cool off of it, but there have 356 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 7: been a lot of refinery outages, and you know, we're 357 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 7: still in the midst of hurricane season. That is still 358 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 7: a threat for the Gulf Coast as well, so we'll 359 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 7: have to keep an eye on it. But a lot 360 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:45,879 Speaker 7: of this has been fueled by simply a lack of 361 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 7: enough refining capacity. Some of that is still due to 362 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 7: shutdowns related to COVID. 363 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 1: I really, really, you know, I thought of that this morning, 364 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,719 Speaker 1: but I said, it can't still be shut dout related 365 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 1: to COVID from twenty twenty and twenty one. That's really true, 366 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:00,959 Speaker 1: it really is. 367 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 7: We saw some refineries permanently shut down. In fact, even 368 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 7: as late as recent as twenty twenty two, some refineries 369 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,160 Speaker 7: said we're done. And now some of the refineries I'm 370 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 7: mentioning that said we're done have now said, well, we'll 371 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 7: go another year, but then they're planning to shut down 372 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 7: a lot of because the transitional electric vehicles. There's not 373 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 7: a lot of investment happening right now into refineries when 374 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,640 Speaker 7: evs are becoming the vehicles that many Americans are purchasing, 375 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:28,399 Speaker 7: and that's unfortunately leading to an imbalance between supply and demand, 376 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 7: and that puts us at more reliance to what refiners 377 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 7: are left behind. 378 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, we're always told that California has its own unique 379 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,400 Speaker 1: supply problems, but I've been reading stories that the sales 380 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,880 Speaker 1: of electric vehicles in the state are really jumping every month. 381 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,120 Speaker 1: Wouldn't that help with the gas supply for the people 382 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 1: that still drive the gas powered car. 383 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,199 Speaker 7: Well, it certainly would, and it's also putting pressure on 384 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,159 Speaker 7: the electric good. In fact, I think Governor Knew some 385 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,479 Speaker 7: earlier this year said hey, can you not charge right 386 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:53,399 Speaker 7: away because there's a lot of pressure And though there 387 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 7: are a lot of evs running around, they still are 388 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,639 Speaker 7: outweighed significantly by eternal combustion engine vehicles. We certainly are 389 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 7: seeing EV adoption. I think in California something like fifteen 390 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 7: to twenty out of every new hundred vehicles is an EV. 391 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:11,640 Speaker 7: So that would still represent a monumental number of internal 392 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 7: combustion engine vehicles that are being newly registered as well. 393 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the only thing that surprised me a 394 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,880 Speaker 1: bit is like, now, I was supposedly summer driving seasons over, 395 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 1: so I have surprised we're in September and we're still 396 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 1: seeing this run up in prices because that's usually one 397 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: of the excuses that give a lot of people travel 398 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: by car during the summer for their vacations, and so 399 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,199 Speaker 1: I thought we're out of that. So but I guess not, 400 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:29,200 Speaker 1: we get another run up. 401 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 7: Well in California is the last state in the nation 402 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 7: to switch back to Schuber winter gasoline. For southern California, 403 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 7: that switch won't happen until the end of October, whereas 404 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,400 Speaker 7: the rest nation is making that switch already this weekend. 405 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: Do you think that the governor's going to give people 406 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 1: more gas relief money like he did a couple of 407 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: years ago, or the checks he sent out to some homeowners. 408 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 7: You know, we've seen some states. In fact, Georgia just 409 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 7: today implemented a gas tax holiday for the next month 410 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 7: to save their motors about thirty cents a gallon. But 411 00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 7: for some reason, I would be skeptical if that would 412 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 7: happened in California. But a lot of what you're paying 413 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,880 Speaker 7: in California is because of honorous requirements, whether the blends 414 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 7: or carbon management programs or taxes. A lot of is 415 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 7: those costs themselves. 416 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 1: Hi, Patrick, thanks for talking to me. I appreciate it, 417 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: my pleasure. 418 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:15,919 Speaker 3: Hi. 419 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: Patrick de'han is the head of petroleum analysis with gas Buddy. 420 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: About the rising gas prices on the topic that we 421 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:26,639 Speaker 1: were just talking about at the end, Apparently, once again, 422 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:31,919 Speaker 1: Republicans in Sacramento did introduce an amendment to suspend the 423 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 1: state's gas taxes and fees for one year, which they 424 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: stayed with lower your gas prices by a dollar per gallon. 425 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 1: Can you guess what happened with the Democrats and Sacramento. 426 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,719 Speaker 1: It was soundly rejected on a party line vote. So 427 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: drivers in California now paying a dollar sixty three more 428 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 1: per gallon than the national average. So that's Oh, I 429 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: heard something. 430 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 8: That's just so infuriating. I'm so sick of these high 431 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 8: gas prices. I mean, come on, get yourself an ev 432 00:23:58,960 --> 00:23:59,959 Speaker 8: I'm thinking about it. 433 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 1: Oh you are, I am. 434 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,479 Speaker 8: I'm sick and tired of it. But then I mean 435 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 8: there's issues with that too, as we've talked about. 436 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 1: But you got like a twenty or thirty mile ride 437 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 1: or something, or at thirty thirty yeah, yeah, right, that 438 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 1: can add up. We got more coming up. Johnny Ken, 439 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 1: CAFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere. It's the iHeartRadio app. 440 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 441 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:23,439 Speaker 5: AM six forty. 442 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,440 Speaker 1: We'll be checking in with Blake Trolley CAFI News for 443 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 1: an update on that metro stabbing that occurred last Thursday 444 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,959 Speaker 1: at like five o'clock in the afternoon. 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For 455 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 1: your chance to win. For official rules, go to KFIAM 456 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 1: six forty dot com slash rules and visit MGM Resorts 457 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 1: dot com today to plan your dream Vegas getaway to 458 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,639 Speaker 1: your favorite MGM Rewards destination. Well, the show is a 459 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,919 Speaker 1: bit divided yesterday afternoon. If you were listening, Eric and 460 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: I are on the side of Skittles, and Deborah Mark 461 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: was against Skittles. The delightful candy delightful. Yeah, it's delicious taste, 462 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 1: the rainbow taste, the rainbow skills, Deborah Mark. This happened 463 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 1: after the show ended. Have been spared. There was one 464 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: particular ingredient that would have led Skittles to have to 465 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,679 Speaker 1: I thought this is funny. I was thinking about this today. 466 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,919 Speaker 1: If they wanted to continue to sell Skittles in California, 467 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,919 Speaker 1: they're gonna have to redo their recipe. Now they the 468 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,360 Speaker 1: recipe for candy, they could have redone it everywhere where 469 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,919 Speaker 1: they sell skittles, or if they decided that this is stupid, 470 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: just make like skittles for California, will package that says 471 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,879 Speaker 1: California only on it, the California for sale in California 472 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:09,640 Speaker 1: abides by California regulations. What we're talking about is titanium 473 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:14,159 Speaker 1: dioxide that was on the list by this Assembly member. 474 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:18,360 Speaker 1: Is these toxic chemicals and if they're contained in food products, 475 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:23,440 Speaker 1: the manufacturer would have to remove them and redo the recipe. Well. 476 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,679 Speaker 1: As they move closer and closer to a vote in 477 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 1: order to get this bill passed, they amended it and 478 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:39,159 Speaker 1: they took out titanium dioxide. That wasn't so hard. So 479 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,920 Speaker 1: Skittles lives in its current form in California, all right, 480 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: So there's no more fighting over this. The bill prohibits 481 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: the manufacturing sale of any products that contain This is 482 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,680 Speaker 1: quite a list. Red dye number three, that's simple compared 483 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:56,399 Speaker 1: to the rest of these, potassium bromate, brominated vegetable oil, 484 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: or propyl parabin When was the last time you ingested 485 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: some probe parab I don't know, man. You don't want 486 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 1: to read the ingredients on a lot of foods, particularly 487 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: candy and some of those baked products that sit on 488 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,719 Speaker 1: the shelf. You ever do that. It's like I used 489 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: to give John the the annual fruitcake I got from 490 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 1: Costco are nasty. Yeah, that's why you can sit on 491 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,199 Speaker 1: your shelf for like ten years. 492 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:22,199 Speaker 3: Uh. 493 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 1: Titanium dioxide, by the way, is used to make the 494 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 1: products appeal visually appealing and helps prevent pigment from losing 495 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,679 Speaker 1: its luster over time. So you heard Eric referred to 496 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 1: as the rainbow candy that apparently helps the skills retain 497 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:41,919 Speaker 1: their color. So if you eat it a little bit 498 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 1: of the bag and you put in your pocket, you 499 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,439 Speaker 1: don't realize it's there for another week or so. It 500 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,159 Speaker 1: should still be visually appealing and radiant, so. 501 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 2: Something. 502 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, then it's good candy. Yeah, there you go. It's 503 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:56,639 Speaker 1: it's dilivan because if you look at it and then 504 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: you know the purple or the red is really dull 505 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 1: and it looks strange and white off, you're probably like eh, 506 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,720 Speaker 1: but they wanted to stay fresh, looking and appealing. The 507 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 1: latest version of the Buildout delays the implementation of any 508 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 1: ban until twenty twenty seven so companies can have a 509 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: window to make the changes. This all started in Europe. 510 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 1: But what I did not know, and I don't know 511 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: if you guys knew this. Some guy filed a lawsuit. 512 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 1: You're claiming that skills are unsafe to eat because they 513 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 1: contain a chemical the company had pledged to remove. And 514 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,200 Speaker 1: this is all about titanium dioxide because the European Union 515 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: was phasing it out. So I guess this assembly member 516 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 1: picked up on this lawsuit. Genial Thames accused mars Ink 517 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 1: of endangering consumers by including heightened levels of titanium dioxide 518 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 1: or PIO two in the rainbow colored candy. I don't 519 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: know what happened to the lawsuit, but this probably led 520 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 1: this assembly member to come up with the idea to 521 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 1: start banning quote these toxic chemicals. Again, my question is, yeah, 522 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 1: how many skills do you have to eat before you 523 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 1: know you started growing a tumor? 524 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 8: But again, there's so many candies that don't have that 525 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 8: crap in them, so I'm. 526 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: Sure that they tell we have other crap. 527 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 8: Do you ever read the ingredients of things that you eat? 528 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:15,480 Speaker 2: No? 529 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 1: Rarely, I always do I do. I really, well, you're 530 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: no fun. It doesn't shock me one. 531 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 8: Bit, that's right, Yeah, but I don't I don't want to. 532 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 1: She's the little old nanny at the table. Everybody, let 533 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 1: me read the ingredients to you before you ingest it. 534 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 8: No, I don't read it to anybody. I just read 535 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 8: it to myself because I don't want to eat all 536 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 8: that stuff. I mean, when I go to a restaurant 537 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 8: and I'm ordering something, obviously I don't know exactly what's 538 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:43,959 Speaker 8: in there, right, But if I'm buying candy or or something, 539 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 8: I am looking at the ingredients and I sit there and. 540 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 1: Go, what the heck is that? What is that? And 541 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 1: then you just end up in the produce section because 542 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 1: there's no ingredient list there. You know what it is. 543 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 8: I know what a banana is. 544 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 1: That's an ingredient list. But so you're walking around the 545 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 1: store reading all the labels and no, I. 546 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 8: Mean I really don't to be honest, I don't buy 547 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 8: a lot of candy. But if I do buy some sweets. 548 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: Yes, your boss says you bought that, I think they 549 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 1: were packaged vegan cookies. In a couple of times they probably. 550 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,720 Speaker 8: It's in crapitness, yeah, but not not this die. They 551 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 8: just have a lot of sugar and things like that. 552 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,560 Speaker 8: But a lot of it is just it's just natural. 553 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 1: It's not No dairy is what they No dairies. How 554 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,280 Speaker 1: long does a trip to the grocery store take for 555 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 1: you if you're getting all these ingredients. 556 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 8: No, I'm telling you, I don't buy a whole lot 557 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 8: of things anymore. 558 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 1: It's my favorite part of the show, Eric against Devil. 559 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 1: I love it all right more coming up Johnny Cafi 560 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 1: A six forty live everywhere iHeartRadio app at Deva Mark 561 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: is the KFI twenty four newsroom. Hey, you've been listening 562 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 1: to the John and Ken Show. 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