1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: Hey, Ken, did you know that gold is the only 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:05,080 Speaker 1: currency that's held its value since the dawn of money? 3 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: Well I did, thanks to our friends at Legacy Precious Medals, 4 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:12,719 Speaker 1: the most trusted name in gold investing. Investing in gold 5 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 1: protects you against inflation and gives you a hedge against 6 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: stock market volatility. Don't leave your retirement to chance. Called 7 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,760 Speaker 1: Legacy Precious Medals today at eight six six six nine 8 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: one two one seven three or download your free Investor's 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: guide now at by Legacy goold dot com. That's by 10 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:35,520 Speaker 1: Legacy Goold dot com. Welcome, how are you? Kena's way today, 11 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:37,919 Speaker 1: But we've got a lot to do. This hour can 12 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:41,560 Speaker 1: start off with Todd Spitzer, the current Orange County DA 13 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: and he's going to be around for a while for 14 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: another four and a half years because he won reelection 15 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: outright in the primary on Tuesday, he Pete beat his opponent, 16 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: Pete Harden by a huge amount and since it was 17 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: over fifty percent, he doesn't have to participate in a 18 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: runoff coming Tomber. So why don't we get taught on here? John, 19 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: Good afternoon, how are you great? Congratulations? Well, no, thanks, listen, 20 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 1: I want to thank you and Ken, look caf I 21 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: is such a huge listening audience, and your audience is 22 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: right in my sweet spot. In other words, everything I 23 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: believe and I think is near and dear to your 24 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: listening audience throughout you know, the listening area. Yes, and 25 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: I just want to thank the two of you by 26 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: you guys endorsing me and supporting me. It really it 27 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: telegraphed to your listeners. One, pay attention, but two, this 28 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 1: election really will mean something for Orange County and quite frankly, John, 29 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: it's it influences what happened in San Francisco, and it's 30 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 1: really going to influence what's going to happen in Los Angeles. Well, 31 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 1: when you saw how badly Chess of Bodine did in 32 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: the recall and how well you did with the opposite message, 33 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 1: I don't care what the what the political makeup of 34 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: the counties are. This is. This is a regular person issue. 35 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: Nobody wants to live in a crime ridden county period tyranny. Yeah, Listen, 36 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: you know early voting was mostly was overwhelmed, dominated by Democrats. 37 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: I'm a Republican, but I won Democratic votes overwhelmingly, and 38 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: I totally agree with you. I mean, everybody wants to 39 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: be safe. No one wants to live in the communities 40 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 1: they're being faced with today, and so this was bipartisan, 41 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: but our message was really clear, we don't allow this 42 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: community in Orange County to become like Los Angeles and 43 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: San Franciscans. I went to law school up there in 44 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: the city at the University of California, Hastings Law. And 45 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 1: you know, I used to that city is a wonderful 46 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,079 Speaker 1: used to be a wonderful city. And now what guess what, John, 47 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: They're going to get that city back, I hope. So 48 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:49,079 Speaker 1: when I first came to California, I thought San Francisco 49 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: was one of the most beautiful places I'd ever seen 50 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: in this country. And I get shocked and overwhelmed every 51 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: day what I read and see what's happened to it. 52 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: And I don't understand why they would allow this beautiful 53 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: jewel of the city to end up being an open sewer. 54 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: I just have no idea what that kind of self 55 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:13,639 Speaker 1: destructive impulse is in people. Well, I do want to 56 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 1: say something now, you know, with a little bit of 57 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: the rear view mirror in my election, and it's overstating 58 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: one's case. In other words, John, Look, I mean I 59 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: will tell you. Look, I think we have to acknowledge, 60 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 1: and I think it's important that the progressives like Chessa 61 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: and Gascone, they have raised some very very important issues 62 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: in the criminal justice arena that people like me, even 63 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: law and order more conservative das, we have to listen 64 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: to and we have to do a better job. We 65 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: have to do a better job with the homeless, We 66 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:47,119 Speaker 1: have to do a better job with the mentally ill 67 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: and those addicted to drugs and alcohol. You can't just 68 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 1: They are right when they say you cannot just lock 69 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 1: up everybody and think the problem is going to get better. 70 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: So I think it forced me to sharpen my pencil 71 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: and do a better job. But they did it too fast, 72 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: and all across the board, right, eliminating enhancements, eliminating bail, 73 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: no death enalty, no juveniles prosecutor as adult. George and 74 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: Chessa did it all one fell swoop, no prosecuting misdemeanors, 75 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: and as a result, like they didn't even measure it incrementally, 76 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 1: and as a result, they destroyed their communities they could. 77 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: I think it's and I think, look, I've been elected 78 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 1: for over thirty years. You have to learn lessons from 79 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: campaigns and voter temperament, and the lesson here is we 80 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 1: want our communities to be safe first and foremost, but 81 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: we don't want to lock up people who are addicted 82 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: to drugs and alcohol or homeless and solve our problem 83 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: that way. But they got too far, absolutely, and I 84 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: think most people would agree that if there's a way 85 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: to treat these people, do that. But they want them 86 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: off the streets. There's got to be a place. It's 87 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,279 Speaker 1: got to be a midpoint here. You can't just let 88 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: them lay in the streets and die and act out 89 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: like this. That's not the way anybody's don't want to live. John, 90 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: one of the most important conversations we have to have 91 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: as a society. And I have a cousin who's a 92 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: paranoid schizophrenic, my cousin Patsy and John. Until we start 93 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 1: talking about medicating those who are mentally ill, to stabilize 94 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: them so they can start to be aware of their situation, 95 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: we will never ever solve the homeless problem. You cannot 96 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: rationalize with people who are mentally ill living on the street. 97 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: People will never happen. But at some point you have 98 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: to force them into the treatment. Right but that's when 99 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: I cleared the river bed. When we have the river 100 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 1: bed full. Next Angel Stadium, we built a homeless shelter, 101 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: but all we did was provide housing. You've got to 102 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 1: make people get treatment and they have to have professional care. 103 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 1: Once that happens, then they can understand their situation and 104 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 1: try to be stabilized. But as you well know, it's 105 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: the people living on the streets with the criminal element 106 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 1: who have no interest in change in their behavior that 107 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: we have to arrest, prosecute and incarce rate. What is 108 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 1: the mechanism for giving them the treatment though, because I 109 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 1: mean here in La City, La County, it doesn't seem 110 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: like there's any government body that's setting up the infrastructure 111 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: for the treatment, whether it's mental health or the drug addiction. 112 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: I actually think it's there. I just think that we 113 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 1: have a pretty low success rate. In fact, like for example, 114 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 1: in Orange County in the last year, we reduce homelessness 115 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: twenty percent by put putting people into shelters, longer term 116 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: housing and treatment. So we have really really aggressively done that. 117 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 1: And so what are you what are you doing different? 118 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: What are you doing different? Because in La it just 119 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: seems more and more so, how are you getting them 120 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 1: into the treatment so successfully? I think that the people 121 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:57,839 Speaker 1: that we have on the street, the Illumination Foundation and 122 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: other entities, they are out in the street with the workers, 123 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 1: and they are some of the best of the best, 124 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: and they're offering services. Now do I think it do? 125 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 1: I think it has made a huge difference, of course, 126 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: But again, until we discuss, as a matter of public policy, 127 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: how we are going to basically force people into treatment 128 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: against their will. And I'm not talking about just a 129 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: fifty one fifty hold where somebody you know as a 130 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,559 Speaker 1: danger to themselves or others. I'm talking about the fact 131 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: that we have to have a lower threshold to get 132 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: people stabilized. And we are not willing to have that 133 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 1: conversation in California. Why do you think that is because 134 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: the civil libertarians have successfully argued. I mean, Ronald Reagan 135 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: when he was governor of California, really was instrumental in 136 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: eliminating our mental institutions in California. And I think there's 137 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: been an argument for sixty years that this is a 138 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: violation of people both civil liberties if you're going to 139 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: basically force treatment to stabilize them. I watched and have 140 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: a family member who's a schizophrenic and if she was 141 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: off for meds, she was dangerous. She could you could 142 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: not talk any sense to her, and she was living 143 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: on the streets. You. So, until we understand that the 144 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: threshold to to restrict somebody's freedom is a lower civil standard, 145 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: we're always going to have this problem, Mark, because the 146 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:34,559 Speaker 1: alternative is you have you have to tread their civil 147 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: liberties a bit, force them into treatment. Otherwise they die 148 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: and then they don't have any civil liberties. And we 149 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: also have separate civil liberties to live free leaves that 150 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: being terrified walking down the streets. John, it's our treatment 151 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: of the metal of the mentally ill and those addicted 152 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: to drugs go down to skid row, I mean, drive 153 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: down there when we go down there, right and understand 154 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: is that is that humane? Is the way we treat 155 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: people or the way we allow them to live? Is 156 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: that how we should be treating other human beings? And 157 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: the answer is absolutely not. So we have to have 158 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: that discussion about low in the threshold on civil liberties 159 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:19,959 Speaker 1: in order to allow people to help themselves. Yeah, I know, 160 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: I mean normal people have to get control of this 161 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:27,080 Speaker 1: conversation because it's been dominated by the state legislature. I'm 162 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: telling you, Look, this election in LA is so important 163 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: because when I even Rick Caruso, when I watch his ads, John, 164 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 1: they're full of false promises right now. Honestly, what he 165 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: is saying is pie in the sky unless he can 166 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: tell you how he can achieve that. And Karen was 167 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,719 Speaker 1: my speaker when I was in the State Assembly, and 168 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 1: she's had decades to address these problems. So there needs 169 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: to be real solutions put on the table by all 170 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: of these candidates, quite frank, because they're just right now, 171 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 1: they're just commercials. What was the final total for your campaign? 172 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: There the divide, So the George Soros candidate, who had 173 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: money from all outside Orange County, he's at He's at 174 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 1: nineteen point three percent, and I'm at sixty almost sixty 175 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: four percent, So I beat him more than three to one. Wow, 176 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: he did not, so I'm over Yeah, I'm at sixty 177 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 1: three point eight five percent. And they just dumped a 178 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: whole new set of numbers a few minutes ago, So 179 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: I mean, it obviously is huge. But again, John, you 180 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: cannot in politics and government, it's like business. You can't 181 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 1: overplay your hand. So You're not going to hear me 182 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 1: up on the rooftop crowing about oh look, look, look 183 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,679 Speaker 1: how great I am, or look how great these policies are. 184 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: We can never stop trying to be problem solvers. All right, Todd, Well, 185 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:04,839 Speaker 1: I'm glad you had time to come on with us, 186 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: and I look forward to talking with you over the 187 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 1: next four and a half years as you remained the 188 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: DA and Orange County Congratulations, Well you're so kind and 189 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: things again for your endorsement. All right, Todd Spitzer, the 190 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: Orange County DA, And you heard those numbers sixty four 191 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 1: to nineteen over Pete Harden, who is a George Gascone follower. 192 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: More coming up on the John and Ken Show. It 193 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 1: looks like the baby formula shortage was looming for a 194 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: long time. That the FDA and Abbott Laboratories that makes 195 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: a lot of the formula were warned that they had 196 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 1: trouble in their plant a year before the recall, and 197 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:54,680 Speaker 1: that the White House was aware of a baby formula 198 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: shortage possibility, but they just didn't take it seriously because 199 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: they didn't really understand the baby formula industry, so they 200 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: waved it off as not being a big deal to 201 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,199 Speaker 1: give you all the details on that coming up after 202 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: five thirty on the John and Ken Show, Kennon's Way Today. Yeah, 203 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: I'm reading all the left wing progressive writers and editors 204 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: that these idiot media outlets have been promoting all this 205 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 1: nonsense about justice reform and defund the police for several 206 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:32,040 Speaker 1: years now, and all of a sudden, they hit a 207 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: wall at about ninety five miles an hour and came 208 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 1: to a dead stop. And they don't know what to do. 209 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: They don't know what this means. They did not pick 210 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 1: up on how angry people are. And I find that fascinating. 211 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: I find absolutely fascinating that journalists who are out amongst 212 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:53,439 Speaker 1: the public every day had no idea there'd be such 213 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: a rebellion coming, and now they're writing all these columns 214 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: and these essays. What does this mean. Well, it doesn't 215 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: mean that people don't want criminal justice from forming. Blah 216 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. And I remember I flashed back 217 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:08,839 Speaker 1: to last No two summers ago, and I was on 218 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: one of those Fox eleven panel shows the night of 219 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: the Democratic Convention that Alex Michaelson hosted on Fox eleven, 220 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:19,359 Speaker 1: and I was on with Gloria already and the Democratic 221 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 1: consultant and his first name's Brian and blanking on his 222 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: last name. But I was there with them on camera. 223 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 1: I think we were all on zoom. And what I 224 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 1: remember is the Portland was ablaze. I mean it was burning, 225 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:39,319 Speaker 1: There was Antifa rioting, there was complete mayhem. Seattle had 226 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 1: gone to hell that summer. Remember that chop zone. They 227 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: cordoned off a large section of the city, the terrorists did, 228 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,319 Speaker 1: and the police wouldn't even go in there. And then 229 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 1: we had our problems in Los Angeles and the Fairfax 230 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 1: District burned, eighty eight businesses burned, and Garcetti's response was 231 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 1: to take a knee and call the police killers. I mean, 232 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 1: it was just mayhem. And the fund the police. Cry 233 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 1: was everywhere, to fund the police, to fund the police. 234 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: They were gonna get rid of the police department in Minneapolis, 235 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 1: they were gonna they took out one hundred and fifty 236 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 1: million dollars here in LA out of the budget. And 237 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:14,839 Speaker 1: I remember sitting there that night and Joe Biden. I 238 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 1: think it was probably the night at Joe Biden's acceptance speech, 239 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: and I thought, this has got to be the worst 240 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: idea I've ever heard, not only practically for normal people's lives, 241 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 1: but politically it's like, are they really going to run 242 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: on defund the police? Is that really going to be 243 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: the agenda? And what I noticed is Glauria Alread and 244 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 1: the consultant Brian, they would not criticize the defund the 245 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 1: police message at all, not defend Biden, ignoring all the 246 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 1: mayhem in Portland. And I thought, I said out loud 247 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: on the air, you know, is this is going to 248 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 1: be a big mistake. And not because I have any 249 00:14:56,320 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 1: special powers. It's because it was obvious. I Oh, I 250 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: know mostly normal people. I talked to, normal people. I 251 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: grew up with normal people. Normal people have no interest 252 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: in this. Most people are not weird activists or fake 253 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: university intellectuals or people who live and communicate all day 254 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: on Twitter and they don't work in newsrooms. Normal people, 255 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: you know what they are. You're probably one yourself. Nobody 256 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 1: I know raised this defund the police idea, and I, 257 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:31,800 Speaker 1: you know, I was torn between like, well this is 258 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 1: you know, cities are going to go to hell with 259 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: this attitude because defund the police encompasses all kinds of insanity. 260 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: It means don't prosecute criminals, no bail for criminals, let 261 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: them out early. I mean the whole George Gasco and 262 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: Gavin knewso agenda. So I figured, well, everything's going to 263 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 1: go to hell. I guess on the bright side, once 264 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 1: it gets really bad, there's going to be a huge 265 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: backlash and these stupid fools are going to get thrown 266 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: out of office. I mean, that was my last hope. 267 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: And as the last two years went by, I'm thinking, 268 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: got to happen, It's got to happen. And finally it's happening. 269 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: So now we got Chess Bodine out. Now we're closing 270 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: in on kicking out George Gascon. Now we got Rick 271 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: Caruso up by five points in the mayor's race. Not 272 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: everybody is getting kicked out, and some of the nuts 273 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: will survive. But again, remember this is Los Angeles and 274 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 1: San Francisco. These are the toughest places in the country 275 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 1: to get this kind of traction for this nonsense, because 276 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: most people are not this progressive. And I don't even 277 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: know what that word means, because there should be another 278 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 1: word for getting just letting criminals a run amuck and 279 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: smash and grab and murder and steel and assault, I'm 280 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: in the stuff we've seen here San Francisco, New York 281 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: City has been the worst of most people's lifetimes. It's 282 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 1: just absolutely abominable, in human, in human to the crime victims, 283 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: inhuman to the rest of us who are scared. I'm 284 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: thinking there's got to be a backlash, and finally there is, 285 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,159 Speaker 1: because nobody wants to live like this. That should be 286 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 1: the campaign slogan. They had their chance, They've had this 287 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: run for several years, total failure, and nobody wants to 288 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 1: live with this. And so maybe I think this week's 289 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 1: a turning point and things are going to get better 290 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 1: and we're gonna get through this bizarre fever, this left 291 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: wing progressive nut job fever that so many people have had. 292 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 1: More coming up on the infant formula shortage, which is 293 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,439 Speaker 1: really one of the most bizarre aspects of all the 294 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 1: crazy news going on. John and Ken Chow Cafe, We're 295 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 1: gonna talk about the formula shortage of the minute. But 296 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: I was you know Peggy Noonan is, She's the writer 297 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:50,440 Speaker 1: she's often on TV as a commentator, writes for The 298 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:54,439 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal, sparing a long time great writer. She 299 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: was writing about I'm telling you the voting in California 300 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 1: has overwhelmed the media from coast to coast. I've seen 301 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,679 Speaker 1: more stories trying to analyze what does this mean? That 302 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: Chessibodine got to kick out of office and that Rick 303 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:13,200 Speaker 1: Caruso's leading for LA mayor. And she wrote two lines, Well, 304 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: the first is a fact, and she says that polling 305 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:25,399 Speaker 1: has indicated that minority voters backed the recall in greater 306 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 1: numbers than college educated white people. This is Chessibodine. Can 307 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 1: you imagine that college educated white people were against the recall? 308 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:43,720 Speaker 1: Who's for the recall minority voters? And one of the 309 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:47,359 Speaker 1: reasons they support guys like Chessibodine is because these college 310 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:51,040 Speaker 1: educated white people think the system is racist. But the 311 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: minority voters are saying, wait a second, this is not 312 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: how you fix things, because, as she writes, they suffer 313 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 1: more and they have fewer protection when crime spikes and 314 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:06,399 Speaker 1: homeless encampment sees new ground. And then later on she 315 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: writes that a final characteristic of progressive politicians is that 316 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: I love this life. They tend to be high iq 317 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: stupid people, and that's true of many of their supporters. 318 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: They're college educated, Ivy League educated, high iq s right, 319 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: checked all the boxes, but they're stupid, and there's a 320 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: lot more in this column. I'd probably get more into 321 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 1: it tomorrow. It was it was a piece of work. 322 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 1: High iq stupid people. I'm gonna steal ad. That's that's that. 323 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 1: That explains it. Now that the formula thing, and I 324 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:51,440 Speaker 1: know most of you are not using baby formula um, 325 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: but this is a fascinating story to me because of 326 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 1: the massive incompetence of so many layers of government. It 327 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 1: is just stunning. Well, Debora, you and your friends like, 328 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 1: how long did did you before you needed the baby formula? Well, 329 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:08,959 Speaker 1: my son I breastfed for about six weeks, but he 330 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,359 Speaker 1: wasn't getting enough and he was always hungry. So I 331 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: then I went to formula. My daughter I breastfed for 332 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 1: a year, never put her on formula. Right, And my 333 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 1: friends the same thing. A lot of my friends would 334 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: breastfeed for a year because back and when I was 335 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,119 Speaker 1: pregnant and having babies, we were told one year is 336 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 1: your best bet. Right after your year, they don't need formula, 337 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 1: you give them regular milk. I see, all right, so 338 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:35,640 Speaker 1: it's a year. So if you didn't go a year, 339 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of people who didn't make 340 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 1: it to the year for whatever reason. Maybe they had 341 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:42,719 Speaker 1: to work, maybe they have you know, sometimes you just 342 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: don't have a good connection, is what I've heard. But 343 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 1: it's really, it's really frightening if there's you can't buy 344 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:53,679 Speaker 1: the formula, because that's terrifying. It really isn't another alternative 345 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 1: if for whatever reason you're not breastfeeding and you don't 346 00:20:56,280 --> 00:21:01,920 Speaker 1: have formula. Wow, So how does this happen? Why isn't 347 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 1: there the highest safeguards built into the system so this 348 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 1: could not happen in our country, the richest country ever, 349 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 1: the most sophisticated technology, technological country ever in the world. Well, 350 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 1: this is where the government has in the government workers, 351 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 1: I hate to say something generic by the government. They're 352 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: specific people who did their jobs badly, many of them. 353 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: The first time a whistleblower complained about the Abbot Company's 354 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: formula plant in Michigan Sturgis, Michigan was February twenty twenty one. 355 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 1: This is a whole year before the recall and shut 356 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 1: down in February twenty twenty two. The complaint was over contamination. 357 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 1: OSHA got the complaint from the whistleblower on February sixteenth, 358 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. They sent a copy of it three 359 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 1: days later to the FDA and to Abbot Laboratories. So 360 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 1: by February nineteenth to twenty twenty one, all the major 361 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:14,640 Speaker 1: players knew what was going on. OSHA, the FDA, and Abbott. 362 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 1: They said, the problems at Sturgis they had faulty equipment 363 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,640 Speaker 1: that had to be repaired or upgraded. Excuse me an 364 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: inadequate safety validation for the product that they were releasing. 365 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,159 Speaker 1: Then there was a second whistleblower report in October twenty 366 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 1: twenty one, which said, we've got contaminated formula here, ongoing 367 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 1: problems with the seals on the powdered products, questionable practices 368 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: to test, they were evading oversight and quality checks, they 369 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 1: were falsifying records, they were allowing questionable practices connected to 370 00:22:55,560 --> 00:23:00,200 Speaker 1: the cleaning of equipment. So that's October, and October is 371 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:09,399 Speaker 1: the second whistleblower report. There's two and again the FDA 372 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 1: is notified, OSHA's notified, Abbott is notified, and nobody did anything. Now, 373 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 1: how many different people had to fail at their job there, 374 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: how many different people had to ignore what was going on, 375 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 1: what do they do all day? Every day? I seem 376 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: to ask that one way or the other, what do 377 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:37,440 Speaker 1: they do all day? And ABC News tried to contact, 378 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 1: they got those silly spokesholes who just started spouting gibberish. 379 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 1: They wouldn't commate specifically on the original OSHA complaint. The 380 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 1: FDA's top priority right now is addressing the dire need 381 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 1: for infant formula, and our teams are working night and 382 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: day to help make that happen. The FDA can and 383 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,679 Speaker 1: must do better and be faster, and we've initiated a 384 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,920 Speaker 1: detailed after action review. Blah blah blah blah blah, same 385 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 1: old lon sense. But how could you go a year 386 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: a year and god knows how much bad formula went 387 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: out and how many kids maybe got sick and it 388 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,679 Speaker 1: was just never reported, right because kids are spitting up 389 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: and throwing up all the time. How many times did 390 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:22,959 Speaker 1: bad formula go into the little kid's belly and they 391 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: spit up and throw up and the mom didn't know 392 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,199 Speaker 1: and then probably fed up more bad formula at the 393 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 1: next meal. So they finally shut down the plant issue 394 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 1: to recall in February, and the White House officials initially 395 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: thought the situation was under control, and now Biden officials 396 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 1: are privately acknowledging privately. That's what I love. That they 397 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: did not have complete data on how much infant formula 398 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 1: was in stock, so they were in the dark about 399 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:59,360 Speaker 1: the shortages. Because what happened is the formula companies pushed 400 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 1: all their reserve stocks into the market and that distorted 401 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 1: the data. So the formula companies emptied the warehouse, is 402 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,159 Speaker 1: what happened. And the Biden people goes, oh, I don't know, 403 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:13,919 Speaker 1: it looks look they're be stocked. I guess it's not 404 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,119 Speaker 1: much of a problem, except if you've shut down the 405 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:21,119 Speaker 1: factory for months, that reserve is going to disappear awfully quickly. 406 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 1: They had small teams of staff in the White House, 407 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 1: Domestic Policy Council and National Economic Council, and they concluded 408 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: that the recall did not warrant involvement by the President 409 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 1: and top staff, who were consumed by Ukraine and COVID 410 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. There was a million crises going on, 411 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 1: said one White House official. That doesn't mean this wasn't 412 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 1: also a crisis, It just wasn't elevated to a top 413 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: level crisis. In other words, a baby formula shortage when 414 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:57,120 Speaker 1: these babies had no other option for nutrition, no other 415 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 1: option was not considered a top level crisis. Babies potentially 416 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: starving to death did not make the top of the 417 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 1: list because all the other crises that they manufactured. We're 418 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 1: coming up on the John and Ken show. Caff we 419 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 1: were talking about but who's in tonight? Is it Conway 420 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: or Thompson? Or who Mark Thompson? Again, Okay, Conway is abandoned. 421 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 1: I was so let me know when Mark's here, all right. 422 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,440 Speaker 1: I didn't know I was making them away. Yesterday we 423 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 1: were talking about the shortage of baby formula. And again, 424 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,239 Speaker 1: I know most of you don't have to deal with this, 425 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 1: but it's a scary situation and this is how the 426 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 1: government operates. And I told you that, you know, the 427 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 1: first the first warning was given by whistleblower to OSHA 428 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 1: in February twenty twenty one. They didn't actually shut down 429 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 1: the plan until February of twenty twenty two. There was 430 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 1: more than one whistleblower report, and it's like what and 431 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 1: then nobody really made it clear to the White House 432 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 1: that hey, we've got a major shortage here looming nobody 433 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: in the White House figured it out Here from a 434 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 1: normal person, a writer named Blair hayes, what it's like 435 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 1: being a mother with a little baby and there's no formula. 436 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,359 Speaker 1: I read this and I thought, my god, I wonder 437 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 1: how many people are panicking like this? She said? How 438 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,880 Speaker 1: did I spend a recent afternoon? I spent it traveling 439 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 1: to four different cities to find a canister of formula 440 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 1: for my baby. I had to carve out about six 441 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:36,679 Speaker 1: hours to find the specialty formula that my daughter needs. 442 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,239 Speaker 1: She was born with some severe health issues. She had 443 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,919 Speaker 1: to stay in the ICU for a month. She was 444 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: released with monitors and so breastfeeding was ruled out early 445 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: because of the complications, and the pumping stopped after about 446 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: two months. She was placed on a special formula, and 447 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,919 Speaker 1: she's small. For thirteen months, she weighs half of what 448 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 1: most babies her age way. So you see the setting here. 449 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, she writes, I had to 450 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 1: go to two cities before finding it. This past thursday, 451 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: I traveled to every large formula retailer I could find 452 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 1: in four different cities. I was beginning to give up hope, 453 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 1: and I worried about how much gas money I would 454 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 1: need before I found some. Most of the shells were 455 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: bare in every store I entered, proving I wasn't the 456 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: only parent out there. Finally, in the fourth city, I 457 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 1: found a canister formula, but there was a sign letting 458 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: me know I was limited only buying three per visit 459 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 1: due to the shortage. So that alone made her anxious, 460 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 1: because how far well I have to travel to find more? 461 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 1: And what happens when I can't find it at all? 462 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: And where am I going to go? Can I purchase 463 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 1: breast from donation centers? Can you give a baby goat milk? 464 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 1: And she's spending her time online trying to research these things, 465 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 1: and so the fourth kid, and now she says it's 466 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: the reality for many newborns with parents. They're driving around 467 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 1: from city to city, place to place looking for formula. 468 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 1: I mean, I that is such a failure, That is 469 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 1: such a huge failure of all. And again, where are 470 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 1: the names in government? Who are the people in the FDA, 471 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: Who are the people in Osha? Who are the people 472 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: at Abbott laboratories? They're all making good salaries and all 473 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 1: they had to do was clean their equipment, all right, 474 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 1: Mark Thompson's here. Yeah, yeah, I love I love the 475 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:52,960 Speaker 1: bioleas rage. I got a lot of bile. Yeah, well 476 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: you of course you're right. I mean, and the other 477 00:29:54,880 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 1: thing is that you know the number of baby formula companies. Yeah, 478 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 1: it has been reduced through the years. I know, I 479 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,720 Speaker 1: didn't know solidation and whatnot. And then you wall off 480 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,520 Speaker 1: the ex exports from other places or importing if you 481 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 1: want to look at a different way, right, Yeah, I 482 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:16,320 Speaker 1: know you end up yeah, depending on a handful of 483 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 1: factories to produce all of the baby formula for an 484 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 1: entire country. Yeah, and you close the biggest one exactly, exactly. 485 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: You want to hang out for a couple of hours. 486 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: We can jaw about that for a while now. Formula, Yeah, 487 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,440 Speaker 1: we do have quite the show conway, of course, awf 488 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 1: we'll talk about the brutal wildfire season ahead. There are 489 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 1: concerns for wild hot fires even now with the heat, 490 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 1: low humidities, et cetera. You know Big Bear, they did 491 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 1: a big thinning of the forest up there. I think 492 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,440 Speaker 1: they want to do more be it was on the 493 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 1: north side of Big Bear. There is this forested region 494 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 1: that really hasn't been touched and they're worried about it 495 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 1: as a fire danger. Yeah, that is one of the 496 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 1: most important things that they've got to do all over 497 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: the state is do some intelligent thinning. That's exactly what 498 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 1: the forests because that's that's what the Native Americans did 499 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 1: for hundreds and thousands of years and it worked. Yes, 500 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 1: And then I mean even with the building, you know, 501 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: and even with the way we've overdeveloped, you know and 502 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 1: kind of encroached upon those wild lands, Uh, they're still, 503 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 1: as you suggest, there's a history of how to manage 504 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 1: the land that we need to integrate and that knowledge 505 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 1: has been passed down to the current generation. All you 506 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 1: have to do is ask and they still know the 507 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,719 Speaker 1: basic theories on how to do it. And you know, 508 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 1: the government came in with all their arrogance like, well, 509 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,160 Speaker 1: we know what to do, and you know, they created 510 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 1: this terrible fire hazard. But I think finally now they 511 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 1: woke up to the last few years. Yeah, they say 512 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 1: they're going to go after a lot of these, uh 513 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,280 Speaker 1: these forest lands pretty aggressively. So yeah, as you say, 514 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 1: they're going to have to try. EFIC is a bummer 515 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 1: with the Summit of the Americas in town. I mean, 516 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,280 Speaker 1: it's already a bummer, and I guess it's become you know, 517 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 1: just yeah, even worse. They're going to Malibu tonight, big 518 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 1: party at the Getty Villa. Wow. Yeah, I'm off that 519 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 1: Getty Villa party circuit. Yeah, you didn't get the invite. No, 520 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 1: it's funny. I'm just being getting passed over. I'm starting 521 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 1: to realize, you know, that's how it happens. You just 522 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 1: slowly realize. You know, normally you'd have been invited to 523 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: the summit in the old days. Yea, I would be 524 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 1: at the summit of the America Golf Tourney, UFOs, STDs, GAS, Thefts. 525 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 1: It's all there, Johnny Depp. Tonight we'll talk and Brittany 526 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,160 Speaker 1: and I don't want to ignore what's going on in Washington. 527 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:44,520 Speaker 1: Will dip in and out of it with any end 528 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:50,840 Speaker 1: news from the House presentation on the January sixth today 529 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,640 Speaker 1: seems like a lot of droning right now. It's a 530 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:55,360 Speaker 1: lot of well they've got it now they're doing it's 531 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,920 Speaker 1: it's an audio video presentation, as you know, they're trying 532 00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 1: to make this a little bit more of a show, 533 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 1: but it's got a stripped down quality, like it's not 534 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 1: too slick. Yeah, anyway, it's all going on. You know, 535 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 1: it's hard to believe one show because could handle it all. 536 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,200 Speaker 1: But we're gonna do with John. I'm in a all right. 537 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 1: Mark Thompson's coming up in for Conway. Mark. 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