1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Calf. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: and Ken Show on demand on the iHeart Radio app. 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: I feel like I've got these weird flashbacks. I look 4 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: up at the TV for a second, and Stormy Daniels 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 1: is flashing all over the places. Yeah, you see her. 6 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: Her merchandise is selling hot because it's back in the news. 7 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 1: People are buying her films and whatever else she sells 8 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: her or I don't know how she makes a living now, 9 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: but um I she there's a lot of personal appearances. 10 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 1: Oh okay, was she the one that was a dancer 11 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: for a while and strip clubs? R U. Well she 12 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: was a porn actress. Oh no, I'm thinking of Octomom. 13 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: Was it octo Mom? Yeah? No, no, she she had 14 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: apparently some some hit porn movies. How do you measure 15 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: my hit or that you went like an award at that? Well, 16 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,519 Speaker 1: they have sales, you know, they they sell stuff online. 17 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: And it's supposed to be a three day strike, but 18 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: everything appears to be orchestrated. The union behind the strike 19 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: at the LA Unified School District is SEIU ninety nine, 20 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: and they represent the workers behind the scenes cafeteria workers 21 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: thirty thousand of them, bus drivers, custodians. They're not really 22 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: even coming to the bargaining table. And the way we're 23 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 1: hearing it's like, well, it's our demands have to be 24 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,839 Speaker 1: all accepted for nothing, and they want a thirty percent raise. 25 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: But of course they're screaming this is about respect, not 26 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:27,839 Speaker 1: about money, and get that one. But that's a good one. 27 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: You have all respect. You back to school now, because 28 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: everybody is shouting at them, what do you expect if 29 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,399 Speaker 1: you're a custodial worker or a cafeteria worker, how much 30 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,960 Speaker 1: money do you expect? But it's not about the money. 31 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: Good good, we'll take we'll take out that that offer 32 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: them no raise, and we'll just hold a parade for you, 33 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: a respect parade. So the teachers have walked out in sympathy. 34 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: That's why there's completely no school. We're gonna talk now 35 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: to one I think we've had on this show before. 36 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: Rebecca Friedrichs says, a twenty eight year a public school teacher. 37 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: She did not like funding state and national teachers unions 38 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: because well, not appreciative of their politics, their tactics. So 39 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: eventually her case Friederichs versus the California Teachers Association, which 40 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 1: was out to free teachers from forcing being forced to 41 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 1: join unions, made it to the US Supreme Court in 42 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, and of course it helped end forced unionization 43 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,519 Speaker 1: for teachers and all government employees. And we're going to 44 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 1: bring her on here to get her take on this 45 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: whole controversy at LA Unified. A Rebecca, how are you? 46 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: They're spot on about what they're doing here. This has 47 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: nothing to do with teachers. This has nothing to do 48 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: with children. It has everything to do with given the 49 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 1: unions more power and everything. They want to control this country, 50 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: to control our schools, and these people are just diabolical. Well, 51 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: you've seen it from the inside, and you fought all 52 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 1: the way to the Supreme Court and you won, so 53 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 1: you would know better better than anybody what goes on here. 54 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:06,920 Speaker 1: I mean a lot of parents are really frustrated. Is 55 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 1: there any conscience left with these teachers? I mean they 56 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: already you know, sat out for almost a year and 57 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: a half and now they're adding another three days and 58 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: always mayhem. I mean, they've got no care at all 59 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: for the kids of the parents. Well, this is this 60 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: is what's troubling. It's the UTLA United Teachers Los Angeles 61 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: who claim to represent the teachers, they're the ones that 62 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: are heartless. They use teachers and children as pawns in 63 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: their political game. A lot of teachers I have been 64 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: communicating with, over a thousand of them who are one 65 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: hundred percent against this uh this strike, and some who 66 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: have crossed the picket line today. Of course, they don't 67 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: get any attention in the mainstream media. So there's a 68 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: lot of teachers who don't agree with this, but they 69 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: are trapped in a corrupt system that's run by these unions, 70 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: and they really don't have a voice. As far as 71 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: the teachers who get out there and you know, pick 72 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: it with them, a lot of them are manipulated. They're 73 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: believing lives. The unions always use the natural empathies of teachers. 74 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: Oh don't you feel sorry for this person who's only 75 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: making minimum way to can't pay their bills or whatever, 76 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: And so a lot of these teachers jump on board 77 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: because they're manipulated. And then there's a group of teachers 78 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: who are union activists who are just nasty people and 79 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: really don't care about anybody else. So it's more complicated 80 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: than the way they display themselves. But there's a lot 81 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 1: of teachers are disagree with what's going on. I just 82 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:33,280 Speaker 1: think they need to band together, have their own union 83 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 1: to make it clear they're not going to put up 84 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 1: with this anymore because this is terrible for the kids. Yeah, 85 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 1: they're absolutely banning together. The problem is that the unions 86 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 1: have been able to use our legislative and judicial system 87 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: to get to make everything, give them power over everything. 88 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: So the unions have monopoly bargaining power. So even if 89 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: you band together, you're not allowed to bargain for yourself, 90 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,039 Speaker 1: not allowed to go in and tell your boss, hey, 91 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:58,359 Speaker 1: this is what we want. The unions have the control. 92 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 1: So really, the only way we fix our school then, 93 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: indeed our country, is make these government unions illegal. If 94 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: we could kick them out of our school and get 95 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: parents back into driver's seat and good teachers supporting parents, 96 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,480 Speaker 1: and you know, our good communities can run the schools. 97 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: That's the way our American founders set up our schools. 98 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 1: Originally they're ever set up to be public schools run 99 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 1: by a bunch of special interest groups. So if we 100 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 1: could get the unions out and the special interest group palace, 101 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 1: we could fix this whole nightmare. And but or I 102 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: hope we can do that. My husband and I run 103 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: a little nonprofit cult for kids in country. That's all 104 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: we do all day long is to try to help 105 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: people understand the truth about unions and work to make 106 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: them illegal again. It's kind of curled the way they 107 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: take advantage of poor families who can't move to the suburbs, 108 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: can't afford private or parochial school, can't home school. I mean, 109 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: there really is no other choice, and they're trapped in LAUSD. 110 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:54,919 Speaker 1: And LAUSD has this horrible, horrible success rate teaching basics 111 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 1: like math and reading. I mean, their lives go by, 112 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 1: the kids lives go by, and and they graduate and 113 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: they're illiterate and they can't count. Yeah. Absolutely, this is 114 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 1: why I say they're diabolical. And if you go back 115 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 1: further in their history, the unions were very much a 116 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: part of removing phonics instruction from America schools, and we 117 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: didn't used to have a lot of people who were 118 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: functionally illiterate. Now we have millions who are functionally illiterate. 119 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: Never nobody ever heard of dyslexia before until the unions 120 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: helped to remove bonics from our schools. Now you have 121 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: all this dyslexia. So they've brought in common core, they've 122 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: removed all our great education, they've brought in a bunch 123 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: of nonset, including this social justice warrior, turning our kids 124 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: into a bunch of Hitler's use. And it's one hundred 125 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: percent these unions. And not only that, they had a 126 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 1: backroom deal with the CDC to keep la Unified schools closed, 127 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: keep the kids masks. And there's a whole bunch of 128 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: employees in la USC who were fired because they didn't 129 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: want to get an experimental shot. And these unions never 130 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: defended them. So these unions aren't who they claimed to be. 131 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 1: They aren't they're defending teachers or representing anybody but themselves 132 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 1: and their own wicked political agenda. And I'm really glad 133 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 1: that parents are getting set up with this, and I 134 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,159 Speaker 1: hope that parents and good teachers will stand up together. 135 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: Have you fight these Yeah? Since that Supreme Court decision, 136 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: have you seen major inroads, particularly when it comes to 137 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: teachers getting out of the California Teachers Association. What's the 138 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: follow up and all that? Yeah, there's a lot of 139 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: follow up. There's a lot of us doing work to 140 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: get people out, and I have to say that the 141 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 1: biggest gift to people like us who wanted to get 142 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: people out of the unions with the whole COVID nonsense. 143 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: It opened people's eyes to what's going on in the classroom. 144 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: And so the numbers aren't as high as we wish 145 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: they would be when our case, when the case went forward, 146 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: and when the case won, about ten percent of teachers 147 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: immediately we're out of the union, and now I think 148 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: it's somewhere between fifteen and twenty. So it's not anywhere 149 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: close to what it needs to be. But I can 150 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: tell you there are teachers today in LA Unified opting 151 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: out of the union, not paying those dudes because they're 152 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: so fed up. So the more of these unions are 153 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: nasty and do all the eyeing our children in education, 154 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: I think the more people will wake up and hopefully 155 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: more people like y'all will talk about it and your 156 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: parents will awaken these teachers. Why are they nasty? Because 157 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: I remember usually teachers, at least the beginning when they're young, 158 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: are really idealists, you know. They they tended to have 159 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: a big heart and they wanted to help the kids, 160 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: the little kids, especially at the beginning, when did everybody 161 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: get so sour and angry and vindictive what happened. So 162 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: most of the teachers I know still are exactly what 163 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: you described. They love the kids, that do anything to 164 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: help the kids. The problem is they're trapped in a 165 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 1: corrupt system and their voices have been silence. So good 166 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: teachers like myself, the unions don't speak for us. They 167 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:41,839 Speaker 1: don't go out and tell everybody that we exist and 168 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: we don't like them. So the union voice is taken 169 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,319 Speaker 1: over the voice of the teacher. So you're not really 170 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: hearing the voice of the teacher. You're hearing the voice 171 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 1: of a very radical, far less political monster which calls 172 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: itself a union. They call itself a teacher union because 173 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 1: you know, they able to get people to like them 174 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: because they were teachers. But what's happened is they've caused 175 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: America to hate teachers. And one of the things I'm 176 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: always screaming about is, hey, people, please, unions are not teachers. 177 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: They're two different things. And so the unions have just 178 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: infiltrated the teaching profession, and that's why we need to 179 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: chase them out so the great teachers can be great again. 180 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: Another thing I can say is these unions have changed 181 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 1: the virtues of a lot of teachers. A lot of 182 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: teachers when they first came in, their focus was on 183 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,199 Speaker 1: the kids, and the unions unfortunately get them focused on money, 184 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: and we need to stop that. We need to get 185 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: them out because the focus should not be on money, 186 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: and focus should be on educating children and doing it 187 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: well and being servants and working together with parents for 188 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,559 Speaker 1: the good of kids. Now, Rebecca, how can people find 189 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: out more about Kids and Country and everything else that 190 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: you're working on? Thanks for asking. They can come to 191 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:52,559 Speaker 1: for Kids and Country dot org. It's fo Kids and 192 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: Country dot org and they can find everything we're doing 193 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 1: right there, including our adopted teacher program where people who 194 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 1: are non teachers grab the teacher you know, and help 195 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:04,199 Speaker 1: us educate them on the truth about their unions, because 196 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 1: some teachers think their union is their friend and it's 197 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: defending them from all the evils in the world, but 198 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 1: it's just the opposite. So they need to know the truth. 199 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 1: And we'd appreciate your health. Thanks for Rebecca, Rebecca Friedericks, 200 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: thanks for coming on, Thank you for having me all right. 201 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: She's the one with the lawsuit against the California Teachers 202 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: association with the Supreme Court about being forced to begin 203 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 1: the union and to pay dues that the union uses 204 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: for all of its social justice woke warrior nonsense, particularly 205 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: bad as UTLA. Those are just democrats, socialists. I mean, 206 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: every time I read a story, it's like, well, we 207 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 1: want more housing, housing, housing for teachers, No, just housing 208 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,319 Speaker 1: for the community. Yeah. Yeah, they're all about all this 209 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: big social issues. It's like none of their business. And 210 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: they're not elected by the people to be demanding these 211 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 1: I remember, fifty eight percent of these students in LA 212 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 1: are not at the reading level reading proficiency, right, just 213 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 1: just minimal, minimal reading, fifty eight percent, seventy one percent 214 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: are math proficiency, and they want to set the agenda 215 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: for the world. All right, more coming up Johnny Ken 216 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: kf I AM six forty. We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. 217 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from kf 218 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 1: I AM sixty. All right, so let's turn our attention 219 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: to something else. It's pretty serious, and I knew this 220 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: was coming. As you know, the mucky mucky MUCKs and 221 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:30,840 Speaker 1: Sacramento with their progressive agenda have been getting really ticked 222 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: off that ballot measures get on the statewide ballot. I 223 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 1: guess the good example is the recall of Newsom that 224 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 1: they're now introducing legislation propelled by labor unions and went 225 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 1: back to labor unions again and environmental advocates and their 226 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: tick because they think corporations with their big money are 227 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: easily getting ballot measures put out there to the voters. 228 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 1: Now they still have to pass. Say wait, the unions 229 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: had big money and they get their stuff on ballot. 230 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: They do absolutely big money. Get on. Oh wait, we 231 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: can't add this. I guess another example that would be 232 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: the uber lyft thing Prop. Twenty two, which was going 233 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,440 Speaker 1: to overturn A B five. So they've got a bill 234 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:14,719 Speaker 1: Assembly Bill four to one, which is being sponsored by 235 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: this Isaac Bryan. Ever heard of them? Assembly member from 236 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: Los Angeles? All the nuts are from LA two. Get this. 237 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: And you know how we complain that some ballot measures 238 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: they change the title and summary to fool us, like 239 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 1: not putting the word taxes in there, or taking out 240 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: important things like reduces taxes. Well, they want to establish 241 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: a government bureaucracy to oversee the signature collection. Now wait 242 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: a minute, I thought the whole idea, particularly when people 243 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: are trying to collect signatures is to maybe battle some 244 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: government legislation that they don't like. Maybe let the people 245 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,479 Speaker 1: speak beyond the legislature about what they want to people organize, 246 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 1: the people, fund the people, collect the signatures and verify 247 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: their own signatures. And the only role for government is 248 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 1: that the end to count and verify. That's their only right. 249 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 1: Anything we want to do to organized and collect signatures 250 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: is our business because we're free citizens. Yep. So they 251 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: want new rules to referendums and initiative campaigns. They also 252 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:24,439 Speaker 1: want to mandate that at least ten percent of petition 253 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 1: signatures must be obtained by unpaid volunteers. That's a strange 254 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: to make to make it difficult, of course, yeah, to 255 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: make it. If you have paid volunteers and you have 256 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 1: enough money, you can get most anything on the ballot. 257 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,680 Speaker 1: But they know unpaid volunteers, and you know what they'll 258 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: do is every few years they'll pass an amendment and 259 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: up that percentage little by little. Oh yeah, the government 260 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 1: oversight thing will get bigger. Oh yeah, no, no, you 261 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: watch their incremental attacks because what starts as a minor 262 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: little thing, and they count on people saying it's really 263 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: not such a big deal. What are you so upset about? 264 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 1: This is why I get upset over little things, because 265 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: I know their plan. Those little little tentacles are gonna 266 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: eventually you're gonna have the Hall Monster sitting on your head. 267 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: And of course they have this phony motivation. They claim 268 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: that well, wealthy businesses and individuals they constall and reverse 269 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: state laws because they have the money to collect distignatures. No, 270 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 1: and you've heard us say this on the air. You 271 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 1: and I have often said this. We're looking for somebody wealthy. 272 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 1: A lot of people are behind a lot of these 273 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: ballot measures that are seeking to overturn the way California 274 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: is moving in the direction it's moving. And sometimes you 275 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: need a wealthy corporation or a wealthy individual because it's 276 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: expensive the legislator and just vote and put something on 277 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: the bat and the legislators people to do it in 278 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: defiance of the legislature. That's a very expensive thing to do. Yeah. Now, 279 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: and these government bullies and nannies, they always have the 280 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: labor unions to supply the money and the manpower to 281 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: get their guardage on the ballot. We occasionally have corporations 282 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: actually on our side. Basically, this article by Terran Luna 283 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: in the El Segundo Times. She's saying, advocates, but they're 284 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: making the case that, well, people are trying to overturn 285 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: the progressive legislature and their measures to address poverty, protect 286 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: public health and benefit the environment. Those nasty corporations and 287 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: those nasty wealthy individuals over the years, companies that make 288 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 1: cigarettes and manufactured plastics and operate bail bomb firms and 289 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: launched multimillion dollar campaign. Then you plastic manufacturers are up 290 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 1: there with cigarette makers. Now, huh well, yea, what that's 291 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: sick old world. Yeah, apparently the California Chamber of Commerce 292 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 1: is pushed back on the knee for referendum reform. Like 293 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 1: progressives don't use plastic. In fact, there was some. There 294 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: was some silly writer for the New York Times. He 295 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 1: wrote a long article a few weeks ago. He tried 296 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: to get through his day without using plastic. He really did, like, 297 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: he did not even like set foot on plastic. He 298 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 1: realized as soon as he put his foot down in 299 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: his carpeting that there were probably plastic fibers in the carpeting. 300 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 1: He'd already violated his pledge. I guess he didn't succeed. Well, 301 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: well it was extremely difficult. No, he didn't succeed, but 302 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 1: he plastic is a marvel. Oh, it's one of a 303 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: great invention major in ava. It's up there with you know, 304 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 1: discovering oil can propel cars. Yeah, all the stuff that 305 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: makes modern life modern life, plastics, oil, That's why I'd 306 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: say they're trying to destroy modern life. You will not 307 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: some people are not going to believe this till it happens. 308 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: But that's that that makes the case every day you 309 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 1: because you look for the little things. If we could 310 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 1: add up, I mean, since they passed the first climate 311 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 1: change bill in two thousand and six, and a lot 312 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 1: of people go, oh, what's the big deal, It's like 313 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: you're gonna say, and now seventeen years later, now what now? 314 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:09,439 Speaker 1: They banned gas powered cars just for starters. They I mean, 315 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: look at the price of gasoline. What was it in 316 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 1: two thousand and six? What is it now? What was 317 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,439 Speaker 1: the price of natural gas? I mean, I mean they 318 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: have incrementally, day by day committed these little, tiny incursions 319 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: until you end up with one massive atrocity. All Right, 320 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 1: we got more coming up, John and ken kf I 321 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 1: am six forty live everywhere the iHeart Radio app. You're 322 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: listening to John and Ken on demand from kf I 323 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: Am sixty. Yeah. Reminder that the Moistline will be back 324 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: in three days, so we're collecting Moistline calls. Go to 325 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: the iHeart Radio app. The microphone icon is your way 326 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 1: to leave a message for the Moistline or call the 327 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: toll free number one eight seven seven Moist eighty six 328 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 1: one eight seven seven six six four seven eight eight six. Well, 329 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 1: this really bothers me. I remember talking about this a 330 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:06,919 Speaker 1: couple of years ago with the celebrity comedian actor Seth Rogan, 331 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 1: and the subject was car break ins, and it's kind 332 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: of happened again with a former official in San Francisco, 333 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: which we just mentioned yesterday. A CNN crew was there 334 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: to do a report on crime in San Francisco and 335 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 1: their rent a car got broken into while they were 336 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: out there reporting and they got security guards who were 337 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:28,360 Speaker 1: supposed to watch it, but I guess it was over 338 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 1: in seconds, so they couldn't move in to save the 339 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: belongings of the CNN crew When the car, the car 340 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: object thieves smashed into the back window and just grab 341 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 1: stuff and ran. There is a man who was running 342 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 1: for district attorney named John Hamasaki. He was the progressive candidate. 343 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 1: He's a former San Francisco Police commissioner. Could you imagine that? 344 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 1: I guess he spent all his time with defund the police, 345 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: and it sounds like he's one of those guys. This 346 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: is what he wrote on Twitter about these reports of 347 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: car breakings, and San Francisco leads the country. I think 348 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:06,439 Speaker 1: I mentioned yesterday that half the people said they've been 349 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 1: the victim of some sort of property crime, especially smash 350 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:14,199 Speaker 1: and grabs. He wrote, with getting your car window broken 351 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 1: and some stuff stolen leave you scarred forever? Is that 352 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: what the suburbs due to you? Shelter you from basic 353 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 1: city life experiences so that when they happen to you, 354 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:27,159 Speaker 1: you're broken to the core. I've had my window broken 355 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: two times, and I was living paycheck to paycheck. It 356 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 1: sucked financially, but it has zero impact on my sense 357 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: of public safety. I can't even imagine the world one 358 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: must live in where this would be the most traumatizing 359 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 1: incident in their life. Again, not to say it doesn't suck, 360 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: but maybe city life just isn't for you. It's not 361 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: the suburbs. There's crime. I'm grateful most of it is 362 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,679 Speaker 1: property crime instead of violent crime. But always, I always 363 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 1: feel safe in San Francisco, even after being on the 364 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: wrong side of violent crime. Holy mackerel and step Rogan 365 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 1: wrote something similar. Was complaining on a car breaking. He's oh, 366 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 1: it's it's life in the big city, dude. Yeah, these 367 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 1: are some sort of country hick. Yeah, these are jerks 368 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 1: or what they are? Do you see how I looked 369 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: up Hamasaki but a weird looking guy? Oh you no, 370 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: I did not look up completely bald head, oversized, dark 371 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:18,879 Speaker 1: rimmed glasses and a really weird pencil thin mustache. He 372 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: looks you're joining conclusion. He looks disturbing to me. Sorry. 373 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 1: Based on the sketch, based on its okay, well, a 374 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,399 Speaker 1: lot of people weighed in and just blast at him. 375 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:31,680 Speaker 1: He said, I'd expect my tweet to go viral. It's 376 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,879 Speaker 1: been due two point eight million times as of yesterday afternoon. 377 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 1: I just wanted to push back on negative depictions of 378 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: San Francisco. But but all right, but that hurt tourism. Well, 379 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 1: of course it should hurt tourism. We'd be on a 380 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:46,639 Speaker 1: crazy person to park a car with stuff in the 381 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 1: back on a San Francisco street. He really, if you 382 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: ever want to see it again, don't do that. So 383 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: out to touch you. But my point is you shouldn't 384 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 1: have to do that. That's why this annoys me. Well, 385 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: to accept life in the big city as car breakings 386 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:01,400 Speaker 1: is you know what, most that's life in the big 387 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: that's giving up, right, that's the same thing with the homeless. 388 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: Oh guys shooting up in the park, that's life in 389 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 1: the big city. You could write off all of the 390 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: stuff to that. Yeah, well, this is that tiny sliver 391 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 1: of progressives. Notice how shockedy is that it went viral. 392 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 1: Of course it went viral. What you thought and what 393 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 1: you wrote down not the majority opinion. Most people think 394 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,199 Speaker 1: that's nuts. They think you are a crazy person. So 395 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: of course they're forwarding the tweet to their friends saying, 396 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: look what the San Francisco lunatic thinks. And now you're 397 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 1: shocked that there's two point eight million views. Of course 398 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: there is. There should be two hundred and eighty million views. 399 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:42,719 Speaker 1: Nobody normal thinks this way. Only these weird old, politically 400 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:48,639 Speaker 1: involved hyper online progressives, right, Because he goes, well, this 401 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 1: is the message going out there look what the liberals 402 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 1: have done. Liberals are rooting San Francisco. Everyone from the 403 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: right wants to be San Francisco is a hellscape because 404 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,920 Speaker 1: it's supposedly a progressive city. Everyone from Fox News to 405 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 1: Ted Cruise to push forward this dominant narrative of San Francisco. 406 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:06,880 Speaker 1: All right, this has been It's interesting how their responses 407 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 1: evolve over time. They claim it's a right wing narrative 408 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: when over one hundred thousand of their own people moved 409 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: out of San Francisco. Okay, San Francisco, it's like eighty 410 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: seven percent Democratic and one hundred thousand Democrats moved out. 411 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:29,160 Speaker 1: And then Newsom finally said, well, you know, it's not 412 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 1: just a right wing talking point. You know, there really 413 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: is some challenges here in San Francisco that we have 414 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,919 Speaker 1: to address. They will not admit. First they tell you 415 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,400 Speaker 1: it's not so bad. Then they tell you, well, it's 416 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: just a right wing talking point. And then when enough 417 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,680 Speaker 1: people leave and they lose enough tax money and enough businesses, 418 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 1: it's like, well, I mean, you know, maybe there are 419 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: some challenges we have to address. You know what, your 420 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: philosophy of life is horrible, just awful for anybody who's normal, 421 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 1: and I am tired of arguing about this and debating it. 422 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: It just you know, what you do, what everybody's done 423 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: in San Francisco. You get out of there. You know, 424 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 1: we used to take trips up to San Francisco just 425 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: for fun. We don't anymore. So no money for your hotel, 426 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: no money for your restaurants, no money for anybody. It's like, 427 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 1: what's what? Why why should we bother alone? They have 428 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: the most empty office space in the country, and they 429 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 1: the rents have actually come down, And I said, you know, 430 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,160 Speaker 1: some of that was the pandemic and people could work remotely. 431 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 1: And said, why should I pay, you know, ten thousand 432 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:29,879 Speaker 1: dollars a month to live in San Francisco when I 433 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 1: can do this job anyway, especially if I have to 434 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 1: deal with all the homeless and all the criminals, Why 435 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 1: should I work there? You know, they were willing to 436 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: put up with it when San Francisco is a fun place, 437 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 1: but it's it's not fun for anybody anymore. So you're 438 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,679 Speaker 1: gonna keep losing businesses and employees, You're gonna keep losing 439 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 1: tax revenue. Fine, it's gonna get I'll still go there 440 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,160 Speaker 1: on occasion, but I would never go there and park 441 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: my car with stuff in the back. You don't do that, right, 442 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 1: could you learn that? And I don't see crime everywhere. 443 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:58,399 Speaker 1: I did see a car break in when I was there, 444 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: and that's probably the only time in my life I've 445 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: actually seen a car break It happen right in front 446 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,120 Speaker 1: of me, which you know, if I only go there 447 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 1: maybe twice a year, that's proportionately high. But I didn't 448 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,439 Speaker 1: walk around and see crime being committed everywhere. I'm not 449 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: part of the narrative that San Francisco is a hell 450 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 1: escape in terms of you take two steps and someone 451 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,880 Speaker 1: knocks you over the head. Figure, there are certain districts. 452 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: Who's I took? I forgot what eggsit? I took off? 453 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,440 Speaker 1: The two eighty. Oh, I haven't gone through the really yeah, 454 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,879 Speaker 1: the one where the people are on the sidewalk shooting number. 455 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 1: I haven't gone there. Just like literally dozens and dozens 456 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,719 Speaker 1: of zombies on one city block, stumbling between the cars, 457 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 1: eyes glassy. They're all like bent over and emaciated. Oh, 458 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 1: there's the scariest block. I think they have a gentle 459 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: way of keeping it because if you go to the 460 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: Fisherman's Warf area, there's some homeless people, but not as 461 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,159 Speaker 1: many as you might think based on you know, the stories. 462 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,880 Speaker 1: There are other neighborhoods, and I don't think people tour 463 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: in that. Yes, obviously pretty bad. The Tenderloin district. Yeah, 464 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 1: the tender Loin district. We did that story where the 465 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 1: school kids had to walk around a sidewalk full of 466 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 1: drug adage to get to there. That provide you that 467 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: we played where she was pleading for more police funding. 468 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: That was her district, that was her district attenderline. Yeah. Yeah, 469 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: it's some places like that. All right, we got more 470 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 1: coming up. It is the Johnny Ken Show on kf 471 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 1: I Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. 472 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from kf 473 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: I AM sixty ron from one till four on the 474 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,639 Speaker 1: radio after four o'clock the iHeart app for the podcast 475 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: Johnny kennon demand. You can hear the whole show over 476 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: again or for the first time, or repeatedly or backwards. 477 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: Yeah all days. You don't remember the show, so just 478 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 1: go back and listen to it. It's a bad short 479 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:44,200 Speaker 1: term memory. It's like it's always a new show. It's 480 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: like I I gotta asked John, Remember yesterday we're talking about 481 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 1: h R another. I don't remember doing it. Why should 482 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 1: you more rain passing through. It's going to be with us, 483 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 1: probably through tomorrow, a lot of tomorrow. Actually muddon debris flow. 484 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:01,879 Speaker 1: John is back in the news, so people up in 485 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,120 Speaker 1: the mountain communities, and we talked earlier to Blake Trolley 486 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: covering the sand Bordadino Mountain community story and a little 487 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: bit of a twist in that one. There's a burn 488 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,439 Speaker 1: scar from a fire that was created from those gender 489 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 1: reveal people, which could lead to mudd and debrif flows 490 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 1: if the rain gets heavy enough during the next twenty 491 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,639 Speaker 1: four hours for people living near. I love the term 492 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 1: burned scar, scorched earth, burn scars. So those those people 493 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:35,880 Speaker 1: have they suffered enough, And you're right the gender reveal 494 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 1: people should be charged if there's damage from a from 495 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: a debriflow, more civil lawsuits a mud slide coming down 496 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 1: to hell. Gender What this? What day did that start? 497 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: I mean I just never heard of that till the 498 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 1: last year. You didn't hear about the woman that started it? Oh? Yes, 499 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: I don't know what day or year it was, but 500 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 1: she came out a couple of years ago and said 501 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: no more of this. I regret being the first one 502 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 1: to do the gender reveal, no sense and making it 503 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 1: go viral. Stop because now she's hearing about crazy stunts 504 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:09,200 Speaker 1: like this. It would be the online era. Sure, yeah, 505 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 1: I knew this story like this would come out two 506 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 1: three years later. Members of the Glendale City Council apparently 507 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: cut in line to get COVID nineteen vaccinations when they 508 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 1: first became available, and the person that was the chief 509 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 1: of the city's Emergency Medical Services claims he was demoted 510 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: because he protested. He has filed a lawsuit. His name 511 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 1: is Brian Julian, who remains a battalion chief in Glendale's 512 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 1: fire department, but he lost his position as EMS chief, 513 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 1: and he says he got a paycut just eight days 514 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,359 Speaker 1: after he complained. This would go back about two years 515 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: about the cheating government rules. Remember this only high priority 516 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 1: groups that would be healthcare personnel, followed by essential workers 517 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 1: like police and firefighters and bus drivers and food providers, 518 00:27:56,160 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 1: aren't city council people vital apparently not now then out 519 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: on the list. But on December twenty, night the twenty 520 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 1: twenty he was told by the fire chief Silvio Lenzis 521 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,919 Speaker 1: that he had to provide vaccinations to a couple of 522 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 1: city council members and four department heads, and Julian looked 523 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 1: into it and said, well, they're not technically, they're not 524 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 1: eligible yet to get the vaccine. They're old enough. Mostly 525 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,920 Speaker 1: it was it was he started with age sixty five 526 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:28,960 Speaker 1: and over and then compromised or immunocompromised situations. But I 527 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,199 Speaker 1: remember healthcare workers were first because allegedly right they were 528 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 1: on the front lines and saying then police and fire 529 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: because they go and meet the people to deal with 530 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,760 Speaker 1: emergency issues. Six days later, he claims he was instructed 531 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 1: to provide vaccine doses to more council members and department heads, 532 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: so word got around that we can get it inside 533 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 1: track to get the vaccines through the public. We're important, 534 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: of course, we're essentials. I think I think that's part 535 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: of the oath, right when you become a politician, you 536 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 1: get on any city council at the very end, screw 537 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 1: the public, so help me god, Well, isn't that what 538 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 1: a lot of people who take political jobs believe that 539 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: they would have the inside track if something good turns down. 540 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:13,880 Speaker 1: That's exactly why you run, including like developer corruption drives. 541 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 1: You get you get a slush fund, right, you get 542 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 1: an office private office fund, you get young blonde interns, 543 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 1: you get early vaccines. It's in the package of benefits. 544 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: So Julian says that after he was demoted because said 545 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: Lanzis raised his voice and got angry with him because 546 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 1: Julian said, this would be unlawful. I can't give them 547 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 1: vaccine doses. They don't qualify yet, he says he got demoted. 548 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 1: He complained to the good old human resources director of Glendale, 549 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,240 Speaker 1: but they didn't do anything, he says, So that's why 550 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 1: he's filed a lawsuit because he's lost pay and he 551 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,959 Speaker 1: lost his position with the fire depart Yeah. I mean, 552 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 1: you're being asked to break the law. Yeah right, I 553 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: say lock him up if he if he got caught, 554 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 1: he didn't up having to deal with the consequences, nobody 555 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: would Nobody would care, right, You wouldn't see any of 556 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 1: these these city council pigs trying to help the guy out. 557 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 1: How many political hacks you think cut the line during 558 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 1: those early days of everyone. I mean, because remember that 559 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: with such exciting news when it came out, it doesn't 560 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 1: matter mostly the people now, but at the time it was, 561 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 1: and there must have been a lot of hack politicians 562 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: who are like, how can I get it first? How 563 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 1: can I cut the line. I'm a man of influence, 564 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 1: that's right. I am matter and I am important. Well, 565 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 1: that's what a lot of politicians believe, because I don't 566 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 1: get a lot of pay, but I have a lot 567 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: of power and I want to use it and I 568 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:35,200 Speaker 1: want to be important. Invite me to important events. I 569 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 1: want to be with celebrities, and I want to get 570 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,479 Speaker 1: the first vaccines. That's right. Now, they're they're a horrible 571 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 1: group of people. Yeah, there really a horrible group of people, 572 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 1: so of course they felt entitled. Of course they did. Yeah, 573 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:52,000 Speaker 1: and Conway is coming into the studio. Hey, now a 574 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 1: lot of rain out there. Man, it's crazy and it's 575 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna get worse. We have a stormfront coming 576 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 1: in right now. It's cold, and it's wet. It's really windy. 577 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 1: So I'm all three things are horrible. Now we'll be 578 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:07,960 Speaker 1: on top of that. It sounds like an infant baby, 579 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 1: yeah right, yeah, right, an infant because they urinate themselves there, 580 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 1: windy because they fart, that's right, Yes, a little baby. 581 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,960 Speaker 1: And then TikTok says it has one hundred and fifty 582 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 1: million US users. That's a lot, man, that's half the control. 583 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,760 Speaker 1: I'm Chinese are gonna take all that info the Chinese 584 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: Communist Party infiltrated by YouTube account, no way, because I 585 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 1: went on YouTube, and you know how they have an 586 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,280 Speaker 1: array of suggested sure videos. At the very top, it 587 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 1: was it was a Chinese guy and all the writing 588 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:39,960 Speaker 1: was in Chinese, and I clicked it and he was 589 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 1: talking in Chinese at me. And then next one down 590 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: was a free access to download TikTok. Is that right? Thinking, Okay, 591 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 1: I've been hacked, Yeah, hacked by the communists. I'm still 592 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,200 Speaker 1: in shock. You have a YouTube account. Yeah, that's how 593 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 1: I watch all all those ancient TV shows. I'm really surprised. 594 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 1: That's right. Do you send melus Johnny Carson? He loves 595 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: to send look up Tim's dad all the time. Yeah. 596 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: Like John comes in and goes, hey, I saw your 597 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,560 Speaker 1: dad on Johnny Carson Like, yeah, I know, I was 598 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: in the green room five years older. I can one 599 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 1: up you on all that. Crep uh. And then Orange 600 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 1: County hillside communities are concerned about the storm as well, 601 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 1: and a close call at Burbank Airport plus la USD 602 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 1: Stripe Stride strike. Man, it's not good as a beautiful 603 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 1: It didn't work well when I went there in this 604 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: early seventies. I started there in seventy two. At least 605 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 1: you can read, well, I think you can read. I know, man, 606 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 1: yeah you're no. I honestly, god, it took me a 607 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,720 Speaker 1: long time. And these kids can't read when they come out. 608 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 1: I know. Well, look, the reading's overrated. Good point. It 609 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 1: really can be viewed and listen to it probably is. Look, 610 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: aren't the most miserable people, you know? The smartest people 611 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 1: you know? Yes, yeah, yeah, it's just anguish over everything. 612 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 1: It's hard living in a world exactly. Idiot. Smognance is bliss. 613 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 1: Smoke some weed, lift your truck and you know, go 614 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 1: to the beach. That's life. Philoso caf I Live, the 615 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 1: twenty four CAFI newsrom. Hey you've been listening to the 616 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,120 Speaker 1: John and Ken Show. You can always hear us live 617 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,280 Speaker 1: on caf I Am six forty one pm to four 618 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,440 Speaker 1: pm every Monday through Friday, and of course anytime on 619 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 1: demand on the iHeart Radio app.