1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Cam I Am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: and Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app Kenn's 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:13,319 Speaker 1: Away Today. Debra Mark is here and we have been 4 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: watching for over an hour now. Well, it started out 5 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: as a chase. Now to standoff. It's a guy in 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,760 Speaker 1: a white pickup truck. We're still in the same at 7 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: the same standoff situation. Yes, yeah, And so one of 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: the things that I was hearing is they may be 9 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: bringing in a police dog. They are trying to negotiate 10 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 1: with him, so they may be bringing him things that 11 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 1: he wants to try and get him to come out. 12 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: Do you on another balloon maybe and then you can 13 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: see that. So he's really close to homes and right 14 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: now Channel seven is zoning in on this one house 15 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 1: in a front yard with a couple of dogs just 16 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: hanging out watching the scene. Now, what else to do? 17 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: I mean, but it's so close, I mean, hopefully, hopefully 18 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: nobody's going to be hurt. Yeah, he's done a dead 19 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 1: end street, Poplar Street near North Wilmington Avenue in Compton. 20 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 1: He was on a chase, reckless driving and they did 21 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: the pit maneuver twice and spun around. But he was 22 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: able to get away, jumping over the median both times. 23 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:16,679 Speaker 1: And then he went to the end of this block 24 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 1: and just a few feet away as a chain link fence. 25 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: It overlooks a cement river, and he's all boxed and 26 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: he can't go anywhere. He's tried to throw his car 27 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: in reverse and push the police cars out of the 28 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: way behind him, but that didn't work. Yeah, he tried 29 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: that again. Oh, he tried that. This guy is a 30 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:33,279 Speaker 1: dumb clock. In the flat bed of the white pickup 31 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: truck is about a half a dozen tree stumps. They 32 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: looked like tree stumps. We saw him sucking out of 33 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: a balloon. We saw him sucking on maybe a vait 34 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: pen or a bob And now for an hour where 35 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: their arms must be tired. The police have weapons trained 36 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: on him. They've tried to spray pepper balls at him 37 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: and tear gas, and they rushed him a couple of 38 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: times with shields and threw spike strips under his car. Well, 39 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: now you see they're leading a woman away, So maybe 40 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: she lives in one of these nearby houses. The cats 41 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: were kind of showing her out that out of a 42 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: gated I guess it's a home. Yeah, it's the end 43 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: home on the block and uh had a had a 44 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: gate around it, and you know, when he was throwing 45 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: things out the window, we were trying to guess what 46 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 1: it was. I think it was the can ad the pepper, 47 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,239 Speaker 1: some of those canisters. It was small and black, so 48 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:30,639 Speaker 1: I thought it might be a gun and maybe he 49 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:32,839 Speaker 1: was given up. But not to be all right, let's 50 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:34,959 Speaker 1: get to alex Stone because we got more bad weather 51 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: coming in. Now the case is better. Let's yeah, you 52 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 1: better be as exciting as this chase. Yeah. I think 53 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:43,359 Speaker 1: one of those was a canister they threw out of there. 54 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: Whatever whatever they put in there, he immediately picked it 55 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,519 Speaker 1: up and then just tossed out the window. I was like, look, 56 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 1: that didn't work. But yeah, well what do we got 57 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 1: with the weather coming? Yeah? So, uh, these atmospheric rivers 58 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: and this is the next one. Um, this one's gonna 59 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,519 Speaker 1: mainly pound northern and central Howlifornia. Santa Barbara County is 60 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,959 Speaker 1: really going to get it. But the issue with this 61 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: one both what they're going to get in northern California, 62 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: what the pounding Central California is going to get, and 63 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: even what the La area is gonna get is this 64 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 1: gonna be pretty warm, and the concern out of this 65 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 1: is the snow that is at lower elevations that's gonna 66 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: melt with the warm rain coming in, and then it's 67 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: going to become a flooding situation when all the rain 68 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 1: and the snow merge. Yosemite has been shut down now 69 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: for about a week because of all the snow in 70 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: Yosemite and unable to clear all of it. Most of 71 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: the Yosemite Valley that area is at a low enough 72 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: elevation that the belief is this is gonna be rain 73 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: and melt all of that, and then Yosemite could see flooding. 74 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: Along the Merced River, Central California, they're kind of in 75 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: the bull's eye of this thing. They're they're worried there. 76 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: Chris Krissanitch got evacuated last time the river rose. He 77 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: expects it's going to go on again. This time. They 78 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 1: learn their lesson last time that they know they're going 79 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,839 Speaker 1: to be in flood water on again again. I don't 80 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: want to go through this again. After being rescued at 81 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: one thirty in the morning on a flatbed trailer with 82 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: a backhoe pushing cars out of the way, and yeah, 83 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: we're not going through that again, so we'll be leaving 84 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: early if it is going to look bad. And so 85 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: he says they're doing everything they can do. They're doing 86 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: sandbags today. They're getting it all ready. Now we're gonna 87 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 1: go fill sandbags and pray that it doesn't come through 88 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: the doors again. So the flood warnings are mainly from 89 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: Bay Area down to Santa Barbara Kings River in Fresno County. 90 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: This guy puts it pretty well. We anticipate getting wet 91 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: and hopefully not having to swim. Hopefully we don't have 92 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 1: to swim in the end of this. The National Weather 93 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:39,039 Speaker 1: Service and Noah, they put out an advisory about an 94 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: hour ago for excessive rainfall through central California with the 95 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 1: real potential for severe flooding. So this is going to 96 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: be less about snow. There will be some. Tahoe will 97 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: get more, Mammoth will get more, but most areas this 98 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: is going to be rain. And then you mix that 99 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 1: with all the snow and then you get you get 100 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 1: flooding that hopefully we won't see, but they're worried we 101 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 1: will get. How much is gonna come down here, Well, 102 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 1: the Bay Area is looking about five inches la maybe 103 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 1: a couple of inches depending on the areas that the valleys, 104 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: but it won't be anything as extreme in La as 105 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: what other areas of the state are going to get. 106 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 1: But the new drought numbers came out today from the 107 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 1: drought monitor that the government does. It's pretty incredible. I mean, 108 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: the numbers from two months ago to now. How the 109 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,840 Speaker 1: drought in the Central Valley, which that was the area 110 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: that was like this dark purple color in their readings, 111 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: the worst of the worst, you know, monumental drought. It's 112 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: been obliterated. It is gone now and they're releasing water 113 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,280 Speaker 1: out of the dams, out of fulsome dam and others 114 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 1: to get ready for this that I had. These last 115 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 1: couple of weeks have been incredible. I mean, just look 116 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: at the mountains of San Bernardino. It's been nuts. Yeah, 117 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 1: every few years this happens. You get, you know, three 118 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: five years of drought and all the officials starts screaming, 119 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: says it's the end of the world, and it's suddenly 120 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: down here. When we get twenty to thirty rain, it's like, 121 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:03,160 Speaker 1: I never mind, they've got enough for a while. Looks 122 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: like Ireland out there. What are they getting up in 123 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 1: the mountains, like from Crest Line up to Big Bear. Yeah, 124 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: so they may get a little bit of snow out 125 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: of this, but the bigger issue right now is still 126 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: trying to clear people out. And the San Bernardino County 127 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: Shares Department, they just updated us within the last hour. 128 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: Thirteen now who are dead, who have been found dead. 129 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:26,039 Speaker 1: They still only know one of the deaths being directly 130 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: connected to the snowstorm. That was a traffic accident. The 131 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 1: others were found in their homes, but they don't know 132 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: for sure. A lot of them somewhere in hospice. Some 133 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 1: had health conditions, others did not, and they're investigating it. 134 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 1: But so many people have been stuck for so many 135 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 1: days now. Team Rubicon the group of volunteers normally they 136 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: go into global disaster areas. They're up they're trying to 137 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: help people clear the snow. This is a CEO of 138 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,479 Speaker 1: Team Rubicon. It's been an incredible challenge for the citizens 139 00:06:55,520 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 1: of Crest Line. This is a absolutely amazing snow storm, 140 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: not just in the amount but the duration of the storm. 141 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: So some of these people have been homebound for eleven days. 142 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: They've run out of food, They in some cases don't 143 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: have power. They don't have their own generators. Some of 144 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: these homes, John, I mean they've got snow ten feet high. 145 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: Talk to the family of a ninety three year old 146 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: Eleanor Abanatti. She is among the dead, and they say 147 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: they talked to her on February twenty eighth. She picked 148 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 1: up the phone saying welcome to winter Wonderland, and then 149 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: they could never get her on the phone again. They 150 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: say they tried every welfare check line that they could 151 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 1: find in San Bernardino County to no avail. Nobody could 152 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: go and check on her. Finally this week and neighbor 153 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: bashed open her front door and she was dead inside. 154 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: She didn't have any power, and so they think that 155 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: it was related to the storm. The Sheriff's department saying, yeah, 156 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: but you know, so many of these people had health conditions. 157 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: The youngest though, was thirty three year old guy. Another 158 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: person in their thirties, all the way up to their 159 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: early nineties, a lot of ages in between. So they're 160 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: investigating ying in their thirties. Yeah, some of them may 161 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: end up being connected, but right now they don't know 162 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: if they are that. Yeah, they say, the ones that 163 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: were in hospice. You could say, well, that may not 164 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 1: be connected. They say most of them, they didn't look 165 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: like they froze to death, didn't look like they ran 166 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: out of food. But they got to figure out the 167 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: thirteen who were dead. But the friends villain or Abanadi 168 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: thinks she froze. Yeah, you know, they say they don't 169 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: know that her power did come back on at one 170 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: point where she was able to get phone calls, and 171 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: then they think it went off again, and that the snow. 172 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 1: She couldn't see out of her home. The snow completely 173 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: covered her home. She couldn't see how the windows, so 174 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: she was there all alone. And you know, if it 175 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: was a weather they don't know. All right, Alex, very good, 176 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: thank you. You got it next, John, almost as exciting 177 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 1: as the standoff, pretty close. This cracked me up. Now, 178 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 1: if you've been listening to the show, we have been 179 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: making fun of the weather predictions for a long time 180 00:08:55,720 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 1: because it's incredible how often they're wrong, and how all 181 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: the hacks in the news media keep going to the 182 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: same sources for the same wrong predictions. Before the start 183 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: of this winter, I would say October, all the newspapers, 184 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: all media outlets, rather we're reporting that the government said 185 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 1: Lunina is still here. Lenina is that large weather system 186 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 1: that controls where the precipitation goes, what the temperature is 187 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: going to be for the Pacific coast, and the Lawnina 188 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: means cooler, dryer winters in California, Alniino a brother means wetter, 189 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: warmer winters. So they said Lanninia's coming this year. It's 190 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,199 Speaker 1: supposed to be the third straight year, and the Lannina 191 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:54,440 Speaker 1: there was a ninety one percent chance that we were 192 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: going to have a dryer the normal winter, and so 193 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: all the drought mongers started beating their tom tom's to 194 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: send out the warning that we have to stop living 195 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 1: the way we're living and control our water use. While 196 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: they were wrong, ninety one percent chance of dry winter, 197 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: obviously you couldn't be more wrong. And now they have 198 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: announced that the Lannina is over. It has decayed, rotted. 199 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: I don't know what leninas do, but it's died. And 200 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: now we're in a neutral situation, probably headed towards an 201 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 1: elnno in late summer or fall. Now, the elninos are 202 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: supposed to bring you the wet weather, although you could 203 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:37,439 Speaker 1: have a dry Elnino. Are you following this. Lanninia is 204 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:39,319 Speaker 1: supposed to be dry, but they could be wet like 205 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: this year, and Elnino's are supposed to be wet, but 206 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: they could be dry ninety one percent chance and they 207 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 1: wipped because we're at twenty inches of rain in downtown 208 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:50,839 Speaker 1: LA and probably got at least two more inches of 209 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 1: rain this weekend. But hey, that doesn't stop that doesn't 210 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 1: stop all these wise journalists from calling up these loser experts. 211 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 1: They've got the latest wrong prediction and more coming up. 212 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 1: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from kf 213 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:11,199 Speaker 1: I Am sixty. The standoff in Compton continues. A guy 214 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 1: in a white pickup truck at a dead end in 215 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: on Poplar Street in Compton, and there's a lot of 216 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: police with guns trained on him. It was a reckless 217 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 1: driving case and he started to with aid police. There 218 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:28,839 Speaker 1: were a couple of pit maneuvers that he escaped from 219 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:30,559 Speaker 1: and then he took him to this dead end and 220 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:35,079 Speaker 1: he's been inhaling all kinds of substances and leaning out 221 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: the window and shouting, and they fired all kinds of 222 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: sprays and gases at him. But right now the standoff continues. 223 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:46,719 Speaker 1: This is this story really turned strange. You remember how 224 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:52,839 Speaker 1: there was a woman named LaTavia McGhee who wanted to 225 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: go to Mexico for a tummy tuck. Tummy tucks are 226 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: big with the West Side mommies, aren't there. Oh well, 227 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: I would imagine and the West Bally mommies. Yeah, well, 228 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: you know, tummy tucks and butt lifts and all that 229 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: kind of stuff. I mean, yes, a lot of people 230 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 1: do go to Mexico because it's a lot cheaper. Yeah. 231 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: Actually those cosmetic surgery. Yeah, I heard what these surgeries are. 232 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 1: It's it's it's unbelievable. It's six figures. Oh yes, well 233 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:21,079 Speaker 1: I don't know because I've never looked into it, but 234 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: I've heard it's very expensive. You've had nothing tucked or lifted? 235 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: I have not. No, you're still in your original r. 236 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 1: I'm organic, of course you were well, all right, LaTavia. 237 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 1: LaTavia went to Mexico with with several of her friends 238 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: and they ended up getting kidnapped and two of them 239 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: got killed by the golf cartel. They had crossed the 240 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:54,200 Speaker 1: border from Brownsville into That's in Texas, and they ended 241 00:12:54,240 --> 00:13:00,199 Speaker 1: up in Matta Morris in Mexico. And today this this 242 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 1: is the big twist. Five members of the Golf Cartel 243 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 1: were left abandoned on a street, all tied up so 244 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 1: that so that they could be taken away by authorities. 245 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: The Golf Cartel dumped these guys in the street, claiming 246 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,319 Speaker 1: they were the ones who kidnapped the four Americans and 247 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: killed two of them. They say that these guys went rogue, 248 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:31,719 Speaker 1: that they operated outside of cartel rules, and they condemned 249 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:36,959 Speaker 1: the attack, claiming that the cartel has always respected the 250 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: life and integrity of the innocent. Now, this is comes 251 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:44,559 Speaker 1: from a group that traffics enormous amounts of the fentonel 252 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: and heroin and these Mexican products. Well, the fentanyl alone 253 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: has killed seventy thousand people, mostly young people. Fentonel is 254 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:56,839 Speaker 1: now the leading cause of death between the ages of 255 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 1: fifteen and forty five in this country. They've they've killed 256 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 1: seventy thousand people. I heard a politician today try to 257 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:06,959 Speaker 1: put that into a statistical perspective. It's like having a 258 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:11,079 Speaker 1: nine to eleven attack every two weeks. It's it's more 259 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 1: than the entire death toll in the Vietnam War for 260 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 1: the US. So it's a lot of dead bodies. And 261 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: while it's getting some media attention. It's not like the 262 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: country is gripped with horror to do something about it. 263 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: So anyway, these five guys, there's a photo of them 264 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: sitting on the pavement with their hands tied behind their backs. 265 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: Left behind. There was a note from the Golf Cartel, 266 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: apparently there with a splinter group, the Scorpions and the 267 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 1: Golf Cartels. Scorpion Group strongly condemns the events of last Friday, 268 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 1: when an innocent working mother died and four American citizens 269 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: were kidnapped. Now, LaTavia McGhee, who was who was Who's 270 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: trying to trying to get the tummy tuck surgery. She's 271 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: a mother of five in South Carolina. You imagine leaving 272 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 1: your five kids behind so you can drive to Mexico 273 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: to get your tummy tuck. And the Daily Mail says 274 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: there is lengthy rap sheets for the four kidnapped US citizens. 275 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: An authorities said that drug trafficking can't be ruled out 276 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: among the Americans. McGhee and one of her friends were 277 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 1: rescued from the cartel stash house six and a half 278 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 1: miles away, and inside two of the friends were found dead. 279 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: There was a document that the Daily Mail got got 280 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: a look at with biographical information which had their names, birthdays, addresses, 281 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: and details of criminal records, and among them were convictions 282 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: for drug related offenses for two of the four, and 283 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: that would be her friends Brown and Woodward. In view 284 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: of the prior convictions, according to the document, it can't 285 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 1: be ruled out that the attack against the Americans could 286 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: be directly linked to drug trafficking operations. Their full names 287 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 1: are Zindel Brown and Shaded Woodard. So this story has 288 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: gotten gotten a lot more interesting. Have you ever heard 289 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 1: of the cartel apologizing no? This is the first time. 290 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: Did you see the apology? Note the handwritten apology considering 291 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: the savage murders that they commit. I mean, have you 292 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: seen some of the stuff the cartels do? What of 293 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: our one of our one of the most bizarre things, 294 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: Kennan I ever saw. We're photos. They would they would 295 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 1: scout victims like colle Just watch the Netflix show Narcos 296 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 1: all about Pablo Escobar, cut their faces and scalps off, 297 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,119 Speaker 1: and they would hang them on lamp posts. Yeah. Crazy, 298 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 1: So you'd see the and it doesn't seem like the 299 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: kind of crowd that would apologize no. But that's that's 300 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 1: what happened. All right, we got well, I have an 301 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:27,879 Speaker 1: update on this this crazy standoff. Well, the guy is 302 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:31,400 Speaker 1: still in the white pickup pickup truck. But I guess 303 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: neighbors and people are coming around and the police officers 304 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 1: are getting a little annoyed, and they're shooting people away, 305 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:40,879 Speaker 1: and they're some people are trying they're taking pictures and 306 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:44,640 Speaker 1: the cops are getting a little annoyed. Gotta get their likes. Yeah, 307 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:47,160 Speaker 1: I know, right, I guess they want to take selfies 308 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,879 Speaker 1: with the cops. I'm not I'm not exactly sure I 309 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 1: should start firing pepper balls at the neighbors. And one 310 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: guy was walking his dog. Cops trying to shoot them away, 311 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 1: get away, get away. Everything's a party in the neighborhood, 312 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 1: all right. When we come back. You may have heard 313 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:06,920 Speaker 1: that Huntington Beach is getting suited by the state of California. 314 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:10,679 Speaker 1: Huntington Beach does not want to build low income housing, 315 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 1: at least not the way California is ordering him to. 316 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:19,239 Speaker 1: Because the citizens of Huntington Beach don't want to deal 317 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:22,119 Speaker 1: with it. Then they don't understand why they're being forced to. 318 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 1: Newsom and the Attorney General Rob Bonta insists that they're 319 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: gonna have to bend to the state's will. And we're 320 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:34,440 Speaker 1: gonna talk with Huntington Beach City Attorney Michael Gates because 321 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 1: he's always up for a fight. You're listening to John 322 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:43,479 Speaker 1: and Ken on demand from KFI AM sixty coming up 323 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 1: after three o'clock. You know, there's only one journalist in 324 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 1: the state of California who has covered the high speed 325 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:58,880 Speaker 1: rail story accurately for fifteen years, has told the truth consistently, 326 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 1: and it's Ralph Vartibidion. And he started by working for 327 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: the La Times, and then as the La Times transitioned 328 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 1: away from journalism, cal Matters picked up Ralph Vartibidion and 329 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: he's got another whopper of a story that we're going 330 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 1: to talk about next hour. And we're also going to 331 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 1: talk with Jim Patterson, the Assemblyman. Because Governor Newsome wants 332 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:30,400 Speaker 1: to spend another half a billion dollars on this high 333 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 1: speed rail disaster next year. This is with a twenty 334 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: two billion dollar deficit, another half billion for high speed rail. 335 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: The new cost estimate, according to Vartibidion, puts high speed 336 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:48,760 Speaker 1: rail one hundred billion dollars in the red that they're 337 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,120 Speaker 1: one hundred billion dollars short and funding. So we'll get 338 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 1: to all that coming up after three o'clock. Ken is 339 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: away today. Ryan talk now with somebody who've had in 340 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 1: a number of times, Michael Gates. He's the Huntington Beach 341 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 1: the attorney, as you know, the Governor Newsome and the 342 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: legislature has been constantly sticking their nose into the private 343 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 1: zoning rules of the towns and cities in California, insisting 344 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,359 Speaker 1: that they have to build a certain amount of affordable housing. 345 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 1: And in fact, in Huntington Beach, the state is demanding 346 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: that they construct thirteen thousand plus new homes in the 347 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: next seven years thirteen thousand, and there's a number of laws, 348 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: including their insistence that you know, people can build accessory 349 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 1: dwelling units the ADUs. Those are those small homes that 350 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: you could build on your property adjacent to your main home. 351 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: Let's get Michael Gates on because the state is suing 352 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: Huntington Beach. Huntington Beach is suing the state. Michael, how 353 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: are you good, John, Thanks for having me on again. Sure, 354 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,880 Speaker 1: all right, so everything's coming to a head now. Explain 355 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 1: in simple terms, so everybody can can follow this because 356 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 1: zoning and housing can get way off in the weeds. 357 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 1: But what is the state asking you to do that 358 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: you're that the city's resisting. Well, right now, the state's 359 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: just trying to slap the city council around, slap the 360 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 1: city around for some of the decisions it's made recently, UM, 361 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 1: including the City council, decided it wanted to take a 362 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: look at whether the city should mount a challenge, a 363 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: legal challenge to the state laws on ADUs and SB 364 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: nine and other things. And I won't I won't get 365 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: too wonky on you, but basically the city council a 366 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: few weeks ago, a couple of weeks ago, said hey, 367 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,639 Speaker 1: let's let's kind of pause everything and let's look to 368 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: see if we should be challenging UM. And so one 369 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,119 Speaker 1: of the things that came out of that direction from 370 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 1: council was to UM to not process ADU permit applications 371 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 1: under state law, but to continue the process process the 372 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,160 Speaker 1: ones that we're already in the pipeline, and to process 373 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: the one process any new ones coming in if they 374 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:10,400 Speaker 1: do under our local zoning. And so that got caught 375 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,440 Speaker 1: the attention to the state. They're they're throwing a fit 376 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,360 Speaker 1: about it up there, claiming that we're violating all kinds 377 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 1: of state laws. They sent us a notice that we 378 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,640 Speaker 1: may be violating state laws on February twenty second. Yet 379 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 1: I heard from a media outlet, although I haven't seen it, 380 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 1: but I heard that they actually filo the lawsuit today 381 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 1: and then had a press conference today. You know, by 382 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,360 Speaker 1: our read of the housing law, we have thirty days 383 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,680 Speaker 1: to respond to that February twenty second letters. So they're 384 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: way too early in my view, depending on I guess, 385 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 1: depending on how they foil the lawsuit, but they're way 386 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 1: too early on pulling the trigger. I don't think the 387 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:48,400 Speaker 1: conflict is ripe for a judication to support a lawsuit, 388 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:52,479 Speaker 1: in large part because the city council has already Our 389 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: city council has already looked at these potential housing challenges, 390 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 1: and they're going to come back on the twenty first 391 00:22:58,160 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: of March just here in about a week and a 392 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 1: half or so, to decide what to do with the 393 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: ADU and SP nine application processing. Well, I mean the 394 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: central debate here, and I'm assuming that many of the 395 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: residents in Huntington Beach are on your side here, is 396 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 1: that most people want their local town to decide that 397 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,359 Speaker 1: they themselves decide what kind of town they want, and 398 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: if they want to town a single family homes, then 399 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 1: they've got every right to have a town of single 400 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,679 Speaker 1: family homes. And it's not anybody else's business from Sacramento 401 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: to come and tell them what to build. Yeah. Well, 402 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 1: and that's why, Frankly, John, the City of Huntington Beach 403 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 1: just filed a massive lawsuit today against the State of 404 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 1: California and the States Housing Department and Governor Newsom, basically 405 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:53,159 Speaker 1: challenging their authority over the city who has, as you 406 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: had said in your intro charter, city authority to have 407 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,440 Speaker 1: control over our local zoning. The States base they're trying 408 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 1: to step in and take all of that away, and 409 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: our lawsuit is basically saying, you're not going to take 410 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 1: all of that away. We have California constitutional rights, but 411 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,639 Speaker 1: we also have federal rights under the US Constitution. Because 412 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,920 Speaker 1: the state is also saying, hey, city council members, you 413 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 1: have to say basically that your city needs more housing, 414 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: and they it forces the city through the process to 415 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: adopt a statement of overriding consideration, that is to say, specifically, 416 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: join that high density housing is so important in such 417 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: a benefit that it outweighs the negative impacts to the environment. 418 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 1: And that's forced speech and a violation of the First Amendment. 419 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,679 Speaker 1: The city council members should be able to speak as 420 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: they wish and vote as they wish and not be 421 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 1: told by Newsom or anybody else from Sacramento how they 422 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:55,160 Speaker 1: need to be voting on how the proposed zoning should 423 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 1: be or shouldn't be, and or impacts our environment. So 424 00:24:58,040 --> 00:24:59,879 Speaker 1: that's really the key. They want you to build a 425 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: thirteen thousand homes, right well, thirteen thousand, three hundred and 426 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 1: sixty eight units of high density and so that usually 427 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 1: ends up being apartments. Okay, that brings a lot of cars, 428 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 1: a lot of traffic, a lot more people, you know, 429 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 1: which which you know, beach towns really can't can't absorb 430 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 1: all that much more you've got You've got an hour 431 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: and more demand, more demand on water, more demand on electricity, 432 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,120 Speaker 1: all these things that you know, the state's basically rationing 433 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: at this point, and that really impacts the quality of life. 434 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: I mean, there's no room for parking necessarily there, they're listeners, 435 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 1: much more traffic, that much more pollution from all that 436 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: what your listeners might be interested to know too in 437 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: this context of Huntington Beach. Huntington beachum is a pretty 438 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:49,880 Speaker 1: big city. It's the twenty fourth largest in the state. 439 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,120 Speaker 1: But but the important thing is we don't have any 440 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 1: undeveloped land. We are ninety five percent or greater than 441 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,919 Speaker 1: ninety five percent already developed. So what the state's basically 442 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,879 Speaker 1: saying is not that, you know, Huntington Beach has to 443 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: develop housing. It has to. It's asking us to redevelop, 444 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:09,160 Speaker 1: take already developed properties and zone them and redeveloped. Yet 445 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,040 Speaker 1: the governor and the state is leaving all of the 446 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 1: undeveloped territory of the city of California untouched. Well, this 447 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: has been going on for years, uh, you know, going back, 448 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,640 Speaker 1: you know, into the early two thousands. I remember when 449 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 1: Jerry Brown is the Attorney general. They're putting severe restrictions 450 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,959 Speaker 1: on developing the open land going east out of LA 451 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,880 Speaker 1: But they want to turn like a beach community into 452 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 1: a series of high rise apartments because exactly they want 453 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 1: everybody to There's an article the other day about this 454 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 1: idea of a fifteen minute city where you live and 455 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 1: work and shop and everything is within fifteen minutes so 456 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 1: that nobody drives anymore. Yep, you're you're you're reading the 457 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 1: situation right, and that's what Huntington Beach. That's all we're 458 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 1: trying to do is push back on that um. And 459 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,680 Speaker 1: we do have constitutional rights that we're trying to assert 460 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 1: and make sure that you know, the state doesn't violate. 461 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 1: And you know, as elected officials here and you know, 462 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,399 Speaker 1: I've been in office here as the elected attorney since fourteen. 463 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 1: It's been my duty ever since I took office. And 464 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 1: it's the duty of the current council to defend our 465 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,959 Speaker 1: city and not count out to the state. Because at 466 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,200 Speaker 1: the end of the day, we didn't get elected to 467 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 1: Huntington Beach leadership to be agents of the state to 468 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 1: do the state's bidding. We got elected to Huntington Beach 469 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: leadership to defend the city, to do the citizens bidding. 470 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,399 Speaker 1: So we have a duty and obligation to the residents 471 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 1: of Huntington Beach and we're not going to relinquish that 472 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:31,720 Speaker 1: or have it commandeered and taken away by the state 473 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 1: of California. Yeah. Well, you really fight hard for the 474 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: people of Huntington Beach and they're lucky to have you, 475 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,200 Speaker 1: so we will keep track of this along with you. 476 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,880 Speaker 1: Good luck, all right, I appreciate that, Johnny. I would 477 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 1: ask any other city interested to join us to contact 478 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 1: our office, would be happy to help. All right. It's 479 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: Michael Gates, Huntington Beach City Attorney. Because if you live 480 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: in a primarily a single family home neighborhood or town, 481 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: you're going to be dealing with this because Newsom and 482 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: the fanatics and the Democratic legislature hate single family homes 483 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 1: more than anything. Because your your They hate your your driveway. 484 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 1: They hate your Your driveway is usually asphalt and that 485 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 1: radiates heat and that causes global warming. They hate the 486 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,640 Speaker 1: car parked in your driveway for obvious reasons. You burn 487 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:23,400 Speaker 1: fossil fuels. They hate your green lawn because you're using water. 488 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: They hate your swimming pool because that uses water as well. 489 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 1: Um and and they hate your single family home because 490 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 1: it's not an efficient use of space in their mind. 491 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,120 Speaker 1: You know, people should be living stacked up on top 492 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: of each other twenty stories into the air. And you 493 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:43,960 Speaker 1: shouldn't be driving long distances to work and to shop. 494 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: You should live life the way they say that These 495 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 1: fifteen minutes cities that's that's a real thing out there, 496 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 1: a real phenomenon. It's the latest nut job, wacko progressive 497 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 1: left wing nonsense that they're latching onto and they're trying 498 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 1: to force it into a town like Huntington Beach. It's 499 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 1: just it's just incredibly intrusive. I mean, these guys are such, 500 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 1: they really are Soviets, they really are communists. They want 501 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 1: everybody living in the same little box. More coming up 502 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 1: on the Johnny Ken Show. You're listening to John and 503 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: Ken on demand from KFI. Three o'clock is gonna be 504 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 1: the time when Jim Patterson comes on. Um. Jim is 505 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 1: Um a Republican assemblyman, and he often comes on to 506 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 1: talk about the insanity and Sacramento. And here's another another 507 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: juicy one. Governor Knewsom, who knows who knows that that 508 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 1: high speed rail as a complete waste. He's wanted to 509 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: pull the plug on this, but he gets bullied by 510 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,480 Speaker 1: the unions and they pay him off, so he's he's 511 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: a bought off governor. He bends over for the unions. 512 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: So he decided, even though we have a huge budget deficit, 513 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 1: twenty two billion dollars at least in deficit, he wants 514 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 1: to throw another half billion on this complete failure the 515 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 1: high speed rail. And there's another story. Ralph Vartabedion wrote 516 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: it in cal Matters about high speed rail is going 517 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 1: to cost. Well, they're one hundred billion dollars short. In funny, 518 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 1: one hundred billion dollars short. It is truly a disaster, 519 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: a financial disaster. And the only thing stopping the Democrats 520 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 1: from pauling the plug on this is because of all 521 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 1: the campaign bribes that they take from the unions, the 522 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 1: construction unions legalized bribes, of course most of them anyway, 523 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 1: So we'll get into that after three o'clock. We're just 524 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 1: talking with the city Attorney Huntington Beach, Michael Gates, because 525 00:30:55,800 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 1: Newsome and the legislature have stuck their beaks into Huntington 526 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 1: Beaches business. A local town should decide how it's going 527 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: to be zoned. If you want to build apartment buildings, 528 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,720 Speaker 1: then do that. You want to build an industrial area, 529 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 1: and then do that. You want single family homes, go away, 530 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 1: leave us alone. And they want to force thirteen thousand 531 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 1: plus units to be built in Huntington Beach, mostly of 532 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 1: the apartment variety, for more affordable housing. And one of 533 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 1: the one of the weird things is that these stupid 534 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 1: dopes have cordoned off large areas of the state where 535 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:40,760 Speaker 1: no developer can build homes. Um because of I didn't 536 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: know they want empty land to remain empty. Its global warming. 537 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:46,920 Speaker 1: It's like, I don't know whatever the cause of the 538 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 1: day is for these weirdo progressives and their weirdo religion. Um. 539 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 1: Even though a lot of people want to live away 540 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,600 Speaker 1: from the coast because it's cheaper and because they can 541 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,479 Speaker 1: do remote work now. And there was a story today 542 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 1: in the La Times. It focused on a particular couple, 543 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:11,560 Speaker 1: the Harrington's, who moved to Menifee, about fifty four miles 544 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:16,040 Speaker 1: from Anaheim. And he was looking for homes in the 545 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 1: low six hundreds in southern California and found that that 546 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 1: rare species is located along Interstate fifteen and two fifteen 547 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: way out in Riverside County. And while San Francisco and 548 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 1: LA are emptying out, a lot of residents not moving 549 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: out of the state. I mean, it's certainly playing moving 550 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:40,520 Speaker 1: out of the state, but they're moving to Menifee because 551 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:42,959 Speaker 1: they don't have to worry about to drive so much anymore. 552 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 1: They can work from home. In fact, between twenty nineteen 553 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 1: and twenty twenty two, one million more people moved out 554 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 1: of homes and businesses in California then moved into them. 555 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 1: And the day shows that the five zip codes with 556 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:08,880 Speaker 1: the most move ins were suburbs or what they call excerbs. 557 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 1: And these are the type of towns like Menifee that 558 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 1: are maybe fifty miles away the outer ring of development 559 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,920 Speaker 1: around a metropolitan area. And the top five are around 560 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,880 Speaker 1: Sacramento in southern California and its cities like Irvine, Menifee, 561 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 1: and Walnut because they have a lot of suburban new 562 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 1: housing being built and you get bigger homes and more 563 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,200 Speaker 1: outdoor space for the money and with the remote work, 564 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,400 Speaker 1: life is better and this is what people want. And 565 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: they've looked at the statistic every possible way. I mean, 566 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 1: the postal service has change of address data. There's there's 567 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 1: also various universities that do this kind of research. The 568 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:59,000 Speaker 1: IRS keeps track of things and they find out it's true. 569 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,720 Speaker 1: Among the five zip codes with the most net moveouts, 570 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,800 Speaker 1: three we're in San Francisco and is in Los Angeles. 571 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,200 Speaker 1: But the thing is this is all obvious, isn't it. 572 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:17,560 Speaker 1: You don't want to live with people running around shooting guns, robbing, 573 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:22,080 Speaker 1: smash and grabbing, shoplifting. You don't want to live where 574 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:26,719 Speaker 1: people are dying in the street of Fentinel overdoses or 575 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,320 Speaker 1: whacked out on meth. You don't want to live with 576 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 1: the violence, the unpredictability, the garbage, the filth of the 577 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:38,640 Speaker 1: homeless people. So of course they're moving to clean, peaceful suburbs. 578 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:44,920 Speaker 1: There's there's there's no there's no upside to living in 579 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 1: a big city anymore in California. In fact, most of 580 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 1: the Western cities are emptying out. Portland is, Seattle is certainly, 581 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,919 Speaker 1: certainly Los Angeles and San Francisco. And that's what people want. 582 00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:00,120 Speaker 1: They don't want to live in apartment housing. This this 583 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 1: couple here in Harrington. They're not looking for affordable housing 584 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,840 Speaker 1: in some twenty story apartment building. They don't want a 585 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 1: fifteen minute city. People should have the freedom to live 586 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,520 Speaker 1: in the open space and enjoy their their lawn and 587 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:19,000 Speaker 1: their swimming pool and their cars and their larger house 588 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:22,640 Speaker 1: given the three thousand square feet they want, you know, 589 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,800 Speaker 1: they don't have to live like these little wieners and 590 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:31,160 Speaker 1: weasels that like in the California legislature. It just makes 591 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:32,680 Speaker 1: me great. And in most states you can do this 592 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,880 Speaker 1: and it's not controversial. It is not controversial to wy 593 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:37,800 Speaker 1: to live at a single family home and have some 594 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,440 Speaker 1: open space and a front yard in the backyard. Only 595 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:44,120 Speaker 1: in California do they intentionally make it as difficult as 596 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,279 Speaker 1: possible and then scold you for it. All right, We 597 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:51,840 Speaker 1: come back, boy, another half a billion newson wants to 598 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,880 Speaker 1: spend on high speed rail. Which is this baby. This 599 00:35:56,080 --> 00:36:01,880 Speaker 1: is probably the king of the boondoggles. This is number 600 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:03,600 Speaker 1: one on the list. And we're gonna talk with Jim 601 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:08,120 Speaker 1: Patterson and he's going to discuss high speed rail, which 602 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:12,239 Speaker 1: is now needs another one hundred billion dollars minimum, and 603 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,120 Speaker 1: everyone knows it's not going to be built. So why 604 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,600 Speaker 1: are we why why are we budgeting another half billion 605 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,840 Speaker 1: for next year? Talk about it. We come back. Johnny 606 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,960 Speaker 1: Ken Show, Debrah Mark has the news. Kf I AM 607 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,320 Speaker 1: six forty. Hey, you've been listening to the John and 608 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,640 Speaker 1: Ken Show. You can always hear us live on kf 609 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,360 Speaker 1: I AM sixty one pm to four pm every Monday 610 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,400 Speaker 1: through Friday, and of course anytime on demand on the 611 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:36,560 Speaker 1: iHeart Radio app.