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They're standing in a big rushing river. 19 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: That's Brooks Falls. Brooks Falls, right, yeah, right, it's a river. 20 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:00,959 Speaker 1: The river there and the falls as one of them. 21 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: If you watch the video a little bit, you'll see 22 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: the bear as some of them stand up on top 23 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: of the rock, on top of the falls, and they're 24 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: waiting for the salmon to pop out of the water, 25 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: trying to get up stream. And then you can see 26 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 1: some in the background I took they're chomping away on 27 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: the on the Yeah, I could see that on the salmon. Yeah. 28 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: The salmon do fly high up in the air, do they? 29 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: And these are some of the biggest bears you're gonna 30 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: find because they eat the protein. The vegans not here, 31 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: but it's important to eat the salmons. The protein makes 32 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,759 Speaker 1: them big and strong. Yeah. We went to we went 33 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,399 Speaker 1: to Denali where the bears there have to live off 34 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: the berries and they're not as big. They don't get 35 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: the salmon, like, yeah, that's right. You need some real protein. 36 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 1: You need you can't. You can't get big and strong 37 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: up berries. Would you would you feed your your if 38 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: you had a son, right, would you feed him berries? 39 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: Read his childhood? What kind of a kid are you 40 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: gonna get? But you would feed the daughter, wouldn't you? Uh? Oh, 41 00:01:55,120 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: the darter, you'd feed berries. Sure, you believe the big 42 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: macho man and the frail, beautiful girl. And yes, it's 43 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: the way the world should be. I think everybody should 44 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: have the right food that makes them grow and makes 45 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: them strong. So if that's you need some protein, that's all. Oh, 46 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:16,920 Speaker 1: by the way, the one political story that I thought 47 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 1: you would enjoy was the back and forth over the 48 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: name Denali National Park as one of the world's largest mountains, 49 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: which is Denali, but it was not called Denali for 50 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:31,839 Speaker 1: many years. Do you know what it was called? No 51 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:37,239 Speaker 1: mount McKinley, Oh, the former president. Yeah, Because you see 52 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: what happened was original native peoples I think they're called 53 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 1: the Athabaskans. They called it Denali because in their language 54 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: that means the big one, the great one. So that's 55 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 1: what they named the mountain, right. But then the white 56 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: people came right and they're like, everything's new here. No 57 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: one's ever lived here before. We're the first. Oh look 58 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: at that mountain. I'm going to name it after the 59 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: man I admire. President McKinley. Oh, you know, I hate 60 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: to sound woke, but somebody took a look at that 61 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 1: years later and said, really, I think the people that 62 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 1: were there were aware of them all. They named it Denali, 63 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: So I guess Obama changed it back. I changed it 64 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: to Denali. And Trump in twenty seventeen was, you know, 65 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: doing the thing where he was gonna I'm gonna change 66 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: that back to McKinley and then supposedly he just gave up. 67 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 1: I didn't know it was threatened to do that, but 68 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: he didn't follow through. Oh I didn't. I didn't keep 69 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 1: track of this. I thought it still was McKinley. No, 70 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 1: it's officially I'll call it whatever. You know, every can 71 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: call it whatever they want. You know, people can choose 72 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: what what the gender they are now, they can choose 73 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: what they want to call a mountain. But but it 74 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 1: does point out and we were talking last hour about 75 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 1: the the British, the royal families of the Conquest that 76 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: they it's the idea that these white men came from 77 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: the Lower States and thought they were the first people here, 78 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: and ah, look at that, I've discovered this mountain. No 79 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: one's ever seen this before, but the locals note about 80 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: it for a long long time before. But they slaughtered 81 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: all the locals, so there wasn't nobody around anymore. Yeah, 82 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: I don't they did that in Alaska, did they? I 83 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: don't I think they slaughtered people everywhere. That's all they 84 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: did when they came here. Well though, this was human race. 85 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: I'm talking about the gold prospectors came up to Alaska. 86 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: Remember it was Russian territory right until we purchased it 87 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,919 Speaker 1: from Russia. And then eventually we had the big gold rush, 88 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: which was really in British Columbia Yukon, but they came 89 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: into Alaska too. They were kind of back and forth 90 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: and then that's where I think, that's where all this 91 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 1: started with them. All right, So let's talk about the 92 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 1: local politics. The LA mayor's race is Karen Bass, the congresswoman, 93 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: against the businessman Rick Caruso. With the by the way, 94 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: that's on our voter guide, vote for Rick Caruso. Then 95 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: it is not even close here. And I you know what, 96 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: I think Caruso's got to come out swinging hard. I 97 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: really do. He's been very he's been very much a 98 00:04:53,839 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: gentleman and and very much U and I describe it. 99 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: It's it's nothing really to criticize. But we've got she 100 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: she has to be defined. She's not been defined. She 101 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:11,840 Speaker 1: just stands there smiling sweetly. Because in the debates Caruso 102 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: went after Joe Biscayano who at one percent, and what's 103 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,479 Speaker 1: his name? Kevin de leon who had like six percent, 104 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: and Bass is sitting there, you know, with with forty 105 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 1: percent of the vote at least, and nobody criticized her 106 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: about anything, and she stands there and just smiles. It's 107 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: probably like you said, she's done nothing as a congresswoman. 108 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: You're not really going to get nailed for all the 109 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: local problems in LA because you're just you're just kind 110 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: of removed from it. In Washington, she has the So 111 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: that's when you went after the councilman there, the furre 112 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 1: a guy and Kevin de Leone because they're on the council. 113 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: I know, but you're not winning many votes from them. 114 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 1: They didn't. Either one of them had a following. Bass 115 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: has a following. So you got to do something. You 116 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 1: got apparently you do. You have read that they have 117 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: been friends and they've known each other a long time. 118 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: Can't win by by not attacking your friend. If you're running, 119 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: if you're running to win, if you're running to change 120 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: the way Los Angeles is, you've got to run to win. Oh, 121 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: I think you're right. I mean, why don't you contact 122 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: him he's got it. I guess the ads are gonna 123 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: start again soon. I haven't seen any ads lately, but 124 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,720 Speaker 1: I guess he's gonna start again soon. She stood there 125 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: like royalty, and nobody said. None of the candidates said 126 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: anything about her. She has no record of doing anything 127 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:29,359 Speaker 1: in particular but her belief system. For example, one of 128 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: the side notes about this gun story because they have 129 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: heard that they broke in and stole two guns. That's 130 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: what she's telling the press. She said she came home Friday, 131 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: she found signs of a break in, called the police, 132 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 1: and all they took was firearms that she says, we're 133 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:49,040 Speaker 1: safely and securely stored. But they left behind cash, electronics, 134 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 1: and other valuables, which is kind of weird, right, Okay. 135 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 1: First thing is she told everybody very clearly that she 136 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: felt very safe in her neighborhood, very safe because carew 137 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: part of she said, dang it bait when she was asked, Yes, 138 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: Caruso's campaign is that we have got really high crime 139 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: rates here and a lot of people are running around scared. 140 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: And that is true my experience. Most of the people 141 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: I know are scared of walking around Los Angeles, especially 142 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: in the evening, So she is saying something that's at 143 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: odds with the way a lot of people think. But 144 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: then we find out she's got at least two guns 145 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: in her house and apparently she has no permit. Story 146 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: says the weapons were legally registered handguns, and Bass has 147 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: never sought a permit to carry a gun, so she 148 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: was just going to use them to fight off intruders. 149 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: That's correct. She's not allowed to carry them around, right, 150 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: all right, Well then you can't have a concealed weapon 151 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: on a person, but she can have them in her home. Sure, 152 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 1: Clearly she doesn't think her neighborhood is safe if she's 153 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: got two guns here. It is at a debate earlier 154 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 1: this year, she was asked to rate, on a scale 155 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: of one to ten how safe she feels walking around 156 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: her neighborhood. I do feel safe, I would say at ten, 157 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: I feel safe, but I understand a lot of people 158 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: around the city do not feel safe, and I respect that. 159 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: There's a political answer. Well, that's the thing. Her answers 160 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: are always vague. Gas Bubbles covers herself completely. She does, 161 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: and the thing is to be you know, when she 162 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: learned to shoot. In one of the stories, she learned 163 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: to shoot in the nineteen seventies because she was a 164 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: member of some Cuban radical revolutionary group. Well that's why 165 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: she praised Castro. Huh, yes, And that's why she's not 166 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: vice president today because used that Biden crowd was looking 167 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: at Kamala Harris and Karen Bass because they had boxed 168 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: them into we have to have a black woman who's 169 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: in office, right, and there aren't that many and so yeah, 170 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: that was Biden's promise, and it was Karen Bass, and 171 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: Karen Bass lost out because as soon as Castro died, 172 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: she went on Twitter mourning the loss. And of course 173 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:01,680 Speaker 1: Castro has killed untold number of people and it just 174 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:06,559 Speaker 1: was a California organizer for the Thenceamo's Brigade, a group 175 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: founded by young Americans to show solidarity with the Cuban revolution. Yeah. Yeah, 176 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: The Times reported this in nineteen eighty three. An LAPD 177 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: officer taught her how to shoot. Yeah, how about that? 178 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 1: So she was with a Cuban revolutionary group, She's mourning 179 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: Castro's death and it keeps her from getting the vice 180 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: presidential nomination and nobody is talking about this now. So 181 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: she knows how to use those guns because she was 182 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 1: trained when she was part of the want to be 183 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: Cuban revolution here and she's telling everybody she feels safe. 184 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 1: I mean, there's a story here. She's not what she's 185 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: not what she seems to be. And of course you 186 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 1: know her best friends, her best political friends are Gascon 187 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: and Bonnen. They've all crossed, endorsed each other, They've all 188 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: appeared at each other's events. You have Gascone and Bonnen's 189 00:09:55,120 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: agenda when you turned to Karen Bass. And that's not 190 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 1: being exploited either. I mean, there's a lot to run 191 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: against here. Well, when we come back, we'll talk about 192 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: another aspect of what should be talked about. Her USC 193 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: scholarship ninety five thousand dollars she got and scholarship money 194 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 1: to go to USC School of Social Work in the 195 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 1: year twenty eleven. Johnny Kensha, we'll do more on that. Yes, 196 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:26,679 Speaker 1: we're talking about the congresswoman Karen Bass, who has her 197 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,439 Speaker 1: sets as her site set up, being the next mayor 198 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: of the city of la and the race against the 199 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 1: businessman Rick Caruso. Story that just popped up again. We've 200 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 1: mentioned it before, but I got a little more exposure 201 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: this time. Concerns scholarship Moneys valued at ninety five thousand dollars. 202 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: She got to attend usc School of Social Work. And 203 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 1: the reason it's pop back up in the news is 204 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: because in November there's going to be a trial concerning 205 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: the city councilman, Mark Ridley Thomas, when he was on 206 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: the La County Board of Supervisor, and this is a 207 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: federal indictment against him. He supposedly was doing business with 208 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: the dean of that School of Social Work, getting her 209 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 1: contracts Ellie County money for the School of Social Work 210 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: and in return, his son Sebastian got what do you know, 211 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: a scholarship. So what they're doing with the best story 212 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 1: is they're going to try to show sort of a 213 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 1: pattern here concerning the defendant who was the School of 214 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: Social Work dean, the former dean. I don't I don't 215 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 1: see Marilyn Flynn as her name. I don't see any 216 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: difference between the Mark Ridley Thomas and the Karen Basque case. 217 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: And you know, if anybody in law Enforstmen can explain 218 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 1: the difference, you know, feel free to contact us, because 219 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 1: it looks like it's exactly the same story. Marilyn Flynn 220 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 1: wanted money out of the county billions they were expecting. 221 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 1: Mark Mark Ridley Thomas made sure she got the millions. 222 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: In return, Ridley Thomas got a fake degree and a 223 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: fake professorship for his dud's son, Sebastian, who had crashed 224 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 1: out of the Assembly and there were some sexual harassment 225 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: charges against him, so he needed a landing spot. He need, 226 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: you know, he needed daddy to bail him out, and 227 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 1: so daddy got him this fake I guess, a master's 228 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: degree and the professorship that came with it. Now on 229 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: the Karen Bass story, it's the same thing. She got 230 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 1: this scholarship to get her master's degree, and in turn, 231 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: she sponsored a bill in Congress that would have expanded 232 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 1: USC's and other universities access to federal funding for social work. Yeah, 233 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: the Times decided it's probably a bill called the Child 234 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: Welfare Workforce Partnership Act, which by as sponsored in twenty fourteen. 235 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,959 Speaker 1: It allows private universities like USC to obtain the same 236 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: federal reimbursement to train social workers that public universities can. 237 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: But wouldn't Somebody argue, but that benefited many private universes. 238 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: That's USC happens to be on the list. It wasn't 239 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 1: directly that's how you cover your tracks. Funnel to us, 240 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: that's how you cover your tracks. See, this stuff has 241 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 1: done all the time. It sounds like a boring bill. 242 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: It sounds like something that nobody cares about. It sounds 243 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: like it's some kind of goody good thing, right, and 244 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 1: it looks like USC is buried in a list of 245 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: other universities. But the point was that Marilyn Flynn got 246 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 1: Karen Bass to sponsor the bill the same year that 247 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: basket's a ninety five thousand dollars scholarship. What are the odds? What? 248 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: Bass is maintaining that it was a USC professor Paul 249 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:39,320 Speaker 1: Carlow who's been calling for this legislation since the bid nineties, 250 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: is the one that prompted her to propose the legislation. 251 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 1: She had no discussions with Flynn about it. That's my 252 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: whole point. This idea was around for sixteen years. A 253 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 1: price had to be put on this bill. The price was, hey, 254 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: how about a scholarship. I can get a free master's degree. 255 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: Why would you give Karen Bass a scholarship? How many people? 256 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 1: How many young students, disadvantaged, underrepresented, underserved, poor, minority, students 257 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 1: in Karen Bass's congressional district would have loved a ninety 258 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: five thousand dollars USC scholarship. Think about that. Why on 259 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 1: God's earth would you give a US congresswoman who makes 260 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: I think close to a couple hundred thousand a year. 261 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: Why would you give her free education? Why? Wait, why 262 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 1: would she deserve that? Compared to have an email from 263 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: Maryland Flynn from twenty seventeen saying, I'm gonna have dinner 264 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: with Margaret Lee Thomas on Tuesday night. We will offer 265 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 1: a full scholarship from our two schools. I did the 266 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: same for Karen Bass, a full scholarship for our funds. 267 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: That's referring to the scholarships she was going to offer 268 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: to his son SEBASSI. Now it's clear Maryland Flynn was 269 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 1: as corrupt as she was Old and City three. I 270 00:14:55,400 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 1: mean this old ladies running around and solution. Well, she's 271 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: given bribes out to local Diurney politicians. And that's what 272 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: Ridley Thomas and Karen Bass are. They're local Dirney politicians. 273 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: We have a lot of them in Los Angeles. We've 274 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: got three counseling people. Twenty percent of council either went 275 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: to jail, or is going to jail. We have Garcetti's 276 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: deputy mayor was involved in one of these scandals. You 277 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 1: have all those executives the Department of Water and Power 278 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 1: who who are going to jail over that scandal. This 279 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: is a sore, it's a cesspool, and Bass is part 280 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 1: of it. And I cannot And the only reason, the 281 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: only reason for that this hasn't been a story for 282 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: the last ten years is because the media covers up 283 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: this stuff. They're not going to go after her. She's protected. 284 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: When Bass graduated with her master's degree in twenty fifteen, 285 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: she was hugged by Flynn on stage and brace that 286 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: few of the hundreds of others got that day. Right, Sure, 287 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: that was like a little out there ago. We got 288 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: your degree. Now work with me, yeah, now, because she 289 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 1: got access to millions of dollars the way she got 290 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 1: access to a lot of money from Ridley Thomas, it's 291 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: the same case. Tell me why they didn't prosecute Karen 292 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 1: Bass and Flynn years ago for this. You you explained 293 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: to me how this is not a bribe, how this 294 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: is not exactly like Ridley Thomas's case. I mean, I mean, 295 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 1: this is just crazy, and this is what you're getting. 296 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: This is what you're getting to run the city. Yeah, 297 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: that's exactly what we need. Another corrupt politician to run 298 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 1: the city. But you know why she's got teh line. 299 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 1: She stands third smiles. Nobody knows she was a Cuban revolutionary. 300 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: Nobody knows that she she got a free scholarship from 301 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: USC and gave them millions of dollars in our federal 302 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 1: tax money. Nobody knows this stuff. The court filing says 303 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: this in her email, I defend at Ridley Thomas and 304 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 1: his son defended. Flint expressly acknowledges the quid pro quo 305 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: that she intends to offer the benefit of the full 306 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:09,640 Speaker 1: scholarship in exchange for funds for the school to social work. 307 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 1: Beyond that, she claims having done the exact same thing 308 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: in the past with scholarship for Bass. You want, Bass 309 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 1: told The Times when she read this, I don't know 310 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:22,639 Speaker 1: what that means. Another vague, gashy little answer. Yes, she 311 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: knows what it means. I spent the time and effort 312 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: to earn my degree. She become a better advocate for children. 313 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: She didn't earn anything. She got a free scholarship it 314 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 1: was online too. Oh can you imagine that she got 315 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: a ninety five thousand dollars scholarship to get a degree 316 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:41,160 Speaker 1: online in social work? Of all things? It's a mass 317 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 1: social work. What is that degree? Exactly? What is it 318 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:49,679 Speaker 1: that you learn social work? Ninety five thousand dollars? I 319 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 1: mean that, first of all, that's a huge ripoff of 320 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 1: a price. I mean it just shows you how corruptitutions are. Now. Yeah, 321 00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 1: but they but yeah, because they're they're all ripoffs. Nobody 322 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:01,640 Speaker 1: should have to pick ninety five thousand dollars to get 323 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 1: a social work degree? The hell is that about? Apparently 324 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 1: this the prosecution's using is to show this pattern with 325 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:11,639 Speaker 1: this Maryland Flynn one of the defendants they had redacted. 326 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: I guess Bass's name, but I guess the Times figured 327 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 1: it out. Yeah, Well, a pattern of what bride just 328 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:20,920 Speaker 1: to use politicians, right right? Okay, so I'll bring them 329 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: stuff in exchange for contracts or other legislations. Ridley Thomas 330 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 1: took a felony bribe. That means Karen Bash took a 331 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 1: felony bribe. If it's a pattern of behavior, it's a 332 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 1: pattern of behavior, it's the same crime. Should have the 333 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:34,200 Speaker 1: same penalty, the same investigation, the same everything, and the 334 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,719 Speaker 1: way Ridley Thomas is no longer on the La City Council. 335 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 1: Karen bash should no longer be running for mayor. You 336 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 1: can't separate the two. Somebody try. Well, let's wait a 337 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:47,119 Speaker 1: few days. Let's see if the Elsa Gundo Woke Times 338 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: is going to try to tell us the difference between 339 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:52,640 Speaker 1: the two. All right, we got more coming up, John 340 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 1: and Ken Kafin. All right, we'll have a new name 341 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 1: for you. After four o'clock when we talk about California's 342 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 1: self created energy crisis, all these dopey flex alerts. Way, 343 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:06,160 Speaker 1: do you hear what one state commissioner has to say 344 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: about what they need to do to make sure California 345 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 1: has enough power on the grid that comes up right 346 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:16,160 Speaker 1: after the news at four o'clock. You'll have to understand 347 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: to believe this audio. It gets worse and worse and worse. 348 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:25,400 Speaker 1: All right, bad news on the homeless front. John Cobelt, 349 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:28,920 Speaker 1: who had been watching for years the build up of 350 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:32,679 Speaker 1: homeless people on the West Side outside the Veterans Administration 351 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:37,720 Speaker 1: their West Los Angeles campus. Of course, they eventually removed 352 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: those people. They're still gone. By the way, from that, Yeah, 353 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 1: was it? Stre They on campus on Savicente Boulevard, right 354 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,640 Speaker 1: on the corner of Wilshire. Well, apparently just the other 355 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: night they moved a number of those people onto the 356 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 1: VA property and put them in tiny homes and fifteen 357 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 1: of them burnt down. Somebody had a lithium battery charge 358 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: inside of one of the tiny homes. Well, that's not good, 359 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 1: that was. That's why they don't like those on planes, right, 360 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,880 Speaker 1: because they can start fires. That's what. Remember the big 361 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 1: fire on the fishing boat in the Santa Barbara, right, Yes, 362 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,879 Speaker 1: the fishing boats. So I disaster it was. It was 363 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: the same thing. I guess somebody's charging a phone or 364 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 1: a camera. I don't know, but UM just mean they're 365 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: going to go back to camping on your Santava Sente. 366 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 1: Well that's the first thing. That's why the first thing 367 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 1: I thought of. It's like, there's gonna be fifteen guys intense. 368 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, the VA is absolutely one of 369 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: the worst agencies that man has ever created. I mean, 370 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: the more I read about this fire. First of all, 371 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,159 Speaker 1: they say that the fire department took thirty minutes to 372 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 1: get there. I don't know how that could be. Secondly, 373 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 1: because I know for a fact, because I don't. I 374 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 1: live only a little over a mile away from this place, 375 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: right and I know there's a fire station down the 376 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: road for me. So they should have been able to 377 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: get there in five minutes. I don't know why would 378 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:04,239 Speaker 1: take thirty minutes. Secondly, when the fireman got there, there 379 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:08,440 Speaker 1: was no hydrant for them to attach, you know, their hoses. 380 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: Why is there no hydrant because nobody's supposed to be 381 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 1: living there. It's open space. See the va if you've 382 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: never seen it is vast, gigantic piece of land. It's 383 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 1: it's unimaginable how large this land is. And it's on 384 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: the north side and the south side of Wiltshire in 385 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: both directions, and a lot of it's empty, and they 386 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 1: lease some of the land out to various organizations, which 387 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 1: was part of a lawsuit on behalf of the veterans 388 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 1: saying why are you releasing all this land out but 389 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,159 Speaker 1: you're not using the land to house the veterans. And 390 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 1: all the people from what I'm told out on the 391 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 1: sidewalk who lived there for four years were certified veterans. 392 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,880 Speaker 1: And it was an organized protest encampment which the Va, 393 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,679 Speaker 1: and the city and the county and the federal government 394 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,080 Speaker 1: ignored for four years. That's why they didn't. And it 395 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 1: was there for so long because there's absolutely no response 396 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:08,199 Speaker 1: from anyone in government. And so now they get him 397 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 1: these tiny homes. Schwarzeneger spent a quarter of million dollars 398 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,120 Speaker 1: of his own money to buy some of these homes. 399 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 1: They're eight by eight sheds, right. So after the fire, 400 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 1: they didn't do anything for these guys. They were I 401 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 1: saw them. It was one of those It was one 402 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: of those ninety five degree days with the ninety five 403 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,120 Speaker 1: percent humidity, and they were sitting there under a tent 404 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: in folding chairs, waiting for somebody to help them out. 405 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: I don't know why the hell we treat veterans like this. 406 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,640 Speaker 1: Is absolutely shocking, and everybody has said that for decades, 407 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 1: going back to the Vietnam War. It's like fifty years 408 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 1: we just abuse these guys after they come back mentally ill, 409 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 1: with their brains rattled and their parts missing. I was 410 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: just shocking to me. But I'll tell you this VA 411 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,439 Speaker 1: has tons of empty land. They have many empty buildings 412 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,399 Speaker 1: that I think take back to the nineteen thirties and 413 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:58,879 Speaker 1: forties at least they looked like they're from the thirties 414 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 1: and forties. But this story closer years ago, didn't we 415 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: find out. I think I've maybe even been Reporter Corbyn 416 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 1: Carson went there and he says, Oh, yeah, we know 417 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 1: those guys out there, they don't want to come in 418 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: for help. That's what they're refusing the help. Yeah. Well, 419 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,880 Speaker 1: maybe some of those guys wandered away and they didn't 420 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,960 Speaker 1: take the tiny homes. Some of them did, some of 421 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: them didn't. Right, the tiny homes have sat there ever since, 422 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: and they were supposed to either refurbish those standing buildings 423 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 1: or build new ones. And that's gone on for years, 424 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 1: that project with zero progress. I don't know. People do 425 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: there all day, but our government is a total disaster. 426 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 1: It is a money sucking disaster. You could fire everybody 427 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,120 Speaker 1: at the West Lava and there would be no difference 428 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:54,119 Speaker 1: for all those vets lives. They don't do anything, and 429 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:57,640 Speaker 1: years and years go by, and I just and there's 430 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 1: no consequences, there's no impulse to change. It's just it's 431 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 1: just it's just rotten. All things rotten. I just I 432 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: come at this from let's not be in the business 433 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,440 Speaker 1: of building people homes and trying to that's just a quagmire. 434 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: I really don't like that at all. Oh. I believe 435 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 1: you have to get people to figure things out to 436 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:21,719 Speaker 1: get their own home, and if it's not in La 437 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,439 Speaker 1: it'll be somewhere else. Work on a life for yourself. 438 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 1: Don't expect everybody to build you apartments and buildings and 439 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 1: tents and tiny homes. And it's a colossal mistake to 440 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,920 Speaker 1: go down that road, which is what housing first is 441 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: all about. It's a colossal mistake. So what we found 442 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: out also while we were away, they finally released the 443 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: results of the twenty twenty two homeless count in La 444 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 1: County in La City. This got delayed. It was supposed 445 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 1: to come out in July, but they put it off 446 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 1: until September. And they didn't do a count in twenty 447 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: twenty one, so this is comparing to twenty twenty the 448 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 1: last time they did this is that thing where they 449 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: walk around on a weekend the little volunteers to a 450 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 1: census count of the homeless those in the county of 451 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 1: the city. Which is how reliable this is? Who knows? Overall, 452 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 1: the county number did go up by four point one percent. 453 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: It's now estimated that there's sixty nine thousand people experiencing 454 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 1: homeless at the time of the count, which was this 455 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: past winter. But significantly and strangely, the city of la 456 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 1: homelessness went up two percent. But John Cobelt's council district, 457 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: Mike Bonnen is doing a victory lap, claiming that homelessness 458 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 1: in his council district dropped thirty eight and a half percent. 459 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:46,880 Speaker 1: The number sheriff. Anyway, they came to town clear clear, 460 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:52,639 Speaker 1: cleared out uh the San Vicent take route. Yeah right, 461 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,720 Speaker 1: you know, and they cleared out some of the some 462 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: of the streets in between, some of the streets away 463 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 1: from the beach. Because the Bonna put out this press release, 464 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: he's claiming credit for all this. Well, we rejected failed, 465 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 1: expensive policies that criminalized homeless. He didn't. He didn't get 466 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,399 Speaker 1: homes for them. We opened bridge housing in Venice and 467 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: at the VA and Brentwood, he says, we converted motels 468 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,120 Speaker 1: in Westchester and Venice into housing. Yeah. Well, the VA 469 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 1: and brent were the tiny homes and some other trailers 470 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: that they had set up. It wasn't that the work 471 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:25,479 Speaker 1: of the VA, though, was that the work of La 472 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 1: I can never figure out, you know why. He's a 473 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: pompous ass. So he's going to take credit for what 474 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 1: other people do. Okay, the VA provided the land, Schwarzenegger 475 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 1: bought the tiny homes. It was it was Vienneueva who 476 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,160 Speaker 1: actually went and his deputies cleared out the board walk, 477 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 1: his deputies cleared out Samacente Boulevard. Okay, so Bonnen is 478 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 1: puffing his chest out now. Basically, he was driven from 479 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:53,159 Speaker 1: office because he failed so badly with the homeless, and 480 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 1: then all these other agencies and other politicians stepped in 481 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: and did something. And now he's claiming credit because he's 482 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:05,920 Speaker 1: a he's a lying, dishonest snake. Believe me, Bonne didn't 483 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 1: do anything. He didn't build homes for these people. Maybe 484 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 1: some of them got rooms, but they always could have 485 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 1: gotten rooms. His problem was is he wouldn't clear out 486 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:19,919 Speaker 1: the encampments and force these people to consider taking rooms. 487 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 1: Some of them do, some of them don't. They end 488 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 1: up elsewhere, but you have to say not here. And 489 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 1: for eight years when as he was counselman, he wouldn't 490 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,199 Speaker 1: say not here. No, he would not. And now he's 491 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 1: gonna lie about it. And of course, you know there's else, Gunda, 492 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: woke Times, Prince, the lies, and everybody swallows them. I mean, 493 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 1: it's just it's the same old nonsense, over and over 494 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: and over again. No, he did nothing. He was a disaster. 495 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 1: People died because of him. You had the crazy vagrance dying, 496 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 1: you had some residence dying, you had a woman's house 497 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 1: burned down or dog died. It's all because a Bonnet. 498 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,160 Speaker 1: Bonnet should be in prison on murder charges. For all. 499 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: He's done. All right, we got more coming up, Johnny 500 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 1: can Kin. Well, if you won't turn that air conditioning 501 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 1: down and you won't turn off those appliances during one 502 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,920 Speaker 1: of these flex alerts, the state may do it for you. 503 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 1: We'll talk about it after the news at four o'clock. 504 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 1: We will play some audio from a California energy commissioner 505 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 1: who did an interview with CBS News and he said 506 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,920 Speaker 1: that very thing, that's what he would like to have done. 507 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 1: So we had these flex alert days and the power 508 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: grid is in jeopardy, we can just turn down. We 509 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,320 Speaker 1: are headed for air conditioner, your dishwasher, turn it off. 510 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 1: We're headed for a totalitarian society. I mean, this is 511 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: the Soviet Union bureaucrats never dreamed that one day government 512 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 1: officials could decide to turn off your appliances if you 513 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 1: didn't conform to the ration in gods. I mean, we 514 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 1: could make an unlimited amount of energy if we wanted to. 515 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 1: There's no limit to how much energy we could create, 516 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: no limit to how many nuclear plants, natural gas plants, 517 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 1: and all the rest that we could make. And we don't. 518 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 1: We have the money, we have the technology, we have 519 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: the brains to do it. I we'll get into this 520 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: other energy related stories coming up after four o'clock. Back 521 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen on the John and Ken Show, and 522 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,480 Speaker 1: this was even a few years after the whole frenzy 523 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:29,320 Speaker 1: over the plastic straw, we told you the story of 524 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: a British woman who apparently was walking along with a 525 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: Mason style drinking glass in her hand. She stumbled and 526 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: the ten inch stainless steel straw she was using when 527 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 1: through her eye socket into her brain and killed her. 528 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,320 Speaker 1: We warned you about those metal straws. Now, we have 529 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 1: a four year old boy who almost died because a 530 00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: similar thing happened to him. Charlie Raha is his name, 531 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 1: and apparently he took a tumble onto a metal straw. 532 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 1: It punctured his tongue and damaged a vital artery in 533 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,880 Speaker 1: his throat. They thought he had lost almost all his 534 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:19,480 Speaker 1: blood by the time they could stop the bleeding. It 535 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 1: punctured this artery. He fell from a porch ledge while 536 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 1: drinking a yogurt beverage with the straw. The straw went 537 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: through his tongue and pierced his throat. When his parents 538 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 1: came outside to see their son's face covered in blood, 539 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 1: they thought, oh, he bit his tongue anyway, and they 540 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: took him to treat him for the injury. They found 541 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 1: out no, it was more severe than that. He had 542 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: no measurable blood pressure. According to one pediatric trauma doctor, 543 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 1: he essentially had lost nearly all his blood. They thought 544 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 1: that he had suffered an injury to his internal carotid artery, 545 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,120 Speaker 1: one of the major pathways that supplies blood and oxygen 546 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: to the brain. They managed to stop the bleeding by 547 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,880 Speaker 1: packing the woe with gauze, but repairing the artery was 548 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 1: very challenging. So the parrots have taken all the metal 549 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 1: straws locked them up in the garage. They're rethinking, well, actually, 550 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: because apparently somebodies do come with warnings metal straws. I 551 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 1: think Starbucks tells people don't use these with kids. Were 552 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: these people trying to fight climate change by not using 553 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 1: plastic straws? I think they had bought a large box 554 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 1: of metal straws. Who does that for that very reason? 555 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: Who does that? Who buys who buys metal straws for 556 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 1: their four year old? Well, for the family, And they 557 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 1: didn't think it through. No, it could be a dangerous 558 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 1: implement in the hands of a four year old. I mean, well, 559 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 1: I wasn't in his hands, it was in his drink, 560 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: but he fell on it. Yeah, because that's because kids fall, 561 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 1: that's right. I mean, look at that woman who got 562 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 1: the straw, who got the metal straw her brain. I 563 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 1: mean they had to use stints to stomp the bleeding 564 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: of restore blood flow to the brain. It took forty 565 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 1: five minutes. He was medically induced coma for a week. Wow, 566 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 1: he has recovered are though incredibly well. I know his 567 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,120 Speaker 1: mother says, no more metal straws were done with that. Yeah, 568 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 1: that's right. Screw the climate. She bought eco friendly straws 569 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: to save the sea turtles. Actually says that a story. 570 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 1: That's the thing. One sea turtle. One picture of one 571 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 1: sea turtle with a plastic straw in its nose, and 572 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 1: all at so many places banned straws, and so many 573 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 1: goody goods said, well, we're not going to use plastic 574 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,480 Speaker 1: straws any bar. Did you see what happened to the 575 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 1: sea turtle? Well, did you see what happened to your son? Well, yeah, 576 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 1: we've only got two stories. Now. We have the woman 577 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,360 Speaker 1: in the UK who died, who has this little forty 578 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,480 Speaker 1: little boy. We only have people getting punctured by metal 579 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 1: straws every day, but we only have one story of 580 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:43,000 Speaker 1: the sea turtle. Okay, so we've not done it two 581 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 1: to one, that's right. Look she had to double the risk. Yeah, 582 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,000 Speaker 1: I'll look at that. Starbucks didn't recall two and a 583 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 1: half million metal straws back in twenty sixteen. Replace them 584 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,080 Speaker 1: with acrylic straws. The ones I find out what they 585 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,000 Speaker 1: call them, the compostable ones. They work. Okay, they're much better. 586 00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,480 Speaker 1: Those paper straws are those are those I'll not put 587 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 1: a paper straw in my mouth if they collapse halfway 588 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: through my drink. Almost all the time, yeah, and whole 589 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 1: thing just steals off. They're made of paper. They get 590 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 1: soggy ever, poor water on paper. What do you think happens? 591 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: It doesn't work you ever? Like remember used to when 592 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,240 Speaker 1: there were newspapers, right, and if you dumped your drink 593 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:27,120 Speaker 1: on the newspaper, what would you get? Big huge, soggy mess. 594 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 1: Couldn't read it anymore? All right, when we come back, 595 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 1: we'll talk about this California Energy commissioner who would like 596 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 1: the state to have the ability to turn off your 597 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: appliances during high energy usage periods. Coming up, John and 598 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 1: Ken Show and Mark Runner as the News KF I 599 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,680 Speaker 1: am six sporting. 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