1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Kf 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. We're 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,319 Speaker 1: on the radio from one until four, and then after 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: four o'clock it's posted on the iHeart app the John 5 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: and Kent on demand podcasting and listen to what you missed. 6 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 1: In fact, you've already missed our celebration of Mark Ridley 7 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,639 Speaker 1: Thomas got to be thrown in prison. Well, we're not 8 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: done right now celebrating again. Yeah, we're gonna celebrate again 9 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 1: next hour we will. We'll repeat though. The exciting news 10 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 1: he does get three and a half years in federal prison. 11 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: That was a sentence today of a judge in the 12 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 1: case of a corruption against the former Los Angeles City 13 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: Council member and of course also longtime LA County supervisor. 14 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 1: I think before that he was in the state legislature. 15 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: O good lord, longtime hack, and he decided to fight this. 16 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: His co defended, did a plea deal. He would not. 17 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: He thought that he could beat it. He did not. 18 00:00:57,840 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: So he gets three and a half years. What we 19 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: understand Dan in the last hour is he will not 20 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: have to surrender until November thirteenth to begin serving that 21 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,119 Speaker 1: prison time at all. A long time. It is today 22 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: is August twenty eighth. That is a long time. Why 23 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 1: is he being given that kind of a break because 24 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: somebody get paid off? And we understand he's still going 25 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: to try to appeal somehow. I'm not sure he went 26 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:23,839 Speaker 1: to the judge with his first appeal who turned him down, 27 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 1: the same judge that was presiding on the trial. He 28 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: did it, He admitted he did it. He just said 29 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,119 Speaker 1: he thought it was in a gray area. The man 30 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: we would certainly like to see out of office next 31 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: year is the Los Angeles County District Attorney, George Gascone. 32 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: And if you missed it last hour, it's worth listening 33 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 1: to in the podcast because the mayor of LA has 34 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: a new nickname of the Johnny Ken Show, that's Mayor Bascone. Right, Yeah, 35 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 1: that's right, Karen Bascone. That's because she basically follows the 36 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: same policies as this dupe that's been the DA since 37 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. And of course all hell is breaking loose 38 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: in the criminal justice system of Elie County because of 39 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: this hack. And she went on TV with Alex Michaelson 40 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 1: on Friday night and said that this rash of smash 41 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: and grabs is not caused by lacks sentencing. It's caused 42 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: by the profit motive. Ye had nothing to do with consequences. 43 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: Nothing to do with consequences. God, So that's just too 44 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: much money to be made. So people are doing it right, 45 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: Like that wasn't true before, right? They just suddenly Wait, 46 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,239 Speaker 1: thieves just suddenly figured out in twenty twenty three that 47 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: if you steal stuff you can make money. Wow. We 48 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: have another challenger too, George Gascone for next year's primary. 49 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: And of course it's a familiar name to anyone that's 50 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: listened to the John and Ken Show for any period 51 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: of time. It's Eric Sadal, who is vice president of 52 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,799 Speaker 1: the Elli County Association of Deputy District Attorneys and of course, 53 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: in Ellie County Deputy DA himself. So let's bring him 54 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: on and talk about his announcement. Eric, welcome, How are you. 55 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 2: I'm great. I'm great. I'm very excited about this move, 56 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 2: and I'm very excited about, you know, bringing the La 57 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 2: County DA's office into the twenty first century with my 58 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,239 Speaker 2: with my candidacy, I'm very excited about this. I think 59 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 2: we can do a lot of good changes, and I 60 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 2: think that the La County DA's office will be a 61 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,079 Speaker 2: model for the rest of the country when I get elected. 62 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: What made you decide to get into the race. 63 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 2: Well, I think that the office needs to go to 64 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 2: a different direction, and clearly Gascon's direction has been a 65 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 2: complete failure to Los Angeles. I think I don't even 66 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 2: think we need to have a debate about that. That's 67 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 2: been pretty clear. But I also think we need to 68 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 2: make sure that people are not repeat offenders in our 69 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 2: criminal justice system. We have to look at ways and 70 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 2: alternatives to get them out of our system, but we 71 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 2: also have to keep people accountable, and we have to 72 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 2: make sure that violent criminals in particular are held accountable. 73 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 2: And I think I have a good plan about how 74 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 2: to reduce violence in Los Angeles and other quality of 75 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 2: life issues here in Los Angeles County. 76 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: What did you think about the mayor's comment that these 77 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: smash and grabs have nothing to do with consequences, it's 78 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:19,359 Speaker 1: all about profit. Did you understand that? 79 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 2: Well, look, I think what's happening right now in terms 80 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 2: of smashing grab is a symptom of the fact that 81 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 2: people are not held accountable, that they are immediately released 82 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 2: this site and release. Smash and grab policy has been 83 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 2: an abject failure. I'll tell you one of the things 84 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 2: I really strongly believe in is if Los Angeles is 85 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 2: going to continue to be an urban center, you have 86 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 2: to protect your public spaces, and you have to make 87 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 2: sure that people feel safe in those public spaces. And 88 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,359 Speaker 2: part of that is, you know, our shopping centers. People 89 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 2: have to feel safe in their shopping centers. They have 90 00:04:58,160 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 2: to feel that they're not going to be attacked or 91 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 2: not going to see an armed robbery. That is essential 92 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,799 Speaker 2: if we're going to keep an urban core of Los Angeles. 93 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 1: Well, you see what happens when there's no consequences In 94 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: San Francisco. The retail districts are simply gone. I mean 95 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,479 Speaker 1: they're empty. Nordstrom's closed this week. 96 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 2: That is one of the things that's kind of inspired 97 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 2: me about this whole campaign is that if we're going 98 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 2: to make sure that Los Angeles continues to be an 99 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 2: urban city. In other words, you know where people go 100 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 2: to the urban centers of this city, and we don't 101 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 2: want to follow the path of San Francisco. You have 102 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 2: to protect those public spaces. You have to make sure 103 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 2: that criminals are held accountable. You have to make sure 104 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 2: that after they are arrested, they are putting custody and 105 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 2: they are charged properly. You have to make sure that 106 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 2: there's not a backlog. We are a backlog of thirteen 107 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:56,839 Speaker 2: thousand cases in Los Angeles County right now. 108 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: Thirteen thousand, thirteen thousand cases. So wait, wait, wait, well 109 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: hold on. But when people hear that, the average person 110 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 1: their brain freezes up. So you're talking about there's thirteen 111 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: thousand cases where somebody's been arrested, charges have been laid out, 112 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: it's presented to Gascon's office, and then it just sits there. 113 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 2: It sits there on a desk, and nothing is being done. 114 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: On purpose. 115 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 2: I think it's just massive competence. You know, a lot 116 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 2: of people like to think of, you know, conspiracy theories. 117 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 2: I think the most honest explanation for a lot of 118 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 2: government failure is just complete stupidity. And this man does 119 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,679 Speaker 2: not know how to run an office of this size. 120 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 2: He is a complete failure. He does not know how 121 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 2: to administer an office that is responsible for the safety 122 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 2: of over ten million people in this county. And that's 123 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 2: why he has to go. 124 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: You think he wants to prosecute some of these cases. 125 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: But his whole system is so broken they can't they 126 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,280 Speaker 1: can't even bring someone to trial. 127 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 2: This office is dysfunctional at this point. Okay, it is 128 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 2: completely dysfunctional. He has all these little pet projects around 129 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 2: the county, and yet he doesn't focus in on the 130 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 2: core mission of this office, which is to prosecute people. 131 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,679 Speaker 2: And in order to prosecute people, you have to bring charge, 132 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 2: you have to have the charges presented in front of you, 133 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 2: which they have been in these thirteen thousand cases thirteen thousand. 134 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 2: But he has refused to actually get more people in 135 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 2: and also take people out of units that are not 136 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 2: the core mission of this office. So that's the problem, right, 137 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 2: you have a guy who does not know how to 138 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 2: effectively administer an office of this size. Look, I'm sure 139 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 2: he'd be great at, you know, running in an office 140 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 2: of ten lawyers and maybe a think tank, but that's 141 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 2: about it. The guy is a disaster when it comes 142 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 2: to running this office. 143 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: What do they do all day? I mean, if their 144 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: main job is to prosecute criminals and there's thirteen thousand 145 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: cases piled up, how do they spend their days? 146 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 2: I don't know. I'll tell you for the past eight months, 147 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 2: I've been involved in three major trials. First trial is 148 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 2: about six, you know, six murders three months. One was 149 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 2: a tech murder against a deputy sheriff and the other 150 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 2: one was just a murder of an LPD officer. I 151 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 2: know I'm in trial all the time. I know a 152 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 2: lot of my colleagues are in the trial a lot 153 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,439 Speaker 2: of the time or most of the time. I mean, 154 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 2: the line prosecutors are working extremely hard. The problem is 155 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,319 Speaker 2: when you have a person who does not know what 156 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 2: the mission of the office is know how to administer 157 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 2: that mission. That person needs to be replaced. And that's 158 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 2: why I'm running. 159 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: All right, How can people'll find out more about your campaign? 160 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 2: You can go to Eric for DA dot com. That's 161 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:12,559 Speaker 2: our website, Eric with the c so E r I 162 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 2: C for DA dot com. 163 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: All right, I'm sure it'd be talking to you again 164 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: Eric in the future as people look to vote next year. 165 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on. 166 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. Really appreciate it. 167 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: All right, that's Eric Sadahala guess and our so many 168 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 1: times over to talk about the La County DA, George 169 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 1: Gascone's policies, and of course he's Vice president of the 170 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 1: Union for the Deputy das and of course a Deputy 171 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: DA himself, and he's announced he would like to replace 172 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 1: George Gascone. It's getting to be a pretty crowded field. 173 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 1: Is at least what four or five other candidates, So 174 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 1: when people vote in the primary next year, you know 175 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 1: it's the top two thing. It's hard to believe, although 176 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 1: I'd love it if Gascone didn't finish in the top two, 177 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 1: but he's likely to, so it'll really come down to 178 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 1: whoever comes out as the challenger to Gascona next November. 179 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: I don't know why a single soul would want to 180 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: live under Gascone's policies. Look as scared everyone is just 181 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: to go shopping, I know. But you know, the people 182 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: that vote in primaries, it's going to be a smaller 183 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 1: bunch than the regular voters. Why do you want to know? 184 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 1: Sometimes they are these nutty West Side progressives who believe 185 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: that he's on the right path of criminal justice reform, 186 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: what and prisons? John and them? Well, we've gotten pretty close, 187 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: haven't we. Is everybody happy? 188 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 2: I know? 189 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: And all these smashing grabs and no consequences. It's wonderful, 190 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 1: you guys had your run. Look what you did? All right, 191 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,439 Speaker 1: We'll return Johnny kN k I AM six forty live everywhere. 192 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:38,439 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. 193 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 3: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 194 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 3: AM six forty. 195 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: We're on from one to four after four o'clock. I 196 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 1: Heart app for the Johnny Kent on demand podcast. Nobody's 197 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: really sure why this happened yet. But at two separate malls, 198 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: hundreds of miles apart in California yesterday it was chaos. 199 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:08,439 Speaker 1: One thousand juveniles we're fighting at the Dilomo Fashion Center 200 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: in Torrance. Could that number be real? Must have been 201 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 1: a social media event, I know. And when they say juveniles, 202 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out is that a seventeen year 203 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 1: old or a twelve year old or what is that? Well? 204 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 1: I heard one I go to that mall a lot. 205 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: I was not there yesterday. Oh God, you're gonna die. 206 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: Don't do that. Well, nobody died. There was a report 207 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 1: that perhaps one shot was fired. But yes, you're right, 208 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 1: it looks like they're organized on social media to what 209 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: come and did cause chaos? Is that? 210 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 2: What? Yeah? 211 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: It's instigated by smash and grab. But they didn't rob, 212 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:44,719 Speaker 1: did they no, but it's created a whole atmosphere or 213 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: whole culture. You know what people are like, they're they're 214 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: it's they just it says they were fighting among themselves. 215 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 1: So would they invite warring factions together? I heard one 216 00:11:55,800 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: report there were gangs involved. Yeah, and what I mean 217 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: by factions, I'm sorry, groups of youths. Yeah, right, what 218 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 1: was there called Gavin Newsom? Groups of people or folks, 219 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 1: that's what they called them. Yeah, so you had groups 220 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: of folks who started to mix it up, and there's 221 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: some kind of I mean, you see this all the time, right, 222 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: if you ever see a fight at a bar or 223 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 1: a McDonald's, you see the video of it. A couple 224 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: of people start fighting and then other guys come flying 225 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 1: out of nowhere. It's almost like an animalistic impulse. When 226 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:30,560 Speaker 1: they see the fighting go on, they get a surge 227 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: in their own system and they had to jump in 228 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: and start fighting as well. A thousand. Yeah, when I 229 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: heard the story yfter afternoon, I thought, oh, maybe it's 230 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: a few dozen. Well, now look at the number one thousand. 231 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: Did they no injuries? Did they arrest anybody? They just 232 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:47,679 Speaker 1: wanted to police got there from all sorts of different 233 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 1: agencies and just wanted to scatter the crowd. That ball 234 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:52,839 Speaker 1: was shut down even past seven thirty. The cops was 235 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: still there for hours. No, if this becomes a new 236 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 1: trend trend, yeah, and then no one's going to shop 237 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 1: any where. They're gonna organize every weekend a thousand people. 238 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:04,959 Speaker 1: And you can do this in a matter of minutes online. 239 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 1: It's the same thing as the street takeovers. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, 240 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:10,199 Speaker 1: I guess it is sort of like that. No, this 241 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:13,439 Speaker 1: is social media destroying this. They sut the street takeovers. 242 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 1: You you watch the little people do their the doughnuts 243 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,440 Speaker 1: and stuff. That's kind of cool. No, but just just 244 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 1: go to the mall and start fighting each other as bizarre. 245 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's a video event the street takeovers. 246 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: This is just weird. I mean, doesn't in fact they 247 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: smashed into any stores or robbed anything. Some restaurants just 248 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: bolted up their doors and closed up. That's next though, 249 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,559 Speaker 1: they it will. He thinks it's gonna happen next weekend too. 250 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 1: This feeds into the whole atmosphere. The whole atmosphere is 251 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:44,959 Speaker 1: there's no consequences. Don't worry, it doesn't matter. You're not 252 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: gonna end up in jail. You're not gonna end up arrested. 253 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: Your parents aren't gonna know. In fact, the more of 254 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 1: us we overwhelm the system. Let me let me just 255 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,200 Speaker 1: take the position of a and also go Times columnist 256 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: John Are they trying to tell us something? Is there 257 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: something wrong with our society of mobs? If young people 258 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: are showing up to create chaos and fight each other 259 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 1: in public, parents raised it, Do we need to soul 260 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:11,200 Speaker 1: search parents raise their children really badly? Now, really, where 261 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:12,680 Speaker 1: you're going. I'm just going down to the mall to 262 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: fight some other kids. I have a good time. Yeah, 263 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 1: did you ever think of that one? Did you know 264 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: anybody who did that when you were a kid, went 265 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: down to the mall to fight other kids, to fight 266 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:25,239 Speaker 1: other kids. But there was always toughts in my neighborhood 267 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: who did sometimes, you know, like the we'd hear reports 268 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: of fights, right, Yeah, small fights, guys pushing and shoving 269 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 1: each other. If you know where Emoryville is, that's in 270 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: the Bay Area. It's across from San Francisco near Oakland. 271 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: Same thing happened in them all there. Well, they were saying, 272 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: in this case, it looked like about one hundred and 273 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: fifty young adults showed up at the mall. There there 274 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 1: was a stabbing there, though, I wonder what the timing was. 275 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: Did the del Amo one or the Emoryville one happen first? 276 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: People started seeing them on social media, and that triggered 277 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: other others to say, interesting that you say that the 278 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: Delameo recall was four o'clock and it's four thirty up 279 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: in Emoryville. Yeah, when the cops got their first call 280 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 1: about people at a mall rending a disturbance, and they 281 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: were drawing big crowds at movie theaters because it was 282 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: National Cinema Day, which sounds like one of those stupid 283 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 1: social media holids that one. No, they were selling tickets 284 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: for like, oh you should have gone. Tickets were like 285 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: four or five dollars. Oh no, that's an invitation to 286 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: riff raft. You know what. Yeah, you know what happens 287 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 1: when you're giving away stuff for free or cheap. Morons 288 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: show up and morons will state in line for hours 289 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: just to you know, save ten bucks to the movie 290 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: ticket that didn't say they went to the movies. Dilemo 291 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: does have a big movie complex. It's just a ridiculous species. 292 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: It's getting worse worse. Yeah, no guardrails anymore. Nothing. I 293 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: like that guardrails, No social guardrails. All right, Toddy Ketchow 294 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: KFI six forty live everywhere, iHeartRadio app. 295 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 3: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 296 00:15:58,520 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 3: AM six forty. 297 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, Well you know this story. The NBC News 298 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: assigned three political geek analysts to it. But I do 299 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: like the words. Sometimes we make fun of the El 300 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: Segundo times because they use words like reeling and brace 301 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: and royling and roiling. The word this time is bristle. 302 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: What do you look like, John, when you bristle kind 303 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 1: of like the hairs on your back go up? Or yes, 304 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: like when you bristle at something like a porcupine. Yeah, 305 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: so you get like you're offended in some way, right 306 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: if you bristle. This is about the possible upcoming debate 307 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: between Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis and who's bristling. Those 308 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 1: inside the Joe Biden camp they have some concerns about this. Also, 309 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris's allies also don't really understand this. Uh. 310 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: Some Biden advisors have complained privately that the planned debate 311 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 1: could make voters think Newsom is running a shadow twenty 312 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: twenty four campaign at a time where Democrats say they 313 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: prefer a different candidate at the top of the ticket. Well, 314 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 1: what does that tell you? Right there? You already have 315 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: a problem. What does it matter what Newsom's doing? You 316 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 1: want somebody else? Do you see the you're gonnait? The 317 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:20,360 Speaker 1: poll today, the Associated Press poll, now seventy seven percent 318 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,159 Speaker 1: of the country want thinks Biden is too old to do, 319 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: too old, he should not have a second term. He's done, 320 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: including sixty nine percent of Democrats. Now that's incredible. I mean, 321 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:35,120 Speaker 1: I don't understand the twenty three percent who don't think 322 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 1: he's too old. How old does he have to get 323 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,159 Speaker 1: before you're convinced? What does it take? They must be 324 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 1: just the idiot partisans who just won't ever say anything 325 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: negative about their man, their daddy figure. But no, that 326 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: both parties are really stuck with because nobody has any courage. 327 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: Nobody wants to say in public out laud that Biden 328 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 1: is completely spent. I mean that he's done, he's done, done, 329 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 1: It's over. Good night, Joe, tuck him in and singamol allaby, 330 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 1: Why don't they all do that. And what they have 331 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:18,240 Speaker 1: here is the only guy who's running is Newsome, and 332 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 1: they if you're honest, right, see, nobody's honest, be honest. 333 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 1: Biden's done newso runs. He looks good, right, he's got 334 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: energy and he's bold. But you got to start explaining 335 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: San Francisco. Yeah, that's right, okay, And that's just the 336 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 1: beginning of it. And the fact he did an interview 337 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 1: with Politico recently where he said, I feel like I'm 338 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,360 Speaker 1: still mayor there. They keep dragging me back into it. Well, yeah, 339 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 1: that set the tone for your future political life. You 340 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 1: were mayor there for quite a few years, and that 341 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:56,160 Speaker 1: started this tumble downward. Right, So they're kind of stuck because, 342 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 1: you know, Newsom looks good for you know, about five 343 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: ten minutes, and then it's like, oh my god, have 344 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,199 Speaker 1: you seen California. I mean, have you gone to these 345 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: California cities? Look at Los Angeles. We're halfway to San Francisco. 346 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: San Diego is in rough shape. And then you start 347 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:15,440 Speaker 1: talking about about the taxes, and uh, it's it's all 348 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: bad news out of here. It's it's all bad news. 349 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 1: So they don't have anybody obvious to go to and 350 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 1: then you know, the Republicans have their hair, have their 351 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 1: impossible Trump situation, which it's you know, it's fascinating about 352 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: about about a lot of Trump supporters is like, I 353 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 1: get why they why they support Trump, right, but you 354 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:42,360 Speaker 1: can't get them to understand that there's another world beyond 355 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 1: the little uh bubble that you and your your friends 356 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:49,879 Speaker 1: live in, and that Trump doesn't play with a lot 357 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: of independent voters the way Newsome isn't going to play 358 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 1: with a lot of don't look at it that way. 359 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 1: They only see themselves and those dang progressive socialist Democrats, 360 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: but they don't realize there is a collection of other 361 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 1: people out there that are neither of those two groups. 362 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:08,399 Speaker 1: Forty percent of the country does not belong to the 363 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:12,160 Speaker 1: Republican or Democrat party. Forty percent do they vote, though 364 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: they vote enough. Yeah, I'm sure a percentage of them does. 365 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,359 Speaker 1: But sometimes with those people, they don't bother to show up, 366 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,640 Speaker 1: especially if they hate what's going on. Let's just say, 367 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 1: you know, ninety plus percent are going to vote for 368 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: Trump on the Republican side, and even if Joe is 369 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 1: on a life support ninety plus percent will support especially Okay, 370 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 1: on the other side. So right, the only group that 371 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 1: matters really is the Independence, and the Independence think Joe 372 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,920 Speaker 1: is way too old, and they think Trump is a criminal. 373 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,959 Speaker 1: They do. And you can argue all day as to 374 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 1: you know, the deep state and this election interference and 375 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 1: these charges are overblown. It's like they've made up their minds. 376 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,919 Speaker 1: Trump is a crook, Biden is senile. Now what is 377 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: that group going to do in an election? I have 378 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:05,399 Speaker 1: no idea, but nobody speaks honestly like this, believe it 379 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 1: or not. Kamala Harris has allies, and this story says 380 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 1: that they're Oh umbradge. John Umbridge is another good worthy 381 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 1: take umbradge. You always take umbrage. You ever give umbrage. 382 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: I've never give an umbradge, No I have. Somebody called 383 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: it disrespectful. They think that the newsom's trying to position 384 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 1: himself for twenty twenty eight. That he is. He's got 385 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 1: a lot of campaign money. He ran a reelection campaign 386 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 1: that was a cakewalk. He's got a lot of money. 387 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:31,639 Speaker 1: You might as well spent it on trying to enhance 388 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: his stupid national image for either next year or in 389 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight. That's what he's doing, and that's what 390 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: they all do. And he's in the Garcetti zone. He 391 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 1: effed up the state the way Garcetti effed up Los Angeles. 392 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: He can't fix it and he doesn't care anymore. Right, 393 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: so you got to run for something bigger. Oh good lord. 394 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 1: It says here that the presidential the Republican debate that's 395 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: coming up in see Me Valley at the Ronald Reagan Library. 396 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: Newsom's gonna show up there and be a surrogate for Biden. 397 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:58,679 Speaker 1: It's gonna be walking around trying to talk to the 398 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: media about what's wrong with the report publicans. I know everything. 399 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what's warm. Does anybody listen to that 400 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:08,880 Speaker 1: crap anymore? I mean, really, does anybody tune into the 401 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:12,120 Speaker 1: post game on Fox or kNN to listen to all 402 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:15,640 Speaker 1: the partisans spout their rehearse talking. It's like people listen 403 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 1: to sports talk radio. There's people that just love this stuff. 404 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 1: They they're not a big percentage, can't be too many, though, 405 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 1: I mean, look, consume them every little bit. Let me 406 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 1: guess what you're gonna say. Go ahead, I'll say it 407 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,640 Speaker 1: for you. Has that well, I'm gonna bristle and take 408 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: umbrage to all of that. We got more coming up, 409 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: and what's next is I believe a new record on 410 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 1: the John and Ken Show. Find out what that is. 411 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 1: I am six forty live everywhere iHeartRadio app. 412 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 3: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from k 413 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 3: IF I am sixty. 414 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 1: Coming up after three o'clock, We're gonna try to clear 415 00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 1: up a few things dealing with the big fires in Hawaii. 416 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: Headline this morning was at Bloomberg News that Hawaiian Electrics 417 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,680 Speaker 1: share price surged on reports that they said that they 418 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 1: had turned off the power lines so they couldn't started 419 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 1: the fire. Then I heard a story that no, they 420 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 1: were admitting that their power lines did cause some of 421 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,439 Speaker 1: the fires. Now there was more than one fire that 422 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:22,360 Speaker 1: effected there's yeah. I think the electricity was running when 423 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,680 Speaker 1: the first fire went off, but then they shut down 424 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,600 Speaker 1: the Uh they they're blamed in the firefighters for leaving 425 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 1: it before the thing kicked up again. Both are true, 426 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 1: but if the story is right, the electric company turned 427 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 1: off the electricity after the first fire, and then the 428 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 1: firefighters left the scene and the first fire became the 429 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:51,879 Speaker 1: second fire revived itself. The winds right, so the second fire, 430 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: which caused most of the damage, was not directly caused 431 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,360 Speaker 1: by the power lines coming down. It was because the 432 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: fire department was incompetent. Everybody walked away. I mean, it's 433 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,679 Speaker 1: not like we haven't had wildfires in this country before. 434 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 1: And these guys go on their all their their fire junkets, right, 435 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 1: they all travel together at conferences to exchange the latest information. 436 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: Certainly the Hawaiian firemen knew that you don't walk away 437 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: from a wildfire just because it looks as if you 438 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 1: put it out, because it's never Remember that happened in 439 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,120 Speaker 1: Orange County a few years ago. They did the same thing. 440 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,160 Speaker 1: One of the Orange County firefighting units. They they left 441 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,440 Speaker 1: and it kicked up because they're still even bigger. There's 442 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 1: embers and if you get a good gust to win, 443 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 1: the ember flies in the air and leave a small 444 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 1: crew there to make sure that. Yeah, that's what they 445 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 1: always do. They leave knucking it out. They leave crews 446 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,959 Speaker 1: around for weeks in California, Yeah, they do. Yeah, all right, 447 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: So Alex Stone is all over this story and he'll 448 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 1: join us after the news at three o'clock. I mentioned 449 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,879 Speaker 1: I think it's a new record on the John and 450 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: Ken show, and the number is sixty five. That is 451 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,200 Speaker 1: the number of people that picked Bob Barker to die 452 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 1: in the year twenty twenty three in the John and 453 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,439 Speaker 1: Ken Goolpool, Right, I don't recall that many picks for 454 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 1: one well known person. Sixty five people. Yeah, of course 455 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,639 Speaker 1: at ninety nine, yeah, ninety nine and his level of fame. 456 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 1: So I can see that, and I have a feeling 457 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,679 Speaker 1: that these are people that picked him every year for 458 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 1: like the last twenty years maybe or fifteen years, ten years, 459 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: and they think, well, he's got to go now, Well 460 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: he's got to go now. I didn't realize he'd been 461 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: off that show for fifteen years already, fifteen years of 462 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 1: Drew carry At times, I know, he still seems like 463 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: the new guy. It does in a way. He showed 464 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: up a couple of times as a special appearance but 465 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,320 Speaker 1: a salute to him. But yeah, well he didn't retire 466 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 1: to lose eighty three. Yeah, now, it's not that tough 467 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,399 Speaker 1: a job, and he enjoyed it, no, I know. I 468 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,199 Speaker 1: just you take a few shows and one day and 469 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 1: you're done for a while, or God is a kid. 470 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 1: I remember his first show, Truth or Consequences, I loved 471 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 1: that show. Yes that was. It started in the fifties, 472 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: I think, yeah, and ran for quite a few years. 473 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,639 Speaker 1: It ran for almost twenty years. Yeah. Yeah. So the 474 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 1: word is he doesn't want and he did not want 475 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 1: any special memorial service, no special funeral. It's gonna be 476 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 1: a whole private burial thing. So gone, nothing to follow 477 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: up on. So all right, So that what was a 478 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,919 Speaker 1: record sixty five years? One of my favorite Elsa Gondo 479 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 1: Times columns today? Who is this writer? Let me see here? 480 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:36,119 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Marissa Gerber. Marissa Gerber was given an assignment 481 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:42,120 Speaker 1: called loneliness. According to federal health officials John right now, 482 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 1: we're seeing an epidemic of loneliness in the US. So 483 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 1: what did she do with this assignment? Marissa Gerber? She 484 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 1: found She wound her way to a grocery store, where 485 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 1: she found one woman at an Alberton's in Arcadia, an 486 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 1: eighty three year old woman who's got one of those 487 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,159 Speaker 1: wheelchair shopping carts. So she'sing motorized, so she's going up 488 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: down the house. She skipped the self service line and 489 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: went right to the checkout stand so she could have 490 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: a conversation with the cashier. Because this is a cure 491 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 1: for loneliness. And they stared at the story and the said, really, 492 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,920 Speaker 1: this is the number one thing I cannot stand to 493 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 1: grocery stores. It's people taking too long to check out 494 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 1: because they have to chat with the cashier because they're lonely. 495 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 1: This woman has formed a ten year relationship with this 496 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 1: special cashier. Why can't they meet at a local coffee 497 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 1: shop and catch up? Why not at a place of business? Right, 498 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,200 Speaker 1: I need to buy my bagels. I'm trying to check 499 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 1: out because I got to go home and I don't 500 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 1: have time to waste, and these two ladies are going 501 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: to be chattering away. No, no, no, this is what 502 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,640 Speaker 1: you do in your off time. But if you're working, 503 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: don't waste by time. Look at this. A supermarket chain 504 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 1: in the Netherlands called Jumbo has created intentionally soul moving 505 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 1: lanes for older shoppers. There anyone else who wants to 506 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: chat with the cashiers? Good? The problem is to tackle loneliness. 507 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: By the way, why doesn't the older woman like join 508 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,120 Speaker 1: a group. There's other senior citizens might be lonely. Join 509 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 1: a group, whether it's a bridge club or this idea 510 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 1: that loneliness is epidemic loneliness is not a disease. You 511 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:24,159 Speaker 1: don't catch loneliness like you catch COVID. All right, Loneliness 512 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 1: means you are not going out and making connections. You're 513 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: not making friends, That's what it means. So you get 514 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,640 Speaker 1: isolating yourself. You've got many things you could do, many 515 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 1: clubs you could join. They're everywhere. I still get stuff 516 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: stashed in my mailbox every day from the local community 517 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 1: organization here asking if you want to join or go 518 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,800 Speaker 1: to all these things. So so you're too lazy to 519 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 1: go out and make connections with people, So you're gonna 520 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 1: squat for ten minutes in front of me, oh at 521 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: the cash chattering with the cashier. Yeah, this happened to 522 00:28:59,920 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 1: me last week, and I did get I didn't show it, 523 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 1: but I got pretty rates standing there. I want to 524 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:05,959 Speaker 1: take I'm like, oh my god, and I too, are 525 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 1: going to have a conversation about your kids. Oh oh, 526 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 1: it makes you know what I have. I griped my 527 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 1: carriage really tight, and I want to take it and 528 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 1: just boom boom, just bang them out of the way. 529 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 1: I could go to another line. Well, well, sometimes this 530 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 1: isn't another line. Oh, there's one grocery chain that I 531 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 1: go to, and it's they only have one person and 532 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: the line is backed up halfway down the aisle leading 533 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 1: into that register, and everybody's using the self checkout. Not 534 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 1: only they have a lot of self checkout registers, but 535 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: they and I don't mind using that, but I use 536 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: that too. But sometimes if I buy fruits or vegetables, 537 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 1: you gotta way all the crap. I don't want to 538 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: deal with that, and you can't. You can't buy wine there. 539 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 1: And then I always have the luck where BING have 540 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 1: to call for an attendant. Yes, something goes wrong with 541 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 1: the transacts right, and they have people as permanent attendants. 542 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: They do, they do, so I'm thinking and they're chatty too. 543 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,239 Speaker 1: I know. It's like I don't want to talk at 544 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: the grocery store. You really have had to hit a 545 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 1: dead end if you're if you're talking to the cashiers. Geez. 546 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 1: Coming up next, we'll be talking to Alex Stone, ABC 547 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 1: News for KF. 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