1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: We're thinking this hour because it happened yesterday this hour 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: at about four thirty, there might be another vote dump. 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: We're vote count dump from the Elle County Registrar of Voters. 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: We found that at about four thirty yesterday afternoon that 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 1: at least in the La City Mayor's race, the margin 6 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: has narrowed for Rick Caruso from about twelve thousand votes 7 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 1: to just about three thousand votes. We were told there 8 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: would be another vote count report today and we're thinking, 9 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: we don't know what. We're thinking it's going to come 10 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: this hour, so if we do get it, we'll pass 11 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: it along to you. We don't know it was a 12 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: lot of votes yesterday, but it did obviously narrow the 13 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:41,160 Speaker 1: difference in the race. We'll bring you that story later 14 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: on this hour. And at about fifteen minutes another keyword. 15 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: There's two more left for the week. They'll here one 16 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: at four twenty, then another at five twenty, and then 17 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 1: Matt John Coblt will reach your instructions as to how 18 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: you enter the word and possibly win the money. And 19 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: as he says, every hour, down tech stint down TA. 20 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:02,959 Speaker 1: That was the old way. That was the old way. 21 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: You're right, that's probably what people were used to doing, 22 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: but it's not that way now, so that'll come up. 23 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: We got the moistline also coming next hour, and well, 24 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,680 Speaker 1: it took a little bit of discussion. We are going 25 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: to throw a hack into the dumpster. I guess it 26 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: might be considered a controversial pick. This is a big hack. 27 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: But it's rhythmic. Is your clue it is rhythmic? You 28 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: like that word rhythmic? Well, I think it is, yes, 29 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: if you look at the words and the name. Yeah. Anyway, 30 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: that'll come up in the five o'clock hour, will explain 31 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: exactly why that's happening. All right. Nothing we talked about 32 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: this months ago. This year, it's been a while more 33 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: fascinating to follow, at least from the world of California. 34 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: You thinking it's going to be the world leader in 35 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: clean energy? Right? All right? So what happened got us 36 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: involved in the world of rooftops solar? Very interesting topic, 37 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: isn't it? Solar? Please tell me more? Well, everybody moved 38 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 1: closer to the radio. It got our attention. When equity 39 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 1: got involved, solar equity, what the hell? It's not really 40 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,679 Speaker 1: that complicated. But when people put up rooftop solar they're 41 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: going to save an electricity bills. Isn't that the idea? Yeah? 42 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: How it works otherwise, why would you bother? Why would 43 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: you bother? Right, some people get their bills down to 44 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: like a negative, they can actually sell power back to 45 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 1: the energy companies. Well, guess what. That didn't sit too 46 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: well with the big utilities. I'm talking about Edison, PG 47 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: and E San Diego Gas and Electric, which is a 48 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: semperate energy subsidiary. They are trying to get the state 49 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,799 Speaker 1: to slash the incentives for rooftop solar panels because, as 50 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,639 Speaker 1: The Times puts it, it undercuts their lucrative business model. 51 00:02:56,919 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 1: I mean, the more you're saving on your electric bill, well, 52 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: the less they're taken in, right money, right, the more 53 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: you're making your own electricity. But then they said, you 54 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: know what, we still have to maintain the grid. That's expensive. 55 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 1: That's like our overhead. So they came back with the 56 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 1: fascinating equity argument because people that can afford solar panels 57 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 1: are generally better off. They're saving all the money and 58 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: the poor people have to make up the difference. That's 59 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 1: where solar equity entered the picture, and that's where this 60 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: got complicated because their lobbying led to this plan that 61 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: the Public Utilities Commission was considering, which really would are 62 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: hurt people with solar. When we talked about it months ago, 63 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 1: it was really ugly. They have revised the plan a bit, 64 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: but the first part that came out well, as an 65 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: estimate from the California Solar and Storage Association, solar customers 66 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: would be paid a base rate of five cents per 67 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: kilowatt hour of electricity that they don't use at home. 68 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 1: That's the stuff I told you to send back to 69 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: the power grid. But they get as much as thirty 70 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: cents now, so that would be a big cut. Right, 71 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: So the extra electricity they make through the solar panels 72 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 1: they would send down the back to the grid, right, 73 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: and they were getting thirty cents. Slash that bye bye 74 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: jeez by what like eighty five. That's the estimate from 75 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 1: this organization that I mentioned, California Solar in Storage. It 76 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 1: says under this plan it could drop to as low 77 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: as five cents per kilowatta. Oh that's that's uh. Well, 78 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: that turns this whole solar handle thing into a scam, 79 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 1: doesn't it. This would be a bit of a disincentive 80 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: because now for a state it wants to be one 81 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: hundred percent of clean energy. This just I'm shaking my 82 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: head right now. This is not right because yeah, but 83 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: you want to incentivize people to go solar, but the 84 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,919 Speaker 1: power to disincentivize them set there's something more important. The 85 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: power companies spend a lot of money on the politicians. 86 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:03,719 Speaker 1: They're big bride to get exactly right, how is Jennifer 87 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: Newsome going to fund her feminism movies unless she pleases 88 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: PG and E. If we all go solar, then we're 89 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 1: safe in this much in our electric bills. What's going 90 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: to happen to these utilities? Of course they're going to 91 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 1: fight back, and they they they're they're part of their 92 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: argument is this equity thing I mentioned, Oh nobody cares about. 93 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:26,279 Speaker 1: We still have an expensive grid. We have to maintain. 94 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 1: Even if people are saving on their power bills. That's 95 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: our as I mentioned like that, that's our overhead. So 96 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 1: what are we gonna How are we gonna gonna have 97 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: to charge other people more that are on the grid. Wait, 98 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: is they're exaggerating that they're they're making they are, they're 99 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: making plenty of profits. This is cutting in slightly to 100 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: their profits slightly. This is not They're just greedy and 101 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: they want more. And if the state is pushing solar panels, 102 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 1: you have to make it worthwhile because you do have 103 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: to put up some money to get solar panels installed 104 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 1: on your house, because I know we had solar panel 105 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 1: people come over the house, and you do have to 106 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: lay down a significant amount of money. And yes, in 107 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: the long run it pays for take back, right, and 108 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: then you start actually making a little bit of money, right, 109 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 1: and you take that away, Well, I don't know then, 110 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: what what's the point Well that I feel the key 111 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: is it costs less money in the long run. You 112 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: take away that I don't I don't get it. I 113 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:30,040 Speaker 1: don't get what the attraction is then. So a spokesperson 114 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: for the utility said, it's extremely disappointing. Under this proposal, 115 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:36,840 Speaker 1: low income families and all customers without solar, we'll have 116 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: to pay a hidden tax on their electricity bills to 117 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: subsidize rooftop solar for mostly wealthier Californians. See what they're 118 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: trying to do, the utilities. They're trying to set this 119 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,359 Speaker 1: up as we're on the side of the port and 120 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 1: it's just a political ploy. That's that's all. The solar 121 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: is systemically racist or something like that. That'll be next. 122 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:01,160 Speaker 1: If this doesn't work, then they'll start calculating how much 123 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: white families pay and how much black families plant pay 124 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 1: as a percentage of their income and come up all 125 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: those all those um ideas who used as weapons. Yeah, 126 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: I'm sure PG and he does not care what poor 127 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: people are paying or black families. It's about their bottom. 128 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: It's about yes, using that argued to emotionally manipulate people 129 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: so that they are more profitable. Right. Another plan was 130 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: to charge new solar customers eight dollars per kilowatt monthly fee, 131 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 1: So if you have a home that's got a six 132 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: kilowatt system, you'll have to pay about forty eight dollars 133 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: a month. That's also planned. Well, what's it's all the 134 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: same thing. They're taking more money. You're getting solar to 135 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: reduce your electric bell. In return, the power company raises 136 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: your electric bell as a punishment. I thought, here's the 137 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: punishment for saving money. We live in a state that 138 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: likes to think of itself altruistically as the great clean 139 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: energy state. They should be making every effort we can 140 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: to help people go solar and not charging them and 141 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: screw the utility because that's hogwash, because nobody in Sacramento 142 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: really cares about that. Of course not. No, this is 143 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: this is all they care about. It is the political 144 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: donations from the power companies. So if the power companies 145 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: say jump, you jump. The power companies want some kind 146 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: of penalty of people who bought solar panelties, fine, let's 147 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: let's penalize the solar power power families. And considering that 148 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: we already have a problem with the power grid during 149 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:36,559 Speaker 1: the hot summer months, don't you want people who can, 150 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: you know, help reduce the strain on the grid by 151 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 1: having solar, so you know, they lessen their need for 152 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: the grid and they can actually sell back some of 153 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: their power, right, doesn't it all make sense? No? No, Instead, 154 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 1: you know the big utilities enter the picture here, look 155 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: at their bottom line. They drag in the equity argument. Yeah, 156 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:01,199 Speaker 1: they dragon, they call the equity police. All right, we 157 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 1: got more coming up as soon as we returned. Seconds 158 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:06,319 Speaker 1: after we return, you will hear the latest keyword for 159 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 1: your chance to win some money. John and Ken kf 160 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: I am six forty live everywhere on the iHeart Radio 161 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: app humber me, what's distracting you? I'd like to know. No, 162 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 1: you don't want it your phone screens. There's no more baseball. 163 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: It's done. Could not pride out of me with a crowbar. 164 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 1: I thought of you the other night because instead of 165 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: watching the elections was a Tuesday night. Yeah, I watched 166 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:33,719 Speaker 1: the HBO special on Willie Mays. Oh is there one? 167 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:36,439 Speaker 1: There is one? Yes? Okay, it was pretty good. I 168 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,319 Speaker 1: watched the whole hour and a half. Right, he's sitting there, 169 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: he's ninety of what something to ninety three? I don't know. 170 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: He's he's alert enough, he's telling stories. I mean, he's 171 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: clearly a little fatigued for his age, but he should 172 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: be tired. But yeah, yeah, I want to get to 173 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 1: that point where you're so old everybody knows you tired, 174 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 1: and you just sit there and just say, hey, I'm 175 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 1: ninety two. I'm hired. I don't want to go anywhere. 176 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,079 Speaker 1: I don't want to do anythink. Yeah, there's another baseball 177 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: documentary Nolan Ryan. Oh, yeah, who's got that one? Really good? 178 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: I can ever remember one of the baby Netflix? Oh, 179 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: I think you see it? Yes, it's excellent, Oh, excellent. 180 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: There we go exchanging baseball is shows. Oh that's what 181 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 1: we watch. The last time we talked about Long Beach, 182 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,439 Speaker 1: the problem there was, well, the Blue Line, I think 183 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: it's now called the A Line that comes from downtown 184 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,319 Speaker 1: LA and ends in Long Beach. That's the end of 185 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 1: the line. Everybody off train's gone. At a service, it 186 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 1: was dumping homeless people in downtown Long Beach. And yeah, 187 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 1: that trains had to be clean for bodily fluids. There 188 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 1: was a complaint to Metro that you've got to come 189 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: up with a better plan, whatever it is, because we're 190 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: getting inundated with vagrants when they're forced off the train. Well, 191 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 1: yesterday there was a meeting a bunch of prominent Long 192 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: Beach business say we are going to leave downtown close 193 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 1: up completely unless you do something about the crime, the 194 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 1: out of control homeless population, the drug use. The Long 195 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 1: Beach Business Journal reported this story first. It's keeping customers away. 196 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: Business is down by over twenty five percent, according to 197 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: the co owner of Beechwood Brewing. They sent an email 198 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: to the Downtown Long Beach Alliance which laid out all 199 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 1: of these issues, open use of drugs, acts of violence 200 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: near the restaurant, people wandering onto the patio where they 201 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: disrupt customers and property damage. He recounted one incident where 202 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: a couple got into a fight in front of the restaurant. 203 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: The woman gets knocked out, the police don't respond. He 204 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: called the person, nothing happened. Long Beach has really fallen apart. 205 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: I mean Beach, I know, well, it has ups and downs, 206 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 1: and they always talk about trying to rejuvenate it. You know, 207 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 1: it's a city of five hundred thousand people. People don't 208 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 1: realize how large it is, and it's massive in terms 209 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: of land area, and it's got a nice shoreline, but 210 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: it's just kind of always stuck in this We've got 211 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: to keep trying to bring people here, and it's kind 212 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:14,199 Speaker 1: of out of the way for a lot of folks 213 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: to go to. Yeah, but at five five hundred ends 214 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: of the county, with five hundred thousand people, you already 215 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: have a base. It's pretty good if you keep it 216 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 1: clean and exciting and fun and get rid of the 217 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 1: homeless those five hundred thousand people are you, Yeah, but 218 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: there's no excuse for that. See, this is self inflicted damage. 219 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 1: When you let all the homeless and the criminals run amuck, 220 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:37,960 Speaker 1: you don't have to do that. In most places in America, 221 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: it's not tolerated, and up until the last five years, 222 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: it wasn't tolerated here. So this is self inflicted by 223 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 1: the Long Beach leaders. It's very similar to what happens 224 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: what's happened to Santa Monica, And in fact, reading that 225 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: story reminds me almost exactly what happens to Santa Monica. 226 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 1: In fact, we've had a Santa Monica businessman on who's 227 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 1: with one of these groups, and it's the same story. 228 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:04,840 Speaker 1: What's really peculiar, And this is where I wonder, I 229 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:09,079 Speaker 1: really marvel at the cultish nature of those who allow 230 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:11,679 Speaker 1: the homeless and the criminals to run a muck. Is 231 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: that it used to be whatever your political philosophy was, 232 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 1: you knew you had to keep business running well because 233 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: that's where the tax money comes from. And even if 234 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: you were a way out lefty right, unless you were 235 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:31,679 Speaker 1: this anti capitalist anarchist lefty, but anything up to that point, 236 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:35,200 Speaker 1: you wanted business to do well because that tax revenue 237 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: funds all your wet dream programs to help humanity. Without 238 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: the tax flow, you can't give all the money to 239 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:47,200 Speaker 1: the poor and the underserved or the underprivileged or the 240 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:51,199 Speaker 1: under whatever. So it was like, let's keep the business 241 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: climate strong. Then we'll argue over how high the tax 242 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 1: should be and what we're going to spend it on. 243 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: But but but without out a stable business climate, there's 244 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: nothing eventually for anybody. So it's firing a gun at 245 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: your head these numbers. Long Beach is unhoused. Population has 246 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:17,199 Speaker 1: surged sixty two percent since twenty twenty. Property crime in 247 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: downtown Long Beach is up twenty three percent this year. 248 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: We mentioned this story on the air. In October, the 249 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: city temporary closed the forty eight million dollar Billy Jean 250 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: King Maine Library due to quote security concerns. We know 251 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: what that is. Twenty two point four percent of office 252 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 1: space in downtown is vacant as of the second quarter 253 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two. This is the devastating reality for 254 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: businesses in downtown Long Beach. A couple of them into 255 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 1: this article said, well, I'm hanging on for now, but 256 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: if businesses around me start closing and relocating, I'm gonna 257 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: do the same thing. You know, there's nobody left here. 258 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:55,280 Speaker 1: People are gonna come here. That's slowly, but surely. What's 259 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 1: happening One woman says, customers don't feel safe. My staff 260 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: are afraid. We all carry pepper spray just to serve 261 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: our customers on the parklet. And there there's there's a 262 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 1: limit to how long every individual puts up at that 263 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 1: kind of life. You could see in San Francisco, right 264 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: there's a lot of businesses empty and out. Yeah, it's 265 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: emptying out, and restaurants are in peril there, retail shops 266 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 1: are in peril. An entire way of life, an entire existence, 267 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: you know, life in a downtown San Francisco business business district, 268 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: a life in a long Beach business district will be gone, 269 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: will be gone because simply they decided to give free 270 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: rain to people who are predators. Between the criminals and 271 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 1: the vagrants, they're predators. And it's like being out in 272 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 1: the jungle. You know, if you've got too many predators 273 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 1: roaming the jungle, you gotta get out. You gotta go 274 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 1: find another place to live. If you're a smaller animal 275 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 1: and you're not willing to like, you know, shoot to kill, 276 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: all right, stand by, it's possible in the next half hour. 277 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: You never know, with the information that we might get 278 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 1: a vote count. Update from the LA County rudders to 279 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: our voters, or maybe that was just fake news. We 280 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 1: got one yes date this time, and then I was 281 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: surprised to learn last night that another one might be 282 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: coming today. More coming up Johnny Ken Show, kf I 283 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 1: Am six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio Act. 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We did get another vote count dump from 301 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 1: the LA County Registrar of Voters and moving right to 302 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:24,919 Speaker 1: the Los Angeles City Mayor's race. By predicted this earlier 303 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 1: in the show, Karen Ruth Bass has taken the lead 304 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 1: her middle names Ruth four thousand votes apart. Now, yep, 305 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,680 Speaker 1: she was a couple of thousand behind yesterday. So on 306 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 1: this update she's gained another four or six thousand votes 307 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: something like that, and she's now got a very slim 308 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 1: lead over Caruso. But I'm afraid the trend is for 309 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 1: this wasn't much of a dump either. It wasn't no 310 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: what was the totals, Jess say, two seventy something or two? Yeah, 311 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 1: because it was in the it was in the two fifties. 312 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,440 Speaker 1: Two days election night. Yeah, yeah, there was like about 313 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 1: forty thousand they added yesterday, and now it looks like 314 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 1: they added another I don't even twenty thousand and they yeah, 315 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 1: hardly anything. Well, because it is the day after yesterday, 316 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,159 Speaker 1: so how much more could it be that day, I 317 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: don't know they would have included these and yesterdays count 318 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:18,440 Speaker 1: it they had them done so whenever they got done. 319 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 1: Between that and today, they are slow over there at 320 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,199 Speaker 1: the registrar's office. Wow, this must be very challenging for 321 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: them to go one two three, one for Best, one 322 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 1: for Caruso two eighty nine to two eighty five. Yeah, 323 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: I'm afraid that. As I said, these ballots that come late, 324 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,959 Speaker 1: either through the mail or from those lockboxes or whatever, 325 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 1: tend to favor the progressive liberal Democrat. What if you 326 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: want to call them Tracy's Park is holding up though, 327 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,479 Speaker 1: shs she I can't Is that? Is that a narrowing 328 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: or no, that's still fifty five five. Yeah, it's a 329 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: slight narrowing, very slight, but it's still rounds stuff by 330 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 1: six thousand votes. Almost. Yeah. I think originally two days 331 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: ago was twenty nine twenty three. Now it's thirty three 332 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 1: twenty seven. But the headlines will blare on the Elsa 333 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 1: Gundo Times website, the league they're gonna take their pants 334 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: off for that. Oh, it'd be very excited. This is 335 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,400 Speaker 1: who they want. But you know, I, you know, if 336 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:22,719 Speaker 1: the Tracy Park thing holds up. It just shows you 337 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: that in a specific race, if you have a really 338 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 1: offensive candidate, no matter how Aaron Darling is extremely offensive. 339 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:32,959 Speaker 1: He is just as offensive as Bonded. But people at 340 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: least there as liberal as they are, cannot stomach anymore 341 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: of the complete surrender to the homeless. There is a 342 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: point where you go too far and Bonding and Darling, well, 343 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: Darling may have gone too far, we'll see, but it's 344 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 1: because you know, these are more progressive voters, and Darling 345 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 1: is Tracy Park is pretty center. You look at some 346 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:59,439 Speaker 1: of the other council races, your council district definitely has 347 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 1: the most people voting, was over sixty thousand people so 348 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: far voting, and some of the other districts only have 349 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: like forty thousand votes. Because a thousand votes everybody, almost 350 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: everyone where I live are legal residents, and you know 351 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 1: when they work, they got a stake in all this. 352 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:19,120 Speaker 1: We're gonna get another Yarra Slobski on the city council. 353 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 1: Zev's daughter, She's gonna win. I can't. I hate political family. 354 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 1: We're gonna get another Democrat socialist on the La City Council. 355 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: You go Soto hyphen Martinez is probably gonna knock out 356 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 1: Mitchell and Carroll telling you stuff is gonna happen. It's 357 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: gonna be even worse, and everyone's gonna wonder why. It's 358 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 1: because these these socialist anarchist candidates are slipping in in 359 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:46,399 Speaker 1: these very poor districts or hardly anybody's paying attention, and 360 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: god knows what they're saying in their campaigns, but it's 361 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 1: it's gonna get it's gonna get worse. I'm not even 362 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: gonna say it's gonna get worse before it gets better. 363 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 1: I don't know if it'll ever get better. And if 364 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: Karen bass is the mayor, forget about it. Because she 365 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 1: you're gonna say, and I said this yesterday, We're gonna 366 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 1: track her every day and see what she does to 367 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,920 Speaker 1: clear the homeless encamas. We'll see it's going to declare 368 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 1: a state of emergency. That's it. Yeah, and then walk 369 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: away from the podium and say, yeah, and I did 370 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: my job today. Yeah, we'll see. Boy, they did another 371 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: glowing Democrat socialist story on this young guy that's going 372 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,119 Speaker 1: to be controller. Not that controller is that powerful, but 373 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:27,200 Speaker 1: Kenneth Mahea as the time says it's the first Asian 374 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:31,560 Speaker 1: American to be elected to citywide office. WHOA, that's their see, 375 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 1: that's their audience. There, it's it. That's all they do 376 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 1: is fall people by gender and race. Well, I've read 377 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 1: like business news stories about the new era of journalism 378 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: and the way you the only way you can make 379 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,119 Speaker 1: money is you you got to go online. Right. They 380 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: used to give away it for free online or and 381 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 1: and they would sell ads online ads, and that produced 382 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 1: no revenue. Online advertising on news sites just doesn't work 383 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 1: for whatever reason. So they have to do a subscription model. 384 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: And in the same way that Fox or MSNBC gets 385 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:17,359 Speaker 1: its viewers by catering to hyper passionate, hyper partisan people. 386 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 1: The LA Times the New York Times figured out the 387 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: same thing. Now the La Times still loses tens of 388 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,160 Speaker 1: millions of dollars, but the New York Times is making 389 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,719 Speaker 1: good profit now, right, And the Wall Street Journal has 390 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: a more conservative business crowd that they cater to. And 391 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 1: you give the people what they want, and you write 392 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: articles about what they care about, and whoever's reading the 393 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,719 Speaker 1: La Times actually cares about all this woke nonsense and 394 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 1: they don't care if they look foolish to the rest 395 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: of the world. They're not trying to appeal to the 396 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 1: rest of the world. That's not the business model. That's 397 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 1: not the paper from nineteen ninety five. This is the 398 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two version, and it's a woke paper and 399 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 1: they are focusing on woke readership who want to read 400 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 1: this crap. By the way, selfishly looks like myke town 401 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,120 Speaker 1: is beaten back the sales tax increase. Do you wonder 402 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: how it was worded to maintain long term financial stability 403 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: with locally controlled funds to be used for programs such 404 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:16,919 Speaker 1: as public safety nine one one response, enforcement against property crime, 405 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,960 Speaker 1: street and pothole repair, protection of beach coastal waters. What 406 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: they threw that one in school safety, cleaning of public areas, retention, 407 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 1: attraction of local businesses, homeless services, and for general government use. 408 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:34,399 Speaker 1: Shallow ordinance be a stop adopted establishing a three quarter 409 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: percent sales tax requiring public spending. So they were going 410 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,399 Speaker 1: to raise the sales tax to I think it was 411 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 1: gonna be ten and a quarter Jesus, since I think 412 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,639 Speaker 1: it's nine and a half. The first nine and a 413 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: half didn't cover everything. No, they wanted to over ten percent, 414 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 1: and it's going down to defeat in my town fifty 415 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 1: seven to forty three. Good, right, now I'm moving to 416 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 1: your town. Yeah, but that's what we talked about yesterday. 417 00:23:58,160 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: That's what a lot of this is a lot of 418 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,880 Speaker 1: this cover and the pensions. Right, but they're they're putting 419 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: it into the guys of public safety, homeless services, cleaning, 420 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: public areas. Nine and a half percent tax just covers 421 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: the pensions. Now, if you want everything else taken care of, 422 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: you got to cough up extra more money. But first 423 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:21,879 Speaker 1: dibbs goes to the pensions. Yes, but oh and they 424 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 1: turn it, oh big time. They've turned down the cannabis 425 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,479 Speaker 1: business in my town too. It's become big on ballots locally, 426 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: the cannabis businesses. Good lord, can we do anything else 427 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:38,919 Speaker 1: just to distract something something productive? I cannabis? Wow? Yeah, 428 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: all right, So there's your update. Sad as it is. 429 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 1: Karen Bass is now the leader in the race for 430 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 1: Los Angeles City mayor. Another vote dump is supposed to 431 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: come to tuesday. Now, there are vagrants borting greyhound buses 432 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,400 Speaker 1: all over the nation. Right, they're on their way. They're 433 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: on their way. They're on the Basque Greyhound Express. Come here, 434 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 1: get beachfront property. No one's gonna bother you. She's not 435 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,399 Speaker 1: gonna do anything about it. All right, more coming up 436 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 1: Johnny Ken Show, caf I Am six forty live everywhere 437 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,920 Speaker 1: in the iHeartRadio app. Well, like I told you, it's 438 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:14,359 Speaker 1: an immediate, blaring headline on the Times website, Karen Bass 439 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 1: moves ahead of Rick Caruso at LA mayor's race, and 440 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:20,440 Speaker 1: it's I mean, we don't know what's going to happen. 441 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 1: There's still a number of votes to be counted, but 442 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:26,439 Speaker 1: clearly the trend, like it was in June, was that 443 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:28,879 Speaker 1: the Carusoe leads on the day of the vote, and 444 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: then in the days and weeks it follows. Here comes 445 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:35,159 Speaker 1: all the beast. When Caruso was ahead, the headline was 446 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: a lot smaller. Oh it was. Oh yeah, Well maybe 447 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 1: because they knew it was temporary. There's a lot of 448 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 1: gut it's because what I said, they have to please 449 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,160 Speaker 1: their audience. Tell the audience what it wants to hear. 450 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,640 Speaker 1: You can make a lot of money doing that. Oh, 451 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,159 Speaker 1: it's kind of sad. Although they describe in the article 452 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:57,439 Speaker 1: as apparently he's been very public since Tuesday, like a 453 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 1: mayor in waiting. He had a Pastrami Sam Langer is 454 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Today he dropped in on a Veterans Day parade, 455 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,439 Speaker 1: greeting the crowd with this golden retriever Hudson and sharing 456 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: a brief greeting with Mayor Eric Garcetti, who was riding 457 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 1: in the parade and as the office. That's what Garcetti 458 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 1: was in a parade. I can't tell you how many 459 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 1: people ask where Garceta? Where is Garcetti? I don't think 460 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,639 Speaker 1: he does much of a find. It's funny that he's disappeared. 461 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,479 Speaker 1: He checked out a long time. Yeah, but what does 462 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 1: he do with his days? He rides in a parade? 463 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 1: Today he did ride in a Veterans Day parade. Yes, yeah, 464 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: he has one month left in office. By the way, 465 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: you would ask that question that Natzie under bonin two. 466 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,120 Speaker 1: So it's like, I think it's December twelfth. Something I want. 467 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: We got to get champagne for the day Bonnen's done. 468 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 1: I am having a drink on the air, especially if 469 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 1: Tracy park ats that seat too. Yeah, that's gonna be 470 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: kind of the key to the ref wins having two. Yeah, man, 471 00:26:54,960 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: I have never despised a politician as much as Mike Bonnett. Oh, yeah, 472 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 1: as much as I well, ah, he's the worst, absolutely 473 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 1: the worst. We got the moistline. Next hour, the callers, 474 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 1: we've got the last key word of the week, and 475 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:12,720 Speaker 1: we do have a hack for the dumpster. So it's 476 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: a busy five o'clock hour. But now we move over 477 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: to the Animal Lady. The Animal Lady, Well, this story 478 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:25,400 Speaker 1: really I can't explain. It shocked me. If it's true 479 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 1: animal advocates, well, that would be you, I guess kind 480 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 1: of right, Yeah, you're not an official animal advocate, but 481 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 1: on our show you are. Yes, every quarter hour there's 482 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 1: an animal story in her news updates. But anyway, Los 483 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 1: Angeles has about four million people. According to the Animal Advocates, 484 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 1: we may have as many as three million feral cats 485 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:50,440 Speaker 1: rolling the city on any given day. Three million. Wow, 486 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 1: Now it's a wide estimate. They could think it could 487 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 1: be low as a million, up to three million. What 488 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: kind of an estimate is that, Well, one to three million, 489 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: it could be a million, it could be three times that. 490 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,159 Speaker 1: Even if it's a million, that just seems like a 491 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,200 Speaker 1: lot to me. I know, La is a pretty big star. Still, 492 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 1: they're nocturnal, so the story is that probably during the day, 493 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 1: they're just hiding somewhere you don't see them. They come 494 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,920 Speaker 1: out at night when you're not around and roam the 495 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: alleyways and sometimes I'm at at night that this is 496 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 1: what I wanted to explain to the animal lady, which 497 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: is the point I always make. An Animals are not people, 498 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: so left to their own devices, they'll just reproduce, which 499 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:32,360 Speaker 1: is what's going on with the ferrel cats. According to 500 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 1: one of the advocates, we trap the cats and humane 501 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: box traps. We bring them into a spay neuter clinic. 502 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 1: Cut like we cut their penises off. Yeah, well that's 503 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: a good that's that's yeah, that's fine, like fixed nation 504 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: and that John. I believe it's the testicles that go, oh, 505 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 1: the stuff is produced. I hadn't been spayed yet, I 506 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 1: don't know clearly. And if they're ferrel, they get returned, 507 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 1: so they continue living out their lives without reproducing. If 508 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 1: they're friendly or if their kittens, we try to find 509 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 1: homes for them. This program must be a massive failure though, 510 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,520 Speaker 1: because correct if we have millions of kittens, then what 511 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: exactly what good are they doing? Maybe we've had billions 512 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 1: of kittens. I don't know, look at look at this math. Here. 513 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 1: Cats can have three or four litters a year. Each 514 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 1: litter can be four to eight kittens. In seven years, 515 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:32,719 Speaker 1: one female cat and her offspring can produce three hundred 516 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: and seventy thousand kittens. That's more than you, Deborah. I know, well, 517 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 1: people need to take care of business and get their 518 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 1: cats or their kittens fixed. But these these are feral. 519 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 1: No I understand, but they but they came from someone. 520 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 1: They may have someone may have just said one day, 521 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 1: here you go, cat, goodbye, and they wandered out into 522 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: the woods or in the our way, and they met 523 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 1: up with another feral cat of the opposite gender, and boom, 524 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: big kittens galore. Maybe the three million is right, because 525 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 1: in seven years one female cat can lead to three 526 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy thousand kittens. Then that's an incredible nobody's 527 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 1: done that, No cat's done that happened. Oh my god. 528 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,960 Speaker 1: I don't see any any of those cats in my neighborhood, 529 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 1: but we also have a lot of ever seen it. 530 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: So seven years is basically their cycle for having I 531 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 1: mean being do they get menopause or well, there's a 532 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: question I never heard, asked your cats get menopause. Well, 533 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,960 Speaker 1: clearly they have a shorter lifespan than we do. But 534 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: if I did the cat year thing, I don't know. Well, 535 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 1: it's it's yeah, it's the cat in the offspring in 536 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,800 Speaker 1: seven years. So I don't know how they're calculating cats live. 537 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,800 Speaker 1: My first cat that we had lived almost nineteen years. 538 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, Oh, Mercedes, Mercedes nineteen years, nineteen years. 539 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: Mercedes was a good cat. Yeah, we kind of account 540 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 1: Mercedes nice. Oh good, Unlike she'd come running down the 541 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: stairs when they came in the house. She was leading me. 542 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 1: She was a good pet. Good day. Although John thinks 543 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: he didn't like John that much. No, she she liked 544 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: can better than you. Yeah, I don't know what it was. 545 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: And whenever I came in down the house, that cat 546 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: just came right down the stairs and said hello. The 547 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,800 Speaker 1: new cat likes me more. Oh yeah, I don't know 548 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 1: the new cat as well. The new cat looks like 549 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 1: the old cat. They're claiming that the city doesn't help. 550 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 1: In two thousand and nine, a lawsuit was filed against 551 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:28,200 Speaker 1: the City of La that said the City of La 552 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 1: was participating in trapped neuter return without doing an environmental 553 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,280 Speaker 1: impact report. What does that mean? The city lost the 554 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 1: lawsuit and the judge issue an injunction saying all spay 555 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,960 Speaker 1: and neuter of community cats had to stop. Oh I see, 556 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,800 Speaker 1: So the city's not doing it. Organizations like Straight Cat 557 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 1: Alliance and others are out there. Why humanly trapping the 558 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 1: cats and spaying and neutering. Why was there a court 559 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,280 Speaker 1: case to get the city to stop? I don't know. 560 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: And it was by burden water wildlife gups? Oh be 561 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 1: because they didn't do an environmental impact report? Is that 562 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: because the cats eat the birds? That was always a 563 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 1: complaint that people had against catl You know what, I 564 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 1: destroyed the bird pop. If there's three million, there is 565 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 1: no program that's gonna work anyway. It's it's like the 566 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 1: homeless situation. It's out of control. Yeah, you got a 567 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,240 Speaker 1: number big enough. You can't ever you can't ever go back. 568 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: We look at that. There was an award winning new 569 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 1: documentary out there, Deborah called Crazy Cat Lady, about Ellie's 570 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:31,080 Speaker 1: feral cat problem. Yeah. Yeah. Producer Garrett Clancy said other 571 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:35,320 Speaker 1: cities with government support have successfully reduced their community cat population. 572 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 1: New York had a half a million estimated feral cats. 573 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,200 Speaker 1: Chicago less than that, and in places like San Diego 574 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 1: Portland have hardly any at all. Well, yeah, so we're yeah, Lis, 575 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 1: San Francisco, Seattle, in Portland. It's because those cities are disgusting. 576 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 1: The cats go want to live there. Again, I hear 577 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:55,240 Speaker 1: so many people somebody on this show it just doesn't 578 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 1: want to fix their pets. And I just don't understand it. Oh, 579 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,880 Speaker 1: Ray Lopez, Oh, Ray, Remember that debate a few months 580 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,960 Speaker 1: ago that Ray wants to did he get a dog? No? 581 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,520 Speaker 1: I don't know he did not, Okay, but that was 582 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:12,120 Speaker 1: the argument. Yes, it didn't want it. I forgot about 583 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:16,520 Speaker 1: the the neuter lectures that you gave Ray. Okay, but 584 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 1: here you go. This is a prime example. I mean 585 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,600 Speaker 1: we're talking cats here. Ray needed to be spaide too. 586 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,959 Speaker 1: He didn't get that done. I know. Yeah, it's too 587 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:28,479 Speaker 1: late for that. All right. We got more coming up, 588 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 1: including the last keyword of the week, the moist Line, 589 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,680 Speaker 1: two rounds of those people hack for the Dumpster, Johnny 590 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 1: ken kf I AM six forty Live Everywhere on the 591 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 1: iHeart Radio app, and Deborah Mark Live in the twenty 592 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 1: four hour Calfe Newsroom