1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,639 Speaker 1: We got it going on here. In fifteen minutes, another 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:05,559 Speaker 1: keyword comes out for your chance at a thousand dollars 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 1: and John, today's the day we're giving away a four 4 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: packet tickets to Disneyland today today. Yes, very excited. You 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 1: didn't get the memo. I know I heard about this, Okay, 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: somebody passed her in the hallway and told you or no, no, 7 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 1: there was I don't know. Somebody told me. So we'll 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: let you know. It'll be obviously before we go off 9 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: the air at six o'clock, so stay tuned for that. 10 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 1: In one hour. Our guest is going to be the 11 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: La County Sheriff, unfortunately, the outgoing La County Sheriff Alex 12 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,200 Speaker 1: VI and a WAVA. We'll talk more about what happened 13 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:45,560 Speaker 1: yesterday and South Whittier when a man plowed his suv 14 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 1: into a group of cadets who are out on a 15 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 1: morning run, and we'll get to all the details about 16 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: their present conditions from the sheriff and the story. Of course, 17 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: today they charged that guy with a well attempt murder 18 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: of a peace officer because these are recruits, and we'll 19 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: find out more about that aspect of it. We'll talk 20 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: to sheriff in Aueva in about an hour here on 21 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,119 Speaker 1: the Johnny Ken Show. And they don't really have an 22 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 1: exact story. Nobody does yet is to whether or not 23 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: he was asleep, distracted high We don't know, or he 24 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 1: did this on purpose because he doesn't like police recruits don't. 25 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: We don't have any of those things, So we'll talk 26 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: to the sheriff. In one hour. Today, Karen Bass appeared 27 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 1: in public thanked her whooping happy supporters now that she 28 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 1: is going to be the next mayor of Los Angeles. 29 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: She had been a congresswoman representing California's thirty seventh congressional district, 30 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: and yes, she'll become the first woman to be elected 31 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: mayor of Los Angeles, the second black person to hold 32 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: that position. It's the lead of every story. We pulled 33 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: out one clip because what she spent some of her 34 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: time talking about. She was going to tackle the problem 35 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: of homelessness and crime. This clip I heard. It's the 36 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: only part of her speech I heard, and I knew 37 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: right away that we're in trouble here is about forty seconds. 38 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: It is going to be critically important that we understand 39 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: that the only way we're going to address A problem 40 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: of this magnitude is that the whole city has to 41 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 1: say what is my part and what is my role? 42 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 1: Because you know what, You're not going to be able 43 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: to house forty thousand people in only the low income 44 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,799 Speaker 1: areas of the city. That is just not the case. 45 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,359 Speaker 1: And I want to involve the faith community. We already 46 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 1: have community based organizations that know how to get people 47 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: house and I know there's several of them that are 48 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: here today. They've been doing it all along. The problem 49 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: is is that they have never been given the opportunity 50 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: and the resources to do it to the scale that 51 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:56,639 Speaker 1: is needed by It's a lot wrong there. Huh oh, 52 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: here's the problem. It's already tough to find a place 53 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:00,799 Speaker 1: to live even if you're not homeless in the city 54 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: of la Now you're talking about how it has to 55 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,359 Speaker 1: be spread out through all the neighborhoods. Here come the nimbies. 56 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: I mean, how fast are people on John's West Side 57 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: gonna get worked up there when they want to put 58 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: up a large homeless apartment building in some neighborhood, which 59 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: means nothing will get done. Nobody wants to homeless in 60 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,679 Speaker 1: their neighborhood, and no neighborhood is required to house them. 61 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,639 Speaker 1: The whole city is not required to house the homeless. 62 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 1: We are not going to work together and come together. 63 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: Nobody's interested in any well. Remember Garcetti tried this. Remember 64 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: with his bridge home. Garcetti there was gonna be one, 65 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: at least one big encampment in every council district. Remember 66 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: that plan. Yeah, oh man, I was immediately fat We 67 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: remember the people in Koreatown when crazy, We're not putting 68 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: up a homeless encampment here. It was a disaster. It 69 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: was absolutely a disaster, and it didn't work where they 70 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: did put up these these bridge homes completely destroyed a 71 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: neighborhood in Venice. These are all wacky left wing progressive ideas. 72 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: It's no wonder she was upset when cash stro died. 73 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:04,119 Speaker 1: The whole community has to come together and give housing. 74 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:09,119 Speaker 1: These people are coming in on buses from all over 75 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: the country. They come here, and now I'm obligated to 76 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: set up a house for them in my neighborhood. I mean, 77 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,239 Speaker 1: I don't know what she's smoking. She must have had, 78 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 1: you know, a nice victory joints or something. I mean, 79 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 1: that is that is so the thing is, that's I 80 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 1: was watching last time. I was watching on Channel eleven, 81 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:33,119 Speaker 1: and they showed a black woman who's happy that Karen 82 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: Bass got elected and she voted her for her because 83 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: of her race, and they had her daughter there and 84 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 1: the daughter was happy, and I'm thinking, great, you voted 85 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: for somebody on the basis of their skin color. I 86 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: voted for somebody who had experience in building things, in 87 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 1: organizing and having executive talents. Rick Caruso, who actually is 88 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: accomplished a lot that visibly that you could see. He's 89 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 1: a builder. He's a builder, he's an organizer, he's a leader. 90 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: He can he can run large agencies because he has 91 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: for decades. And now we've got somebody who wants us 92 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: all to get together and talk and we're all gonna 93 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 1: help build. We're not going to build housing for forty 94 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,479 Speaker 1: thousand people. It's never going to happen. They're just going 95 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: to waste more money and give more blank checks to 96 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 1: developers who contribute to the political campaigns. Here, that's all 97 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: everything is upside down. I mean, we've talked about this 98 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,479 Speaker 1: for length over the years. The way it works is 99 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: you go out there, you get yourself a job, you 100 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: save up maybe you find a rental, and eventually you 101 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 1: find a home. Maybe it's not in the dream neighborhood 102 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: you wanted. You find what you can afford. Look at 103 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: all the people that had to move all the way 104 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: to the Inland Empire, now commuting that horrible ninety one 105 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: to get the Orange County or La County or whatever 106 00:05:57,800 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: to get the work every day. But they wanted that 107 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: home like that's how it works, and it's worked that 108 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: way for decades. Everything got torn apart in the last 109 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: ten years thanks to things like Proposition forty seven and 110 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: these dope politicians like Mike Bonnen and Garcity that run 111 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 1: the show where suddenly somebody who gets addicted and then 112 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 1: plops down in venice is now going to get an apartment. 113 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: That's absolute lunacy. And we don't have enough money, we 114 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: don't have enough places to do this. It can't happen. 115 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: You've voted for Karen Bass, You've voted for failure. Congratulations, 116 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:32,599 Speaker 1: she failed in her first speech. I don't care how 117 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: many headlines that all the newspapers or how many graphics 118 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: on the TV shows that she's the first this or 119 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: first that it's only two jobs here in the city. 120 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: You get the homelessness off the streets, the homeless off 121 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: the street, and to get the criminals off the street. 122 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: And she's already made it clear as far as homeless 123 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: is concerned, she's not gonna do anything different than the 124 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 1: last failure we had, Eric Garcetti. We might as well 125 00:06:55,640 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 1: have kept him. Yeah, I'm a big believer in psychos. 126 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: We can see it in the world of economics and business. 127 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: They're always economic cycles crime. Right, hasn't that been clear? 128 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: We go back to three strikes where we had to 129 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: do something undo the horrible nineties. Three strikes didn't did 130 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: a great job for more than ten years. Now we're 131 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: cycling back to more crime. But the problem I haven't 132 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: I thinking about this this morning is I don't know 133 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 1: if we can cycle out of this homeless situation. I can't. 134 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: I don't see it yet. Do I see it getting 135 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: ten times worse? Not necessarily, but it's already very bad. Well, 136 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 1: it's going to keep getting because it's going to require 137 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: something different unless you know what happened with crime and 138 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 1: the autonomy as they cycle their way out with these 139 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: different kinds of methods. She's not interested in it. She's 140 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 1: a socialist by nature, she's a fana fitel castro. That's 141 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: not hype, that's real. That's what kept her from then 142 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: what can she do as a mayor to carry out 143 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: that kind of what eminent domain confiscate properties? Remember wacky 144 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: Mike Bonnen's idea that luxury hotels in downtown LA had 145 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: to give up rooms to homes. And she's got more 146 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: votes on the city council to head in that direction. 147 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: She's got three Democratic Socialist of American candidates. Oh, one 148 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,239 Speaker 1: of them is talking big that we're now an important 149 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: caucus and we're going to make a difference. So so 150 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: so go read up on what they do in places 151 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: like Cuba, Venezuela, the old Soviet Union. Go read up 152 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: on those policies and what rights property owners had and 153 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: what what the state decided to do with private property. 154 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 1: That's where she comes from. But she packages it in 155 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: a you know, a happy voice and a bright smile 156 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 1: and and and she's a first and she's a first, 157 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,199 Speaker 1: and she's a first. But this is this is terrible. 158 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:45,439 Speaker 1: But we you know, we told you this for for 159 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: months and months and months. But if people are voting 160 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 1: based on I don't know, gender and color and not 161 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 1: what needs to be done. This is what you cycle 162 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: out of that too, all the fact it's it's so 163 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: and it's wrong. That's not how you pick candidates. You 164 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: don't pick candidates based on color. You don't pick candidates 165 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: based on gender. You pick candidates based on whether they're 166 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 1: going to solve the problems. And she's sixty nine years 167 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: old and she's not solved any problems. She's been a legislator. 168 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 1: She's been just sitting at a long table and everybody 169 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: talking yakking all day. That's a healthcare worker who became 170 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: an activist offits and then she got into politics basically 171 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 1: hers thirty years is, you know, a state state legislator 172 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 1: most of her life. By the way, you know who's 173 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: replacing her um and in Congress her seat the last 174 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: woman we talked about it. Yeah, I heard her congratulate 175 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: Sidney cam Lagger. Yeah right, who. I didn't know what 176 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 1: that was. Now I do know who wants to pay 177 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: prisoners fifteen fifty an hour, Okay, the Democratic States senator 178 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 1: from LA who's taken pass the seat in Congress. I mean, honestly, 179 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: a few years ago, did you ever hear any ideas 180 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: like this? And now they're coming out by the dozens. 181 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: All right, next up your chance and some money. Stay 182 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 1: tuned for another keyword, a thousand dollars an inflation bonus cash. 183 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 1: After that, we'll talk about the outgoing mayor. Yeah, Garcetti, 184 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:13,679 Speaker 1: Is it finally his time to be confirmed as an 185 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:17,439 Speaker 1: ambassador to India? Johnny ken caf I Am six forty 186 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: live everywhere the iHeartRadio app All right, Well, now that 187 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: we talked about the incoming mayor of Los Angeles, what 188 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: about the atrocious outgoing mayor Eric Yoga Pants Garcetti. Oh 189 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,319 Speaker 1: my god, twenty thirteen is the ear he got elected. 190 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 1: Nine years of this complete failure. It has been sixteen 191 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 1: months since Joe Biden nominated Garcetti as his ambassador to India. 192 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: Sixteen months and of course the first thing that happened 193 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: sometime later was he got approved by a committee of 194 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,679 Speaker 1: the United States Senate. What was supposed to happen next 195 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 1: was his nomination would go to vote to the entire 196 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 1: US Senate floor. Well, that didn't happen because the story 197 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: that involved his former top aid Rick Jacobs blew up 198 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: in Garcetti's face as people came forward, including very big insiders, 199 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 1: in the Garcetti administration to say, look, this guy knew 200 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: what Jacobs was doing sexually harassing just about everybody around him. 201 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: He saw it, he knew about it, and all he 202 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 1: has done is deny both. Garcetti's story from the beginning 203 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 1: is he never heard about this, He never saw any 204 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: of this, which is completely unbelievable considering the number of 205 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,959 Speaker 1: people in the inner circle of the Mayor's office who 206 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 1: did witness this or was subject to this. It's hard, 207 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: it's just unbelievable. He there's no credibility at all. But 208 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: this guy is a chronic liar, and we know that 209 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 1: there's something about him that I think is going to 210 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: crumble some day because he carries this phony air. Most 211 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 1: politicians do, but there's something about him which I think 212 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: is in the extreme when he holds these news conferences 213 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: and he's got that very sincere voice. But we've heard 214 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: worries he's got quite a temperate behind the scenes. We're 215 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: wondering when that's going to go public. Oh yeah, Well, 216 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 1: he's he's a phony right to his bone barrow, and 217 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: he's holding in a lot of darkness because anybody with 218 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 1: that controlled, hyper controlled demeanor and dress and the way 219 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 1: he projects himself and the careful language that he uses, 220 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 1: that's that's not a way a normal person acts. That's 221 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: not the way they talk. He's holding it a volcano. 222 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: So a couple of Republicans in the Senate said, well, 223 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 1: maybe we need to time out and take her close 224 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 1: and look at this and do our own investigation. And 225 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 1: that's what happened last year, and then we got involved 226 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 1: in people running for office and the Senate wasn't doing anything. 227 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,959 Speaker 1: So this nomination is sitting there on hold. There has 228 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: been some speculation now that the election is over and 229 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: the Democrats will maintain control of the United States Senate. 230 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 1: We have to wait for sure with the number is 231 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 1: with this December special election in Georgia, but it will 232 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 1: either be fifty one forty nine or fifty fifty, so 233 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 1: they will have control either way. Is it time for 234 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 1: them to vote on the ambassador to India. There is 235 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 1: one Indian American congressman he's actually from California, Rocana, who 236 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,319 Speaker 1: says that we need somebody in that position. It's been 237 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 1: too long. It's been like two years since somebody's been 238 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: in that post because it hasn't been filled since Trumpet 239 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 1: left office. No, how came Biden wants Garcetti in that 240 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:36,559 Speaker 1: post so bad that he's willing to be for two years, 241 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 1: especially when India is busy subverting all our sanctions that 242 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: we put on Russia. In a end, they are, of 243 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 1: course not. They're a big player in the climate change 244 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 1: problem if you believe in that. So no, they they're 245 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: putting out tons and tons of tons of carbon of 246 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: carbon from all their coal plants. They got more coal 247 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:01,439 Speaker 1: plants they're firing up than almost anybody they in China, 248 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 1: and and and they're buying tons of oil from Russia, 249 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 1: the oil that we won't buy. Russia is selling it 250 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:14,319 Speaker 1: to India cheaper, so India is actually financing Russia's war 251 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 1: against Ukraine. And so this has all gone on in 252 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 1: the two years, and there's been no ambassador, and then 253 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: no In fact, this has never happened before in the 254 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: history of US India diplomatic ties. The ambassador position has 255 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 1: never been vacant this long. Right, So I guess in 256 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: Biden's mind, there's no difference between an empty chair in 257 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 1: Garcetti seems to be the case. Same thing, So might 258 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 1: as will leave it empty. We were only gonna put 259 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: Garcetti in there. Now, remember they vote along party lines, 260 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 1: there's no votes to spare. They have to have if 261 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: it is fifty fifty, you have to have every Democrat 262 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:55,280 Speaker 1: vote vote for Garcetti, and then the tiebreaker would be 263 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. So they that that's kind of why they 264 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 1: put this off and didn't actually call a vote. Chuck 265 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: Schumer was asked several times and just basically deferred that 266 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: now is not the time. So the only stories we 267 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: can find recently is that the White House, and this 268 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 1: is the spokeshole, the Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre says that, oh, 269 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 1: we continue to seek the expeditious confirmation of Mayor Garcetti. 270 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: It's important to this president. It's a priority to this president. 271 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: Then the nomination was voted with strong bipartisan support out 272 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: of a committee. Yeah, now we just need the next step. 273 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: Well that's that's all the happy talk. But that's been 274 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: the story for a year and a half. But they 275 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 1: didn't withdraw it either, right, they didn't withdraw it. He 276 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 1: has not substituted anybody else in place of Garcetti. So 277 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: see this is that lame duck session that's coming up 278 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 1: before the Republicans take over in January. There's there's going 279 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: to be taking over the House. Yeah, oh that's right. 280 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: This is a Senate thing. Yeah only this only the Senate. 281 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 1: The House doesn't vote him, right, right, right, But I 282 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: mean they did see, but the lane duck session is 283 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: important because nobody wanted to vote for someone involved in 284 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: a sex scandal. Oh before the election. Many of them 285 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: are running for office. Yeah, now, there were thirty six 286 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 1: of them up for reelection in the last run a 287 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. Well, my phone, he get his chance. 288 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 1: Then in the next month or two here, well we're 289 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: constantly hearing that for an hour and a half, so 290 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: we'll see. I don't know if this was like a 291 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: planted story that Garcetti got a journalist friend to float. 292 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 1: Sometimes that happens. I mean, they were paying money to 293 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: these They have lobbyists working for them, right, Their parents 294 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: have been paying for lobbyists, right, So maybe they got 295 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: they got some journalists who was willing, you know, one 296 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: of the tongue bath journalists to float the idea that well, 297 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: maybe maybe the time is now, you know, during this 298 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 1: end of the year session. All right, we got more 299 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 1: coming up to Johnny Ken Cafe. I am six forty 300 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. You know we're going to 301 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: be giving away four packs of tickets to Disneyland and 302 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: Magic Is Holidays at the Disneyland Resort in k if. 303 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: I wants to send you to experience the festive joy 304 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 1: that you've been dreaming about. I dreamed of festive joy 305 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: last night. Yeah, she was wonderful. Ah, come on, Disney commercials. 306 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 1: Magic is Sleeping Beauty's Winter Castle covered in festive lights. 307 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 1: It's the Disney Festival Holidays and Disney Viva Avidad Street Party. 308 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,439 Speaker 1: Magic Is the Holidays DA through Jetruary eighth. 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Seraphia Nueva joins 316 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: us after four o'clock to talk about the tragedy and 317 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:00,199 Speaker 1: Whittier thankfully nobody has passed away, but there are some 318 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: serious injuries to the police catets who got run over 319 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: by this twenty two year old driver who got charged today. 320 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 1: We'll talk about it with the sheriff after four o'clock. 321 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 1: Well Yell Segundo Times decided to have a writer explore 322 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: questions people have about California's mail in ballot system. We 323 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,440 Speaker 1: adopted this during the pandemic because you know, it's too 324 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: dangerous to go to a vote center and vote in person. 325 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: So because we have these concerns and it worked so 326 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: well for us, that would be the Democrat Party. Everybody 327 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:34,119 Speaker 1: gets a mail in ballot now. You don't have to 328 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 1: sign up as an absentee voting enough to request one. 329 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 1: It comes to every household and the option is yours. 330 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 1: You know, I was tempted last Tuesday to try to 331 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:43,959 Speaker 1: go vote and vote in person after I mailed it in, 332 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: just to see what happens. I think they'd arrescue. I know, 333 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 1: I don't want to get haled away, just in case 334 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 1: the system did work and they caught me. Wait, you 335 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 1: already voted. Grab him. I'd run the scream, see if 336 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 1: you can catch me? Police chase? Would that be great, 337 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:00,720 Speaker 1: They're chasing after an illegal voter who tried to vote 338 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: twice live coverage. So what they did they went to 339 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: Orange County to the Orange County register our voters. His 340 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: name is Bob Page, and they wanted, I guess the 341 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 1: readers to get an idea. This is so antiquated, it's hysterical. 342 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: You wouldn't have reminded me of Florida with the chads. 343 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,200 Speaker 1: Remember Florida with the hanging chads and the Gore Bush 344 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: election in two thousand. Yes, I mean, but that was 345 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: still those things that are fed into a machine, those 346 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: are people that voted in person, right, Those are the 347 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 1: punch cards. Those are the punch cards. This is actually 348 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,399 Speaker 1: worse because there's so much that goes into a human 349 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 1: filling out a paper form. So here's how it's explained. 350 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: Ballots are first organized by vote center or dropbox and 351 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 1: fed into a machine. The machine scans the ballot and 352 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 1: takes a picture of the outside of the envelope with 353 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: a voter signature. The image is transferred to a computer 354 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 1: and employees then can match that signature with the voters 355 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: used when they registered. So you actually have something come 356 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: up on a screen and front of you that has 357 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: that envelope that came in compared to what's on file, 358 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 1: so you don't have to sit there and search through 359 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: the records. Least, this part of it is a little 360 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 1: more tech like. It comes up on a screen. Voters 361 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: zoom in on the autographs to compare the curves and 362 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: the loops. The screens are viewable on large monitors. And 363 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 1: also in this story, there are observers who came and 364 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: you could imagine there are some people that are very 365 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 1: concerned about the legitimacy of the elections, so they request 366 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: an opportunity to go to the registrar voters and watch 367 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,639 Speaker 1: this process. One of them is Christian Manna, a political 368 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,679 Speaker 1: consultant who works on campaigns for Republican parties. She was 369 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:45,360 Speaker 1: taking notes to see how they evaluate signatures. Hey, here's 370 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 1: a road trip. Let's all go to the registrar's office 371 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:52,360 Speaker 1: and watch them count votes and compare signatures. I'll buy 372 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: the beer. Well, listen to this. If the signatures don't match, 373 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: the worker flags another employee to take a look. If 374 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,400 Speaker 1: it still doesn't pass, the ballet goes to a third 375 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,399 Speaker 1: person who makes the final decision about whether to accept it. 376 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 1: So it's a two out of three. There three people 377 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:09,880 Speaker 1: reviewing a signature, and as we recall in twenty twenty, 378 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,479 Speaker 1: they most of them go get through. It was like 379 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 1: a very high percentage. That may not have been case 380 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: with the recall, but it was the case with the election. Well, 381 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 1: when needed, when needed, and they have to block a recall. 382 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:26,400 Speaker 1: You're putting down into this Envelopes that passed the signature 383 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 1: test are fed into another machine and sliced open to 384 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,879 Speaker 1: remove the ballots. Now here's where it gets interesting, because 385 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:34,959 Speaker 1: one of the workers said, well, some of these ballots 386 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 1: come in, some are torn, some are burned, some have 387 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:42,400 Speaker 1: like coffee spilled on them. Some of them are burned, yes, 388 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: some people smoking. Oh an ash dropped on a dang 389 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:50,640 Speaker 1: it right there on the newsom's ballot. Jeez says here. 390 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,920 Speaker 1: Then you have people remember John asked me this last week. 391 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 1: You have to fill in the bubble. You do not 392 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,679 Speaker 1: put a check mark on the paper ballot at the 393 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 1: mail and ballot. You fill in the bubble. You're not 394 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: supposed to go straight outside the bubble. Well, you can 395 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 1: guess that some of the ballots to come in. It 396 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 1: looks like people check both yes and no. This was 397 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 1: prop thirty. I guess that would be the undecided vote. 398 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,679 Speaker 1: But to show their intended choice, the voters circled the 399 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: yes box, So I guess they understood me. Okay, that 400 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,159 Speaker 1: they had checked. Both are like, oh no, this is 401 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 1: the one. I mean. They write a little note in 402 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: the margin. They kept changing their mind. They got arrows, 403 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 1: they got drawn. The end of the day, the data 404 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 1: from the ballots are tapulated. If the ballots rejected, the 405 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:34,719 Speaker 1: regist reaches out to a voter by mail to give 406 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: him a chance to cure it by signing a document 407 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: stating it's legitimate certain information. I know. This is why 408 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:45,640 Speaker 1: this gets really boring and slow, And the bureaucrats must 409 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: love this, all the government workers because you can't be 410 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 1: penalized for going too slow. Right, It's like, oh, we 411 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: have it's democracy. We're protecting democracy. We don't want to 412 00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:00,639 Speaker 1: disenfranchise everyone. That's right. Or even if you're a slab 413 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: or you started bubbling checking of the filling in bubbles 414 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 1: on yesterday, we still want to give you a chance 415 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,639 Speaker 1: to have your vote count. I like this. One of 416 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 1: the observers was a man who would not give his name, 417 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,159 Speaker 1: but he had a cap that read make crime illegal again. 418 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 1: What perspective you think he's coming from, the guy, the 419 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: guy who wants the laws enforce. He showed up because 420 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,639 Speaker 1: he's interested in the integrative elections. I just feel better 421 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,160 Speaker 1: if I get to see it for myself. So apparently 422 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: he went to the Range county registrates to watch them 423 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,359 Speaker 1: go through, go through the county. Did you one of 424 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 1: these stories? They said? In polling, they found that three 425 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 1: quarters the Republicans don't trust what's going on and half 426 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:44,639 Speaker 1: the Democrats don't. Oh so this is pretty widespread people 427 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: not having faith. Well, that'll be the end of everything. 428 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,120 Speaker 1: If that's true. If most of the country gives up 429 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:53,399 Speaker 1: on the legitimacy of the elections, then there's really no 430 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 1: point anymore. And that's why you can't take you weeks 431 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: and weeks for this. And they try to flip around 432 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 1: the argu been saying, oh, you should be happy it's 433 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: taking long. That proves that we're going we're doing a 434 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 1: very meticulous inteligence. Yes, well, first of all, even they 435 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: can't do a meticulous job when you have millions of 436 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: ballots coming in even three or four weeks, is it 437 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 1: enough time to handle millions of ballots it's just that 438 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: you have a cumbersome system because they haven't spent the 439 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 1: money and bought the equipment and hired the personnel to 440 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,679 Speaker 1: do this efficiently. For most people, the longer it takes, 441 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 1: the more doubts creep in. How many knights are the 442 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: ballot's going to sit there? How many nights is nothing 443 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: being done? You don't have to take this long. Well, 444 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 1: all right, we got more coming up, John and Ken 445 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,640 Speaker 1: kf I am six forty live everywhere the iHeart Radio 446 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 1: app Well, for the second time this week, we'll be 447 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,160 Speaker 1: talking to the Elli County Sure if Alex vigt awaive. 448 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:02,040 Speaker 1: Of course he did not win his reelection attempt, but 449 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,440 Speaker 1: he'll be on to talk about the situation in Whittier 450 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 1: that unfolded early yesterday morning with seventy five police recruits 451 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: out on a run and about twenty five of them 452 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 1: got hit by a crazed driver who drove right through 453 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 1: the middle of their formation. Several are still in pretty 454 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: tough condition. Will get the update, and that man was 455 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:26,159 Speaker 1: today formally charged in that attack on those police recruits. 456 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,640 Speaker 1: To get into all of this, after the news at 457 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 1: four o'clock, there are you talk about perspective and out 458 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: of proportion. And this next story involves one of John's 459 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:44,639 Speaker 1: favorite words, baristas. John loves that word. People that sling coffee. 460 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 1: That's exactly right, coffee slingers. Thousand corporate Starbucks stores in 461 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: the United States. Corporate, they're owned by the corporation. They 462 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 1: franchise out. I think another seven thousand. It's like over 463 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 1: fifteen thousand Starbucks in the US. That's a star Buck 464 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 1: census for you. Is that enough? There was a strike 465 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,399 Speaker 1: today at like a hundred of them. They've got a 466 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 1: lot of attention though from the media. That's not really 467 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:13,119 Speaker 1: a very large percentage of Starbucks affected by this work action, 468 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,679 Speaker 1: I know. But you know what it's it's it's union 469 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: people going after a corporation. That's of course all the 470 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: leftist journalists, they eat this up. This this this really 471 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:27,640 Speaker 1: tightens their pants. Uh tightens their pants. Michelle eisen As 472 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: a worker who helped organize the first of more than 473 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty locations that have unionized over the 474 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 1: past year, and she said in a statement, Starbucks is 475 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,439 Speaker 1: left behind the very values that drew many of us 476 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,639 Speaker 1: to the company in the first place. You cannot be 477 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:53,880 Speaker 1: pro LGBTQ, pro BLM, pro sustainability and anti union. Now 478 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 1: on top of this, the groner is today is Red 479 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:01,679 Speaker 1: Cup Day. What's What's that? This is the day that 480 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,880 Speaker 1: they begin giving a reusable holiday cup. Is some big 481 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: customers who make certain purchases? Is this a big deal? 482 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:12,879 Speaker 1: It is coveted by Starbucks Starbucks fans all around the 483 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 1: Is that right? A reusable holiday theme cup? Do people 484 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: actually get excited over getting the sacred red cup from 485 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: star They line up early in the morning to get 486 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 1: the red That's what I've read. I don't know. I 487 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:32,880 Speaker 1: don't drink coffee. What a weird cult? Honestly, Oh look 488 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,160 Speaker 1: at that, I got a red cup. Remember they're calling 489 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 1: this the Red Cup rebellion the workers. That's why they 490 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 1: picked this day to try to embarrass the company. Wow, 491 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 1: angry baristas waving the red cups in the air. That's right, 492 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,719 Speaker 1: you get you know what? I would be so embarrassed 493 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,679 Speaker 1: to go out on a street and tell the whole world, Hey, 494 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: I pour coffee for a living and I'm not getting 495 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 1: paid enough and I'm willing to make a public scene 496 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 1: over it. I mean, I went, It's not that skilled 497 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,160 Speaker 1: a job, right, I went to school problem with people 498 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,160 Speaker 1: got that's why they unionize though I got my degree 499 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 1: in diversity studies and I'm not being paid enough for 500 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:23,439 Speaker 1: pouring coffee. The reason unskilled laborers unionize is because you 501 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 1: don't really have a leg to stand on by yourself. 502 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 1: You can be easily replaced. But if you're a big 503 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 1: mob and you're all gonna walk out, that I could 504 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 1: present the problem for an employer. So it gets their 505 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,359 Speaker 1: attention pretty complicated. You know, you got to you gotta 506 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 1: press the cup up against that little h little stick thing, 507 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 1: so puts in one of the ingredients, and then you 508 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 1: pour in and one of the hot liquids, and then 509 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,480 Speaker 1: you stir in something else and put the cap on, 510 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: and that you know, you did that for eight hours. 511 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 1: You want to blow your brains out. You can see 512 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 1: why they're upset. Now, there was a Buffalo, New York 513 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,479 Speaker 1: area store that won a union election in December. Dozens 514 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: of stores around the country or filing for union elections 515 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 1: over the next four months. But I don't know if 516 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 1: this is really taken off to the point where these 517 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 1: people thought it would be bigger. A matter of fact, 518 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: the pace of election filings has dropped precipitously over the 519 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 1: last several months. I mean, if there's one thing I 520 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: couldn't care less about, it's how much somebody makes for 521 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: pouring coffee. I don't an art. I don't go to 522 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 1: Starbucks unless someone in my family asks me to pick 523 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: them up something. So I know, yeah, you don't drink 524 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 1: I don't drink coffee, and there's nothing else in the 525 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 1: store that's of any use, So I can't I can't 526 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 1: get the passion up. The last time we talked about Starbucks, 527 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 1: remember they closed a couple of LA stores that they 528 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: were safety issues, and remember the workers were suspicious. They 529 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: didn't think that was the true story. They thought it 530 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 1: was all because all we're trying to unionize and they're 531 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 1: shutting us down. Yeah, it's like, oh, we don't want 532 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 1: you to be a union and just because you won't 533 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 1: stop with this, we're going to shut the store down 534 00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: and completely. We're gonna cut off our nose to spite 535 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,320 Speaker 1: our face, so coffee stirs. They get radicalized, huh. They 536 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 1: got their own set of conspiracy theories and everything. They 537 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 1: of course want higher wages, they want better Sickly, it's 538 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: the usual arguments They feel they're not getting that without 539 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 1: being a part of a union. So that's why they 540 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,959 Speaker 1: did this job action. Today. I don't know if it 541 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 1: was successful. If it was only a hundred stores out 542 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 1: of the thousands of them, I don't really see how 543 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: that could have much effect on customers. You know, this 544 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 1: is the age where everybody's got a virtue signal or 545 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 1: they don't feel alive, they don't feel relevant if they 546 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 1: don't have some bogus civil rights issue to wave a 547 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 1: sign over, And it's like why am I on the planet? 548 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 1: Why do I even breathe? So you know, I'm going 549 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 1: to be upset that I don't make enough money pouring coffee. 550 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 1: There you go, that's what I'm gonna be upset about. 551 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 1: Yeah wow, Yeah, here's a headline from CBS Chicago. Workers 552 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: at two Chicago Starbucks stores go on strike. That's it. 553 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: That may be the same reason why a union thing 554 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: faded out, because that's not what these people. And again, 555 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 1: this is a transitionary job you have for life. You 556 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 1: don't see too many people working there that are are 557 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 1: younger people. When I've looked in Starbucks, they are younger 558 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,080 Speaker 1: people because who wants to unlike other from fast food 559 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 1: places have people in their forties and fifties working there. Yeah, 560 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 1: but you want to do this. It's boring as hell. 561 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 1: You can't go anywhere. We could be a manager. Well yeah, 562 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 1: well there's one manage in the story. Yeah, I know, 563 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 1: there's one manager. There's twenty other people standing around. I mean, 564 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 1: all right, coming up, Dex, we'll be talking to Sheriff 565 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,120 Speaker 1: alex Via Nueva. We'll talk to him, of course, about 566 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: what happened yesterday morning in an area of Whittier or 567 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 1: a mandrove is suv into a crowd of police recruits 568 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 1: who are out of a morning jog. Many of them 569 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 1: were with the La County Sheriff's Departments. Johnny ken kf 570 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,080 Speaker 1: I am six forty live Everywhere on the IHEARTRADI A 571 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 1: Debra Mark lit in the Twenty four Hour Cafe newsroom