1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 1: We are continuing to follow the story regarding the deputy 2 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 1: from the Riverside County Sheriff's Department who was shot and 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: unfortunately killed this afternoon. We do not have specific word 4 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: on when there will be an update from the Riverside 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,639 Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Department, but we know that it's coming later 6 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: today and if and when there is a press or, 7 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: we will bring that to you live so you can 8 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: have that information right now. Andy Field, ABC News correspondent 9 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: does join me from Washington. But think of this for 10 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: a moment. Seven hundred and sixty one billion dollars of 11 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: merchandise was returned last year, but this year belts are 12 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,279 Speaker 1: tightening all across the country. Those returns could end up 13 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: costing you more. So you might have to say goodbye 14 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: to the days of free returns Andy, Am I reading 15 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: that correctly? In some cases that is correct. There are 16 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: some companies that are charging pretty hefty restocking fees. Some 17 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: are just saying, hey, got seven days and if you 18 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: don't return it in that time period, forget it. You're 19 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: stuck with it. This is all because, as you mentioned, 20 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: that's staggering more than seven hundred billion, with a b 21 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: dollar of merchandise return last year, and that's just crushing 22 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: retailers because in many cases they can't resell the stuff. 23 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: And if you return those ugly Christmas sweaters or the 24 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 1: winter codes or the skis, they have a hard time 25 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: selling those after Christmas, and they're just sitting around collecting 26 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: dusk for the next year. And of course the new 27 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: styles come out and they end up having to throw 28 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: them away or just rank them off. In some cases, 29 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: these retailers are saying, when you return them, just say, 30 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 1: you know what it's going to cost us more to 31 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: restock it. Here, here's your refund. Just keep it. I 32 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: can end up regifting it. I can honestly say I 33 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: am not contributing to this problem because I refuse to 34 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: return anything. It's almost like I'm my own company and 35 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: I just write it off as a loss. I try 36 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: to do my homework as far as what I purchase, 37 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: so I know if and when I get it it's 38 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: actually what I want. Now, this is assuming that it's 39 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 1: a product that is as advertised. If you send me 40 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 1: something different than what I asked for or what I 41 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: thought it was getting, then that's different. But I know 42 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: that it's usually a headache Amazon makes it relatively simple, 43 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: but for the most part it's a headache to either 44 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 1: go back to the store or put something back in 45 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: the mail. Now, how much would you say, from what 46 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: you know about this issue is from online retailers making 47 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: it so easy for people to return stuff. Well, there's 48 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: part of that that there is actually the case and 49 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: it's and it's making it harder for the bricks and 50 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: mortar stores, the traditional retailers, because they you come in 51 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: there and they make it harder for you to return it. 52 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: You just say him, buy things online, So it makes 53 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: it harder for them to stay in business. These are 54 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 1: all big problems. Forty one of the retailers now are 55 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: charging for return shipping. That's up from thirty three percent 56 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: last year. And do you know the busiest day for 57 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: returns of the year Do you have any idea not 58 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: the day after Christmas, day after New Years That is 59 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: right January second. They're in the title of National Returns 60 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: Day from UBS. Yeah, it's it's a giant problem here. 61 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: So just keeping the refund is one of the things. 62 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:26,679 Speaker 1: And part of the reason is by the time the 63 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: company spends the money to bring it back process it inspected, 64 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 1: put it back on the shelf shipping again. There's often 65 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 1: no profit left after they've spent all this money restocking 66 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: and everything here and by the way, retailers are making 67 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: a list and checking it twice, just like Santa, to 68 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: see how often your return stuff. The good customers often 69 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: get better return options, the ones who don't abuse the system. 70 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,119 Speaker 1: The folks who say, I'm going to buy seven pair 71 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: of shoes just to see which one fits me, and 72 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,119 Speaker 1: I returned six of them. If you had frequently, they're 73 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: going to look at you a bit of scans and saying, 74 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: you know what, maybe we're going to start charging this 75 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: person for doing this stuff. Okay, this is where I 76 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: think I can connect two stories which seemingly should obviously 77 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: be connected, but they haven't been connected. Am I wrong 78 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: to look at this and say this is kind of 79 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: connected or financially connected to the tremendous retail theft that 80 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 1: we've been seeing, at least in the brick and mortar stores, 81 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: where overall it's just costing more for these businesses to 82 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: do business. You know, I don't know. I don't know 83 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 1: that they are connected. Certainly, it's a giant problem for 84 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 1: the brick and mortar stores. To have the shoplifting problem. 85 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 1: You know, it's one of the reasons when you go 86 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:44,840 Speaker 1: into CVS and if you use a regular hand raiser, 87 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: you go to buy a new set of blades, it's 88 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 1: under lock and key. You need a break a truck 89 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 1: guard to come in and open up the razor blades 90 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: because those are easy to stick in your pocket and 91 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: walk out the door. In fact, I was a CBS 92 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 1: manager the other day who said, yeah, that's the most 93 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,280 Speaker 1: stolen thing we have in their razor blades because they 94 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: are so expensive. Andy, Andy, I got jumping there. I'm sorry. 95 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,160 Speaker 1: I don't know where you're from, but from where I live, 96 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,799 Speaker 1: the razor blades have always been under lock and key. 97 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 1: It's a new phenomenon for folks who don't live in 98 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: the hood, but for us who lived in the hood, 99 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: they have always under They must live in a lot 100 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 1: of hoods because every CDs I go into. Thank you, 101 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: that's all I'm saying. Go ahead. As you were saying, 102 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: I interrupted your thought. By the way, I heard your 103 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:32,920 Speaker 1: story just as we were coming on here. What is it? 104 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 1: Four thirty eight a gallon in California is the average 105 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: for gasoline, which I guess is down considerably. That's much 106 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,159 Speaker 1: better than it was three months ago. Well, you know, 107 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: California listeners are gonna get real jealous when I tell 108 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 1: you this. We just drove from New York back down 109 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: to Washington, d C. Through New Jersey. Three oh one 110 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,479 Speaker 1: a gallon for gasoline in New Jersey. Can you hear 111 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: my eye roll right now? Is it loud enough for 112 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: you to hear? You might need to get them shoved 113 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: back into your head. Well, I mean, part of it 114 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: is we have a gas tax out here that the 115 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 1: rest of the country does not have. I said part 116 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: of it, And part of it there is some price 117 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:11,720 Speaker 1: gauge which is going on out here that is not 118 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 1: happening around the country. But you know what New York 119 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: has that we don't have. What's snow, cold weather, all 120 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: the things I would rather pay more for gas. You're 121 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 1: rush fires, an earthquake, so there's a little bit of 122 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 1: a tradeoff. Oh wait, wait wait wait, wait, wait wait 123 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: wait wait wait. How many people have died in an 124 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: earthquake in the past thirty years in California? In fact, 125 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: that out Yes, that was the last time. That was 126 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: the last time. It was ninety four. Okay, now you 127 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 1: know and in no disrespect to those people who are 128 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: are dealing with the death and loss on the East 129 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: Coast right now. But I'm saying that's part of the 130 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 1: reason why we do live in California. The weather does matter. 131 00:06:57,600 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: And yes, we know that we are paying for it 132 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 1: to a degree, but that's something I'll gladly pay for. 133 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 1: You can't return it either, don't want to. It is 134 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: as advertised. It was eighty freaking degrees on Christmas Day. Yeah, 135 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: my daughter's dad in Bom springsfer she was in LA, 136 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: but she's that in Bom Springs. N You know, Andy, 137 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 1: we're just like completely off the topic right now. We're 138 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: just b s and yeah, why not. And I'm sure 139 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: your listeners are going, what are they talking about? We're 140 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: talking about returning packages. All I can say is I 141 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: don't return packages. This is not going to impact me. 142 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 1: I don't know if you do, but it is good 143 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: information to know that if you do it with any regularity, 144 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: it may cost you in the future. Is that to 145 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: take away? Yeah, they will, and you know, just kind 146 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: of be certain about what you want to do. And 147 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 1: of course there's the Evergreen gift card. Most people don't 148 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: return those. They usually end up using them and spending them. Amen, 149 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: That's what I do. Andy Field, ABC News correspondent, Thanks 150 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: so much for coming on today. Thank you. This is 151 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: the Johnny Show. I'm O'Kelly, caf I am six forty. 152 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio apps. O'Kelly and for 153 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: John and Ken and you probably have been listening to 154 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: the news. Mark Ronner touched upon it. Police are looking 155 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: for a group of men caught on video breaking into 156 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: a marijuana dispensary in la yesterday morning. Police said the 157 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: burglary took place around twelve to thirty in the morning. 158 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:26,239 Speaker 1: The suspects hopped over the fence from the alley behind 159 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: the shop and we're prepared with some sort of tool 160 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: they used to break into the rear door. Caf i's 161 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: own Blake Trulley is on it and he joins me 162 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 1: right now, Blake, good afternoon. What is the latest, sir? Yeah, Well, 163 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: at this point in time, owner Toby Reid says he 164 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 1: thinks at least one million dollars of product has been 165 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 1: stolen and Moe. When I asked him, I said, is 166 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 1: that one million dollars of market value or cost to you? 167 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: He explained to me that's cost to him one million 168 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: dollars worth of weed. As you say, they actually used 169 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: crowbars yesterday to try to break through that backdoor, and 170 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: as redescribes to me, these guys were knocking to back down, 171 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: and yeah, they just spent about eight minutes on the door. 172 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 1: Two guys with crowbars, just prying, crying open the door. 173 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: And it seemed like they were going to get in 174 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: or get busted. They didn't care. They weren't leaving until 175 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: they got in. That was obvious because the end the cameras, 176 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 1: they were getting spoken down too on speaker, and there 177 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: was sirens that had been activated and alarms exterior before 178 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: they even got in. They were being spoken to by 179 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:36,439 Speaker 1: the analytics company, cyber Optics, and they just continued. They 180 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: finally broke that door open. Reid says, once that thieves 181 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 1: got inside, they belined it for the room where he 182 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 1: keeps his big stash. And that's another sign and I 183 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: should put this out there. Reid's been pretty forthcoming with 184 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: me that he thinks this may have been an inside job, 185 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: may have been organized, and he says one of those 186 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: signs is just the way these guys operated once inside 187 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: his store. It seemed very organized, and it seemed like 188 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 1: they were being instructed, almost like in real time. It 189 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: looked like if you analyze the video, you can see 190 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:09,199 Speaker 1: at least one guy face timing with someone is kind 191 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: of directing them around because they're running around on the 192 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:14,840 Speaker 1: camera and trying to you know, they're passing up some 193 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 1: pretty valuable items, trying to make their way to around 194 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: something that seemed they were being told. So when he 195 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: says valuable items there, I had him elaborate on that. 196 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: What he's saying is weed. He's saying there were other 197 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 1: bags of weed that were still very valuable, but these 198 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,199 Speaker 1: guys were just passing right by those bags. Look and 199 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: he said, that makes him assume they were looking for 200 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 1: his inventory room. That's where he keeps his big stash. 201 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: That's where they'd be able to get in, grab a 202 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: bunch of weed, and get going. And that's what they did. 203 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: They got they finally made it into his inventory room. 204 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: They took a bunch of weed loaded up into bags. 205 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 1: One guy had a Duffel bag. They threw it into 206 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 1: the back of two different cars. He says, the trunks 207 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 1: of those cars they couldn't even close them. They had 208 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: so much weed in the back of these cars. They 209 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:02,560 Speaker 1: just took off with the trunks inside. Now, as for 210 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: his suspicions, he told me he did tell somebody he 211 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: thought he could trust about a big shipment coming down 212 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:11,679 Speaker 1: from northern California. He said he did that about ten 213 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:13,559 Speaker 1: days ago. This was a person again he thought he 214 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:17,679 Speaker 1: could trust someone, he says, would help out with the dispensary. 215 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see if this plays out 216 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: as an inside job. I called the LAPD. They say 217 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 1: so far no rest have been made made. But Mois 218 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 1: Reed explains to me he's already facing challenges. He hopes 219 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 1: insurance and you know, but between insurance and his suppliers, 220 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: he can he can come back from this. But he 221 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: told me he's already facing challenges as you know. And 222 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: we made a whole documentary about this weed in the 223 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 1: weed industry in California is not as lucrative as people 224 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 1: might think. He documented some of the issues he's going 225 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:54,679 Speaker 1: through right now. Oh. Absolutely, this is probably my most 226 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 1: challenging period in my career right now because of the 227 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 1: seemingly coordinated effort to crush m you know, guys like 228 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: guys like me, small family operated mom and pop businesses 229 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: in this industry are suffering because there's you know, multi 230 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: thousand acre grows, grows that are hundreds of acres, big 231 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:25,319 Speaker 1: big money um greenhouses, harvesting and putting the wheat, putting 232 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: the wheat out there for you know, Derek cheap. I'm 233 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: at the illegal, oh yeah, and and the legal and 234 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: the legal, the legal market, the legal licensed um grows 235 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: probably putting it out onto the black market too for 236 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:38,679 Speaker 1: all I know. There's just big, big grows out there. 237 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 1: I see weed on my coming in for um for 238 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: prices that are just hard to deal hard to deal 239 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: with you so there. Yeah, but he says, you know, 240 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 1: we can't compete with those with those bigger grow ops 241 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 1: that can supply it at a much lower price. And 242 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: when he you know, what he described to me is, yeah, 243 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: these big grows can pull this off for a much bigger, 244 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: much lower price than when he gets at Ford Mo. 245 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 1: You know, I made a documentary about this last year, 246 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: and when we spoke to weed shops here in LA, 247 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: the legitimate ones, they say they're already going through a 248 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: lot of issues. And one of the big issues is 249 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 1: that a lot of the dispensaries in La aren't even legal, 250 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: they're not licensed, and they're not under any of the regulations, 251 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,719 Speaker 1: so they're able to sell it at a lower price. 252 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 1: And when I talk to Read about that, he says, 253 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 1: there's one close by that he's you know, working to 254 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: compete with. So real tough situation for this guy. Blake, 255 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:32,960 Speaker 1: in your discussions with Read, did he mention, because I'm 256 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:37,439 Speaker 1: reading publish reports where this specific dispensary had been robbed 257 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 1: in recent years a number of times, did he make 258 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:44,199 Speaker 1: any mention of that or make any connection to those robberies. 259 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,079 Speaker 1: He didn't make any connection to those robberies. Again, he 260 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: seemed pretty convinced that this is an inside job. And yeah, 261 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: as you say, this dispensary has been targeted, and he 262 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 1: explained to me that comes with the territory. That said, 263 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: he hasn't been hit at this level before. And when 264 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 1: you walk into a store, it's very obvious that they've 265 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: dealt with this. Right you go to a store, there's 266 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 1: actually a security guard before you even get into the 267 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: shop itself. You know, this can speak to how big 268 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 1: of an issue it's been in the past with these 269 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: with these recent burglaries. When you go into his store, 270 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: there's actually a security guard behind glass. People show their 271 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 1: ID to that security guard, then she buzzes them. It's 272 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 1: almost like a security vault. She buzzes them through a 273 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: gate and then once you're through the gate, then it 274 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: looks like a standard dispensary. And I asked the security 275 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 1: guard about it, and she laughs, she said, yeah, that's 276 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: this is totally an issue here, and that's why we're 277 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: set up this way. I'm just gonna ask this, and 278 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: maybe this wasn't divulged to you. We have seen video 279 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: of the break him, but I'm inclined to believe that 280 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: there's other video available, either from inside the dispensary or 281 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 1: from the surrounding buildings. Did Red give you any of 282 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: the indication that there was other evidence of a video 283 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 1: kind that was available to them. No, the fact that 284 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: he made it sound like he released what he had, 285 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: so I think, you know, as far as what he has, 286 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: I think he did release that, you know, release it 287 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: to the media and released it to the police. But again, 288 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: you know, I think that the one thing to watch 289 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: with this one is that this you know, and it 290 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: wasn't just him. Some of his other employees told me 291 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: as well. They're suspecting this was an inside job, and 292 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: some of them are actually actually joked with me that 293 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: it's almost like a game of clue now trying to 294 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: figure out who who maybe started this. But the you know, 295 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 1: he describes the way that they were navigating through his 296 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: floor plan based on this video, tells him they knew 297 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 1: exactly what they were doing. Well. To me, there are 298 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: a finite number of individuals who would have any history 299 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 1: with the dispensary, who would know the layout in the 300 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: floor plan, and it would just seem like a matter 301 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: of time before they would be able to drill down 302 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: on the individual or individuals who would be responsible for this. 303 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: But we'll have to wait and find out. Blake Trolley, 304 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: great job, Thank you for doing that, and we'll be 305 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: continuing to watch the story. All right, Thanks Moe. This 306 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 1: is the Johnny Kens Show. I'm Kelly and for John 307 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: and Ken CAF I am six forty. We're live everywhere 308 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. Over the course of my professional career, 309 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 1: I've worked on some political campaigns. Originally I flirted with 310 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: the idea of running for political office. Not a year 311 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: goes by in which someone doesn't ask me, hey, have 312 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: you ever considered not from a party. I'm just saying 313 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: in a general sense. I've had Republican operatives and Democratic 314 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 1: operatives have asked me if I want to work on 315 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: this or that or the other with them. I've always 316 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: been on the periphery. I've always been on just the 317 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: outside of politics in an advocacy way. But I never 318 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: really seriously consider running for office. Why And there's a 319 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 1: point to this, Why Because I think it's one of 320 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 1: the most selfish things that you can do. I honestly 321 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: believe you have to have an unchecked ego to run 322 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: for all office in many respects, especially to run for 323 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,400 Speaker 1: president if you think that that's your ultimate goal, even 324 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 1: though you may start off running for county supervisor, and 325 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 1: if you have designs on becoming president one day, even 326 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: though you may not say it publicly, you have to 327 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 1: have an unchecked ego to think that you can be 328 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: leader of the free world, or even would want to. 329 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 1: That's something I've never wanted, And I also know that 330 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 1: running for office in today's world post Bill Clinton, I 331 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 1: would say, you're also involving your family in any number 332 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 1: of ways. You're all you're involving them as far as 333 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: the scrutiny. If you mess up, well, it involves your family. 334 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: If you run for office, well they're going to analyze 335 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 1: your family. They're going to investigate your family for opposition research. 336 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 1: It's never just you that it impacts. And also there's 337 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:54,959 Speaker 1: the time commitment. You're never home, You're always out on 338 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,679 Speaker 1: the road going to visit constituents or something like that. 339 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 1: It's verily is it's rarely a good thing for the 340 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: family members when there's someone who's running for office or 341 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 1: even an elected official. To be honest, if you've ever 342 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:12,439 Speaker 1: known someone who was married to an elected official. I 343 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: say that because I came across this audio where former 344 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 1: First Lady Michelle Obama said that she basically did not 345 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,360 Speaker 1: like her husband at all for ten years as he 346 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: was beginning his political career, she was raising their two 347 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: young daughters, and Barack Obama was basically nowhere to be found. 348 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: Maybe putting a little too much on it, but we're 349 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:36,880 Speaker 1: gonna play the audio in just a second. But Barack 350 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: Obama was not around. He was out trying to be 351 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: a future politician, playing golf and what have you. But 352 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 1: Michelle Obama was left at home raising the girls. And 353 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 1: she said that you know, thirty years they've been married. 354 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 1: They just recently celebrated their thirtieth anniversary. But for ten 355 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: years she did not even like him at all. People 356 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:00,720 Speaker 1: think I'm being caddy by saying this. It's like there 357 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 1: were ten years. Well I couldn't stay my husband. You 358 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 1: know that. You take years and guess when it happened 359 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: when those kids were little, right right, because you know 360 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:16,360 Speaker 1: you can be all great individually. When you when you're 361 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: just married, you got your life, he's got hit. You 362 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:21,400 Speaker 1: come together. It's all good to see you buy take 363 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:25,119 Speaker 1: it easy. And then you have kids. Take it easy, 364 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 1: take it easy. You're traveling, that's great. Good. I get 365 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 1: to hang out and watch the TV I want to watch. 366 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,640 Speaker 1: But the minute we had kids, it was like where 367 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 1: are you going and how far? And you start measuring. 368 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 1: It's like how many diapers did you change? And oh 369 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,880 Speaker 1: you're golfing? Yeah? Oh you got time? Oh you got 370 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 1: time golf? How you at the gym all the time? 371 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: Right now? That's all. That's when all the measuring starts, 372 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:56,199 Speaker 1: because you got this project. And guess what, little kids 373 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 1: they're terrorists. They they have demands, they don't talk, they're 374 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:08,920 Speaker 1: poor communicators. They cry all the time, they're irrational, they're 375 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:14,399 Speaker 1: self eighty and you love them more than anything, and 376 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 1: so you can't blame them, right because look they're cute 377 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,919 Speaker 1: and look at him throwing his plate. That's so cute. 378 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: So you turn that ire on each other, you know. 379 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 1: And for ten years while we're trying to build our 380 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 1: careers and you know, weren't about school and who's doing 381 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 1: what and what? You know, I was like, oh, this 382 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 1: isn't even guess what my marriage is in fifty fifty ever? Ever, 383 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:44,119 Speaker 1: there are times I'm seventy, he's thirty. There are times 384 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:48,640 Speaker 1: he's sixty forty. But guess what ten years we've been 385 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:53,360 Speaker 1: married thirty? Wow, I would take ten bad years over thirty. 386 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: It's just how you look at it, right, And people 387 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 1: give up for the five years I can't know what 388 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 1: is because something you gotta know your person. Do you 389 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,199 Speaker 1: like him? I mean you could be mad at him, 390 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,360 Speaker 1: but do you still look at him and go, I'm 391 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 1: not happy with you, but I respect you. I don't 392 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: agree with you, but you but you're still a kind, 393 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,360 Speaker 1: smart person. The feelings are going to change over time, right, 394 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 1: You're not gonna always be so the minute that goes, 395 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: people want to give up on it. It's true, but 396 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: now you're in the work. You're in the work of it, 397 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 1: and that's why I want to talk about the work 398 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 1: of it, the work of any relationship, the work of friendship. 399 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:39,680 Speaker 1: Ye I've been married now six and a half years, 400 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 1: and the best advice that I was given was similar 401 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 1: to what Michelle Obama was talking about, where it's never 402 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: fifty fifty. It's never fifty fifty. Sometimes it's seventy thirty you. 403 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:56,360 Speaker 1: Sometimes it's sixty forty her or your spouse. Sometimes it's 404 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: fifty two forty eight. However you want to divvy it up, 405 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: but it's never fifty fifty, and it's in the long 406 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: view of things. And something else. Someone told me. I 407 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 1: think it was maybe a week before I got married. 408 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: I put on Facebook, Hey, what's the best advice you 409 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,680 Speaker 1: ever got before you got married? And I had a friend, 410 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 1: Adam conscious Who's I think? I think it was Adam. 411 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 1: It was Adam or someone else, but that doesn't matter. 412 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 1: He was basically saying, you have to give up your 413 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: individual personality because you have to come together and create 414 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:31,400 Speaker 1: something new as a couple, and the person that you 415 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: were is gone. Paraphrasing it, but it was basically something 416 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,880 Speaker 1: like that, that person, that single person, not only how 417 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:41,120 Speaker 1: you acted but who you were, was gone. And that 418 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 1: took some getting used to, where every decision that you 419 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:49,880 Speaker 1: make is a function of two people, not just one. 420 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 1: And I can imagine just being in that political matrix 421 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:55,919 Speaker 1: where like, yeah, I can see why a lot of 422 00:22:56,040 --> 00:23:01,639 Speaker 1: couples get divorced when one person is out chasing his 423 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 1: or her own personal professional political dream and it comes 424 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,200 Speaker 1: at a high cost. And if you think that Barack 425 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 1: Obama Michelle Obama are different from Donald Trump and Milandia Trump, 426 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:17,640 Speaker 1: you're tripping. If you think that Barack and Michelle are 427 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 1: different from any two married people who are in politics, 428 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:25,439 Speaker 1: you are tripping. It's something I think is universal in nature, 429 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 1: where if you have one politician in the family, it 430 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: comes at great cost and sacrifice from the other parent 431 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 1: in that family, especially if they're children. And it just 432 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,640 Speaker 1: took me. It's like, yeah, they're just like us, going 433 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: through the same problems. And I don't know who told 434 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:46,080 Speaker 1: me that a marriage and I know it's true. It's 435 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 1: the only And this I'll give to both Mark and 436 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,880 Speaker 1: Eric and O'twalla has already gone through it and Mark, 437 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 1: have you been married? Mark? No? Okay, so this okay 438 00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,440 Speaker 1: so far, but once day you know, they might have 439 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: you know, in their sights and then get you. But 440 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: it's the only relationship I've ever been in. And I 441 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,160 Speaker 1: was told this that you will have to work on 442 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: every single day. That no, but I will say this, 443 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,719 Speaker 1: you may work on it every single day, but you 444 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: don't have to put up with the same bs that 445 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,879 Speaker 1: you do as a single person. Oh, life's full of 446 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: trade offs. I was just thinking as you spoke about this, 447 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 1: get a pet first, because if you find that one 448 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 1: of you is changing the litter box all the time 449 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: and the others not bothering with it, you're not going 450 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,920 Speaker 1: to have kids. Don't do that. Well, here's the thing, 451 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 1: there's kids, which you can't necessarily anticipate how the other 452 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 1: person is going to be apparent. You can't. You can't. 453 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,679 Speaker 1: There's no way for you to be able to anticipate that. 454 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,120 Speaker 1: But you have to know whether that person you can 455 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:53,200 Speaker 1: stand at their worst. Oh yeah, and if you know that, 456 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,440 Speaker 1: if you can deal with they're worst, whatever that is, 457 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: then you might have something. And you can't figure that 458 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,680 Speaker 1: out in six months or even a year you well, 459 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: because once you're married, you have to get into the 460 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 1: mindset that you're not gonna bail if you get angry 461 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: about something. Oh. I was telling to all about that 462 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,159 Speaker 1: right before we go to break. See, it used to 463 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,760 Speaker 1: be where you'd argue and you get up and leave, 464 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 1: You get in your car and go home and say, 465 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 1: f you, I don't care, I don't give a dad 466 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,919 Speaker 1: what you do. I'm leaving and you get in your 467 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: car on whatever. Then whatever it happens after that happens. 468 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 1: Now it's like I'm going in the kitchen exactly. I'm 469 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 1: gonna go out in the backyard for a while. Or 470 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,399 Speaker 1: if you do leave, okay, I'll be back in twenty minutes. 471 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,120 Speaker 1: I couldn't get out the house one time I tried 472 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: to leave. Wait, leave that story right. This is the 473 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: Johnny Kins Show. If I am six forty, We're live 474 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,360 Speaker 1: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, I'm O Kelly. Last second, 475 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:50,680 Speaker 1: when I played this audio from First Lady Michelle Obama 476 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: basically staying she couldn't stand her husband, Barack Obama for 477 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,399 Speaker 1: about ten years of their thirty year marriage, and it 478 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 1: spoke to me in terms of it doesn't really matter 479 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:06,160 Speaker 1: marriage is marriage is marriage for most people, I would say, 480 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 1: And I started talking about some of the advice that 481 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,200 Speaker 1: I got before I got married, and I had an 482 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 1: extended bachelorhood and I lived, I did just about everything 483 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: any man would want to do before he finally got 484 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 1: tied down. And Mark Ronner's right behind me, and I 485 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,399 Speaker 1: know he's he's out there doing all sorts of stuff, 486 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: but one day he's going to get tied down. No, 487 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 1: I'm actually I'm in a might as well be married situation. 488 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 1: But we just haven't thrown that switch. There's no point. Yeah, 489 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 1: that's what you say. But if I were to ask her, oh, 490 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 1: are you she wouldn't want to marry my student loan? 491 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:46,120 Speaker 1: Are you kidding? I'm a firm believer. I don't believe 492 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,239 Speaker 1: it serious. I don't believe if a woman says no, 493 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: I don't want to get married, I believe that she 494 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 1: may say she's okay if you don't. But I believe somewhere, 495 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,439 Speaker 1: if she hasn't been married, there's some part of her 496 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,159 Speaker 1: saying yeah, I would like that experience. Well, she is 497 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 1: keeping her options open. I mean that much is clear, right, 498 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:08,680 Speaker 1: M Yeah, that's what women do anyhow, Twala you're getting 499 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 1: ready to tell. Before the break, I was saying, the 500 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:16,199 Speaker 1: difference between dating and marriage is your outclaws. How you 501 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 1: can leave an argument. When you're dating, you can leave 502 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 1: it any time and just leave out the door because 503 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: you don't have to answer to anyone, and you're not 504 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,920 Speaker 1: to hold into anyone, and most likely you're not living together. 505 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: So you get in your car and drive home. And 506 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,359 Speaker 1: I was making the point. Now it's like, I can't 507 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 1: stand your ass. I'm gonna go into kitchen and cool off, 508 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 1: because I mean, where are you gonna go? Where are 509 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:44,439 Speaker 1: you gonna go? I tried to leave first year marriage. 510 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,400 Speaker 1: I tried to walk out the door in the argument, 511 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: and I was getting ready to go it is getting dressed, 512 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 1: and we started arguing about I have no idea what 513 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,679 Speaker 1: but I've been putting lotion on my hands all right, 514 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,199 Speaker 1: so my hands were slippery, and I'm like, you know what, 515 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,639 Speaker 1: I'm done with this. And I tried to go to 516 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 1: the door and I'm turning to the door and the 517 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,880 Speaker 1: knob no matter what I could do, and she came 518 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,959 Speaker 1: up slowly behind me. She said, but where do you 519 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 1: think you're going? We're married, You'll be back and I'm 520 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 1: sad to steady try to avoid this restless argument, trying 521 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 1: to get out to the door, and she just laughing 522 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,440 Speaker 1: because I can't get out. She's like, see, you even 523 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 1: need me to get the door for you. And at 524 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 1: that point, I was just totally defeated. In my mind, 525 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 1: I'm like, she's right, where am I going? Because I 526 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: have to come back here later tonight. Let's sleep in 527 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,760 Speaker 1: my car, right right? And that's just not an option. Okay. Now, 528 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,760 Speaker 1: Mark said something which is very true that marriage being 529 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 1: a trade off. Yeah, there's certain things that I have relinquished, 530 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: and I was never more mad at my wife when 531 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 1: I had a condo. We first moved into a condo 532 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: together and she then took over. She started throwing out 533 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 1: my mugs and I had a ninety two point three 534 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 1: to beat Steve Harvey the Morning Show mug. I just loved. 535 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: She threw it out because she didn't have any emotional 536 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: connection to it. She's thrown out all my best plates 537 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: and everything, or at least what I considered best, and 538 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 1: it's a trade off. Those are the things that I 539 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 1: had to put up with. But at the same time, 540 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 1: I did not have the type of relationship drama that 541 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 1: I had previously, you know, just the craziness and the 542 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: frenetic nature of the arguments and the knockdown drag out 543 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 1: just you know, just I would just say tumult, which 544 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 1: usually goes along with dating in a general sense. I 545 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 1: lived with someone for like three or four weeks. That 546 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 1: was New Orleans bad news, bad news. If you've been 547 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: listening to all week, you know that story. But there 548 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: are certain things that I was okay with not having 549 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 1: to deal with any more. Yes, I'm not running the 550 00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 1: streets anymore and having the type of Doyer's eve he 551 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 1: said I had in my twenties and thirties. Honestly, I 552 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 1: don't think I want to if only because I was 553 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 1: living a different type of lifestyle and it was it 554 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 1: was you know, it was fancy free. So I don't 555 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 1: think that's a good idea in my fifties. Look, if 556 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 1: you find that one and you can be with them forever. Hey, 557 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 1: if you are fortunate enough to have the type of 558 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 1: situation that Mark has where neither party wants a ring, great, 559 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:32,320 Speaker 1: great when you put that ring on the one thing 560 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 1: that I was told Big Paul rest in peace said 561 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 1: this at our reception. He said, happy wife, happy life. 562 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: But it's not true. No, no, no, here's the thing. 563 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:52,840 Speaker 1: Happy wife, happy life dot dot dot. A happy husband 564 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 1: maintains the loving you have to have both. I learned 565 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: something different. I was told happy, happy life. The reality 566 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 1: is happy wife happy fifteen minutes because the expectations change thereafter. Okay, 567 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:15,720 Speaker 1: her happiness has an expiration date, it has a shelf life. 568 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,479 Speaker 1: She may be happy with you this morning, then all 569 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 1: of a sudden, she's not happy with you, and your 570 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,960 Speaker 1: job as a husband is to figure out why she's 571 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 1: not happy now. And it may have nothing to do 572 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 1: with you at all. It may have been a phone call, 573 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 1: it may have been a TV show, it may have 574 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,360 Speaker 1: been a memory, it may have been all three of 575 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 1: those things. But your job is to fit because I 576 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 1: learned as a man, my job is to watch the 577 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,480 Speaker 1: Laker game. That's my job. And if I start this argument, 578 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 1: or if I feed into her argument, I'm not going 579 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 1: to be able to watch the Laker game. So, Eric, 580 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: I say that to you as a bachelor, just remember 581 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: winning the argument is impossible and it's unnecessary. You don't 582 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 1: need to win, there's no bonus to winning. Just don't 583 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 1: start the argument before the Laker game, or you won't 584 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 1: be able to see it. See, I learned during college 585 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 1: during one of my relationships in college, relationships are very 586 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 1: similar to pledge period in a fraternity that don't end. 587 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 1: When you're right, you're wrong, and when you're wrong, you're aft. 588 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 1: You will never be right ever. Exactly. Yeah, overstand that. 589 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: I don't need to be right. I just want peace 590 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 1: because if I have peace, I can enjoy my meal 591 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: and say it with me the Laker game. Exactly. That's 592 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: all I want. That's all I want now very quickly 593 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: before we can go to the top of the hour break. 594 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:39,200 Speaker 1: If you don't maintain that level of peace in your house, 595 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 1: then you may have a third party come in. And 596 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 1: I didn't say, like a person, a third party. Did 597 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 1: you know that South Korea has lifted the ban on 598 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 1: imported sex dolls? First, I did not know that South 599 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:59,840 Speaker 1: Korea had a ban on imported sex dolls. And I 600 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:04,480 Speaker 1: did not know that it was such a robust industry. 601 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 1: Buy local with your sex dolls, at least in South Korea. Now, 602 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 1: the Custom Service said it will still ban the import 603 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:15,520 Speaker 1: of childlike sex dolls, OH and other and other emboda 604 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,480 Speaker 1: embodying certain people. I didn't know that either. I didn't 605 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 1: know that was a thing that people were actually trying 606 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: to buy those things. But in South Korea they have 607 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 1: a t I don't want to say sizeable, but a 608 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:32,400 Speaker 1: big market regarding these imported sex dolls. Now, I don't 609 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 1: know why they were banned. I don't know what other 610 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:39,760 Speaker 1: things are banned in general, but customs have seized tens 611 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,840 Speaker 1: of thousands of these sex dolls and for some reason 612 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,600 Speaker 1: they're just holding onto them. Well, here's a thing. The 613 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 1: resale market has got to be high. Okay, I know, 614 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:54,680 Speaker 1: I know, I know that. We were just talking to 615 00:33:55,160 --> 00:34:02,840 Speaker 1: uh Ending. He was talking about you know, this is why, 616 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,280 Speaker 1: you know, and the market has to be high on resale. 617 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:10,439 Speaker 1: Someone is like, as long as it's not used, why not. Now, 618 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,560 Speaker 1: the company that makes some of these sex dolls said 619 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,400 Speaker 1: that they've already taken back more than twenty of them 620 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 1: from customs officials through lawsuits, they say, and suspect that 621 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 1: customs officials still hold in their possession and I don't 622 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,919 Speaker 1: know if that means official or personal, more than one 623 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:35,319 Speaker 1: thousand sex dolls since twenty eighteen. So it not only 624 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:39,439 Speaker 1: is that amazing that a thousand sex dolls were being 625 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,160 Speaker 1: set to South Korea in that short amount of time, 626 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 1: knowing good and well that it was illegal, that you 627 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:50,839 Speaker 1: would think customs officials would have destroyed them because it's 628 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,280 Speaker 1: contraband at that point unless they were using them. Why destroy? 629 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,320 Speaker 1: What are we doing? Waste not, want not? Yeah, speak 630 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,880 Speaker 1: for you allselves to me like you're figuring the postage 631 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 1: on these things. John and Ken's show caf I AM 632 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,960 Speaker 1: six forty. You noticed Eric didn't say a damn thing, 633 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:14,520 Speaker 1: as if to not bring attention to himself. We're live 634 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,000 Speaker 1: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.