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You're listening to the John 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: and Ken Show on demand on the iHeart Radio app 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,239 Speaker 1: we surge on, but you can hear the show after 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 1: we're done at four o'clock by accessing the podcast at 5 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: KFI AM sixty dot com or using the iHeart Radio app. 6 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: Coming up this hour, jibberish from Newsome as he makes 7 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:26,280 Speaker 1: his tour around the state to talk about I don't know, dribble, 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: mental health, homelessness, but anyway, we've got a good click 9 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: to play, and then we'll talk about Mayor pass Hettie 10 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: and some blowback over her Inside Safe program, which apparently 11 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: is taking some people off the streets, putting them in hotels, 12 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,959 Speaker 1: but perhaps pushing other people out of those hotels who 13 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: were already homeless before. It looked like a little shuttle game, 14 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: little musical difference, Yeah, musical vacrants. I'll get to all this, 15 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: but we'll start with Newsom and of course his new 16 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: plan to deal with the oil companies and what he 17 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: calls windfall profits. He gave up with the legislature passing 18 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: some sort of windfall profits tax on the oil industry 19 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: in California, and instead of creating a Watchdog division within 20 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: the California Energy Commission to investigate the alleged price gouging. Allegedly, 21 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 1: it's like another small bureaucracy which will collect information, they say, 22 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: from the oil companies to determine whether or not they're 23 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: making too much money. Let's talk with Kevin Slagel. Yeah, 24 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 1: Vice president Statigic Communications for the Western States, Patroleum Associate Kevin, 25 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: how are you? Well, is it Friday yet? I mean, look, 26 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:37,840 Speaker 1: it's a lot already for Monday with this stuff. Yeah, 27 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: what do you think he's going to do with this 28 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: agency to give penalties to the oil companies? Well, look, 29 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: I think only in California, or maybe just under in 30 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: California or this administration, do we actually think that creating 31 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: a new offensive bureaucracy with twenty or thirty board members 32 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: and putting that group in charge of investigating it's a 33 00:01:58,240 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: pen of power and all sorts of things, and having 34 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: basically in charge of our fuel supply, adding taxes, adding 35 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: costs would be a good idea. So this is not 36 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,239 Speaker 1: a formulas to success. And this is the third pivot 37 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: this governor has made on this issue, knowing the first 38 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: two aren't going to work. So now now his idea 39 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 1: is like, let's just go wrap a bunch of new 40 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 1: taxes and a whole lot of bureaucracy and see how 41 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: it turns out and claim victory. Now could just be 42 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: a nothing. I mean, it looks like was it your 43 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: take too that he failed with the legislature, So he's 44 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: just throwing this out there to make people think he's 45 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: doing something. Well. Yeah, look, I mean this special session 46 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: has been in for one hundred and six days now, 47 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: and it started off he called to have a special 48 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: session on a windfall profits tax. He count of devotes 49 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 1: pretty quickly on that, realize he's not going to get 50 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: a supermajority, switched it to a penalty. In the fall, 51 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 1: had had his first hearing where he heard from experts 52 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: and the Energy Commission, where he said it's not about 53 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,399 Speaker 1: profits and learnings, this is about fuel supplies in California 54 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,639 Speaker 1: and our isolated markets. Had another hearing a few weeks ago, 55 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 1: heard the same things, even stronger in fact, the experts 56 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,399 Speaker 1: saying it's not at their finer level, it's downstream. There's 57 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 1: a lot of issues California. It's a place to do work. 58 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: And then now pivoted to this just let's take it 59 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: into the breacracy. That way, the legislator doesn't have to 60 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: set number, as the governor doesn't have to stand on 61 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: numbers of his own. He can give it to these 62 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: twenty or thirty people. So you think some of the 63 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: people who testified before these commissions or the legislature, they 64 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: have explained why the gas is so much higher. It's 65 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: not just taxes. Taxes are huge, but there's there's other 66 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: factors that are specific to California. You think it's been 67 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 1: adequately explained. It's been explained over and over again. Now look, 68 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: probably some more transparency and you know, as the industry, 69 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: we're happy to provide it where we can. And it's 70 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: it's protective for privacy issues, so the traders, you know, 71 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: don't misuse that information. But yeah, the idea that you know, 72 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: this issues really are here. Fuel supply, the public policies 73 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: we have that restrict ability to create infrastructure, for example, 74 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: to handle times when we are short un supply. If 75 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: we had more infrastructures, we might have a little bit 76 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: extra and system to keep costs down. The certainly the 77 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: taxes and regulatory environment, which we talked about a lot, 78 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: it plays into all that, and then it's just a 79 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: high cost of doing business. I mean, if you're a 80 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: gas station owner somewhere in La you know, your real 81 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: state might be a little bit different than it is 82 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: in a different part of the state or a different state. 83 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: And so all of those factors combined to make California expensive. 84 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: We have special fuel blends, as you know, and again 85 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:23,840 Speaker 1: we are the energy out and that we talked about 86 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 1: a lot. We don't have supply coming from Texas or 87 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,799 Speaker 1: the place. We have to produce it here or ship 88 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 1: it in from overseas, and that creates you know, it 89 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: makes it a tough market for us. All right. I 90 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: don't know if you know all this like the history 91 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: of it, I don't. Yeah, but before all the climate hysteria, 92 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: let's go back, you know, forty or fifty years, why 93 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: wasn't there a pipe built from Texas to California? Because 94 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: California was the promised Land back then. It was clear 95 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 1: that millions of people were moving and it was going 96 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 1: to become, you know, one of the one of the 97 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: big population centers of the country. So why didn't they 98 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: build energy infrastructure leading into of the state. Well, you know, 99 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 1: we didn't need it. Then, because California is actually one 100 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: of the most productive states when it comes to oil 101 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: production in the country, and you know, our history is 102 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 1: largely based on that. So back when the oil was 103 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: feeling the state, We're producing huge amounts of what we 104 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 1: needed to produce, and so the idea that we'd actually 105 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:20,359 Speaker 1: have to ship it in from three or four states 106 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: away didn't make a lot of sense to folks. Then. Now, 107 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: certainly public policies have changed. It's been nearly impossible get 108 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: production permits. Other bands have made it, you know, cut 109 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: our production down about twenty five to twenty using. Most 110 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:37,600 Speaker 1: of this is self inflicted. Oh yeah, I mean, look, 111 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: California does a good job of of of causing our 112 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 1: own problems with our public policies, and this is one 113 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 1: area where we can see the history of it play out. 114 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: And we can also see, unfortunately where this is going. 115 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: When you talk about all electric and needing three times 116 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 1: electricity that we have today, and transmission lines and all 117 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 1: those issues. We can see what's going to happen if 118 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:01,479 Speaker 1: we don't know, if we don't change course. I mean, 119 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:06,279 Speaker 1: the stuff they lay out for the electric car era 120 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: that's supposed to dawn soon just sounds so fanciful. I mean, 121 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:14,720 Speaker 1: they can't possibly generate the electrics to be needed for it. 122 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: Well no, I mean, but yeah, I mean our governor 123 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: was down in what lithium valued today or yesterday talking 124 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 1: about lithium. Well, we'll look, if we're gonna be one 125 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: hundred percent electric electric in the state, we're gonna need 126 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 1: all that lithium. We're gonna need all thothium we can 127 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: find in California, all the copper, rare earth, graphite, you 128 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: name it that we can find in the United States, 129 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 1: and we need to mine it in the next couple 130 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: of years to get where they want to go. So 131 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: this is, you know, this is what we're saying. There's 132 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: a better way of getting to our climate goals than 133 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 1: to you know, ban and man neat our way forward. 134 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 1: It's just it's not going to work out. It's it's 135 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: it's it's sort of it's crazy how obvious it is 136 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: to the public. Yet we have these same discussions in 137 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: Sacramento over and over and over again. Right, here's the 138 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: only thing with the public. They'll here headlines and I 139 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: think they're accurate that the oil companies are enjoying record profits, 140 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: and so they just they just don't understand. Why are 141 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 1: they Why isn't why isn't it a proportional profit. We 142 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: know that the price of oil, price of gas went up, 143 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: so things are going to cost more, But how come 144 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: the profits are so insane? On top of it, it 145 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: gives the impression that there is a lot of couging 146 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: going on. Yeah, no, look, I get it. When our 147 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: needs are high, it's pretty easy for the public to 148 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: come to that conclusion. And you know, our explanations don't 149 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: always feel that satisfying. But but what I think it 150 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: comes down is a couple of things. One, there is 151 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:32,119 Speaker 1: a supply issue, and what we see in the markets, 152 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 1: it's based on supply demand. The just last week, the 153 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: California Energy Commission had taken a bunch of data in 154 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: from refiners looking at their gross profits and before any expenses, 155 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: we're going to see the expense like the net profit 156 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: numbers here later it was at about sixty six cents 157 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: per gallon profit. Now that's that's a healthy profit. Is 158 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: that the two or three dollars that was implied last 159 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: fall by a lot of politicians, by our governor. No, 160 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: it's far short of that. In fact, you didn't hear 161 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: them talking about that. We're in the last couple days, 162 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: so we'll see how it nets out. But you know, 163 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: look at ebbs and flows in the last year or two, 164 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: it's been a very strong year for this industry. Next 165 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: year it might not be as good. Certainly a few 166 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 1: years ago it wasn't. And it makes people think like 167 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: they could knock off, you know, twenty cents a gallon 168 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: that they if they're having excessive profits, then then why 169 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: are they charging so much? And are they all colluding? 170 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: Why is it one of the companies for the sake 171 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: of grabbing more market share knocking off some of the 172 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 1: price because they're still going to have a great profit year. Yeah. No, 173 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: I look again, I think with any commodity you can 174 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 1: look at that in ours, you know, the commarity we 175 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 1: all use every day would be sort of a bullseye 176 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: of that type of discussion. But again, looking looking at them, 177 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: is it what I said? Is it true? Is it 178 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:47,079 Speaker 1: true that they could easily knock off and get us 179 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: a break and really not bother them. No, markets don't 180 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: work that easily, unfortunately. And you know one thing we 181 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: can say is, like you mentioned investigations, I mean there's 182 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:00,559 Speaker 1: been multiple attorneys general that have looked into this. They 183 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 1: never find any conclusion, They don't find any wrongdoing. They 184 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,959 Speaker 1: always could conclude that it's a market issue. And yeah, 185 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: I mean at a publicly held company, you know, can't 186 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:12,199 Speaker 1: simply just say, look, we're gonna do this blanket discount. 187 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: That's that doesn't work. And you know, again, each market's different. 188 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 1: La is different than San Francisco. And these companies are 189 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: global companies, so that so when you look at earnings, 190 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: that's just like California earnings. That's a global earning. So again, 191 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,679 Speaker 1: we understand the public perception. Nobody likes had gas prices. 192 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: We get it, I get it. No, I don't like 193 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: anybody anybody else. But there is you know, there is 194 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: a market story behind all of that. But you know, 195 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 1: more importantly, there's a public policy story behind all this, 196 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: and public policy contributes all this, and this is where 197 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 1: the governor and the legislature and others could really make 198 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: an impact. If we loosened up infrastructure policy, for example, 199 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 1: if we look at the way that we are at 200 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: our tax regulatory programs and what those impacts are, If 201 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: we look at impact of bands and saying we're gonna 202 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,679 Speaker 1: be one hundred percent or undred percent that just a 203 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: few years out. All of those things have real impacts 204 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 1: on consumers and also send messages to the market. I mean, 205 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 1: we may not see investment in California when it comes 206 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: to production or refining at the levels we enjoy today. 207 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 1: If these hype of policies continue to happen and we 208 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 1: lose a couple of refineries in the state, you know, 209 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: gas prices will probably look a lot different. Kevin, thanks 210 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 1: very much for coming on. Hey, you're bad. Good to 211 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 1: talk to you, guys. Kevin Slagel, vice president of Strategic 212 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: Communications for the Western States Petroleum Association. More coming up, 213 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: John and Ken KFIAM six forty. We're live everywhere the 214 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. You're listening to John and Ken on demand 215 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: from KFI AM sixty. Well, we continue to talk about 216 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: Governor Dippity Do. We're just talking about his attack on 217 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: the oil companies and the path he's now chosen to 218 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: try to get a windfall profits tax, which is just 219 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 1: a fancy way of running for president. Look at me, 220 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,959 Speaker 1: I'm standing up against the oil companies. Now, he's been 221 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: doing a tour around the state. We have a clip 222 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 1: where Apparently he's trying to explain his tour. He was 223 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 1: in San Diego recently. I think he was in southern California, 224 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: La Area a couple of days ago. This is something 225 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 1: else to get attention. He decided not to do a 226 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: State of the State speech and instead do some media tours, 227 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: and he's explaining to Spectrum News reporter Daniella Pardo this 228 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: is an exerved of an interview that everything he's doing 229 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: on this tour comes back to trying to figure out 230 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: the homelessness problem in California. Here we go, what we're doing. 231 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 1: The threads throughout this State of the State tour connects 232 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: that the prison reforms that we're trying to advance, the 233 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: focus on making sure that we're part of community redevelopment 234 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: here near the La River, the work that we're doing 235 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: as it relates to the broader healthcare delivery system, and 236 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 1: tomorrow's announcement, big announcement on mental health and reforms. I 237 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: hope people see a connected tissue. The issue of homelessness 238 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: is the ultimate manifestation of our failure as a state nation. 239 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: We own this, We have to own a greater sense 240 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 1: of urgency and responsibility, and so in many ways, that 241 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 1: short speech I gave as a state of the State 242 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: is a longer narrative on this state of the state 243 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 1: tour of making real and showing the work in this 244 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: space so people have a sense of more confidence that 245 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 1: we're building momentum this flywheel, so that they can see 246 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:28,439 Speaker 1: real progress, they feel respected in terms of their tax dollars. Well, 247 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: that was a highlight wheel? Did he did he actually 248 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 1: did he say period full stop or this that one? 249 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 1: But he had the flywheel in there, and the he 250 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:39,319 Speaker 1: likes to say, in this space, in this space, what's 251 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,719 Speaker 1: the flywheel? He's used that before. It's a something in 252 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: an industry that they use in production or something like that. 253 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:49,079 Speaker 1: Or yeah, well, what does it have to do with anything? 254 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 1: I thought he was talking about fishing with a flywheel. 255 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 1: I thought he was talking about people, you know, passed 256 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:57,199 Speaker 1: out to half dead in the street. This is why 257 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: he's awful, and he's going to have the same thing 258 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: this Kamala Harris on the national scale, because people are 259 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: gonna listen to dripple like that and go, why they're 260 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:09,680 Speaker 1: gonna laugh? Yeah right now, the only people covering him 261 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 1: are the knob slobbering media of California. Yeah right. Most 262 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 1: of the rest of the national media hasn't focused on 263 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: this boob yet because he isn't officially running for president, 264 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:21,839 Speaker 1: but he will someday. Do the people on the inside 265 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: know that he's a boob and they're just cashing the 266 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 1: check or do these people really get caught up in 267 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: the celebrity and their own career advancement Because Kamala Harris, 268 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: everybody quit her office in Washington, everybody it's almost turnover, 269 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 1: so they realize this is a crazy person. I'm not 270 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 1: working for her. In fact, this is gonna be a 271 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 1: detriment to my career to have her on my have 272 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 1: her on my resume. Yes, I got to cover this, 273 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: this this over as quickly as possible and go hook 274 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: up with somebody else. But I mean, well, his problem 275 00:13:57,400 --> 00:13:59,839 Speaker 1: is different, as you pointed out years ago, because he's 276 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: he talks in techno jargon, a lot of Silicon Valley references. 277 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: But what he thinks they're hip, but they're just awful, 278 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 1: They're annoying. How does he even It's like somebody that 279 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: texts you with just all letters, you know, to try 280 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: to tell you what they're saying. How does he even 281 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 1: track what he's saying. Does he track what he's saying? 282 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: Because you knew you could speak off the top of 283 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: your head and kind of talk yourself into a corse. 284 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: Think this is off the top of his head, right, Okay, 285 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 1: But does he know as he's speaking that he's making 286 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: no sense? No, I don't think so he never catches 287 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: himself and saying, oh, wait a second, I've kind of 288 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: gotten off track here. Well, I forgot what my point is. 289 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 1: I mean, he just I kind of understood its point. 290 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: He's trying to say. It's sort of the Wolke progressive 291 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: narrative here that all of our problems with homelessness track 292 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: back to the failures of our capitalistic system. That's what 293 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 1: he's called, mister multiple wineries funded by the game. We 294 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: are responsible for the homes. They're not responsible for themselves, 295 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 1: is what he said in the responsible. He's got one 296 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: of the wealthiest oil families in American history, oil families 297 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: that financed his entire business career. He doesn't exist without 298 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: massive amounts of getting money. Yes, I mean I propelled 299 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: him into politics, thank them so so they they pump 300 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: a trillion gallons of oil, make a huge fortune. They 301 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: give gavin some of that so he can dittle around 302 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: in his vineyard. And then he becomes mister electric. He 303 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: becomes dead a knock in the head. Yeah, and then 304 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 1: he's given us lectures on capitalism or why that caused 305 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 1: us homeless? In this fnue, you heard him such a 306 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: freaking phony beloaning. He heard him hint in there about 307 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: a big announcement. That piece of audio is from a 308 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: couple of days ago, yesterday in San Diego. Get this, 309 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: he wants three billion dollars in a bond measure to 310 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: build new mental health campuses, residential settings, and permanent supportive housing. 311 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: I think they're gonna put it on the ballot next 312 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: year in twenty twenty four. Three billion dollars more money 313 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: to be spent on that rabbit hole. Billions and billions 314 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: and billions. In the last nineteen years, I think it 315 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 1: was November two thousand and four, they passed a one 316 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 1: percent bonus tax on people making over a million dollars. 317 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 1: That was a darl Steinberg tax. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it 318 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: was former ahead of the state Senate. And now the 319 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 1: mayor of Sacramento sears one percent search tax on people 320 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 1: making a million dollars or more, the counties ended up 321 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: with billions of dollars and they didn't know how to 322 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 1: spend it. There were stories coming out that they had 323 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: accounts overflowing with cash and nowhere to go with it. Well, 324 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 1: it's funny because he also wants to take a billion 325 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: dollars from that fund to also open up these mental 326 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: health campus Because that money is sitting around, they got 327 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 1: to rewrite the law in order to access. You know, though, 328 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: the law was written in a very restrictive way, so 329 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: you can't spend it on everything you think they should 330 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: spend it on. But unless you change the laws for 331 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 1: conservativeship to get these people off the streets and into 332 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: these mental health campuses, this is another waste of money. 333 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: You have to force them in height they're wandering around 334 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: out there because we're not taking any action for their 335 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:04,159 Speaker 1: own good to get them into the help they need. 336 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 1: We won't do it. That's it. It's gonna be a failure. 337 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:10,439 Speaker 1: It's gonna be a massive waste of money. And they 338 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: know this, that's the thing they know. If you don't 339 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,920 Speaker 1: force all these crazed drug drug addicted vagrants into treatment, 340 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 1: if you don't force them, then the whole plan will fail. 341 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,640 Speaker 1: Like you said, you can get Britney Spears and Amanda 342 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:27,399 Speaker 1: Binds into Conservative ship, but we can't get all these dirty, 343 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: homeless people we're seeing on the streets who are clearly 344 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 1: more whacked out. You know, I think I can handle 345 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,199 Speaker 1: if I ran into Britney Spears and Amanda Binds, I 346 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 1: think I can navigate around them. But the people I 347 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,919 Speaker 1: mean in that part Amanda Binds walked by naked. I 348 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: can navigate around her. Okay, all right, when we come back, 349 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:54,439 Speaker 1: we'll talk about Mayor Bassetti. She's apparently being criticized for 350 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,880 Speaker 1: her Inside Safe program and putting these homeless people into 351 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: hotels because the claim is that others are being pushed 352 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:02,479 Speaker 1: out of the hotels to make room for the new 353 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:05,160 Speaker 1: hotel people. John and Ken camp I am six forty 354 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 1: live everywhere the iHeart Radio app. Is that you humming? Yeah? 355 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 1: What is that noise? Some weird noise in this location. 356 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: I'm in an undisclosed location, Ken, so I can't I 357 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:19,960 Speaker 1: can't tell you exactly what's going on. Yes, they put 358 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,639 Speaker 1: her in the Amanda Binds room and she's just like 359 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,120 Speaker 1: the State of the Union speech, so kind of vibration. 360 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:27,679 Speaker 1: The Amanda binds room. I don't know what that noise is. 361 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 1: I'm not naked, Okay, I do have nightmares. Though I 362 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,199 Speaker 1: do have nightmares. I love about her. She will clarify anything. Well, 363 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:36,679 Speaker 1: I do, but it's I just want you to know 364 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: I'm not naked. I have nightmares sometimes that I am 365 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: running around in the outside world like Amanda naked and 366 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 1: I don't understand that, and I wake up. Yes, it's terrifying. 367 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 1: Really yeah, I don't. I don't know. I don't know, 368 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:52,159 Speaker 1: but it's it's it's you only have I only have 369 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: the shoeless one. I just have ones or sometimes to 370 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 1: have no shoes. I can't figure out what happened? Is 371 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 1: how am I gonna get to where I'm going? I 372 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:04,160 Speaker 1: have no shoes? Eric, you were you were wording all that, right, o, Gold, 373 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 1: I record every show, all right, it's very good. You're 374 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,440 Speaker 1: listening to John and Ken on demand from kf I 375 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 1: am six the John and Ken Podcast, John and Ken 376 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 1: on Demand. You can get that right after four. Yeah, 377 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,120 Speaker 1: you sure can. Let me be the first to tell 378 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: you it's gonna rain. You didn't know. I want to 379 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 1: tell you. I'm gonna break the news. It's gonna rain. Heavily, 380 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:27,439 Speaker 1: beginning later tonight all the way into tomorrow and then 381 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 1: the Wednesday, and then who knows, you may drowning to 382 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: turn around, don't drown, see it come in your way anyway? 383 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:39,119 Speaker 1: Who keep an eye on those poor mountain people may 384 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 1: get some snow too mixed in there. We're now turning 385 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 1: our attention toy'd you say this? Oh yeah, that would 386 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: be a good time to go get food. I suppose 387 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,679 Speaker 1: that is good advice. Okay, do they still have the 388 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:55,639 Speaker 1: old snow up there? Or did that go away? I 389 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,720 Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know how much melted. Or I 390 00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 1: thought you were going to go to your place and 391 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 1: arrowhead and check out. That's the kind of stupid thing 392 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,919 Speaker 1: you shouldn't do. Well. The ski people love did I? 393 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:12,360 Speaker 1: I know you don't ski really, but no, this tomorrow, 394 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: we believe, is the hundredth day of may or best eddie? Yeah? 395 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,159 Speaker 1: Who the Times already did a pole? What was the 396 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 1: point of that? Oh, she's got good approval ratings, but 397 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: people are skeptical about the homeless. Well, yeah, which I 398 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 1: which the number one problem, which I found to be 399 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:31,360 Speaker 1: really a ridiculous pole. They approve of her, she's got 400 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 1: one job to clean up the homeless, and they don't 401 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 1: think she could do it. So but you pegged her, right, 402 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 1: you said, because she's likable and she's friendly and she smiles. Yeah, 403 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: that can go far with some people. That is the 404 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:46,439 Speaker 1: fatal flaw in human beings that they're more likely to 405 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: respond to an emotional feeling than they are to an 406 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: intelligent analysis. There is pointless to try to talk to 407 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: most of these voters rationally anymore. They just don't respond 408 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: to it. Their brains freeze up. You can't you can't 409 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:04,119 Speaker 1: approve of somebody because you liked their smile. You have 410 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 1: to look at what they do, and they do. That's 411 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 1: what was fascinating is they don't believe she's going to 412 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 1: do it in the future. It wasn't a judgment on 413 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: you know what's happening now. It's it's like, what your 414 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:21,879 Speaker 1: expectations and not much so. You know, they released these numbers. 415 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,199 Speaker 1: The city will have housed a total of four thousand 416 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 1: people in her first hundred days. Not all of them 417 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 1: are from her inside safe programs. Some were already being 418 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: helped through other initiatives. But now there's this story that 419 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,919 Speaker 1: largely they're taken to hotels, but it looks like they 420 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 1: are playing musical vagrants. Princeton Parker was a thirty eight 421 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 1: year old living in a tent on LA's West Side, 422 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: in fact, just outside of John's house. Thirty eight. Thirty 423 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:51,440 Speaker 1: eight tis thirty I'd love the ages of these people. 424 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 1: I always noticing thirty eight. He was delighted by his 425 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: move to the Hotel Silver Lake, at the edge of 426 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 1: Silver Lake and his dark Filipino town. The rooms were large, 427 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 1: his friends from the encampment a close by. I felt 428 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:09,920 Speaker 1: like I finally had a home. Oh, but they moved him, 429 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 1: and they took him to a hotel in downtown LA 430 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 1: and then that didn't work out, so he ended up 431 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: in a third hotel in Hollywood. He's been lonely and 432 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 1: isolated ever since. Now. I don't want to feel sorry 433 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 1: for this guy because together, because he had his friend. 434 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: What are you a high school kid? I'm my friends 435 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 1: near me at this hotel, it was great. Have you 436 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:39,120 Speaker 1: thought about going to work, Princeton and finding your own 437 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:43,919 Speaker 1: place to live, even if it's in Nebraska. I'm sorry, 438 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 1: but I'm sorry, mister Shampoau. That is the wrong answer. No, 439 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 1: that is the real answer, And the only way out 440 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,679 Speaker 1: of this, because this is a morass that'll go on 441 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,160 Speaker 1: for decades if we allow it to continue like this, 442 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: with the idea that we have to set everybody up 443 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 1: in housing and they can't be moved. Look, look how 444 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 1: entitled this guy is. I mean, he's We've given him 445 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 1: three hotels, but since they moved him out of the 446 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: second hotel, I was extremely excited to be at Hotel 447 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: silver Lake and they just took that from me. They 448 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,120 Speaker 1: just took that from me. You did free rent, right, 449 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 1: You didn't own the hotel room. You weren't paying for 450 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: the hotel room. H Yeah, yeah, they took it from me. No, 451 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 1: you're getting you're taking my tax money from me. Princeton, 452 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: how do you end up with the name Princeton? And yeah, 453 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: you end up flat out on the street. What's what's 454 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 1: that story? But of course the hack reporter David Zanier 455 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 1: doesn't ask Princeton Parker, why aren't you working? What's the 456 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 1: last job you held? Why did you leave that job? 457 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,399 Speaker 1: What keeps you from getting a new job and earning 458 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 1: money instead of sponging off the tax payers and bitching 459 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: that you've been you're moving from hotel to hotel. What 460 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: makes you think you're you you deserve a hotel? What 461 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:11,200 Speaker 1: makes you think we should put up with you living 462 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 1: on the sidewalk? So we're back to you. Go. Soto 463 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,679 Speaker 1: Martinez is the LA councilman that took over from Mitchell 464 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: Farrell's district includes the infamous Echo Park Lake. Apparently recently 465 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: Inside Safe because you mentioned this the other day, John, 466 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,439 Speaker 1: Their accoumpment's near Echo Park Lake. It's still out a 467 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: fence around it. So they sent out Inside Safe Outreach 468 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 1: workers to move those people. And apparently the claim is 469 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 1: they moved him into hotels, but that displaced other homeless people, 470 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 1: maybe like that guy we just mentioned who had to 471 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 1: be moved to downtown La. The man at the front 472 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: of the story, what's his name, Parker? It's this the game. 473 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: In order to appease people on the west side, they 474 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,199 Speaker 1: moved some of the homeless into the hotels. Now who 475 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:02,880 Speaker 1: appease people in the severer Lake district? They moved they 476 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: moved people into the hotels, and now the west side 477 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 1: people are kicked out? And is that what they're gonna do. 478 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,240 Speaker 1: They're gonna try to get a headline in every district 479 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: to make it look like to the roobs they're making progress, 480 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 1: that they're making progress, when in fact they are moving 481 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,639 Speaker 1: people around and all these people are going to be 482 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,920 Speaker 1: back out on the streets, and do they all count 483 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 1: as homeless that are housed? Like, if he's put away 484 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,679 Speaker 1: in three different hotels, does that count as three people 485 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 1: who got homeless services from Bessetti. Here's a fifty three 486 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 1: year old woman, Carolyn Shane Smith. She was moved last 487 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,160 Speaker 1: one month from a homeless encampment into Hotel silver Lake. 488 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: But apparently they're trying to relocate her to a different 489 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 1: hotel and she's pushing back against it. One of my 490 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,719 Speaker 1: favorite parts in these stories there was I think it 491 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 1: was an activist. They were complaining, and this is something 492 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 1: that goes back to the real heart of the problem 493 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 1: that the Inside Safe program is take people from their 494 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: encampments and taking them to different neighborhoods miles away from 495 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,640 Speaker 1: where they were encamped. Those the activists said, that's not right. 496 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: That's their neighborhood, that's their community. It's not In other words, 497 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 1: moving somebody from silver Lake to downtown, or somebody from 498 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 1: the west Side to silver Lake is just not right. 499 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: When you're doing drugs in the street. That's not your neighborhood. 500 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: You don't have a community when you live homeless. No, 501 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: you're sleeping on a public sidewalk. Communities are formed by 502 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: people actually in housing apartments, homes, yes, people who pay taxes, 503 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 1: and they pay for schools, and they have families, and 504 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: then these families become friends. That creates a community. It's 505 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: not random people who stumbled off buses and spend their 506 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,680 Speaker 1: days sprawled out on the ground. It's not a community. 507 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: There's that woman you mentioned, Caroline Shane Smith, fifty three 508 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,159 Speaker 1: yet three. She wakes up every day as an adult 509 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 1: for thirty five years, and she can't figure it out, 510 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 1: gonna how that happens? Earning five freaking years, and then 511 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,879 Speaker 1: she bitches and complains about the thousands and thousands of 512 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: dollars we're spending on her. Well, she worked in interior design, 513 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 1: but she suffered some sort of major health crisis. Well, 514 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 1: what's the details on that? I don't know. I'm looking 515 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: at her. She's sitting on the stairs here. She doesn't 516 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,159 Speaker 1: look like she's disabled, but I don't know what it is. 517 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:24,120 Speaker 1: It's always vague, right, a major health crisis. Why don't 518 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,440 Speaker 1: you tell us the story. What's the crisis and is 519 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 1: the crisis over? I mean they do you know there's 520 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,400 Speaker 1: medication for things. You're being too real and you're being 521 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 1: too demanding, mister Colebelt, Yeah, I am. You need to 522 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: just tamp it down. This should all be unquestioned. Whatever 523 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: these people want, that's that's what they're counting on. All right, 524 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 1: we got more coming up. Johnny Ken Camp I am 525 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 1: six forty. We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. You're listening 526 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:54,479 Speaker 1: to John and Ken on demand from kfimix. All right, 527 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 1: So something we believe in strongly over the years on 528 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 1: our show is what we call the creeping crawl. So 529 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: what we're talking about now is a bill in Sacramento. Boy, 530 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: this guy's already notorious. I think he's the head of 531 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: the Public Safety Committee, Reggie Jones Sawyer, a Democratic Assemblyman. Yeah, 532 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,919 Speaker 1: from La. No, he's a crazy person. Oh, he really 533 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: is a woke, crazy person. And he's leading the charge 534 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 1: to make sure that any bill that comes to the 535 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: Public Safety Committee does not result in any new people 536 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,960 Speaker 1: being imprisoned or any extended prison time. That they block 537 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 1: it all that's been their work. But this idea each 538 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 1: year state of California sets aside about forty million dollars. 539 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 1: They give it to the dreaded nonprofits to provide defense 540 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 1: and other legal services to low income immigrants and their families. 541 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 1: What we're largely talking about is illegal immigrants, because it's 542 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: about a lot of it's about not being deported. Okay, 543 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 1: So the idea he has now is to remove one 544 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 1: barrier to getting legal support. That would be for a murderer. 545 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 1: So follow this. If a illegal alien commits a murder, 546 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: gets sentenced to prison in the state, and let's say 547 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 1: it's a life sentence, but there is parole or well, 548 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 1: the way things are working now, it could be supposedly 549 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 1: without parole. Well, let's say the day comes and thanks 550 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,080 Speaker 1: to all of our other laws in California, they get 551 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 1: their release. Well, he now wants to spend money from 552 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 1: illegal fund to make sure the Feds don't deport the murderer. 553 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 1: I'm not kidding him. See, in the past, they allowed 554 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 1: the money to be used for those who were white, 555 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: low level, non serious, non violent offenders, and now he 556 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: wants to add everything, including all serious and violent felonies, robbery, murder, 557 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,000 Speaker 1: you name it. He wants them to get your tax 558 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 1: money to fight deportation. This is like a triple punch 559 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 1: to the face. The illegal alien breaks the law and 560 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 1: comes here, then he kills you. Then we all have 561 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 1: to pay for his defense so he doesn't get deported. 562 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: So let's start from the beginning. He kills you, well, 563 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 1: you know, in the real world, in the good old days, 564 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 1: he gets the death penalty. Oh, but that's off the 565 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: table now, and that's been off the table for years 566 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 1: in California. All right, So he gets life in prison 567 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 1: without parole. But now we're changing the laws and we're 568 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 1: finding loopholes. Let's say he was underage or a youthful offeni, 569 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: or let's say he's old, all right, So now we're 570 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 1: finding ways to make sure he is released. So now 571 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 1: this next step is to make sure he has a 572 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,240 Speaker 1: proper legal defense so the Feds don't come along and 573 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 1: try to deport him because he's not in this country 574 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: I legally. And you're a state, right, you're dead, right, 575 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: the illegal ailing killed you, but you're a state and 576 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 1: you're surviving family members. Their tax money will be used. 577 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 1: They'll have to pay to keep this guy from getting 578 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:01,560 Speaker 1: deported after he killed you. This is the America that 579 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: we have here in California. Well, this Reggie Jones Sawyer 580 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: is a nut. So he's the piece of work. He 581 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 1: is an absolute nut. We've watched this over the years. 582 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 1: Remember the sanctuary law that was passed a few years back. 583 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 1: The state said, Kevin de Leone's work. Drip, drip, drip. 584 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 1: That's what I tell you. Yeah, Incrementally they get a 585 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: little more, make a little more progress every year. To me, 586 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 1: it compares to the homeless. We were just talking about 587 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,960 Speaker 1: how people think it's unfair that homeless people who have 588 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 1: parked in the camp in your community, in a park 589 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: can't be moved to a hotel out of your community 590 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,880 Speaker 1: because they've already set down their roots in your community. 591 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 1: It's the same theory here. People who came into the 592 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 1: country illegally, but they settled down and got a life 593 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 1: in California. Well, but they commit murder, Well, so what 594 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: they got when they're done serving their time, we don't 595 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: want them to port it because they are a member 596 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 1: of the California community. You follow this lodge out, Yeah, oh, 597 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 1: they got so comfortable, they felt they felt comfortable enough 598 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 1: to start killing people in the community. Yes, because yes, 599 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: here they have connections, they have family, and we don't 600 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:12,320 Speaker 1: want them deported because they are apart. You know. It's anarchy, 601 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:13,920 Speaker 1: is what it is. They have a lot of nice 602 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 1: sounding coverage stories and theories, but it's actually about just 603 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,960 Speaker 1: destroying the way we live. That's their purpose. This story 604 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,680 Speaker 1: points out that there's pretty much no other state that 605 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 1: provides free legal counsel to people who are facing deportation. 606 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 1: Who else would think of this? Every day there's a 607 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,040 Speaker 1: story that's like, how the hell do you think of this? 608 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 1: It's hard to believe. Conways here hey now, hey, now, hey, now, 609 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,120 Speaker 1: lots of righting coming in so um. If you're here 610 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 1: illegally or illegally, it doesn't matter, you're gonna get wet, 611 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 1: so good. No, but but they hand out to umbrellas 612 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 1: to the illegal. You don't get on all right, all right, 613 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 1: LUSC might be striking. That might affect a lot of 614 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 1: people listening to kfive. Maybe maybe not, Yeah, maybe not. 615 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 1: It's a good answer. Eminent domain. They might actually grab 616 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,120 Speaker 1: forty four businesses in Inglewood to make room for trains 617 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:11,720 Speaker 1: to so Far and the keya form, you know, because 618 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 1: no real way to get there now you have to 619 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: drive and park and parking's at nightmare. So they're trying 620 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 1: to put a light rail into there, but so they 621 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:19,760 Speaker 1: I think they're gonna ride it right up. A friend 622 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,280 Speaker 1: of mine went to that Billy Joel Stevie Nicks concert 623 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:27,240 Speaker 1: Crozier wim. Yeah, he said, the whole traveling situation, parking situation, 624 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,920 Speaker 1: three hours to get home. Yeah, we're just abominable. Yeah, 625 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 1: it's the first time he'd gone there, because I'm not 626 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:36,000 Speaker 1: going back there for anything. Yeah, they got to fix that, 627 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,240 Speaker 1: you know. I mean a lot of people are turned 628 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,720 Speaker 1: off by that. Yeah, it's it's tough. Yeah, no, you 629 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,400 Speaker 1: you you caused somebody three hours to get home and 630 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,280 Speaker 1: they're not going back there. They don't care what it is. 631 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,160 Speaker 1: There's no game good enough, there's no no no. It's 632 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 1: like the Hollywood Bowl, you know. Halfway through the concert, 633 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 1: you're like, how the f am I gonna get out 634 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,240 Speaker 1: of here. That's all my wife does every time we 635 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 1: go halfway through anything, she's already plotting the escape. That's right. 636 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,320 Speaker 1: She says to me, Well, you want you want to 637 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 1: walk to the to the top of the stands and 638 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,680 Speaker 1: you can watch the last place. They don't say this 639 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:07,680 Speaker 1: in New York city can get an easy subway, right, 640 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,480 Speaker 1: the Yankee Stadium and then the City field right right. 641 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 1: They don't say this. All stadiums have a subway or 642 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:19,600 Speaker 1: a light rail. Anaheim does, San Francisco does, yeah, Oakland 643 00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,600 Speaker 1: does you know? San Diego? They all do except us 644 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:26,359 Speaker 1: New York, Philly bust. Yeah, they all have. Chicago, yes, 645 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:30,319 Speaker 1: right there, accept us, accept us, right, and we're and 646 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,680 Speaker 1: we just got one. We're just getting one to the airport. 647 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,400 Speaker 1: People have had that for thirty years. It's pretty funny, 648 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:41,440 Speaker 1: all right, it sucks. All right, well big don yga, 649 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,120 Speaker 1: let's go come. It's period full stop. They done. Let's 650 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:47,440 Speaker 1: Crozier has to do live in the twenty for our 651 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,839 Speaker 1: can Hey, you've been listening to The John and Ken Show. 652 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,320 Speaker 1: You can always hear us live on caf I AM 653 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:57,000 Speaker 1: sixty one pm to four pm every Monday through Friday, 654 00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:00,600 Speaker 1: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeart Radio app.