1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 1: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,720 Speaker 1: six forty, the perfect. 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:10,799 Speaker 2: Song to the final John and Ken Show, John Cobelt, 4 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 2: Kent Champeau, CAFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the 5 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. 6 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 1: Yeah. One of my very fond memories is Tony Vallar. 7 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: I tell you I'll cherish the years he was mayor, 8 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 1: and you said the same thing because Garcetti followed him. 9 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, but he provided so much material for us any 10 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 2: good years as mayor. Valar's years were were terrible, but 11 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 2: they shine in comparison to Garceta. That's the thing. Look 12 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 2: where we're going. I know we didn't have the homeless 13 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 2: and the crime during the Via Garcia years, right, So 14 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 2: I was going over. 15 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: The governors today too, that had been in charge of 16 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: California since I've been on the air here at KFI, 17 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: and I was thinking that's also gone downhill. 18 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we came in during the time of Pete Wilson. 19 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 2: Pete Wilson then the best of the lot since we 20 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 2: were here, right, you know, we have a special guest 21 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 2: who recorded a message for you, and I wanted to 22 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 2: start the show with it. 23 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:09,960 Speaker 1: So if you're ready. I don't want to do anything today. 24 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,320 Speaker 1: I look, you want me to sing songs, I'll sing songs. 25 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: I can do that for three hours. 26 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 2: I don't want to work. I just want to bang 27 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 2: on the drum all day. 28 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what you're gonna be singing. That is environment 29 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:27,960 Speaker 1: so on Thursday afternoon, and you know, sitting on your 30 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: back deck. No, I've arranged for my own guest this 31 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: hour because yours are not impressing me as much. 32 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 2: So all right, well maybe you like this one. All right, 33 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 2: roll it, Eric. 34 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 3: This is Gray Davis. Now, I know some of you 35 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 3: may be wondering why I'm calling to wish Ken well. 36 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 3: Well I do wish him well, but i'm calling primarily 37 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 3: you can make sure he's actually retiring. And John, if 38 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 3: you're listening when the time is right, I'm happy to 39 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 3: wish you farewell. 40 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 2: Now. 41 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 3: I know you guys advertise yourselves as equal opportunity critics. 42 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 2: I never really believe that. 43 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 3: But shortly after I left office, I think four days 44 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 3: has passed, and you were criticizing poor Arnold. He just 45 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 3: got there. I can't remember exactly what you were criticizing 46 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 3: him for, but at the very end you said even 47 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 3: Gray Davis would not have done that, and I thought 48 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 3: to myself, maybe these guys really do criticize everybody. 49 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 2: Wow, how did you get that one? He never came 50 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 2: on the show. I know if he had come on 51 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 2: the show and showed that sense of humor, he would 52 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 2: not have gotten recalled. 53 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: Maybe you know he haunted me after that recall. I 54 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: kept running into him on flights up to the Bay Area. 55 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:42,519 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, du it's Gret Davis. And 56 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: I think twice three times that happened. 57 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 2: Did you on my trips? Did you talk? I did 58 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 2: not know. I did not You didn't introduce yourself. This 59 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:49,399 Speaker 2: was not long. 60 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 1: After the recall, so I didn't know what I would 61 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: get if I did that, right, I'm. 62 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 2: Not quite like a Bengal Tiger. Yeah, that guy I'd 63 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 2: Ken Johnny Ken's show. Who we had a lot to 64 00:02:57,280 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 2: do with your demise. Thanks, but look a good day. 65 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,799 Speaker 2: It looks like the wounds have healed. He was thanking yes, 66 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 2: So what did you reach out to like his? Uh? 67 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 2: I don't know what A staff anymore pulled this off. 68 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 2: It's just HERA sent me the message last night, the recording, 69 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 2: and I just I couldn't believe you were shocked. Yeah. 70 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 2: I reached out to a bunch of people who who 71 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,639 Speaker 2: I thought would and Greg Davis did it. I got 72 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 2: to give him credit. 73 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, yeah, sir, Well, like we were always said, 74 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 1: he's kind of a strange wild card in some respects 75 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,639 Speaker 1: boring with his turkey sandwiches and what was it broccoli 76 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 1: or broccoli? 77 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 2: I think steam, broccoli and turkey, right right, or steam 78 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 2: and turkey and broccoli. I don't know. 79 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: Uh, it's weird that you were you were going to 80 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: play that because I was just talking about the governors 81 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: and we don't prepare, no, Sarry, you pulled out one. 82 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 2: Our plan was to surprise you with that to open 83 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 2: the show, and then you mentioned the governor. 84 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: The governor, I was thinking about the mayors of la 85 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 1: and the governors, and of course a lot of our 86 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: show has been kicking politicians butts around. Yeah, for all 87 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: these years. That's a big element which I never saw 88 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: coming for people who don't know. I got into radio 89 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: because I loved pop music in the nineteen sixties and 90 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: seventies and into the eighties. That's all I did is 91 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: listen to the top forty and pop music and Casey's Countdowns, 92 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: and I wanted to be a DJ. But you know, 93 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:20,480 Speaker 1: life has a way, right, And when you and I 94 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 1: first got teamed up, yeah, we were playing some songs, 95 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 1: but we talked a lot. And then talk radio was 96 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: coming down the pike as a very popular format, and 97 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: we just kind of rode that wave as it took 98 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 1: off from the late eighties into the nineties. 99 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 2: But this is not what you played to do with 100 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 2: your life. Not well, no, not as far as radio. 101 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:39,279 Speaker 1: I was a kid, I always wanted to be in radio, 102 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: h But I didn't really have a concept of this 103 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:42,799 Speaker 1: kind of format. 104 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:45,480 Speaker 2: You know, it didn't sixties and seventies. We didn't exist. 105 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: It did not exist. I had no idea that we 106 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 1: were going to end up doing this. 107 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 2: In fact, it didn't exist at the time we started 108 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 2: doing it right, right, right, you know, and I don't 109 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 2: know how particularly well, I guess you could say, because 110 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:01,039 Speaker 2: we're in Atlantic City, which which is a cesspool of 111 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 2: corruption for years between the mob and just the bad 112 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 2: political leaders, right, and that's kind of how we latched 113 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 2: onto our first you know, let's go after the elected people, 114 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 2: right with the city council there, the mayor. Yeah, Donald 115 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 2: Trump was the good guy in that era in Atlanta. 116 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 2: He was right, he was, he was kind of the 117 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 2: good guy. 118 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: And then we moved over to another station in Trenton, 119 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 1: which covered big area of New York, New Jersey and 120 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 1: even Pennsylvania, and did that governor there. You know, Jim 121 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 1: Floria was an idiot too, So this kind of gathered 122 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 1: steam on its own based on just the corrupt in 123 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:37,600 Speaker 1: ect politician before us. And then we got the Gray 124 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:41,280 Speaker 1: Davis and that was a nice message, well kind of, 125 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: although there's a tone to it. You're right, it's like John, 126 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: when you're ready to retire, I'll be glad because I. 127 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 2: Want you out. I'll be happy to shovel on your grave. Yeah, 128 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 2: we just had the twentieth anniversary of the recall not 129 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 2: too long ago. Yes, I was. I was repick on 130 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 2: Schwarzenegger within a week. Maybe we did. I don't know. 131 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 2: That's that's Davis's he said, there's four days. He said 132 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 2: four days. Even Grey Davis wouldn't do that. 133 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 4: I know. 134 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,840 Speaker 1: I remember getting frustrated with him more into two thousand 135 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: and five when they had those special measures they put 136 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 1: on the ballot. He wasn't campaigning, and it sounded like 137 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: he was just bending with the wind. That I remember better, 138 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: but I don't remember days after we took office. 139 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 2: But it's always possible. So if you haven't heard because 140 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 2: you weren't paying attention, today is Ken's last day. I 141 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 2: am going to take a few days off and then 142 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 2: I'm going to do the show solo starting Tuesday, December twelfth. 143 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 2: And then Ken goes to his rest home and I 144 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 2: tell you what we guess No, it's you have a 145 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:46,839 Speaker 2: rest home for me. Huh oh yeah, yeah, well in Bidenville. Yeah, 146 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 2: it's going to. 147 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 1: Be weird because it'll seem like a few days off too, 148 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 1: just like you're doing. Sure, I don't know what I 149 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,280 Speaker 1: think it's going to be next year before I really realize, 150 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:56,479 Speaker 1: Oh that's right, I'm done with this. Yeah, after the holloway, 151 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 1: because we're rolling into the holidays and all that stuff. 152 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 2: You don't really think about that usually took a lot 153 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 2: of time off at the end of the year. 154 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: At the end of the year, right, So yeah, And again, 155 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: the reason it's today, Wednesday, December sixth, is because this 156 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: is the end of the real ratings period for radio. 157 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: I just picked that Nielsen ratings right there you go 158 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: and you're that's the only thing you weren't going to 159 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: work when it doesn't matter that December is often to 160 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: write off right the Discember music is played, people are 161 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: distracted exactly doesn't become really worth butt too heavily involved 162 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: on the show today we have three three montages to 163 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: play which will take you roughly the first twenty years 164 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: of the show. 165 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 2: And I thought that was I was thinking. 166 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: About that yesterday or the other day. There's like nothing 167 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 1: from the last ten years. 168 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 2: What happened? Did we stink? 169 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 5: Uh? 170 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 2: No, it's just a lot of it's the same. I 171 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 2: didn't think there was any point in going over COVID 172 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 2: Trump clips and COVID clips and homeless clips. We're still 173 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 2: living with all that. Okay, this is the stuff a 174 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 2: lot of people will have forgotten about or maybe were 175 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 2: never remembered. They weren't listening back then. They weren't even 176 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 2: old enough to listen back then. So for those of 177 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 2: you on the older side, you will remember a lot 178 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 2: of these clips, uh, And for those of you on 179 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 2: the younger side, this is what we used to do 180 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 2: back in the nineties and two thousands. We also have 181 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 2: a number of recorded guests to wish you farewell, and 182 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 2: we're going to try to squeeze all this in. It 183 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 2: could be some walk in people here in the building 184 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 2: might walk in, Is that right? Yeah, it could be. 185 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 6: Well, and I want I would like to I would 186 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 6: like to say goodbye to Ken too on the air. 187 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, haven't you been doing that for like weeks? No, 188 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 2: she asked, specially the longest goodbye if she can. 189 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: That's about it, yes, right, pictures always with you and them? 190 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, Well, you know what it's always about. 191 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: Remember this at the end of the John and Ken 192 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: trill of the John and Kennon DeBras Shore. 193 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 6: I know, but I'm part of you, right, So I 194 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 6: just wanted to You're a part of me. 195 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 2: You can sing that song. You're a part of me. 196 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 2: See you get John tosiing, then you know we're on. 197 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 2: All right, we come back, we'll play a farewell message 198 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 2: and we'll cover the news of the day, and then 199 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 2: later in the hour we're going to play the one 200 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 2: montage from the nineteen nineties to Amuse You Johnny Ken Show, Ki, 201 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:24,840 Speaker 2: Johnny Ken Show, John Cobell, Ken shamt PO, CAFI AM 202 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 2: six forty Live everywhere on the ar Heart Radio app 203 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 2: and here's another farewell message. 204 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 7: Hey Ken, it's Gary, you know, one of the fun 205 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 7: bunnies from the Gary and Shannon Show. 206 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 2: Listen. 207 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 7: Huge congratulations on finally pulling the plug on this radio thing. 208 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 7: You have been consistently one of the anomalies in this 209 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 7: place or any radio station, someone who I think truly 210 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 7: cares about other people. You always had a great ability 211 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 7: to ask what was going on in other people's lives. 212 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 7: And amazingly, every place I've worked since I started in 213 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 7: radio and Sacramento in ninety eight, nineteen ninety eight, that is, 214 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 7: it carried some version of the John and Ken syndicated show. 215 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 7: It was in Sacramento, I moved to Seattle, and that 216 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 7: was I followed you there basically. And I realize that 217 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:13,719 Speaker 7: Shannon and I have a lot of work to do 218 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 7: to come even close to matching the success that you've 219 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 7: had with John. So congratulations on the retirement. Enjoy the travel, 220 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 7: and most importantly, enjoy the quiet. 221 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 2: Well that's very nice, Gary Hoffman. 222 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: Very often from the Yeah we played Shannon yesterday, So 223 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 1: Gary and Shannon shined again. 224 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 2: Yes, you got there, you go, you made the right connection. 225 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 2: I have, Yeah, a lot of. 226 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 1: Interest in everyone else's life. 227 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,680 Speaker 2: Did you do right? Everything should be nice today. Let's 228 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 2: be nice, even if you have to make stuff up. 229 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 4: Right? 230 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: Oh my god, No, all right. I just sent you 231 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 1: all a picture of Johnny Ken from nineteen ninety three. 232 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 2: So cute. 233 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, you guys look so adorable. 234 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 2: So young. Yeah, so young, Oh my gosh. 235 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 6: Ken, You know you look wow actor. You look like 236 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 6: an actor there. But I'm trying to figure out who. 237 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 1: But I'm trying to figure out is what happened to 238 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 1: my hand? I don't remember that injury. Do you see 239 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: you have a bandage there? Yeah, I don't I don't 240 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 1: remember that. Yeah, I broke my hand, but it was 241 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:15,719 Speaker 1: years before that. Playing softball one time they got ran 242 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: into my right hand. I think it's my left hand 243 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: action low heeler, but I don't remember what that was. 244 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:23,559 Speaker 2: So, but that was Jack's Bicycles. 245 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: I know that because it's got that date on the 246 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: back of June of nineteen ninety three. 247 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 2: I remember that, Yeah, and was one of. 248 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, one of our first big appearances is KF. I 249 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: used to do a big event there with Jack's Bicycles 250 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 1: in Orange County. I don't remember what city. Do you 251 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 1: remember John or was Hunington Beach? I think Huntington Beach. Okay, yeah, 252 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 1: I don't know if that's still there. Yeah, yeah, And 253 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 1: I don't even know how I got this picture. Obviously 254 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: it's like an old Yeah, obviously it's before digital. It's 255 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: like an old Polaroid camera or something like that. I 256 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: had a copy of it lying around, so. 257 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:52,679 Speaker 2: Oh, well, yeah, we got a dever. You got to 258 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 2: post this online. Yeah, I'm posting it, okay, all right, 259 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 2: the posters are at work, all right. 260 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: One note from the news which is certainly worth bringing 261 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: up because he's an idiot and I will not miss 262 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 1: him unless you're gonna play me a Gavin Newsom message. 263 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 2: Later, are you no? Okay? Sure, I don't know, going great, Davis, 264 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:12,439 Speaker 2: that was pretty big. Yeah, I know. I don't know 265 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 2: if we can top that. Schwarzenegger coming on. I don't know. Oh, 266 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 2: that's an I don't know. 267 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 5: I don't know. 268 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, Well you said no right away to new them. 269 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 2: He's in the Bahamas. We actually tried, and I think 270 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 2: he would do it, but he's shooting a movie in 271 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 2: the Bahamas or something, or he's being detained there. I 272 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 2: don't know. We're trying to get him between scenes. 273 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, he is shooting a movie, so, oh my god, 274 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 1: you know what movie schedules are like. Newsomb can't canceled 275 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 1: the in person annual holiday tree. 276 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 2: Lighting at the Capitol. 277 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: They postponed it a day and they moved it online, 278 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:49,720 Speaker 1: which means it's going to be tonight. 279 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 2: It'll be streamed. Isn't that often? 280 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:54,599 Speaker 1: Because he's running from the Palestinian protesters. 281 00:12:55,280 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 2: Those are his voters, they are, yeah, and he's afraid 282 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 2: of them. And so what he did is he penalized 283 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 2: all the Christians and everybody else who wanted to celebrate 284 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 2: the lighting of the Christmas tree. How come everybody else 285 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 2: lost out? That tradition has been going on in Sacramento 286 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:17,719 Speaker 2: ninety two. It would be the ninety second annual tree lighting, Yeah, 287 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 2: since the nineteen thirties, so since the nineteen thirties. And 288 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom cancels it because of some terrorist protesters. I'm sorry. 289 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 2: If you are protesting for the Palestinians, you are supporting 290 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,319 Speaker 2: Hamas at this point, you. 291 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: Are They showed up anyway, two hundred people ended up 292 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 1: at the Capitol anyway, Despite the cancelation of the in 293 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 1: person ceremony, So they did calme. They knew they were 294 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: coming in, and he thought it would be disruptive. Really 295 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 1: spirits of them, So they win. So two hundred Yeah, 296 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: that's how I felt too. 297 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 2: So two hundred crazy people get to cancel Christmas for 298 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 2: everybody else. Boy, that that's wrong, he said, for the 299 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 2: safety and security of members and guests. How about you 300 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 2: create safety and security. How about it's your job to 301 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 2: make it secure so that all the all the citizens 302 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 2: who pay taxes here, let them celebrate their holiday. Can 303 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 2: you imagine canceling? 304 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:11,320 Speaker 6: Uh? 305 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 2: Oh, you could list the groups if we canceled their 306 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 2: holidays or their special days, right, but Christian people celebrating Christmas? 307 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 2: The hell with them? That that is one of his 308 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 2: worst decisions. 309 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 1: You can't give in because this is what they're doing. 310 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: They're going to go to any big public event and 311 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 1: and protests, and if you start cancing the events are 312 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 1: gonna feel like they won. All Right, we sent everybody 313 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: back inside. No Christmas tree public lighting ceremony. 314 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 2: So we can't enjoy a Christmas tree being lit up 315 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 2: because there are too many crazy people supporting a terrorist group. Right, Well, 316 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 2: that's that's a good day in America. What a coward 317 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 2: he is? What a simpering, simpering weasel, coward, coward. I 318 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 2: can't even speak. All right, when we come back. Well, 319 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 2: I've arranged for a guest. How about that. 320 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: I see this is someone who's known me longer than anybody, 321 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: including you, anybody. I shouldn't say anybody. My family's known 322 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 1: me longer than anybody. But we're talking about fifty years. 323 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 2: How's that? 324 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 3: Wow? 325 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, high school. He calling from the home too, he's 326 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 2: you can ask him does he have phone privileges? 327 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: I do keep in touch with them, and I don't 328 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: think that's the case, but you can certainly ask. 329 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 2: Them about the home. 330 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: Well, I don't want to embarrass him because he is 331 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: sort of retired. Well we'll explain that, all right, Johnny 332 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 1: Ken k if I am six forty live everywhere. 333 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app John Ken Show, John Cobell and Ken Champeau 334 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 2: Ki am six forty well everywhere, I mean, iHeartRadio app. 335 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 2: Ken's last day. We're on the radio till four and 336 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 2: if you missed the show, I want to hear the 337 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 2: entire Felaware Farewell. It'll be on the It'll be the 338 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 2: podcast John and kennon demand on the iHeart app farewell Fairware. 339 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: Fair fell well, you want to hear the entire fairware fairweare. 340 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 1: I make a lot of speeches today, I really am. 341 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 1: So here's the first one. 342 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 2: Goodbye. I keep him short, That's what I like to do. 343 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 2: You did most of the talking during these thirty five years. 344 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: Anyway, and it was like seive, I always have to 345 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: wait for just a little gap, he breathed. 346 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 2: So I got a chance to say something. Look, I 347 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 2: won't say a word today. Is that right? Is not 348 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 2: gonna ask? 349 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 4: Right? 350 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 2: Yeah? 351 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 5: All right? 352 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 2: So I'm hearing from people from my. 353 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: Life, obviously that I reached out to and told him 354 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: that I was ending it on December sixth. One of 355 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 1: them left me a voicemail this morning. And the reason 356 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 1: I'm putting him on the air, well, other than that 357 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 1: he's a longtime friend, I don't think he's ever been 358 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: on the show either, is that he he the voicemail 359 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 1: transcripts as follows. My Google question today is to find 360 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: out how do I get on the John and Ken 361 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: Show on Ken's last day? 362 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 2: So your wish is our command, right, all you have 363 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 2: to do is ask. 364 00:16:57,120 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 1: Now you have to do his ask. Our producer got 365 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 1: him on. Let's talk to one of my longest friends. 366 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: His name is George Sunstrom. 367 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,719 Speaker 2: George, good afternoon, Welcome there you go. 368 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: You're on. 369 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 4: Thank you. Thanks. It's amazing on your Fairway show today 370 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,679 Speaker 4: that I got a chance to be on. 371 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:19,439 Speaker 2: Well, all right, this is your moment. What do you 372 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 2: have to say? 373 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 1: Since you googled and you were searching hard to get 374 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 1: on the show, this is your moment. 375 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 4: Well, I'm sitting around this morning doing nothing. I figured, 376 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 4: you know, I could give you a call at home, 377 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 4: or I could try to surprise you. But I couldn't 378 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,160 Speaker 4: find a phone number. So I called you at home 379 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:39,399 Speaker 4: and told you what I did. I googled out to 380 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 4: try to get on the show. 381 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 2: So you and Ken were friends in high school. 382 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, we actually met in junior high. Junior high, we 383 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,639 Speaker 4: both tried out for the junior high basketball team. He 384 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:53,400 Speaker 4: was a tall guy who could shoot from the outside 385 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,679 Speaker 4: but couldn't defend on the inside. And I was a 386 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:58,360 Speaker 4: small guy who could shoot on the inside but got 387 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:00,919 Speaker 4: my shot blocked by the big guys who were inside 388 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:01,880 Speaker 4: and we both got cut. 389 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 2: So h between the two of you, you might have 390 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 2: been a player. This must be an alternate universe. But 391 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:12,439 Speaker 2: I'm enjoying this. So, so what was he like in 392 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 2: junior high? 393 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 4: You know, Well, I would say that Ken and I 394 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:24,880 Speaker 4: were both just kind of studious. We were good students. 395 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 4: We were we We were smart enough to be in 396 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,440 Speaker 4: the classes with the smart kids, but not as smart 397 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:34,360 Speaker 4: as them. We were athletic, but not as athletic as 398 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 4: the jocks, so we didn't fit in the jock circle. 399 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,400 Speaker 4: We certainly weren't in the popular crowd. So we kind 400 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 4: of gravitated to each other through a number of our friends, 401 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,639 Speaker 4: who you know, we hung out together during high school 402 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 4: and junior high and high school and and that kind 403 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 4: of fit into our own little niche there. Yeah, and 404 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 4: then you know, became good friends through high school, and 405 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 4: I've managed to stay in touch all through the years. 406 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 4: Kenn's godfather to my youngest child, Yes, and he comes 407 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 4: from a great family. We were all very blessed that 408 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 4: each of our parents, of our friends, our circle of 409 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 4: friends accepted us, welcomed us into their homes at any time. 410 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 4: So we were kind of boring as teenagers. We didn't 411 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 4: go out and get in trouble. 412 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 2: No trouble, you tell him what we did on many 413 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 2: a night. 414 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,359 Speaker 4: Well, so I did think about this. 415 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 2: Hardly. We played cards. We played cards constantly. 416 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 4: We did play cards. But the other thing we did 417 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 4: that we had more fun doing was there were psychiatric 418 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 4: hospitals in two psychiatric hospitals within about twenty minutes of 419 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 4: where we lived, and at that time was just they 420 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 4: were just beginning to outpatient the patients from the psychiatric 421 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 4: hospitals and the eventual draw and remove an elimination of those. 422 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:05,879 Speaker 4: And there was a I guess, for lack of a 423 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 4: better term, a halfway house in the neighborhood in our town, 424 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 4: Bayed Shore, where we grew up, and we'd harass these people. 425 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 4: You know today it's not acceptable, but then, but we 426 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 4: would go and harass these people. 427 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 2: This is the story you're going to tell. 428 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 4: Well, which is one of them? 429 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:28,439 Speaker 2: I should have put me with your sister on dang it. 430 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 2: I made a mistake. 431 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 4: Because it leads to your career in broadcast. 432 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: Oh all right, if you want to put it that way, 433 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:36,920 Speaker 1: that's the only reason you can work with me. 434 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:43,160 Speaker 4: So Ken would. So we would go out and kind 435 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:46,639 Speaker 4: of harass them, have fun with it. But Ken also 436 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:50,440 Speaker 4: in the days of cassette recorders, Sorry folks, who don't 437 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 4: know what that is. But he had a cassette recorder 438 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 4: with a microphone. He would go out and interview them. Now, 439 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 4: some of them were sharp and understood where they were 440 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 4: and how they lived and everything, and some of them 441 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 4: thought they were still living in the forties and the 442 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 4: fifties when they were young. And those made for priceless recordings. 443 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 4: I don't think he has them anymore. 444 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 2: But if I could ever get a hold of those, 445 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 2: well that was yeah, But that was the work of 446 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 2: our friend Lewis. He did that. But I was there, 447 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 2: and you were right. I was there too. I asked questions, 448 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:23,440 Speaker 2: but Lewis didn't. 449 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 4: You were asking the questions. You were the one who 450 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 4: was asking you were you were the front man at 451 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:29,639 Speaker 4: that point. 452 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:35,919 Speaker 2: This was his early broadcasting career, interviewing and. 453 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 4: And did I do want to say, you know, Ken, 454 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 4: and I know he's talked about it is he was. 455 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 4: He went to school for accounting. He was a successful accountant, 456 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 4: worked for a major firm in New York City, traveled 457 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 4: the country, was very happy, but then made the decision 458 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 4: to make the change to go to broadcasting. And the 459 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,720 Speaker 4: commitment that he made to go to and I don't 460 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 4: know if it's the right place to cannaty School of 461 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 4: Broadcasting at one of the broadcast schools where he would 462 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:04,920 Speaker 4: actually go to work during the day, work his full 463 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 4: time job and then go to school at night to 464 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 4: uh take a little job in Elmira where he ran 465 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,160 Speaker 4: into somebody he knows for thirty six plus years now, 466 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:14,440 Speaker 4: that's right. 467 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, but don't forget it could have been the George 468 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,400 Speaker 1: and Ken show. I wanted you to get into Radio two. 469 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, and you had that. You know, it started a 470 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 2: family very young, so you had a lot of commitments. 471 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,680 Speaker 2: You had the success interview. 472 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 4: That's time to change, change, change things around, but it did. 473 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 2: You had a lot of commitments. 474 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 4: But you know, I was always impressed by his willingness 475 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,880 Speaker 4: to make that big change and his commitment to it. 476 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 4: And obviously you and you know, both you and John 477 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 4: getting together in really in Atlantic City, even though I 478 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 4: know you met in Almira, you know. And your success 479 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 4: here on the East Coast and then translating that out 480 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 4: to your success on the West coast just you know, 481 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 4: just tremendous, and you know, thirty six years. I retired 482 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 4: recently after thirty five years with the company I worked 483 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 4: with so I know what it is in today's marketplace 484 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:10,880 Speaker 4: where people say, if you're there more than two years, 485 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 4: you're a knucklehead. But to be somewhere and to do 486 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,120 Speaker 4: something at such a high level for such a long 487 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 4: time is doesn't happen very much anymore. And I'm very 488 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,880 Speaker 4: impressed with both of you, even though John, I've never 489 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 4: officially met you. 490 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,679 Speaker 2: Well, I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation and would love to 491 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 2: have more of them. 492 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I want you to know he helped move 493 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: me John from Elmira to Atlantic City. Yes, then we 494 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:39,960 Speaker 1: ran right to the casinos after that and put a 495 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 1: whole quarter in slot. 496 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 2: See, we're very exciting to play slot. 497 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,119 Speaker 4: We were not big gamblers. We liked card games, but 498 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 4: we didn't gamble. 499 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,200 Speaker 2: We didn't gamble, we didn't drink, we didn't gamble. 500 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,399 Speaker 4: I think we I think we spent more time in 501 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 4: the bowling alley at the casino that and then the 502 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 4: casino before the drive home in his Camaro at the time, 503 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:03,919 Speaker 4: which was a nightmare drive because it was snowing. That 504 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,120 Speaker 4: car didn't have much hand I remember the Camaro. Yeah, yeah, 505 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 4: you had that when we met. Now, didn't change the 506 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 4: oil and I blew the engine in your car. I've 507 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,159 Speaker 4: done that too. You've done that, George. Thank you for 508 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:14,640 Speaker 4: coming on. 509 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, buddy, that's pleasure, major wish come true. You wanted 510 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 2: to be on the show, my last show, You got. 511 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 4: It, you go, I finally got on the air. 512 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:22,679 Speaker 3: Well. 513 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 4: I just wanted to say congratulations, enjoy your retirement. I 514 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 4: know that eventually you'll have a lot of plans. I 515 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 4: know you love to travel, and hopefully we get to 516 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 4: see you a little bit more frequently here on the 517 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 4: East Coast and talk to you more than just a 518 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 4: couple of times a year. And John's success in your 519 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:40,920 Speaker 4: solo effort. Thank you. I hope you do well and 520 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 4: hopefully some point in time in the future I get 521 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:43,199 Speaker 4: to meet you. 522 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,200 Speaker 2: I hope so too. Thanks George. All right, there you go. 523 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 1: It's one of my longtime friends, George, who reached out 524 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 1: to me today. 525 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 2: You wanted to know how we could get on my 526 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,879 Speaker 2: last show harassing psyche patients. You never told me this, 527 00:24:55,760 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 2: you know, why would I? Actually I I have mentioned 528 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 2: it kind of. 529 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: I didn't tell the story the same way, but we 530 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 1: had the same experience as we had in California where 531 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: they started to release people from all the psychlistplas because 532 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,360 Speaker 1: they were deemed to be horrible places. And they did 533 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: put him, as George said, like on a sort of 534 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 1: a halfway house, sort of hotel, actually not far from 535 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,679 Speaker 1: my home. And they began to wander the streets. They 536 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 1: go into the church, they'd stand around. See you did 537 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 1: Man on the Street interviews. Yeah, it was my other 538 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 1: friend's ideas, right as Lewis. It was his idea to 539 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: actually bring out a cassette recorder. I forgot that, but 540 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: this Swards is right. That did happen. 541 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 2: All right, we got that's just great. 542 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,119 Speaker 1: More coming up couldn't be John and Ken KF I 543 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 1: AM six forty Well. 544 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 2: I was preparing for the days with you. Obviously when 545 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 2: we come back, we're going to play clips from the 546 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 2: nineteen nineties, stuff that many of you probably have never heard, 547 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 2: and maybe some of you will remember. Johnny Kenshow KFI 548 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,199 Speaker 2: by John Kenshow, John Cobell, Ken Champeau ki AM six 549 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:58,400 Speaker 2: forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. We've got two 550 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 2: more hours of Ken, and we have a lot of 551 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:06,119 Speaker 2: stuff to play, farewell messages, montage clips from a year's past. 552 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 2: We're going to play one right now. This one has 553 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 2: a couple of short things that we played within the 554 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 2: last few weeks, but the whole package is from the 555 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 2: nineteen nineties, especially the first few years when we ran 556 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 2: into all kinds of natural disasters and controversies. This montage, 557 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,159 Speaker 2: I'll just explain a little bit so you know what 558 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 2: you're listening to. Starts with our first appearance on CAFI 559 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 2: as a guest with Darryl Gates, the controversial police chief 560 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 2: from the Rodney King era. He left his job as 561 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:42,120 Speaker 2: police chief and became a CAFI host, and we then 562 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 2: replaced him in that time slot back in nineteen ninety two. 563 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,680 Speaker 2: You're going to hear some clips from our first show, 564 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 2: a number of callers who instantly criticizing they were just 565 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 2: disgusted with us. A little clip on the start of 566 00:26:55,320 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 2: the three Strikes movement and the Menendez brothers strike, and 567 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:04,880 Speaker 2: then us up in helicopters over the fires in Laguna Beach. 568 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 2: So let's roll. We have a new team. 569 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 3: There's come to kfive for more stimulated talk radio or 570 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 3: John and Camp. 571 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 2: You know what makes me nervous, I'll be honest with you. 572 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 2: They tell me you have a gun here in the studio. Well, 573 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 2: you see, you haven't been on long enough to have 574 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 2: threats against you. 575 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 8: I can understand you have a little bodyguard strapped your 576 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,399 Speaker 8: leg that jumps out in case it's Trump. 577 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 7: Is this true? 578 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:29,200 Speaker 2: K F I am six s forty more stimulating talk 579 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 2: radio and welcome to the John and Ken Show. I'm 580 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 2: John Cobo my partner Ken Champeau. Yes, that would be me. 581 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 9: You know, we've been asked probably one million, two hundred 582 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,439 Speaker 9: thousand times over the past week, what do you sound like? 583 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 2: I mean here, what do you do? What are you 584 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,440 Speaker 2: gonna talk about? What? What did you? Shut up and listen? 585 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 9: Because because we don't know, we don't know, we're gonna argue, 586 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,880 Speaker 9: we're gonna entertain. It goes back and forth between us, 587 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:51,680 Speaker 9: between the callers. 588 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 5: You're not stimulating in any way. 589 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 2: You haven't been stimulated. 590 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 4: There, My country thumps. 591 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 9: You've decided all this in twenty five minutes. 592 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 4: Character right away. 593 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,959 Speaker 2: You don't think we're intelligent, You don't think we have characters. 594 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 2: We haven't talked about it. Some people it takes more 595 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 2: to stimulate than others. 596 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 3: You found like the two morning DJs that Howard Stern knockoffs. 597 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 2: That actually is the worst thing that's been said. We've 598 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 2: been on twenty eight minutes. This is an unbelievable tough crowd. Okay, 599 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,440 Speaker 2: we have been following why Richard Allen Davis was allowed 600 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,440 Speaker 2: to walk the streets to strangle Polycloss even though he 601 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 2: had twenty years worth of crimes and felonies on his record. 602 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 2: The three strikes You're out bill should be passed. Three 603 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 2: violenter serious felonies and you've got life in prisonments. And 604 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 2: then his brothers, as you know, hung Jury and Garcetti 605 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 2: all along has complained he didn't have enough money during 606 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 2: the Menendez trial, so we organized the yard sale, sold 607 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 2: a live junk, raised four thousand dollars. Hundreds of people came. 608 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 8: After Garcetti refused to take the money. John went on 609 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 8: a hunger strike which began fifty one hours ago. 610 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 2: We also had a guy giving up his liver medication 611 00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 2: in Long Beach. 612 00:28:58,320 --> 00:28:59,120 Speaker 9: Did we get his numbers? 613 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 2: We can check us if he's a lot, we put 614 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 2: in a call to him. He isn't answering the phone. 615 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 2: He's not answering his phone. He's not answering what if he's. 616 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 8: Lying on the floor reaching for the medication. And last 617 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 8: a shepherd to save himself. It's gonna be How is 618 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 8: that gonna look on the news. It's gonna be on 619 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 8: Garcetti's head and yours. 620 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 2: I didn't tell him to do it. You did a 621 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 2: Gandhi and prompted him to get into this. 622 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 5: John Cobelt Ca Champeau are broadcasting in a helicopter over 623 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 5: the Pacific Ocean right now. Yeah, we are facing directly 624 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 5: and looking at the look on the Bhana's completely overcamped 625 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 5: with both huge flames extending from near the beach inland. 626 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 5: There's nothing left. There's just a few sharks of timber. 627 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 5: The air is south smelling. It's accurate. It makes your 628 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 5: eyes burned by mountain throat or try and there's helicopters 629 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 5: all over the place. They're like mechanical vultures floating through 630 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 5: the air. 631 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 2: There you go, How does look at that? You're right, 632 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 2: the nineties, that was all in the first couple of 633 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 2: years we were here. That was this place was insane. Yeah, right, 634 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 2: there'll always be proud of three strikes. I mean yeah, 635 00:29:58,080 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 2: And you know they've been trying it well, they've been 636 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 2: ripping that apart for all these. 637 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: Decades, I know, but it's still standing. It's a big 638 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 1: reason there were low crime rates for a while, that's right. 639 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 2: And Governor Wilson signed it. I remember the day we 640 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 2: had him on the show. Yes, and he signed the bill. 641 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 2: It also passed a second time, I think as a 642 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 2: as a referendum, right. And you don't know how many 643 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 2: people aren't dead because that passed, you see, right, you 644 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 2: know how many people were not victims? 645 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: I think sadly this year Mike Reynolds, who was behind 646 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 1: that movement to get that passed, and just he died, 647 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: I believe this year Mike Reynolds remember him? 648 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 4: Yeah? 649 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 2: So many? 650 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, of course Mark Klass, Polly's father too, was 651 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: a big part of that. 652 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,960 Speaker 2: There's a documentary out there somewhere of the passage of 653 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 2: three strikes because I know we were in it and 654 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,440 Speaker 2: they interviewed. Maybe he could find it on YouTube somewhere. 655 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 1: But oh and of course the Times thinks it's like 656 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 1: Prop thirteen, it's the scourge of California, right, Yeah. Prop 657 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 1: thirteen and three strikes have really hurt that. Yeah, compared 658 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 1: to everything else that's it's from Sacramentos. Violent felons are 659 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,040 Speaker 1: in prison and that upsets all those little weasels. 660 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 2: Then we'll be right back. Johnny Ken. 661 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty were live everywhere the iHeartRadio app. 662 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 2: Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. 663 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 2: You can always hear the show live on KFI AM 664 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 2: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday, 665 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 2: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.