1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: I AM six forty. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 2: You're listening to the John and Ken Show on demand 3 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:05,959 Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio. 4 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 3: App KFI AM six forty live everywhere and on the 5 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app. And we're gonna be here till four o'clock 6 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 3: when Conway comes along and happy to talk to you 7 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 3: about all the breaking news, and there's tons of it today. 8 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 3: Rudy Giuliani just surrendered to authorities down in Georgia. Former 9 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,479 Speaker 3: President Trump is expected to deuce the same tomorrow, and 10 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 3: we'll undoubtedly hear from him too, unless his lawyers are 11 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 3: able to gag him and the hogtime to keep him 12 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 3: from talking into an open mic debate. 13 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 4: Tonight in Iowa. So we had all that to get into. 14 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:44,840 Speaker 3: And the smash and grabbers have been out in force 15 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 3: all over California and really all across America, but particularly 16 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 3: so here because essentially we told them, hey, the first 17 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:53,160 Speaker 3: nine hundred and fifty dollars a theft is on us, 18 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 3: and we've got a story that is just James Bond 19 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 3: in real life, isn't it. This is probably actually the 20 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 3: mission impossible, And the James Bond movies are now sort 21 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 3: of like becoming boring to today's headlines with the downing, 22 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,680 Speaker 3: and that's what it sure looks like of the plane 23 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 3: carrying the Wagner Group leader. You'vegani Pregosian, who of course 24 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 3: led that rebellion against against Vladimir put well, not against Putin. 25 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 3: This is the splitting The difference here splitting hairs is 26 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 3: he wasn't leading a rebellion against a coup against Putin directly, 27 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 3: but against the military infrastructure. But Putin didn't take it 28 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 3: that way and called him a trader and made it 29 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 3: abundantly clear and has throughout his long career made it 30 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 3: abundantly clear how he treats traders. 31 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 4: In his view, and that is they meet an ugly end. 32 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 3: With the very latest on this story, ABC News correspondent 33 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 3: Andy Field, Andy, Hey, are you. 34 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 4: I'm better than you've got any pregosion? Apparently, yeah, he's. 35 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: You know, he seems to have met the end that 36 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: many people who tend to disagree with the lighterman Putin. 37 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: But again, we don't have any actual confirm proof that 38 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 1: the Russian military shot his plane down. However, pretty much 39 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: everyone in US intelligence is looking at and saying, yeah, 40 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 1: we're not surprised. Probably the most predictable plane crash in 41 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: the history of aviation would be one with him on 42 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: it heading back to Russia. 43 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 3: And this is eerily similar and by the way, unlikely 44 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 3: to get definitive answers to a lot of the questions 45 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 3: that everybody has to. When the President of Poland's plane 46 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 3: crashed in Rush on his way to a state funeral, 47 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 3: we never got we never got a real story on 48 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 3: what happened there either. 49 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, the aviation records pretty good until you 50 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: have an opponent of Putin on the plane. Then the 51 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: odds seem to go down against you in flying on 52 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: these planes here. And look, Putin has a long history 53 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: of poisoning people, killing people, people mysteriously falling off the 54 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: balconies of their hotel. That's another high percentage of bad 55 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: luck for people in Russia. But you know, this is 56 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: really a symptom more than anything, of the fact that 57 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin seems to be losing support across the board 58 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:28,799 Speaker 1: in his own country. And we remember precosions, a pay 59 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: for play mercenary. This is a guy who gets paid 60 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: to go kill people on behalf of Russia. It's not 61 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: just in Ukraine but in many parts of Africa, and 62 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: his troops and these are people that Putin needs to 63 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: execute his war because he doesn't have enough of his 64 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: own people to do it. 65 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 3: Andy, I saw a story yesterday that I was going 66 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 3: to put on the show and then I didn't include 67 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 3: it because it seemed a little too in the weeds, 68 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 3: And now think I put it in a totally different category. 69 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 3: There was a story that broke that said hundreds Wagner 70 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 3: Men of Progosians fighters vanished from Putin's designated exile, a 71 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 3: whole unit dropped from approximately fifty eight hundred to forty 72 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,280 Speaker 3: four hundred, and there's no accounting of where they went. 73 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 3: And the reason I bring this up is, I wonder 74 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 3: if the purge that purge took place before the Progosian 75 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 3: purge took place, assuming that that's in fact what we 76 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 3: saw today, And this wouldn't be a surprise either if 77 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 3: we remember prior to nine to eleven, the Taliban or 78 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 3: al Qaeda took care of the leader of the Northern 79 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 3: Alliance and then just shortly after that nine to eleven happened. 80 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:48,359 Speaker 3: So sometimes you take out, you know, supporters prior to 81 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 3: cutting the head off. 82 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, and again I think it's important to remember that Progosian, 83 00:04:54,800 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: who led this Wagner group for Vaemer Putin, there was 84 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: really a symptom of a much bigger problem than he has. 85 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: That this war has gone on approximately a year and 86 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: a half longer than Lattery. Putin predicted what happen. He 87 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 1: thought he would be in and out of the praying 88 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: within a week and things would be back to normal, 89 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 1: and he would take it over like he's taken over 90 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: Crime Eastern Europe. It did not happen. Has turned the 91 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: world against Russia. His people have suffered mightily from it. 92 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: His government has suffered for it and continues to do so. 93 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:34,159 Speaker 1: But one thing he cannot stand to happen is to 94 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: have dissent within his own ranks, which is what happened 95 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: when Pagosian led this revolt against the Russian government. Then 96 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: suddenly everything was magically okay, which no one in the 97 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: US intelligence thought was the case. And how it appears 98 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: that it wasn't that way, that perhaps Progosian was given 99 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: a false sense of security. But we still have to 100 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: wait for the final outcome on how did this play 101 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: go down. 102 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,479 Speaker 3: We're talking about Andy Field, ABC News correspondent, and of 103 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,360 Speaker 3: course there's a debate tonight in Iowa. And you might think, well, 104 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,039 Speaker 3: these two stories are totally unrelated. But one of the 105 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 3: things that we need to keep in mind as we 106 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:16,159 Speaker 3: go to the polls, both in the primaries and in 107 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 3: the general election, whoever the next president of the United 108 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 3: States is is got to deal with this issue. This 109 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 3: is a clear and present danger, not just to Ukraine 110 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 3: and to Russian dissidents, but this is a threat. This 111 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 3: is a real threat to the Western world. And we 112 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 3: thought that maybe when the wall came down, we had 113 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 3: the quote unquote peace dividend, and all that proved to 114 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 3: be a dream that didn't come true. And the reality 115 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 3: is that Russia is under the thumb of a homicidal 116 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 3: I won't call him a psychopath, a sociopath. I'm not 117 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 3: qualified to make those kinds of diagnosis. But he is 118 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 3: a textbook Russian strong man who is famously quoted as 119 00:06:57,760 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 3: saying that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the 120 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 3: greatest tragedy of the twentieth century. And this is a 121 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,359 Speaker 3: guy who knows Russian history and what Russia suffered in 122 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 3: World War Two, and he still fought the collapse of 123 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 3: the Soviet Union was a greater tragedy. 124 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 1: Well, to make your connection to the debate tonight, there 125 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: are a number of Republicans who actually look at Vladimir Putin, 126 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: the man that you called a few things that don't 127 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: indicate he's the world's greatest leader. They think he's doing 128 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 1: a pretty good job. Ramaswami has come out and said, basically, 129 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: we got to get along with Putin. He doesn't seem to. 130 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 4: Support the. 131 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: Efforts that the US is putting into Ukraine. Former President Trump, 132 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: in an interview just the other day, said that he 133 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: thought he Donald Trump was the apple of Putin's eye 134 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: and famously got along with him during his administration. So 135 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: there are Republicans who are leading in the pack or 136 00:07:55,960 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: going up the polling that are not with Team USA 137 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: but with Team Russia in this year, which makes for 138 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: a very interesting debate, And it'd certainly be something that 139 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: I think. 140 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 3: Will come up in that debate tonight, I would think so. Andy, 141 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 3: thanks so much for being with us. Appreciate Andy Field. 142 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 3: ABC News. Of all the things, of all the things 143 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 3: that have reversed themselves, the political polls that have reversed 144 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 3: over the last couple of years, the fact that the 145 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 3: GOP that once were the you know, you know, the 146 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 3: hardliners on standing up to the quote unquote evil empire. 147 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 3: That's the famous phrase that Ronald Reagan used, and the 148 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 3: GOP stood shouldered his shoulder on being opposed to the 149 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 3: Soviet Union in Russia, Russian aggression. And now I won't 150 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 3: say the whole party has reversed its position on that, 151 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 3: but there certainly is a schism within the party. But 152 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 3: there's a lot of people who seem to have some 153 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 3: kind of odd respect almost for Vladimir Vladimir Putin, And look, 154 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 3: Pregosian was a horrible person. He's a mass murderer, a 155 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 3: killer for high as Andy Field correctly said in Syrian, 156 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 3: all over the place, the president of Russia, the so 157 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:10,199 Speaker 3: called leader of Russia of Vladimir Putin. There's no mystery 158 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 3: about the timing of this, There's no coincidences. Vladimir Putin 159 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 3: is an international war criminal. He couldn't travel to an 160 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 3: international conference in Africa with African leaders because it's in 161 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 3: South Africa and the South African government is under orders 162 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 3: to arrest him if he showed up. 163 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 4: That makes him look very weak. What doesn't make him 164 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 4: look weak? 165 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 3: At home to a feared fearful population is if one 166 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 3: of his enemies gets killed in a quote unquote plane accident. 167 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 3: So much to talk about. We'll get into all of it. 168 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 3: We've got smash and grabbers all over the place. 169 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 2: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 170 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 2: AM six forty. 171 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 3: Doug McIntyre in for John and Ken. We've got smash 172 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,199 Speaker 3: and grab robberies to talk about. We're gonna get into 173 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 3: that in just a bit. They were out in force 174 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,080 Speaker 3: again yesterday, the Writers Guild said, and yet to the 175 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 3: latest proposal by the AMPTP, and some writers are actually 176 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:08,439 Speaker 3: donating their residual checks to help out their fellow members 177 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 3: who are having trouble buying groceries. 178 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:11,199 Speaker 4: We'll get into all of that tonight. 179 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 3: The GOP is holding the first debate, the Fox News Debate, 180 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 3: and the candidates who qualified are going to be on 181 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 3: the platform, except for Donald Trump, of course, who made 182 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 3: the smart move to not go. He had absolutely no 183 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 3: reason to go to this, There was no he had 184 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 3: nothing to gain. He was absolutely right about that. And 185 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 3: the question now is who's actually serious about running for 186 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 3: president amongst this crowd. Well, Ron DeSantis is although any' 187 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 3: looking good, I think there's a chance I will be 188 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 3: president before Ron De Santis is and so he's serious 189 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 3: about it. Chris Christy, we know, is not serious. Chris 190 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 3: Christy is on a suicide mission to take down Donald Trump. 191 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 3: And I suspect and this is amateur psychology on my part, 192 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 3: but I I think that Chris Christy feels guilty that 193 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 3: he helped create President Trump. You know, he was Donald Trump. 194 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 3: People forget he played Hillary Clinton. In twenty sixteen when 195 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,880 Speaker 3: Donald Trump was rehearsing for the presidential debates against Hillary Clinton. 196 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 3: Chris Christy, who he had known for years, played Hillary 197 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 3: Clinton and went after Trump really hard, so he would 198 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 3: be prepared for whatever Hillary threw at him. And I 199 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 3: think that Christy now has decided, for whatever his reasons are, 200 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 3: that he would rehabilitate his reputation in history amongst his 201 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 3: friends at the Jersey Shore or the donut shop, wherever, 202 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 3: wherever he's hanging out if he could be the one 203 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:44,959 Speaker 3: who takes down quote unquote takes down Donald Trump. And 204 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 3: by the way, there's a lot of people who thought 205 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 3: they were going to take down Donald Trump and they haven't. 206 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 3: But anyway, Christy is uniquely qualified because he could be 207 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 3: as big a bully as anybody in the world. And 208 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 3: he has debated Trump in rehearsal as Hillary Clinton, so 209 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 3: he knows what the weak spots are. Nonetheless, that's what 210 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 3: his goal is. Pretty much everybody else Doug Burggham of 211 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 3: North Dakota, Nicky Haley of South Carolina, Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, 212 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 3: although he's pretty anti Trump, to Mike Pence, Vivic of course, 213 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 3: the businessman Tim Scott. All these other people are really 214 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 3: running for vice president. And that's kind of true for 215 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 3: Larry Elder didn't make the poll either, or Perry Johnson 216 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 3: and Francis Warez, the mayor of Miami. People run for this, 217 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 3: you wonder, like, who in the world, why is that 218 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 3: person running for president? 219 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:36,559 Speaker 4: I never heard of that person. 220 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 3: They have no they got twelve cents in their campaign coffers, 221 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 3: they don't even have a yard card. 222 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 4: Why are they running? 223 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 3: Well, they run to get their names out there and 224 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 3: see if magic happens, and maybe the political calculus falls 225 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 3: in their favor and they end up as a VP candidate. 226 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,559 Speaker 4: And if you need proof of that, I got two 227 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 4: words for you. 228 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 3: Kamala Harris, because she was pulling one percent amongst the 229 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 3: Democrats one percent. And the only splash she made during 230 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 3: the twenty twenty primary for the Democrats is when she 231 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 3: called Joe Biden a racist and she ended up as 232 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 3: the person on the other half of the bumper sticker, 233 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 3: on the bottom half of the yard card. Why because 234 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 3: after George Floyd and the riots and all the civil 235 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 3: disturbances that took place there, she checked a couple of 236 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 3: boxes being a woman of color and also you know, 237 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 3: a woman and a woman of color. She checked a 238 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 3: lot of boxes that helped Joe Biden at that time 239 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 3: hasn't helped him at all, and in my opinion, America 240 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 3: or the Democratic Party at all ever since. And that's 241 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 3: always been the problem of picking vps in the moment, 242 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 3: because ten seconds after you pick them, you're just stuck 243 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 3: with this person. And if the Republicans needed any reminder 244 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:02,199 Speaker 3: of that, there's Dan Quail out there in Glendale, Arizona. 245 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 4: Uh. 246 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 3: Listen, let's get the latest news because there's so much 247 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 3: to jump into, including the smash and grabs who are 248 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 3: out busy. 249 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 4: We'll talk about that when we get back. 250 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 2: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI 251 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 2: AM six forty. 252 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 3: Doug mcatarre in for John and Ken, and we're gonna 253 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 3: get into these smashing grabs who are out in force, 254 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 3: and we'll get into that in just a bit. 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And I 269 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 3: feel obligated, just for our own sanity to occasionally tell 270 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 3: you something positive on the same day that Vladimir Putin 271 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 3: may have meted out his vengeance on one of his betrayers, 272 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 3: the head of the Wagner group, whose playing is no more. 273 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 3: And the day after Russia tried to put a lunar 274 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 3: lander and it went from Sputnik to Kaputnik by crashing 275 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 3: into the moon. India successfully landed on the near the 276 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 3: south pole of the Moon. They tried back in twenty 277 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 3: nineteen failed, but this time they successfully put a probe 278 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 3: onto the southern pole of first country to do so. 279 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 3: By the way, Russia has landed over the years, five 280 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 3: vehicles on the moon, China three. This is the first 281 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 3: time India has joined. Of course, we've got a whole 282 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 3: bunch of locations that we've been in the moon, but 283 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 3: nobody has ever successfully hit the south pole, which is 284 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 3: where scientists believe the most likely large source of frozen 285 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 3: water may be. So this could pay a big dividend 286 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 3: depending on what is discovered going forward. But it's another 287 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 3: advance for knowledge for mankind. So on the one hand, 288 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 3: this is the craziness of human beings. On the one hand, 289 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 3: you have this incredible these brains all around the world 290 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 3: that are working on these incredible things, medical breakthroughs and 291 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 3: new technologies and you launching space probes, including the web 292 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 3: space telescope. That's just astonishing, and we take it for 293 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 3: granted or we ignore it completely. And then you've got 294 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 3: smash and grab robbers. Then you got people using technology 295 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 3: to organize flash mobs that can go into stores and 296 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 3: just in grotesque displays of greed, just grab stuff and 297 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 3: run out the door. The latest was a nordstomb rack 298 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 3: and Riverside thousands of dollars worth of designer handbags taken. 299 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:07,400 Speaker 3: This is the nord Strums at Canyon Springs Parkway, targeted 300 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 3: twice in the past two months, according to the Riverside 301 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 3: Police Department. 302 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:12,360 Speaker 4: So here's a recap. 303 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 3: This is the score. You know, you used to get 304 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 3: the paper and you check the box scores. Of course 305 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 3: the La Times doesn't have box scores anymore, so you 306 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 3: have to read the daily news to get that. But 307 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,119 Speaker 3: you'd see how many hits did Mookie Bets or Freddie 308 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 3: Freeman have the night before? How many strikeouts did kershawff. Well, 309 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 3: now you look at how many stores got robbed by 310 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:32,160 Speaker 3: a flash mob. So a nord Strums in the Westfield 311 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 3: to Pangam all of course, a luxury handbag theft in Glendale. 312 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,640 Speaker 3: A YSL store. What is YSL? By the way, Debor, 313 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:40,439 Speaker 3: do you know what YSL is? I don't know what 314 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 3: that store sells. A YSL store at the Americana at 315 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 3: Brand in Glendale. 316 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 4: It's a high end luxury store. 317 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:49,199 Speaker 3: Oh that's why I don't know what it is there, 318 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 3: ye Saint Laurent. Oh, okay, well, of course, that's why 319 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 3: I don't know what it is. I work in radio. 320 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 3: I'm wearing rags. I don't know any clothes that doesn't 321 00:17:57,320 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 3: have a website stenciled on it. 322 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,120 Speaker 4: I only know it as a bunch of rappers mentioned 323 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 4: it in their songs. 324 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 3: Oh there you go, all right, wherever you get your knowledge, Eric, 325 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 3: that's as long as you have the knowledge. A luxury 326 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:09,920 Speaker 3: denims store at Hancock Park, a Nike store in East 327 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 3: LA store on Huntington Beach, a Gucci store South Coast Plaza, 328 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 3: and Coast to Mesa, on and on and on. It's 329 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 3: not uncommon for these halls to exceed one hundred thousand dollars. 330 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:21,680 Speaker 3: One guy, by the way, he stole four hundred thousand 331 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,439 Speaker 3: dollars worth of cars from a southern California dealership. So 332 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 3: it's basically, anything that can be sold on the market, 333 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:30,439 Speaker 3: which is pretty much everything, including kidneys, is up for 334 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 3: grabs now. And the chances of catching anybody, and when 335 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 3: we do catch him, what's the penalty? 336 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 4: I mean, what is the penalty? 337 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:42,920 Speaker 3: We have this idiotic concept that basically the first nine 338 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 3: hundred and fifty dollars is on us. It's on I 339 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 3: should say it's on George Gascon. But the damage that 340 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 3: this does to the local economy cannot be understated. Dick's 341 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 3: Sporting Goods I saw this story. Maybe this came across 342 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:05,679 Speaker 3: your radar. Dick's Sporting Goods says that organized retail crimes 343 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 3: caused a twenty three percent drop in profits. I mean, 344 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 3: that's an astonishing statistic. Dick Sporting Goods on Tuesday, as 345 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 3: in yesterday, blamed organized retail crime for sinking its quarterly 346 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 3: profits by nearly twenty five percent. The latest retail that 347 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,959 Speaker 3: are real from the growing epidemic in quotes of thefts 348 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 3: around the country. They reported a twenty three percent dropping 349 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 3: profits in the second quarter across its more than seven 350 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 3: hundred stores nationwide, and this is despite sales rising three 351 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 3: point six percent. So instead of showing growth, they've got 352 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 3: a loss, and they attributed the losses to organized retail 353 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 3: crime and our ability to effectively manage inventory shrink. And 354 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 3: this is happening all across the retail sector. People are grabbing, running, 355 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:55,640 Speaker 3: they're getting away with it, and then they turn around 356 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 3: and they sell it in the aftermarket, which includes eBay. 357 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 3: And eBay tries to police s some of this stuff, 358 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 3: but let's face him, it takes two and not only 359 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 3: takes the companies to try to police their platforms for 360 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 3: stolen property, but it also requires a customer base. And 361 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 3: that's where we come in because people saying, I don't 362 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:21,120 Speaker 3: care if it's stolen, I didn't steal it, but if 363 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 3: you're the market for it, you are contributing to the crime. 364 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 3: And this is really something that we got to get 365 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 3: a grasp on. It's the same thing with drug consumption 366 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:32,639 Speaker 3: and cartel violence. It's easy to sit, you know, in 367 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 3: your cul de sac and suburbia and judge the thugs 368 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 3: who are muling drugs into the country and the cartel 369 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 3: bosses that you know are living like Caligula, you know, 370 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 3: south of the border with their own private armies. And 371 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 3: then you do recreational coke or whatever you're into, but 372 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 3: you're part of the problem. I mean, I'm being a 373 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 3: little judge here, I admit it, but sometimes we have 374 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:56,159 Speaker 3: to look in the mirror. 375 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 4: But it's absolutely true. If you're fueling, if. 376 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 3: You're providing the market for stolen goods or illicit goods, 377 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 3: then you're part of the problem. And by the way, 378 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 3: if you want to keep doing it, I can't stop you. 379 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:11,639 Speaker 4: I'm not going to drop a diamond. 380 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 3: I don't know who you are to turn you in 381 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:18,119 Speaker 3: and that's not my temperament, but at least be truthful 382 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 3: about what's going on here that if we're buying stolen goods. 383 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 3: I got a cousin that fell off a truck, Well 384 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 3: that's fine, except you know, somebody owned the truck and 385 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:31,679 Speaker 3: somebody owned the stuff, and it's a real blow to 386 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,439 Speaker 3: the economy of the United States and to the local region. 387 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 3: Remember when we had that epidemic of train robberies like 388 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 3: it was, you know, the eighteen eighties, we had these 389 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 3: huge and for all I know that's still happening, but 390 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 3: there were people robbing trains in Los Angeles when the trains, 391 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,880 Speaker 3: the cargo trains were stopped on the tracks and they'd 392 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 3: plunder these railroad cars and throw all the Amazon boxes 393 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 3: out there and look for whatever it was that they 394 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:56,640 Speaker 3: were swiping. 395 00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:59,199 Speaker 4: So it takes two to tango. 396 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 3: It takes thief leeves to steal, but it also takes 397 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 3: customers to buy in the black market and the secondary 398 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 3: market of stolen goods. 399 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:12,359 Speaker 4: And that's on us to put the kibosh on it. 400 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 3: Anyway, Are we going to be able to get a 401 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 3: handle on this cyber criminals investigation are really going to 402 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 3: have to And I hate saying this stuff because we 403 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,720 Speaker 3: have ceded so much privacy and so much power to 404 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 3: the state, to government in general, and to police organizations. 405 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 3: But the reality is is that people aren't stealing horses 406 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 3: that much anymore. 407 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:35,399 Speaker 4: They used to. 408 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 3: They used to hang horse thieves right back in the 409 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,879 Speaker 3: day where if you stole someone's horse, it was almost 410 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 3: a death sentence. They couldn't run the farm, they could 411 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:46,400 Speaker 3: starve to death, et cetera. Well, now digital crime, you're 412 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,359 Speaker 3: an idiot if you're stealing with a revolver. When you 413 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 3: can steal with a mouse, you just steal, You run 414 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 3: no risk of physical violence to yourself, and the reward 415 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 3: is enormous, and you can you can you know, filter 416 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 3: your crimes through offshore accounts and URLs that can't be traced, 417 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 3: oftentimes in Russia or some third party country where they 418 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 3: don't care whether or not Americans are getting ripped off. 419 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,479 Speaker 3: But the bottom line is is that and people are 420 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 3: paid off by the way in cryptocurrencies. But that's one 421 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,439 Speaker 3: of the problems, is that we're going to have to 422 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:24,360 Speaker 3: have more police intrusion into our online activities if we're 423 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 3: ever going to bust this up, because from what I 424 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 3: can see, we got to start to search for flash 425 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:34,879 Speaker 3: mobs that are going to hit retail stores the same 426 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 3: way that you know before a large gathering, anti terrorism 427 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 3: task force try to check to make sure no one's 428 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 3: putting a pressure cooker bomb along the pathway of the 429 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 3: Boston Marathon or any event, the Rose Parade, whatever event 430 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 3: it is. And police agencies who are tasked with keeping 431 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:58,400 Speaker 3: large public gatherings safe routinely do that. Now, but it's 432 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 3: getting creepy, isn't it. With all these cameras all over 433 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,639 Speaker 3: the place with facial recognition and things that can read 434 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 3: your eyeballs and identify you. It really is like it's 435 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 3: from a sci fi movie, just like you know, the 436 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:16,160 Speaker 3: Pegosi's plane falling from the sky in broad daylight. By 437 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 3: the way, missing a wing looks like the plot of 438 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 3: a James Bond movie, or a scene from a James 439 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 3: Bond movie, or a mission impossible. And on that point, 440 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 3: by the way, we'll spend more time talking about that later. 441 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:31,920 Speaker 3: On that plane going down. It's not an accident that 442 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 3: that plane went down a broad daylight with lots of 443 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 3: video cameras capturing it live. Because you see, here's the 444 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 3: thing about dictatorships and thugs who want to take somebody out, 445 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 3: they want you to know that they took you out. 446 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 4: They wanted that scene. 447 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 3: There's no way if Vladimir Putin wanted him taken out, 448 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 3: he would have vanished without a trace. You never would 449 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,199 Speaker 3: have heard about him again. In the darken night, knocking 450 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 3: the door out he goes. But they wanted that message. 451 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 3: That's a Navali who tried to poison and he's in 452 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 3: the gulag for the next fourteen years. They're perfectly happy 453 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 3: that he survived, that he suffered and then survived and 454 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 3: is now in a gulag. This is classic Stalinism. This 455 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 3: is how they've been doing it for a very very 456 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:14,560 Speaker 3: long time. 457 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 4: Over there. 458 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 3: So it's not an accident that plane happened, because if 459 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 3: they wanted to hide it, they could have done it 460 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 3: at night. The video would have been a lot less clear, 461 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 3: a lot less incriminating. So you know they've got some 462 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 3: experience of doing things like that. 463 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:32,120 Speaker 2: Right, you're listening to John and Ken on demand from 464 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty. 465 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 4: Steve Gregory's gonna be us at the top of the 466 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 4: next hour. 467 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,440 Speaker 3: There has been movement at the La City Council on 468 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 3: a LAPD contract. We've got that more on the downing 469 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 3: of a plane, and it certainly does look like it 470 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 3: was shot down or taken down somehow with the head 471 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 3: of the Wagner group, who everybody expected to be killed 472 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:54,639 Speaker 3: by Vladimir Putin. 473 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 4: Looks like mission accomplished there. Huh. 474 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 3: We'll talk about that the big debate tonight. Rudy Giuliani 475 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 3: surrenders today in Georgia. Donald Trump is supposed to do 476 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 3: the same tomorrow. So we've got all those things to 477 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 3: talk about, and the social isolation of especially young men 478 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:12,479 Speaker 3: who are gamers, who just sit in their bedrooms all 479 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 3: day long and play games. And we're going to talk 480 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 3: with a guy who's done a study about that as well. Hey, 481 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,160 Speaker 3: if you're looking for something fun to do this weekend, 482 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 3: I consider it part of my civic duty to brighten 483 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 3: your lives in some small capacity. And sometimes that's just 484 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 3: about telling you the good things that happen here in 485 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 3: southern California, and one of them are the amazing artists 486 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 3: who come through this town. If you look at for 487 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:37,119 Speaker 3: a great event, may I recommend Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 488 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 3: three nights only. The great John Pitzarelli Grammy winner played 489 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,960 Speaker 3: with Paul McCartney, James Taylor open for Sinatra. He's played 490 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 3: with everybody, a great seven string virtuoso and by the way, 491 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 3: happens to be hilarious. 492 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 4: And you can see him. 493 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 3: At Cataline is right in the heart of Hollywood, as 494 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:58,399 Speaker 3: if Hollywood has a heart. So, speaking of Hollywood, the 495 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:03,440 Speaker 3: Writers Guild has rejected a proposal by the AMPTP, the 496 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,399 Speaker 3: Writers Guild of America said Tuesday after the Studio is 497 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 3: Negotiating group released it's August eleventh proposal, telling the members 498 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:15,120 Speaker 3: that the offer failed to sufficiently protect writers. So they said, 499 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,159 Speaker 3: and yet to that, there was a big rally yesterday, 500 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 3: and I thought that this was pretty interesting. Some of 501 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,720 Speaker 3: the striking writers are using their residual checks to help 502 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 3: younger counterparts buy groceries. So they're pooling those residual checks 503 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,399 Speaker 3: that come in the green envelopes from the WGA. By 504 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 3: the way, you see a green envelope in the mailbox, 505 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 3: you've had a good day. But apparently they're pooling them 506 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 3: and donating them for grocery relief to the younger writers 507 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 3: who are struggling to pay their bills. Now, I don't 508 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,199 Speaker 3: know if you can feed a family or yourself of 509 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 3: that matter, on thirty four cents, because that's what my 510 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 3: residual checks look like from those ancient episodes I wrote 511 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 3: on Full House and Married with Children are WKRP in 512 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 3: Cincinnati years ago. So I'm not nobody's getting rich on 513 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 3: those residual checks. But I suppose there are some writers 514 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 3: who have worked in recent memory who are getting But 515 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 3: you can get a forty dollars check, it's a half 516 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 3: a tanky gas somewhere in the world, and maybe that's 517 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 3: a nice thing to do to help out your fellow strikers. 518 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 3: And God, it would be great if we could solve 519 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 3: this thing, because it's it's really bad news for the 520 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,440 Speaker 3: whole the whole community, all of southern California. 521 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 4: The ripple effect is awful. 522 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 3: Another story, the economic toll for the Maui fires has 523 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 3: now been estimated to be six billion dollars, not just 524 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 3: in the loss of human life obviously you can't put 525 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 3: a price tag on that, but the loss of property 526 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 3: and the loss to businesses destroyed and in tourism dollars 527 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 3: that were that are gone and never to be recovered 528 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,400 Speaker 3: from that disaster. This came out from Moody's making an 529 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 3: estimate six billion dollars in losses. 530 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 4: And you know, I want to talk about something. 531 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 3: I had an engagement and this is totally my fault 532 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 3: that I got into a Facebook argument with someone because 533 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 3: I you know, it made it a New Year's resolution 534 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 3: a couple of years ago not to do that. 535 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 4: But I took the bait. 536 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 3: Somebody was posting that, you know, FEMA, you know, handed 537 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 3: out seven hundred dollars and that's well all people, you know, 538 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 3: that's all they're going to get in Maui is the 539 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 3: seven hundred dollars handout, And it's just factually not true. 540 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 3: People got seven hundred dollars in an emergency, you know, 541 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 3: cash just for immediate things like gas and groceries, and 542 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 3: then FEMA will eventually come up with some kind of 543 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 3: a relief package. But it's incredibly complicated when you're still 544 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 3: looking for remains and you they have yet to go 545 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 3: through the multi story buildings and get to all of 546 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 3: the commercial buildings. It's going to take a while, it 547 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 3: just does, before they can get these things up. I 548 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 3: wish that, you know, everything was like TV and you 549 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 3: could wrap it up in an hour, but it doesn't 550 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 3: work that way in real life. You've got inefficiencies and 551 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 3: you've got chaos in a scene like that. But you know, 552 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 3: it's a silly talking point to suggest that this disastro 553 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 3: has happened in Maui, especially with a Democratic president Joe Biden, 554 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 3: who expects to win Hawaii in the next election cycle, 555 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 3: and the Democrats want to hang on to Waii. They're 556 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 3: not going to stiff their own voters all right now. 557 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 3: By the way, as a general rule, presidents don't say, hey, 558 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 3: they didn't vote for me, so let's stiff them in 559 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 3: emergency catastrophe relief. But that's what happens now, is that 560 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 3: people spread this stuff because they see a story that 561 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,000 Speaker 3: seven hundred dollars was handed up by FEMA, and then 562 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 3: they turned into like, that's all that's going to happen. 563 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 3: That's what the American people are going to stand by 564 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,160 Speaker 3: and allow Maui to suffer and just hand them a pittance. 565 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 3: It's just not how we roll, and that's not how 566 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 3: this is going to roll either. So it's just not 567 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:52,959 Speaker 3: accurate and just added up to the many, many, you know, 568 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,320 Speaker 3: threads of misinformation. It's not a thread, actually, it's a 569 00:30:56,320 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 3: tsunami of misinformation that floats around the web. And it's 570 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 3: unfortunate because people then believe it, and the Hawaiians, the 571 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 3: native Hawaiians, are in fact reluctant to even take the 572 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 3: seven hundred dollars. We've had reports on that because they 573 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 3: think that they're going to get ripped off if they 574 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 3: take the money, they'll somehow forfeit their land, and that's 575 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 3: not the case. Coming up, we'll talk with Steve Gregory. 576 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 3: We also have the debate tonight in Iowa, and I 577 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 3: wonder if Russia will become a point of difference between 578 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,800 Speaker 3: the various candidates in the aftermath of what happened today. 579 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 3: What appears to be a Putin takedown of one of 580 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 3: his mortal enemies, who once was one of his closest 581 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 3: allies and friends and by the way, personal chef Pragosi 582 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 3: was at one point he started as a hot dog 583 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 3: salesman and then ended up as essentially Putin's personal chef, 584 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,560 Speaker 3: and then ended up with the Wagner group, which is 585 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 3: a group of mercenary murderers, and that's what they are. 586 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 4: He was the guy that was. 587 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 3: Going recruiting soldiers to go to Ukraine from the pre 588 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 3: and they were getting get out of jail free cards 589 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,120 Speaker 3: as long as they go over and kill Ukrainians. 590 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 4: Oh man, human behavior. 591 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 3: Really, You've got people in India launching, you know, space 592 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 3: ships to the moon and successfully landing them on the moon. 593 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 3: And then you got other people who are going to 594 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 3: prison to find killers to go over and kill their people, 595 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,840 Speaker 3: they claim of their fellow countrymen. The Ukrainians see it differently. 596 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:27,720 Speaker 3: All right, we got a lot more to get into 597 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 3: throughout the course of the morning. Steve Gregor, you're going 598 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:30,959 Speaker 3: to be up with us next. Right now, let's get 599 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 3: the latest news with Debor Mark. 600 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 2: Hey, you've been listening to the John and Ken Show. 601 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,360 Speaker 1: You can always hear us live on KFI AM six 602 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,760 Speaker 1: forty one pm to four pm every Monday through Friday, 603 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 1: and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.