April 18, 2023 • 32 mins
Assemblyman Joe Patterson comes on the show with a mother who lost her son to fentanyl to talk about the dangers of fentanyl. Who is Aisha Wahab? LAUSD teachers got a 21% raise. An update on the Menedez brothers.
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Tim Conway Junior. So Today in Sacramento and the continuing
problem of fentanyl. They claim that nearly five hundred Californians
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die every month from fentanyl. Five hundred. The Assembly Public
Safety Committee in Sacramento is not going to hold hearings
to consider any legislation aimed at addressing the problem. We've
talked about this several times before, most famously Alexandra's Law,
which has been pushed by a man who lost his daughter.
She thought she was getting a painkiller and opioid and
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it was laced with fentanyl and she died of an overdose.
This media event today included parents of parents who lost
their kids to fentanyl, and also a number of state
legislators who were there to try to bring attention to
this because pretty soon it's going to be one of
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the last days that the Public Safety Committee will meet
before nearly all fentanyl legislation will be stalled. In the
process of bills, I just mentioned one of them, Alexandra's Law.
We're going to talk now to a couple of people
who were involved in today's event. We have a state
assemblyman by the name of Joe Patterson, a Republican from Rockland,
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and we have a mother who lost her seventeen year
old son to fentanyl. Her name is Laura, Let's get
him on the air and talk about all this.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Laura, Laura Didier, Welcome to John and Ken Show.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Hi, thanks for welcoming me on today.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And Assemblyman Joe Patterson welcome as well.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Laura.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You can start by talking about Zach.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, it's truly a tragic story. My son, Zach was
only seventeen. He was a high school senior at one
of our high schools in Rockland, doing amazing. He was
a straight student. He loved school. He was an athlete
on the track team and played soccer. He was finishing
his eagle right in scouting. And he loved music and
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taught himself how to play piano, and he was in
the orchestra. And he was a friend to everyone, everybody's cheerleader.
Everybody just adored him. And he had no history with substances.
He was just doing great. But it was COVID when
I lost him. He was locked down as all this,
all kids were, so maybe there were some boredom involved.
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It was a brand new, you know, decision to try
something that was marketed to him as a percocet tell
and one one peal ended his life overnight in his bedroom,
and we were blindsided, absolutely blindsided. Never had heard of
this crisis, never had heard of counterfeit pills and ventanel.
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And unfortunately, my my ex husband and I, who remained
very good friends and co parents, we were fortunately on
the same page about being public with sech story, just
to warn our community because it was clear and none
of the ex friends were aware of this danger either
when when we lost him, so just trying to be
awareness advocates.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
It was one pill that he thought was percoset and
instead there was phentoel in it. One bill and it
killed him.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Correct, and there was no purposet in it at all.
These pills are completely counterfeit but stamped and made to
look like the real thing. And we're just seeing people
every day.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Did he do this to get these who social media?
How did he get this pill?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
He did connect with someone that was operating and marketing
these pills on Snapchat with the apps.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
All right, Well, that brings us to Assemblymen Joe Patterson
and Joe you know what we hear is that the
Public Safety Committee will not entertain any bills that could
result in new laws that send people to prison or
extend prisent time none of that. They just don't want
any of that. Is that your take?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
That's actually exactly what they are doing and what they
openly say, you know, out loud. It's not as secret,
you know. I think by the way Laura and Zac
lived in my neighborhood, they're the only reason why I
even knew what Beatanohl was at the time. But it's
become such a big thing, and what Laura is doing
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and educating people on it is one of the ways
that we can stop reducing or start reducing Fennyl deaths.
But the other one is we have to hold people accountable.
And you know, metaphor was given to me one time,
and that's you know why this is different from the
war on drugs, And that's what people the Public Safety
Committee like to say, Hey, we can't go back to
the time of war on drugs, but this is different.
(05:36):
This is a poison. Imagine a minor, for example, going
to do some things that some miners do, and they
go buy let's say some alcohol, some whiskey, and they're
buying this brown liquid from somebody, from a friend or
some random person. They have a drink and they end
up dead. Well maybe it could have been cyanide colored brown.
And that's what's happening with these kids, is there's going
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to buy what they say experimenting with a pharmaceutical and
they're getting the cyanide instead of the whiskey, and it's
killing the kids. And all parents need to know about this.
But unfortunately the Public Safety Committee they don't want to
hold these individuals accountable. And it's really too bad.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So this is what I'm struggling here.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Everybody can have a catchy slogan like, well, we don't
want to go back to the war on drug. You
clearly have a lot of teenagers dying, clearly, and it's
clearly being sold and pushed by evil psychos. Right they're
selling fake purpose it. They know it's fake purpose it
by now everybody knows there's a lot of random fentinyl
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in this. Are they comfortable with all the teenagers dying
or do they just not address that? They just run
away from even discussing this. Honestly, it's five hundred Californians
are dying every month, five hundred Californians. I don't know
who else to turn to, but the legislature to try
to put some restraints in and some enforcement in to
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stop this.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I mean, it's gotten so bad. Alexander's Law, which by
the way, I authored the same exact legislation this year.
All it did was provide a warning to people that say, hey,
if you continue doing this and somebody dies, you could
be charged with murder. And this is very similar to
a d d UI legislation that former assemblymen and now
(07:24):
DA at Lawrence County carried years ago on DUIs. It's
the same thing. We already do it in California, but
we can't do it with bent.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
All right, But why are they comfortable with all the
teenagers dying, all these tragic stories like what happened to
Laura's son.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Well, you're asking me to just buy something that doesn't
make sense, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Well they must talk about, don't they talk about that.
There was even a Democrat bill that was presented, supposedly
a bipartisan bill dealing with the fentanyl dealers that failed too.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
I'm telling you, I have Democrats. This is bipartisan. My
mom's Democrats. Democrats in the legislature come up to me
every single day and want to support legislation like this.
This is not you know, I don't think this is
the feeling of Democrats in general. This is uh.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
But it's just the public safety Democrats that are blocking all.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
This this this committee. And you know what's interesting is uh.
You know, every single legislator represents the same number of people,
five hundred thousand people. And I don't think you know,
it's not the governor, it's it's one committee or one
individual that's made this decision. I represent the same number
of people. And look, we're not we're not looking to
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go after the people who are, you know, using drugs
between each other, not that I condone that at all.
I mean, they need help too, right, I'm trying to
go after the people that are selling like unfortunately to
Zach on Snapchat. They know what they're doing. There's evidence
of this. They know what they're doing, and they continue
to do it anyways, knowing the risk, and we cannot
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hold them accountable. And I'll have to say one worth
on that this is going to sound crazy because it's
getting into this country from the border and that's the
problem in the first place. But the truth is the
federal government because our laws are so weak in California.
If you don't have a good DA in your county,
the federal government is the only body that is prosecuting
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these cases, and they're only getting after murdering somebody eight
or nine years now. There have been cases where it's
been seventeen. I think's Zach's murderer got seventeen years, but
in California's early release, unfortunately, it's probably going to be
out in eight years.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Laura, what do you make of all this?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, because now you're living this nightmare and you've been
getting politically involved, what do you see as the as
the cause for all this resistance to something that obviously
needs to be addressed.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Well, it's a very dissarten thing to me. My censtory
has been in the news quite a bit, so I
will have people reach out to me newly brief parents
reach out to me and share their stories. You know,
someone recently lost their child right before this past holiday season,
and it's very disheartening to see that even bipartisan legislation
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cannot get any traction, cannot get movements. I agree with
with Assemblyman Patterson that there needs to be accountability. I
have chosen to throw my energy and time into warning kids.
I'm working with our local District Attorney's office on assemblies.
We've hit almost all the high schools in my county.
(10:36):
I will be at my friends in middle school tomorrow
with our assembly team. I feel like, in the midst
of our grief, we are doing everything we can to
warn our communities, to warn kids, and we're just asking
our legislature to stand with us, you know, in solidarity
in getting these things out. And I have to say,
I just I was just speaking at a getting testimony
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on some enhanced sentencing around around Sentinel and the chair,
the chair of the committee, she walked out during my testimony.
And who was the chair, Senator Will hob.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Statee and.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
And yes, and it's you know, I don't know why,
you know, what her need to walk out at that
precise moment was, But that's it's it's hard, you know,
I think, you know, I want to see the best
intentions in people. I want to believe that our representatives
are seeing our pain and want to make a difference.
But I go to these, you know, hearings, and these
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things happen in it and it just saddens me because
I feel like we really need to be holding hands
across the aisle and and supporting policies that that are
That makes sense and I think yeah time.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
But our condolence is Laura on the loss of your son, Zach,
and we'd like to talk to you again. I'm sure
you're going to keep up this fight, same with you
as simply been Patterson. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Hey, thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
All right, we got more coming up. All right, you're
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Speaker 3 (12:26):
Well, we were just talking to a mother who lost
her seventeen year old son defentanyl. Five hundred Californians a
month die from fentanyl five hundred and they can't get
the legislators in Sacramento to do anything about it when
it comes to new penalties legislation that addresses the issue.
Her name was Laura her son Zach. She mentioned near
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the end of the interview that one of the committee
members in Sacramento, a legislator walked out during her testimony
asking for something to be done about the California fentanyl problem.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
This state Senator, Aisha Wa Hobb turned her back on
Chris Well. Chris is explaining how her son died. It's
Laura what Chris.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Is the husband? Chris is the husband.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Sorry, Laura's was the father's wife.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Laura, Laura's the wife. And Laura is there testifying and
Aisha wah.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Hobb gets up and walks away.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
She represents San Jose, Santa Clara Heyward up in that region.
She just got elected last year state Senator Aisha Wahabb.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah, she was the.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
First first Muslim right elected to the state senator either
chamber of the California State Legislator.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
The first Afghan American elected to public office in the
United States.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
That's all that matters.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And that and this is what she does. This is
the thank you to the country.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
This is Oh, your kid died from fentomyl poison, saying, eh, few,
I'm not even gonna sit and listen to this. Stop
boring me. Stop boring me with your sob story about
your son dying. I don't want to hear it. Aisha Wahab, Wow,
that is really rude and cruel.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
That really is ruded. Could you do that?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Could you do that to an emotional mother talking about
her son dying, Get up and leave.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Oh, they just shut it down. I don't want to
hear anything you have to say. I'm not giving any
more penalties any more laws dealing with drug dealers.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, it says here as a senator, she works as
an advocate for seniors, women and children. Well you have
a woman talking about how her child died from the
fentanyl poisoning. Wow, what is what is going on? Who
are these sociopaths being elected? What do you people? What
(14:56):
are these people doing with their votes? That is dark
and cold. Aisha wahab Eh, she'll probably become governor.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
There was a story that ran a few weeks ago.
I didn't get to it, but I dug it up
now dealing with this public safety nonsense and Sacramento. Of course,
we threw a whole bunch of them in the dumpster
last Friday, including the head of the Assembly Public Safety Community.
That's at Reggie Jones Sawyer.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Another Los Angeles another one.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Apparently a few weeks ago on the Assembly Public Safety Committee.
It turns out our guests that we just had on
the air. Assembly Member Joe Patterson, a Republican, introduced a
bill to increase criminal penalties for domestic violence, human trafficking,
and other sexual crimes such as the rape of an
unconscious or incapacitated person. We've talked about this before, that
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these crimes are not considered serious violent felonies. So he
was trying to do something about that. Remember that list
we've always mentioned on the show. Yeah, it got killed
by the Assembly. The Assembly Public Safety Committee. The chairman,
Reggie Jones Sawyer said, oh, you're just trying to get
us back to three strikes, this will stop all crime.
(16:07):
We've proven that doesn't work. But then why a Democrat
by the name of Jesse Gabriel of Woodland Hills introduce
a bill to impose sentence enhancements on people convicted of taking, damaging,
or destroying property worth more than two hundred and seventy
five thousand. It passed even though several Assembly committee members
had misgivings, they still passed her bill. And the lesson
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from this is, well, if it's one of ours introducing
a bill, we have to take it seriously. If it's
one of those people over there that law and order
lock them up crowd, we'll just ignore it. That's where
we are now. Like that state senator who turned her
back and walked out on our guests talking about what
happened to her son. This is what we're dealing with now.
We don't want to hear anything because it's from the
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other side.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
A woman who but a woman who does that should
really that you should burn in hell for that. You
really should we gut punch.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Be respectful enough just to let her tell her story.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
You can't even she can't even fake respect, she can't
even fake some compassion.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Let alone take the right action. All right, We got
more coming up.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
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Weeks it is, we get lots of CALLSID weeks, well
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I maintained the bars pretty low. Maybe there's no bar
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Speaker 1 (18:14):
It's still some pretty good stuff, right.
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But it's unairable or illegal, yes, yeah, right, there FDC
regulations we have to see.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
It could be in trouble like Fox News, and.
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Yeah, I'm not trying to go down that road. I
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Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, that's another breaking story. This afternoon, Fox News is
paying out to seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars
to Dominion Voting Systems over the whole twenty twenty fiasco
with Trump's claim that the election was stolen, the Fox
putting on all these people who presented quote evidence of that.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Though.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Fox is admitting that they pushed lies and amplified lies,
but they don't have to do it on their own channel.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
That was part of the deal.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yes, yeah, So you're not going to see any on
air explanation or apology on the news channel.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Oh here's a headline I think says a lot about
where we are today. Americans now spend more money on
legal weed than chocolate. Sales of marijuana from dispensaries has
top thirty billion dollars in the last year. That's more
than people spend on chocolate. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Did you see that story.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I think it was in the New York Post. It
was a column. Oh yeah, yeah, it's got by Steve Quaso.
He said, let's be blunt, legal weed is turning New
York workers into zombies. And he goes, ever since they
decriminalized marijuana, they're stinky smoke hanging everywhere, subway cars, broadway theaters,
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men's rooms, and now a license to get high has
turned service employees into zombies.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Just if you just.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Order coffee, you have to say it three times to
get a response from the He is zombie barista, and
he says everybody is stoned. A friend has said any
question or request is met with a vacant look and
they just mumbled no problem and it's in stores, and
(20:15):
it's in restaurants. Their hollow eyed, disengaged from their past,
from their tasks. Their breath reeks of weed, stores, restaurants,
dry cleaners.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah, we're going under in the cloud of marijuana smoke. Great, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Oh he said, he gave. He went into one place
and he gave the guy a twenty dollars bill for
an eight dollar cup of soup, and he asked for
a bag. He took twenty dollars and forgot the soup.
The change the bag, and me he wandered off.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Hello. All right, well, it's time on the Johnny Ken
Show to pause and say, let's hear it for the teachers.
Oh my god, the LA Unified School District teachers have
gotten themselves a twenty one percent raise over about three years,
seven percent year, seven percent a year. And haven't they
(21:13):
done a bang up job, especially during that pandemic. Come on, everybody,
you imagine not showing up for work for a year
and a half, refusing to show up for work, and
then you're rewarded with a twenty one percent pay increase.
This includes and added twenty thousand dollars salary bump for
nurses three thousand dollars for school psychologists, psychiatric social workers,
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attendance counselors, and other special service providers. Attendance counselors, attendance counselors.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
That's a good one.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I'd like to be paid as an attendance counselor for LAUSD's.
That's a hard job.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
This has got to be a spoof. I heard over
the weekend they rejected a nineteen percent offer, and I said,
what do they think they're going to get? Well, they
got twenty one.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
This is our tax money.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
And very few of the kids can read, Very few
of the kids can do basic math, and nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
It's almost all it's almost all minority kids.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
And you see, they did that acceleration day thing again
last week during spring break, and they got like one
third of the less of the people kids showed up.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Parents don't care either. The parents don't care, and the
kids don't care. It's just smoke weed.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
It's well, that's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
They're gonna graduate high school maybe, and they're gonna get
a job making coffee at Starbucks. Stoned on weed. They
can't even make change, And there's your life.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Well, it's what you said earlier in the show. Could
also lead to more criminals.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Oh, it will be. It will definitely be.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Especially since we have no criminal justice system and there's
no punishment. Because all of these things will come together.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Right, They're not gonna be able to make any money,
and so they're gonna start stealing stuff. Wow, and look
at this. Look at this stooge, Alberto Carvallo.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Yeah, he's new and he's already a stooge.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
I I he's he's actually, he's actually carrying on that
he's grateful for the agreement that reflects the dedicated work
of our employees.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
They didn't show up for a year and a half.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Where is this money coming from. They've already given out
a pile of money to the cafeteria workers, and they're
losing students. Enrollment is down. I don't know where they
think they're gonna get all this money to pay all
this raises. This is unbelievable. Yeah, well they has anybody
brought up their finances for this? We have reserves, remember
(23:31):
that thing about reserves. A year and a half, they
didn't show up for work. Oh there was some quote.
I don't know where it is. I can't find it about.
Oh yeah, here it's Carvallo. He's nuts, you know, he's
another one of these guys. He talks with a loud voice,
very booming and boisterous. But what an empty can He says,
(23:53):
this agreement is necessary to make LA unify the district
of choice for families, but the district of choice for
teachers and employees. District of choice everyone goes. I mean
people are pulling out or putting their kids in charter schools.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
The student enrollment is dropped by half in the last
twenty years.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
You only go if you're too broke to go anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You can't move, and you can't do private school or
parochial school, or can't do homeschool or charter school. You
can't get your kid in there. Wow, that is an abomination.
What a joke, Carvallo is a joke. Those kids' lives
are just ruined. The teachers don't care about.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Any of them.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Man, And the next person who comes up and says, well,
you know my teacher is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
No she's not.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Stop it. We got more coming up. Johnny Kid KFI
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Yeah, we'll be done soon, but you can listen to
the whole show and not long after four o'clock by
accessing the podcast John and Kent on demand on the
iHeartRadio appert KFI eight M six forty dot com. A
lot of important stuff in there today, dealing with the
problem of fentanyl, dealing with what's going on in the
juvenile detention system in the camps.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Right at the start of the show, Steve Gregor.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Gregory's had a special report on that.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You got to hear that, all right.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
We had them on for a better part a half
an hour with a lot of details. So it's all
waiting for you in the podcast, which will go up shortly.
Well years ago, on the John and Ken Show, we
had something we called the Fry the Medendi. Will you remember.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Whoz brothers murder They killed their parents. They did Lyle
and Eric Menendez, Rich Beverly Hills kids their parents. We
had a DA at the time by the name of
gil Garcetti, who was remarkably incompetent, like his son, the
dead father of the secure. A guilty verdict needed more money.
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We helped raise more money for them to take the
case back to trial.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
They were eventually convicted and sentenced to long prison terms. Well,
the mantra today could be freeom and and die. Why
would I say that, John, Well, actually, those bills and
Sacramento may do that anywhere are they getting out? No.
One of the claims of Lyell and Eric Menendez was
(26:39):
that part of why they killed their father was self defense.
He was sexually assaulting them. That story with the hair people, Yeah,
but also I think it was actual sexual rape and such,
not just the hair brush. But I think there were
other claims that he was doing. He was deadling them
and sticks in my head at the other hair brush.
(26:59):
I remember that, Yes, not just spanking them with it.
But yeah, I can't look at one without thinking of that.
So you don't brush your hair obviously. Uh, yeah, that's true.
So a lot of people just roll their eyes at that.
That's ridiculous. I mean, they're going to say anything that
they think they need to say to be kept from
(27:20):
a very long prison term. Well shocker today from TMZ
if you believe it. Do you remember the boy band Mnudo.
Menudo was a very popular boy band from the nineteen
eighties that were all teenage boys in the band.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I know they existed. I can't say I.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Know the name too, I don't. I saw pictures, but
I never think I heard a song. They would change,
people would change in the group over time because you
get too old, Yeah, you would age out of Nudo.
And there were claims by some of the Menudo boys
that they were physically assaulted, like managers and stuff involved.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yes, I remember, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
But one of them, just now thirty years later, named
Roy Roussello, is now claiming that Jose Menendez drugged and
sexual assaulted him.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yeah? Does this give any validity to the claim? Not
that they still killed him, but still were they really not?
Just completely pulling?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Oh I don't care, No, I I really don't care.
That family family was monstrous.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
He was an executive in the music business during the
nineteen eighties and nineties, the father Jose Menendez, so yeah,
he was very tight with the Latino community and the
music field and of course Menudo, and he got from
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
That was like on the farthest fringe of my consciousness, right,
I just knew they existed, well, apparently all this is
going to be aired by Peacock streaming services. Oh well,
I pay for this story is going to be coming
out on May second. I want to hear about how
the Menendez brother's dad violated a Menudo member. Well, there
(29:10):
are a lot of young people that have worked in Hollywood.
They claim that this is a vastly untold story as
big as me too. Was young people being sexually assaulted.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
It was very difficult to get anywhere, especially in the
music business. Very difficult for women probably still to get
anywhere without submitting.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
But the big thing is children minors, you know, all
the child actors. It was easy to probably from some
of these pervert. There's executives to.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Take a lot of sexual perverts in Hollywood, and they're
really good at covering it up because.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
They have all they they have all these.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Social causes, oh constantly, and they can hold it over
you. You'll be ruined, you'll never walk again. They're all phonies.
They're all perverts and phonies. Huh, perfect time for Conway. Hey, Hey, now,
how dare you? He's supposed to say, you're talking about Handle?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, you talk about Bill Handle.
Speaker 8 (30:02):
But see, I thought that was too close, so I
didn't didn't bring it up.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
It's a good one, all right.
Speaker 8 (30:07):
LAUSD teachers and the union reached attendantive labor agreement, right.
I thought they did that a month ago. And I
guess they know that was a cafeteria. Oh thank god, everyone,
everyone's getting money. Eighteen hundred Southwest Airlines flights were delayed
due to a temporary ground stop and deadline for filing taxes.
But some Californians have an extension, so that's pretty cool.
(30:29):
And then Coachella was fine. One hundred and seventeen thousand
dollars were breaking city curfew.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
All three nights. Oh darn, there's a curfew out there.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
It was brought at ten o'clock.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
I think it's nine o'clock.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I didn't know they had a curfew all three nights.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
And then by my buzzing around Burbank today, and a
guy shot himself in a Chase bank right on Verdugo
and Olive, and I drove by right like as it
was happening.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I'm like, crime's everywhere.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Now, it's right, But he shot himself? Is that a crime?
Speaker 8 (30:58):
I think he shot himself. Yeah, I think it's a crime.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
I think it is. It's a you can't charge suicide
people with much because you know.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
But if you unsuccessfully try to like hang yourself or
kill yourself, I think they lock you up.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
They do. I think, yeah, it should. I don't know
I should shut up? You give an exit bag? Do
it more neatly?
Speaker 8 (31:19):
Oh my god, John Colbell please, uh, con say rosary
for you tonight.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Doesn't seem to help. There's so many people show me
your beads, Conway's next.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Beads. Your news guy's a wall here?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Oh Harry Thomson, Mark Toms.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
And if I wasn't here, if you'd mentioned no, I
didn't know. We thought you were absent. I like the
sunglasses looking.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
On the cool.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
What kind of bender were you on last night?
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Yeah, right man, much more shine.
Speaker 8 (31:59):
There two types of people wear sunglasses inside the blind
and studs.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
There you go. That's my guy place.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
What about drug addice dig Don you gotta have Dary
had both of them?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
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Tim Conway Junior. So Today in Sacramento and the continuing
problem of fentanyl. They claim that nearly five hundred Californians
(01:09):
die every month from fentanyl. Five hundred. The Assembly Public
Safety Committee in Sacramento is not going to hold hearings
to consider any legislation aimed at addressing the problem. We've
talked about this several times before, most famously Alexandra's Law,
which has been pushed by a man who lost his daughter.
She thought she was getting a painkiller and opioid and
(01:31):
it was laced with fentanyl and she died of an overdose.
This media event today included parents of parents who lost
their kids to fentanyl, and also a number of state
legislators who were there to try to bring attention to
this because pretty soon it's going to be one of
(01:52):
the last days that the Public Safety Committee will meet
before nearly all fentanyl legislation will be stalled. In the
process of bills, I just mentioned one of them, Alexandra's Law.
We're going to talk now to a couple of people
who were involved in today's event. We have a state
assemblyman by the name of Joe Patterson, a Republican from Rockland,
(02:13):
and we have a mother who lost her seventeen year
old son to fentanyl. Her name is Laura, Let's get
him on the air and talk about all this.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Laura, Laura Didier, Welcome to John and Ken Show.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Hi, thanks for welcoming me on today.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And Assemblyman Joe Patterson welcome as well.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Laura.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You can start by talking about Zach.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, it's truly a tragic story. My son, Zach was
only seventeen. He was a high school senior at one
of our high schools in Rockland, doing amazing. He was
a straight student. He loved school. He was an athlete
on the track team and played soccer. He was finishing
his eagle right in scouting. And he loved music and
(03:03):
taught himself how to play piano, and he was in
the orchestra. And he was a friend to everyone, everybody's cheerleader.
Everybody just adored him. And he had no history with substances.
He was just doing great. But it was COVID when
I lost him. He was locked down as all this,
all kids were, so maybe there were some boredom involved.
(03:25):
It was a brand new, you know, decision to try
something that was marketed to him as a percocet tell
and one one peal ended his life overnight in his bedroom,
and we were blindsided, absolutely blindsided. Never had heard of
this crisis, never had heard of counterfeit pills and ventanel.
(03:46):
And unfortunately, my my ex husband and I, who remained
very good friends and co parents, we were fortunately on
the same page about being public with sech story, just
to warn our community because it was clear and none
of the ex friends were aware of this danger either
when when we lost him, so just trying to be
awareness advocates.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
It was one pill that he thought was percoset and
instead there was phentoel in it. One bill and it
killed him.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Correct, and there was no purposet in it at all.
These pills are completely counterfeit but stamped and made to
look like the real thing. And we're just seeing people
every day.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Did he do this to get these who social media?
How did he get this pill?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
He did connect with someone that was operating and marketing
these pills on Snapchat with the apps.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
All right, Well, that brings us to Assemblymen Joe Patterson
and Joe you know what we hear is that the
Public Safety Committee will not entertain any bills that could
result in new laws that send people to prison or
extend prisent time none of that. They just don't want
any of that. Is that your take?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
That's actually exactly what they are doing and what they
openly say, you know, out loud. It's not as secret,
you know. I think by the way Laura and Zac
lived in my neighborhood, they're the only reason why I
even knew what Beatanohl was at the time. But it's
become such a big thing, and what Laura is doing
(05:15):
and educating people on it is one of the ways
that we can stop reducing or start reducing Fennyl deaths.
But the other one is we have to hold people accountable.
And you know, metaphor was given to me one time,
and that's you know why this is different from the
war on drugs, And that's what people the Public Safety
Committee like to say, Hey, we can't go back to
the time of war on drugs, but this is different.
(05:36):
This is a poison. Imagine a minor, for example, going
to do some things that some miners do, and they
go buy let's say some alcohol, some whiskey, and they're
buying this brown liquid from somebody, from a friend or
some random person. They have a drink and they end
up dead. Well maybe it could have been cyanide colored brown.
And that's what's happening with these kids, is there's going
(05:58):
to buy what they say experimenting with a pharmaceutical and
they're getting the cyanide instead of the whiskey, and it's
killing the kids. And all parents need to know about this.
But unfortunately the Public Safety Committee they don't want to
hold these individuals accountable. And it's really too bad.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So this is what I'm struggling here.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Everybody can have a catchy slogan like, well, we don't
want to go back to the war on drug. You
clearly have a lot of teenagers dying, clearly, and it's
clearly being sold and pushed by evil psychos. Right they're
selling fake purpose it. They know it's fake purpose it
by now everybody knows there's a lot of random fentinyl
(06:39):
in this. Are they comfortable with all the teenagers dying
or do they just not address that? They just run
away from even discussing this. Honestly, it's five hundred Californians
are dying every month, five hundred Californians. I don't know
who else to turn to, but the legislature to try
to put some restraints in and some enforcement in to
(07:02):
stop this.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I mean, it's gotten so bad. Alexander's Law, which by
the way, I authored the same exact legislation this year.
All it did was provide a warning to people that say, hey,
if you continue doing this and somebody dies, you could
be charged with murder. And this is very similar to
a d d UI legislation that former assemblymen and now
(07:24):
DA at Lawrence County carried years ago on DUIs. It's
the same thing. We already do it in California, but
we can't do it with bent.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
All right, But why are they comfortable with all the
teenagers dying, all these tragic stories like what happened to
Laura's son.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Well, you're asking me to just buy something that doesn't
make sense, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Well they must talk about, don't they talk about that.
There was even a Democrat bill that was presented, supposedly
a bipartisan bill dealing with the fentanyl dealers that failed too.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
I'm telling you, I have Democrats. This is bipartisan. My
mom's Democrats. Democrats in the legislature come up to me
every single day and want to support legislation like this.
This is not you know, I don't think this is
the feeling of Democrats in general. This is uh.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
But it's just the public safety Democrats that are blocking all.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
This this this committee. And you know what's interesting is uh.
You know, every single legislator represents the same number of people,
five hundred thousand people. And I don't think you know,
it's not the governor, it's it's one committee or one
individual that's made this decision. I represent the same number
of people. And look, we're not we're not looking to
(08:37):
go after the people who are, you know, using drugs
between each other, not that I condone that at all.
I mean, they need help too, right, I'm trying to
go after the people that are selling like unfortunately to
Zach on Snapchat. They know what they're doing. There's evidence
of this. They know what they're doing, and they continue
to do it anyways, knowing the risk, and we cannot
(08:58):
hold them accountable. And I'll have to say one worth
on that this is going to sound crazy because it's
getting into this country from the border and that's the
problem in the first place. But the truth is the
federal government because our laws are so weak in California.
If you don't have a good DA in your county,
the federal government is the only body that is prosecuting
(09:20):
these cases, and they're only getting after murdering somebody eight
or nine years now. There have been cases where it's
been seventeen. I think's Zach's murderer got seventeen years, but
in California's early release, unfortunately, it's probably going to be
out in eight years.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Laura, what do you make of all this?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, because now you're living this nightmare and you've been
getting politically involved, what do you see as the as
the cause for all this resistance to something that obviously
needs to be addressed.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Well, it's a very dissarten thing to me. My censtory
has been in the news quite a bit, so I
will have people reach out to me newly brief parents
reach out to me and share their stories. You know,
someone recently lost their child right before this past holiday season,
and it's very disheartening to see that even bipartisan legislation
(10:15):
cannot get any traction, cannot get movements. I agree with
with Assemblyman Patterson that there needs to be accountability. I
have chosen to throw my energy and time into warning kids.
I'm working with our local District Attorney's office on assemblies.
We've hit almost all the high schools in my county.
(10:36):
I will be at my friends in middle school tomorrow
with our assembly team. I feel like, in the midst
of our grief, we are doing everything we can to
warn our communities, to warn kids, and we're just asking
our legislature to stand with us, you know, in solidarity
in getting these things out. And I have to say,
I just I was just speaking at a getting testimony
(11:01):
on some enhanced sentencing around around Sentinel and the chair,
the chair of the committee, she walked out during my testimony.
And who was the chair, Senator Will hob.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Statee and.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
And yes, and it's you know, I don't know why,
you know, what her need to walk out at that
precise moment was, But that's it's it's hard, you know,
I think, you know, I want to see the best
intentions in people. I want to believe that our representatives
are seeing our pain and want to make a difference.
But I go to these, you know, hearings, and these
(11:45):
things happen in it and it just saddens me because
I feel like we really need to be holding hands
across the aisle and and supporting policies that that are
That makes sense and I think yeah time.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
But our condolence is Laura on the loss of your son, Zach,
and we'd like to talk to you again. I'm sure
you're going to keep up this fight, same with you
as simply been Patterson. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Hey, thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
All right, we got more coming up. All right, you're
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Speaker 3 (12:26):
Well, we were just talking to a mother who lost
her seventeen year old son defentanyl. Five hundred Californians a
month die from fentanyl five hundred and they can't get
the legislators in Sacramento to do anything about it when
it comes to new penalties legislation that addresses the issue.
Her name was Laura her son Zach. She mentioned near
(12:49):
the end of the interview that one of the committee
members in Sacramento, a legislator walked out during her testimony
asking for something to be done about the California fentanyl problem.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
This state Senator, Aisha Wa Hobb turned her back on
Chris Well. Chris is explaining how her son died. It's
Laura what Chris.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Is the husband? Chris is the husband.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Sorry, Laura's was the father's wife.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Laura, Laura's the wife. And Laura is there testifying and
Aisha wah.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Hobb gets up and walks away.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
She represents San Jose, Santa Clara Heyward up in that region.
She just got elected last year state Senator Aisha Wahabb.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah, she was the.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
First first Muslim right elected to the state senator either
chamber of the California State Legislator.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
The first Afghan American elected to public office in the
United States.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
That's all that matters.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And that and this is what she does. This is
the thank you to the country.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
This is Oh, your kid died from fentomyl poison, saying, eh, few,
I'm not even gonna sit and listen to this. Stop
boring me. Stop boring me with your sob story about
your son dying. I don't want to hear it. Aisha Wahab, Wow,
that is really rude and cruel.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
That really is ruded. Could you do that?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Could you do that to an emotional mother talking about
her son dying, Get up and leave.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Oh, they just shut it down. I don't want to
hear anything you have to say. I'm not giving any
more penalties any more laws dealing with drug dealers.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Well, it says here as a senator, she works as
an advocate for seniors, women and children. Well you have
a woman talking about how her child died from the
fentanyl poisoning. Wow, what is what is going on? Who
are these sociopaths being elected? What do you people? What
(14:56):
are these people doing with their votes? That is dark
and cold. Aisha wahab Eh, she'll probably become governor.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
There was a story that ran a few weeks ago.
I didn't get to it, but I dug it up
now dealing with this public safety nonsense and Sacramento. Of course,
we threw a whole bunch of them in the dumpster
last Friday, including the head of the Assembly Public Safety Community.
That's at Reggie Jones Sawyer.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Another Los Angeles another one.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Apparently a few weeks ago on the Assembly Public Safety Committee.
It turns out our guests that we just had on
the air. Assembly Member Joe Patterson, a Republican, introduced a
bill to increase criminal penalties for domestic violence, human trafficking,
and other sexual crimes such as the rape of an
unconscious or incapacitated person. We've talked about this before, that
(15:47):
these crimes are not considered serious violent felonies. So he
was trying to do something about that. Remember that list
we've always mentioned on the show. Yeah, it got killed
by the Assembly. The Assembly Public Safety Committee. The chairman,
Reggie Jones Sawyer said, oh, you're just trying to get
us back to three strikes, this will stop all crime.
(16:07):
We've proven that doesn't work. But then why a Democrat
by the name of Jesse Gabriel of Woodland Hills introduce
a bill to impose sentence enhancements on people convicted of taking, damaging,
or destroying property worth more than two hundred and seventy
five thousand. It passed even though several Assembly committee members
had misgivings, they still passed her bill. And the lesson
(16:31):
from this is, well, if it's one of ours introducing
a bill, we have to take it seriously. If it's
one of those people over there that law and order
lock them up crowd, we'll just ignore it. That's where
we are now. Like that state senator who turned her
back and walked out on our guests talking about what
happened to her son. This is what we're dealing with now.
We don't want to hear anything because it's from the
(16:52):
other side.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
A woman who but a woman who does that should
really that you should burn in hell for that. You
really should we gut punch.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Be respectful enough just to let her tell her story.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
You can't even she can't even fake respect, she can't
even fake some compassion.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Let alone take the right action. All right, We got
more coming up.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
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Not that high a bar, by the way, to make
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Speaker 3 (17:53):
Weeks it is, we get lots of CALLSID weeks, well
maybe what's going on? And people have lots to say.
You can ask ro K. I will actually know.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I maintained the bars pretty low. Maybe there's no bar
you should sit it? Do I have a standard? I
like to hear the stuff that I chime in. Honestly,
some of the stuff that doesn't make it for multiple reasons.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
It's still some pretty good stuff, right.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
But it's unairable or illegal, yes, yeah, right, there FDC
regulations we have to see.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
It could be in trouble like Fox News, and.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, I'm not trying to go down that road. I
don't have seven hundred and eighty seven point five million dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, that's another breaking story. This afternoon, Fox News is
paying out to seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars
to Dominion Voting Systems over the whole twenty twenty fiasco
with Trump's claim that the election was stolen, the Fox
putting on all these people who presented quote evidence of that.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Though.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Fox is admitting that they pushed lies and amplified lies,
but they don't have to do it on their own channel.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
That was part of the deal.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yes, yeah, So you're not going to see any on
air explanation or apology on the news channel.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Oh here's a headline I think says a lot about
where we are today. Americans now spend more money on
legal weed than chocolate. Sales of marijuana from dispensaries has
top thirty billion dollars in the last year. That's more
than people spend on chocolate. So there you go.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Did you see that story.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I think it was in the New York Post. It
was a column. Oh yeah, yeah, it's got by Steve Quaso.
He said, let's be blunt, legal weed is turning New
York workers into zombies. And he goes, ever since they
decriminalized marijuana, they're stinky smoke hanging everywhere, subway cars, broadway theaters,
(19:44):
men's rooms, and now a license to get high has
turned service employees into zombies.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Just if you just.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Order coffee, you have to say it three times to
get a response from the He is zombie barista, and
he says everybody is stoned. A friend has said any
question or request is met with a vacant look and
they just mumbled no problem and it's in stores, and
(20:15):
it's in restaurants. Their hollow eyed, disengaged from their past,
from their tasks. Their breath reeks of weed, stores, restaurants,
dry cleaners.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah, we're going under in the cloud of marijuana smoke. Great, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Oh he said, he gave. He went into one place
and he gave the guy a twenty dollars bill for
an eight dollar cup of soup, and he asked for
a bag. He took twenty dollars and forgot the soup.
The change the bag, and me he wandered off.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Hello. All right, well, it's time on the Johnny Ken
Show to pause and say, let's hear it for the teachers.
Oh my god, the LA Unified School District teachers have
gotten themselves a twenty one percent raise over about three years,
seven percent year, seven percent a year. And haven't they
(21:13):
done a bang up job, especially during that pandemic. Come on, everybody,
you imagine not showing up for work for a year
and a half, refusing to show up for work, and
then you're rewarded with a twenty one percent pay increase.
This includes and added twenty thousand dollars salary bump for
nurses three thousand dollars for school psychologists, psychiatric social workers,
(21:34):
attendance counselors, and other special service providers. Attendance counselors, attendance counselors.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
That's a good one.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I'd like to be paid as an attendance counselor for LAUSD's.
That's a hard job.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
This has got to be a spoof. I heard over
the weekend they rejected a nineteen percent offer, and I said,
what do they think they're going to get? Well, they
got twenty one.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
This is our tax money.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
And very few of the kids can read, Very few
of the kids can do basic math, and nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
It's almost all it's almost all minority kids.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
And you see, they did that acceleration day thing again
last week during spring break, and they got like one
third of the less of the people kids showed up.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Parents don't care either. The parents don't care, and the
kids don't care. It's just smoke weed.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
It's well, that's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
They're gonna graduate high school maybe, and they're gonna get
a job making coffee at Starbucks. Stoned on weed. They
can't even make change, And there's your life.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Well, it's what you said earlier in the show. Could
also lead to more criminals.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Oh, it will be. It will definitely be.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Especially since we have no criminal justice system and there's
no punishment. Because all of these things will come together.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Right, They're not gonna be able to make any money,
and so they're gonna start stealing stuff. Wow, and look
at this. Look at this stooge, Alberto Carvallo.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Yeah, he's new and he's already a stooge.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
I I he's he's actually, he's actually carrying on that
he's grateful for the agreement that reflects the dedicated work
of our employees.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
They didn't show up for a year and a half.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Where is this money coming from. They've already given out
a pile of money to the cafeteria workers, and they're
losing students. Enrollment is down. I don't know where they
think they're gonna get all this money to pay all
this raises. This is unbelievable. Yeah, well they has anybody
brought up their finances for this? We have reserves, remember
(23:31):
that thing about reserves. A year and a half, they
didn't show up for work. Oh there was some quote.
I don't know where it is. I can't find it about.
Oh yeah, here it's Carvallo. He's nuts, you know, he's
another one of these guys. He talks with a loud voice,
very booming and boisterous. But what an empty can He says,
(23:53):
this agreement is necessary to make LA unify the district
of choice for families, but the district of choice for
teachers and employees. District of choice everyone goes. I mean
people are pulling out or putting their kids in charter schools.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
The student enrollment is dropped by half in the last
twenty years.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
You only go if you're too broke to go anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
You can't move, and you can't do private school or
parochial school, or can't do homeschool or charter school. You
can't get your kid in there. Wow, that is an abomination.
What a joke, Carvallo is a joke. Those kids' lives
are just ruined. The teachers don't care about.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Any of them.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Man, And the next person who comes up and says, well,
you know my teacher is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
No she's not.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Stop it. We got more coming up. Johnny Kid KFI
AM six p forty We're live everywhere the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yeah, we'll be done soon, but you can listen to
the whole show and not long after four o'clock by
accessing the podcast John and Kent on demand on the
iHeartRadio appert KFI eight M six forty dot com. A
lot of important stuff in there today, dealing with the
problem of fentanyl, dealing with what's going on in the
juvenile detention system in the camps.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Right at the start of the show, Steve Gregor.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Gregory's had a special report on that.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You got to hear that, all right.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
We had them on for a better part a half
an hour with a lot of details. So it's all
waiting for you in the podcast, which will go up shortly.
Well years ago, on the John and Ken Show, we
had something we called the Fry the Medendi. Will you remember.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Whoz brothers murder They killed their parents. They did Lyle
and Eric Menendez, Rich Beverly Hills kids their parents. We
had a DA at the time by the name of
gil Garcetti, who was remarkably incompetent, like his son, the
dead father of the secure. A guilty verdict needed more money.
(26:13):
We helped raise more money for them to take the
case back to trial.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
They were eventually convicted and sentenced to long prison terms. Well,
the mantra today could be freeom and and die. Why
would I say that, John, Well, actually, those bills and
Sacramento may do that anywhere are they getting out? No.
One of the claims of Lyell and Eric Menendez was
(26:39):
that part of why they killed their father was self defense.
He was sexually assaulting them. That story with the hair people, Yeah,
but also I think it was actual sexual rape and such,
not just the hair brush. But I think there were
other claims that he was doing. He was deadling them
and sticks in my head at the other hair brush.
(26:59):
I remember that, Yes, not just spanking them with it.
But yeah, I can't look at one without thinking of that.
So you don't brush your hair obviously. Uh, yeah, that's true.
So a lot of people just roll their eyes at that.
That's ridiculous. I mean, they're going to say anything that
they think they need to say to be kept from
(27:20):
a very long prison term. Well shocker today from TMZ
if you believe it. Do you remember the boy band Mnudo.
Menudo was a very popular boy band from the nineteen
eighties that were all teenage boys in the band.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I know they existed. I can't say I.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Know the name too, I don't. I saw pictures, but
I never think I heard a song. They would change,
people would change in the group over time because you
get too old, Yeah, you would age out of Nudo.
And there were claims by some of the Menudo boys
that they were physically assaulted, like managers and stuff involved.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yes, I remember, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
But one of them, just now thirty years later, named
Roy Roussello, is now claiming that Jose Menendez drugged and
sexual assaulted him.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yeah? Does this give any validity to the claim? Not
that they still killed him, but still were they really not?
Just completely pulling?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Oh I don't care, No, I I really don't care.
That family family was monstrous.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
He was an executive in the music business during the
nineteen eighties and nineties, the father Jose Menendez, so yeah,
he was very tight with the Latino community and the
music field and of course Menudo, and he got from
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
That was like on the farthest fringe of my consciousness, right,
I just knew they existed, well, apparently all this is
going to be aired by Peacock streaming services. Oh well,
I pay for this story is going to be coming
out on May second. I want to hear about how
the Menendez brother's dad violated a Menudo member. Well, there
(29:10):
are a lot of young people that have worked in Hollywood.
They claim that this is a vastly untold story as
big as me too. Was young people being sexually assaulted.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
It was very difficult to get anywhere, especially in the
music business. Very difficult for women probably still to get
anywhere without submitting.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
But the big thing is children minors, you know, all
the child actors. It was easy to probably from some
of these pervert. There's executives to.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Take a lot of sexual perverts in Hollywood, and they're
really good at covering it up because.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
They have all they they have all these.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Social causes, oh constantly, and they can hold it over
you. You'll be ruined, you'll never walk again. They're all phonies.
They're all perverts and phonies. Huh, perfect time for Conway. Hey, Hey, now,
how dare you? He's supposed to say, you're talking about Handle?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, you talk about Bill Handle.
Speaker 8 (30:02):
But see, I thought that was too close, so I
didn't didn't bring it up.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
It's a good one, all right.
Speaker 8 (30:07):
LAUSD teachers and the union reached attendantive labor agreement, right.
I thought they did that a month ago. And I
guess they know that was a cafeteria. Oh thank god, everyone,
everyone's getting money. Eighteen hundred Southwest Airlines flights were delayed
due to a temporary ground stop and deadline for filing taxes.
But some Californians have an extension, so that's pretty cool.
(30:29):
And then Coachella was fine. One hundred and seventeen thousand
dollars were breaking city curfew.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
All three nights. Oh darn, there's a curfew out there.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
It was brought at ten o'clock.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
I think it's nine o'clock.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I didn't know they had a curfew all three nights.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
And then by my buzzing around Burbank today, and a
guy shot himself in a Chase bank right on Verdugo
and Olive, and I drove by right like as it
was happening.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I'm like, crime's everywhere.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Now, it's right, But he shot himself? Is that a crime?
Speaker 8 (30:58):
I think he shot himself. Yeah, I think it's a crime.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
I think it is. It's a you can't charge suicide
people with much because you know.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
But if you unsuccessfully try to like hang yourself or
kill yourself, I think they lock you up.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
They do. I think, yeah, it should. I don't know
I should shut up? You give an exit bag? Do
it more neatly?
Speaker 8 (31:19):
Oh my god, John Colbell please, uh, con say rosary
for you tonight.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Doesn't seem to help. There's so many people show me
your beads, Conway's next.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Beads. Your news guy's a wall here?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Oh Harry Thomson, Mark Toms.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
And if I wasn't here, if you'd mentioned no, I
didn't know. We thought you were absent. I like the
sunglasses looking.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
On the cool.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
What kind of bender were you on last night?
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Yeah, right man, much more shine.
Speaker 8 (31:59):
There two types of people wear sunglasses inside the blind
and studs.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
There you go. That's my guy place.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
What about drug addice dig Don you gotta have Dary
had both of them?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Press got the Live from the twenty four Hour Camp.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
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