December 6, 2023 • 34 mins
A special message for Ken from Executive Producer Ray Lopez. A special message for Ken for his retirement. The guy who won the Pastathon auction to cohost with John for an hour comes on the show. KFI Program Director Robin Bertolucci comes on the show with Ken good luck on his retirement.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
CANF I AM six forty. You're listening to the John
and Ken Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mar Antonio Villa Ragosa.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
You know, I want fantastic, but I want it, you know,
but I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Can you fail that? You know?
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Uh you know.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (00:46):
That's how we compete with the Christmas Es extations. That's
all we can do.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, that's another play road masterpiece. You were talking about
him yesterday. Yeah, you put that together a few years
back and it's a classic. Yeah, and that's all we
got as far as you know, can't Christmas music. That's
that's all we'll play. That's it. That's It's the last
John and Ken Show. John Cobalt, Ken, Champeau CAF, I
AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and
(01:11):
we're on til four o'clock. After four o'clock if you're
gonna want to hear the whole thing today Johnny Ken
on demand podcast. I'm gonna take a few days off
and Tuesday the twelfth, I start by myself, So please
be there.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
The John and co Belt Show right, you know who's
coming on this hour?
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Did you the guy that won the bid to co
host with you for an hour? Oh? That's right, Yes,
I know. We found out who he is.
Speaker 7 (01:32):
We did a massive background check, and I guess he's
okay to come on and talk about well but this
is kind of a Yeah he is an attorney. But
doesn't this ruin the fun of him just coming on
the air.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Sort of cold? When he co hosts? Well, we gotta
we gotta see what he's like. Oh, a little screening. Look,
he's already paid. You can't.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
You got to give him his hour to work out
a date yet, because I got to make sure I'm
in town.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
No, No, maybe we could do that. When he comes on,
we have a live farewell message from Ray Lopez, our
long time Oh I was wondering, twenty four years he's
been with us? Ray? Has it been that long?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yes, that's the other the other evil station. Yes, yeah,
you know that evil station was evil And while you
were a good employee there, they loved you.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
I was the top of the I was the turn
that rose to the bowl over there. How's that you
stepped right up?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You wanted to produce our show. I remember, Yeah, I
remember our program director Drew Hayes at the time.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
He he he gave me a didn't really give me
a choice.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
You just said, hey, here's what we're doing.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Johnny Canner coming and I need someone I trust to
work with them. And then I remember we met, you know,
and this was like this was like secretive stuff. And
we had this secret meeting at the Roll and Rye
restaurant in Culver City. I remember that place, Yes, I
and I met you guy guys, and you guys said,
(03:02):
you know, here's what we want. We tell you what
to do, so do it. We have people in the
news stories we want to talk to. We gave you
the news story and you go and find him. Yeah,
and you know, I was, you know, I was, jeez,
it was quite a while ago. And and you know, I,
you know, I've been working, you know, talk radio.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Let's let's make it clear you were a board operator then,
you were not a producer.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Yeah, I was a bornp but you know, I I
kind of understood what Drew wanted to do with you guys,
you know, and uh, you know I was working with
Larry Elder at the time, and and uh, you know
that that didn't really that wasn't really getting me anywhere.
And I Larry's a good guy, you don't get me wrong.
But you know I learned a lot, you know, I
work with him. But it was time for me to
(03:47):
grow some, you know, time to take off my panties
and uh on my big boy pants. And uh Andrew
gave me the shot and uh he said, you know
I am gonna you know, I need you to win,
you know I needed And we'd had these meetings after
the show, and man, he would if he didn't like it.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You know at the time, guys, you remember who we
were working for.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Oh, I know, that's the real story. This is a
great moment to tell everyone. We all got fired except Ray.
Ray stayed at that station. We all got our heads
lopped off. And I'm going to take a moment to
really praise Drew Hayes because he was fantastic. He really
believed in us and John. This is the only time
in my entire career that I would stay after the
(04:28):
show and sit in someone's office and just talk. Remember that, Well,
Drew's clip is coming up next. Oh, fantastic guy. Yeah,
and he really did believe in us, and he went
under the bus for us. Yeah, and yeah, there were
a lot of bad people.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
He got run over. For those of you who don't know,
we started KFI ninety two. We had a contract dispute
with other executives, yes, that owned KFI back.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
People at KFI back then, G Hall and Howard Neil
were wonderful.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, but Cox had a real rotten bastard. And uh
oh he was mad, syndicated, very mad. He looking for
a way to undercut it and kill it. He never
wanted his hired. That's that's the same. That's true even
before that. Yeah, So anyway, we had a contract dispute.
We left for about a year year and a half
to ABC, and then we came back to KFI in
(05:16):
two thousand and one and have been here ever since.
But that David T. Hall brought us back, I want
to also mention him fantastic. David's going to be a
special guest later as well. He brought me back here.
So he brought me from from KBC. Well, you were
texting me, get me out of here.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Get me the body here, because I didn't know what
I was going to do because they had me working
this this morning show that I don't know what the
hell it was, and I don't know what even what
they wanted me to do. Then, even to this day,
I won't I won't work with another show because I couldn't.
I can't write you guys questions to read on the
I can't figure out you know what you guys are
going to talk to the guests about. I give you
(05:52):
the get, I give you what you want, and I
get away from you guys. Now, give you what you want,
set you guys up, and get the hell out of
the way.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And that's that's worked for us, right. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
I remember one of the first times that you came
in the studio at that station and you put the.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Pile on the table. It's like five sheets. I said,
what the hell is this? That we want more? We
need more?
Speaker 7 (06:13):
And ever since then, obviously you've produced a lot of material.
But I think you thought that we were I don't know,
really just going to riff it, be like at Libbers
and so you gave us very few.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Stories and I'm like, well, you know, i'd like to
pick from things a good start.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Yeah, I didn't know what the hell to do with
you guys, because you know that at radio station, at
the time, had a bunch of old white guys and
they you know, and they were just and that's that
was what it was.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
That was, Yeah, that was you know.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Do open monologue and take calls and that's what That's
what talk Grater used to be.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
And and we had a series of producers when we
were KFI the first time and the last one I'm
not going to mention their name.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Well, he sent a nice message on Facebook.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Oh well, it was just a refreshing change to see
Ray who was just so laid back and cool and
just never really you know, very hard to shake that.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
That's what we needed.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
But you know it really and you know, all truth
be told, I'm a shark, I'm a liar, defensive cheap
man when it comes to getting stuff for the show.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Oh yeah, we don't ask and you don't want to. Yeah, no,
we learned that long ago. That's right. No, I had
a policy, don't ask, don't tell.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Hey, but how many listeners, how many callers have rather
guess got ambushed and were very bitter.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, call Ray back person.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Adam, your producer said, I dare you where you like
to be about you?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
You're your fault for believing him. Whatever, I don't care
who cares.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
I always figured if politician didn't want to talk, he wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
But if he didn't, that'd be even worse.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Should you guys carry on and beat him up until
he talked or he didn't. And he looked like a
fool either way. So and remember ken that one time
we went to Washington, DC for that illegal alien uh thing?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yes, and then we went hold their feet of the fire.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
We went in the offices and these politicians and it
was so quiet, and we and we figured, you know,
if we got our mob to call them and ambush
these these poor you know, wieners who are answering.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
The phones, it's gonna these people are going to be
brought to tears. And sure enough we did.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
We did, We went back and that was our planet.
It worked right, Yeah, they buckled.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Well, maybe you'll remember this story. We sicked the audience
on some legislative aids up in Sacramento early two thousands.
I don't remember what the issue is. But didn't one
of them call you? And he was crying on the phone.
His name was Brandon Giseki. That's it.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Yes, I'll never forget that loon he was. He was
sobbing asking you to call off the dogs. And it
was great because in the Sacramento b during the heads
on a Stick, yeah, it shows someone took a picture
of these politicians with their laptop on our homepage with
heads on sticks, and they were all afraid that they
(09:04):
were going to end up on Oh.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
I remember the idiot Abel Maldon autumn. Yeah, I really
worked up over that. I think because he was he
was making deals to raise taxes.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I think he was in the photo and that was
him looking at his head on a stick. That's right,
that was the photo of that. That was just fantastic. Well,
it's been fun, Ken, thank you for everything. Yeah, Ray,
you're the best.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
No producer usually last this long, but you did.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I got nowhere else to go. I got got nowhere
else to go.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
You carry on with John whatever that means. I don't
know what are making a screen calls and and and
you know set up. No, you've had offers over the
years you had to go. I've had offers, but you
know I I've had offers, but I really don't didn't
want to. I didn't want to leave you guys, because
you guys, I get you and you get me.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
And well, I had to hang on to you because
you were our diversity, that's right, And I worked that
as much as I could.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
He did, he did, And I catch a lot of
crap too. I've been thrown out of birthday parties and
uh yeah, well he works with John and Ken, John
and kenn blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
Goodn't ask for anybody better to be our producer because
the personality and obviously all the work you did behind
the scenes, which we just mentioned we don't ask questions about,
but you were just the perfect personality work John.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
There's so many stories, good times, No Ray, thank you.
All right.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
That's a long time producer, Ray Lopez. And you may
have heard the name a few times. He doesn't come
on the air a lot, and sometimes it makes me
nervous because sometimes he just blurts things out that are like.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Makes me nervous too. Everybody's nerves. Get that dumb button ready,
we're all shaking. We got to throw it.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You're listening to John and Ken on demand from kf
I Am six.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Forty Ken's Last Day to Day and you could hear
it on the podcast later. John and Kenn on demand. Well,
since we just had Ray Lopez on and we talked
about beating up with him during our time at KBC
for about a year and a half in nineteen ninety nine,
this is a good time to play man. We were
discussing Drew Hayes, the program director. If you're just joining us,
(11:19):
the quick story is we had a contract dispute with
his jackass executive from Cox Radio, which owned KFI at
the time, and so we left and.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
We were not fired. No, they had to tell some
of our they gave us. They gave us still get
emails from people now, Well, all right, we're with you guys,
since you got fired from KFI.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
We did not. No, they give us a contract, or
at least this guy did. One day. I'm writing a book.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
And after this guy's dead and he gave us an
insulting contract, and so we left.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Andrew was wonderful to work with, but now and they
made an eye and that side was outside of Drew
and Ray. There was nobody else there that was wonderful
to work with.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Well that's the problem, and the chief executive there didn't
understand our show with no, So that was our demise
about a year and a half later.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
That's another great chapter in the book. But anyway, the
program director was a great guy, is a great guy,
still a good friend. Here's Drew Hayes.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Hey can it's me Drew Hayes. Congratulations on your retirement.
I am honored to have worked with you, however briefly
and hopefully I help ped the retirement account a little bit.
You guys are definitely Hall of famers on the air,
and really they should do a Harvard Business School course
on how you and John management over the years. Enjoy
(12:40):
your leisure time and maybe drop a call to John
on the moist Light occasionally have fun.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
All the best, all right, and again, yeah, he was
the program director at that station at the time. And yeah,
also responsible for giving us ray as we just sat
out right, yeah right, Yeah, it's stuck by us because
it got rocky there, obviously it did.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
They didn't understand what we did.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
We had some protesters Mark Ridley Thomas's group, remember that.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
That's why I'm so happy you see Ridley Thomas going
to prison. Yes, I know you brought that up a
couple of months ago. What happened with that? Oh?
Speaker 7 (13:11):
He delayed that, right, he delayed that. Yeah, until his
appeals are done. Oh my god, I could be.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Dead before that. I may. I still may show up
in person the day he's let off a handcuffs and
her orange jumpsuit. Right.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
But eventually they told Drew they got to go, or
you're going, and he left. Yeah, he got fired first.
How many guys would do that. How many guys would say, well,
I'm not firing him, I'll you can fire me. Very
few in this business, very few. Most of people are
yes men. You share whatever you want, including his replacement.
But I won't get into that. We could easily go
(13:46):
down a dark road. We could. There's no names on
the dark side, only the bright side today would be
And as I said, I enjoyed so much of being
in his office after the show went just talking. He
kept you at ease, and he didn't sit there and
try to critique the show in detail. There are too
many program directors who come into my office. We're going
to go over everything that you said today on the
(14:07):
air in detail, trying to figure out what's working and
what's not. Get out of here. And David g Hol's
another one, did not do that.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, right, yes, no, so yeah, he'll be on the
next hour. We got a clip from him. Okay, he
doesn't say much, so let you see what that's about.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Oh, in our current program directors coming on over twenty
years with her, So she'll be coming on in about
a half hour. One other thing I'll miss is the
punching bag, at least doing it on the air. The
Elsiegundo Times. Yes, and I'm bringing them up right now
because I just got an email from them. I am
a digital subscriber. I don't know how off I'm going
to keep that upper by sent you a farewell message. No, no, no,
(14:45):
no no, they're down to selling candles. No, I'm not
kidding you.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
La.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Times Plants and PF Candle Company wants you to know
that you can get for a limited time, a limited
edition trio of soy candles John inspired by California's native plants.
Sounds I'll make this up. That sounds like you're down
to selling candles. It's a Deborah gift, it is. You
can eat them.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
She likes soy right, Yeah, I love soy candles. You
sure I'm serious? Yeah.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
One of them's Cowboy Cologne soy candle, another one's Jeffrey
Pine soy candle, and the other one's California black walnut
soy candle, and I guess all three of those are
actual native California plants. Cowboy cologne, I guess it is, yeah,
right right, This is their line of soy plants based
on California plants and Cowboy.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Cologne essence of sweaty Cowboy. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Jeffrey Pine is a plant, and so is California black walnut.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
So Jeffrey Pine, it's from a guy named Jeffrey Pine.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
I mean when we got here, I knew this outfit
was bad news, but wow, it got it took a
turn in the last eight years that I still can't
even imagine so ridiculously woke. If we were going to
do that one day, we were going to just read
their headlines and then they give it afternoon because they're
all just so ridiculously it's inside bubble woke.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It's it's a parody of itself now it is. It's
like a version of the Onion, except it's real. They
really write these these stories and cover these issues.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
And they are way behind the other major newspapers around
the world when it comes to digital subscribers and whatever
measure you.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Want to get. Oh yeah, what is I think? I
think like the New York Times is it about ten million?
And the La Times is a half million? New York
Times has twenty times the paid subscribers. Wow. And they
used to be considered a major national newspaper up there
with the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
And oh I knew them even on the East Coast.
I knew them, and I got here, I was like, oh,
I'm going to buy that every day. And I mean
we still use it now for material, but mostly just
as a punching bag comedy comedy material. Yeah, comedy material.
I mean they have classic columnists too many to name.
It went from hard news material to clown. We'll be
right back, Johnny KENKF. I am six forty everywhere the
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iHeartRadio app. And when we come back, we are we
got two things. We're going to talk to the winner
of the contest with you, and we also because we've
got a possible replacement, yes, And also we are going
to play clips from the early two thousands on the
John and Ken Show, including the long stream of celebrity
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trials and scandals.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
And that'll be next. So you definitely must hang in
through the news.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Still to come very soon, We're going to play some
more highlight clips here on Ken's final day on the
John and Ken Show. We've got clips from the early
two thousands, all the celebrity scandals and trials.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
But first, Baha, we do have a special guest. Who
is the person that bid the highest to co host
an hour with John Cobelt on KFI for the pasta on.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
He's a real guy. His name is Jeffrey Briggs with
just Joe Luck. He's a lawyer, I know, with Briggs Law.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
And you know what's even better. But a lot of
stuff on copyrights and trade secrets is his expertise.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Is that right? That's looked at his website.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I'm trying to think if I'm vulnerable or not workplace
harassment though it wouldn't be a specialty. I hope Jeffrey
you're there.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
Yeah, and I go by jeff Thanks guys.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
You spent six and fifty dollars just to spend an
hour with me? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (18:34):
Are you calling me crazy?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I was going to say you're pleading insanity.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
Now listen, man, I've been a longtime fan, and I
really respect what Chef Bruno is doing with Katerina's kids,
so I wanted to contribute. And I lost my parents
to COVID and not to COVID, I'll ask my parents
during the last couple of during the last year and
lost a lot of time with due to all the
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COVID stuff that we had.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
To put up with.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
They were big fans of your show in retirement. They
listened to you guys all the time, and I thought
it might be a fitting tribute to make the contribution
to Katerina's club and then also to to get on
the radio with you or with their with their favorite host.
Conway wasn't available though, So.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Good, You're gonna fit right in. Well you good, you
got a good, strong voice, You sound sound quite intelligent.
You must be, and.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Uh, I don't. I don't know about the latter's If
I said I'm worried, I'm sounding a little nervous because
I'm still sober. Clint over Taylor Swift the name Time
Magazine's Person of the Year. I can't believe the La
Times didn't feed him to that.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, I know that was kind of funny. Crazy. Well,
listen you you sound like a great candidate, and you
know you can bring your own material when we pick
out the date and we can talk about whatever you
want for an hour.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
Well, I'm really looking forward to it, and I'm really
honored to be on today, just briefly, to be able
to wish Ken the very best. I've been listening, did
you guys, weren't you on the radio? Weren't you on
in the mornings for a.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
While, Yes, we were about a year and a half.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
The other station listening to you since then and since
all the time changes, and I'm a big fan and
I'll miss Ken, but I'm appreciative for the opportunity to
sit in his chair for an hour.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
All right. Well, he hasn't sat in his chair in
this chair for about three and a half years. No,
I have right chair has been usually empty. Well, listen, Jeff,
it's good talking with you. I think we're gonna have
a great time.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
I look forward to it. Thanks very much for the chance.
And like I said, I'm really proud to support Katerina's kids.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
All right. Jeff Briggs attorney at law, and he sounds
like he won't give you too much trouble now, he
paid sid and fifty dollars for in knows Katerina's club,
just the co host of the show for an hour.
I know that's something Rage drmed up as the thing
the bid. Yeah, you know that, that's that's better than
spending four hours at Dodger Stadium. Actually that you like
(21:14):
to go to base I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Well, Uh,
let's get let's play some more clips here because we're
quickly going to run out of time. Stop stop, wait,
I gotta explain how to set it up. Most of
this no one even remembers anymore.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
It starts off with we're in front of Harry Ranch,
Robert Blake's house, the Robert Blake murder of his wife.
Then you'll hear stuff about Cardinal Mahoney and the archdiocese scandal,
all those naughty priests, Gary Content. When we were up
in Condent's office. Uh, Judge Kleine, remember the judge that
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we helped, you know, like.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
The first year or two after we came back to
KFI in the early two thousands.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I know we always we always got really lucky. I
know that was an incredible streak one to two to three.
Kleine had pornography on his screen, right on his computer screen.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
I think that's what did I don't remember. Yeah, he
was being recalled for something terrible, David West. No, he
wasn't being recalled. He was up for vote and we
made sure they didn't vote for him. Oh that's right, Yes, yes,
judges don't get challenged. Hey, yes, we had a writing
candidate beat him out.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
That's what happened. Okay, the David Westerfield trial, remember he
killed that little girl.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Then you'll hear us shouting at up at Great Davis's
office on electricity crisis, some bill. We were trying to
get him to the Scott Peterson on the driveway, handing
out broccoli to the Westerfield jurors who we thought were vegetables. Uh.
(22:51):
The judge in that case getting angry with us, the
Trevor Law Group, which was the scam law firm, and
you'll hear me almost get into a fist fight with
an assemblyment Louke Korea over it. And then finally we
end with the former sheriff Lee Baca and his body parts.
So play the play this montage the Madahari Ranch. It's
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the home of Robert Blake. Apparently now the prime suspect
a piece of garbage house he's got and the death
of his wife.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
You said, one neighbor came out the other day and
one of the guys running a satellite truck for some
network was taken a leak on our lawn.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Oh yeah, we have gotten a hold of internal memos
of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles of the eight priests involved.
Oh well, we know it's six to twelve. It's eight,
it's eight. You've heard it here. Anybody like to talk? Yeah,
that's likely. Any of you women's sleep with Gary Kardon. Oh,
he's gonna get thrown out. You're gonna call the authorities. Hey,
do you girls here work here? You think he killed her?
Continuing coverage of the unbelievable hijacking and crashes today that
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has cost probably thousands of lives.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Fine, resign, Fine, resign, fine resign.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
All right, let's try some Christmas carols? Now, Hey, Westerfield,
did you kill Danielle Lovely? The crowd groans when you
asked that. Oh, why it wasn't on your buy too big?
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Tone the bell, open the window and drop it down here.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
It's right, we'll take it from me.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
We'll take it from you. Hey, Scott, not pot anybody
with your voting story of fence.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
We can see him there.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
We also put broccoli along with us to hand out.
Does everybody have broccoli here in the audience? Everybody? Jurors
who just don't get it on that Brocoli, sir.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Idiots from LA talk stations acting like teenagers in front
of this building.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
How business owners are being screwed by the legalized extortion,
the legal shakedown tactics of the chair of the law group.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Coming down on the small businessman. And we're here to
help out those guys.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
What's the lawlu, I want a law that stops the lawsuits.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Get off me, doctor Now, Sean is trying to get
to Lula. Louis trying to get to John Law by
now or here comes the police. BAKA ought to have
the gonads to say, Hey, it's Joe Davis who's cutting
off our money. He's online sent bo if you.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
Wonder whether or not I've got gonads to stou, invite
me down to the office there and I'll come there
and show you what I've got.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
I forgot.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
We called them Joe Davis, right, Great Davis's real nighbors.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, and then he became Gumby.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Turned them into Gumby and of course the dear sweet
former Sheriff of La County Lee Baca there at the end,
I think really has dementia.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I think that's the start of dementia. When an old
man wants to show you his going ads, that's the
time to take him Awaye's still alive as far as
I know.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
He got out of federal prison because of that whole
story that got him.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Because you can't slander defamed dead people. I always keep
that in mind, I know, so you have to ferre
it out right. Who's what that happened to me? Again?
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Today I looked somebody up that I thought was was dead.
I was trying to make sure, well, there you go.
That's another period there, and a lot of that is
the early two thousands. Sounded like, right, all right, we
got more coming up. Oh, it's my current boss, understand
it's coming on, right, Robin.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Bertolucci, who has endured twenty two years of us.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
That would be the longest run of any program director
that we've been under, uninterrupted twenty two years years.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
All right. Johnny k KFI AM six forty Live everywhere.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
iHeartRadio app You're listening to John and Ken on demand
from KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Ken's final day, and we have a lot of tape
guests calling walking guests, a lot of old clips that
we've been playing. And now we have a woman who
did something terrible in a previous life and got sentenced
to a minimum of twenty two years as program director
for our show and Bill Handle's show. And we've got
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Robin Bertolucci on the line. I don't know what you did, Robin,
but that's a great instrument. That is a heck of
a sentence.
Speaker 9 (26:53):
I have been going back through past life therapy to
try and figure out what it was, and I'm still
not sure.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
How did you deserve this?
Speaker 9 (27:01):
I don't know, I don't know. Oh my god, Ken,
I can't believe you're leaving. I'm so bummed, and I
thank you so much for being such a huge part
of this station and just the heart and soul of KFI.
You are going to be incredibly missed, and I have
loved working with you.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
A lot of people are asking me, how are you
going to deal with John alone?
Speaker 9 (27:23):
I was you to get some guidance on that.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Some advice because you would tell me sometimes how I
like you there because you know, you challenge him.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You get in there. What's going to happen now I'm
going to.
Speaker 9 (27:34):
Be I don't God knows, I'm going to be unchallenged.
He'll be unhinged, you know, but you are. I mean,
you have like as a talk show host, you have
such a unique ability to both be in the moment
as a host and also think like a producer what
(27:54):
is best for the moment. And I think that, more
than anything about you really impressed me. You're always just
making the right moment happen on the air, and I
love that about you.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Thank you very.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
Much and appreciate all your support over the years. There's
been some troubling times and you were there behind us.
Speaker 9 (28:11):
Well glad to be. I do have a question though,
you know, I heard you talking about, you know, going
in Drew Hayes's office after the show and hanging out,
and I don't remember you ever doing that in my office.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
No, you had people in there I didn't want to
sit with, Okay, I just got to be honest. It
wasn't you, No, but you always had some company, and
you know, you know, I wasn't part of that claim?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
True, it wasn't you.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
I enjoyed talking with you.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
No, really, let's keep this going.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Yeah, John lives for uncomfortable moments, Oh he does.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
He loves them. The cringier, the better chaos.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
That's what I wake up for.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Yeah, really really appreciate, appreciates you. And yeah, you've had
a long tenure here at KFI. When are you going
to retire?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (29:00):
You know, if this doesn't go well with this John thing,
you know, in a couple of weeks, I'll let you know.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
That's right, we start all over again on Tuesday.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
So I should have my listeners, should have our listeners
pitch their ideas for the co host to you.
Speaker 9 (29:14):
Oh I love that, Yeah, I love that. Sure, you know.
I was at a Conway event for his birthday at
Marongo and he he picks up the mic and he goes, hey,
by the way, Robin loves hearing new show ideas. Don't
go quickly like, don't gloss over, give her all the particulars,
like a real in depth pitch.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Exactly what did you tell? Oh?
Speaker 9 (29:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do love that. That would
be fantastic.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Thank you, thank you really appreciates you, thank you for
calling in.
Speaker 9 (29:45):
Oh my pleasure, good luck.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
As the current program director of Kofi Robin Bertolucci, that
reminded me of like when we do our remotes right,
and there'll always be someone that comes there with a missive.
They come there with their manifesto and just.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Shove him over to ray. Remember that, Poe. Oh my god.
Two things stand out in my mind being accosted by listeners.
One guy came up and he had this thick, thick
It was several hundred pages, single spaced, typed on the typewriter,
and it was his plan to abolish and replace the
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Federal Reserve. Oh that's fantastic. I spent a year on that.
It was.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
It was thick and heavy, like an encyclopedia. Oh no, yes, I.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Will tell you that.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
When you know they would come to you and and
uh and you'd send him over to me.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I sent him to you. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
Yeah, they they smell the same, and they all had
a round gut.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
It was one.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
There was a guy at the pastathon last week, even
I hadn't appeared in publican years, and there's somebody right
away and go, oh I had this.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I've been waiting.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
I got this to talk to you about holding something
in the air, but I just kept moving.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Yeah, he had some some clap trap about I forget
what it was.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
It was, Oh he did corner you. Yeah he did
for a little while.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
And I pretended to be you know, pretending to be interested,
and I just you know, thanked him.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
And so you heard this, you'd come up to us
in any future appearances. Ray is only pretending to be interested,
So I don't think he's actually listening. There was like,
it's really good though, at not letting you know that. Yeah, yeah,
but there's no money in it for me. Was looking
for the money.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Why do I can Many times over the years, John,
he's yelled out, I should have got a cut of
that because we did something.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
On the air and the person benefited somehow, and I
was like, I need a cut of that. I told
him I always had him on. I always say, yeah,
you deserve money. There was one other guy who came
up to me, and this was at I did an
appearance for doctor Cunning. He'd have seminars on a Saturday
morning at a hotel, you know, and one hundred to
cafe listeners would show up to hear what doctor Cunning
could do for their rotted teeth, right, And so I
(31:56):
would stand up and talk about doctor Cunning's business. And
then I went into the lobby of the hotel to
go home, and a guy cornered me, and they had
these bar tables, right, those high standing bar tables, and
he goes, I just want to show you something. And
he had another one had a huge book, like an
architects book, and he opened it up and he goes,
(32:19):
I want to explain to you why they screwed up
this interchange. He was a highway engineer like a civil engineer, yes,
and he had all these blueprints, these complex drawings of
the original layout for a freeway interchange that he thought
was improperly designed. And he started explaining it to me.
And I'm looking around, and because this isn't an on
(32:40):
air event, there was no ray, There was no nobody. Oh,
exits are limited, that's right, Okay, what do we call
that the ten second rule? That's the ten second rule.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
If you can't explain your issue when ten seconds or less,
you're not going to get on.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
It's right. Trapdoors pulled? All right, we got a lot
next hour. We're going to one hour left, one hour left.
We are going to hear from Davis. Am I changing
my mind? The guy who hired a show was like this,
I think I'd stay well, sure if it was three
hours of just people adoring you. Then we have a
clip of from a couple other people, and I think
(33:12):
we're gonna hear from Deborah and Eric as well. And
we have our final, our final montage from the mid
two thousands, the mid two Oh goodie.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Something newer. Yes, I feel like we haven't done a
show the last ten years. Everything's coming from the nineties
and the early two thousand.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Oh do you really want to hear clips of Trump
and COVID and homeless people and crime guides. These are
important things we covered, I know, but this stuff, this
stuff more celebrities and oh in fact, well I don't
want to get all right, I'll tell you this real
(33:50):
audio twice this happened of Ken asking Jesse Jackson questions
that Jesse refuse to answer. Twice. You always liked that one.
That was a great one. I found him in the
crowd that night, but two different circumstances, and we'll or
maybe one was on the phone. I think anyway, we're
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gonna come back Deborah Mark has the news live in
the KFI twenty four our newsroom.
Speaker 7 (34:19):
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
Oh, come on, come on, let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
You know, I want fantastic, but I want it, you know,
but I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Can you fail that? You know?
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Uh you know.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (00:46):
That's how we compete with the Christmas Es extations. That's
all we can do.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, that's another play road masterpiece. You were talking about
him yesterday. Yeah, you put that together a few years
back and it's a classic. Yeah, and that's all we
got as far as you know, can't Christmas music. That's
that's all we'll play. That's it. That's It's the last
John and Ken Show. John Cobalt, Ken, Champeau CAF, I
AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and
(01:11):
we're on til four o'clock. After four o'clock if you're
gonna want to hear the whole thing today Johnny Ken
on demand podcast. I'm gonna take a few days off
and Tuesday the twelfth, I start by myself, So please
be there.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
The John and co Belt Show right, you know who's
coming on this hour?
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Did you the guy that won the bid to co
host with you for an hour? Oh? That's right, Yes,
I know. We found out who he is.
Speaker 7 (01:32):
We did a massive background check, and I guess he's
okay to come on and talk about well but this
is kind of a Yeah he is an attorney. But
doesn't this ruin the fun of him just coming on
the air.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Sort of cold? When he co hosts? Well, we gotta
we gotta see what he's like. Oh, a little screening. Look,
he's already paid. You can't.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
You got to give him his hour to work out
a date yet, because I got to make sure I'm
in town.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
No, No, maybe we could do that. When he comes on,
we have a live farewell message from Ray Lopez, our
long time Oh I was wondering, twenty four years he's
been with us? Ray? Has it been that long?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yes, that's the other the other evil station. Yes, yeah,
you know that evil station was evil And while you
were a good employee there, they loved you.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
I was the top of the I was the turn
that rose to the bowl over there. How's that you
stepped right up?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You wanted to produce our show. I remember, Yeah, I
remember our program director Drew Hayes at the time.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
He he he gave me a didn't really give me
a choice.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
You just said, hey, here's what we're doing.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Johnny Canner coming and I need someone I trust to
work with them. And then I remember we met, you know,
and this was like this was like secretive stuff. And
we had this secret meeting at the Roll and Rye
restaurant in Culver City. I remember that place, Yes, I
and I met you guy guys, and you guys said,
(03:02):
you know, here's what we want. We tell you what
to do, so do it. We have people in the
news stories we want to talk to. We gave you
the news story and you go and find him. Yeah,
and you know, I was, you know, I was, jeez,
it was quite a while ago. And and you know, I,
you know, I've been working, you know, talk radio.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Let's let's make it clear you were a board operator then,
you were not a producer.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Yeah, I was a bornp but you know, I I
kind of understood what Drew wanted to do with you guys,
you know, and uh, you know I was working with
Larry Elder at the time, and and uh, you know
that that didn't really that wasn't really getting me anywhere.
And I Larry's a good guy, you don't get me wrong.
But you know I learned a lot, you know, I
work with him. But it was time for me to
(03:47):
grow some, you know, time to take off my panties
and uh on my big boy pants. And uh Andrew
gave me the shot and uh he said, you know
I am gonna you know, I need you to win,
you know I needed And we'd had these meetings after
the show, and man, he would if he didn't like it.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You know at the time, guys, you remember who we
were working for.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Oh, I know, that's the real story. This is a
great moment to tell everyone. We all got fired except Ray.
Ray stayed at that station. We all got our heads
lopped off. And I'm going to take a moment to
really praise Drew Hayes because he was fantastic. He really
believed in us and John. This is the only time
in my entire career that I would stay after the
(04:28):
show and sit in someone's office and just talk. Remember that, Well,
Drew's clip is coming up next. Oh, fantastic guy. Yeah,
and he really did believe in us, and he went
under the bus for us. Yeah, and yeah, there were
a lot of bad people.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
He got run over. For those of you who don't know,
we started KFI ninety two. We had a contract dispute
with other executives, yes, that owned KFI back.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
People at KFI back then, G Hall and Howard Neil
were wonderful.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, but Cox had a real rotten bastard. And uh
oh he was mad, syndicated, very mad. He looking for
a way to undercut it and kill it. He never
wanted his hired. That's that's the same. That's true even
before that. Yeah, So anyway, we had a contract dispute.
We left for about a year year and a half
to ABC, and then we came back to KFI in
(05:16):
two thousand and one and have been here ever since.
But that David T. Hall brought us back, I want
to also mention him fantastic. David's going to be a
special guest later as well. He brought me back here.
So he brought me from from KBC. Well, you were
texting me, get me out of here.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Get me the body here, because I didn't know what
I was going to do because they had me working
this this morning show that I don't know what the
hell it was, and I don't know what even what
they wanted me to do. Then, even to this day,
I won't I won't work with another show because I couldn't.
I can't write you guys questions to read on the
I can't figure out you know what you guys are
going to talk to the guests about. I give you
(05:52):
the get, I give you what you want, and I
get away from you guys. Now, give you what you want,
set you guys up, and get the hell out of
the way.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And that's that's worked for us, right. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
I remember one of the first times that you came
in the studio at that station and you put the.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Pile on the table. It's like five sheets. I said,
what the hell is this? That we want more? We
need more?
Speaker 7 (06:13):
And ever since then, obviously you've produced a lot of material.
But I think you thought that we were I don't know,
really just going to riff it, be like at Libbers
and so you gave us very few.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Stories and I'm like, well, you know, i'd like to
pick from things a good start.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Yeah, I didn't know what the hell to do with
you guys, because you know that at radio station, at
the time, had a bunch of old white guys and
they you know, and they were just and that's that
was what it was.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
That was, Yeah, that was you know.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Do open monologue and take calls and that's what That's
what talk Grater used to be.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
And and we had a series of producers when we
were KFI the first time and the last one I'm
not going to mention their name.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Well, he sent a nice message on Facebook.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Oh well, it was just a refreshing change to see
Ray who was just so laid back and cool and
just never really you know, very hard to shake that.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
That's what we needed.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
But you know it really and you know, all truth
be told, I'm a shark, I'm a liar, defensive cheap
man when it comes to getting stuff for the show.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Oh yeah, we don't ask and you don't want to. Yeah, no,
we learned that long ago. That's right. No, I had
a policy, don't ask, don't tell.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Hey, but how many listeners, how many callers have rather
guess got ambushed and were very bitter.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, call Ray back person.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Adam, your producer said, I dare you where you like
to be about you?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
You're your fault for believing him. Whatever, I don't care
who cares.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
I always figured if politician didn't want to talk, he wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
But if he didn't, that'd be even worse.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Should you guys carry on and beat him up until
he talked or he didn't. And he looked like a
fool either way. So and remember ken that one time
we went to Washington, DC for that illegal alien uh thing?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yes, and then we went hold their feet of the fire.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
We went in the offices and these politicians and it
was so quiet, and we and we figured, you know,
if we got our mob to call them and ambush
these these poor you know, wieners who are answering.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
The phones, it's gonna these people are going to be
brought to tears. And sure enough we did.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
We did, We went back and that was our planet.
It worked right, Yeah, they buckled.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Well, maybe you'll remember this story. We sicked the audience
on some legislative aids up in Sacramento early two thousands.
I don't remember what the issue is. But didn't one
of them call you? And he was crying on the phone.
His name was Brandon Giseki. That's it.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Yes, I'll never forget that loon he was. He was
sobbing asking you to call off the dogs. And it
was great because in the Sacramento b during the heads
on a Stick, yeah, it shows someone took a picture
of these politicians with their laptop on our homepage with
heads on sticks, and they were all afraid that they
(09:04):
were going to end up on Oh.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
I remember the idiot Abel Maldon autumn. Yeah, I really
worked up over that. I think because he was he
was making deals to raise taxes.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I think he was in the photo and that was
him looking at his head on a stick. That's right,
that was the photo of that. That was just fantastic. Well,
it's been fun, Ken, thank you for everything. Yeah, Ray,
you're the best.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
No producer usually last this long, but you did.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I got nowhere else to go. I got got nowhere
else to go.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
You carry on with John whatever that means. I don't
know what are making a screen calls and and and
you know set up. No, you've had offers over the
years you had to go. I've had offers, but you
know I I've had offers, but I really don't didn't
want to. I didn't want to leave you guys, because
you guys, I get you and you get me.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
And well, I had to hang on to you because
you were our diversity, that's right, And I worked that
as much as I could.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
He did, he did, And I catch a lot of
crap too. I've been thrown out of birthday parties and
uh yeah, well he works with John and Ken, John
and kenn blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
Goodn't ask for anybody better to be our producer because
the personality and obviously all the work you did behind
the scenes, which we just mentioned we don't ask questions about,
but you were just the perfect personality work John.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
There's so many stories, good times, No Ray, thank you.
All right.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
That's a long time producer, Ray Lopez. And you may
have heard the name a few times. He doesn't come
on the air a lot, and sometimes it makes me
nervous because sometimes he just blurts things out that are like.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Makes me nervous too. Everybody's nerves. Get that dumb button ready,
we're all shaking. We got to throw it.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You're listening to John and Ken on demand from kf
I Am six.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Forty Ken's Last Day to Day and you could hear
it on the podcast later. John and Kenn on demand. Well,
since we just had Ray Lopez on and we talked
about beating up with him during our time at KBC
for about a year and a half in nineteen ninety nine,
this is a good time to play man. We were
discussing Drew Hayes, the program director. If you're just joining us,
(11:19):
the quick story is we had a contract dispute with
his jackass executive from Cox Radio, which owned KFI at
the time, and so we left and.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
We were not fired. No, they had to tell some
of our they gave us. They gave us still get
emails from people now, Well, all right, we're with you guys,
since you got fired from KFI.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
We did not. No, they give us a contract, or
at least this guy did. One day. I'm writing a book.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
And after this guy's dead and he gave us an
insulting contract, and so we left.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Andrew was wonderful to work with, but now and they
made an eye and that side was outside of Drew
and Ray. There was nobody else there that was wonderful
to work with.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Well that's the problem, and the chief executive there didn't
understand our show with no, So that was our demise
about a year and a half later.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
That's another great chapter in the book. But anyway, the
program director was a great guy, is a great guy,
still a good friend. Here's Drew Hayes.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Hey can it's me Drew Hayes. Congratulations on your retirement.
I am honored to have worked with you, however briefly
and hopefully I help ped the retirement account a little bit.
You guys are definitely Hall of famers on the air,
and really they should do a Harvard Business School course
on how you and John management over the years. Enjoy
(12:40):
your leisure time and maybe drop a call to John
on the moist Light occasionally have fun.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
All the best, all right, and again, yeah, he was
the program director at that station at the time. And yeah,
also responsible for giving us ray as we just sat
out right, yeah right, Yeah, it's stuck by us because
it got rocky there, obviously it did.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
They didn't understand what we did.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
We had some protesters Mark Ridley Thomas's group, remember that.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
That's why I'm so happy you see Ridley Thomas going
to prison. Yes, I know you brought that up a
couple of months ago. What happened with that? Oh?
Speaker 7 (13:11):
He delayed that, right, he delayed that. Yeah, until his
appeals are done. Oh my god, I could be.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Dead before that. I may. I still may show up
in person the day he's let off a handcuffs and
her orange jumpsuit. Right.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
But eventually they told Drew they got to go, or
you're going, and he left. Yeah, he got fired first.
How many guys would do that. How many guys would say, well,
I'm not firing him, I'll you can fire me. Very
few in this business, very few. Most of people are
yes men. You share whatever you want, including his replacement.
But I won't get into that. We could easily go
(13:46):
down a dark road. We could. There's no names on
the dark side, only the bright side today would be
And as I said, I enjoyed so much of being
in his office after the show went just talking. He
kept you at ease, and he didn't sit there and
try to critique the show in detail. There are too
many program directors who come into my office. We're going
to go over everything that you said today on the
(14:07):
air in detail, trying to figure out what's working and
what's not. Get out of here. And David g Hol's
another one, did not do that.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, right, yes, no, so yeah, he'll be on the
next hour. We got a clip from him. Okay, he
doesn't say much, so let you see what that's about.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Oh, in our current program directors coming on over twenty
years with her, So she'll be coming on in about
a half hour. One other thing I'll miss is the
punching bag, at least doing it on the air. The
Elsiegundo Times. Yes, and I'm bringing them up right now
because I just got an email from them. I am
a digital subscriber. I don't know how off I'm going
to keep that upper by sent you a farewell message. No, no, no,
(14:45):
no no, they're down to selling candles. No, I'm not
kidding you.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
La.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Times Plants and PF Candle Company wants you to know
that you can get for a limited time, a limited
edition trio of soy candles John inspired by California's native plants.
Sounds I'll make this up. That sounds like you're down
to selling candles. It's a Deborah gift, it is. You
can eat them.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
She likes soy right, Yeah, I love soy candles. You
sure I'm serious? Yeah.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
One of them's Cowboy Cologne soy candle, another one's Jeffrey
Pine soy candle, and the other one's California black walnut
soy candle, and I guess all three of those are
actual native California plants. Cowboy cologne, I guess it is, yeah,
right right, This is their line of soy plants based
on California plants and Cowboy.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Cologne essence of sweaty Cowboy. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
Jeffrey Pine is a plant, and so is California black walnut.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
So Jeffrey Pine, it's from a guy named Jeffrey Pine.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
I mean when we got here, I knew this outfit
was bad news, but wow, it got it took a
turn in the last eight years that I still can't
even imagine so ridiculously woke. If we were going to
do that one day, we were going to just read
their headlines and then they give it afternoon because they're
all just so ridiculously it's inside bubble woke.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It's it's a parody of itself now it is. It's
like a version of the Onion, except it's real. They
really write these these stories and cover these issues.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
And they are way behind the other major newspapers around
the world when it comes to digital subscribers and whatever
measure you.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Want to get. Oh yeah, what is I think? I
think like the New York Times is it about ten million?
And the La Times is a half million? New York
Times has twenty times the paid subscribers. Wow. And they
used to be considered a major national newspaper up there
with the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
And oh I knew them even on the East Coast.
I knew them, and I got here, I was like, oh,
I'm going to buy that every day. And I mean
we still use it now for material, but mostly just
as a punching bag comedy comedy material. Yeah, comedy material.
I mean they have classic columnists too many to name.
It went from hard news material to clown. We'll be
right back, Johnny KENKF. I am six forty everywhere the
(17:00):
iHeartRadio app. And when we come back, we are we
got two things. We're going to talk to the winner
of the contest with you, and we also because we've
got a possible replacement, yes, And also we are going
to play clips from the early two thousands on the
John and Ken Show, including the long stream of celebrity
(17:23):
trials and scandals.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
And that'll be next. So you definitely must hang in
through the news.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Still to come very soon, We're going to play some
more highlight clips here on Ken's final day on the
John and Ken Show. We've got clips from the early
two thousands, all the celebrity scandals and trials.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
But first, Baha, we do have a special guest. Who
is the person that bid the highest to co host
an hour with John Cobelt on KFI for the pasta on.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
He's a real guy. His name is Jeffrey Briggs with
just Joe Luck. He's a lawyer, I know, with Briggs Law.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
And you know what's even better. But a lot of
stuff on copyrights and trade secrets is his expertise.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Is that right? That's looked at his website.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I'm trying to think if I'm vulnerable or not workplace
harassment though it wouldn't be a specialty. I hope Jeffrey
you're there.
Speaker 8 (18:23):
Yeah, and I go by jeff Thanks guys.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
You spent six and fifty dollars just to spend an
hour with me? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (18:34):
Are you calling me crazy?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I was going to say you're pleading insanity.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
Now listen, man, I've been a longtime fan, and I
really respect what Chef Bruno is doing with Katerina's kids,
so I wanted to contribute. And I lost my parents
to COVID and not to COVID, I'll ask my parents
during the last couple of during the last year and
lost a lot of time with due to all the
(19:00):
COVID stuff that we had.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
To put up with.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
They were big fans of your show in retirement. They
listened to you guys all the time, and I thought
it might be a fitting tribute to make the contribution
to Katerina's club and then also to to get on
the radio with you or with their with their favorite host.
Conway wasn't available though, So.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Good, You're gonna fit right in. Well you good, you
got a good, strong voice, You sound sound quite intelligent.
You must be, and.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Uh, I don't. I don't know about the latter's If
I said I'm worried, I'm sounding a little nervous because
I'm still sober. Clint over Taylor Swift the name Time
Magazine's Person of the Year. I can't believe the La
Times didn't feed him to that.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, I know that was kind of funny. Crazy. Well,
listen you you sound like a great candidate, and you
know you can bring your own material when we pick
out the date and we can talk about whatever you
want for an hour.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
Well, I'm really looking forward to it, and I'm really
honored to be on today, just briefly, to be able
to wish Ken the very best. I've been listening, did
you guys, weren't you on the radio? Weren't you on
in the mornings for a.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
While, Yes, we were about a year and a half.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
The other station listening to you since then and since
all the time changes, and I'm a big fan and
I'll miss Ken, but I'm appreciative for the opportunity to
sit in his chair for an hour.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
All right. Well, he hasn't sat in his chair in
this chair for about three and a half years. No,
I have right chair has been usually empty. Well, listen, Jeff,
it's good talking with you. I think we're gonna have
a great time.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
I look forward to it. Thanks very much for the chance.
And like I said, I'm really proud to support Katerina's kids.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
All right. Jeff Briggs attorney at law, and he sounds
like he won't give you too much trouble now, he
paid sid and fifty dollars for in knows Katerina's club,
just the co host of the show for an hour.
I know that's something Rage drmed up as the thing
the bid. Yeah, you know that, that's that's better than
spending four hours at Dodger Stadium. Actually that you like
(21:14):
to go to base I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Well, Uh,
let's get let's play some more clips here because we're
quickly going to run out of time. Stop stop, wait,
I gotta explain how to set it up. Most of
this no one even remembers anymore.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
It starts off with we're in front of Harry Ranch,
Robert Blake's house, the Robert Blake murder of his wife.
Then you'll hear stuff about Cardinal Mahoney and the archdiocese scandal,
all those naughty priests, Gary Content. When we were up
in Condent's office. Uh, Judge Kleine, remember the judge that
(21:55):
we helped, you know, like.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
The first year or two after we came back to
KFI in the early two thousands.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I know we always we always got really lucky. I
know that was an incredible streak one to two to three.
Kleine had pornography on his screen, right on his computer screen.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
I think that's what did I don't remember. Yeah, he
was being recalled for something terrible, David West. No, he
wasn't being recalled. He was up for vote and we
made sure they didn't vote for him. Oh that's right, Yes, yes,
judges don't get challenged. Hey, yes, we had a writing
candidate beat him out.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
That's what happened. Okay, the David Westerfield trial, remember he
killed that little girl.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Then you'll hear us shouting at up at Great Davis's
office on electricity crisis, some bill. We were trying to
get him to the Scott Peterson on the driveway, handing
out broccoli to the Westerfield jurors who we thought were vegetables. Uh.
(22:51):
The judge in that case getting angry with us, the
Trevor Law Group, which was the scam law firm, and
you'll hear me almost get into a fist fight with
an assemblyment Louke Korea over it. And then finally we
end with the former sheriff Lee Baca and his body parts.
So play the play this montage the Madahari Ranch. It's
(23:12):
the home of Robert Blake. Apparently now the prime suspect
a piece of garbage house he's got and the death
of his wife.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
You said, one neighbor came out the other day and
one of the guys running a satellite truck for some
network was taken a leak on our lawn.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Oh yeah, we have gotten a hold of internal memos
of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles of the eight priests involved.
Oh well, we know it's six to twelve. It's eight,
it's eight. You've heard it here. Anybody like to talk? Yeah,
that's likely. Any of you women's sleep with Gary Kardon. Oh,
he's gonna get thrown out. You're gonna call the authorities. Hey,
do you girls here work here? You think he killed her?
Continuing coverage of the unbelievable hijacking and crashes today that
(23:48):
has cost probably thousands of lives.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Fine, resign, Fine, resign, fine resign.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
All right, let's try some Christmas carols? Now, Hey, Westerfield,
did you kill Danielle Lovely? The crowd groans when you
asked that. Oh, why it wasn't on your buy too big?
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Tone the bell, open the window and drop it down here.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
It's right, we'll take it from me.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
We'll take it from you. Hey, Scott, not pot anybody
with your voting story of fence.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
We can see him there.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
We also put broccoli along with us to hand out.
Does everybody have broccoli here in the audience? Everybody? Jurors
who just don't get it on that Brocoli, sir.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Idiots from LA talk stations acting like teenagers in front
of this building.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
How business owners are being screwed by the legalized extortion,
the legal shakedown tactics of the chair of the law group.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Coming down on the small businessman. And we're here to
help out those guys.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
What's the lawlu, I want a law that stops the lawsuits.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Get off me, doctor Now, Sean is trying to get
to Lula. Louis trying to get to John Law by
now or here comes the police. BAKA ought to have
the gonads to say, Hey, it's Joe Davis who's cutting
off our money. He's online sent bo if you.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
Wonder whether or not I've got gonads to stou, invite
me down to the office there and I'll come there
and show you what I've got.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
I forgot.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
We called them Joe Davis, right, Great Davis's real nighbors.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, and then he became Gumby.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Turned them into Gumby and of course the dear sweet
former Sheriff of La County Lee Baca there at the end,
I think really has dementia.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I think that's the start of dementia. When an old
man wants to show you his going ads, that's the
time to take him Awaye's still alive as far as
I know.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
He got out of federal prison because of that whole
story that got him.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Because you can't slander defamed dead people. I always keep
that in mind, I know, so you have to ferre
it out right. Who's what that happened to me? Again?
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Today I looked somebody up that I thought was was dead.
I was trying to make sure, well, there you go.
That's another period there, and a lot of that is
the early two thousands. Sounded like, right, all right, we
got more coming up. Oh, it's my current boss, understand
it's coming on, right, Robin.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Bertolucci, who has endured twenty two years of us.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
That would be the longest run of any program director
that we've been under, uninterrupted twenty two years years.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
All right. Johnny k KFI AM six forty Live everywhere.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
iHeartRadio app You're listening to John and Ken on demand
from KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Ken's final day, and we have a lot of tape
guests calling walking guests, a lot of old clips that
we've been playing. And now we have a woman who
did something terrible in a previous life and got sentenced
to a minimum of twenty two years as program director
for our show and Bill Handle's show. And we've got
(26:46):
Robin Bertolucci on the line. I don't know what you did, Robin,
but that's a great instrument. That is a heck of
a sentence.
Speaker 9 (26:53):
I have been going back through past life therapy to
try and figure out what it was, and I'm still
not sure.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
How did you deserve this?
Speaker 9 (27:01):
I don't know, I don't know. Oh my god, Ken,
I can't believe you're leaving. I'm so bummed, and I
thank you so much for being such a huge part
of this station and just the heart and soul of KFI.
You are going to be incredibly missed, and I have
loved working with you.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
A lot of people are asking me, how are you
going to deal with John alone?
Speaker 9 (27:23):
I was you to get some guidance on that.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Some advice because you would tell me sometimes how I
like you there because you know, you challenge him.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You get in there. What's going to happen now I'm
going to.
Speaker 9 (27:34):
Be I don't God knows, I'm going to be unchallenged.
He'll be unhinged, you know, but you are. I mean,
you have like as a talk show host, you have
such a unique ability to both be in the moment
as a host and also think like a producer what
(27:54):
is best for the moment. And I think that, more
than anything about you really impressed me. You're always just
making the right moment happen on the air, and I
love that about you.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Thank you very.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
Much and appreciate all your support over the years. There's
been some troubling times and you were there behind us.
Speaker 9 (28:11):
Well glad to be. I do have a question though,
you know, I heard you talking about, you know, going
in Drew Hayes's office after the show and hanging out,
and I don't remember you ever doing that in my office.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
No, you had people in there I didn't want to
sit with, Okay, I just got to be honest. It
wasn't you, No, but you always had some company, and
you know, you know, I wasn't part of that claim?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
True, it wasn't you.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
I enjoyed talking with you.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
No, really, let's keep this going.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Yeah, John lives for uncomfortable moments, Oh he does.
Speaker 9 (28:48):
He loves them. The cringier, the better chaos.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
That's what I wake up for.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Yeah, really really appreciate, appreciates you. And yeah, you've had
a long tenure here at KFI. When are you going
to retire?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (29:00):
You know, if this doesn't go well with this John thing,
you know, in a couple of weeks, I'll let you know.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
That's right, we start all over again on Tuesday.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
So I should have my listeners, should have our listeners
pitch their ideas for the co host to you.
Speaker 9 (29:14):
Oh I love that, Yeah, I love that. Sure, you know.
I was at a Conway event for his birthday at
Marongo and he he picks up the mic and he goes, hey,
by the way, Robin loves hearing new show ideas. Don't
go quickly like, don't gloss over, give her all the particulars,
like a real in depth pitch.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Exactly what did you tell? Oh?
Speaker 9 (29:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do love that. That would
be fantastic.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Thank you, thank you really appreciates you, thank you for
calling in.
Speaker 9 (29:45):
Oh my pleasure, good luck.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
As the current program director of Kofi Robin Bertolucci, that
reminded me of like when we do our remotes right,
and there'll always be someone that comes there with a missive.
They come there with their manifesto and just.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Shove him over to ray. Remember that, Poe. Oh my god.
Two things stand out in my mind being accosted by listeners.
One guy came up and he had this thick, thick
It was several hundred pages, single spaced, typed on the typewriter,
and it was his plan to abolish and replace the
(30:22):
Federal Reserve. Oh that's fantastic. I spent a year on that.
It was.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
It was thick and heavy, like an encyclopedia. Oh no, yes, I.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Will tell you that.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
When you know they would come to you and and
uh and you'd send him over to me.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I sent him to you. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
Yeah, they they smell the same, and they all had
a round gut.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
It was one.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
There was a guy at the pastathon last week, even
I hadn't appeared in publican years, and there's somebody right
away and go, oh I had this.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I've been waiting.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
I got this to talk to you about holding something
in the air, but I just kept moving.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Yeah, he had some some clap trap about I forget
what it was.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
It was, Oh he did corner you. Yeah he did
for a little while.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
And I pretended to be you know, pretending to be interested,
and I just you know, thanked him.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
And so you heard this, you'd come up to us
in any future appearances. Ray is only pretending to be interested,
So I don't think he's actually listening. There was like,
it's really good though, at not letting you know that. Yeah, yeah,
but there's no money in it for me. Was looking
for the money.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Why do I can Many times over the years, John,
he's yelled out, I should have got a cut of
that because we did something.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
On the air and the person benefited somehow, and I
was like, I need a cut of that. I told
him I always had him on. I always say, yeah,
you deserve money. There was one other guy who came
up to me, and this was at I did an
appearance for doctor Cunning. He'd have seminars on a Saturday
morning at a hotel, you know, and one hundred to
cafe listeners would show up to hear what doctor Cunning
could do for their rotted teeth, right, And so I
(31:56):
would stand up and talk about doctor Cunning's business. And
then I went into the lobby of the hotel to
go home, and a guy cornered me, and they had
these bar tables, right, those high standing bar tables, and
he goes, I just want to show you something. And
he had another one had a huge book, like an
architects book, and he opened it up and he goes,
(32:19):
I want to explain to you why they screwed up
this interchange. He was a highway engineer like a civil engineer, yes,
and he had all these blueprints, these complex drawings of
the original layout for a freeway interchange that he thought
was improperly designed. And he started explaining it to me.
And I'm looking around, and because this isn't an on
(32:40):
air event, there was no ray, There was no nobody. Oh,
exits are limited, that's right, Okay, what do we call
that the ten second rule? That's the ten second rule.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
If you can't explain your issue when ten seconds or less,
you're not going to get on.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
It's right. Trapdoors pulled? All right, we got a lot
next hour. We're going to one hour left, one hour left.
We are going to hear from Davis. Am I changing
my mind? The guy who hired a show was like this,
I think I'd stay well, sure if it was three
hours of just people adoring you. Then we have a
clip of from a couple other people, and I think
(33:12):
we're gonna hear from Deborah and Eric as well. And
we have our final, our final montage from the mid
two thousands, the mid two Oh goodie.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Something newer. Yes, I feel like we haven't done a
show the last ten years. Everything's coming from the nineties
and the early two thousand.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Oh do you really want to hear clips of Trump
and COVID and homeless people and crime guides. These are
important things we covered, I know, but this stuff, this
stuff more celebrities and oh in fact, well I don't
want to get all right, I'll tell you this real
(33:50):
audio twice this happened of Ken asking Jesse Jackson questions
that Jesse refuse to answer. Twice. You always liked that one.
That was a great one. I found him in the
crowd that night, but two different circumstances, and we'll or
maybe one was on the phone. I think anyway, we're
(34:13):
gonna come back Deborah Mark has the news live in
the KFI twenty four our newsroom.
Speaker 7 (34:19):
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