June 27, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (06/27) - Lou Penrose fills in for John. Royal Oakes comes on the show to talk about SCOTUS also making a decision that people are considering a victory for parents' rights. What's the difference between marriage equality and sex guides in elementary school? Age verification for porn sites. You might need to change your 4th of July plans if you were planning to go to certain parts of LA County.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't f I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Louke Penrose sitting in for John Colbelt. Thank you for
tuning again. Good to have you along with us. It's
being called a huge win for parents today at the
Supreme Court, a case involving Muslim parents, Catholic parents, and
Ukrainian Orthodox parents in Maryland sued to have their children
opt out of a.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Portion of the curriculum that.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Involved LGBTQ themed storybooks in the public school. They said
violated their First Amendment right to direct their children's religious upbringing.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
ABC News legal analyst Royal Oaks is with us, Thanks
for hopping on.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
So the originally this school district allowed parents to opt out,
but then changed and didn't allow them to opt out.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
What went on there?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Cool folks, You knows a legitimate part of the curriculum
and there's a lesson plan, and why should the parents
to be able to disrupt things? But I think the
reason the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the
parents is because you know, we're only talking about elementary
school kids. We're not talking about you know, high school
seniors that are more exposed to the world, and you know,
let them have a vigorous debate. What the parents said was, look,
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this offends our religion. We just don't want the teachers
standing up and you know, preaching to our kids about
trans riots and LGBTQ stuff. You know, that's for later
for the little kids. We want to be able to
opt out. And went all the way after the US
Supreme Court and you know, the conservative majority, Justice Alito
wrote it. He said, you know, schools are burdening parental
religious beliefs. So the parents went, I have.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Kids elementary school and middle school aged.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I've received those little notices where you have to sign
for like a health class, and it's it's like those
of us that have children in elementary school or even
I remember doing it when I was in elementary school.
There was some you know, signature how to get my
mom before sex said, so this is not unique at
school districts, but it is peculiar to hear that they
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removed the opt out option.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Yeah, no, you're right. I mean personally, I don't remember
elementary school because it was before World War two. For me,
it's part of the culture war. I mean, let's face it,
you know, it's just in our face all of these
hot button issues that I think, you know, Trump rode
to victory on and he succeeded in keeping him front
and center just to be has to be hashed out.
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But you know, ultimately US Supreme Court decided we really
got to stick with the parents of this one.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So how broad is this because I mean the specific
they're talking about an LGBTQ themed story book. I looked
at the covers of the book and they looked like
books that referenced or talked about same sex couples. Here
in California, we have arguments about books that go far
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beyond just referencing a same sex couple.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I mean, we have sex manuals.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Big taught in some of the school districts that people
are yelling and screaming about. But when we talk about
violating their religious speech, that's broad thing. Right. Then you're
talking about parents that could object to materials that has
nothing to do with marriage or LGBTQ issues, but much
broader issues.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
How limited is this decision?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
It's a great point, and you know, we don't really
know because there's no way a decision can say, Okay,
we're going to talk about the one hundred most common
controversial study plans instead. What they're doing is just saying,
in general, if you're violating the rights of people who
have religious beliefs that are sort of legitimate parts of society,
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then you have to be very sensitive to that. Of course,
you can always come up with somebody who says, you know, well,
I'm a Zoroastrian resecretion and I believe that, you know,
smoking ganja is a religious sacrament. Then the courts are
going to say, you know, nice try. But here you
had Muslim folks, you had fundamentalist Christian people, and so
you had the a Supreme Court saying, you know, it
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is an easy but in this case, based on the
facts presented to us, parents win. Next case that comes
along might be too broad, and the court might say, oh,
you know, this is pretty mella, this is vanilla stuff,
and it's really silly for you to object. So the
parents might lose next time.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Given that, are you surprised it made it to the
Supreme Court?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I agree with you. I think this is a pretty
easy decision to make. I'm I read the descent well,
I want to ask you about that in a second.
But are you surprised this made it all the way
to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, you're not really, because, first of all, it only
takes four of the nine justices to say we want
to hear this case. And although they only take one
percent or so of the cases presented to them, this
is kind of a red meat decision. And so you know,
the Alito wrote the big majority saying, you know, you're
burdening parental religious beliefs by forcing kids to attend instruction
that's contrary to their faith. You've got Clarence Thomas concurring, saying,
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you know, denying opt out relief in fringes on religious exercise.
But as you suggested, you know, the dissenters, the three liberals,
so I R, Kagan, and Jackson, they were not happy
with this ruling.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, I got a minute, just I want to comment on.
I want you to comment on there. On their descent,
they basically said, look, this is America.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
This is what we teach. If you don't like it, homeschool,
your kid will go to private school. What do you
make of that?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah? Absolutely, they warned this ruling is going to disrupt
public education. It's going to stigmatize kids. It's going to
let religious opt outs on wide ranging subjects. So they
were pretty angry. I know you only have a few seconds,
but I know, Lou, you were huge in San Diego.
Would you mind getting the word of the padres stop struggling.
You're not going to be show hereing the Dodgers. I'd
(05:43):
appreciate it because I keep hearing from San Diego friends
it's like, like, they have a chance. Do you think
you could do something about that.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I'll do my best. ABC adalyst Royloaks, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I appreciate you jumping on busy day for the legal
analyst community in America. In broadcasting, both on radio and
TELL Division, we grab them to get their thoughts, and
I think it's a it's a good discussion. So when
we come back, there is a difference between referencing marriage
equality in public schools in curriculum, and we can argue
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about what age we can reference that and the sex
guides that we have now in some of the curriculum statewide,
and we hear all these debates about going on at school.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Board meetings, and I think there's a huge distinction here.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
So I want to kind of clarify what is being
taught and what is being objected to, and the whole
religious freedom thing opens up a huge can of worms.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
We'll get to that next.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
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Speaker 3 (06:52):
Loup Penrose sitting in for John Cobelt. So, the Supreme
Court ruled in favor of parents' rights, and that always
is a good thing. I think that this is a
good step with respect to right sizing the role parents
have in.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Their public school curriculum.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It is a little curious to me that the argument
was made on religious freedom, and I'll explain.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
So.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
The concern to the Muslim, Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox parents
in Maryland was that the curriculum here included LGBTQ themed
storybooks in public schools and it violated their First Amendment
right because their religions don't support such a thing. And
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that may be so, and it's okay that those parents
want to opt out, so.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
They should have the right to opt out.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
But we need to be very careful, and this is
where I think we have a maturity problem in this
country with far too many people. I think there are
far too many immature adults that engage on these issues.
There is immaturity, certainly in the LGBTQ advocacy community. With
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respect to public education, there really is. They have to
argue with them about whether or not you can talk
to third graders about this stuff, and they won't give
And often is the case, parents will say, you know,
that's all fine, you can talk about that to high
school students.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Why must it start in the third grade.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Why do you have to introduce these themes in the
third grade. Can't you wait till fourth grade? And the
LGBTQ community dig in their heels and call you homophobic,
and that's and around the merry go round we go.
So it really is time to inject a little maturity
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in these discussions.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
There is.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
An oppertunity to reference or even outright talk about same
sex marriage in our country. And you can certainly talk
about it in public school, and you can have books
that reference same sex couples or books that are really
that that could be the leading character in the book
is the same sex couple, And it really wouldn't throw
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off any child. They would be more interested in the
story itself, because children only react to what we react to.
As soon as a bunch of parents react and say, well,
what's going on here? Suppost be a man and a woman,
not a man and a man, Then all of a
sudden it becomes very exciting the children, and then they
get caught up on it, and again it just becomes
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a circus. So I am pro mari, I'm pretty Republican,
and I have been pro marriage equality way before the
National Democrat Party would. I am Republican and I was
pro marriage equality before President Barack Obama.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I was for marriage equality before.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Senator, Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. So
I feel like I have standing on this issue. There
were not many Republicans, frankly, with me. It was like
basically me, Carl Demyo, and Barbara Bush. But look how
far we've come. So I'm a huge fan of marriage equality,
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and I'm very proud of how far the party has come.
I'm proud of how far the culture has come, and
I'm proud of how.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Far the nation has come.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
And we are now living in twenty twenty five and
there are same sex couples living everywhere in our society,
in our culture, openly.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
And proud, so there's no reason to hide them.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
And if the story just happens to contain a same
sex couple, referencing that in film, in cartoons, in literature,
even children's books is not a problem because it reflects
the society that these children are in. I think what
a lot of these parents in Maryland were concerned about
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is the things that we see here in California, which
are not stories that have same sex couples in them,
but rather full on sex manuals.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
And that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
And I think we are able to make the distinction,
I really do. I mean, you could have books that
reference a mom and a dad and that would be
okay and still be object and subject to the sex
manuals that they're trying to push out at the Temechila
Valley Unified School District out in Riverside, So it is possible,
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But I will put the the weight of the issue
on the lgbt community themselves. Frankly, I think it is
time for the leadership of the LGBTQ community, particularly the
g I don't I don't see the l stepping up
lesbian's kind of they're out.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
They don't get involved.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
In political issues because they're they're good, they're fine.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
But it is like normal gay men need to step up.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
And police your own community and say, hey, guys, quiet down,
you're gonna ruin it for the rest of us, Like
stop with the sex manuals.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Be happy that we've come this far.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And it's cool that parents aren't pulling their kids out
of school because there happened to be a gay character
in a book in the fourth grade.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Like people aren't losing their mind over that.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
So it takes time, Like I I don't, I don't.
I don't know anybody that has a problem with same
sex couples or what I call marriage equality, and like
many people under the age of sixty don't know anybody
that's opposed to Like I know, I had maniacs that
I know that are opposed to it, but like normal
people are not opposed to it.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So our children shouldn't be opposed.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
To it, and it shouldn't be you shouldn't insulate them
or isolate them from that reality.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
But the issue.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Becomes controversial because it doesn't take long before just referencing
a gay character in a book is accepted and the
next thing.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
You know, they're you know, having.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Books and manuals with cucumbers and all kinds of ways
that you can save money in getting dittle toys like
it just becomes a circus and then the whole thing
falls apart and everybody draws digs in on their side,
and the thing becomes a great, big Supreme Court discussion,
what's the verdict?
Speaker 7 (13:43):
So this brought together a coalition of parents of different
religious faiths and.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Backgrounds who said.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
There used to be a rule in this particular school
district that would let them know when there were books
that dealt with issues that may be in conflict with
their religious faith. Well, so many parents were opting out
that the school board and the school.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
District quit doing it.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, very school board thinking there, I know school boards.
I know the people that populate school boards. I know
the kinds of people that would run for a school board.
And that is very school board thinking.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Hey, everybody's opting out.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
All the parents are opting out, So let's stop them
from opting out and force what we want them to
know and what we want their children to know upon them,
and if they get mad, we'll just fight and go
to court because we don't want parents telling us what
to do. That's a very school board thinking. That's the
way these maniacs on the school board think. So I'm
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not surprised that in Maryland they just say, well, let's
remove the opt out requirement, thinking that will solve all
the problems. All the parents will just shut up and
sit down. School districts and school boards have a very
shut up and sit down attitude with respect to parents.
So I am happy that the parents got to win today.
I am cautiously optimistic that this will sort out with
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mature minds. I am concerned that they went on the
First Amendment violation because once you open the Pandora's box
of this violates my First Amendment right to be religiously
insulated from something like that, then you really are gonna
go down a road that I don't think we need
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to go down. So we'll see where this takes us,
and we'll see how what the next court challenge is
going to be to this. But I suspect there'll be
something next that we'll get these folks back into court.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
All right, coming up another Supreme Court decision.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Which involves naughty websites. We'll tell you all about it next.
But right now, Debora Mark is in the KFI twenty
four our newsroom with the latest.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
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six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John Cobelt.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Thank you for tuning in. Good to have you along
with us on a Friday day. So now two Los
Angeles cities have canceled the fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
What what services do they get out of a city
except the firework show and maybe like a concert in
the park. And probably the most expensive single thing that
any sing that a.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
City does is the firework show.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And they're canceling the firework show and the reasons are
not good.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I don't think it's right. I think this is.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Completely unacceptable. I mean, come on, why do the illegals
get to win. The people that paid the taxes to
the city should get their fireworks show.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
So we'll talk about that coming up.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
But first, the Supreme Court issued a number of rulings today.
We talked about birthright citizenship, we talked about the parents' rights.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Now the parents have a right to opt.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Out if LGBTQ material is being taught on a specific
subject or a week. I don't know if they're doing
it with the with the press are but now as
a parent you can opt out and not have it
your children.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Exposed to it.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Every Supreme Court decision today was a six to three vote.
That's interesting, but not one of the three liberals on
the Court were in favor of parents opting out. Not
one of the three liberals on the Court were in
favor of at least advancing the question of whether somebody
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born in the United States when their parents are here
illegally may or may not be subject to our jurisdiction.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's curious to me.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
It does seem like there was a real absence of
legal scholarship this morning, and just a whole lot of
Trump arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
But this takes the cake.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
So there was a case out of taxes that made
it to the Supreme Court. Right now, if you want
to go buy a Playboy magat do they even have
Playboy magazines in print anymore?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
It's a pop culture question.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
But back in the day, if you wanted to buy
a Playboy magazine, you'd have a show ID.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
You had to be eighteen to buy a Playboy magazine.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Fast forward, a loud to today and now Playboy magazines
are all over the Internet in the form of pornography websites.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I suspect this is no surprise to you.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
And in the state of Texas they said, well, same, same,
I mean there should be an age verification requirement before
children get to look at naughty pictures on the Internet.
And of course that case made it all the way
to the Supreme Court and again six' three.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
A majority Of Supreme court justice is cided with A
texas law that requires websites containing pornography to verify visitors'.
Ages the companies that own the website sued and said
this requirement infringes on the free speech rights of, adults.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
And a six to three, decision The Supreme court ruled
with The state Of texas and they, said, Yeah texas
can require the naughty website to verify that somebody is
actually an adult before they take.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It you, know they were able to get in and
look at the naked. Ladies so this is a real.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Problem AND i suspect it's not so much a free
speech issue with the owners.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Of the, Websites but how are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
That, like how how exactly do you online confirm somebody's.
Age that becomes a real tricky. Thing i'll tell you
with respect to my. BOYS i have three, boys and
long before they were, thirteen they were all thirteen as
far As apple pay was.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Concerned LIKE i literally it was so.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
FRUSTRATING i was trying to figure out a way to
get them to be able to use my card so
that if they were we were, somewhere whether We're disneyland
or we're, skiing and we get separated and they want
to buy a soda or a, pizza they can do
it on my phone AND i wouldn't have to deal with.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
It seemed convenient to, me and it was so. FRUSTRATING
i remember my wife AND i try to figure out WHY.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I want it To, oh they're a, Child oh, okay
so the EASY i went To reddit and found the easiest,
solution which has changed their day to birth.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And then you're good to.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Go there was obviously other problems with that because then
they could download apps like crazy and subscribe to every
single thing under the. Sun SO i had, to, like you,
know chase that and if you have children with, phones
you know exactly What i'm talking.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
About then non stop buying. Things but that was the.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Solution just change their day to, birth make them all,
thirteen and you're good to, go which is what we.
Did now they're all at least, thirteen even the baby is.
Thirteen SO i don't have to deal with that. Anymore
NOW i just have to remind them that just because
they ask if you want to add avocado to that, burrito.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
You don't have to have the.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Avocado the avocado cost almost as much as the entire.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Burrito try and get.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Value don't just add bacon because they, say do you
want bacon with?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
That but Nonethe lie is.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Very easy to trick almost every website and every phone
and everybody remotely by just changing your.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
AGE i don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
What and The state Of texas didn't make it clear
what identification a person has to put in to be
able to get, in get past the verification and look
at the naked. Ladies so this becomes the next big.
Issue AND i don't know that it is A Supreme court.
ISSUE i think this is more of a technology, concern
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and this is going to.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Be one that we wrestle.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
With my wife AND i have been wrestling with it
since those damn iPhones showed up at our. HOUSE i
lamented the day that it was, coming AND i rue
the day that we allowed it. In but there's no
way around, it so you have to go through. It
and we have to constantly police the. iPhones so And
i'm sure we're. Behind i'm sure we have installed the filtering,
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apps and the they are now beyond whatever firewall or
whatever security measures that my wife AND i have put.
On my son is constantly out. Smarting we put on
some limits on the amount of time that could be
on the. iPad we did this a couple of years,
ago like how much time they're on the right pads
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because they won't go to sleep, right.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Especially now in.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Summertime so my wife figured out how you can like
limit the time so time runs, out you, know hours,
up two hours are. Up whatever shuts, off can't do
anything about, it and they had some, schoolwork so.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
She had to open.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Up she had to put in a code to override
the end of their time. Limit but he was smart
enough to roll tape on the iPhone like screen record my.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Wife typing in the secret code.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
To unlock his time limits on his, iPad and we
didn't know until like two years. Later SO i suspect
the same thing will be going on with the naughty
pictures on the websites In.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
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Up following the news at, three we have an update
now of the vice mayor Of. Kutahey this is the
woman that called on gang members to defend.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Their turf and to fight With ice.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Agents she has released a statement and we'll share that with.
You another city now has canceled the fireworks show In Los.
Angeles here Is Katie Lai's Kareine winters with a why.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That's, right no celebrations this. Year here In, bellgardens they
usually hold a huge laser.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Show that happens at the Nearby Veterans, park but that
this year that has been.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Canceled a lot of people really disappointed about that because
it usually draws a huge.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Crowd everybody. Disappointed what are you talking about a lot of?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
People, everybody everybody that was planning, Ongoing maybe not everybody
In Bell, gardens but everybody that was planning on. Going you,
know cities don't do much for, you, like they do very.
Little they do a lot for people that don't pay
any taxes to the, City but for the most, part
cities don't do very much besides the basic, stuff you,
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know police and, fire then the contract with police and.
Fire they contract with an ambulance, service they contract with
a tree trimming.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Company uh and.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Uh they do their best with and they always don't
have enough money to fix the. Potholes but the one
thing that cities do do is The fourth Of july.
Celebration and it just kills. Me why do the illegals
have to?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Win we have to.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Shut down The fourth Of july celebration because the illegals are.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Scared, well what about those of us that are here.
Legally it's a amazing to.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
ME i, mean leadership almost at every city In Los
angeles care more about the hurt feelings of illegals than
they care about. You they certainly care about the well
being of the children of, illegals then they care about your.
Children why can't we have The fourth Of july? Celebration
what's the? Problem let the illegals stay. Home it's not
(25:22):
Their fourth Of, july it's Our Independence. Day and the
solution is to cut The Independence day.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Celebration you, know.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
There's a limited snapshot in your life when you would
ever even consider going to The Bell gardens laser Light
Show fourth Of july.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Celebration there really. Is you wouldn't go as an, Adult
like that's.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Lame you're like an adult without children going down, There
you've got no, life like a real. Loser and if
you're an adult with teenage, kids you're not going to
the laser light. Show but if you have, children like
little children and, like there's not a whole lot you
(26:08):
can do with your, life and certainly on the fourth Of,
july you're not gonna get a. Babysitter it's family. Time
and it's nice to have like the town that you
live in and in some cases walking distance to be
able to go and sit on the grass as the
sun sets and watch the kids watch the, fireworks or
watch the kids watch the laser show and see them run,
(26:29):
around and they see their neighbors there and it's kind of, cool,
Right it's an enjoyable. Event it's an experience THAT i
remember as a kid and it probably only goes from
age four to like age, ten.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Maybe not even age, ten and that's.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
It, well everybody In Bell, gardens at least the people
that fit that description of the snapshot in life that
their family is, in is being robbed at the opportunity
need to have that little bit of babysitter Free fourth
Of july evening. Entertainment and then you, know you stroller
that the kids are exhausted because now it's, dark it's
(27:10):
not a, clock and the kids are out. Cold and
then finally the kids had a wonderful. Time you can
feel good about yourself as a. Parent you showed them
a good. Time you had the big fireworks, show they
have the the neon, thing the little plastic thing around their.
Neck it's so much. Fun and they go to. Bed
you put them in. Bed they're already asleep by the
time you get back to the. House and then you
and your wife can open up a bottle of beer
(27:30):
or a glass of wine and be like. Great like
that for so many of us that have, children that
had children and live through those ages of zero to,
eight like that was a good time and it was
like one of the few things that any city could
do that actually thought the city did a good. Job
that was a lot of, fun very impressed with the.
(27:52):
Show and they have to cancel. It and the mayor
said they're doing it out of an abundance of. Caution what?
Caution a rocket falling on my? Head now you're worried
about non. Citizens now you can have a love affair
with illegals like so many In Los Angeles county and government.
(28:12):
Do that's your, business but don't ruin it for the
rest of.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Us let the show go. On what are you doing Canceling?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Christmas this is the fourth Of, july but it's Like
christmas is. Canceled so here is, uh this is.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
The mayor whoor Hell, chavez he's the mayor Of Bell.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Garden he's honestly out of abundance of, precaution you know
for our. Community, uh you know we've been going through
a Lot.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Bellvarden did he say an abundance of? Precaution out of
abundance of a? Precaution you know for our. Community never
heard of an abundance of.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Precaution so there's so much caution before the.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Caution that's that's a lot of, caution of of, precaution you,
know for our.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Community, uh you, know we've been going through a Lot
bellvard in southeast as a, whole and we want to
do everything we can as a city to our residence
stoles that are the most, vulnerable, right regardless of your.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Citizenship oh so there you, go there you.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Go the mayor Of Bell gardens cares more about illegals
being upset on the fourth Of july than he does
about Actual americans In Los angeles going to the fourth
Of July Independence day laser light show with their.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Children so.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
He's canceling it for. Everybody just, unbelievable, unbelievable and everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Thinks, yeah that sounds.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
RIGHT i love how he says we're going through a lot.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Here and he's sell. It what are you going?
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Through WHAT i, mean those of us that are citizens
of The United, States we're.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
FINE i don't know what you think we're going. Through
we're you know what we're going.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Through.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Summer we were planning on going to The fourth Of july.
Celebration now we're. Not SO i guess we're going to
go into a neighboring. TOWN i guess so this is
once so katahe is going to cancel theirs, TOO i
don't know What Huntington park is, doing so we'll have to.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Find someplace else to. Go BUT i got news for, You.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Mayor people are still going to go to some fireworks
show or they're going to blow off fireworks in the,
driveway which you don't like that. EITHER i Saw Mayor
karen Bass, ON i think it WAS ktla saying just be,
careful don't engage in any illegal firework demonstrations on the
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fourth Of, july AND i, Thought, mayor did you mean
to say hard working undocumented?
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Fireworks? Unbelievable absolutely. Unbelievable but so.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
This is where we, are all, Right so when we come,
back there are let's see here. Cuta, hey the vice,
Mayor Cynthia, gonzalez you remember. Her she called upon the
gangs in her city to come out and fight with
The ice.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Agents that was her.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Strategy, again this falls under the category of The Loup penrose,
rule and that, is we don't have a leadership, problem
we have a maturity. Problem this is a very immature.
Individual she's the vice mayor of the town and literally
went on social media and thought it would be hip
and cool to call upon the gang members of her
(31:09):
town to effectively square off against federal. Officials then she
got busted and she said she needed a, lawyer and
now she's finally made a statement and we'll find out
exactly what that.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Is and that's all coming up. Next Louke penrose sitting in.
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tuning again. Good to have you along with us. It's
being called a huge win for parents today at the
Supreme Court, a case involving Muslim parents, Catholic parents, and
Ukrainian Orthodox parents in Maryland sued to have their children
opt out of a.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Portion of the curriculum that.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Involved LGBTQ themed storybooks in the public school. They said
violated their First Amendment right to direct their children's religious upbringing.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
ABC News legal analyst Royal Oaks is with us, Thanks
for hopping on.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
So the originally this school district allowed parents to opt out,
but then changed and didn't allow them to opt out.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
What went on there?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Cool folks, You knows a legitimate part of the curriculum
and there's a lesson plan, and why should the parents
to be able to disrupt things? But I think the
reason the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the
parents is because you know, we're only talking about elementary
school kids. We're not talking about you know, high school
seniors that are more exposed to the world, and you know,
let them have a vigorous debate. What the parents said was, look,
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this offends our religion. We just don't want the teachers
standing up and you know, preaching to our kids about
trans riots and LGBTQ stuff. You know, that's for later
for the little kids. We want to be able to
opt out. And went all the way after the US
Supreme Court and you know, the conservative majority, Justice Alito
wrote it. He said, you know, schools are burdening parental
religious beliefs. So the parents went, I have.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Kids elementary school and middle school aged.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I've received those little notices where you have to sign
for like a health class, and it's it's like those
of us that have children in elementary school or even
I remember doing it when I was in elementary school.
There was some you know, signature how to get my
mom before sex said, so this is not unique at
school districts, but it is peculiar to hear that they
(02:04):
removed the opt out option.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Yeah, no, you're right. I mean personally, I don't remember
elementary school because it was before World War two. For me,
it's part of the culture war. I mean, let's face it,
you know, it's just in our face all of these
hot button issues that I think, you know, Trump rode
to victory on and he succeeded in keeping him front
and center just to be has to be hashed out.
(02:28):
But you know, ultimately US Supreme Court decided we really
got to stick with the parents of this one.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So how broad is this because I mean the specific
they're talking about an LGBTQ themed story book. I looked
at the covers of the book and they looked like
books that referenced or talked about same sex couples. Here
in California, we have arguments about books that go far
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beyond just referencing a same sex couple.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I mean, we have sex manuals.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Big taught in some of the school districts that people
are yelling and screaming about. But when we talk about
violating their religious speech, that's broad thing. Right. Then you're
talking about parents that could object to materials that has
nothing to do with marriage or LGBTQ issues, but much
broader issues.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
How limited is this decision?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
It's a great point, and you know, we don't really
know because there's no way a decision can say, Okay,
we're going to talk about the one hundred most common
controversial study plans instead. What they're doing is just saying,
in general, if you're violating the rights of people who
have religious beliefs that are sort of legitimate parts of society,
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then you have to be very sensitive to that. Of course,
you can always come up with somebody who says, you know, well,
I'm a Zoroastrian resecretion and I believe that, you know,
smoking ganja is a religious sacrament. Then the courts are
going to say, you know, nice try. But here you
had Muslim folks, you had fundamentalist Christian people, and so
you had the a Supreme Court saying, you know, it
(04:01):
is an easy but in this case, based on the
facts presented to us, parents win. Next case that comes
along might be too broad, and the court might say, oh,
you know, this is pretty mella, this is vanilla stuff,
and it's really silly for you to object. So the
parents might lose next time.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Given that, are you surprised it made it to the
Supreme Court?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I agree with you. I think this is a pretty
easy decision to make. I'm I read the descent well,
I want to ask you about that in a second.
But are you surprised this made it all the way
to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, you're not really, because, first of all, it only
takes four of the nine justices to say we want
to hear this case. And although they only take one
percent or so of the cases presented to them, this
is kind of a red meat decision. And so you know,
the Alito wrote the big majority saying, you know, you're
burdening parental religious beliefs by forcing kids to attend instruction
that's contrary to their faith. You've got Clarence Thomas concurring, saying,
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you know, denying opt out relief in fringes on religious exercise.
But as you suggested, you know, the dissenters, the three liberals,
so I R, Kagan, and Jackson, they were not happy
with this ruling.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, I got a minute, just I want to comment on.
I want you to comment on there. On their descent,
they basically said, look, this is America.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
This is what we teach. If you don't like it, homeschool,
your kid will go to private school. What do you
make of that?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah? Absolutely, they warned this ruling is going to disrupt
public education. It's going to stigmatize kids. It's going to
let religious opt outs on wide ranging subjects. So they
were pretty angry. I know you only have a few seconds,
but I know, Lou, you were huge in San Diego.
Would you mind getting the word of the padres stop struggling.
You're not going to be show hereing the Dodgers. I'd
(05:43):
appreciate it because I keep hearing from San Diego friends
it's like, like, they have a chance. Do you think
you could do something about that.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I'll do my best. ABC adalyst Royloaks, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I appreciate you jumping on busy day for the legal
analyst community in America. In broadcasting, both on radio and
TELL Division, we grab them to get their thoughts, and
I think it's a it's a good discussion. So when
we come back, there is a difference between referencing marriage
equality in public schools in curriculum, and we can argue
(06:15):
about what age we can reference that and the sex
guides that we have now in some of the curriculum statewide,
and we hear all these debates about going on at school.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Board meetings, and I think there's a huge distinction here.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
So I want to kind of clarify what is being
taught and what is being objected to, and the whole
religious freedom thing opens up a huge can of worms.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
We'll get to that next.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Loup Penrose sitting in for John coblt KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Loup Penrose sitting in for John Cobelt. So, the Supreme
Court ruled in favor of parents' rights, and that always
is a good thing. I think that this is a
good step with respect to right sizing the role parents
have in.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Their public school curriculum.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It is a little curious to me that the argument
was made on religious freedom, and I'll explain.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
So.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
The concern to the Muslim, Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox parents
in Maryland was that the curriculum here included LGBTQ themed
storybooks in public schools and it violated their First Amendment
right because their religions don't support such a thing. And
(07:43):
that may be so, and it's okay that those parents
want to opt out, so.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
They should have the right to opt out.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
But we need to be very careful, and this is
where I think we have a maturity problem in this
country with far too many people. I think there are
far too many immature adults that engage on these issues.
There is immaturity, certainly in the LGBTQ advocacy community. With
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respect to public education, there really is. They have to
argue with them about whether or not you can talk
to third graders about this stuff, and they won't give
And often is the case, parents will say, you know,
that's all fine, you can talk about that to high
school students.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Why must it start in the third grade.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Why do you have to introduce these themes in the
third grade. Can't you wait till fourth grade? And the
LGBTQ community dig in their heels and call you homophobic,
and that's and around the merry go round we go.
So it really is time to inject a little maturity
(08:55):
in these discussions.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
There is.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
An oppertunity to reference or even outright talk about same
sex marriage in our country. And you can certainly talk
about it in public school, and you can have books
that reference same sex couples or books that are really
that that could be the leading character in the book
is the same sex couple, And it really wouldn't throw
(09:20):
off any child. They would be more interested in the
story itself, because children only react to what we react to.
As soon as a bunch of parents react and say, well,
what's going on here? Suppost be a man and a woman,
not a man and a man, Then all of a
sudden it becomes very exciting the children, and then they
get caught up on it, and again it just becomes
(09:40):
a circus. So I am pro mari, I'm pretty Republican,
and I have been pro marriage equality way before the
National Democrat Party would. I am Republican and I was
pro marriage equality before President Barack Obama.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I was for marriage equality before.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Senator, Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. So
I feel like I have standing on this issue. There
were not many Republicans, frankly, with me. It was like
basically me, Carl Demyo, and Barbara Bush. But look how
far we've come. So I'm a huge fan of marriage equality,
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and I'm very proud of how far the party has come.
I'm proud of how far the culture has come, and
I'm proud of how.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Far the nation has come.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
And we are now living in twenty twenty five and
there are same sex couples living everywhere in our society,
in our culture, openly.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
And proud, so there's no reason to hide them.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
And if the story just happens to contain a same
sex couple, referencing that in film, in cartoons, in literature,
even children's books is not a problem because it reflects
the society that these children are in. I think what
a lot of these parents in Maryland were concerned about
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is the things that we see here in California, which
are not stories that have same sex couples in them,
but rather full on sex manuals.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
And that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
And I think we are able to make the distinction,
I really do. I mean, you could have books that
reference a mom and a dad and that would be
okay and still be object and subject to the sex
manuals that they're trying to push out at the Temechila
Valley Unified School District out in Riverside, So it is possible,
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But I will put the the weight of the issue
on the lgbt community themselves. Frankly, I think it is
time for the leadership of the LGBTQ community, particularly the
g I don't I don't see the l stepping up
lesbian's kind of they're out.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
They don't get involved.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
In political issues because they're they're good, they're fine.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
But it is like normal gay men need to step up.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
And police your own community and say, hey, guys, quiet down,
you're gonna ruin it for the rest of us, Like
stop with the sex manuals.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Be happy that we've come this far.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
And it's cool that parents aren't pulling their kids out
of school because there happened to be a gay character
in a book in the fourth grade.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Like people aren't losing their mind over that.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
So it takes time, Like I I don't, I don't.
I don't know anybody that has a problem with same
sex couples or what I call marriage equality, and like
many people under the age of sixty don't know anybody
that's opposed to Like I know, I had maniacs that
I know that are opposed to it, but like normal
people are not opposed to it.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So our children shouldn't be opposed.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
To it, and it shouldn't be you shouldn't insulate them
or isolate them from that reality.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
But the issue.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Becomes controversial because it doesn't take long before just referencing
a gay character in a book is accepted and the
next thing.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
You know, they're you know, having.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Books and manuals with cucumbers and all kinds of ways
that you can save money in getting dittle toys like
it just becomes a circus and then the whole thing
falls apart and everybody draws digs in on their side,
and the thing becomes a great, big Supreme Court discussion,
what's the verdict?
Speaker 7 (13:43):
So this brought together a coalition of parents of different
religious faiths and.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Backgrounds who said.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
There used to be a rule in this particular school
district that would let them know when there were books
that dealt with issues that may be in conflict with
their religious faith. Well, so many parents were opting out
that the school board and the school.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
District quit doing it.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, very school board thinking there, I know school boards.
I know the people that populate school boards. I know
the kinds of people that would run for a school board.
And that is very school board thinking.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Hey, everybody's opting out.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
All the parents are opting out, So let's stop them
from opting out and force what we want them to
know and what we want their children to know upon them,
and if they get mad, we'll just fight and go
to court because we don't want parents telling us what
to do. That's a very school board thinking. That's the
way these maniacs on the school board think. So I'm
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not surprised that in Maryland they just say, well, let's
remove the opt out requirement, thinking that will solve all
the problems. All the parents will just shut up and
sit down. School districts and school boards have a very
shut up and sit down attitude with respect to parents.
So I am happy that the parents got to win today.
I am cautiously optimistic that this will sort out with
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mature minds. I am concerned that they went on the
First Amendment violation because once you open the Pandora's box
of this violates my First Amendment right to be religiously
insulated from something like that, then you really are gonna
go down a road that I don't think we need
(15:22):
to go down. So we'll see where this takes us,
and we'll see how what the next court challenge is
going to be to this. But I suspect there'll be
something next that we'll get these folks back into court.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
All right, coming up another Supreme Court decision.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Which involves naughty websites. We'll tell you all about it next.
But right now, Debora Mark is in the KFI twenty
four our newsroom with the latest.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John Cobelt.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Thank you for tuning in. Good to have you along
with us on a Friday day. So now two Los
Angeles cities have canceled the fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
What what services do they get out of a city
except the firework show and maybe like a concert in
the park. And probably the most expensive single thing that
any sing that a.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
City does is the firework show.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And they're canceling the firework show and the reasons are
not good.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I don't think it's right. I think this is.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Completely unacceptable. I mean, come on, why do the illegals
get to win. The people that paid the taxes to
the city should get their fireworks show.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
So we'll talk about that coming up.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
But first, the Supreme Court issued a number of rulings today.
We talked about birthright citizenship, we talked about the parents' rights.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Now the parents have a right to opt.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Out if LGBTQ material is being taught on a specific
subject or a week. I don't know if they're doing
it with the with the press are but now as
a parent you can opt out and not have it
your children.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Exposed to it.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Every Supreme Court decision today was a six to three vote.
That's interesting, but not one of the three liberals on
the Court were in favor of parents opting out. Not
one of the three liberals on the Court were in
favor of at least advancing the question of whether somebody
(17:27):
born in the United States when their parents are here
illegally may or may not be subject to our jurisdiction.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's curious to me.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
It does seem like there was a real absence of
legal scholarship this morning, and just a whole lot of
Trump arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
But this takes the cake.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
So there was a case out of taxes that made
it to the Supreme Court. Right now, if you want
to go buy a Playboy magat do they even have
Playboy magazines in print anymore?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
It's a pop culture question.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
But back in the day, if you wanted to buy
a Playboy magazine, you'd have a show ID.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
You had to be eighteen to buy a Playboy magazine.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Fast forward, a loud to today and now Playboy magazines
are all over the Internet in the form of pornography websites.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I suspect this is no surprise to you.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
And in the state of Texas they said, well, same, same,
I mean there should be an age verification requirement before
children get to look at naughty pictures on the Internet.
And of course that case made it all the way
to the Supreme Court and again six' three.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
A majority Of Supreme court justice is cided with A
texas law that requires websites containing pornography to verify visitors'.
Ages the companies that own the website sued and said
this requirement infringes on the free speech rights of, adults.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
And a six to three, decision The Supreme court ruled
with The state Of texas and they, said, Yeah texas
can require the naughty website to verify that somebody is
actually an adult before they take.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It you, know they were able to get in and
look at the naked. Ladies so this is a real.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Problem AND i suspect it's not so much a free
speech issue with the owners.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Of the, Websites but how are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
That, like how how exactly do you online confirm somebody's.
Age that becomes a real tricky. Thing i'll tell you
with respect to my. BOYS i have three, boys and
long before they were, thirteen they were all thirteen as
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Speaker 1 (19:33):
Concerned LIKE i literally it was so.
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it on my phone AND i wouldn't have to deal with.
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solution which has changed their day to birth.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And then you're good to.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Go there was obviously other problems with that because then
they could download apps like crazy and subscribe to every
single thing under the. Sun SO i had, to, like you,
know chase that and if you have children with, phones
you know exactly What i'm talking.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
About then non stop buying. Things but that was the.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Solution just change their day to, birth make them all,
thirteen and you're good to, go which is what we.
Did now they're all at least, thirteen even the baby is.
Thirteen SO i don't have to deal with that. Anymore
NOW i just have to remind them that just because
they ask if you want to add avocado to that, burrito.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
You don't have to have the.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Avocado the avocado cost almost as much as the entire.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Burrito try and get.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Value don't just add bacon because they, say do you
want bacon with?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
That but Nonethe lie is.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Very easy to trick almost every website and every phone
and everybody remotely by just changing your.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
AGE i don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
What and The state Of texas didn't make it clear
what identification a person has to put in to be
able to get, in get past the verification and look
at the naked. Ladies so this becomes the next big.
Issue AND i don't know that it is A Supreme court.
ISSUE i think this is more of a technology, concern
(21:31):
and this is going to.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Be one that we wrestle.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
With my wife AND i have been wrestling with it
since those damn iPhones showed up at our. HOUSE i
lamented the day that it was, coming AND i rue
the day that we allowed it. In but there's no
way around, it so you have to go through. It
and we have to constantly police the. iPhones so And
i'm sure we're. Behind i'm sure we have installed the filtering,
(21:58):
apps and the they are now beyond whatever firewall or
whatever security measures that my wife AND i have put.
On my son is constantly out. Smarting we put on
some limits on the amount of time that could be
on the. iPad we did this a couple of years,
ago like how much time they're on the right pads
(22:18):
because they won't go to sleep, right.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Especially now in.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Summertime so my wife figured out how you can like
limit the time so time runs, out you, know hours,
up two hours are. Up whatever shuts, off can't do
anything about, it and they had some, schoolwork so.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
She had to open.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Up she had to put in a code to override
the end of their time. Limit but he was smart
enough to roll tape on the iPhone like screen record my.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Wife typing in the secret code.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
To unlock his time limits on his, iPad and we
didn't know until like two years. Later SO i suspect
the same thing will be going on with the naughty
pictures on the websites In.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
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Up following the news at, three we have an update
now of the vice mayor Of. Kutahey this is the
woman that called on gang members to defend.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Their turf and to fight With ice.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Agents she has released a statement and we'll share that with.
You another city now has canceled the fireworks show In Los.
Angeles here Is Katie Lai's Kareine winters with a why.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That's, right no celebrations this. Year here In, bellgardens they
usually hold a huge laser.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Show that happens at the Nearby Veterans, park but that
this year that has been.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Canceled a lot of people really disappointed about that because
it usually draws a huge.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Crowd everybody. Disappointed what are you talking about a lot of?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
People, everybody everybody that was planning, Ongoing maybe not everybody
In Bell, gardens but everybody that was planning on. Going you,
know cities don't do much for, you, like they do very.
Little they do a lot for people that don't pay
any taxes to the, City but for the most, part
cities don't do very much besides the basic, stuff you,
(24:25):
know police and, fire then the contract with police and.
Fire they contract with an ambulance, service they contract with
a tree trimming.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Company uh and.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Uh they do their best with and they always don't
have enough money to fix the. Potholes but the one
thing that cities do do is The fourth Of july.
Celebration and it just kills. Me why do the illegals
have to?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Win we have to.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Shut down The fourth Of july celebration because the illegals are.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Scared, well what about those of us that are here.
Legally it's a amazing to.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
ME i, mean leadership almost at every city In Los
angeles care more about the hurt feelings of illegals than
they care about. You they certainly care about the well
being of the children of, illegals then they care about your.
Children why can't we have The fourth Of july? Celebration
what's the? Problem let the illegals stay. Home it's not
(25:22):
Their fourth Of, july it's Our Independence. Day and the
solution is to cut The Independence day.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Celebration you, know.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
There's a limited snapshot in your life when you would
ever even consider going to The Bell gardens laser Light
Show fourth Of july.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Celebration there really. Is you wouldn't go as an, Adult
like that's.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Lame you're like an adult without children going down, There
you've got no, life like a real. Loser and if
you're an adult with teenage, kids you're not going to
the laser light. Show but if you have, children like
little children and, like there's not a whole lot you
(26:08):
can do with your, life and certainly on the fourth Of,
july you're not gonna get a. Babysitter it's family. Time
and it's nice to have like the town that you
live in and in some cases walking distance to be
able to go and sit on the grass as the
sun sets and watch the kids watch the, fireworks or
watch the kids watch the laser show and see them run,
(26:29):
around and they see their neighbors there and it's kind of, cool,
Right it's an enjoyable. Event it's an experience THAT i
remember as a kid and it probably only goes from
age four to like age, ten.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Maybe not even age, ten and that's.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
It, well everybody In Bell, gardens at least the people
that fit that description of the snapshot in life that
their family is, in is being robbed at the opportunity
need to have that little bit of babysitter Free fourth
Of july evening. Entertainment and then you, know you stroller
that the kids are exhausted because now it's, dark it's
(27:10):
not a, clock and the kids are out. Cold and
then finally the kids had a wonderful. Time you can
feel good about yourself as a. Parent you showed them
a good. Time you had the big fireworks, show they
have the the neon, thing the little plastic thing around their.
Neck it's so much. Fun and they go to. Bed
you put them in. Bed they're already asleep by the
time you get back to the. House and then you
and your wife can open up a bottle of beer
(27:30):
or a glass of wine and be like. Great like
that for so many of us that have, children that
had children and live through those ages of zero to,
eight like that was a good time and it was
like one of the few things that any city could
do that actually thought the city did a good. Job
that was a lot of, fun very impressed with the.
(27:52):
Show and they have to cancel. It and the mayor
said they're doing it out of an abundance of. Caution what?
Caution a rocket falling on my? Head now you're worried
about non. Citizens now you can have a love affair
with illegals like so many In Los Angeles county and government.
(28:12):
Do that's your, business but don't ruin it for the
rest of.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Us let the show go. On what are you doing Canceling?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Christmas this is the fourth Of, july but it's Like
christmas is. Canceled so here is, uh this is.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
The mayor whoor Hell, chavez he's the mayor Of Bell.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Garden he's honestly out of abundance of, precaution you know
for our. Community, uh you know we've been going through
a Lot.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Bellvarden did he say an abundance of? Precaution out of
abundance of a? Precaution you know for our. Community never
heard of an abundance of.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Precaution so there's so much caution before the.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Caution that's that's a lot of, caution of of, precaution you,
know for our.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Community, uh you, know we've been going through a Lot
bellvard in southeast as a, whole and we want to
do everything we can as a city to our residence
stoles that are the most, vulnerable, right regardless of your.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Citizenship oh so there you, go there you.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Go the mayor Of Bell gardens cares more about illegals
being upset on the fourth Of july than he does
about Actual americans In Los angeles going to the fourth
Of July Independence day laser light show with their.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Children so.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
He's canceling it for. Everybody just, unbelievable, unbelievable and everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Thinks, yeah that sounds.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
RIGHT i love how he says we're going through a lot.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Here and he's sell. It what are you going?
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Through WHAT i, mean those of us that are citizens
of The United, States we're.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
FINE i don't know what you think we're going. Through
we're you know what we're going.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Through.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Summer we were planning on going to The fourth Of july.
Celebration now we're. Not SO i guess we're going to
go into a neighboring. TOWN i guess so this is
once so katahe is going to cancel theirs, TOO i
don't know What Huntington park is, doing so we'll have to.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Find someplace else to. Go BUT i got news for, You.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Mayor people are still going to go to some fireworks
show or they're going to blow off fireworks in the,
driveway which you don't like that. EITHER i Saw Mayor
karen Bass, ON i think it WAS ktla saying just be,
careful don't engage in any illegal firework demonstrations on the
(30:20):
fourth Of, july AND i, Thought, mayor did you mean
to say hard working undocumented?
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Fireworks? Unbelievable absolutely. Unbelievable but so.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
This is where we, are all, Right so when we come,
back there are let's see here. Cuta, hey the vice,
Mayor Cynthia, gonzalez you remember. Her she called upon the
gangs in her city to come out and fight with
The ice.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Agents that was her.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Strategy, again this falls under the category of The Loup penrose,
rule and that, is we don't have a leadership, problem
we have a maturity. Problem this is a very immature.
Individual she's the vice mayor of the town and literally
went on social media and thought it would be hip
and cool to call upon the gang members of her
(31:09):
town to effectively square off against federal. Officials then she
got busted and she said she needed a, lawyer and
now she's finally made a statement and we'll find out
exactly what that.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
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