June 9, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Bingo, Bango, Bongo!
- Slice of life & Joe's pride experience
- Dennis Zine, Retired LAPD sergeant Former LA City Councilman, talks to A&G
- Pet zebra Ed & the Riley Gaines/Simone Biles beef
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jettie and no He Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I mean, these guys were so close it was like
Brandolina or Benefit. Now you know that Elon and Trump,
they had their own couple name.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
We are gonna get back into talking about the riots
in La here in a little bit. It has been
the lead story on all my evening newscasts for three
straight days and deservedly so, and probably for a fourth
day because it's out of control, and Joe's guesses it's
gonna get worse.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yes, Indeed, the pros have hit town, the professional revolutionaries,
the black masked cafia wearing Antifa types.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, and there's more on that.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And Kamala Harris made her first major statement since she
lost the presidential election about as good as you would
expect it to be in Oh, that's sort of.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
How pleasing no One.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So those who were hungering for Kamala Harris to make
a comment, I guess are placed.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I'm over the Elon. I'm over the Elon and.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Trump feud in terms of interest other than every single
in real life. Almost almost everyone I've talked to has
hit me with a conspiracy theory on this, and I
just and we've gotten a lot of texts about it,
so I thought it'd be worth bringing up. And well,
Speaker Mike Johnson sets it up.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I didn't go out to craft a piece of legislation
to please the richest man in the world. What we're
trying to do is help hardwiking Americans who are trying
to provide for their families and make ends meet. Those
are the people that are going to be excited about
what this legislation produces. This is going to be Jeff economy,
and I'll tell you what. All wages are going to rise.
There's going to be more jobs and economic opportunity for
more people. We cannot wait to deliver that.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
So Speaker Mike Johnson saying, hey, we're not crafting legislation
for the richest man in the world. Almost everybody I've
talked to about this has said, don't you think this
is on purpose? That they contrived this? And this is
starting last Thursday or Friday whenever this broke. People saying
this to me in the hallways here at work, and
(02:29):
you know, wherever I am. That it was contrived to
one help Elon get back on the side of the lefties,
which would help his business the Tesla back on track.
That Trump was like giving him a little help there
so he could be you know, anti Trump and also
on the side of this bill. See, we're we're not
crafting this for oli arts. The oligarch hates this bill.
(02:53):
Make it seem like it's for the American people, like
Speaker Johnson just did. I don't buy that. I don't
think that's the case. But you know, no, I like
the first one a lot more than the second one. Well,
both at the plausibility you're working together, that's the same conspiracy.
That's one conspiracy. They're working together. Elon attacks the bill
(03:13):
makes it look like it's not helping billionaires, which it's
not crafted for billionaires, but makes it look like it's
not written by billionaires, it's not an oligarchy. And then
on the other side, Elon gets to reclaim his anti
Trump status and maybe people start buying tensils again.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I'm buying that. Yeah, I don't know, and I'll never know.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Okay, I'm just saying it's not one person that brought
that up to me, probably a dozen people since last
Friday brought that up to me, right.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, yeah, I think that the second again, the second
half would be more plausible if more people were paying
closer attention.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
The bill is in trouble.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
By the way, there are several senators who are standing
up and saying they're huge flaws with this thing.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I don't know if I can go for it.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Oh, running through a number of stories that you may
have missed, and again we'll get back to the riots
in La in a little bit. So we have mentioned
that Greta Thunberg was on a flotilla a boat trying
to bring aid to the starving Palestinians right to help
with climate change or is she just completely moved on
(04:18):
she's moved well, I think she's still into climate change.
But this is a different topic. This it's not even irony,
it's not the right word for this. Got pointed it
over the weekend. They're big yacht full of protesters headed
to Gaza past a raft full of Sudanese refugees fleeing
(04:40):
an actual genocide where nearly two hundred thousand people are
dead and twenty million are literally starving to death and
they didn't stop or help any of those Sudanese there
on their way to Gaza.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
So apparently Sudanese lives don't fit their nerd. No, it's
about victim oppressor ideology and overthrowing the West.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So I got one more news nugget that I came across.
It's gonna spark a discussion. But you got something you
want to get before I get to that, because I
want to hijack the whole thing here.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh I just switched off my stuff. I thought you
had ahead of steam.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I always got ahead of steam. Doesn't mean it's just
clicked away. Mean, oh, you know what I want to
throw out? This is apropos nothing but number one I
can close the tab and number two I wanted.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
To talk about it.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Louisiana State University of Shreveport, their baseball team went fifty nine,
and oh wow, it is, as far as anybody can tell,
the only time any competitive baseball team on any level
close to this has had an undefeated season. You can't
do that in baseball because of the nature of the game.
(05:43):
It is flabber gas and the players and coaches can't
believe it either.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, well, nature of the game in the length of
the season. You play fifty nine games in any sport,
you're not gonna go undefeated.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, you're gonna get a bad hop or your pitcher's
gonna lose his control or something that bad game. Yeah, anyway,
way to go LSU Shreveport. Wow, freaking believable. Yeah, right now,
back to the grim hatred of the I've got an
interesting Warren famine.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I've got an interesting stat. I'm not getting into Warren famine.
We'll get back into Warren famine oddly enough in Los
Angeles coming up in a second. But I've got an
interesting stat about a change in men yet another one
that should be a headline after this.
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Speaker 3 (07:35):
So we comment a lot on societal changes that are huge,
but don't get enough commentary around you know, people not dating, marrying,
having kids the way they used to, all that sort
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Why we ignore that? This is an interesting one.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Before the nineteen eighties, men who did not complete college
had higher rates of married family formation compare to those
who did complete college. Before the nineteen eighty if you
didn't go to college, you're more likely to get married
rather than less likely. Over the last forty years, the
trend has gone the other direction, and now men who
have not graduated from college are much less likely to
(08:14):
get married than people that went to college. That is
a hillbilly elegy. Interesting, something is going on there that
ain't good. Yeah, I've read a fair amount.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I don't have it at my fingertips about the the
earnings gap between women who are going to college in
numbers never seen before and getting fake educations, by the way,
that are overly expensive, and they have a higher earning
power than a man who didn't go to college. These
are broad averages, obviously, and that there is still a
(08:50):
hesitation among women to get with a guy who can't
earn as much as they do.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
So the college graduate women are going around saying, I
ain't saying he's a goal digger, but I ain't going with.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
No broke plumber. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Actually, if you're going with a plumber, yeah broke. I
was just trying to come up with a rhyme. Yeah,
So I don't know. That might explain some of it.
Are part of it.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
People are just not coupling in general. You know, that's
a good point. It doesn't. That's a good point. It
doesn't give the other side maybe, and college graduates also
are much less likely to get married than they were before,
which is almost certainly true. So if you know, Paul
Plummer's an interesting flip either way you look at it.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
But yeah, who knows, who knows.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It's very odd though, as we've said a million times,
if it was any species but humans, the world of
science would be screaming that this is incredibly important and
it's a crisis and we need to deal with it.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
So I promised that I want to get this on
like at least once every half hour. This is Gavin Newsom,
governor of California, responding to Tom Holman, the guy that's
running this whole immigration thing.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
He's a tough guy, wasn't he do that? He knows
where to come after me, arrest me. Let's just get
it over with, guys.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yes, no posturing there, no play into the cameras, no
stunting there. That's just gavinism. Made a good loyal resistance.
That's right, you know what. And I assumed Gavin was
smarter than this.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
He thinks running for president is just like running for
governor of California.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Or maybe mayor of San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Well, yeah, I mean he is tacked to the center
at times, but he doesn't realize because he's so bubbled
how incredibly toxic a lot of his points of view
are to most of America because he never gets any
pushback in cal Unicornia, it's a one party dictatorship, so
he thinks that's sort of okay. I need to show
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him tough and resolute and standing up for the people.
But Gavin, you're doing it in favor of not deporting
dangerous criminals who have no right to be in the country.
That does not play brother, That does not play across
the broad fruited plane.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Remember, Trump got more male Hispanic votes than the Democrat
did and continues to have historically. Like I saw a
chart yesterday and did dig that up. He's got a
higher approval rating at this point than Obama had. Right,
and the assumption that Hispanic people in general are anti
cracking down on illegal immigration is just fictional, but it
(11:23):
seems to be universally held among the media. We'll check
in with our sports reporter coming up, Roland Garris will
check in with the latest on the French Open I
wish I had to watch both those tennis matches. I
read over and over on Twitter yesterday that there were
a couple of the best tennis matches in the history
of the sport, the female and the men. Yeah, the
men was five plus hours. Yeah yeah, Well, probably not
(11:46):
going to go back and watch it, but let.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Me know when they're getting close to being done. Maybe
I'll tune it in.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Oh man, I used to love to watch those. We've
got so much to get to today. And then we
got a great guest formerly with LAPD. He was going
to try to explain to us what was going on
over the weekend, or where things might go, or what
they can do and what they can't do. This this
is quite the standoff between Trump and Gavin and decency
and non decency. In my opinion, stay tuned. LAPD has
(12:16):
declared all of downtown La an unlawful assembly area, so
it ain't no assembling, So that gives them the right
to boot you out no matter what's going on, right,
you can't claimb here peacefully assembling. We're gonna talk to
retired LAPD sergeant former Lac City councilman Dennis Zin coming
up in a little bit about what happened over the weekend.
It is a big, big story. I was in a
(12:38):
safer part of California yesterday, drove to Modesto with my
son for the Big American Graffiti Car Days that they
have every summer, and it's one of the biggest car
shows in America. It's really cool. We caught the tail
end of it. But I wasn't gonna talk about the cars.
We're gonna talk about this. Could you if you were
out roaming around a little bit hungry and there's a
(13:01):
food truck called the Twisted Pig, could you walk by
that and not order something?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I couldn't. I would eyeb all the menu carefully at
the least.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah, I got a deciding between the pulled pork sandwich
in the try tip, and I went with the try
tip and it was very, very good. But I don't know,
you call yourself the Twisted Pig a guy like me,
you just I don't mind.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
You might as well reach in my pocket and take
my money out. I mean, I couldn't stop. You got
beef from the Twisted Pig.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
You know.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
That's a good point. That's a good point, But the
main thing is gonna.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I almost dropped my sunglasses into a truck into a
truck stop toilet.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I p had him on my head on a bent
over to clean off the disgusting seat, and my sunglasses
fell off of my head and just luckily bounced off
the seat and went sideways as opposed to right into
the toilet.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And I see, just I don't know, well, and you
got in your rational mind. I mean, wash with hot
soapy water. It never feels and know that that's look,
I understand science. These glasses are fine. Then you'd put
them on your head and think, Oh, I think if
they fall in you just flush them down.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Well I wasn't. I wouldn't have fished them out. Well,
I don't know. There were two hundred bucks. You gotta
fish them out.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, Michael, you wouldn't remember the guy guy we used
to work with, the guy that wore the robe all
the time.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
We used to work with.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Remember we were we were in the restroom, side by
side of the stalls, and what happened to my belt
buckle fell in the toilet And he said, if that happened,
you just fishing and rinse it. Fishing and rinse it, dude,
fishing rinse it. So that's what I'd carry down to Earth.
I would have known my fishing and rinse it disgusting. Oh,
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I should probably pay you this off I mentioned I was.
I was in an outlet mall on Saturday with my
daughter who was shopping for clothes for her internship. And uh,
and there was the big Pride celebration, okay. And it
was in the like in the parking lot and their
booths and the DJ was cranking music was the twisted
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Big there No, there were no no pigs twisted or untwisted,
but it was, you know, about the usual assortment of
misfits and guys wearing pink shorts and folks and you know,
I'm fine, I don't I don't really have a hassle
with anybody. My only reaction to it was I want
to start a brand new charity that raises millions of
dollars to give free guitar lessons to gay people wherever
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they might be so they can start playing better music. Oh,
it was just this awful throbbing I'm at a rave
disc them It's a sunshiny Saturday afternoon and they're cranking
this ridiculous, terrible techno, garbage music. Whatever happened? Elton John
stands me. You want a gay icon? Even the Great
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Share Ladies and was straight. But anyway, who else?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
The girls? Oh my god, I love them. They're fabulous.
Doom goodom Goodomo goodom.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
For like fifteen straight minutes, everybody's walking around the parking
lot and their shorts. Why are the terrible? As a musician,
I was offended? Have some pride in your music?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
George Soros is spending many millions of dollars trying to
turn Texas blue, multimillion dollar effort that would be obviously
a huge deal. Yeah, they've suffered through decades of electoral
losses in the nation's second largest state, Texas majority pack
a Soros funded pack. You remember when people used to
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say George Soros, it's like the Wizard of Oz. Your
conservatives are always talking about him. And then they'd say, well,
you're an anti Semite because Soros is a Jew and
so protesting.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Even lion liars.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
He finances the most loathsome of organizations that hate America
all over the country. But they're trying to organize tens
of thousands of volunteers, recruit candidates, and boosts turn out
ahead of the twenty twenty six mid terms.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I wish them well.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
It is hard to not continue to report on the
biggest story in America as there keeps being breaking news.
California is now officially suing Donald Trump over sending in
the National Guard to try to deal with the riding
over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
So that is the way Jackasses sue away.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
So that would be an interesting legal battle, and we'll
see how that turns out.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
We're going to have.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
A mostly peaceful interview with a former LA councilman and
LAPD sergeant. Love that Jent knows the politics, he knows
the law enforcement sides about what's going on in LA.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Oh and if you haven't heard this clip from ABC
seven in Los Angeles while everything was on fire, we
got to play that clip before we do the interview.
I mean, it's you can't believe it's true.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I mean, it's better than mostly peaceful protests during George Floyd.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
It's incredible. They spit, we hit huh ohh boy. We
get a lot on the way, stay here, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Large group of people. It could turn very volatile if
you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way
and turn what is just a bunch of people having
fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and altercation
between officers and demonstrators.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
That's not AI, that's actually ABC seven in Los Angeles
over the weekend saying things could turn volatile if you
send in law enforcement as people are just enjoying themselves
watching cars burn.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
What that's the sort.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Of ridiculous commentary you're getting from a lot of the
media around the country.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
That's one of the craziest things I've ever heard anybody say.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
For some much more learned perspective, we're going to turned
to Dennis Zion, retired LAPD sergeant, former LA City councilman,
Worth mentioning that Dennis has experienced a lot of this
sort of thing before, multiple terms as a city councilman.
Honored as Officer of the Year by the California Highway Patrol. Dennis,
how are you, sir.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
I'm doing wonderful this morning, and gentlemen, thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
So I woke up and saw people smashing the windows
out of police headquarters for Los Angeles Police Department.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
How do you react to that?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
This reminds me and I joined the LAPD in nineteen
sixty eight, twenty one years old, right out of college.
This reminds me of riots that we've had in the past,
and people want to ignore that. But when we have
political officials that play into the hands of the hooligans,
these are the tragedies that occur. And I witnessed yesterday,
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was occurring the last couple of days, what was occurring
in Los Angeles, and it just reminds me of what's
happened in the past. And what I want to highlight
is lostantus pairing for the World Cup, the World Olympics.
It comes to Los Angeles, folks. What happens in Los
Angeles people forget. And I've been in this law enforcement
for fifty six years. I still serve in the LAPD
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as a reserve officer, and I have a son who's
with the LAPD, So I'm very close to public safety
and Native Angelino. But what I see is a failed
leadership and now the governor wants to attack president. The
president wants to assert his authority. The bottom line is
cops need to be supported to protect and serve, and
they're not able to do that. They have a City
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Council Los Angeles majority of them are not supporting law enforcement.
What they want to do is dis armed police. We
have a major crisis happening, and I don't understand how
people don't wake up when I was watching on TV yesterday,
how they've taken over the freeway. How are they're destroying
California High Patrol cars, How they're assaulting police officers and
just a token number get arrested. It's unbelievable that in
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this city this type of activity takes place when we're
going to sponsor the look the World Olympics come to
Los Angeles and be a victim. What we've seen happening
last night was looting, stores, broken into vandalism, graffiti all over,
these taxis that were burned. It just it doesn't stop.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
And now the both the governor and Mayor Karen Bass said,
we have no need for the Feds. We've got this
under control. How do you react to that.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Well, it was not under control. Clearly. Let me tell
the numbers, right. LAPD has eight seven hundred and forty
six officers. That's from the recruiting the academy to the
chief of Police eighty seven forty six and in twenty
nineteen we had ten thousand and seventy two officers. Wow,
and when we're talking about eighty seven forty six, that
includes every recruit, that includes the command staff, that includes detectives,
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that includes the people in the helicopter, that includes everyone.
Eighty seven forty six. We're a city this size, it's ridiculous.
And we don't have a majority of the council supporting
law and order in the City of Los Angeles, and
we have a mayor has to waffle back and forth
to appease those that don't want to support the LAPD.
And I feel bad for the taxpayers because they're not
getting the service they deserving, their paying for in the
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City of the Angels. And I will tell you the
Angels have left Los Angeles. They have flown west. They're
out of Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
So help me understand what should happen. If you've got
a mob that is acting like this, do you shoot people?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I mean, how do you stop it?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
You don't use deadly force. You don't use deadily force.
That's the last resort. But what you do is you
enforce the law. You start corralling them, bringing to the
buss arrest them, take them down, book them, put them
in the criminal justice system. Let the courts deal with it.
They didn't do that. What they're doing is they're like
they're sweeping them. They're sweeping them this way and that
way through downtown. Then they go onto the freeway, they
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take over the Harbor Freeway, and then they're assaulting the
CHP They're destroying their cars. It's outrageous to see in
the City of the Angels that this type of bacteriy
would take place in this day of history. It's absolutely unimaginable.
And then the political officials, the governor wants to challenge
the president, the president wants to assert his authority. Someone's
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going to be responsible. Pointing the finger back and forth
is not solving the problem. We need to have law
enforcement do their job in a professional matter. LA City.
The state of California has an immigration policy. We don't
enforce immigration laws period. It's in the law in California.
We don't enforce it. LAPD. You can be arrested for murder, robbery, rape,
if you're here illegally, that doesn't count. They only enforce
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the criminal codes, not in immigration. Yet they're coming out
condemning about this immigration issue. It's a federal issue. It's
not a local issue, it's not a state issue. But
when you have the politicians can't seem to get along,
we have this controversy that takes place. Now we have
what happens now in Los Angeles, in downtown LA, which
is a metropolitan area, a lot of businesses, a lot
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of activities. This is it's almost comical. You could write
a comedy how terrible politicians going to act and lead
and discover what we end up with the tragedies that
have occurred. And now we're expecting more prost tests today.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
And Honnest Snein is a retired LAPD sergeant, former LA
City Council and tennis And it is my opinion that
the pros, the antifatypes, the black flag types, they are
flocking to Los Angeles now because they want to go
wherever there is protest, wherever there is you know, legitimate
unhappiness or whatever, and harness that energy to their goals.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
How familiar are you with what they do and how
they do it?
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Well, I know what their tactics are. What they do
is they bring it together and they continue this challenge.
They want to continue this as long as they can.
I mean they're in the headlines. We're national news, Los
Angus national news. We're not national news about having the
Olympics and all these world affairs, the Academy Awards. No,
we're in the news because we've got chaos taking place.
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We've got people taking over free we've got people assaulting
police offic we've got officers hurt. Howard patrol officers, LAPD off.
We brought in mutual aid, the sriffs Department, the National Guard.
I mean, clearly LAPD does not have the resources to
maintain control of the city of Los Angers. When we
have this type of situation take place, they still have
calls for service. People call nine one one, Well where's
the police officers, Well, they're down in a demonstration. We
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don't can't respond to your call. This is outrageous conduct.
So the police is your civilian police department that handles
crime and handles the situations that they can handle. They're
not geared for this type of demonstration activity. They're trained
for it, but this isn't an everyday occurrence, and sadly,
it diverts all these resources, especially on a Sunday. Sunday
is a low deployment day. Your detectives are off, your
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undercover officers are off. You have your uniform forces, and
now they have to muster them throughout the city of
Los Angers to go down there and protect downtown Los Angers.
And I saw, I said many times, we're the buses
where we arrest these people who commit these crimes and
put them in the criminal justice system, take them to
county jail and book them. No one was getting arrested.
I mean a token number got arrested, but they didn't
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make them men arrests as they used to quill the situation.
As it continues day after day after day, it just
gets worse and more property damage and then more of
a headline. Los Angeles can't manage itself.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Dennis zign Report, retired LAPD and LA City Councilman, Dennis,
great stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
We look forward to staying in touch. Well done. Good
to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Know.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I might be talking to you tomorrow. I hadn't even
thought about that. I mean, that's obviously true whenever you
have a situation like this, but you got every single
cop devoted to this story.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Los Angeles is a big city full of crime. Ain't
nobody around anything else. Oh my god, that is rough.
I want to hear it again, Play ABC seven again.
So and you need to see the visual. The visual
is cars on fire, smoking the air, chunks a cement
on the pavement, being thrown at cops.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
And this is what the host says.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Large group of people. It could turn very volatile if
you move law enforcement in there and the wrong way
and turn what is just a bunch of people having
fun watching carsburn into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Surely and demonstrated, surely he wishes he had that one back.
Surely he wishes he had that one back that he
didn't say it could turn volatile. You have people just
having fun watching cars on fire. Right, it's not quite
to the level of the cheesecake factory being looted. There
goes someone with a cheesecake, not sure where they got that.
(27:26):
I mean, it has it didn't quite reach that level,
but it's awfully bad.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
So let me read this from Mark Calpern and his
news today about his newsletter today about the mainstream media
coverage of this. We keep saying this is like eighty
twenty ninety ten is an issue in this country.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I think it is.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Even in Los Angeles in California, but that ten or
twenty who were on the side of the mayhem are
all in the media. Mark Alprin wrote again, this is
complicated stuff, but the Democrats and the dominant media are
on the wrong side of the substance and the politics
of all this. Agreed, there's no way to know how
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this will end, including on the streets, but we already
know that history is in the process of repeating itself,
and not in the way Blue America seems to think.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
No, it's going to repeat itself. And as you get
you know, JD.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Vance as the next president or a Republican Congress or something.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Bill Crystal, for instance, Conservative my whole life, still calls
himself a conservative. You know, went anti Trump and lost
his mind, tweeted out.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Mass deportation is the excuse and trigger for authoritarianism, as
it was always intended to be. So this is all
just a plan by Trump to be an authoritarian. So
Trump called Biden and said, throw the borders open in
a way that's never been done and just let in
millions and millions of people, be they gang members, hardworking,
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honest folk, or anything in between. Child will less, just
anybody from anywhere on earth.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Let him in, and then when I get into office,
all to poor hum. Yeah, good theory. Bill, he has
lost his mind.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Well, what are you supposed to do if the previous
administration allowed the biggest migration in human history, what are
you supposed to do? Well, I guess there's nothing we
can do about it, because that'd be mass deportation. Well right,
you know, as I've been putting out, if you let
a problem go this long, the solution is going to
be painful.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
And that happens in life, in politics and business and
all kinds of things. If you let something get ugly
enough when you go to fix it, it's gonna be
an unfortunate situation.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Oh yeah, this is not We overspent one or we
ran a credit card up to a limit. We maxed
out all our credit cards, and we've been embezzling from
our boss. We don't smoke a little pot on the weekend.
We're a full blown drug addict. We in fact, we're
selling now. We have gone so far down the road
of lawlessness on immigration, the untangling of it is going
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to be painful. Looking for the painless solution, it doesn't exist. Friends,
And as we were discussing earlier, having observed this in
Seattle and Portland and in La at times. In Minneapolis,
the Blue leadership Gaven Newsom, Karen Bass and the LA
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City Council and their ilk they think they can passive
their way out of this. Here's the problem again. It's
gone beyond the people who think immigration policy ought to
be somewhat different, to hell with America, I'm a Mexican crowd.
And then from them to the professionals as I keep
(30:44):
bringing up the professional Marxist agitators, the black flag, the Antifa,
the masked people. By the way, the laws is no
demonstrating masked. Can we in many many states? Can we
start enforcing that? For the love of God. But anyway,
you might be able to just diffuse and wait and
be passive and the people, the legitimate folks who are
(31:07):
kind of pissed off. That will work in many cases,
just keep them from doing too much damage.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
It goes away. But now the pros are involved. Folks.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
You on one hundred and twelve nights in a row
or whatever that number was, that on holy number in
Portland where they're attacking the federal courthouse night after night
after night. That is the result if you don't wait
in there and start enforcing the law.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Trust me on this.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
People to night after night, people in masks waving Mexican flags,
setting things on fire. I know how that's going to
play politically, even in California.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Right. I don't know when we'll get to it.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
But did you see Simone Biles Gold medal gymnasts and
Riley Gaines get into it over the weekend, over the
whole trans thing. I did not, And that was something
I have to get to. That headline that Simone Biles
ended her career. I didn't know what it meant.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Oh politically like you like, yeah, she is.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Like a pitch woman and spokeswoman. She ain't gonna make
more money now than she did before.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Anyway. Maybe we'll get to that coming up, among other things.
Stay here.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
Sounds like from your experience, you've see someone actually walking
away with a cheesecake there after the cheesecake factory was looted.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Unclear where they may have gotten that armstrong he yetie.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
It's an update to a story that captivated the internet.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Take a look at this.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
That missing runaway zebra getting airlifted back to his home
in Tennessee. This missing pet was on the loose for
a week, but Ed is now safely back home after
being spotted in a pasture.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Near a highway.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
America can breathe again. Jack Ed the Zebra is home.
Pat and Zebra ed full team coverage next hour. So
if you saw this over the weekend, I did mention
on the show last week that this Minnesota girls softball
team had gone made it to the state championship. They
got a dude on her team, a transgender pitcher who's
(33:03):
just dominant, also dominant as a at the plate, so
like you.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Know, probably because he's a guy.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Back to you anyway, So the Minnesota State High School
League posted a photo of the team making it to
the state championship on social media. Riley Gains, the activist
swimmer who swam against Lea Thomas, we know that old story.
Riley Gains, the activist on the side of sanity, said,
notice that the comments had been turned off on the
(33:32):
posting of the Minnesota State high school softball.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Team, probably because there's a dude on the team.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Back to you, and she said, to be expected when
your star player is a boy. Simone Biles, seven time
Olympic gold medalist, saw the post and told Gains she
was truly sick all of this campaigning just because you
lost a race, straight up sore loser. Biles wrote to Gaines,
who competed against a transgender there's a trans swimmer, Leah
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Thomas and twenty man, a giant man who.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Could swim really fast. Yeah someone.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Biles goes on to say, you should be uplifting the
trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive,
or creating a new avenue where trans feels safe in
all sports. Maybe a transgender category category in all sports.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
What did that?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
But instead you get.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Them out of women's sports, simone, But instead you bully them.
One thing's for sure, No one in sports is safe
with you around.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
In another post, Bile said, bully someone your own size,
which ironically would be a male. I guess saying Riley
Gaines is big. She's big compared to someone Biles who's like,
could fit in my pocket your ears. A tall woman
shot Riley games because somebody's really really good at flipping
and jumping intowist and she's miraculously good. It doesn't mean
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she has, you know, any wisdom. Riley Gaines responded with
this is actually so disappointing. It's not my job or
the job of any woman to figure out how to
includ lude men in our spaces. You can uplift men
stealing championships and women's sports with your platform. Men don't
be long in women's sports. And I say that with
a full chest. My take is the least controversial take
(35:12):
on the planet. Simone Bios being a male apologist at
the expense of young girls dreams, did not.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Have that on my bingo card. She said, Yeah, that's insane.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You're just straight up jealous because you lost a race,
Yeah to a six foot four inch man with a
penis and text testicles calling himself a woman.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Good final statement from Riley Gaines. Maybe she should compete
in the pommel horse and rings in twenty twenty eight.
Those are gymnastic sports they don't have for women because
they don't have the same upper body strength where you
could really do it. Pointing out that there's a physical
difference between men and women, and yeah, that's.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
That is a beautiful example of how ideology Trump's intelligence
at Trump's common sense. It leads people to say and
think perverse things that are utterly unsupportable.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
How is disappointing. How long on the rings could you
hold your arms straight out with your body in the middle.
How long you suppose you could.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Do that, It would not be measurable by current scientific methods.
A fraction of a fraction of a second.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jettie and no He Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I mean, these guys were so close it was like
Brandolina or Benefit. Now you know that Elon and Trump,
they had their own couple name.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
We are gonna get back into talking about the riots
in La here in a little bit. It has been
the lead story on all my evening newscasts for three
straight days and deservedly so, and probably for a fourth
day because it's out of control, and Joe's guesses it's
gonna get worse.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yes, Indeed, the pros have hit town, the professional revolutionaries,
the black masked cafia wearing Antifa types.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, and there's more on that.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And Kamala Harris made her first major statement since she
lost the presidential election about as good as you would
expect it to be in Oh, that's sort of.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
How pleasing no One.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So those who were hungering for Kamala Harris to make
a comment, I guess are placed.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I'm over the Elon. I'm over the Elon and.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Trump feud in terms of interest other than every single
in real life. Almost almost everyone I've talked to has
hit me with a conspiracy theory on this, and I
just and we've gotten a lot of texts about it,
so I thought it'd be worth bringing up. And well,
Speaker Mike Johnson sets it up.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I didn't go out to craft a piece of legislation
to please the richest man in the world. What we're
trying to do is help hardwiking Americans who are trying
to provide for their families and make ends meet. Those
are the people that are going to be excited about
what this legislation produces. This is going to be Jeff economy,
and I'll tell you what. All wages are going to rise.
There's going to be more jobs and economic opportunity for
more people. We cannot wait to deliver that.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
So Speaker Mike Johnson saying, hey, we're not crafting legislation
for the richest man in the world. Almost everybody I've
talked to about this has said, don't you think this
is on purpose? That they contrived this? And this is
starting last Thursday or Friday whenever this broke. People saying
this to me in the hallways here at work, and
(02:29):
you know, wherever I am. That it was contrived to
one help Elon get back on the side of the lefties,
which would help his business the Tesla back on track.
That Trump was like giving him a little help there
so he could be you know, anti Trump and also
on the side of this bill. See, we're we're not
crafting this for oli arts. The oligarch hates this bill.
(02:53):
Make it seem like it's for the American people, like
Speaker Johnson just did. I don't buy that. I don't
think that's the case. But you know, no, I like
the first one a lot more than the second one. Well,
both at the plausibility you're working together, that's the same conspiracy.
That's one conspiracy. They're working together. Elon attacks the bill
(03:13):
makes it look like it's not helping billionaires, which it's
not crafted for billionaires, but makes it look like it's
not written by billionaires, it's not an oligarchy. And then
on the other side, Elon gets to reclaim his anti
Trump status and maybe people start buying tensils again.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I'm buying that. Yeah, I don't know, and I'll never know.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Okay, I'm just saying it's not one person that brought
that up to me, probably a dozen people since last
Friday brought that up to me, right.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, yeah, I think that the second again, the second
half would be more plausible if more people were paying
closer attention.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
The bill is in trouble.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
By the way, there are several senators who are standing
up and saying they're huge flaws with this thing.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I don't know if I can go for it.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Oh, running through a number of stories that you may
have missed, and again we'll get back to the riots
in La in a little bit. So we have mentioned
that Greta Thunberg was on a flotilla a boat trying
to bring aid to the starving Palestinians right to help
with climate change or is she just completely moved on
(04:18):
she's moved well, I think she's still into climate change.
But this is a different topic. This it's not even irony,
it's not the right word for this. Got pointed it
over the weekend. They're big yacht full of protesters headed
to Gaza past a raft full of Sudanese refugees fleeing
(04:40):
an actual genocide where nearly two hundred thousand people are
dead and twenty million are literally starving to death and
they didn't stop or help any of those Sudanese there
on their way to Gaza.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
So apparently Sudanese lives don't fit their nerd. No, it's
about victim oppressor ideology and overthrowing the West.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So I got one more news nugget that I came across.
It's gonna spark a discussion. But you got something you
want to get before I get to that, because I
want to hijack the whole thing here.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh I just switched off my stuff. I thought you
had ahead of steam.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I always got ahead of steam. Doesn't mean it's just
clicked away. Mean, oh, you know what I want to
throw out? This is apropos nothing but number one I
can close the tab and number two I wanted.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
To talk about it.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Louisiana State University of Shreveport, their baseball team went fifty nine,
and oh wow, it is, as far as anybody can tell,
the only time any competitive baseball team on any level
close to this has had an undefeated season. You can't
do that in baseball because of the nature of the game.
(05:43):
It is flabber gas and the players and coaches can't
believe it either.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, well, nature of the game in the length of
the season. You play fifty nine games in any sport,
you're not gonna go undefeated.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, you're gonna get a bad hop or your pitcher's
gonna lose his control or something that bad game. Yeah, anyway,
way to go LSU Shreveport. Wow, freaking believable. Yeah, right now,
back to the grim hatred of the I've got an
interesting Warren famine.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I've got an interesting stat. I'm not getting into Warren famine.
We'll get back into Warren famine oddly enough in Los
Angeles coming up in a second. But I've got an
interesting stat about a change in men yet another one
that should be a headline after this.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
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Speaker 3 (07:35):
So we comment a lot on societal changes that are huge,
but don't get enough commentary around you know, people not dating, marrying,
having kids the way they used to, all that sort
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Why we ignore that? This is an interesting one.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Before the nineteen eighties, men who did not complete college
had higher rates of married family formation compare to those
who did complete college. Before the nineteen eighty if you
didn't go to college, you're more likely to get married
rather than less likely. Over the last forty years, the
trend has gone the other direction, and now men who
have not graduated from college are much less likely to
(08:14):
get married than people that went to college. That is
a hillbilly elegy. Interesting, something is going on there that
ain't good. Yeah, I've read a fair amount.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I don't have it at my fingertips about the the
earnings gap between women who are going to college in
numbers never seen before and getting fake educations, by the way,
that are overly expensive, and they have a higher earning
power than a man who didn't go to college. These
are broad averages, obviously, and that there is still a
(08:50):
hesitation among women to get with a guy who can't
earn as much as they do.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
So the college graduate women are going around saying, I
ain't saying he's a goal digger, but I ain't going with.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
No broke plumber. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Actually, if you're going with a plumber, yeah broke. I
was just trying to come up with a rhyme. Yeah,
So I don't know. That might explain some of it.
Are part of it.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
People are just not coupling in general. You know, that's
a good point. It doesn't. That's a good point. It
doesn't give the other side maybe, and college graduates also
are much less likely to get married than they were before,
which is almost certainly true. So if you know, Paul
Plummer's an interesting flip either way you look at it.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
But yeah, who knows, who knows.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It's very odd though, as we've said a million times,
if it was any species but humans, the world of
science would be screaming that this is incredibly important and
it's a crisis and we need to deal with it.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
So I promised that I want to get this on
like at least once every half hour. This is Gavin Newsom,
governor of California, responding to Tom Holman, the guy that's
running this whole immigration thing.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
He's a tough guy, wasn't he do that? He knows
where to come after me, arrest me. Let's just get
it over with, guys.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yes, no posturing there, no play into the cameras, no
stunting there. That's just gavinism. Made a good loyal resistance.
That's right, you know what. And I assumed Gavin was
smarter than this.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
He thinks running for president is just like running for
governor of California.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Or maybe mayor of San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Well, yeah, I mean he is tacked to the center
at times, but he doesn't realize because he's so bubbled
how incredibly toxic a lot of his points of view
are to most of America because he never gets any
pushback in cal Unicornia, it's a one party dictatorship, so
he thinks that's sort of okay. I need to show
(10:46):
him tough and resolute and standing up for the people.
But Gavin, you're doing it in favor of not deporting
dangerous criminals who have no right to be in the country.
That does not play brother, That does not play across
the broad fruited plane.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Remember, Trump got more male Hispanic votes than the Democrat
did and continues to have historically. Like I saw a
chart yesterday and did dig that up. He's got a
higher approval rating at this point than Obama had. Right,
and the assumption that Hispanic people in general are anti
cracking down on illegal immigration is just fictional, but it
(11:23):
seems to be universally held among the media. We'll check
in with our sports reporter coming up, Roland Garris will
check in with the latest on the French Open I
wish I had to watch both those tennis matches. I
read over and over on Twitter yesterday that there were
a couple of the best tennis matches in the history
of the sport, the female and the men. Yeah, the
men was five plus hours. Yeah yeah, Well, probably not
(11:46):
going to go back and watch it, but let.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Me know when they're getting close to being done. Maybe
I'll tune it in.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Oh man, I used to love to watch those. We've
got so much to get to today. And then we
got a great guest formerly with LAPD. He was going
to try to explain to us what was going on
over the weekend, or where things might go, or what
they can do and what they can't do. This this
is quite the standoff between Trump and Gavin and decency
and non decency. In my opinion, stay tuned. LAPD has
(12:16):
declared all of downtown La an unlawful assembly area, so
it ain't no assembling, So that gives them the right
to boot you out no matter what's going on, right,
you can't claimb here peacefully assembling. We're gonna talk to
retired LAPD sergeant former Lac City councilman Dennis Zin coming
up in a little bit about what happened over the weekend.
It is a big, big story. I was in a
(12:38):
safer part of California yesterday, drove to Modesto with my
son for the Big American Graffiti Car Days that they
have every summer, and it's one of the biggest car
shows in America. It's really cool. We caught the tail
end of it. But I wasn't gonna talk about the cars.
We're gonna talk about this. Could you if you were
out roaming around a little bit hungry and there's a
(13:01):
food truck called the Twisted Pig, could you walk by
that and not order something?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I couldn't. I would eyeb all the menu carefully at
the least.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yeah, I got a deciding between the pulled pork sandwich
in the try tip, and I went with the try
tip and it was very, very good. But I don't know,
you call yourself the Twisted Pig a guy like me,
you just I don't mind.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
You might as well reach in my pocket and take
my money out. I mean, I couldn't stop. You got
beef from the Twisted Pig.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
You know.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
That's a good point. That's a good point, But the
main thing is gonna.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I almost dropped my sunglasses into a truck into a
truck stop toilet.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I p had him on my head on a bent
over to clean off the disgusting seat, and my sunglasses
fell off of my head and just luckily bounced off
the seat and went sideways as opposed to right into
the toilet.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And I see, just I don't know, well, and you
got in your rational mind. I mean, wash with hot
soapy water. It never feels and know that that's look,
I understand science. These glasses are fine. Then you'd put
them on your head and think, Oh, I think if
they fall in you just flush them down.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Well I wasn't. I wouldn't have fished them out. Well,
I don't know. There were two hundred bucks. You gotta
fish them out.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, Michael, you wouldn't remember the guy guy we used
to work with, the guy that wore the robe all
the time.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
We used to work with.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Remember we were we were in the restroom, side by
side of the stalls, and what happened to my belt
buckle fell in the toilet And he said, if that happened,
you just fishing and rinse it. Fishing and rinse it, dude,
fishing rinse it. So that's what I'd carry down to Earth.
I would have known my fishing and rinse it disgusting. Oh,
(14:49):
I should probably pay you this off I mentioned I was.
I was in an outlet mall on Saturday with my
daughter who was shopping for clothes for her internship. And uh,
and there was the big Pride celebration, okay. And it
was in the like in the parking lot and their
booths and the DJ was cranking music was the twisted
(15:10):
Big there No, there were no no pigs twisted or untwisted,
but it was, you know, about the usual assortment of
misfits and guys wearing pink shorts and folks and you know,
I'm fine, I don't I don't really have a hassle
with anybody. My only reaction to it was I want
to start a brand new charity that raises millions of
dollars to give free guitar lessons to gay people wherever
(15:33):
they might be so they can start playing better music. Oh,
it was just this awful throbbing I'm at a rave
disc them It's a sunshiny Saturday afternoon and they're cranking
this ridiculous, terrible techno, garbage music. Whatever happened? Elton John
stands me. You want a gay icon? Even the Great
(15:54):
Share Ladies and was straight. But anyway, who else?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
The girls? Oh my god, I love them. They're fabulous.
Doom goodom Goodomo goodom.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
For like fifteen straight minutes, everybody's walking around the parking
lot and their shorts. Why are the terrible? As a musician,
I was offended? Have some pride in your music?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
George Soros is spending many millions of dollars trying to
turn Texas blue, multimillion dollar effort that would be obviously
a huge deal. Yeah, they've suffered through decades of electoral
losses in the nation's second largest state, Texas majority pack
a Soros funded pack. You remember when people used to
(16:41):
say George Soros, it's like the Wizard of Oz. Your
conservatives are always talking about him. And then they'd say, well,
you're an anti Semite because Soros is a Jew and
so protesting.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Even lion liars.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
He finances the most loathsome of organizations that hate America
all over the country. But they're trying to organize tens
of thousands of volunteers, recruit candidates, and boosts turn out
ahead of the twenty twenty six mid terms.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I wish them well.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
It is hard to not continue to report on the
biggest story in America as there keeps being breaking news.
California is now officially suing Donald Trump over sending in
the National Guard to try to deal with the riding
over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
So that is the way Jackasses sue away.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
So that would be an interesting legal battle, and we'll
see how that turns out.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
We're going to have.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
A mostly peaceful interview with a former LA councilman and
LAPD sergeant. Love that Jent knows the politics, he knows
the law enforcement sides about what's going on in LA.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Oh and if you haven't heard this clip from ABC
seven in Los Angeles while everything was on fire, we
got to play that clip before we do the interview.
I mean, it's you can't believe it's true.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I mean, it's better than mostly peaceful protests during George Floyd.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
It's incredible. They spit, we hit huh ohh boy. We
get a lot on the way, stay here, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Large group of people. It could turn very volatile if
you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way
and turn what is just a bunch of people having
fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and altercation
between officers and demonstrators.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
That's not AI, that's actually ABC seven in Los Angeles
over the weekend saying things could turn volatile if you
send in law enforcement as people are just enjoying themselves
watching cars burn.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
What that's the sort.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Of ridiculous commentary you're getting from a lot of the
media around the country.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
That's one of the craziest things I've ever heard anybody say.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
For some much more learned perspective, we're going to turned
to Dennis Zion, retired LAPD sergeant, former LA City councilman,
Worth mentioning that Dennis has experienced a lot of this
sort of thing before, multiple terms as a city councilman.
Honored as Officer of the Year by the California Highway Patrol. Dennis,
how are you, sir.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
I'm doing wonderful this morning, and gentlemen, thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
So I woke up and saw people smashing the windows
out of police headquarters for Los Angeles Police Department.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
How do you react to that?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
This reminds me and I joined the LAPD in nineteen
sixty eight, twenty one years old, right out of college.
This reminds me of riots that we've had in the past,
and people want to ignore that. But when we have
political officials that play into the hands of the hooligans,
these are the tragedies that occur. And I witnessed yesterday,
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was occurring the last couple of days, what was occurring
in Los Angeles, and it just reminds me of what's
happened in the past. And what I want to highlight
is lostantus pairing for the World Cup, the World Olympics.
It comes to Los Angeles, folks. What happens in Los
Angeles people forget. And I've been in this law enforcement
for fifty six years. I still serve in the LAPD
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as a reserve officer, and I have a son who's
with the LAPD, So I'm very close to public safety
and Native Angelino. But what I see is a failed
leadership and now the governor wants to attack president. The
president wants to assert his authority. The bottom line is
cops need to be supported to protect and serve, and
they're not able to do that. They have a City
(20:31):
Council Los Angeles majority of them are not supporting law enforcement.
What they want to do is dis armed police. We
have a major crisis happening, and I don't understand how
people don't wake up when I was watching on TV yesterday,
how they've taken over the freeway. How are they're destroying
California High Patrol cars, How they're assaulting police officers and
just a token number get arrested. It's unbelievable that in
(20:54):
this city this type of activity takes place when we're
going to sponsor the look the World Olympics come to
Los Angeles and be a victim. What we've seen happening
last night was looting, stores, broken into vandalism, graffiti all over,
these taxis that were burned. It just it doesn't stop.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
And now the both the governor and Mayor Karen Bass said,
we have no need for the Feds. We've got this
under control. How do you react to that.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Well, it was not under control. Clearly. Let me tell
the numbers, right. LAPD has eight seven hundred and forty
six officers. That's from the recruiting the academy to the
chief of Police eighty seven forty six and in twenty
nineteen we had ten thousand and seventy two officers. Wow,
and when we're talking about eighty seven forty six, that
includes every recruit, that includes the command staff, that includes detectives,
(21:48):
that includes the people in the helicopter, that includes everyone.
Eighty seven forty six. We're a city this size, it's ridiculous.
And we don't have a majority of the council supporting
law and order in the City of Los Angeles, and
we have a mayor has to waffle back and forth
to appease those that don't want to support the LAPD.
And I feel bad for the taxpayers because they're not
getting the service they deserving, their paying for in the
(22:09):
City of the Angels. And I will tell you the
Angels have left Los Angeles. They have flown west. They're
out of Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
So help me understand what should happen. If you've got
a mob that is acting like this, do you shoot people?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I mean, how do you stop it?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
You don't use deadly force. You don't use deadily force.
That's the last resort. But what you do is you
enforce the law. You start corralling them, bringing to the
buss arrest them, take them down, book them, put them
in the criminal justice system. Let the courts deal with it.
They didn't do that. What they're doing is they're like
they're sweeping them. They're sweeping them this way and that
way through downtown. Then they go onto the freeway, they
(22:50):
take over the Harbor Freeway, and then they're assaulting the
CHP They're destroying their cars. It's outrageous to see in
the City of the Angels that this type of bacteriy
would take place in this day of history. It's absolutely unimaginable.
And then the political officials, the governor wants to challenge
the president, the president wants to assert his authority. Someone's
(23:10):
going to be responsible. Pointing the finger back and forth
is not solving the problem. We need to have law
enforcement do their job in a professional matter. LA City.
The state of California has an immigration policy. We don't
enforce immigration laws period. It's in the law in California.
We don't enforce it. LAPD. You can be arrested for murder, robbery, rape,
if you're here illegally, that doesn't count. They only enforce
(23:32):
the criminal codes, not in immigration. Yet they're coming out
condemning about this immigration issue. It's a federal issue. It's
not a local issue, it's not a state issue. But
when you have the politicians can't seem to get along,
we have this controversy that takes place. Now we have
what happens now in Los Angeles, in downtown LA, which
is a metropolitan area, a lot of businesses, a lot
(23:54):
of activities. This is it's almost comical. You could write
a comedy how terrible politicians going to act and lead
and discover what we end up with the tragedies that
have occurred. And now we're expecting more prost tests today.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
And Honnest Snein is a retired LAPD sergeant, former LA
City Council and tennis And it is my opinion that
the pros, the antifatypes, the black flag types, they are
flocking to Los Angeles now because they want to go
wherever there is protest, wherever there is you know, legitimate
unhappiness or whatever, and harness that energy to their goals.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
How familiar are you with what they do and how
they do it?
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Well, I know what their tactics are. What they do
is they bring it together and they continue this challenge.
They want to continue this as long as they can.
I mean they're in the headlines. We're national news, Los
Angus national news. We're not national news about having the
Olympics and all these world affairs, the Academy Awards. No,
we're in the news because we've got chaos taking place.
(24:54):
We've got people taking over free we've got people assaulting
police offic we've got officers hurt. Howard patrol officers, LAPD off.
We brought in mutual aid, the sriffs Department, the National Guard.
I mean, clearly LAPD does not have the resources to
maintain control of the city of Los Angers. When we
have this type of situation take place, they still have
calls for service. People call nine one one, Well where's
the police officers, Well, they're down in a demonstration. We
(25:16):
don't can't respond to your call. This is outrageous conduct.
So the police is your civilian police department that handles
crime and handles the situations that they can handle. They're
not geared for this type of demonstration activity. They're trained
for it, but this isn't an everyday occurrence, and sadly,
it diverts all these resources, especially on a Sunday. Sunday
is a low deployment day. Your detectives are off, your
(25:39):
undercover officers are off. You have your uniform forces, and
now they have to muster them throughout the city of
Los Angers to go down there and protect downtown Los Angers.
And I saw, I said many times, we're the buses
where we arrest these people who commit these crimes and
put them in the criminal justice system, take them to
county jail and book them. No one was getting arrested.
I mean a token number got arrested, but they didn't
(25:59):
make them men arrests as they used to quill the situation.
As it continues day after day after day, it just
gets worse and more property damage and then more of
a headline. Los Angeles can't manage itself.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Dennis zign Report, retired LAPD and LA City Councilman, Dennis,
great stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
We look forward to staying in touch. Well done. Good
to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Know.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I might be talking to you tomorrow. I hadn't even
thought about that. I mean, that's obviously true whenever you
have a situation like this, but you got every single
cop devoted to this story.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Los Angeles is a big city full of crime. Ain't
nobody around anything else. Oh my god, that is rough.
I want to hear it again, Play ABC seven again.
So and you need to see the visual. The visual
is cars on fire, smoking the air, chunks a cement
on the pavement, being thrown at cops.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
And this is what the host says.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Large group of people. It could turn very volatile if
you move law enforcement in there and the wrong way
and turn what is just a bunch of people having
fun watching carsburn into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Surely and demonstrated, surely he wishes he had that one back.
Surely he wishes he had that one back that he
didn't say it could turn volatile. You have people just
having fun watching cars on fire. Right, it's not quite
to the level of the cheesecake factory being looted. There
goes someone with a cheesecake, not sure where they got that.
(27:26):
I mean, it has it didn't quite reach that level,
but it's awfully bad.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
So let me read this from Mark Calpern and his
news today about his newsletter today about the mainstream media
coverage of this. We keep saying this is like eighty
twenty ninety ten is an issue in this country.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I think it is.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Even in Los Angeles in California, but that ten or
twenty who were on the side of the mayhem are
all in the media. Mark Alprin wrote again, this is
complicated stuff, but the Democrats and the dominant media are
on the wrong side of the substance and the politics
of all this. Agreed, there's no way to know how
(28:08):
this will end, including on the streets, but we already
know that history is in the process of repeating itself,
and not in the way Blue America seems to think.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
No, it's going to repeat itself. And as you get
you know, JD.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Vance as the next president or a Republican Congress or something.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Bill Crystal, for instance, Conservative my whole life, still calls
himself a conservative. You know, went anti Trump and lost
his mind, tweeted out.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Mass deportation is the excuse and trigger for authoritarianism, as
it was always intended to be. So this is all
just a plan by Trump to be an authoritarian. So
Trump called Biden and said, throw the borders open in
a way that's never been done and just let in
millions and millions of people, be they gang members, hardworking,
(28:57):
honest folk, or anything in between. Child will less, just
anybody from anywhere on earth.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Let him in, and then when I get into office,
all to poor hum. Yeah, good theory. Bill, he has
lost his mind.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Well, what are you supposed to do if the previous
administration allowed the biggest migration in human history, what are
you supposed to do? Well, I guess there's nothing we
can do about it, because that'd be mass deportation. Well right,
you know, as I've been putting out, if you let
a problem go this long, the solution is going to
be painful.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
And that happens in life, in politics and business and
all kinds of things. If you let something get ugly
enough when you go to fix it, it's gonna be
an unfortunate situation.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Oh yeah, this is not We overspent one or we
ran a credit card up to a limit. We maxed
out all our credit cards, and we've been embezzling from
our boss. We don't smoke a little pot on the weekend.
We're a full blown drug addict. We in fact, we're
selling now. We have gone so far down the road
of lawlessness on immigration, the untangling of it is going
(30:02):
to be painful. Looking for the painless solution, it doesn't exist. Friends,
And as we were discussing earlier, having observed this in
Seattle and Portland and in La at times. In Minneapolis,
the Blue leadership Gaven Newsom, Karen Bass and the LA
(30:23):
City Council and their ilk they think they can passive
their way out of this. Here's the problem again. It's
gone beyond the people who think immigration policy ought to
be somewhat different, to hell with America, I'm a Mexican crowd.
And then from them to the professionals as I keep
(30:44):
bringing up the professional Marxist agitators, the black flag, the Antifa,
the masked people. By the way, the laws is no
demonstrating masked. Can we in many many states? Can we
start enforcing that? For the love of God. But anyway,
you might be able to just diffuse and wait and
be passive and the people, the legitimate folks who are
(31:07):
kind of pissed off. That will work in many cases,
just keep them from doing too much damage.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
It goes away. But now the pros are involved. Folks.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
You on one hundred and twelve nights in a row
or whatever that number was, that on holy number in
Portland where they're attacking the federal courthouse night after night
after night. That is the result if you don't wait
in there and start enforcing the law.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Trust me on this.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
People to night after night, people in masks waving Mexican flags,
setting things on fire. I know how that's going to
play politically, even in California.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Right. I don't know when we'll get to it.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
But did you see Simone Biles Gold medal gymnasts and
Riley Gaines get into it over the weekend, over the
whole trans thing. I did not, And that was something
I have to get to. That headline that Simone Biles
ended her career. I didn't know what it meant.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Oh politically like you like, yeah, she is.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Like a pitch woman and spokeswoman. She ain't gonna make
more money now than she did before.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Anyway. Maybe we'll get to that coming up, among other things.
Stay here.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
Sounds like from your experience, you've see someone actually walking
away with a cheesecake there after the cheesecake factory was looted.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Unclear where they may have gotten that armstrong he yetie.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
It's an update to a story that captivated the internet.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Take a look at this.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
That missing runaway zebra getting airlifted back to his home
in Tennessee. This missing pet was on the loose for
a week, but Ed is now safely back home after
being spotted in a pasture.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Near a highway.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
America can breathe again. Jack Ed the Zebra is home.
Pat and Zebra ed full team coverage next hour. So
if you saw this over the weekend, I did mention
on the show last week that this Minnesota girls softball
team had gone made it to the state championship. They
got a dude on her team, a transgender pitcher who's
(33:03):
just dominant, also dominant as a at the plate, so
like you.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Know, probably because he's a guy.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Back to you anyway, So the Minnesota State High School
League posted a photo of the team making it to
the state championship on social media. Riley Gains, the activist
swimmer who swam against Lea Thomas, we know that old story.
Riley Gains, the activist on the side of sanity, said,
notice that the comments had been turned off on the
(33:32):
posting of the Minnesota State high school softball.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Team, probably because there's a dude on the team.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Back to you, and she said, to be expected when
your star player is a boy. Simone Biles, seven time
Olympic gold medalist, saw the post and told Gains she
was truly sick all of this campaigning just because you
lost a race, straight up sore loser. Biles wrote to Gaines,
who competed against a transgender there's a trans swimmer, Leah
(34:01):
Thomas and twenty man, a giant man who.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Could swim really fast. Yeah someone.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Biles goes on to say, you should be uplifting the
trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive,
or creating a new avenue where trans feels safe in
all sports. Maybe a transgender category category in all sports.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
What did that?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
But instead you get.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Them out of women's sports, simone, But instead you bully them.
One thing's for sure, No one in sports is safe
with you around.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
In another post, Bile said, bully someone your own size,
which ironically would be a male. I guess saying Riley
Gaines is big. She's big compared to someone Biles who's like,
could fit in my pocket your ears. A tall woman
shot Riley games because somebody's really really good at flipping
and jumping intowist and she's miraculously good. It doesn't mean
(34:51):
she has, you know, any wisdom. Riley Gaines responded with
this is actually so disappointing. It's not my job or
the job of any woman to figure out how to
includ lude men in our spaces. You can uplift men
stealing championships and women's sports with your platform. Men don't
be long in women's sports. And I say that with
a full chest. My take is the least controversial take
(35:12):
on the planet. Simone Bios being a male apologist at
the expense of young girls dreams, did not.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Have that on my bingo card. She said, Yeah, that's insane.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You're just straight up jealous because you lost a race,
Yeah to a six foot four inch man with a
penis and text testicles calling himself a woman.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Good final statement from Riley Gaines. Maybe she should compete
in the pommel horse and rings in twenty twenty eight.
Those are gymnastic sports they don't have for women because
they don't have the same upper body strength where you
could really do it. Pointing out that there's a physical
difference between men and women, and yeah, that's.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
That is a beautiful example of how ideology Trump's intelligence
at Trump's common sense. It leads people to say and
think perverse things that are utterly unsupportable.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
How is disappointing. How long on the rings could you
hold your arms straight out with your body in the middle.
How long you suppose you could.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Do that, It would not be measurable by current scientific methods.
A fraction of a fraction of a second.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
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