LISTEN:  John and Ken Update Audience

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KFI AM 640
John and Ken
Monday, October 17, 2011
3:08pm–3:13pm

We told you last week that periodically we were going to update you on the efforts of these activist groups who want to censor us and censor you, especially when it comes to the illegal alien issue.  And a couple of matters have popped up that we wanted to address.  First is, we’re getting emails from people who have read somewhere that advertiser X or advertiser Y is not advertising on the show…And advertiser Z…And a couple of those advertisers haven’t been advertising on the show for many years for whatever reason they have.  I mean, advertising budgets come and go.  So, some of that’s been overblown.  Some of you have sent us emails wanting to boycott the advertisers that you think have dropped their advertising…Here’s a sample.  “Dear John and Ken, I support your right to freedom of speech.  I tried to email the company to express my concern but they now have a policy in place of not having an email address to send a letter.  I got to talk to a real-live human being to dictate my message to the upper echelons of this company, and hopefully it will go through the proper channels.  But there - this is too important of an issue to allow the voices of reason, like John and Ken, against illegal aliens to be silenced.  I support your right to freedom of speech and my right to freedom of speech, so it’s time to put my money where my mouth is.  I dropped company X.  We’re in big trouble if you two are silenced.”   But part of the speech we made the other day was that we really don’t believe in economic boycotts.  And if you’ve listened to the show over the years, have we ever been involved in one?   I can’t think of one…No.  We usually laugh at them…Right…We usually get the “Let’s boycott Shell”…Oh, Gas stations, right…over the gas prices…that is the biggest one…So we understand the sentiment, and we appreciate your support.  But, you don’t have to drop the businesses who advertise here or have advertised here.  Don’t believe everything you read in the headlines.  Let’s keep our policy consistent.  We’ve never called to have any listeners boycott any business for any reason…Not even Arizona would we boycott…No.  Not, not even Arizona.  We’ve been pretty clear on this.  So, you don’t have to do it.  Nobody should be doing it.  And, we really don’t believe in boycotting anybody to censor their freedom of speech.  That’s just flat out wrong, and I think, for obvious reasons.  Now, as far as Jorge Mario Cabrera…Who’s that?...He’s the Communications Director with CHIRLA who got hundreds of calls and claimed that a couple of them were offensive.  We wanted to let him know, we’ve been trying to contact him and tell him in person.  Because we have made it clear, because we’ll be giving out phone numbers again along the way.  We don’t want, we’ve made it clear in the past, don’t get abusive.  Don’t be hateful, don’t threaten violence.  We’ve said be strong and aggressive with your opinions on the issue.  But you don’t have to lapse into absurdity.  And it’s kind of silly because we’ve got a million-two listeners, and if you have a million-two listeners there’s always gonna be a guy, or two guys, or five guys, who go crazy.  But, we have been trying to tell Jorge that we here at the John and Ken show, we apologize for the hateful or any illegal calls that he received.  We’ve tried to contact him in person.  In fact, I called him last week, got his voicemail.  He hasn’t called back.  Various people at the station have called him, emailed him, a number of times.  A representative from the station even drove over to talk to him.  But he’s not there, he’s not answering the phone, we don’t know where he is, there’s no response back.  But one day we hope to meet with him and talk with him about what happened.  You know…It made me do a double take…What?...Illegal calls…whatever he is claiming they are…I don’t know what that means…It was a public number that he put on a public press release…Oh, alright…I don’t know.  He, they’re making claims.  The claims aren’t true.  They’re getting repeated in various newspaper articles and blogs.  It was a public number he put on a public press release.  OK?  It’s shocking the way the story is covered by some people because they get the base information just flat out wrong.  It’s just absolutely wrong.  But stuff just gets printed over and over again.  So, anyway, that’s where we are on that.  You don’t have to boycott anybody.  And if Jorge Mario Cabrera wants to call us back we’ll happy to talk to him…You’ll hug him…Well, we don’t have to go that far, but I’ll talk with him…Oh, alright…You can hug him. We’re gonna talk about the Seal Beach shooting.  Of course, you’ve probably heard that the police have released all the 911 calls that were made on that day, last Wednesday, when Scott Dekraai entered the beauty salon, Salon Meritage, and opened fire.  The Associated Press did quite a story on his background.  Some stuff in here that’s really eye opening.  We’re gonna get to that when we come back.  We’ll probably play some of those 911 call excerpts too.  It’s all coming up….John and Ken Show.  KFI AM 640, More Stimulating Talk Radio.

*Transcript edited slightly for clarity.