The Glenn Beck Program - June 11, 2025


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Chad Bianco & Tony Moon ｜ 6⧸11⧸25


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On today's show, Glenn and Stu talk about the massive protests in Los Angeles and the police response to them. They also discuss the similarities and differences between the riots of the 1980s and the current protests in the streets of Los Angeles. Glenn also talks about the new California Governor Gavin Newsom and his declaration of war on the First Amendment.

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00:00:30.000 So who's really behind the protest in the Los Angeles and American cities?
00:00:34.560 Who's behind that?
00:00:35.740 Sheriff of Riverside County, California, going to show us, give you the real truth behind the so-called grassroots uprising.
00:00:41.640 Also had a pretty major announcement on today's podcast you need to hear.
00:00:45.360 And is there a difference between the 1982 riots in L.A. and today's unrest?
00:00:50.380 One of the original rooftop Koreans, Tony Moon, is going to tell you what the biggest difference is between the two riots.
00:00:57.040 All on today's podcast.
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00:02:04.980 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:02:09.620 Well, hello, Stu. Welcome to the program. We're glad you're here.
00:02:12.580 Glenn, a mostly peaceful good morning to you.
00:02:14.820 A mostly peaceful good morning to you, too.
00:02:18.580 That is great.
00:02:20.460 I feel somewhat insecure now, but it was mostly peaceful, your greeting.
00:02:29.240 Also, I want to say hi to Jason Buttrell, who is up at the ranch this week,
00:02:33.080 because we've been working on some stuff, including everything that is going on in Los Angeles,
00:02:38.980 what's coming on Saturday.
00:02:40.460 I mean, just wait.
00:02:41.820 I think we had kind of the closest we'll get to a declaration of war from Gavin Newsom yesterday.
00:02:49.840 I want you to play the Gavin Newsom, what he looked into the camera and had the balls to say yesterday.
00:02:56.580 Listen to this.
00:02:57.140 He's declared a war, a war on culture, on history, on science, on knowledge itself.
00:03:03.460 Databases, quite literally, are vanishing.
00:03:06.160 He's delegitimizing news organizations, and he's assaulting the First Amendment and the threat of defunding them.
00:03:12.900 Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
00:03:14.700 I just, I...
00:03:16.900 Is he talking about George Soros?
00:03:20.400 Is he talking about the professors in our universities?
00:03:24.580 Is he talking about the entire Democratic Party?
00:03:26.620 No, he's just talking about Donald Trump.
00:03:28.160 It is remarkable to me how he says this is an attack on science, on truth, on our history, how he's delegitimizing that.
00:03:40.360 I mean, are you kidding me?
00:03:43.200 But wait, there's more.
00:03:46.400 At threat, he's dictating what universities themselves can teach.
00:03:51.060 He's targeting...
00:03:52.040 Stop! 1.00
00:03:54.380 Stop! 1.00
00:03:55.780 Donald Trump is now dictating what universities can teach.
00:04:02.080 Well, yeah, because you got rid of all questioning of everything.
00:04:08.260 I mean, I don't have a problem.
00:04:09.360 You want to teach that there's 800 different, you know, sexuality or whatever, you know, genders?
00:04:19.400 You want to teach that?
00:04:21.540 Fine.
00:04:22.440 But don't tell me that's all I can teach.
00:04:25.220 Don't tell me that I have to sit there and take it.
00:04:28.340 No.
00:04:28.840 You know, please, Gavin.
00:04:31.000 But I digress.
00:04:32.200 This isn't even the part I wanted you to hear.
00:04:33.960 Go ahead.
00:04:34.440 More.
00:04:35.380 The judicial branch that are the foundations of an orderly and civil society.
00:04:39.100 Going after the judicial branch.
00:04:40.540 He's calling for a sitting governor to be arrested for no other reason than to...
00:04:44.480 I mean, okay.
00:04:44.900 Can we stop?
00:04:46.020 Stop.
00:04:46.240 I'm sorry.
00:04:46.860 I can't...
00:04:47.700 We're never going to get to the important part, but go ahead.
00:04:49.500 It's impossible to let that slide.
00:04:51.600 Yeah, go ahead.
00:04:52.720 He just spent four years trying to put the person he's talking about in prison.
00:05:00.380 Yeah.
00:05:00.720 Yeah.
00:05:01.040 And they're just shocked that any political figure would consider putting one of his political
00:05:09.040 opponents in jail.
00:05:10.280 Well, how...
00:05:11.760 They're considering arresting me!
00:05:14.640 Yes, the governor of the state!
00:05:17.240 Not the guy who's actually currently president of the United States.
00:05:21.080 I mean, it's absolutely...
00:05:22.840 It's as if...
00:05:23.980 It's bonkers.
00:05:24.920 Yeah, it's bonkers.
00:05:25.900 It's as if they believe we forget every day the next day.
00:05:32.080 Like, we're in an Adam Sandler movie or something.
00:05:35.840 That's not how this works.
00:05:38.120 Let me just say this to you.
00:05:39.940 To all of the Democrats who are currently scheming and planning all these things and writing
00:05:45.920 these speeches, the American public is not Dory.
00:05:52.080 Yes!
00:05:52.800 And he says, we're not Dory.
00:05:54.800 We remember what you did yesterday and what you did just a few minutes ago.
00:06:00.600 We remember those things.
00:06:02.500 By the way, he goes on to say, and they want to put me, just because I was elected.
00:06:11.440 Okay.
00:06:12.220 All right.
00:06:12.760 Let's move on.
00:06:13.440 What else?
00:06:14.800 For getting elected.
00:06:15.980 And we all know this Saturday.
00:06:18.480 He's ordering our American heroes, the United States military, and forcing them to put on
00:06:24.180 a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday.
00:06:28.000 Just as other...
00:06:29.460 What?
00:06:30.540 Stop! 1.00
00:06:31.700 Oh, my.
00:06:33.440 I can't take it.
00:06:34.240 Okay.
00:06:34.460 So there's a military parade in Washington, D.C.
00:06:37.200 Donald Trump has always loved these military parades.
00:06:39.660 He's never done a military parade.
00:06:41.300 You know why he's doing it this year?
00:06:42.580 Because it's the military of the United States government, it is the 250th birthday.
00:06:50.740 He's not putting it on for his birthday.
00:06:53.740 It just happens to fall on the same day as his birthday.
00:06:57.220 He's putting the military parade on to celebrate the 250th birthday of the military.
00:07:06.600 I mean, how stupid do you have to be?
00:07:11.520 Well, you have to be dumb enough to live in California to believe this guy.
00:07:15.240 I mean, but anyway, I digress.
00:07:17.780 That wasn't even the point either.
00:07:19.620 He's getting to the point.
00:07:20.860 Listen.
00:07:21.480 Failed dictators have done in the past.
00:07:23.900 Democracy is next.
00:07:26.120 Democracy is under assault before our eyes.
00:07:29.400 This moment we have feared has arrived.
00:07:32.860 That's it.
00:07:33.500 That's the line I want you to hear.
00:07:36.060 The moment democracy is under attack.
00:07:39.160 The moment we have feared has arrived.
00:07:43.840 So everything that they have been building up, that Donald Trump is a dictator, that Donald Trump is going to take over, that Donald Trump is going to take away everybody's rights, that Donald Trump is going to use the military to put people and have them disappeared in the streets, that he's a failed dictator.
00:07:58.720 All of this stuff, everything they've been planting, he's just announced, has arrived.
00:08:06.800 Now, if that moment has arrived, what are you supposed to do about it?
00:08:14.700 This is the biggest problem with my job, because I'm telling you, this moment has arrived.
00:08:23.180 So what am I telling you to do?
00:08:25.280 To educate yourself on the Constitution, on civics.
00:08:29.500 Know what you're supposed to do.
00:08:31.280 Read.
00:08:32.200 Double your effort on trying to find the truth.
00:08:35.120 Don't believe everything you see on TV or on the Internet, either from the left or the right.
00:08:41.240 Do your own homework.
00:08:42.500 I'm trying to make you independent.
00:08:45.580 Make sure that you are not dependent on any system, that you're dependent on yourself, and you're ready to serve others.
00:08:54.960 What are they saying?
00:08:57.380 Well, we know Hamas yesterday came out and said, it's time there is no red line for any Muslim in America.
00:09:05.640 It's time to assassinate all those who like Israel, help Israel, will stand with Israel. 0.99
00:09:11.620 Kill anybody in the family of Donald Trump, anybody in the family of our vice president, to kill anyone in his cabinet and their family, anyone in Congress and their family.
00:09:25.460 And there is no red line.
00:09:27.020 Well, so we know that.
00:09:28.040 Of course, I haven't heard Gavin Newsom.
00:09:29.980 I mean, they're all in bed with all of these people.
00:09:33.280 I mean, this is an Islamist, communist movement.
00:09:37.640 They're in bed with them.
00:09:38.940 Have you heard anybody come out and denounce that?
00:09:41.840 Nope.
00:09:43.880 What are they saying?
00:09:45.200 Get to the streets?
00:09:47.020 Because they may not be saying that to you, but they are saying it behind closed doors.
00:09:51.940 And we're going to show you tonight on TV, my Wednesday night special.
00:09:55.680 Jason and I have been working on this all week to try to get enough of this ready for you, to show you all the connections.
00:10:02.360 This is very well orchestrated.
00:10:04.260 We can show you who is funding it.
00:10:06.040 We can show you where it's coming from, who's running it.
00:10:09.300 It is disappointing to me that we don't have the administration working as loudly as they should be.
00:10:16.740 I know that, I think it was Kash Patel came out and said they are going after the funders.
00:10:21.880 But this is the only message that we should be giving people, is don't believe any of this.
00:10:28.340 This is not grassroots.
00:10:30.740 This isn't just spontaneous.
00:10:32.440 This has been planned for a very long time.
00:10:34.660 This is part of the color revolution.
00:10:38.500 And in case you don't know, the color revolution is something that we have planted as a CIA. 0.76
00:10:43.980 We do color revolutions all over the world.
00:10:46.940 We topple governments all over the world.
00:10:48.860 We've done it forever.
00:10:49.900 And it's a very specific plan.
00:10:52.400 It's called color revolution.
00:10:53.960 We know how it's done.
00:10:55.480 And I've been telling you for the last four years, five years, that a color revolution is happening to us. 0.52
00:11:01.060 And I showed you all of the evidence.
00:11:03.080 I showed you the names of the people.
00:11:04.700 I showed you how they were connected.
00:11:06.300 I showed you USAID.
00:11:07.940 I showed you everything before anybody was talking about it.
00:11:10.960 And showed you that this is a color revolution and it is coming here to America. 0.93
00:11:15.580 Now, thank God, there are many people online now that have just as good information that I have.
00:11:24.000 And they are starting to find it themselves and show it themselves.
00:11:28.000 Some of them with personal experience in some of these agencies.
00:11:31.280 And those are the voices that you need to listen to.
00:11:34.380 The ones who are telling you and showing you with facts, not just little speeches, but showing you with facts exactly what's going on.
00:11:43.020 Now, who do you not listen to?
00:11:45.560 Well, you don't listen to people like Nancy Pelosi. 0.99
00:11:47.760 Remember, we have Nancy Pelosi on tape, filmed by her own daughter on January 6th, saying, this is my fault.
00:11:59.900 I should have allowed the National Guard in.
00:12:03.360 They warned us.
00:12:04.740 The president, we know as a fact, called multiple times, many days in advance and said, look, January 6th is going to be a tough day.
00:12:14.240 I have the National Guard standing by.
00:12:17.280 Just do you want it?
00:12:18.820 And Nancy Pelosi in her office said no over and over and over again.
00:12:22.500 So what does she say?
00:12:24.480 When was this?
00:12:25.480 What's the date today?
00:12:26.540 Is today the 11th?
00:12:28.660 Yes.
00:12:28.920 She just said this.
00:12:29.800 She just said this yesterday.
00:12:31.600 Listen to this.
00:12:32.680 In a bipartisan way.
00:12:34.960 On January 6th.
00:12:37.260 With violence against the Constitution, against the Congress and against the United States Capitol.
00:12:43.040 We begged the president of the United States to send in the National Guard.
00:12:49.620 Stop.
00:12:51.080 Not true.
00:12:52.980 In any way, shape, or form.
00:12:55.340 This is not a half-truth.
00:12:57.260 This is a bald-faced lie.
00:13:00.740 Not true in any way, shape, or form.
00:13:04.300 She did not beg on January 6th.
00:13:07.040 Instead, the White House was begging them.
00:13:10.560 They are ready.
00:13:11.520 They are waiting.
00:13:13.440 They can be there.
00:13:15.400 No, no, no.
00:13:17.200 Days before and on January 6th.
00:13:19.900 Go ahead.
00:13:21.480 He would not do it.
00:13:23.520 Not only would he not do it, when law enforcement, people who were being harmed, some later died,
00:13:31.100 he would not send in.
00:13:32.740 From unrelated injuries.
00:13:33.980 When his, an instigation that he, an insurrection that he incited, was causing damage to those assigned to protect the Capitol.
00:13:44.400 Stop.
00:13:45.020 Why wouldn't they charge?
00:13:45.840 If he incited an insurrection, he clearly cannot be president of the United States.
00:13:50.880 If you had that evidence, why didn't you charge him with that?
00:13:56.040 Because you have no evidence, because that is not true.
00:14:01.160 You have to then present to a court, okay, this is what he said about the National Guard.
00:14:07.440 He was trying to send the National Guard.
00:14:09.760 He was, his people were calling during the insurrection saying, please, do you want the National Guard?
00:14:16.720 And nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
00:14:19.580 Okay.
00:14:19.880 So, that's why you don't charge him with insurrection, because it's not true.
00:14:25.680 But, they can say anything.
00:14:28.300 They can say anything.
00:14:29.460 And the media laps it up.
00:14:31.580 Good thing is, media is not that important.
00:14:33.680 By the way, I have an announcement coming up in just a little while, at the top of the second hour, in just a few minutes, on the media and where they are.
00:14:44.300 And gosh darn it, it couldn't have happened to a nicer group of people.
00:14:47.280 But, as they are, as they are lying to you, and feeding you the Gavin Newsom thing, feeding you, now yesterday, the Nancy Pelosi thing, where she says, and now, just like any dictator, California doesn't need it, and he's sending in the National Guard.
00:15:06.120 It's fascinating how these people just think they can get away.
00:15:10.600 We're not Dory.
00:15:11.460 Again, we're not Dory.
00:15:13.300 I remember, okay?
00:15:15.360 It's not a coincidence.
00:15:18.680 I think it's 225 or 255 times in the Bible, the Lord uses the word, remember.
00:15:25.980 Okay?
00:15:26.760 Whenever he says something once or twice, you should pay attention to it.
00:15:30.220 When he says it 225 times, remember, it's probably important.
00:15:36.680 That is our biggest problem.
00:15:39.540 We don't remember.
00:15:42.380 That is the biggest thing you can do.
00:15:44.620 You want to stop all this chaos?
00:15:46.160 You want to stop this nonsense?
00:15:48.300 Remember.
00:15:49.780 Remember, it's the 250th anniversary of the military on Saturday.
00:15:56.000 Remember that it also happens to be Donald Trump's birthday.
00:15:59.580 So, when they say he's doing it on his birthday, they're not lying, but they are leaving out the truth that it is the 250th birthday.
00:16:08.220 So, this is a celebration.
00:16:10.180 A 250th anniversary.
00:16:13.760 What is coming up next year?
00:16:17.040 Our 250th year anniversary.
00:16:19.880 Anybody remember the bicentennial, 1976?
00:16:22.700 It was everywhere.
00:16:23.700 Everything we did for a year was to celebrate the 200th anniversary.
00:16:28.120 This is now the 250th anniversary.
00:16:30.900 And so, this is a 250th anniversary parade.
00:16:37.880 You have to be informed with the facts.
00:16:41.720 You have to remember it.
00:16:43.660 And you have to hold people responsible for it.
00:16:45.860 Back in just a second.
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00:18:05.780 From 1992, I believe this is the NBC report on the 92 riots in L.A.
00:18:13.540 Listen.
00:18:13.840 March 16th, 1991.
00:18:16.440 Latasha Harlins, a black teenager, is shot and killed by a Korean store owner, Soonja Doo.
00:18:23.540 Doo is convicted of voluntary manslaughter, but is sentenced only to parole in a small fine.
00:18:29.100 The black community is outraged and remembers.
00:18:31.840 Today, local Korean radio is broadcasting which stores in the area are threatened.
00:18:45.400 Young men like Eddie Kim rush over to try to defend them.
00:18:48.280 I don't care about the racism, I don't care about anything, but it's not right, okay?
00:18:51.740 It's not right to break inside and get any stuff, you know?
00:18:55.060 It's not right.
00:18:55.560 I don't think it's right.
00:18:56.700 He Lee spent last night and will spend tonight guarding his appliance store.
00:19:01.260 A small battalion of employees and relatives will try to help.
00:19:04.520 I only have one shotgun.
00:19:06.200 That's all I have.
00:19:08.760 What do they have?
00:19:10.620 They have hundreds of courageous people, hundreds of courageous young people with lots of guns.
00:19:16.200 After the destruction, many Koreans have lost all faith that the authorities can protect them.
00:19:22.440 We have one of those Koreans that were protecting people, Tony Moon, a rooftop Korean from 1992. 0.57
00:19:30.000 Welcome, Tony.
00:19:30.640 How are you?
00:19:31.780 I'm doing well, Glenn.
00:19:33.140 Thank you for having me on the show.
00:19:34.420 It's a pleasure.
00:19:34.840 I've got to tell you, what an honor to have you on.
00:19:38.240 Can you take us through the experience that you had in the 1992 L.A. riots?
00:19:43.660 Of course.
00:19:44.860 I was 19 at the time, and I was fairly similar, a little familiar with LaTosha Hawkins' verdict,
00:19:54.100 but being 19, I wasn't really plugged into politics or current events.
00:19:58.400 And then when things blew up after the Rodney King verdict, it came down on a Wednesday is when we saw the outrage from the black community.
00:20:07.720 And that's what it was in 1992.
00:20:09.740 It was basically a community that had legitimate reasons to be upset.
00:20:14.580 And there was a rift between the black community and the Korean community because the Korean community actually went into these black areas that were predominantly black and open businesses there.
00:20:25.960 And we're doing business in the community.
00:20:27.280 And because of the cultural differences between the two, there was a lot of, I guess you can say, built-up animosity towards each other.
00:20:36.320 And that's where, I guess, that's the riots.
00:20:40.940 A lot of the pensive frustration was targeting Korean business owners because of that.
00:20:45.840 And it went on from Wednesday through the weekend until the National Guard showed up.
00:20:51.040 But we were fending for ourselves by Thursday.
00:20:55.360 And the call went out on Thursday.
00:20:57.340 And once it went out is when many of us answered the call.
00:21:00.360 A lot of the misconception that online is that it was just Korean shop owners, which isn't true.
00:21:05.720 There were a lot of young men like myself, 19, 20, 22-year-olds that went out there.
00:21:11.740 And that's kind of what I'm writing in my book right now from that perspective, growing up in Los Angeles at that time and what the culture was like and who some of these young men were.
00:21:22.400 One of them being Eddie Lee, who gave his life that week for the community.
00:21:28.920 And, unfortunately, it was, you know, through friendly fire.
00:21:33.500 And I detail that in my book regarding why that happened and who some of these, you know, young men were like myself and my driver who was out there.
00:21:41.660 And we weren't always, always on, you know, we weren't all on the roof, which is another misconception.
00:21:47.780 Some of us were out there where we were hunting.
00:21:50.460 And I, again, I talk about that.
00:21:52.740 What do you mean by we were hunting?
00:21:53.960 You know, they think, a lot of people think we're just shooting at looters, which is not the case.
00:22:00.680 In 90s L.A., it was very, it's a very gang-rich culture in the 90s.
00:22:06.860 I mean, there were a lot of gangs.
00:22:09.020 One of the largest gangs that came out of L.A. is MS, which is short for Mara Salvatrucha, which is a Salvadorian gang that started in the mid-80s.
00:22:18.880 And a lot of them were shooting at these business owners.
00:22:24.840 And some of us who had a background in the streets knew their territory and knew who they were.
00:22:30.440 So we actually went into some of these areas to basically let them know, put them on notice that it's not just, you know, the older generation that's shooting at them, but we're actually going to be actively hunting them down, too.
00:22:42.620 And L.A. is very layered and complicated.
00:22:44.720 There's a lot of different pockets and neighborhoods where, you know, you have different ethnic groups.
00:22:50.360 And the rule is that you don't go into other people's area and mess around.
00:22:56.080 And you stay in your own neighborhood.
00:22:58.000 You know, you'd be respectful of other people's, you know, different neighborhoods.
00:23:01.120 You don't go there and just start popping off shots.
00:23:04.700 And that's kind of what they were doing.
00:23:06.880 And I'm glad to say that it worked out.
00:23:12.160 In the end, it worked out.
00:23:13.100 Well, I know I lived in New Haven, Connecticut, you know, that has a very rich Italian history.
00:23:18.980 And that was the way it was.
00:23:20.160 You know, the Italians protected their neighborhood and don't come into the Italian neighborhood and try to stir anything up or you'll be in trouble with the Italians.
00:23:26.800 And they won't mess with you and your neighborhood.
00:23:29.400 Just everybody take care of yourself.
00:23:31.420 Yeah.
00:23:31.960 So did you ever feel like a vigilante in any way?
00:23:35.640 Did you feel that maybe this was questionable to take this on yourself?
00:23:41.200 No, not at all.
00:23:43.280 When you have you don't have law enforcement out in the streets anymore.
00:23:47.660 You know, the streets become the Wild West.
00:23:50.980 You know, it's everybody for themselves.
00:23:52.700 It's you become you kind of gain kind of a tribal tribal sense of protecting your own.
00:24:00.560 Right.
00:24:01.000 So it's no longer a sense of vigilantism, but just protecting your own and then making sure that there isn't any encroachment into, I guess you could say, your territory.
00:24:11.140 So I didn't see it as being a vigilante, but just, you know, maintaining law and order, somewhat law and order and some semblance of peace.
00:24:19.880 And that was done through the barrel of, you know, firearm.
00:24:26.840 Compare what you went through, you know, the Rodney King riots, the George Floyd riots and this riot.
00:24:35.440 Is there any difference?
00:24:37.320 Absolutely.
00:24:38.300 Absolutely.
00:24:38.900 The 1992 riots were organic.
00:24:40.620 You had different parts of L.A. County that were upset and you had fires and looting because the black community was spread out through South L.A., Compton, South Central, Ladera Heights, different areas. 0.98
00:24:55.700 And you can actually see that, you know, you know, when you look at the city as a whole from, let's say, Hollywood, you saw the fires from different parts of the city.
00:25:04.860 These riots that are occurring now, like the 2020, what I call the Antifa BLM riots, now the 2025 L.A. riots that are happening down, they're very centralized and they're not organic.
00:25:19.660 They're being funded by NGOs and it's a leftist Marxist agenda that's being pushed to make it appear as if there's a widespread support for this.
00:25:28.940 For example, the current riots that are occurring right now, it's just happening in downtown L.A.
00:25:33.420 And the curfew that was imposed by Mayor Bass is only for, I would, I don't know what off the top of my head, but I think it's a two square mile radius.
00:25:42.240 Yeah, it is.
00:25:43.080 Or one square mile.
00:25:44.120 Yeah, I mean, that's where it is.
00:25:45.260 I mean, anywhere outside of that one square mile, life is proceeding as it always has been and it doesn't look like anything is going on.
00:25:51.880 Whereas the difference in 1992, whether you were in Hollywood, Culver City, which is further out west and then Hollywood is up north past downtown L.A.
00:26:02.100 And obviously south of downtown L.A., you had fires, you know, looting.
00:26:07.180 I mean, it was widespread.
00:26:08.700 This is this isn't anything like, you know, what's going on back in 1992.
00:26:12.200 And it just kind of shows the incompetence of the current leadership of not being able to get their arms around something like this.
00:26:18.940 And they are because of their lack of leadership.
00:26:21.620 And I would say common sense.
00:26:23.020 They're letting these these protesters spiral out of control because many of them, the playbook is for them to start in downtown L.A.
00:26:30.700 at City Hall and then make their way down to the one on one freeway, which really pisses off a lot of people because that's, you know, it's it's it's a it's a highly traveled freeway in L.A.
00:26:42.520 It's a parking lot.
00:26:43.660 You stop me from getting home.
00:26:45.760 I don't care.
00:26:46.880 I don't care if you're free for free candy bars, reindeer and Santa.
00:26:50.680 I hate your guts if you delay me from on that highway.
00:26:54.300 I hate you when I'm driving home.
00:26:56.460 Absolutely.
00:26:57.080 So there's no widespread support for this.
00:26:59.220 OK, so tell me about how the feel what the feeling is on Trump and the National Guard coming in.
00:27:08.300 I think it's awesome.
00:27:09.680 I think this should have been done back in 2020.
00:27:12.880 But obviously, you know, during that time, it was this first administration, you know, first time going through this.
00:27:18.920 But I posted it recently on Twitter that, you know, when you take a shot at a man and you try to assassinate him, he comes back different.
00:27:27.780 You know, and that's what he's showing that it's different.
00:27:30.700 Yeah, yeah, it is.
00:27:32.200 It is Newsom and Bass both say the riots are contained.
00:27:36.480 They didn't need the National Guard, that this is Trump just trying to turn into a dictator, that this is their communities having enough of these people being disappeared on the streets.
00:27:46.560 What do you say?
00:27:47.300 What is the average person that you talk to say about those kinds of things?
00:27:54.640 I would trust the meteorologist more than I would trust Newsom or Bass.
00:27:58.380 They're in the same basket as Pelosi.
00:28:04.440 They lie about what's going on because of social media and because of, you know, the lack of reporting from the local news, which covers for the current leadership in L.A. County, including the mayor and the board of supervisors, the people that are not getting 100% of the news.
00:28:21.020 And this is no different than what happened in early, early this year with the fires, with what was going on and to say it's Altadena.
00:28:29.020 You know, they're not the news in order to get coverage for the local leadership and to get on their good side.
00:28:36.320 They're not going to report anything bad that's happening.
00:28:38.800 But currently there are, I believe, there's a class action lawsuit against the board of supervisors, the mayor.
00:28:44.420 I think there's tons of lawsuits that are being filed right now.
00:28:47.460 And the problem is, is that it's not these individuals that are going to be paying for these.
00:28:51.200 It's the city and the county, which is going to be a drain on the budget.
00:28:54.880 And it's going to affect social, you know, the social services that we need, like paramedics, firefighters, you know.
00:29:00.480 I can't imagine being those guys.
00:29:02.200 Yeah.
00:29:02.400 Let me ask you for any advice you would give to mom and pop business owners that are vulnerable today.
00:29:12.240 A lot of them are in downtown L.A.
00:29:14.980 I would say board up.
00:29:17.540 What I've noticed in 1992, the shops that were spared were the ones that had the steel roll-up doors.
00:29:24.260 Those do well.
00:29:26.140 Otherwise, now lock your doors.
00:29:27.700 And deterrence is really a great way to keep looters out of your store.
00:29:33.360 So you don't necessarily have to take shots at them.
00:29:36.080 But displaying, I outlined it in my Twitter feed.
00:29:40.160 It's pinned to my profile.
00:29:43.280 Deterrence is actually really great because these individuals are looking for low-hanging fruit.
00:29:49.880 So they want their opportunity.
00:29:51.920 So they want to go for the easiest shop or whatever they're going to loot.
00:29:55.780 You know, so if they go move, they see you, you're, you know, let's say you have a shotgun or, you know, an AR, right?
00:30:04.260 And they see that you're armed.
00:30:05.280 They're going to think twice before entering, and they'll move on to the next target.
00:30:09.480 By the way, you can follow Tony Moon at RoofKorean7.
00:30:13.800 That's his Twitter handle, RoofKorean7.
00:30:16.900 When's your book come out?
00:30:18.640 You've got to send me a copy so I can read it in advance because I want to have you back when it's out.
00:30:23.060 Absolutely.
00:30:23.380 You've been most gracious to me.
00:30:26.040 I don't know if you know, but I did an interview with Morgan Zeggers about three years ago in your studio.
00:30:31.140 That's been turned into a museum.
00:30:32.520 I think you have some really great artifacts in there.
00:30:34.880 I do.
00:30:35.740 Thank you.
00:30:37.020 Yeah, thank you.
00:30:37.760 I didn't know that.
00:30:39.300 Yeah.
00:30:40.840 I'm planning to release it.
00:30:42.940 Well, I'm finishing it up by the end of, near the end of this month.
00:30:46.460 My kids are going to read it because the book is tailored towards the next generation, like Gen Alpha, Gen Z, because these are the kids that weren't alive at that time.
00:30:56.180 And they only see what, you know, online social media portrays and then also, you know, what they may hear from the news.
00:31:03.580 So I want to give them an account from being, from a teenage perspective at 19 in terms of what it looked like and how it played out.
00:31:10.960 So my kids are going to read it first.
00:31:12.580 I have some really close friends.
00:31:14.240 Some of them are in my book.
00:31:15.800 They're going to read it too.
00:31:16.880 And once they give their blessing and they're okay with it, I'm going to try to push it out before the end of the summer.
00:31:22.740 That's great.
00:31:23.240 Well, do me a favor.
00:31:24.020 As soon as you're comfortable, send a copy to me so I can read it because I'd like to be ahead on it.
00:31:29.760 But Tony, best of luck.
00:31:31.540 Thank you for coming on with me.
00:31:32.700 I really appreciate it.
00:31:33.920 Thank you, Glenn.
00:31:34.600 Thank you for the time.
00:31:35.500 Really appreciate it.
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