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John is the day off.

I was just looking at one of the big headline stories today is that Joe Biden is going

to San Francisco.

They got a big conference out there called APEC, Asian Pacific Economic.

The president of China is going to be there. So they're going to have some sort of a meeting.

They should do it in the tenderloin where all the zombie drug addicts are. Wouldn't that be a cool visual?

Biden and what's going on here? And the Chinese president, this is what the U.S. is about.

Anyway, oh, it's a good story. Maybe we'll play it later on Monday that Newsom and the mayor of San Francisco are planting trees to beautify San Francisco. Head of this big conference. I don't think the trees are going to grow fast enough. All right, it's three o'clock hour on a Friday. One thing is going to happen is the final key word on our show is coming up here in cash. There'll be more on Tim's show. After four, we have two rounds of the moist line. We have a hack to throw in the dumpster. But we begin with this story about retail theft. The sheriff of Sacramento County has taken to social media to say Target and Walgreens,

we were trying to team up with them to crack down on retail theft in their stores,

and it's just not going well.

We'll find out more from Alex Stone, what the complaints are.

Alex, welcome back to the show.

Hey, there, Ken.

Yeah, this I think is the first law enforcement leader to say that it's a retail industry

that doesn't actually want to stop the retail theft that's going on.

The messaging has always been that the retailers are cracking down and doing what they can,

but they can't.

They don't have the authority authority to have security guards actually arrest

or make contact with anybody so i mean this is a big issue everywhere whether it be la or or san

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