April 13, 2024 • 31 mins
SoCal Round-Up: Southern California to See Water Bills Double. Southern California gas prices continue to climb. Also in SoCal: CHP arrests 4, recovers $300,000 in Legos stolen from Target, other SoCal stores.·L.A. tests program to send unarmed civilians instead of cops to people in crisis. Homelessness in SoCal: California fails to track effectiveness of billions spent on homelessness, audit finds. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announces new partnership to help homeless veterans. Google will reduce some users access to California news sites.
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Los Angeles, Orange County, IE in the Valley Listen is to Wallace
Sharp and you're listening to kf IAM six forty soul Cal Saturday on demand
on the iHeartRadio app. Saturday Saturdayis the Saturday is a Saturday is the
Saturday. Saturday is the Saturday.Saturday is Saturday Holidaydayday. Kf I AM
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six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app in Aqua Dulce, Bassett,
Sierra Madre, and Los Alamitos.This is soul Cal Saturday. And as
if you've been here hearing in theKFI twenty four our newsroom, we are
monitoring the situation in the Middle Eastwherein Iran has launched dozens of drones towards
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Israel. Iran says that it willtarget any country that opens its airspace four
and Israeli attack against Iran. Rightnow, President Biden is meeting with his
security team in the situation room assessingthe situation, and the Israeli military plans
to intercept drones before they reach Israeliskies, that is according to military officials.
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As we continue to get news inwe will continue to update you on
all things happening. Our thoughts andprayers, of course go to all who
are impacted by this attack, andjust the unease and unsurety in the world,
especially there in the Middle East,more locally here in southern California,
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looking around the south Land, andthings you may have missed if you weren't
paying attention because your week was justbusy adulting in all things, just making
making your way through the day.We've been getting just drenched by rain,
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we really really have, and soit's kind of curious to me that with
all this rain we've been getting,we may also see our water bills double
in Southern California, like we werenot watering our lawns more right now,
supposedly the reservoirs in southern California areat their peak, the highest they've been
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in down near a decade or somethingto that effect. But this past week
the Metropolitan Water District District of SouthernCalifornia passed a budget that solidified rate and
property tax increases for its customers overthe next two years. Years of drought
California contributed to the increase, asthe district battles revenue declines following widespread conservation
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efforts related to climate change. Butagain keyword drought. If the raising these
rates as a result of the drought, shouldn't they be going back to the
table to kind of reassess this planand say, Okay, on second thought,
maybe we don't need to raise ourrates as high as we thought.
But I don't know. I guesswe will have to deal with yet another
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increase making the cost of living herein southern California exorbitantly high. That's just
what we've got going on out here. And if that wasn't enough, gas
is going up even more. I'llknow if you have noticed, but I
absolutely have. I drive a lot. I go from Altadena to Granada Hills
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to Van Eys to Chatsworth and thendo all that back again. I'm putting
at least I don't know, thousandmiles a day or something insane on my
car. And it's crazy. It'slike I'm putting in on them maybe maybe
one hundred and fifty dollars a weekin gas just with all the driving that
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I'm doing. So it is withgreat sadness that I have to discuss this
gas price increase. The average priceof a gallon of self serve regular in
La County rows this past week forthe twenty second consecutive day and the twenty
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fifth time in twenty six days,increasing one point five cents to five about
five thirty four, its highest sincearound November one of last year. The
average rice has risen to forty onepoint two cents over the past twenty six
days, including six tenths of acent this past Monday, according to figures
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from Triple A. And again,I absolutely absolutely feel the pinch. I
know that it is happening, andit is it just it literally something has
to be done. And I don'tthink this has to do with you know,
minimum wage increasing in southern California.You know, this is literally just
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inflation caused by I believe, alack of regulation on corporations and businesses and
allowing them to run wild and justreally give it to us at the pump
that this is ridiculous, This couldbe controlled, and this is not a
party issue. This is a corporategreed issue and something needs to be done
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to real that in It absolutely doesbecause we the people, you know,
this is affecting everyone. Doesn't matterif you're having a beat up pinto and
live you know in the urban communityor if you're driving you know, a
high level gas guzzer and you're living, you know, on the West side.
This is affecting us all. Soyou know, something's got to be
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done to real in this corporate greed. And no, it has literally nothing
to do with what is happening inthe Middle East. For anyone who is
already to go there. You're listeningto soul Cal Saturday with Tawala Sharp on
demand from KFI AM six forty KFIAM six forty live everywhere on the iHeart
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Radio app in Venice, Walnut,Orange and Marietta. This is soul Cal
Saturday. I'm your host, TwalaSharp, keeping you updated as best I
can on the situation happening in theMiddle East. We're in. Iran has
launched dozens of drones towards Israel.Iran says that it will target any country
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that opens its airspace four and Israeliattack against Iran. Israeli air defenses are
intercepting some Iranian strikes after Iran launcheda barrage of missiles towards Israel and retaliation
for an Israeli strike on the Iranianconsulate in Damascus earlier. This month,
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and it is an extremely tense situationand that is why we are keeping our
eyes on it here on KFI,So make sure you stay tuned for the
latest as we continue to bring itto you. Salutations and saluting and props
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to the California Highway Patrol, notjust for all that you do to keep
us safe on the highways and byways, pulling over those who would think they
are Dominic Toretto and they are filmingfast ten or whatever, because on my
way in today the freeways were packedwith some of the most insane driving skills
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I have seen, and the roadsare starting to get wet, so please
slow down. But I'm highlighting theCalifornia Highway Patrol for another reason altogether,
because of their arrest of four individualswherein they recovered some three hundred thousand dollars
in legos stolen from Target and otherSoul Cow stores. They announced just this
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past week this major bust of aretail theft ring that stoleed again some three
hundred thousand dollars in lego sets fromsouthern California retailers. The legos were seized
in four people in Los Angeles andOrange County were arrested. According to the
California Highway Patrol, the suspects wereinvolved in stealing the legos from stores like
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Target and Home depot lows and sellingthem to fences or people who purchase product
stolen products and then try to goon and sell them to the public through
legitimate businesses like swap meets or oneBay and things like that. I take
personal offense to all this smashing andgrabbing and all these individuals because my storage
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unit was smashed and grabbed, andI will always always hope for the worst
for anyone who is practicing this levelof thievery. Shame on you. Something
else though, It's interesting and justreally kind of got my eyebrows raised in
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a rock like manner. In LA, they have just launched this new program.
They're testing this program to send unarmedcivilians instead of cops to people in
crisis. Now Los Angeles officials theyare putting this program together in their launching.
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This program, which is modeled aftera program out of Oregon, where
so called Unarmed Model of Crisis Response, has two teams of mental health practitioners
available twenty four hours a day,seven days a week for situations that would
typically fall to the police, suchas conducting welfare checks and responding to calls
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of public intoxication and incident of exposure. Now this program is run by the
city's Attorney's office and so far itis operating in three divisions, Devonshire,
Wiltshire and Southeast, with plans toevaluate this performance after a year and potentially
expand. For me, I thinka program like this is essential when you
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look at the situation which recently unfoldedand forgive me forgetting which city and unfolded
and super producer Kayla Can looked thisup for me where the police were called
to a situation I believe it mighthave been in Riverside where a young man
with mental health challenges. A familyhad called the police there and he came
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charging out of the house with whatat the time was perceived to be a
weapon and the police shout him down. This young man believe he's a teenager,
fifteen, sixteen years old or somethinglike that. And as someone who
works within the field of special needs, I work with children with autism and
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very special needs and I am keenlyaware to the fight or flight behavior that
is exhibited when they are having anextreme behavior when they are in crisis,
how they will lash out, howthey will attack, how they will grab
anything they can to get away fromthe situation. And it may be something
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as simple as they are not feelinggood, they are not being heard,
and they are lashing out. Andoftentimes they don't necessarily have the requisite ZALE
skills to communicate this to somebody.So you know, you have individuals who
may just lash out and rage outand grab whatever and come at you.
This is a situation where the policeshould not be called. I do not
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believe that the police should be calledfor situations when dealing with someone who's having
an actual mental health crisis, evenif even if they are at that moment
being presenting a danger to themselves orothers. In situations like this, though
we do not hire unarmed civilians,we have para professionals who are uniquely trained.
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They wear all the necessary padding andeverything that they need to protect themselves,
but they are trained in NCPI crisisprevents where they're able to calm the
situation down and if need be,they're able to employ tactics to put individuals
in safety holds to protect them.Now, if you have someone who does
have an actual weapon, a knifeor something of that effect, then it
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is wise to have the police onhand. I'm not trying to remove the
police from situations like this, butthe lead on a situation like this should
be something like this unarmed crisis teamindividuals who are being trained to handle situations
like this where someone is having amental health crisis and at the time,
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we do not need officers who aretrained differently. And oftentimes we see these
in these incidents where individuals wind updead, you know, because of a
lack of training. I believe Cala. Where was this at happened in US?
Sam Bernardino? For me, itsays East Bay, and then there's
another story that says Oakland. Soit happens often, yeah, often enough
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where a situation like this is absolutelynecessary and should require something like this.
So bravo to the City of Angelsfor enacting this program and getting this off
the ground. And I really andtruly pray that this becomes the norm.
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This is not the same as theGreen Shirts on the subway, the Metro
ambassadors. This is not the sameas that where those individuals are kind of
trained to take your comments and concernsand report situations that they see. These
individuals are being uniquely trained to dealwith a lot of these situations that really
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and truly the police there are somany crimes being actually committed, be these
individuals who are breaking into stores andstealing legos, or even with all the
individuals that are featured on Unsolved withSteve Gregory, where the police can dedicate
more time to solving these crimes.Yes, have a program like this up
and running. You're listening to soulCal Saturday with Tawala Sharp on demand from
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KFI AM six forty kfive AM sixforty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and
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sunon Village, West, Hollywood,Tustin, and San Bernardino. This is
soul Cal Saturday. I'm your host, Tula Sharp, and Yes, we
are keeping our eye on the situationin the Middle East where and Iron Brand
has launched dozens of drones towards Israel. Iran is saying that it will target
any country that opens its airspace foran Israeli attack against Iran. Israeli military
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has plans to intercept drones before theyeven reached Israeli skies. That is,
according to military officials. Our reportsof explosions and parent intercepts across Israel,
including Tel Aviv and the West Bank, and CNN is out there. They
are hearing explosions and sirens as interceptsoccur over Jerusalem, So that is a
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bit of what is going on.We are keeping our eyes on this situation
as it develops. Something that weshould have been keeping our eye on as
it developed more locally was the trackingof money spent on the homeless. That
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to me should have been paramount forMayor and Bess in launching her initiative to
clean up the streets quote unquote andget individuals off the streets and into housing.
One thing that I think should havebeen put before this was launched.
One thing that should have at leastbeen established before this was launched, is
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an effective means of tracking the moneythat has been spent. To date,
this program has has been lacking tosay the least, and we have spent
some twenty billion dollars just over thepast five years dedicated to the state's homeless
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crisis. And now with Mayor Bassi'sprogram and everything that she has been fighting
to get get accomplished. Even withthis, this is not excluding a prop
one with Governor KNU some six pointfour billion dollar bond measure aimed at addressing
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homelessness in the coming years. Californiaas a state has failed to track the
effectiveness of the money that has beenspent. A new report from the California
State Auditors off has found that astate council created to oversee the implementation of
homeless programs has not consistently tracked thespending or the outcomes of those programs.
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So not only were we not trackingthe spending saying, you know, any
department, any office that comes andsays, hey, we are such and
such department for the homeless, andwe have this program, we need X
amount of dollars, and their youknow, state funding is is granting this
money to these programs, and wedon't even know if the programs, if
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the money that was granted to thesevarious programs went exactly where it was supposed
to be going, or if itwas actually effective what was being promised by
various programs. So I think thatis a big boot on Governor Newsom and
Mayor Bass because you cannot ask forthis money, you cannot make these promises.
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Is And as as much as I'msure your heart is in it,
and this is your calling. Butthen also just you know, when you're
asked you don't know where the money'sgoing. Well, I don't know where
the money was spent well at howwell was it effective? I don't know.
That's that's not the answer that that'sneeded. Something something must be done
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about this, because this is thisis what you've been writing on, this
is what the Mayor's office has beenwriting on, this is what the governor.
This is actually why govern Newson justbarely got that bill passed, because
it's almost like, I'm sure thereare several people who are like, yeah,
you're asking for another six point fourbillion and you don't even know where
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the money that you've been uh spendingalready is going. I don't know about
that, man, I don't knowabout you. But not to be dissuaded
or daunted by this news, MayorBass has announced a new partnership to help
homeless veterans. Yes, Los AngelesMayor of Bass has joined representatives from the
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Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles and thenonprofit US Vets this past week to announce
a new partnership between the two organizationsaimed at preventing veterans from becoming homeless and
bass this this is why, thisis, this is special for her because
her father served in World War Twoand spoke of societal responsibilities to support veterans
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when they returned from service, whichto me, I do not understand a
country that is not doing more forits veterans. I believe veterans, among
any other citizen should be taken careof first. If anything is being done
for the citizens of southern California,of northern California, of the entire country,
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damn it, our veterans should beput first in the men and women
who have put life on the lineto protect this country's interests. You know
that to me? Damn you knowgiving them discounts on Veterans Day it should
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be every day. And the ideaof our veterans being homeless is just the
most heartbreaking notion to me. Individualswho lots of times are coming back to
this country having served, and Iknow and I personally know several veterans who
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are dealing with a lot. Theyare dealing with a lot. There is
a lot of trauma that they arestill dealing with. And back in the
day, I worked at a yogurtchop in Pasadena. It's called putting on
choices frozen yogurt. And there wasa guy who used to sit out front
real quiet, you know, realquiet. He would sit out front with
his dog, and you know hewasn't necessarily asking for change, but you
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know, you could tell he wantedsome change. So you know, I
would, oftentimes, if it wasblazing hot, I would, you know,
make an ice cream and just takeit out to him to say,
hey, man, you know you'resitting out here in the sun. You
know you're not bothering you one here, here's yoga. And just after talking
to him, you know, tomy surprise, I mean, this guy
was brilliant. You know, hehe had served in Vietnam and when he
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came back, he just he wasjust heartbroken and he had so much that
he was dealing with and there weren'ta lot of programs to deal with the
mental trauma of war when he gotback, and you know, he went
on to try to you know,get his life together, and he got
married and became an accountant, andthen you know, one day he just
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he said he couldn't take it anymore. And I said, take what?
And he said, the noise.He can't take the sounds. He said,
he cannot shake the sounds that arein his mind. He said it
going home and is of what ifhis kids drop a plate. He's ready
to go into action and he losesit. He freaks out, you know,
if someone slams the door, he'she's in action. And he said
it just it haunted him more andmore and more to the point where he
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just walked away. He just walkedaway from his family, he walked away
from everything, and he just hewas on the street and he said,
you know when he first when hefirst turned to she's there there. There
weren't you know, there weren't programsestablished for individuals dealing with mental health crisis
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and traumatic stress and all that fromthe war, and so he found himself
on the streets. But this isa guy who is just really really intelligent.
You know. He even showed mehow where his leg his leg had
got blown off his little and wasreattached. And he even showed me like
the separation markeags from from where theyreattached his leg. I'm like, oh,
you know, so, so Ithink about every time I think about
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a homeless vater I think about him. I believe his name was Bill,
and and again, you know,I think about him, and it's him
telling me about what it's like beinghomeless. And so that's why for me,
one of the reasons I care aboutthis situation not just from my time
sleeping in my car, but alsofrom individuals that I've talked to. So
when I see that, even thoughI get it, I get that that,
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you know, the money's funny whendealing with this, this homeless crisis,
and and everyone is not keeping tabs, and you know, we drive
around, we may not be seeingeven the effectiveness because you know, one
RV camp that I saw, youknow, taking down the RVs are back,
looks like brand new RVs have cometo park there now. So I
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get it. It's a never endingissue. But that doesn't mean that we
can stop. It doesn't mean thatwe can stop. It doesn't mean that
we can give up. And soI applaud mere Baths for you know,
at least keeping the fight going andespecially for putting homeless veterans front of the
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line, for all these homeless programs. So salutations to you, mayor Baz.
I just hope that someone in youroffice starts paying attention to the thousand
cents. This is kfive AM sixforty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And yes, we are monitoring thelatest situation in the Middle East with Iran
launching dozens of drones towards Israel.We know that the president is monitored in
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the situation. We are monitoring thesituation to see what may or may not
happen. But for you to getthe latest, you're listening to soul col
Saturday with Tawala Sharp on demand fromKFI AM six forty KFI AM six forty
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live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.In grit out of Hills, lake View
Terrace, Irvine, and to Mecula. This is soul Gal Saturday. I'm
your host, Tawaala Sharp, Andas you've been hearing all day, especially
INDYKFI twenty four our newsroom, weare keeping our eyes on all things happening
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in the Middle East as the detailscome out. If you have not heard,
or if you're just tuning in,Iran has launched dozens of drones towards
Israel. Iran says that it willtarget any country that opens its airspace for
an Israeli attack against Iran. PresidentBiden has been meeting with his security team
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and they are assessing the happenings inthe situation room. Israeli military has plans
to intercept drones before they even reachIsraeli skies, according to military reports.
This retaliatory attack comes as Iran hasseized the container ship near the Straits of
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Who would forgive me for the mispronunciation on this Hormaz Hormas. Let's go
with it amid heightened tensions in theregion, as the Israeli Hamas war rages
on and on and on, andwe are keeping our eyes on that and
keeping our eyes on that, andother news, especially here in southern California,
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may actually become harder. Why becauseGoogle's that's my primary search engine has
decided to reduce some user's access toCalifornia news sites like what's going on?
Google? I thought you were downwith us, but no. It seems
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Google is looking to remove links toCalifornia news sites from its search results for
some users as it continues to pushback against a pending state bill that will
require the company to pay publishers atis if Google doesn't have billions of dollars
to pay publishers. And this tome, this is why this doesn't make
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sense. People go to Google beyondjust looking up you know, the biggest
lobster. Oh sure, sorry,yeah, that wasn't time for that.
But okay, let's go with that, Ken super Producers jumping in with with
the biggest lobster. Yes, beyondlooking that up. Okay, it's important
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that is a lot of us goto Google because we're looking for the latest
news updates like the situation here inIran, and we would go to our
trusted news sites when we're going there. Google, by all intents and purposes,
they make their money by way ofwhat traffic. Traffic you and I
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going to the website to look stuffup, to look up the latest anything
that's happening. So one could saythat because we are going there to look
at the news and the latest thingsthat are going on, we're actually paying
Google. That's how Google's getting theirmoney. That's how they're getting money from
advertisers. But now you want totake away one of the things that many
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of us are going to Google for. Look, everyone's not just going to
Google to look up the biggest lobster. Everyone is not. Some people want
to look up the latest news.They actually do. So the idea of
Google stepping in and even thinking aboutcutting back news. Look, this is
a problem Google, it really reallyis. Don't don't find yourself on the
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wayside to have some news site comeout where we can start searching up big
lobsters. Don't do that to yourself. Google need to go on and lay
off the California news sites. Weneed those in southern California. And you
know that's all I gotta say aboutthat. I don't know about the biggest
lobster though, seriously, the lobster, that's what you've got killing. I
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don't know what you guys Google.That's the kind of things I google.
I love to learn things like that. It's nick Lobster coming up at the
top of the hour. I amgoing to be joined by Miss Diane Louby
Lane. She is the founder,author and she is an educator behind get
Lit. Get Lit is holding theirthirteenth annual Classic Slam Final competition at the
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Wilshire Email Theater and I am allabout poetry. It is large in part
I kind of got to where Iam now. So we will be joined
by Miss Diane Louby Lane to discussget Lit and next hour, I also
have my salute to small businesses withJones Brothers Breaks. Mister Raymond Sellers will
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be joining us to take us insidethe world of car parks, breaks,
bearings, all that kind of stuff. I don't know anything about it,
but look, I need to knowabout it because I'm hard on my breaks.
So don't you go nowhere. Keepit right here for not only that,
but some of the latest updates onall things happening in Iran. You've
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AM six forty five pm to sevenpm on Saturday and anytime on demand on
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Los Angeles, Orange County, IE in the Valley Listen is to Wallace
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Saturday. Saturday is the Saturday.Saturday is Saturday Holidaydayday. Kf I AM
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six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app in Aqua Dulce, Bassett,
Sierra Madre, and Los Alamitos.This is soul Cal Saturday. And as
if you've been here hearing in theKFI twenty four our newsroom, we are
monitoring the situation in the Middle Eastwherein Iran has launched dozens of drones towards
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Israel. Iran says that it willtarget any country that opens its airspace four
and Israeli attack against Iran. Rightnow, President Biden is meeting with his
security team in the situation room assessingthe situation, and the Israeli military plans
to intercept drones before they reach Israeliskies, that is according to military officials.
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As we continue to get news inwe will continue to update you on
all things happening. Our thoughts andprayers, of course go to all who
are impacted by this attack, andjust the unease and unsurety in the world,
especially there in the Middle East,more locally here in southern California,
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looking around the south Land, andthings you may have missed if you weren't
paying attention because your week was justbusy adulting in all things, just making
making your way through the day.We've been getting just drenched by rain,
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we really really have, and soit's kind of curious to me that with
all this rain we've been getting,we may also see our water bills double
in Southern California, like we werenot watering our lawns more right now,
supposedly the reservoirs in southern California areat their peak, the highest they've been
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in down near a decade or somethingto that effect. But this past week
the Metropolitan Water District District of SouthernCalifornia passed a budget that solidified rate and
property tax increases for its customers overthe next two years. Years of drought
California contributed to the increase, asthe district battles revenue declines following widespread conservation
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efforts related to climate change. Butagain keyword drought. If the raising these
rates as a result of the drought, shouldn't they be going back to the
table to kind of reassess this planand say, Okay, on second thought,
maybe we don't need to raise ourrates as high as we thought.
But I don't know. I guesswe will have to deal with yet another
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increase making the cost of living herein southern California exorbitantly high. That's just
what we've got going on out here. And if that wasn't enough, gas
is going up even more. I'llknow if you have noticed, but I
absolutely have. I drive a lot. I go from Altadena to Granada Hills
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to Van Eys to Chatsworth and thendo all that back again. I'm putting
at least I don't know, thousandmiles a day or something insane on my
car. And it's crazy. It'slike I'm putting in on them maybe maybe
one hundred and fifty dollars a weekin gas just with all the driving that
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I'm doing. So it is withgreat sadness that I have to discuss this
gas price increase. The average priceof a gallon of self serve regular in
La County rows this past week forthe twenty second consecutive day and the twenty
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fifth time in twenty six days,increasing one point five cents to five about
five thirty four, its highest sincearound November one of last year. The
average rice has risen to forty onepoint two cents over the past twenty six
days, including six tenths of acent this past Monday, according to figures
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from Triple A. And again,I absolutely absolutely feel the pinch. I
know that it is happening, andit is it just it literally something has
to be done. And I don'tthink this has to do with you know,
minimum wage increasing in southern California.You know, this is literally just
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inflation caused by I believe, alack of regulation on corporations and businesses and
allowing them to run wild and justreally give it to us at the pump
that this is ridiculous, This couldbe controlled, and this is not a
party issue. This is a corporategreed issue and something needs to be done
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to real that in It absolutely doesbecause we the people, you know,
this is affecting everyone. Doesn't matterif you're having a beat up pinto and
live you know in the urban communityor if you're driving you know, a
high level gas guzzer and you're living, you know, on the West side.
This is affecting us all. Soyou know, something's got to be
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done to real in this corporate greed. And no, it has literally nothing
to do with what is happening inthe Middle East. For anyone who is
already to go there. You're listeningto soul Cal Saturday with Tawala Sharp on
demand from KFI AM six forty KFIAM six forty live everywhere on the iHeart
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Radio app in Venice, Walnut,Orange and Marietta. This is soul Cal
Saturday. I'm your host, TwalaSharp, keeping you updated as best I
can on the situation happening in theMiddle East. We're in. Iran has
launched dozens of drones towards Israel.Iran says that it will target any country
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that opens its airspace four and Israeliattack against Iran. Israeli air defenses are
intercepting some Iranian strikes after Iran launcheda barrage of missiles towards Israel and retaliation
for an Israeli strike on the Iranianconsulate in Damascus earlier. This month,
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and it is an extremely tense situationand that is why we are keeping our
eyes on it here on KFI,So make sure you stay tuned for the
latest as we continue to bring itto you. Salutations and saluting and props
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to the California Highway Patrol, notjust for all that you do to keep
us safe on the highways and byways, pulling over those who would think they
are Dominic Toretto and they are filmingfast ten or whatever, because on my
way in today the freeways were packedwith some of the most insane driving skills
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I have seen, and the roadsare starting to get wet, so please
slow down. But I'm highlighting theCalifornia Highway Patrol for another reason altogether,
because of their arrest of four individualswherein they recovered some three hundred thousand dollars
in legos stolen from Target and otherSoul Cow stores. They announced just this
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past week this major bust of aretail theft ring that stoleed again some three
hundred thousand dollars in lego sets fromsouthern California retailers. The legos were seized
in four people in Los Angeles andOrange County were arrested. According to the
California Highway Patrol, the suspects wereinvolved in stealing the legos from stores like
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Target and Home depot lows and sellingthem to fences or people who purchase product
stolen products and then try to goon and sell them to the public through
legitimate businesses like swap meets or oneBay and things like that. I take
personal offense to all this smashing andgrabbing and all these individuals because my storage
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unit was smashed and grabbed, andI will always always hope for the worst
for anyone who is practicing this levelof thievery. Shame on you. Something
else though, It's interesting and justreally kind of got my eyebrows raised in
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a rock like manner. In LA, they have just launched this new program.
They're testing this program to send unarmedcivilians instead of cops to people in
crisis. Now Los Angeles officials theyare putting this program together in their launching.
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This program, which is modeled aftera program out of Oregon, where
so called Unarmed Model of Crisis Response, has two teams of mental health practitioners
available twenty four hours a day,seven days a week for situations that would
typically fall to the police, suchas conducting welfare checks and responding to calls
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of public intoxication and incident of exposure. Now this program is run by the
city's Attorney's office and so far itis operating in three divisions, Devonshire,
Wiltshire and Southeast, with plans toevaluate this performance after a year and potentially
expand. For me, I thinka program like this is essential when you
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look at the situation which recently unfoldedand forgive me forgetting which city and unfolded
and super producer Kayla Can looked thisup for me where the police were called
to a situation I believe it mighthave been in Riverside where a young man
with mental health challenges. A familyhad called the police there and he came
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charging out of the house with whatat the time was perceived to be a
weapon and the police shout him down. This young man believe he's a teenager,
fifteen, sixteen years old or somethinglike that. And as someone who
works within the field of special needs, I work with children with autism and
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very special needs and I am keenlyaware to the fight or flight behavior that
is exhibited when they are having anextreme behavior when they are in crisis,
how they will lash out, howthey will attack, how they will grab
anything they can to get away fromthe situation. And it may be something
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as simple as they are not feelinggood, they are not being heard,
and they are lashing out. Andoftentimes they don't necessarily have the requisite ZALE
skills to communicate this to somebody.So you know, you have individuals who
may just lash out and rage outand grab whatever and come at you.
This is a situation where the policeshould not be called. I do not
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believe that the police should be calledfor situations when dealing with someone who's having
an actual mental health crisis, evenif even if they are at that moment
being presenting a danger to themselves orothers. In situations like this, though
we do not hire unarmed civilians,we have para professionals who are uniquely trained.
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They wear all the necessary padding andeverything that they need to protect themselves,
but they are trained in NCPI crisisprevents where they're able to calm the
situation down and if need be,they're able to employ tactics to put individuals
in safety holds to protect them.Now, if you have someone who does
have an actual weapon, a knifeor something of that effect, then it
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is wise to have the police onhand. I'm not trying to remove the
police from situations like this, butthe lead on a situation like this should
be something like this unarmed crisis teamindividuals who are being trained to handle situations
like this where someone is having amental health crisis and at the time,
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we do not need officers who aretrained differently. And oftentimes we see these
in these incidents where individuals wind updead, you know, because of a
lack of training. I believe Cala. Where was this at happened in US?
Sam Bernardino? For me, itsays East Bay, and then there's
another story that says Oakland. Soit happens often, yeah, often enough
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where a situation like this is absolutelynecessary and should require something like this.
So bravo to the City of Angelsfor enacting this program and getting this off
the ground. And I really andtruly pray that this becomes the norm.
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This is not the same as theGreen Shirts on the subway, the Metro
ambassadors. This is not the sameas that where those individuals are kind of
trained to take your comments and concernsand report situations that they see. These
individuals are being uniquely trained to dealwith a lot of these situations that really
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and truly the police there are somany crimes being actually committed, be these
individuals who are breaking into stores andstealing legos, or even with all the
individuals that are featured on Unsolved withSteve Gregory, where the police can dedicate
more time to solving these crimes.Yes, have a program like this up
and running. You're listening to soulCal Saturday with Tawala Sharp on demand from
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KFI AM six forty kfive AM sixforty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and
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sunon Village, West, Hollywood,Tustin, and San Bernardino. This is
soul Cal Saturday. I'm your host, Tula Sharp, and Yes, we
are keeping our eye on the situationin the Middle East where and Iron Brand
has launched dozens of drones towards Israel. Iran is saying that it will target
any country that opens its airspace foran Israeli attack against Iran. Israeli military
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has plans to intercept drones before theyeven reached Israeli skies. That is,
according to military officials. Our reportsof explosions and parent intercepts across Israel,
including Tel Aviv and the West Bank, and CNN is out there. They
are hearing explosions and sirens as interceptsoccur over Jerusalem, So that is a
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bit of what is going on.We are keeping our eyes on this situation
as it develops. Something that weshould have been keeping our eye on as
it developed more locally was the trackingof money spent on the homeless. That
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to me should have been paramount forMayor and Bess in launching her initiative to
clean up the streets quote unquote andget individuals off the streets and into housing.
One thing that I think should havebeen put before this was launched.
One thing that should have at leastbeen established before this was launched, is
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an effective means of tracking the moneythat has been spent. To date,
this program has has been lacking tosay the least, and we have spent
some twenty billion dollars just over thepast five years dedicated to the state's homeless
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crisis. And now with Mayor Bassi'sprogram and everything that she has been fighting
to get get accomplished. Even withthis, this is not excluding a prop
one with Governor KNU some six pointfour billion dollar bond measure aimed at addressing
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homelessness in the coming years. Californiaas a state has failed to track the
effectiveness of the money that has beenspent. A new report from the California
State Auditors off has found that astate council created to oversee the implementation of
homeless programs has not consistently tracked thespending or the outcomes of those programs.
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So not only were we not trackingthe spending saying, you know, any
department, any office that comes andsays, hey, we are such and
such department for the homeless, andwe have this program, we need X
amount of dollars, and their youknow, state funding is is granting this
money to these programs, and wedon't even know if the programs, if
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the money that was granted to thesevarious programs went exactly where it was supposed
to be going, or if itwas actually effective what was being promised by
various programs. So I think thatis a big boot on Governor Newsom and
Mayor Bass because you cannot ask forthis money, you cannot make these promises.
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Is And as as much as I'msure your heart is in it,
and this is your calling. Butthen also just you know, when you're
asked you don't know where the money'sgoing. Well, I don't know where
the money was spent well at howwell was it effective? I don't know.
That's that's not the answer that that'sneeded. Something something must be done
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about this, because this is thisis what you've been writing on, this
is what the Mayor's office has beenwriting on, this is what the governor.
This is actually why govern Newson justbarely got that bill passed, because
it's almost like, I'm sure thereare several people who are like, yeah,
you're asking for another six point fourbillion and you don't even know where
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the money that you've been uh spendingalready is going. I don't know about
that, man, I don't knowabout you. But not to be dissuaded
or daunted by this news, MayorBass has announced a new partnership to help
homeless veterans. Yes, Los AngelesMayor of Bass has joined representatives from the
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Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles and thenonprofit US Vets this past week to announce
a new partnership between the two organizationsaimed at preventing veterans from becoming homeless and
bass this this is why, thisis, this is special for her because
her father served in World War Twoand spoke of societal responsibilities to support veterans
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when they returned from service, whichto me, I do not understand a
country that is not doing more forits veterans. I believe veterans, among
any other citizen should be taken careof first. If anything is being done
for the citizens of southern California,of northern California, of the entire country,
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damn it, our veterans should beput first in the men and women
who have put life on the lineto protect this country's interests. You know
that to me? Damn you knowgiving them discounts on Veterans Day it should
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be every day. And the ideaof our veterans being homeless is just the
most heartbreaking notion to me. Individualswho lots of times are coming back to
this country having served, and Iknow and I personally know several veterans who
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are dealing with a lot. Theyare dealing with a lot. There is
a lot of trauma that they arestill dealing with. And back in the
day, I worked at a yogurtchop in Pasadena. It's called putting on
choices frozen yogurt. And there wasa guy who used to sit out front
real quiet, you know, realquiet. He would sit out front with
his dog, and you know hewasn't necessarily asking for change, but you
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know, you could tell he wantedsome change. So you know, I
would, oftentimes, if it wasblazing hot, I would, you know,
make an ice cream and just takeit out to him to say,
hey, man, you know you'resitting out here in the sun. You
know you're not bothering you one here, here's yoga. And just after talking
to him, you know, tomy surprise, I mean, this guy
was brilliant. You know, hehe had served in Vietnam and when he
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came back, he just he wasjust heartbroken and he had so much that
he was dealing with and there weren'ta lot of programs to deal with the
mental trauma of war when he gotback, and you know, he went
on to try to you know,get his life together, and he got
married and became an accountant, andthen you know, one day he just
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he said he couldn't take it anymore. And I said, take what?
And he said, the noise.He can't take the sounds. He said,
he cannot shake the sounds that arein his mind. He said it
going home and is of what ifhis kids drop a plate. He's ready
to go into action and he losesit. He freaks out, you know,
if someone slams the door, he'she's in action. And he said
it just it haunted him more andmore and more to the point where he
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just walked away. He just walkedaway from his family, he walked away
from everything, and he just hewas on the street and he said,
you know when he first when hefirst turned to she's there there. There
weren't you know, there weren't programsestablished for individuals dealing with mental health crisis
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and traumatic stress and all that fromthe war, and so he found himself
on the streets. But this isa guy who is just really really intelligent.
You know. He even showed mehow where his leg his leg had
got blown off his little and wasreattached. And he even showed me like
the separation markeags from from where theyreattached his leg. I'm like, oh,
you know, so, so Ithink about every time I think about
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a homeless vater I think about him. I believe his name was Bill,
and and again, you know,I think about him, and it's him
telling me about what it's like beinghomeless. And so that's why for me,
one of the reasons I care aboutthis situation not just from my time
sleeping in my car, but alsofrom individuals that I've talked to. So
when I see that, even thoughI get it, I get that that,
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you know, the money's funny whendealing with this, this homeless crisis,
and and everyone is not keeping tabs, and you know, we drive
around, we may not be seeingeven the effectiveness because you know, one
RV camp that I saw, youknow, taking down the RVs are back,
looks like brand new RVs have cometo park there now. So I
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get it. It's a never endingissue. But that doesn't mean that we
can stop. It doesn't mean thatwe can stop. It doesn't mean that
we can give up. And soI applaud mere Baths for you know,
at least keeping the fight going andespecially for putting homeless veterans front of the
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line, for all these homeless programs. So salutations to you, mayor Baz.
I just hope that someone in youroffice starts paying attention to the thousand
cents. This is kfive AM sixforty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And yes, we are monitoring thelatest situation in the Middle East with Iran
launching dozens of drones towards Israel.We know that the president is monitored in
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the situation. We are monitoring thesituation to see what may or may not
happen. But for you to getthe latest, you're listening to soul col
Saturday with Tawala Sharp on demand fromKFI AM six forty KFI AM six forty
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live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.In grit out of Hills, lake View
Terrace, Irvine, and to Mecula. This is soul Gal Saturday. I'm
your host, Tawaala Sharp, Andas you've been hearing all day, especially
INDYKFI twenty four our newsroom, weare keeping our eyes on all things happening
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in the Middle East as the detailscome out. If you have not heard,
or if you're just tuning in,Iran has launched dozens of drones towards
Israel. Iran says that it willtarget any country that opens its airspace for
an Israeli attack against Iran. PresidentBiden has been meeting with his security team
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and they are assessing the happenings inthe situation room. Israeli military has plans
to intercept drones before they even reachIsraeli skies, according to military reports.
This retaliatory attack comes as Iran hasseized the container ship near the Straits of
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Who would forgive me for the mispronunciation on this Hormaz Hormas. Let's go
with it amid heightened tensions in theregion, as the Israeli Hamas war rages
on and on and on, andwe are keeping our eyes on that and
keeping our eyes on that, andother news, especially here in southern California,
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may actually become harder. Why becauseGoogle's that's my primary search engine has
decided to reduce some user's access toCalifornia news sites like what's going on?
Google? I thought you were downwith us, but no. It seems
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Google is looking to remove links toCalifornia news sites from its search results for
some users as it continues to pushback against a pending state bill that will
require the company to pay publishers atis if Google doesn't have billions of dollars
to pay publishers. And this tome, this is why this doesn't make
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sense. People go to Google beyondjust looking up you know, the biggest
lobster. Oh sure, sorry,yeah, that wasn't time for that.
But okay, let's go with that, Ken super Producers jumping in with with
the biggest lobster. Yes, beyondlooking that up. Okay, it's important
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that is a lot of us goto Google because we're looking for the latest
news updates like the situation here inIran, and we would go to our
trusted news sites when we're going there. Google, by all intents and purposes,
they make their money by way ofwhat traffic. Traffic you and I
(28:51):
going to the website to look stuffup, to look up the latest anything
that's happening. So one could saythat because we are going there to look
at the news and the latest thingsthat are going on, we're actually paying
Google. That's how Google's getting theirmoney. That's how they're getting money from
advertisers. But now you want totake away one of the things that many
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of us are going to Google for. Look, everyone's not just going to
Google to look up the biggest lobster. Everyone is not. Some people want
to look up the latest news.They actually do. So the idea of
Google stepping in and even thinking aboutcutting back news. Look, this is
a problem Google, it really reallyis. Don't don't find yourself on the
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wayside to have some news site comeout where we can start searching up big
lobsters. Don't do that to yourself. Google need to go on and lay
off the California news sites. Weneed those in southern California. And you
know that's all I gotta say aboutthat. I don't know about the biggest
lobster though, seriously, the lobster, that's what you've got killing. I
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don't know what you guys Google.That's the kind of things I google.
I love to learn things like that. It's nick Lobster coming up at the
top of the hour. I amgoing to be joined by Miss Diane Louby
Lane. She is the founder,author and she is an educator behind get
Lit. Get Lit is holding theirthirteenth annual Classic Slam Final competition at the
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Wilshire Email Theater and I am allabout poetry. It is large in part
I kind of got to where Iam now. So we will be joined
by Miss Diane Louby Lane to discussget Lit and next hour, I also
have my salute to small businesses withJones Brothers Breaks. Mister Raymond Sellers will
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be joining us to take us insidethe world of car parks, breaks,
bearings, all that kind of stuff. I don't know anything about it,
but look, I need to knowabout it because I'm hard on my breaks.
So don't you go nowhere. Keepit right here for not only that,
but some of the latest updates onall things happening in Iran. You've
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been listening to soul col Saturday,you can always hear us live on kfive
AM six forty five pm to sevenpm on Saturday and anytime on demand on
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