SoCal Round-Up: Mayor Bass says she no longer thinks LA's Metro system is safe. LAUSD Police deployment to 20 schools collapses after one day amid opposition, confusion. Federal Judge orders Ice to end "Knock and Talk" arrests of immigrants. Southern California is home to the worst commutes in America, data suggests. California DMV opening first 'Express' office. California is offering drivers $400 gift cards to test its alternative to the gas tax. Buying a home in Southern CAlifornia? There are now more options. Huntington Beach Loses Housing Mandate Lawsuit Against California.
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Los Angeles, Orange County, IE in the Valley. This is to
Wallace Sharp and you're listening to kfI AM six forty Soul Cal Saturday on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. SaturdaySaturday is the Saturdays. The Saturday is
the Saturday Saturday. It's a SaturdaySaturday, the Saturday Hodayday Saturday. Say
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kf I AM six party live everywhereon the iHeart or radio app in Alhambra,
at Water Village, San Clemente andDaggett. This is Soul Cal Saturday.
I am your host Twala Sharp toanother fantastically local look at southern California.
Starting off with something that I swear, I just there are sometimes where
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you may support a politician and theirmission and their goals, and you think,
like, I want to make surethat we give this politician the benefit
of the doubt because they are reallyreally doing their all to make some change
here in the south Land, inparticular the Los Angeles County part of the
(01:37):
south Land. And this past week, I don't know if you have had
the opportunity to I at least hopeyou have had the opportunity to check out
later with mo Kelly show that I'veproduced Monday through Friday here hosted by a
very own Mo Kelly. Well.We have been on top of this,
(02:00):
this look at La Metro, reportingon all of the troubles that La Metro
is having, the violence, theplight of homelessness on the trains, and
all these things. And we havebeen looking at this for at least the
last year, okay, going backat least a year in reporting some of
(02:23):
the crime, the violence and allthat happening on trains and buses here in
the Los Angeles Metro area at least. And we have questioned the deployment of
green Shirts, We have questioned thelack of security by way of there being
(02:45):
a dedicated Metro police force. Wehave highlighted each and every time, be
it stabbing, a shooting, robbery, of beating, homelessness, anything happening
on the train, over and overand over again. And not long ago,
La Metro even released a study lookingat the trains, a study that
(03:07):
they helped get all this information forfrom the Green Shirt the Metro Ambassadors.
So all of this information has beendetailed and documented, all of these issues
that are happening with La Metro,and it is just now at the eleventh
hour, that Mayor Bass decides togo public and say, hey, she
(03:32):
no longer believes Metro is safe andis so disappointing because that is by definition
leading from behind. How are yousitting on the Metro board. I believe
she is the president of the LaMetro board. So there's no way you
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don't know of all the issues thatare happening on La Metro, and you
want to come out now at theeleventh hour and say, hey, wait
a minute, we're having some problemson these trains and buses. I don't
think that they are safe anymore anymore, as of win, as of right
now, because last week, theweek before, the month before, all
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the way back to early this year, all the way through the middle last
year, there have been troubles onthe Metro. So why are you trying
to come out now, especially afteryou try to have a whole press conference
earlier in the month saying no,no, no, Metro is safe.
I swear when I see stuff likethat, it irritates me to no end
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because the way for the Mayor's officeto have handled this press conference, the
way that it should have been presented, is in my humble opinion, It
would have been better for Mayor Bessto come out and say, hey,
I hear you. We have beenlooking at this, we have been doing
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the studies, we have been doingthe work to try to figure out what
we can do to bring about change. And I'm here to tell you that
I not only hear you, butI agree with you that Metro is not
safe. But to just try tocome out now like, oh what,
Metro it's not safe, that's justso despicable, really, really, truly
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is the only hope now is thatnow that she's on record and confirming that
she too believes Metro is no longersafe, that we will start to see
some real, real change. AndI know, I know the Mayor's office.
They've already rolled out a plan todeploy more security, more and more
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officers at training stations, on trains, roaming bus stations, and things like
that. They are looking at waysto increase cell service while you are underground
or on you know, maybe metroplatforms where cell service may be troubled.
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I know that, I know thatthere are things that are already happening.
I just think this this was notthe way to go when you have had
so many stabbings, so many shootings, and this is this is not just
us reporting this. This is yourvery own Metro ambassadors who have been reporting
this. This was not the wayto go as far as addressing what is
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happening on La Metro. But again, the only hope is that now that
you have owned up to the issues, that you will do the right thing
and you will bring about some substantivechange. This is kfive AM six forty
live everywhere on the Ihearted Radio app. You're listening to so Old Cal Saturday
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with Tawla Sharp on demand from kf I A M six forty. Kf
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I AM six forty got everybody onthe I Heart Radio app in AZUSA,
Gorman, Mission b A Home andVermo. Oh your moo, yermo.
Yeah, it's right there in theI E. That's one of my favorite
places to go. Everything in theie. And I don't know what it
is, yer moo there it is. This is Soul Cal Saturday. I'm
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your host to Ali Shark and Okay, big surprise, big surprise. I
know you may you may not knowthis. You may not know this,
but southern California is home to theworst commutes in America. No, according
to new data. Yes, whatLook seriously, Kayla, I did not
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know this. I did not knowthat a study needed to be put together
to determine that our commuting in southernCalifornia is the absolute worst. I mean,
I only live here. I've onlylived here for like ever in a
day. I thought being in trafficfor an hour and a half was normal,
you would think, especially if you'reonly going five minutes away. Ye,
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exact hour, that hour to gofive minutes, that makes perfect sense
in southern California. But no.There is a new study by business resource
group LLC dot org which analyzed thecommute times for full time workers across five
hundred thirty occupations in America's one hundredand seventy most populous cities. Now,
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oh, it's flight attend LLC.Okay, so flight attendance. LLC found
that the longest average commute of anyworker in the United States having to make
a round trip journey that lasts nearlytwo hours or more is here in California,
especially traffic heading north out of downtownLos Angeles. Sure, sure,
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this is one of those things whereI say, no, duh, I
mean it literally, Look, Ileft on time considerably. I left on
time to get here. I gavemyself about an hour to get here and
I still just got here and enoughtime to call super producer Kayla and say,
hey, Kaylea, I'm running likefive minutes behind. Please call our
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guest to let them know. Iwill get them on the phone shortly.
It's crazy to me, Like theamount of time that I spend in my
car is ridiculous. Like I livein Alta, Dina. I have to
get up in the morning and travelall the way to North Hills to pick
my children up, drop my daughteroff at school in North Hills, take
my son all the way over toschool in Van nys Then I have to
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go over to Chatsworth to the schoolthat I work at during the day,
and then I do that in reverse, except I'm not going back to Altadena.
I'm coming here to burdmank And theneventually I'm in my car so damn
much it doesn't even make sense.It's almost like my car is probably thinking
I'm gonna have to charge this duderent, Like, seriously, you are
just living in here. It isinsane. So to think that you have
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to put together a study just toconfirm it. I mean, I guess,
look, if they had the timeand money to do so great.
The top ranking cities for the mostcongested commutes, and this is going by
time in Palmdale, California number one, ninety one minutes of or for an
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average round trip commute, New YorkCity, New York eighty one point four
minutes for a round trip commute,Jersey City seventy four point eight minutes,
Yonkers, New York seventy two pointeight. Okay, but that's a lot
of East Coast. Oh. Thenwe come back to California, Marino Valley
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getting back and forth, Marino Valleyseventy minutes, Corona sixty eight point four
minutes, Chicago sixty seven minutes,Fontana sixty six point six minutes. That's
some devil numbers right there. Lancaster, California sixty five point eight minutes,
and Stockton, California sixty five forfour and then yeah, and then actually
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when you get past the top ten, we really start rounding it out.
We're really in there because you getRancho Cucamonga's up in there, Santa Clarita,
Pomona, Ontario, elk Grove,La. Of course, a bunch
of places in Orange County, youknow, Chula Vista, Riverside, just
basically just no. If you areliving in southern California, the commute is
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part of of living here. Butbut but but to add to that commute,
I mean, look outside right now, it's gorgeous. At least the
weather is beautiful, and and andand I have been in Philadelphia, I
have been in New York, andwhen it comes to the traffic and congestion
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there, their attitude is next level. It's next level on the East Coast
when it comes to dealing with trafficversus here in southern California, where we
may put on some smooth jazz,we may listen to KFI, we may
just really just zone out. Iwas just I was. I was home
the other day and somebody was yelling, I'm not beeping at you, chesla
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talking to the efficioa. I wasin southern California when that happens. I'm
just and it was a little foggyand gray this morning. But but but
but that's not what we're talking about, Kevin. We're not talking about I'm
talking about the fact that by nature, just just just you alone can can
testify to this on the East Coast. The attitude's the next level when it
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comes to the aggressiveness of getting outthat window and addressing traffic. Wow,
it just is all right, itjust is. I'm just saying that's this
is I'm not disagreeing, I'm justlike California also had this issue. KFI
AM six forty, Live Everywhere,all the iHeartRadio app You're listening to Soul
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col Saturday with Tawala Sharp on demandfrom KFI AM six forty, KFI AM
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six or Live Everywhere or the iHeartRadioi'pen Lonita Montabello Sun City in Hinckley,
Hinckley, Southern California, who superproducer Kayla has us all over the state
and I absolutely love it. HomeOwnership in Southern California something that we discuss
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often here on sol Cal Saturday.Home ownership, especially where homelessness is concerned.
But living in Southern California and buyinga home is at this point it
seems damn near impossible for many ofus, many of us who are living
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here who are not living above themedian income line nah on in a home
that is a no. And thenwhen you look at home ownership, especially
with some of the affordable homes thatare being built or mandated in certain cities,
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a lot of the stipulations that goesinto even being in one of those
affordable houses, sometimes that's not awin. I actually have a friend who
at one point was, of course, you know, receiving all sorts of
services from the city, and shegot into a program to get her into
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an affordable house. And while shewas waiting for her turn to come up,
I guess, for her lotto ticketnumber to come up to be able
to get approved for this affordable house, she started her own company. She
started her own company, her owntherapy company, and of course she started
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making more money. And when itcame to the point in time when her
number was called into the housing officeor whatever the department of housing and she
was going to be placed in ahome, they said, oh, you
now make too much money. Andshe was like, m my situation hasn't
really changed. I mean I maybe making more money on paper, but
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it's now it's just allowed me topay my bills better and keep up on
stuff. And they're like, no, no, Basically, if you want
to get into this home, youhave to maintain the income that you're bringing
in. So she's basically saying,so in order for me to get into
this affordable house, I can neverrise above my current station, so I
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could never make more than AMA.So you just want to keep me at
a level financially where I can liveinto this affordable house. Ah. Hell
the not. She was like,you know what, going to keep that
house and keep it for someone elsethat you want to keep trapped like a
rat in a certain status of ofliving, which is very, very just
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what. I don't know if enoughpeople know about how these programs work when
it comes to mandating affordable housing,but that's a part of it. Well,
turns out that now buying a home, at least in southern California,
there are more options available for buyinga house. But really and truly it's
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almost one of those things where,yes, I could go into all these
statistics and stats and numbers of buyinga house, but really and truly,
how many, how many of uswho don't already own a home right now
are anywhere near position to even putdown for a house. And I know
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there are lots of programs. Iknow there are lots of programs to help
individuals get into a home for thefor the first time, and that's all
fine and dandy, but the amountof hoops that you have to jump through
alone, and the way they keepthey being various organizations that are in charge
of various departments that are in chargeof making sure that purchasing your first home
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is available, that information is kept, that information is kept from certain communities.
So it's one of those. WhenI read stories about the affordability of
home ownership in southern California, sometimesI just laugh. I laugh because it's
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I oftentimes feel that these stories arekind of put out there as a keep
hope alive kind of of news telling. But it's it's it's not really real.
It really isn't the average Californian hereIn reason why so many Californians have
migrated elsewhere have left to elsewhere.A friend who left southern California because she,
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as hard as she was trying,she could not afford a home in
California. She moved to Atlanta andpurchased a three bedroom house in a very
very nice area. And she saidshe put down I can't remember what she
put down, but the house overallis about one hundred and eighty thousand three
bedroom house in Atlanta. She waslike, never in my wildest imagination.
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She's I can't even find a placein California where I can walk into a
door anywhere and see something for onehundred eighty thousand anything. This is a
three bedroom house near the school,near where her and her husband works.
And it's just like, what arewe doing here? Because the cost of
housing and things like that, it'sbased on lots of inflation and just you
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know, just maybe the lord ofcoming to California. But it's not necessary.
It's actually not necessary. It's notnecessary to charge half a million dollars
for a house that ain't worth morethan one hundred and fifty. It's really
not But I get it. It'sliving in California and the market dictates.
And you know, if this isa capitalist society, then yeah, then
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people who are in this to makemoney, they're gonna make their money.
So I'm not faulting the individuals maketheir money. I just know that when
I see any type of article thattalks about affordable housing in southern California,
to shake my head. Although althoughit is interesting and I think we talked
about this last week, the mandatedaffordable housing initiative that's coming to Orange County
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and a Huntington Beach in different areaslike that. I know they were fighting
against it, but things that they'regoing to lose that fight. They're going
to lose that fight. And I'mnot laughing, I'm not saying no,
no, no, no no,you lost that fight. But peers that
the the pushback against ensuring affordable housingin various beach communities, you know,
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Coasta, MESA hundred to Bees,different like that. You're you're not going
to be able to stop it.So there's that. And I think one
thing that needs to be done insouthern California is there needs to be more
transparency as far as what goes intothese these affordable housing initiatives, what this
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actually means. And when I saythat, it's almost as if the affordable
housing initiative that are out there arealmost creating projects by another name. Yes,
yes, yes, yes, youcan get into this house, and
you may not be living in theprojects specifically, but you are still kept
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impoverished. You're still kept impoverished.And I think that's what some of these
beach communities, some of these areasthat were fighting against these affordable housing initiatives
were fighting against. They were fightingagainst allowing poor people to live in their
neighborhoods, because if you keep peoplepoor in the neighborhoods, they're thinking,
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I don't know what we're gonna behaving barbecues in the front yard, cars
being worked on in the driveway.I don't know what the actual push against
against it is because on the flipside, you don't want to see homelessness.
You don't want to see people onthe streets. So I don't know.
I'm helic confused, but you're onso Cal Saturday. We're going to
continue to keep an eye on it. This is KFI AM six forty Live
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everywhere on the Ihearted Radio App.You're listening to soul Cal Saturday with Tawaala
Sharp on demand from KFI AM sixforty kfive AM six forty Live everywhere on
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the iHeartRadio App and pair of Blossom, A Signal, Hill and Boy and
Vidal. This is soul Gal Saturday. I'm host Wallace Sharp, and I
do not partake in the marriage Juana. If you did not know that,
I do not participate in the marriageWuana at all. But I recognize here
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in southern California. That's a thingthat is a maor major thing. The
cannabinoid industry is on and popping,as the young people say, but there
is a bit of a crossroad whenit comes to the study of cannabis at
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higher institutions of learning. Yes,there are a few different colleges here in
southern California that are looking to introducecannabis courses growing, owning your own cannabis
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business, farming, agriculture, thestudy of hemp, all of those different
things. It is something that isgrowing pun intended here in Southern California.
And when you look at some ofthe cannabis courses that are already being offered
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in California colleges since the legalization airquotes here. Several California public universities have
implemented courses exploring topics of business,law, and public policy related to cannabis.
However, the question of cultivation courseswithin agriculture programs remains a complex one.
Cal Poly Humboldt makes Sense is oneof the California universities that has spearheaded
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the jump into cannabis courses after legalization, adding cannabis studies as a major program
in the fall of twenty twenty three, and concentrations under this major include environmental
stewardship and equity and social justice.Interesting. Now, despite the fact that
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calipuly Humboldt, nor any other sciencedepartment in California colleges can offer classes in
which students handle the plant, Okay, doing so may risk federal student aid
including pell grants and other such funding. But it raises the question of whether
cannabis cultivation courses whatever fall within plants, science and agricultural departments at all universities.
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I'd say why not, as ifas if you're by not including them,
kids aren't going to study cannabis,cannabis, cannabis. I was about
to say hemp and then cannabis,and I say hannabs. Okay, that's
a mental side up. But speakingof wek now what about hemp? Now,
there are similar roadblocks existing for thecultivation of hemp, which is,
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of course a plant that is closelyrelated but contains less than three percent of
the cannabinoil of the THAC. I'mgoing to go into the long drawn out
technical definition, but it's THAC.But several public institutions of higher learning in
the United states, including Santa RosaJunior College, offer hemp growing courses.
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However, these courses are touchy foruniversities to offer because of compliance regulations.
And I look at this and Isay, I can understand why college courses,
especially any college that teaches agriculture,would be a little hesitant because of
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some of the legal or political implicationstied still to cannabis. And I'm in
no way. Look, I don'tsupport necessarily the smoking of I'm not down
with edibles or brownies or mushrooms,microdosing. Look, I'm not down with
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any of that. But that's me. That's me as for me and my
household, as the Bible says.But if you and your household, and
you and your kids want to havea Bill and Ted excellent adventure, you
want to send them to college tostudy this, I'd say why not?
And I only say why not becausethis is quite possibly one of outside of
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technology, this is one of themost readily accessible and easy to get into
industries in i'd say America, notjust in California, but in America.
This is one of and going tobe one of the fastest growing industries.
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And I believe if there's more educationsurrounding it. Then there will be a
lot that will erase the divide asfar as actual ownership. But you know
that's just my thoughts on marriage.Juana. Hey, speaking of marijuana,
we got a call that I'm notsure if this gentleman was high or not,
(28:25):
but Elmer, if you would twelve. What I want to know,
because my memory is short, iswhat is the movie that uh you want
Ron and Moe to go to withyou after work that late at night.
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I'm actually I'm interested, man,My memory is just torrible. Thanks if
you if you can mention it.My man, you sound like you are
rolled in some cannabis high somewhere.Much love and thank you for that question.
No, seriously, the movie thatI got his tickets to go see
after work next Friday is Firiosa onthat Mak saga. Yeah, so that
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you'll be out of town girl.Oh yeah, you're jumping on a plane,
all right. Well if I wasn'ton a plane ticket, okay,
yes, then you would get aticket. But you're gonna be on the
plane, super producer, Kayla leavingme high and dry. But no,
we have news regarding that shortly regardingsmall business Saturday and next weekend Memorial Day
(29:32):
weekend. Big news, big news, But I don't want you to go
anywhere, because at the top ofthe hour, we will be getting into
Small Business Saturday. This Small BusinessSaturday, we are welcoming none other than
Ocean Breeze Florals. Yes, misterTony Navarro will be joining us next to
introduce Ocean Breeze Florals. So don'tyou go know where, keep it right
(29:56):
here. This is KFI AM sixforty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
You've been listening to Soul cal Saturday, you can always hear us live on
KFI AM six forty five pm toseven pm on Saturday, and anytime on
demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Los Angeles, Orange County, IE in the Valley. This is to
Wallace Sharp and you're listening to kfI AM six forty Soul Cal Saturday on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. SaturdaySaturday is the Saturdays. The Saturday is
the Saturday Saturday. It's a SaturdaySaturday, the Saturday Hodayday Saturday. Say
(00:46):
kf I AM six party live everywhereon the iHeart or radio app in Alhambra,
at Water Village, San Clemente andDaggett. This is Soul Cal Saturday.
I am your host Twala Sharp toanother fantastically local look at southern California.
Starting off with something that I swear, I just there are sometimes where
(01:11):
you may support a politician and theirmission and their goals, and you think,
like, I want to make surethat we give this politician the benefit
of the doubt because they are reallyreally doing their all to make some change
here in the south Land, inparticular the Los Angeles County part of the
(01:37):
south Land. And this past week, I don't know if you have had
the opportunity to I at least hopeyou have had the opportunity to check out
later with mo Kelly show that I'veproduced Monday through Friday here hosted by a
very own Mo Kelly. Well.We have been on top of this,
(02:00):
this look at La Metro, reportingon all of the troubles that La Metro
is having, the violence, theplight of homelessness on the trains, and
all these things. And we havebeen looking at this for at least the
last year, okay, going backat least a year in reporting some of
(02:23):
the crime, the violence and allthat happening on trains and buses here in
the Los Angeles Metro area at least. And we have questioned the deployment of
green Shirts, We have questioned thelack of security by way of there being
(02:45):
a dedicated Metro police force. Wehave highlighted each and every time, be
it stabbing, a shooting, robbery, of beating, homelessness, anything happening
on the train, over and overand over again. And not long ago,
La Metro even released a study lookingat the trains, a study that
(03:07):
they helped get all this information forfrom the Green Shirt the Metro Ambassadors.
So all of this information has beendetailed and documented, all of these issues
that are happening with La Metro,and it is just now at the eleventh
hour, that Mayor Bass decides togo public and say, hey, she
(03:32):
no longer believes Metro is safe andis so disappointing because that is by definition
leading from behind. How are yousitting on the Metro board. I believe
she is the president of the LaMetro board. So there's no way you
(03:54):
don't know of all the issues thatare happening on La Metro, and you
want to come out now at theeleventh hour and say, hey, wait
a minute, we're having some problemson these trains and buses. I don't
think that they are safe anymore anymore, as of win, as of right
now, because last week, theweek before, the month before, all
(04:15):
the way back to early this year, all the way through the middle last
year, there have been troubles onthe Metro. So why are you trying
to come out now, especially afteryou try to have a whole press conference
earlier in the month saying no,no, no, Metro is safe.
I swear when I see stuff likethat, it irritates me to no end
(04:40):
because the way for the Mayor's officeto have handled this press conference, the
way that it should have been presented, is in my humble opinion, It
would have been better for Mayor Bessto come out and say, hey,
I hear you. We have beenlooking at this, we have been doing
(05:03):
the studies, we have been doingthe work to try to figure out what
we can do to bring about change. And I'm here to tell you that
I not only hear you, butI agree with you that Metro is not
safe. But to just try tocome out now like, oh what,
Metro it's not safe, that's justso despicable, really, really, truly
(05:30):
is the only hope now is thatnow that she's on record and confirming that
she too believes Metro is no longersafe, that we will start to see
some real, real change. AndI know, I know the Mayor's office.
They've already rolled out a plan todeploy more security, more and more
(05:54):
officers at training stations, on trains, roaming bus stations, and things like
that. They are looking at waysto increase cell service while you are underground
or on you know, maybe metroplatforms where cell service may be troubled.
(06:15):
I know that, I know thatthere are things that are already happening.
I just think this this was notthe way to go when you have had
so many stabbings, so many shootings, and this is this is not just
us reporting this. This is yourvery own Metro ambassadors who have been reporting
this. This was not the wayto go as far as addressing what is
(06:36):
happening on La Metro. But again, the only hope is that now that
you have owned up to the issues, that you will do the right thing
and you will bring about some substantivechange. This is kfive AM six forty
live everywhere on the Ihearted Radio app. You're listening to so Old Cal Saturday
(07:00):
with Tawla Sharp on demand from kf I A M six forty. Kf
(07:23):
I AM six forty got everybody onthe I Heart Radio app in AZUSA,
Gorman, Mission b A Home andVermo. Oh your moo, yermo.
Yeah, it's right there in theI E. That's one of my favorite
places to go. Everything in theie. And I don't know what it
is, yer moo there it is. This is Soul Cal Saturday. I'm
(07:46):
your host to Ali Shark and Okay, big surprise, big surprise. I
know you may you may not knowthis. You may not know this,
but southern California is home to theworst commutes in America. No, according
to new data. Yes, whatLook seriously, Kayla, I did not
(08:11):
know this. I did not knowthat a study needed to be put together
to determine that our commuting in southernCalifornia is the absolute worst. I mean,
I only live here. I've onlylived here for like ever in a
day. I thought being in trafficfor an hour and a half was normal,
you would think, especially if you'reonly going five minutes away. Ye,
(08:31):
exact hour, that hour to gofive minutes, that makes perfect sense
in southern California. But no.There is a new study by business resource
group LLC dot org which analyzed thecommute times for full time workers across five
hundred thirty occupations in America's one hundredand seventy most populous cities. Now,
(08:58):
oh, it's flight attend LLC.Okay, so flight attendance. LLC found
that the longest average commute of anyworker in the United States having to make
a round trip journey that lasts nearlytwo hours or more is here in California,
especially traffic heading north out of downtownLos Angeles. Sure, sure,
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this is one of those things whereI say, no, duh, I
mean it literally, Look, Ileft on time considerably. I left on
time to get here. I gavemyself about an hour to get here and
I still just got here and enoughtime to call super producer Kayla and say,
hey, Kaylea, I'm running likefive minutes behind. Please call our
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guest to let them know. Iwill get them on the phone shortly.
It's crazy to me, Like theamount of time that I spend in my
car is ridiculous. Like I livein Alta, Dina. I have to
get up in the morning and travelall the way to North Hills to pick
my children up, drop my daughteroff at school in North Hills, take
my son all the way over toschool in Van nys Then I have to
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go over to Chatsworth to the schoolthat I work at during the day,
and then I do that in reverse, except I'm not going back to Altadena.
I'm coming here to burdmank And theneventually I'm in my car so damn
much it doesn't even make sense.It's almost like my car is probably thinking
I'm gonna have to charge this duderent, Like, seriously, you are
just living in here. It isinsane. So to think that you have
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to put together a study just toconfirm it. I mean, I guess,
look, if they had the timeand money to do so great.
The top ranking cities for the mostcongested commutes, and this is going by
time in Palmdale, California number one, ninety one minutes of or for an
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average round trip commute, New YorkCity, New York eighty one point four
minutes for a round trip commute,Jersey City seventy four point eight minutes,
Yonkers, New York seventy two pointeight. Okay, but that's a lot
of East Coast. Oh. Thenwe come back to California, Marino Valley
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getting back and forth, Marino Valleyseventy minutes, Corona sixty eight point four
minutes, Chicago sixty seven minutes,Fontana sixty six point six minutes. That's
some devil numbers right there. Lancaster, California sixty five point eight minutes,
and Stockton, California sixty five forfour and then yeah, and then actually
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when you get past the top ten, we really start rounding it out.
We're really in there because you getRancho Cucamonga's up in there, Santa Clarita,
Pomona, Ontario, elk Grove,La. Of course, a bunch
of places in Orange County, youknow, Chula Vista, Riverside, just
basically just no. If you areliving in southern California, the commute is
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part of of living here. Butbut but but to add to that commute,
I mean, look outside right now, it's gorgeous. At least the
weather is beautiful, and and andand I have been in Philadelphia, I
have been in New York, andwhen it comes to the traffic and congestion
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there, their attitude is next level. It's next level on the East Coast
when it comes to dealing with trafficversus here in southern California, where we
may put on some smooth jazz,we may listen to KFI, we may
just really just zone out. Iwas just I was. I was home
the other day and somebody was yelling, I'm not beeping at you, chesla
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talking to the efficioa. I wasin southern California when that happens. I'm
just and it was a little foggyand gray this morning. But but but
but that's not what we're talking about, Kevin. We're not talking about I'm
talking about the fact that by nature, just just just you alone can can
testify to this on the East Coast. The attitude's the next level when it
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comes to the aggressiveness of getting outthat window and addressing traffic. Wow,
it just is all right, itjust is. I'm just saying that's this
is I'm not disagreeing, I'm justlike California also had this issue. KFI
AM six forty, Live Everywhere,all the iHeartRadio app You're listening to Soul
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col Saturday with Tawala Sharp on demandfrom KFI AM six forty, KFI AM
(14:01):
six or Live Everywhere or the iHeartRadioi'pen Lonita Montabello Sun City in Hinckley,
Hinckley, Southern California, who superproducer Kayla has us all over the state
and I absolutely love it. HomeOwnership in Southern California something that we discuss
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often here on sol Cal Saturday.Home ownership, especially where homelessness is concerned.
But living in Southern California and buyinga home is at this point it
seems damn near impossible for many ofus, many of us who are living
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here who are not living above themedian income line nah on in a home
that is a no. And thenwhen you look at home ownership, especially
with some of the affordable homes thatare being built or mandated in certain cities,
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a lot of the stipulations that goesinto even being in one of those
affordable houses, sometimes that's not awin. I actually have a friend who
at one point was, of course, you know, receiving all sorts of
services from the city, and shegot into a program to get her into
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an affordable house. And while shewas waiting for her turn to come up,
I guess, for her lotto ticketnumber to come up to be able
to get approved for this affordable house, she started her own company. She
started her own company, her owntherapy company, and of course she started
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making more money. And when itcame to the point in time when her
number was called into the housing officeor whatever the department of housing and she
was going to be placed in ahome, they said, oh, you
now make too much money. Andshe was like, m my situation hasn't
really changed. I mean I maybe making more money on paper, but
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it's now it's just allowed me topay my bills better and keep up on
stuff. And they're like, no, no, Basically, if you want
to get into this home, youhave to maintain the income that you're bringing
in. So she's basically saying,so in order for me to get into
this affordable house, I can neverrise above my current station, so I
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could never make more than AMA.So you just want to keep me at
a level financially where I can liveinto this affordable house. Ah. Hell
the not. She was like,you know what, going to keep that
house and keep it for someone elsethat you want to keep trapped like a
rat in a certain status of ofliving, which is very, very just
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what. I don't know if enoughpeople know about how these programs work when
it comes to mandating affordable housing,but that's a part of it. Well,
turns out that now buying a home, at least in southern California,
there are more options available for buyinga house. But really and truly it's
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almost one of those things where,yes, I could go into all these
statistics and stats and numbers of buyinga house, but really and truly,
how many, how many of uswho don't already own a home right now
are anywhere near position to even putdown for a house. And I know
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there are lots of programs. Iknow there are lots of programs to help
individuals get into a home for thefor the first time, and that's all
fine and dandy, but the amountof hoops that you have to jump through
alone, and the way they keepthey being various organizations that are in charge
of various departments that are in chargeof making sure that purchasing your first home
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is available, that information is kept, that information is kept from certain communities.
So it's one of those. WhenI read stories about the affordability of
home ownership in southern California, sometimesI just laugh. I laugh because it's
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I oftentimes feel that these stories arekind of put out there as a keep
hope alive kind of of news telling. But it's it's it's not really real.
It really isn't the average Californian hereIn reason why so many Californians have
migrated elsewhere have left to elsewhere.A friend who left southern California because she,
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as hard as she was trying,she could not afford a home in
California. She moved to Atlanta andpurchased a three bedroom house in a very
very nice area. And she saidshe put down I can't remember what she
put down, but the house overallis about one hundred and eighty thousand three
bedroom house in Atlanta. She waslike, never in my wildest imagination.
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She's I can't even find a placein California where I can walk into a
door anywhere and see something for onehundred eighty thousand anything. This is a
three bedroom house near the school,near where her and her husband works.
And it's just like, what arewe doing here? Because the cost of
housing and things like that, it'sbased on lots of inflation and just you
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know, just maybe the lord ofcoming to California. But it's not necessary.
It's actually not necessary. It's notnecessary to charge half a million dollars
for a house that ain't worth morethan one hundred and fifty. It's really
not But I get it. It'sliving in California and the market dictates.
And you know, if this isa capitalist society, then yeah, then
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people who are in this to makemoney, they're gonna make their money.
So I'm not faulting the individuals maketheir money. I just know that when
I see any type of article thattalks about affordable housing in southern California,
to shake my head. Although althoughit is interesting and I think we talked
about this last week, the mandatedaffordable housing initiative that's coming to Orange County
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and a Huntington Beach in different areaslike that. I know they were fighting
against it, but things that they'regoing to lose that fight. They're going
to lose that fight. And I'mnot laughing, I'm not saying no,
no, no, no no,you lost that fight. But peers that
the the pushback against ensuring affordable housingin various beach communities, you know,
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Coasta, MESA hundred to Bees,different like that. You're you're not going
to be able to stop it.So there's that. And I think one
thing that needs to be done insouthern California is there needs to be more
transparency as far as what goes intothese these affordable housing initiatives, what this
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actually means. And when I saythat, it's almost as if the affordable
housing initiative that are out there arealmost creating projects by another name. Yes,
yes, yes, yes, youcan get into this house, and
you may not be living in theprojects specifically, but you are still kept
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impoverished. You're still kept impoverished.And I think that's what some of these
beach communities, some of these areasthat were fighting against these affordable housing initiatives
were fighting against. They were fightingagainst allowing poor people to live in their
neighborhoods, because if you keep peoplepoor in the neighborhoods, they're thinking,
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I don't know what we're gonna behaving barbecues in the front yard, cars
being worked on in the driveway.I don't know what the actual push against
against it is because on the flipside, you don't want to see homelessness.
You don't want to see people onthe streets. So I don't know.
I'm helic confused, but you're onso Cal Saturday. We're going to
continue to keep an eye on it. This is KFI AM six forty Live
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everywhere on the Ihearted Radio App.You're listening to soul Cal Saturday with Tawaala
Sharp on demand from KFI AM sixforty kfive AM six forty Live everywhere on
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the iHeartRadio App and pair of Blossom, A Signal, Hill and Boy and
Vidal. This is soul Gal Saturday. I'm host Wallace Sharp, and I
do not partake in the marriage Juana. If you did not know that,
I do not participate in the marriageWuana at all. But I recognize here
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in southern California. That's a thingthat is a maor major thing. The
cannabinoid industry is on and popping,as the young people say, but there
is a bit of a crossroad whenit comes to the study of cannabis at
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higher institutions of learning. Yes,there are a few different colleges here in
southern California that are looking to introducecannabis courses growing, owning your own cannabis
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business, farming, agriculture, thestudy of hemp, all of those different
things. It is something that isgrowing pun intended here in Southern California.
And when you look at some ofthe cannabis courses that are already being offered
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in California colleges since the legalization airquotes here. Several California public universities have
implemented courses exploring topics of business,law, and public policy related to cannabis.
However, the question of cultivation courseswithin agriculture programs remains a complex one.
Cal Poly Humboldt makes Sense is oneof the California universities that has spearheaded
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the jump into cannabis courses after legalization, adding cannabis studies as a major program
in the fall of twenty twenty three, and concentrations under this major include environmental
stewardship and equity and social justice.Interesting. Now, despite the fact that
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calipuly Humboldt, nor any other sciencedepartment in California colleges can offer classes in
which students handle the plant, Okay, doing so may risk federal student aid
including pell grants and other such funding. But it raises the question of whether
cannabis cultivation courses whatever fall within plants, science and agricultural departments at all universities.
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I'd say why not, as ifas if you're by not including them,
kids aren't going to study cannabis,cannabis, cannabis. I was about
to say hemp and then cannabis,and I say hannabs. Okay, that's
a mental side up. But speakingof wek now what about hemp? Now,
there are similar roadblocks existing for thecultivation of hemp, which is,
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of course a plant that is closelyrelated but contains less than three percent of
the cannabinoil of the THAC. I'mgoing to go into the long drawn out
technical definition, but it's THAC.But several public institutions of higher learning in
the United states, including Santa RosaJunior College, offer hemp growing courses.
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However, these courses are touchy foruniversities to offer because of compliance regulations.
And I look at this and Isay, I can understand why college courses,
especially any college that teaches agriculture,would be a little hesitant because of
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some of the legal or political implicationstied still to cannabis. And I'm in
no way. Look, I don'tsupport necessarily the smoking of I'm not down
with edibles or brownies or mushrooms,microdosing. Look, I'm not down with
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any of that. But that's me. That's me as for me and my
household, as the Bible says.But if you and your household, and
you and your kids want to havea Bill and Ted excellent adventure, you
want to send them to college tostudy this, I'd say why not?
And I only say why not becausethis is quite possibly one of outside of
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technology, this is one of themost readily accessible and easy to get into
industries in i'd say America, notjust in California, but in America.
This is one of and going tobe one of the fastest growing industries.
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And I believe if there's more educationsurrounding it. Then there will be a
lot that will erase the divide asfar as actual ownership. But you know
that's just my thoughts on marriage.Juana. Hey, speaking of marijuana,
we got a call that I'm notsure if this gentleman was high or not,
(28:25):
but Elmer, if you would twelve. What I want to know,
because my memory is short, iswhat is the movie that uh you want
Ron and Moe to go to withyou after work that late at night.
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I'm actually I'm interested, man,My memory is just torrible. Thanks if
you if you can mention it.My man, you sound like you are
rolled in some cannabis high somewhere.Much love and thank you for that question.
No, seriously, the movie thatI got his tickets to go see
after work next Friday is Firiosa onthat Mak saga. Yeah, so that
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you'll be out of town girl.Oh yeah, you're jumping on a plane,
all right. Well if I wasn'ton a plane ticket, okay,
yes, then you would get aticket. But you're gonna be on the
plane, super producer, Kayla leavingme high and dry. But no,
we have news regarding that shortly regardingsmall business Saturday and next weekend Memorial Day
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weekend. Big news, big news, But I don't want you to go
anywhere, because at the top ofthe hour, we will be getting into
Small Business Saturday. This Small BusinessSaturday, we are welcoming none other than
Ocean Breeze Florals. Yes, misterTony Navarro will be joining us next to
introduce Ocean Breeze Florals. So don'tyou go know where, keep it right
(29:56):
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