June 29, 2024 • 32 mins
Hollywood & SoCal: · Hollywood crew members reach tentative deal with major studios · Hollywood’s exodus…Why film and TV workers are leaving Los Angeles · Hollywood wants to tell better stories about the climate crisis. Homelessness in SoCal · Supreme Court ruling may push more homeless into L.A., Mayor Karen Bass says · L.A. Sheriff’s outreach program offering support for homeless population. Also in SoCal · LA County board backs proposed LGBTQ commission for California · State board affirms Waymo's expansion into LA · LA County approves medical debt relief for thousands of residents · California’s new high school requirement: Balance a checkbook, manage credit, avoid scams. Avoid the Water in SoCal · How to get into California state parks for free this year · California’s next heat wave is coming — and it could be the worst of 2024 · Avoid the sea · Drinking water of a million Californians fails to meet state requirements.
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Los Angeles, Orange County I Ein the Valley. This is Twala Sharp
and you're listening to KFI AM sixforty Soul Cal Saturday on demand on the
iHeartRadio app. We lead local lifefrom the CAMFI twenty for our newsroom.
I'm Jackie Ray. Saturday kf IAM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
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app. Been Aguado, say Alahambra, the Lucern Valley and Riverside. This
is Soul Cal Saturday. I'm yourhost, Twala Sharp, welcoming you to
another fun filled edition of our lookat Southern California in all things live and
local. Today, of course,we have our small business Saturday Spotlight with
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Know It All Tutors. We havemister Scott Parker, the founder owner,
joining us to let us know allabout know it All Tutors, and we
have a very special giveaway. Yestoday we will be joined by Gravedigger driver
Western Anderson. Gravedigger is one ofthe most famous monster trucks out there,
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and mister Western Anderson will be joiningus to take us inside Monster Jam Summer
Arena Spectacular happening at Crypto dot ComArena July. I believe it's nineteen through
the twenty first Well, he'll bejoining us to tell us all about it
and give away a family four packof tickets, so make sure you stay
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tuned for that. Wanted to startoff today's show with a look at Hollywood.
Hooray for Hollywood. Okay, no, not singing, that's not what
I do. But Hollywood has beengoing through it, not just because of
the pandemic, but also because ofreally and I hate to say it,
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but really really really bad films.Okay, bad films leading to box office
getting lower and lower and lower,and everyone trying to do a superhero movie,
which many were calling superhero fatigue.But it's really just bad movies.
Okay, bad movies or bad movies, I don't care what the genre is.
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Don't blame it on the fact thatsuperhero movies still large in part,
were the only things keeping the lightson in Hollywood. Well since the pandemic
and all the shutting down of setsand this, that and the other,
and now coming back into it,we got out of the sag after strike
and that went on for the longest, and that really hit Hollywood super super
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super hard. We just narrowly avoideda second major major strike with crew members,
but they just reached a tentative dealwith the major studios. Film and
TV crew members have signed a tentativecontract deal with major Hollywood studios after months
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of bargaining. The resolute arrived justbefore, just in the nick of time,
before the current expiration date of thecurrent contract, and now IATSI Hollywood's
basic agreement is now going to coverthe next three years. This tentative deal,
which was recently struck, will makesure that the International Alliance of Theatrical
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Stage Employees and the Alliance of MotionPictures and Television Producers, including updated terms
related to pay, pension, health, work life benefits, and job security
and on and on and on,will keep going. And this is very
very good because I don't know ifHollywood could have really really withstood another strike.
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How do I know because a recentarticle in the La Times pointed to
the fact that many employed in Hollywoodhave been forced to leave Southern California.
Like when we talk about the greatExodus of California, one job that has
been leaving California is jobs in Hollywood. And yes, it is because many
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different production companies have found that it'sactually cheaper to film elsewhere. You know,
individuals can shoot for next to nothingin Atlanta, people are shooting for
dirt cheap. In Detroit and everywhereelse except for California, there are different
sets and different film shot in Louisiana. They'll make you swears downtown in LA.
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But that is because of all thetaxes and subsidies and breaks that they
get in these different states. Wellin La proper, in Hollywood proper,
where this is supposed to be thebread and butter of southern California. This
is the thing where when you cometo southern California, we have one major
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industry and that is Hollywood and allthe things that Hollywood touches from craft services,
security, transportation, set design,you know, costuming, makeup,
hair, all these different things thatHollywood touches. This was our major bread
and butter in California. Now,yes, we have Silicon Valley and all
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the tech rising in California, butthat's new Okay. For the longest,
California has been home to Hollywood.And so even though we have ratified the
SAG after strike and we have atentative deal with the I at Sea contract
and all of that, it isstill problematic getting sets up and running again,
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getting filming going again. And itis because of this that many who
work in Hollywood have been moving out, especially because a lot of work is
being done digitally. There's a lotof digital work being done, a lot
of things that are pushing individuals inset design and different trades like that just
out of their jobs. They haveto find other things to do wherein they
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can move to other places where theyare just actually able to find work.
And Hollywood needs to figure this out. I think one major initiative outside of
homelessness that Mayor Baths really really needsto work towards helping to bridge and bring
back and build is Hollywood. GovernorKnwsom really needs to work on giving these
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film companies a lot of the samesubsidies and even better, I'd say,
to these companies so that they're ableto keep Hollywood in California. We absolutely
need that. Now. One thing, look, I'm going to say,
I think we need more of becauseit's not something that we take serious enough,
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and I think we take it forgranted because we don't see it enough.
And truth be told, what wesee in film and what we see
on television, hearing music and thingslike that. A lot of that is
what influences us, is what makesus think about different things when we're say,
going to the ballad box, anddifferent things are on our mind.
One thing that's not on our mindenough is yes, I hate to say
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it, but the climate crisis isnot on our minds enough. When we
look at the weather and how it'sreally hitting us harder and harder and harder.
No one takes it serious. Youhave a lot of naysayers, a
lot of you know, boom,shut up, I don't want to hear
about your climate crisis. Well,I think if there was more shown about
it, we would be able totake it more serious. And it doesn't
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need to be just this one,you know, end of the world,
day after tomorrow, look at atthe climate crisis. Well, to that
end, Hollywood is actually looking toincrease and tell better stories about the climate
crisis and not make everything so preachy. You know, it doesn't have to
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everything doesn't have to be a documentary. But Hollywood is actually looking at ways
to tell better stories about the theclimate crisis and the types of narratives that
are needed to show the gravity ofthis situation that we're in. Just how
serious it is. And this issomething that is being discussed right now at
the Hollywood Climate Summit, and theseare the things that they are looking to
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bring to the table. And Iapplaud that because I really do think that
it's not top of mind. AndI know when you see it when it
comes up in the news and yousee who is at Greta Gerrigg out there
and protests and you say, okay, give this little girl of a TV.
But really and truly, when youthink about about all of these wells
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that we are seeing, you know, beaching themselves in California, that is
actually a part of the climate crisiswhen you look at how our waters are
being affected, because that alone causestheir food to travel in different ways and
causes them their their radar to bethrown off. And look, I'm not
a scientist, but there are justgeneral things that I know from listening to
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these conversations, and we have totake it more serious. So Hollywood getting
back to work, bravo. Ifwe can get better stories in Hollywood,
even better, if we can getmore happening about the climate crisis, and
they're good stories and not preaching andover the top, and we can start
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maybe caring a little more about thisplanet. Well, damn it, that's
the win for everyone. Yeah.This is KFI AM six forty Live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. You're listeningto Soul col Saturday with Tawla Sharp on
demand from KFI AM six forty kfI AM six forty Live everywhere on the
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iHeart Radio app. In Chatsworth,bok Canyon, Temecula, and Corona.
This is oh Kel Saturday. I'myour host Twalla Sharp taking a look at,
Yes, something that refuses to goaway here in Southern California, so
get used to hearing about it.And no, I'm not talking about reparations,
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even though I know there is atour going on right now with the
Southern California and California and General ReparationsCommittee. I just don't know when they're
coming to Southern California to set upa explanation panel. So when I get
more information on that, I willdiscuss that. But no, of course,
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homelessness. Yeah, how do youknow? Because everywhere you go you
see it. It seems to begetting worse now and I'm wondering if there
is a connection between and getting hotterout here and more and more people finding
themselves, not just finding themselves onthe street, but more and more people
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finding it more comfortable areas where theycan be out on the streets and maybe
leaving the shelters. I often wonderif during the summertime, if this is
when people are like, you know, moving out of the shelters or leaving
the shelter system and finding comfort onthe street, just when most nights it's
like, you know, seventy somedegrees that night here in southern California,
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and there is a heat wave ofcoming that is going to make it even
hotter. So not sure, that'sjust that's just me guessing as to why.
But there is a reason Supreme Courtruling regarding homelessness that could have a
major, major, major impact herein southern California. And right now it
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looks as if this is something thathas really got Mayor Bass and various individuals
up in arms regarding this Supreme Courtruling in support of anti camping laws.
Yes, the Scotus anti camp lawmakes it essentially illegal for individuals to be
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quote unquote camped out on the streetas if they're doing this for the weekend
or something, and they're going togo home after they're done camping out in
front of you know, your localschool. No, that's not what it
is. But to call it anticamping, that for me alone, calling
what the homelessness crisis is, callingthat camping or comparing it to is disgusting
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on the part of the Supreme Court. But this last week the Supreme Court
upheld a decision that allows individuals theability to ticket people for sleeping in public,
regardless of the availability of local shelterbeds. What in the hell?
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So you're now waking people up whoare out on the street sleeping and you're
giving them tickets. This is thisis this is what the Scotas is doing.
Oh manh wow. And I promiseyou this. There is nothing within
this Scota's decision that says every statemust then also allocate x amount of millions
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of dollars towards helping these individuals getoff Three. No more funding was mandated
upon the government to get people offof the streets, but no giving tickets
and citing people, essentially criminalizing homelessness. Because if you have the police come
in and giving tickets and inciting peopleand then ultimately arresting individuals uh for being
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homeless, that this is a crisis, and I see why mayor Baths and
every single homeless advocacy group is absolutelyoutraged over this. But but but but
hopefully this also then gets individuals whoare about the business of housing the unhoused,
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maybe kicks up their mission, theirplanning, their activities up into overdrive
and takes away that we'll get toit when we can, kind of laissez
faire attitude that we seem to seewhen it comes to actually getting off their
butts and signing and approving and gettingthe funding out there. So maybe we'll
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have that effect I know right nowhere in southern California, at least in
Los Angeles County, the Los AngelesSheriffs even have initiated an outreach program which
offers support for the homeless population,which is absolutely fantastic. They have specially
trained deputies along with various partner agenciesthat are working together to get homeless residents
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help if they want it. Now. They're not forcing anyone, but they
have sheriff officers along with different homelessoutreach advocacy programs heading out about into the
streets and really actively getting in thereand working with individuals, talking with individuals
and giving them every single bit ofinformation they can, not to necessarily move
them to another city. They're nothey, get here's a bus ticket,
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go to another city. No,they're actually telling them where resources are in
the area where they are currently,saying, hey, you know, if
you're in Rosemead, for instance,they will they wreck you to a program
in rose me They're not gonna dowhat they did here recently. You know,
when the Burbank police, you know, got this homeless guy away from
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the hospital and put him in acar and then drop them off in LA.
They're not doing that, Okay,and you know allegedly, allegedly that's
why they did it. Sure,but they're not doing that. They're actually
doing the work to help get individualsoff the streets. So bravo to the
LA Sheriff and this initiative. Thisis this is phenomenon. This is the
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type of work that we need ifwe're actually trying to get work done.
This is KFI AM six forty Liveeverywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You're listening
to Soul Cal Saturday with Tawla Sharpon demand from KFI AM six forty KFI
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Am six forty live everywhere on theiHeart Radio and the broad Way Manchester Alter
What is it? Oh, BroadwayManchester Area, Downey, Marietta and Rancho
Cucamonga. All right, this isSoul cal Saturday. I'm your host Twalla
Sharp taking a look at some otherthings that happened this week in southern California
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that you may have missed if youwere not paying attention, or if you
were just just through the roof andjust unhedged by that ridiculous debate, and
maybe that's all you knew about.Oh, yes, well, some other
things happened here in southern California.In LA County, the LA County Board
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has backed a proposed LGBTQ Plus Commissionfor California. The Los Angeles County Board
of Supervisors this past Tuesday officially threwits support behind this proposed legislation that would
establish a California lgbt Plus Commission.Assembly Bill thirty thirty one would create a
commission that quote represents California's diverse LGBTQplus community and shines a light on the
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unique challenges that the LGBTQ plus peopleface. According to a motion by Supervisor
Lindsey Horvath and Hilda Solis. Sothat is something that is in the works
up and running, and I believehere in southern California is definitely needed.
We need representation and individuals that arespeaking for these diverse groups all over.
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Oh thank you Kelly for getting myattention. I appreciate that. So we
definitely need that. Something that I'vebeen on and that I am absolutely all
for is the expansion of way Mo. I know Moe and I have gone
back and forth toe to toe arguingabout Waymo. He claims I've been Waymoth's
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pocket, lies, lies and garbagejust because I'm all about technology. I
love Waymo. Waimo is terrifying.I can understand your fear because you know
you've grown up in a generation thatis wary of the advents driving vehicles,
driving vehicles. But I'm trying totell you this is beyond just my passion
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and fascination with things like this comingto life from my childhood. But really
and truly, this is the wayit's going to go. And I've seen
these vehicles all around LA and Hollywood, down town, LA. Everywhere.
I see these vehicles driving, stopping, pausing, letting little old ladies cross
the street. Look, way moovehicles look very very cool. I've seen
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people in them too, not justthe waymo's driving by themselves, I've seen
them taking people around. And soright now, the California State Board is
backing the expansion of Waymo's growth intothe Los Angeles area. Waymo, which
of course is a subsidiary of Google'sparent company, Alphabet, has been expanding
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in the LA area for the pastseveral months. And you know, we
haven't heard in the past several monthsany news regarding any accidents, any drama
dealing with Waymo. A lot ofthe drama and stories that we've been hearing
about were maybe from Arizona in itsinitial test launch and San Francisco, where
you have a coalition of you know, ride shair drivers who were just up
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in arms about Waymo, and likeone or two representatives from the fire department
out there who were like, they'reparking in front of fire hydrants. Okay,
but you know what, I've seenregular people parking front of fire hydrants
real quick and just trying to makea run. It's side of a liquor
store. So I don't want tohear about that that was a person driving
a car. Okay, But yes, this expansion will actually increase the number
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of cars that are on the roads, but also allow for more regulation more
you know, Waynewo just doesn't getto do what everyone wants out here and
just go you know, buck wild. But yes, we need more self
driving cars out here because really andtruly one thing that's on the rise here
in southern California. I know themurder rate is down, but you don't
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what's up vehicular fatalities. Vehicular fatalitiesare up in California. Cars driven by
people. Okay, So maybe ifwe have more cars driven by self driving
drivers, no drivers, maybe that'llcut back on that a little bit.
I don't know. As someone whohas been for now going on fourteen years
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dealing with health issues, in termsof maintenance of my health, you know,
I am a dual transplant recipient ofkidney pancreas, just celebrating recently my
fourteenth rebirth. I can tell youfor a fact that the greatest cost that
I face every year is medical debt. Lord have mercy, The cost of
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just prescriptions and everything through the roofwell now in La County, La County
supervisors have voted unanimously Tuesday this pastweek to buy up. Hear me on
this, to buy up and forgivemillions of dollars in medical debt as part
of a comprehensive plan to tackle atwo point nine billion dollar burden that weighs
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on almost eight hundred thousand residence inthe Los Angeles County area. Thank you
Jesus. The measures, authored bySupervisors Janis Hahn and Holly Mitchell, allows
the county to enter into a pilotprogram with Undue Medical Debt, previously known
as RIP Medical Debt, a nationalorganization that releaves patients of what they owe
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by purchasing their medical debt for pennieson the dollar and then retire. Look,
I'm glad this is coming around now. If this could have come around
fourteen years ago, when I wasat the height of my medical debt,
it would have been great. Butthis is going to help so many families,
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so many people who are just buriedalmost literally out of their homes because
of medical debt. This right hereis absolutely phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal, and
something that I spoke about last weekthat I'm glad now this week, maybe
someone is listening. Maybe someone waslistening to Soul cal Saturday. They said,
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Man, you know what flow usonto something? Right now? In
California, beginning in the twenty twentyseven twenty twenty eight school year and piloting
I believe in the twenty twenty fiveschool year, there is going to be
a new requirement where in high schooland junior high students will be required to
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take debt or not debt, butfinancial literacy courses. Okay, students will
be required to know how to balancea checkbook, manage credit cards, avoid
scams in order to graduate from highschool. Do you know how important this
is that we start teaching these tokids now? You don't want kids graduating
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walking around, say at a juniorcollege and run into one of those Hey,
come to get a five hundred dollarcredit card? You don't want that?
Do you want kids to at leastknow better or to know what it
is that they're getting into? Andthis is this is for nominal phenomenal And
I think this is just brilliant thatwe are going to require this from kids
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in California. I know my sontook a financial literary literary course, but
that was in a weekend program.That wasn't part of high school, you
know. And to me, I'mlike, how did you get out of
high school without knowing that? He'slike, no, Gotti, I took
a course. I've taken a course, and I actually know how to manage
finances and the thread of debt andall that kind of stuff. So look,
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bravo California. Yet another reason whythis is the greatest state in the
Union and why anyone leaving goodbye.We don't need you more for us.
All Right, this is KFI AMsix forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
You're listening to soul Cal Saturday withTawala Sharp on demand from KFI AM
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six forty, K five and sixforty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio apping Glass
El Park, Hermosa Beach, PalmSprings, and Palm Desert. This is
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soul Cal Saturday. I'm your host, Twala Sharp, wrapping up this hour
with a look at how to getinto some state parks this summer or all
year long, but this summer.I mean, look, I may not
be into camping. That may notbe my bag. Okay, I'm not
the camper. I don't do allthat, but I really love the concept
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of it. I know that myson when he was a Scout, he
loved camping. He loved camping.He talks about how great the experience is.
So that's why I want to sharethis information with you. Right now,
Californias can get access to hundreds ofstate parks for free, Okay,
for free, ninety nine yes,through a program that runs at least through
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December of twenty twenty five. Thisis the Library Parks Past program. Never
heard of it, but the LibraryParks Past program allows Californians with valid library
cards to check out park pass tocheck out a park pass from their local
library to be used for a singlevehicle entry at more than two hundred state
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parks, beaches, and recreation areas. This is amazing. Cardholders can check
out a pass and visit as manyas fifty four state parks throughout the year
for free of charge. Now thestate has placed more than thirty three thousand
park passes and more than eleven hundredpublic libraries and this program has proven to
be very, very popular according toa survey conducted by the nonprofit organization what
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is the organization? I doesn't matterwith the organization is they have found that
this program has allowed many, manydisadvantage families the ability to get out of
the city and go and see someof these great majestic parts. And really
and truly that is something we needmore of. We need more and more
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and more of people getting back intonature, getting in tune with nature,
and maybe maybe, just maybe thatwill help us to do things like keep
our waters clean. And I won'thave to be telling you to stay the
hell out of the water because ourwater is so damn polluted. And I
know I said it earlier. Weare about to experience a significant, significant
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heat wave starting believe, what isit Monday, maybe early Tuesday. We're
going to see temperatures in the rangesfrom like one hundred and five to one
hundred and fifteen across the central Valley, and people bay just going to just
start frying eggs in the street.I don't know, it's gonna be super
super hot. But even still,that is still not reason to get your
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behind in the water. It absolutelyis not. Why because the La County
Department of Health has once again recommendedbeachgoers to avoid going to the water at
eighteen beaches in the Los Angeles regionbecause of what said with me, poop,
itch, poop in the water,high bacteria levels because of runoff from
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sewers. What's running on of sewerspoop. Okay, that's what's happening.
That's what's getting into the water.What beaches you ask, well, Santa
Monica Canyon Creek at will Rogers StateBeach near Tower eighteen, one hundred yards
up and down the coast. Okay, all these warnings are hundred yards up
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and down the coast all right toPega Canyon Beach in Malibu, Mother's Beach
and Marina Dell Ray, Malibu Lagoonat surf Rider Beach, Santa Monica Pier,
on and on and on even Malibu, enter Cabrillo Beach. Look,
stay you're behind out of the water, unless unless, unless you don't mind
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surfing and getting a little poop inyour body. That's what happens, because
you're gonna open up your mouth whereyou say, hey, hooray. You
get it in your mouth, downsin your Lungs's in your system. Stay
out of the water, stay outof the You've drilled this so much that
I saw people swimming in Long Beachin the water and I was like,
no, no, get out,get out. Oh my god, it
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is so horrible. You know.It's even worse though, is uh is
our drinking water. And that's somethingI was like really shocked to read that
here in California, millions of usare drinking water that has failed to actually
meet state requirements. I literally thoughtit was just the beaches and stuff like
that, but no, more thanfour hundred water systems serving nearly a million
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Californias don't meet state requirements for safeand reliable drinking water supply. So if
you're drinking straight out the tap,you don't have a filter, you may
be getting something special in that water. Does that affect our shower water and
bath water as well? Then itactually does. That is why when you
get out of the water you musttake another shower just to get that filth
off. I don't know how.You're just seen that scum in the shower.
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Yeah, this that's come. Whenyou get off, you have that
almost that something like you get thatwhite film. You gotta really get off.
Well. No, but I willsay that when I moved over here
first from Jersey, and I loveit here and I love everyone from here.
It's an amazing state with amazing peoplego. The water does have a
smell to it, like the showerwater. It's a smell you know.
That is because our pipes are probablyold ish, and a lot of buildings,
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especially a lot of rental units,they may not be updating the pipes
that they as they should be.But no, no, no, it's
just really it's just really just badwater. It's just water, that's really
and truly. I mean it's notthat it's unsafe, okay, but it's
not safe all right. It's notpoisonous, you know what I'm saying,
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but they just ain't. Don't drinkit, all right, and so stay
out of the water when it comesto getting in the ocean, and don't
drink anything out to think if youdon't have a filter, just don't do
it, all right. I'm tryingto help you here. Coming up at
the top of the hour, itis our Soul cal Saturday Small Business Saturday
Spotlight and we are going to beintroducing you to some know it alls in
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the best way. I'm talking aboutknow it all tutors and mister Scott Parker
is coming up next. So don'tyou go nowhere, keep it right here.
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Los Angeles, Orange County I Ein the Valley. This is Twala Sharp
and you're listening to KFI AM sixforty Soul Cal Saturday on demand on the
iHeartRadio app. We lead local lifefrom the CAMFI twenty for our newsroom.
I'm Jackie Ray. Saturday kf IAM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
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app. Been Aguado, say Alahambra, the Lucern Valley and Riverside. This
is Soul Cal Saturday. I'm yourhost, Twala Sharp, welcoming you to
another fun filled edition of our lookat Southern California in all things live and
local. Today, of course,we have our small business Saturday Spotlight with
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Know It All Tutors. We havemister Scott Parker, the founder owner,
joining us to let us know allabout know it All Tutors, and we
have a very special giveaway. Yestoday we will be joined by Gravedigger driver
Western Anderson. Gravedigger is one ofthe most famous monster trucks out there,
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and mister Western Anderson will be joiningus to take us inside Monster Jam Summer
Arena Spectacular happening at Crypto dot ComArena July. I believe it's nineteen through
the twenty first Well, he'll bejoining us to tell us all about it
and give away a family four packof tickets, so make sure you stay
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tuned for that. Wanted to startoff today's show with a look at Hollywood.
Hooray for Hollywood. Okay, no, not singing, that's not what
I do. But Hollywood has beengoing through it, not just because of
the pandemic, but also because ofreally and I hate to say it,
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but really really really bad films.Okay, bad films leading to box office
getting lower and lower and lower,and everyone trying to do a superhero movie,
which many were calling superhero fatigue.But it's really just bad movies.
Okay, bad movies or bad movies, I don't care what the genre is.
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Don't blame it on the fact thatsuperhero movies still large in part,
were the only things keeping the lightson in Hollywood. Well since the pandemic
and all the shutting down of setsand this, that and the other,
and now coming back into it,we got out of the sag after strike
and that went on for the longest, and that really hit Hollywood super super
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super hard. We just narrowly avoideda second major major strike with crew members,
but they just reached a tentative dealwith the major studios. Film and
TV crew members have signed a tentativecontract deal with major Hollywood studios after months
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of bargaining. The resolute arrived justbefore, just in the nick of time,
before the current expiration date of thecurrent contract, and now IATSI Hollywood's
basic agreement is now going to coverthe next three years. This tentative deal,
which was recently struck, will makesure that the International Alliance of Theatrical
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Stage Employees and the Alliance of MotionPictures and Television Producers, including updated terms
related to pay, pension, health, work life benefits, and job security
and on and on and on,will keep going. And this is very
very good because I don't know ifHollywood could have really really withstood another strike.
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How do I know because a recentarticle in the La Times pointed to
the fact that many employed in Hollywoodhave been forced to leave Southern California.
Like when we talk about the greatExodus of California, one job that has
been leaving California is jobs in Hollywood. And yes, it is because many
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different production companies have found that it'sactually cheaper to film elsewhere. You know,
individuals can shoot for next to nothingin Atlanta, people are shooting for
dirt cheap. In Detroit and everywhereelse except for California, there are different
sets and different film shot in Louisiana. They'll make you swears downtown in LA.
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But that is because of all thetaxes and subsidies and breaks that they
get in these different states. Wellin La proper, in Hollywood proper,
where this is supposed to be thebread and butter of southern California. This
is the thing where when you cometo southern California, we have one major
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industry and that is Hollywood and allthe things that Hollywood touches from craft services,
security, transportation, set design,you know, costuming, makeup,
hair, all these different things thatHollywood touches. This was our major bread
and butter in California. Now,yes, we have Silicon Valley and all
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the tech rising in California, butthat's new Okay. For the longest,
California has been home to Hollywood.And so even though we have ratified the
SAG after strike and we have atentative deal with the I at Sea contract
and all of that, it isstill problematic getting sets up and running again,
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getting filming going again. And itis because of this that many who
work in Hollywood have been moving out, especially because a lot of work is
being done digitally. There's a lotof digital work being done, a lot
of things that are pushing individuals inset design and different trades like that just
out of their jobs. They haveto find other things to do wherein they
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can move to other places where theyare just actually able to find work.
And Hollywood needs to figure this out. I think one major initiative outside of
homelessness that Mayor Baths really really needsto work towards helping to bridge and bring
back and build is Hollywood. GovernorKnwsom really needs to work on giving these
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film companies a lot of the samesubsidies and even better, I'd say,
to these companies so that they're ableto keep Hollywood in California. We absolutely
need that. Now. One thing, look, I'm going to say,
I think we need more of becauseit's not something that we take serious enough,
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and I think we take it forgranted because we don't see it enough.
And truth be told, what wesee in film and what we see
on television, hearing music and thingslike that. A lot of that is
what influences us, is what makesus think about different things when we're say,
going to the ballad box, anddifferent things are on our mind.
One thing that's not on our mindenough is yes, I hate to say
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it, but the climate crisis isnot on our minds enough. When we
look at the weather and how it'sreally hitting us harder and harder and harder.
No one takes it serious. Youhave a lot of naysayers, a
lot of you know, boom,shut up, I don't want to hear
about your climate crisis. Well,I think if there was more shown about
it, we would be able totake it more serious. And it doesn't
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need to be just this one,you know, end of the world,
day after tomorrow, look at atthe climate crisis. Well, to that
end, Hollywood is actually looking toincrease and tell better stories about the climate
crisis and not make everything so preachy. You know, it doesn't have to
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everything doesn't have to be a documentary. But Hollywood is actually looking at ways
to tell better stories about the theclimate crisis and the types of narratives that
are needed to show the gravity ofthis situation that we're in. Just how
serious it is. And this issomething that is being discussed right now at
the Hollywood Climate Summit, and theseare the things that they are looking to
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bring to the table. And Iapplaud that because I really do think that
it's not top of mind. AndI know when you see it when it
comes up in the news and yousee who is at Greta Gerrigg out there
and protests and you say, okay, give this little girl of a TV.
But really and truly, when youthink about about all of these wells
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that we are seeing, you know, beaching themselves in California, that is
actually a part of the climate crisiswhen you look at how our waters are
being affected, because that alone causestheir food to travel in different ways and
causes them their their radar to bethrown off. And look, I'm not
a scientist, but there are justgeneral things that I know from listening to
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these conversations, and we have totake it more serious. So Hollywood getting
back to work, bravo. Ifwe can get better stories in Hollywood,
even better, if we can getmore happening about the climate crisis, and
they're good stories and not preaching andover the top, and we can start
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maybe caring a little more about thisplanet. Well, damn it, that's
the win for everyone. Yeah.This is KFI AM six forty Live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. You're listeningto Soul col Saturday with Tawla Sharp on
demand from KFI AM six forty kfI AM six forty Live everywhere on the
(09:52):
iHeart Radio app. In Chatsworth,bok Canyon, Temecula, and Corona.
This is oh Kel Saturday. I'myour host Twalla Sharp taking a look at,
Yes, something that refuses to goaway here in Southern California, so
get used to hearing about it.And no, I'm not talking about reparations,
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even though I know there is atour going on right now with the
Southern California and California and General ReparationsCommittee. I just don't know when they're
coming to Southern California to set upa explanation panel. So when I get
more information on that, I willdiscuss that. But no, of course,
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homelessness. Yeah, how do youknow? Because everywhere you go you
see it. It seems to begetting worse now and I'm wondering if there
is a connection between and getting hotterout here and more and more people finding
themselves, not just finding themselves onthe street, but more and more people
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finding it more comfortable areas where theycan be out on the streets and maybe
leaving the shelters. I often wonderif during the summertime, if this is
when people are like, you know, moving out of the shelters or leaving
the shelter system and finding comfort onthe street, just when most nights it's
like, you know, seventy somedegrees that night here in southern California,
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and there is a heat wave ofcoming that is going to make it even
hotter. So not sure, that'sjust that's just me guessing as to why.
But there is a reason Supreme Courtruling regarding homelessness that could have a
major, major, major impact herein southern California. And right now it
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looks as if this is something thathas really got Mayor Bass and various individuals
up in arms regarding this Supreme Courtruling in support of anti camping laws.
Yes, the Scotus anti camp lawmakes it essentially illegal for individuals to be
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quote unquote camped out on the streetas if they're doing this for the weekend
or something, and they're going togo home after they're done camping out in
front of you know, your localschool. No, that's not what it
is. But to call it anticamping, that for me alone, calling
what the homelessness crisis is, callingthat camping or comparing it to is disgusting
(12:31):
on the part of the Supreme Court. But this last week the Supreme Court
upheld a decision that allows individuals theability to ticket people for sleeping in public,
regardless of the availability of local shelterbeds. What in the hell?
(12:54):
So you're now waking people up whoare out on the street sleeping and you're
giving them tickets. This is thisis this is what the Scotas is doing.
Oh manh wow. And I promiseyou this. There is nothing within
this Scota's decision that says every statemust then also allocate x amount of millions
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of dollars towards helping these individuals getoff Three. No more funding was mandated
upon the government to get people offof the streets, but no giving tickets
and citing people, essentially criminalizing homelessness. Because if you have the police come
in and giving tickets and inciting peopleand then ultimately arresting individuals uh for being
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homeless, that this is a crisis, and I see why mayor Baths and
every single homeless advocacy group is absolutelyoutraged over this. But but but but
hopefully this also then gets individuals whoare about the business of housing the unhoused,
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maybe kicks up their mission, theirplanning, their activities up into overdrive
and takes away that we'll get toit when we can, kind of laissez
faire attitude that we seem to seewhen it comes to actually getting off their
butts and signing and approving and gettingthe funding out there. So maybe we'll
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have that effect I know right nowhere in southern California, at least in
Los Angeles County, the Los AngelesSheriffs even have initiated an outreach program which
offers support for the homeless population,which is absolutely fantastic. They have specially
trained deputies along with various partner agenciesthat are working together to get homeless residents
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help if they want it. Now. They're not forcing anyone, but they
have sheriff officers along with different homelessoutreach advocacy programs heading out about into the
streets and really actively getting in thereand working with individuals, talking with individuals
and giving them every single bit ofinformation they can, not to necessarily move
them to another city. They're nothey, get here's a bus ticket,
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go to another city. No,they're actually telling them where resources are in
the area where they are currently,saying, hey, you know, if
you're in Rosemead, for instance,they will they wreck you to a program
in rose me They're not gonna dowhat they did here recently. You know,
when the Burbank police, you know, got this homeless guy away from
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the hospital and put him in acar and then drop them off in LA.
They're not doing that, Okay,and you know allegedly, allegedly that's
why they did it. Sure,but they're not doing that. They're actually
doing the work to help get individualsoff the streets. So bravo to the
LA Sheriff and this initiative. Thisis this is phenomenon. This is the
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type of work that we need ifwe're actually trying to get work done.
This is KFI AM six forty Liveeverywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You're listening
to Soul Cal Saturday with Tawla Sharpon demand from KFI AM six forty KFI
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Am six forty live everywhere on theiHeart Radio and the broad Way Manchester Alter
What is it? Oh, BroadwayManchester Area, Downey, Marietta and Rancho
Cucamonga. All right, this isSoul cal Saturday. I'm your host Twalla
Sharp taking a look at some otherthings that happened this week in southern California
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that you may have missed if youwere not paying attention, or if you
were just just through the roof andjust unhedged by that ridiculous debate, and
maybe that's all you knew about.Oh, yes, well, some other
things happened here in southern California.In LA County, the LA County Board
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has backed a proposed LGBTQ Plus Commissionfor California. The Los Angeles County Board
of Supervisors this past Tuesday officially threwits support behind this proposed legislation that would
establish a California lgbt Plus Commission.Assembly Bill thirty thirty one would create a
commission that quote represents California's diverse LGBTQplus community and shines a light on the
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unique challenges that the LGBTQ plus peopleface. According to a motion by Supervisor
Lindsey Horvath and Hilda Solis. Sothat is something that is in the works
up and running, and I believehere in southern California is definitely needed.
We need representation and individuals that arespeaking for these diverse groups all over.
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Oh thank you Kelly for getting myattention. I appreciate that. So we
definitely need that. Something that I'vebeen on and that I am absolutely all
for is the expansion of way Mo. I know Moe and I have gone
back and forth toe to toe arguingabout Waymo. He claims I've been Waymoth's
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pocket, lies, lies and garbagejust because I'm all about technology. I
love Waymo. Waimo is terrifying.I can understand your fear because you know
you've grown up in a generation thatis wary of the advents driving vehicles,
driving vehicles. But I'm trying totell you this is beyond just my passion
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and fascination with things like this comingto life from my childhood. But really
and truly, this is the wayit's going to go. And I've seen
these vehicles all around LA and Hollywood, down town, LA. Everywhere.
I see these vehicles driving, stopping, pausing, letting little old ladies cross
the street. Look, way moovehicles look very very cool. I've seen
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people in them too, not justthe waymo's driving by themselves, I've seen
them taking people around. And soright now, the California State Board is
backing the expansion of Waymo's growth intothe Los Angeles area. Waymo, which
of course is a subsidiary of Google'sparent company, Alphabet, has been expanding
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in the LA area for the pastseveral months. And you know, we
haven't heard in the past several monthsany news regarding any accidents, any drama
dealing with Waymo. A lot ofthe drama and stories that we've been hearing
about were maybe from Arizona in itsinitial test launch and San Francisco, where
you have a coalition of you know, ride shair drivers who were just up
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in arms about Waymo, and likeone or two representatives from the fire department
out there who were like, they'reparking in front of fire hydrants. Okay,
but you know what, I've seenregular people parking front of fire hydrants
real quick and just trying to makea run. It's side of a liquor
store. So I don't want tohear about that that was a person driving
a car. Okay, But yes, this expansion will actually increase the number
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of cars that are on the roads, but also allow for more regulation more
you know, Waynewo just doesn't getto do what everyone wants out here and
just go you know, buck wild. But yes, we need more self
driving cars out here because really andtruly one thing that's on the rise here
in southern California. I know themurder rate is down, but you don't
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what's up vehicular fatalities. Vehicular fatalitiesare up in California. Cars driven by
people. Okay, So maybe ifwe have more cars driven by self driving
drivers, no drivers, maybe that'llcut back on that a little bit.
I don't know. As someone whohas been for now going on fourteen years
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dealing with health issues, in termsof maintenance of my health, you know,
I am a dual transplant recipient ofkidney pancreas, just celebrating recently my
fourteenth rebirth. I can tell youfor a fact that the greatest cost that
I face every year is medical debt. Lord have mercy, The cost of
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just prescriptions and everything through the roofwell now in La County, La County
supervisors have voted unanimously Tuesday this pastweek to buy up. Hear me on
this, to buy up and forgivemillions of dollars in medical debt as part
of a comprehensive plan to tackle atwo point nine billion dollar burden that weighs
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on almost eight hundred thousand residence inthe Los Angeles County area. Thank you
Jesus. The measures, authored bySupervisors Janis Hahn and Holly Mitchell, allows
the county to enter into a pilotprogram with Undue Medical Debt, previously known
as RIP Medical Debt, a nationalorganization that releaves patients of what they owe
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by purchasing their medical debt for pennieson the dollar and then retire. Look,
I'm glad this is coming around now. If this could have come around
fourteen years ago, when I wasat the height of my medical debt,
it would have been great. Butthis is going to help so many families,
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so many people who are just buriedalmost literally out of their homes because
of medical debt. This right hereis absolutely phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal, and
something that I spoke about last weekthat I'm glad now this week, maybe
someone is listening. Maybe someone waslistening to Soul cal Saturday. They said,
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Man, you know what flow usonto something? Right now? In
California, beginning in the twenty twentyseven twenty twenty eight school year and piloting
I believe in the twenty twenty fiveschool year, there is going to be
a new requirement where in high schooland junior high students will be required to
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take debt or not debt, butfinancial literacy courses. Okay, students will
be required to know how to balancea checkbook, manage credit cards, avoid
scams in order to graduate from highschool. Do you know how important this
is that we start teaching these tokids now? You don't want kids graduating
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walking around, say at a juniorcollege and run into one of those Hey,
come to get a five hundred dollarcredit card? You don't want that?
Do you want kids to at leastknow better or to know what it
is that they're getting into? Andthis is this is for nominal phenomenal And
I think this is just brilliant thatwe are going to require this from kids
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in California. I know my sontook a financial literary literary course, but
that was in a weekend program.That wasn't part of high school, you
know. And to me, I'mlike, how did you get out of
high school without knowing that? He'slike, no, Gotti, I took
a course. I've taken a course, and I actually know how to manage
finances and the thread of debt andall that kind of stuff. So look,
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bravo California. Yet another reason whythis is the greatest state in the
Union and why anyone leaving goodbye.We don't need you more for us.
All Right, this is KFI AMsix forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
You're listening to soul Cal Saturday withTawala Sharp on demand from KFI AM
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six forty, K five and sixforty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio apping Glass
El Park, Hermosa Beach, PalmSprings, and Palm Desert. This is
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soul Cal Saturday. I'm your host, Twala Sharp, wrapping up this hour
with a look at how to getinto some state parks this summer or all
year long, but this summer.I mean, look, I may not
be into camping. That may notbe my bag. Okay, I'm not
the camper. I don't do allthat, but I really love the concept
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of it. I know that myson when he was a Scout, he
loved camping. He loved camping.He talks about how great the experience is.
So that's why I want to sharethis information with you. Right now,
Californias can get access to hundreds ofstate parks for free, Okay,
for free, ninety nine yes,through a program that runs at least through
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December of twenty twenty five. Thisis the Library Parks Past program. Never
heard of it, but the LibraryParks Past program allows Californians with valid library
cards to check out park pass tocheck out a park pass from their local
library to be used for a singlevehicle entry at more than two hundred state
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parks, beaches, and recreation areas. This is amazing. Cardholders can check
out a pass and visit as manyas fifty four state parks throughout the year
for free of charge. Now thestate has placed more than thirty three thousand
park passes and more than eleven hundredpublic libraries and this program has proven to
be very, very popular according toa survey conducted by the nonprofit organization what
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is the organization? I doesn't matterwith the organization is they have found that
this program has allowed many, manydisadvantage families the ability to get out of
the city and go and see someof these great majestic parts. And really
and truly that is something we needmore of. We need more and more
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and more of people getting back intonature, getting in tune with nature,
and maybe maybe, just maybe thatwill help us to do things like keep
our waters clean. And I won'thave to be telling you to stay the
hell out of the water because ourwater is so damn polluted. And I
know I said it earlier. Weare about to experience a significant, significant
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heat wave starting believe, what isit Monday, maybe early Tuesday. We're
going to see temperatures in the rangesfrom like one hundred and five to one
hundred and fifteen across the central Valley, and people bay just going to just
start frying eggs in the street.I don't know, it's gonna be super
super hot. But even still,that is still not reason to get your
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behind in the water. It absolutelyis not. Why because the La County
Department of Health has once again recommendedbeachgoers to avoid going to the water at
eighteen beaches in the Los Angeles regionbecause of what said with me, poop,
itch, poop in the water,high bacteria levels because of runoff from
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sewers. What's running on of sewerspoop. Okay, that's what's happening.
That's what's getting into the water.What beaches you ask, well, Santa
Monica Canyon Creek at will Rogers StateBeach near Tower eighteen, one hundred yards
up and down the coast. Okay, all these warnings are hundred yards up
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and down the coast all right toPega Canyon Beach in Malibu, Mother's Beach
and Marina Dell Ray, Malibu Lagoonat surf Rider Beach, Santa Monica Pier,
on and on and on even Malibu, enter Cabrillo Beach. Look,
stay you're behind out of the water, unless unless, unless you don't mind
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surfing and getting a little poop inyour body. That's what happens, because
you're gonna open up your mouth whereyou say, hey, hooray. You
get it in your mouth, downsin your Lungs's in your system. Stay
out of the water, stay outof the You've drilled this so much that
I saw people swimming in Long Beachin the water and I was like,
no, no, get out,get out. Oh my god, it
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is so horrible. You know.It's even worse though, is uh is
our drinking water. And that's somethingI was like really shocked to read that
here in California, millions of usare drinking water that has failed to actually
meet state requirements. I literally thoughtit was just the beaches and stuff like
that, but no, more thanfour hundred water systems serving nearly a million
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Californias don't meet state requirements for safeand reliable drinking water supply. So if
you're drinking straight out the tap,you don't have a filter, you may
be getting something special in that water. Does that affect our shower water and
bath water as well? Then itactually does. That is why when you
get out of the water you musttake another shower just to get that filth
off. I don't know how.You're just seen that scum in the shower.
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Yeah, this that's come. Whenyou get off, you have that
almost that something like you get thatwhite film. You gotta really get off.
Well. No, but I willsay that when I moved over here
first from Jersey, and I loveit here and I love everyone from here.
It's an amazing state with amazing peoplego. The water does have a
smell to it, like the showerwater. It's a smell you know.
That is because our pipes are probablyold ish, and a lot of buildings,
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especially a lot of rental units,they may not be updating the pipes
that they as they should be.But no, no, no, it's
just really it's just really just badwater. It's just water, that's really
and truly. I mean it's notthat it's unsafe, okay, but it's
not safe all right. It's notpoisonous, you know what I'm saying,
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but they just ain't. Don't drinkit, all right, and so stay
out of the water when it comesto getting in the ocean, and don't
drink anything out to think if youdon't have a filter, just don't do
it, all right. I'm tryingto help you here. Coming up at
the top of the hour, itis our Soul cal Saturday Small Business Saturday
Spotlight and we are going to beintroducing you to some know it alls in
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the best way. I'm talking aboutknow it all tutors and mister Scott Parker
is coming up next. So don'tyou go nowhere, keep it right here.
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