July 27, 2024 • 31 mins
Will LA be ready to host 2028 Olympics? Mayor Bass addresses top concerns. // Gavin Newsom orders state agencies to move homeless people out of camp - but to where? // Why homelessness has more than doubled in LA County's once affordable northen desert. // Anaheim lowering speed limits across the city. // Study ranks California No. 1 for road rage. // Parental Warning in SoCal: Man, 64, admits to 'catfishing' girl on Roblox, convincing her to send explicit images.
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Los Angeles, Orange County. IE in the Valley. This is Tawala
Sharp and you're listening to KFI AMsix forty Soul cal Saturday on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. I'm your host, Twaler Sharp, welcoming you to another
fun filled show today. Of course, we have our small business Saturday Spotlight
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with She Is Hope La. Wehave the president of She Is Hope La,
Miss Tisha Genie Jian I Hope I'mpronouncing that right. I know,
I butcher name. So Tisha willbe joining us later on to tell us
all about She Is Hope La,which is a nonprofit that helps single mother
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families get back on their feet througheducation, jobs and housing. And I
have to absolutely start off with theOlympics. Not that I am even really
following the games. I'm really not. I haven't watched anything having to do
with the Olympics. I am waitingfor taekwondo, which I believe happens sometime
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next week. And of course breakdancing. I have got to see breakdancing,
and I think I want to seeskateboarding as well. I want to see
skateboarding. I want to see breakdancing. Boxing. I like boxing. I
like boxing, but taekwondo, Olympictaekwondo is it's pretty pretty nice to watch.
I say that because the school thatI studied at, my Dojong,
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taught Olympic style taekwondo, and thatis why I'm a fan of that.
But the thing I think, forme at least is the most exciting about
the Olympics right now is seeing localWest Coast hero Snoop dog carrying the torch.
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I think that put the biggest smileon my face. Watching him dance
up and pass the torch light alongbeing one of the final torch bears in
the Olympic opening ceremonies this past Friday, that brought absolute joy to my heart.
I mean, Snoop Dogg has gonefrom being a local rapper out of
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Long Beach to being one of themost iconic rap personalities in the world,
rapping, acting, producing, Imean even the comedy that he is delivering
so far on his Olympic game coverage. It is absolutely hilarious. And to
think about where he came from andwho he is now, and to see
that he is still the same guyI have had Snoop Dogg on. I
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don't mean I can't even count howmany concerts shows, how many times I've
had him on my radio station,on my previous stations I worked at,
and he is the same guy andI love seeing him shine in this way.
So congratulations to Snoop Dogg for openingthe opening games with style. Something
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that you know I am keeping myeye on is our very own Mayor Bass's
visit to the Olympic Games. Andof course Mayor Baths went out to the
Olympic Games to kind of assess theOlympics and how they're rolling it out in
Paris, because, of course,in twenty twenty eight, Mayor Bass has
secured the Olympic Games here in southernCalifornia. If you don't suppoard Mayor Baths
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for anything at all, just knowthat this is a major, major coup.
Several cities went before the Olympic Committeeto vie for the Olympic Games in
their city and Mayor Bass actually securedthe deal. And we know all the
drama, all the trouble that wehave here in the south Land, and
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it wasn't a mystery, it wasn'tunknown to the Olympic Committee as far as
our traffic, congestion, crime,homelessness, all the things that we deal
with. And still mayor bas broughtthe games or secured the games for our
in twenty twenty eight, and rightnow she is in Paris kind of paying
close attention, as I said,to the games, and she is also
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letting me know what she knows hasto happen here in the Southland, especially
delivering what she's calling a car freeOlympics. That's that's tough. Southern California
car free, all the different placeswhere the Olympic Games where we happened.
I mean, this Olympic campus sofar in southern California is huge, and
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she plans on delivering a car freeOlympics. Right now, she is saying
that she needs some three thousand busesto come into town. Electric vehicle transportation
needs to enhance the ride share capacityin southern California around the Olympic campus.
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It is going to be insane,improving safety. And I think this is
why she has been taking such aart stance on trying to clean up homelessness
throughout the city, throughout all thesurrounding areas around Los Angeles County and under
her purview. Why she is tryingto clean this up again because it does
need to happen. Okay, itabsolutely needs to happen. But part of
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that is to be able to providea safe Olympic Games, improving safety along
bus routes and train routes. Imean, you know, if you listen
to Later with mo Kelly, almostdaily but definitely weekly, we have some
story on the show that has todo with violence on Metro. Someone being
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stabbed, there's shootings, dead bodiesbeing found, or just pure homeless filth.
I'm talking urination, poopage, allof that, all along the routes,
and she's trying to clean that up. And you know, she's no
fool. She knows that this issomething that is part of her real election
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campaign, and this is something thatis part of her legacy and something think
about it. I believe Mayor Villavia Ragosa. I can't say it like
Mokelly, I can't roll my rs. But Mayor v he was trying to
get the Olympics to La. Hehad this big plan to revitalize the coliseum.
Didn't really come to pass. Mayor, I don't really want to do
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this and I want to be inIndia. Garcetti, you know, he
had no delusions of grandeur and tryingto get the Olympics here. So whatever
with him. Mayor Bass is like, no, I'm getting the Olympics here,
and she did, so bravo toMayor Baths. I just hope that
you are keeping your eyes on theprize. And I know the Olympic Games
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coming to Southern California is definitely behindyour push to clean up homelessness, definitely
behind your reason and rationale for whyyou're trying to improve the metro system.
But be on that. Once theOlympic Games comes and goes, you've got
to know and I know she knows, but Jesus got to know that the
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city will go on after that andyou cannot allow the homelessness to come back,
and there has to actually be programsin place to deal with that.
And maybe a lot of people areup in arms about you know, Governor
Newsom's new edict where he's just like, not see a camp, clean it
up when it comes to homeless camps. Maybe there's something to that. I
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don't know, let's take a lookat it. On the other side of
this news break, you're listening toSoul cal Saturday with Tawala Sharp on demand
from KFI AM six forty. Iam your host Twala Sharp, continuing my
conversation regarding homelessness here in the southLand. In the opening segment, I
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was discussing Mayor Bass's roll out planprojections for the twenty twenty eight Olympics in
Los Angeles and what she is lookingto make that happen by way of not
only improving of transportation but also cleaningup the city to help do away or
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reduce crime and homelessness and blight andall of that. And I mentioned that
Governor Newsom has also rolled out aplan to kind of attack the issue head
on. And this is actually aplan that Mayor Baths was not actually in
favor of, just the way it'sbeing rolled out. Let's say she's not
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really one hundred percent on board.But if you're not aware, you didn't
know. This past Thursday, GovernorNewsom issued in executive order. This is
officials from the Governor's Desk requiring stateagencies to remove homeless encampments in their jurisdiction
and encouraging state cities to follow suit. Meaning he is using the power of
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the Governor's desk to say I wanthomeless encampments cleared out, and every city
underneath my jurisdiction, I want youto follow suit, and I want you
to clean up these camps right alongwith me. According to Governor Newsom,
quote, we must act with urgencyto address dangerous encampments which subject unsheltered individuals
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living in them to extreme weather,fires, predatory and criminal activity, and
widespread substance use, harming their health, safety and well being, and which
also threatened the safety and viability ofnearby businesses and neighborhoods, and undermine the
cleanliness and usability of parks, watersupplies, and other public resources. End
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quote. This is going against that. This edict is going against a previous
US Supreme Court ruling that lesson restrictionsof the enforcement of anti camping laws and
new some statement says that, quote, there are no longer any barrier to
local governments utilizing substantial resources provided bythe state in tandem with federal and local
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resources to address encampments with both urgencyand humanity, or excuse for not doing
so. In quote, and thisis already rolled out. Trust to believe
Cayle Trans they had the trucks readyto go. You immediately saw along freeways
underpasses and the like them going inand just bulldozing camps out. And this
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is something that you know, ofcourse, as I said, Mayor Bass
has been working on for the longestin trying to get people off of the
streets with the Inside Safe program,which has had some success, not overwhelming
success, but enough success to say, okay, well the program is working.
But again, there are a lotof people who don't want to leave
the street. There's a lot ofpeople who are scarrd scared away, who
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don't trust a lot of these programsfor whatever reasons. There are a lot
of mental health issues that are notbeing addressed. And Governor Newsman is saying,
okay, hey, I get it, I understand. My heart goes
out to you. But we areno longer going to just allow individuals to
just say, okay, I don'twant to do anything else, I don't
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want to take advantage of any ofthe programs. I'm just going to be
on the street. No, no, And it's not necessarily to criminalize,
but you know, something's got tobe done, Something actually has to be
done. And if we are notgoing to approve funding, because I know
a lot of funding has been clawedback by the Governor's Also, if we
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aren't going to put more funding intomental health programs and the like to treat
those who have actual, verifiable mentalhealth issues versus those who have substance abuse
issues, then there's also those whohave just fallen on hard times. There's
a whole lot of of subgroups withinthe homeless community. Everyone has to be
addressed. But you know what you'renot going to do. You're not just
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going to set up camp in frontof a business. You're not just going
to set up camp across the streetfrom a school. You're not going to
just set up camp in a publicpark near a playground or just where you
know people can't use the restroom atparks anymore. They're just like no,
no, no, no no.And even though Mayor Baths poses on the
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surface this ruling or this order,a lot of Mayor Baths's peers are very
supportive and a lot of businesses withinterest in cleaning up neighborhoods are also plouting
this order because again, this isthis is allowing individuals to report en campments
and giving cow Trends and different organizationsthe ability to go in and just clean
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these places up. Outright, andlook, you know, hey, I've
been talking the homeless crisis for thelongest I have been out there, you
know, actually talking individuals I have, as you know, and I've discussed
this in the past. I usedto live in my car, and so
I know full in hell well howhard it is out there on the streets.
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I'm not unsympathetic to this, butthere does come a point in time
where something has to be done,and this may seem like the hard,
hard path to doing it. Thismay seem like the like the most extreme
approach and going about cleaning up thesecamps. But hopefully this will get more
funding approved by local governments, morefunding approved, like say, buy the
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mayor's office. That made me,more money coming from the governor's office to
help with the establishment of more affordablehousing, the establishment or the actual rollout
of some of these tiny homes thatare just waiting to be you know,
rolled out. I mean, Ithink it was back in a few years
ago, few years ago, maybetwenty twenty three, maybe tweeny twenty two.
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Look, there was a lot ofmoney that was to go towards a
rollout of tiny homes here in southernCalifornia. And so far I think than
less than two hundred have rolled out. It has not been a lot that
have rolled out. So something's gotto be done. Because the big question
is, yes, we see yourmove, Governor Newsom, and we fill
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in, we're cool with it,because we are tired of stepping over the
poop. We are tired of individualscamping out in front of restaurants, of
churches, schools and all of that. We are tired of finding needles and
all types of drug paraphernalia all over. We're tired of it. But where
are they going? It's the onlything I don't see about this whole plan.
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I don't see anything with this planthat I'm looking at, nothing that
I've read that says, hey,I'm clean up and this is where they're
going. Okay, are you lockingthem up? Where are you putting them?
Are you putting them in containers,shipping containers and shipping them off?
What are you doing? Very veryscamped on those details, And I think
that is a huge problem. Maybethat's why people are so kind of against
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the plan because what are you doingwith them? This is why I stay
on this stuff because I need answers. I know you need answers, all
right, we're going to continue tofollow us and try to find out what
is going on. All right,Coming up on the other side, I
absolutely positively have to get into SouthernCalifornia's ranking in a recent road rage study.
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As someone who has at one pointI was damn or addicted to road
rage. I was looking for individualsto cuss out and dare to pull over.
So I know, I know alltoo. I have contributed to probably
this study. I know Mark ronon a daily basis. You leave me
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out of this. So look,we got to get into it. I'm
here to spread peace with the middlefinger. Yes, well sometimes sometimes yes,
yes, we will get into that. On the other side, you're
listening to Soul col Saturday with TaWalla Sharp on demand from KFI Am six
forty. I was pointing out MarkRonner's road rage. I don't know if
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it's as serious as mine was.I just know his is very prevalent.
No yours sounds terrifying, And youshould know that I've never gotten violent.
I've never ever so much as gottenout of my car. Just when somebody's
driving obnoxiously and dangerously, sometimes theyget a helpful little push in the right
direction with the old middle finger,and we leave it at that. No
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violence. Oh yeah, yeah,yeah, Okay, I'm much worse.
Yeah yeah, I'm glad I clearedthat up. Yeah. And you know,
I don't say this with a hintof pride in my voice, but
I have I have even gone asfar as like kind of diagonally cutting in
front of cars that didn't want topull over, as if you're going to
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pull over or you're gonna hit mycarl. Like I've I've gone really,
really far. I've jumped out ofa car. I have donkey stomp doors.
What is that? What is adonkey stomp? That is just a
super hard back kick to a carlike you're gonna get out of the car.
And people have driven into yards together. Look it, it's it's not
good. The things that I usedto do. I used to do this,
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and I am reformed because of mydaughter and and my daughter one time
she she pointed out to me,she said, Daddy, oh my god,
she's in a car. And Ilost my mind one time and she
said, Daddy, oh my god. I get it. Daddy. You
are angry. I can see it. You are just foaming at the mouth.
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But what if they're crazy? Andwhen she said it, I understood
immediately what she was saying, becauseyou know, my anger, My anger
pels in comparison to someone who's crazyand may want to jump out of their
car with a gun. My anger, my fist, you know, fits
two handblocks. That means nothing toa pistol. Oh no, it's a
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complete crapshoot. Who you are goingto be up to think of it like
a Marvel team up. It couldbe Daredevil against Iron Fist, or it
could be Daredevil against Galactus, andyou don't know which one you're gonna get.
But would tell me, tawala,what are the kinds of infractions that
would get you to cut somebody offlike a cop and pull them over like
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that back back in the day.And some of this is on this list
of what makes California ranked number onefor road rage. Being cut off rudely
by someone who's already driving like abat of the hell and I can see
him coming up behind me, andthen they zip around in front of me.
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I have had incidents where someone wouldcut in front of me and then
when I give them a look,they want to look back in an equally
aggressive manner, which is I'm like, okay, well now it's on wait
just a look, not no,no, no, no, it's it's
a look of like, you know, what do you want to do about
And I'm like, let's pull overso I can show you. I can
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show you better than I can tellyou. Well you can determine that from
just a look, with just nomouthing of just a look. And then
there was there were a couple oftimes where I have rolled up on cars
close enough to almost take their window, their mirror off, and I have
rolled my window down, and thenall types of some of the worst language
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to come out since maybe Andrew DiceClay's last show. I mean, yeah,
I would go hard. I wouldgo hard on anyone and call them
anything but a child of God.And I was bad. I was bad.
But again I am reformed because Ithought to myself, what if I
do roll up on someone who literallybecause there was a story and you may
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not remember this mark, but therewas a story. It was the maybe
a couple of years ago, wherethere was a guy who was literally going
around instigating road raid incidents and assoon as someone will pull over, he
would get out and shoot them,and he was like a cereal road raid
shooter that does ring a bell.But it's really strange to me because you're
such a sweetheart now, I meanI've never seen that side of you at
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all, not even remotely. Well, look, I've spread love. I
love people. I am all aboutjoy, and I think that is why
I took things like incidents of rovers, like being cut off or you know,
being you know, looked at crazy, or even a getting a Mark
Roner. I've got a Mark Ronnerfingerbelore and yeah, I've gotten a rnor
where you know, I've accidentally cutsomeone off and someone decided to give me
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a ro honor and I'm like,dude, like that was a mistake.
You want to give me a I'llbreak your finger off, you give me
a runner. So you know,those things have happened, and I just
I think to myself, like,yes, being my job, my job
in life, you know, notnot here, not what I do at
the school, nothing. My mainjob is being a father to my children,
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right, you know. My jobis to get up in the morning,
do what I do and do whatI do for them. And I
think to myself, like when Ilook at this study and I look at
where we rank here in southern California, I mean California period. You know,
there is a whole lot of ronnorsbeing thrown around out here that is
just got us ranking nunder one.Let's just snip this in the butt.
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Okay, let's not let this catchon the middle finger is the middle finger?
I don't have any kind of proprietaryclaim on the middle finger. Now
that that mean it's your go toThe middle finger predates me by some time.
Yeah, but it sounds so muchcooler when you call it, or
I don't know it does not.But I mean, just to play amateur
sociologists here, what on God's greenEarth is causing people to get so violent?
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Is traffic actually that much worse?No, no, no, no,
this is coming from an East coast, so we can't take anything,
she says, Well, nobody candrive nobody. Yeah, so I mean
literally, you go anywhere and it'sjust it's madness. I think right now
we are at just one of themost uptight, one of the most tense
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periods in our life. And Ithink that I blame everything on social media.
I really really do. I thinksocial media is the downfall of society
because social media and what I wouldsay, this is just me. What
I would say Trump is introduced intoour country is a lack of social standards.
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You know, I'm just telling thetruth. I'm just telling like it
is. And a lot of peopletook that and they ran with it and
now they're just insane with it.And I think we see a lot of
that on social media. Like moKelly recently was pointing out a very very
foul post that he got recently fromsome red hat who wanted to, you
know, give him the riot actabout his stance on VP Harris and the
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whole DEI derogatory slang that's going outaround. And I think that the way
this individual interacted with him on socialmedia is not the way that you would
interact with him in person. It'snot the way you would interact with me
or you or Elma or Kayla.There are certain things that you are able
to do in social media that youdon't that you're not capable of doing in
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person. I think what people doin social media is now carrying over to
their real life and it's really fracturedtheir minds. I think our minds are
fractured, and where at a pointwhere like giving someone a Ronnor is like
it's like it's almost like you're almoston social media doing it, and you
forget. Oh no, I'm in, I'm in. This is in real
life, I r L. Youknow I'm saying. And when you do
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those things in real life, we'restarting to see more and more and more
of the reaction. And this isjust where we're at. Less impulse control,
for sure, very much so.And that comes from just this instantaneous
world we live in. That thatis, you know, the Pandora's box
of the social media, and Ithat's that's where I take it. Yeah,
I wonder if it's as simple aslike they don't they don't teach kids
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certain things in school anymore. Imean, you and I are well beyond
any schooling whatsoever. But you know, we always hear complaints like, well,
they don't teach civics, they don'tteach X, Y and Z.
I wonder if the lack of impulsecontrol has to do with any of that
at all. Oh. Absolutely,the generation that that's coming up now,
they have absolutely zero social skills combinedwith zero impulse control. We just came
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out of a pandemic which really forceda lot of people into isolation, and
they weren't ready to be isolated,and coming out of that has gotten a
lot of people crazy. There's somany different factors, but here in California
it's hitting us harder than anywhere else. We are number one in the country
for incidents of road rage. Doyou think that's mainly because we spend so
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much time in our cars here comparedto other states? Possibly? Possibly,
I mean that that definitely plays apart in it. And I believe that
we drive angry because we work angryand we live angry out of here,
you know, a school as wemay be in California. There's a lot
of anger in California. Well,after this break, I'm coming in there
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and giving your honor, which isa big hug. By the way,
it's not the finger, it's ahug. A six forty Live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. You're listening toSoul cal Saturday with Taula Sharp on demand
from KFI AM six forty. I'myour host, Twala Sharp. And before
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I get to this next segment,which is very very serious for me,
regarding this super pervert predator catfishing teenagegirls, on roadblocks and I have just
some insight thoughts on that things thatI have seen happen on this gaming app.
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We have got one of the besttalkbacks that I have received. Elmer,
if you will good sir, dude. Twala, I love you,
bro Hey, dude, totally agreewith you. Man. You said,
cut fools off, freak and getout of the car. Yeah, I
know that. Look Bro, yousee that look You're like, Okay,
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let's go. Let's go then,bro, And then I have my daughter
once that happened, dude, Yep, you're right. Instant stopped it because
what happens to her if something happensto me, instantly kill you brood one
man say, that's love. Sothat's the exact connection that I was lucky
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to make just that. Not alonein this world. There are things that
change you and pull you out ofyour insanity, and your children, your
children will definitely do it something thatwould drive me right back into my insanity
quickly. Before we end the hour, there is this sixty four year old
super pervert predator from Riverside that isadmitted to posing as a thirteen year old
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boy online and convincing a young girlto send him sexually explicit photos of herself
and a young relative. All right, now, this super perv who will
just be named super perve sixty fouryear old from him it he pleaded guilty
to one count of production of childpornography. And you know individuals like this,
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Yeah, they're they're they're they're allover. They have whole shows dedicated
to catching these predators. The thingabout it is this pervert was going after
young girls on Roadblocks. Now Roadblocks. If you're a parent and you have
children who plays a game, youknow what I'm talking about. It is
the game with the weird looking characters, little block like characters in this you
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know, immersive sem like video gamewhere you're creating environments and stuff like this.
And it's an open world game,meaning individuals from wherever in this country,
even in this across the globe.You got people playing in India with
you on this game, and they'reinteracting talking to kids. You got kids
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who are sitting playing in this theygot their headsets on. One time at
the school that I work at,one of the children was playing Roadblocks.
And this is when I was aPARAPROFETSI. I was working one on one
with the students, and I walkedby one of the computer stations where one
of our students were playing, andI heard someone saying some really really perverse,
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gross stuff and it comes off itcomes across as almost a childlike voice,
and I'm looking, I'm like,whoa, what is this? And
of course the school that I workas for children with special needs, primarily
autism, and the student was like, I don't know, you just start
saying crazy stuff to me. Idon't know who this is, and we
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just stopped the game, turned thegame off. All that I started looking
at it because this is an openworld game. Roadblocks does not have the
type of protections in place to protectyoung boys, young girls who are playing
this game from being cohersed, frombeing groomed anything on this game. And
so far Roadblocks is, you know, basically throwing up their hands like we're
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trying, We're trying, but no, no, you're not trying, because
this young girl's life is possibly ruinedby her sending these images. Now,
we don't know where this individual putthese images or anything and what she's gone
through. And this is where alot of these predators are going. They're
going to these open world games andgetting you know, young people to run
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away from home, getting young peopleto send them these these nude pictures and
stuff like this. As parents,you have got to monitor what your child
is doing, what games they're playingon these computers, games like Roadblocks,
games like what's the other one?Minecraft or whatever it is, you don't
know what, or Fortnite, youdon't know what. These kids are being
exposed to them these damn games.And it's like it can't be enough to
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blame the game. Okay, youas parents, you see your kids playing
these things, you have got tomonitor the conversations and things that are happening
on this game. I feel badfor this little girl, and I'm glad
that they caught this pervert. Butthis is like the Roads theory. This
is just the one roach you see. There are thousands more on the wall,
and there are thousands more stalking andgrooming and going after your kids on
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these games. So just beware.Coming up at the top of the hour,
we have our small business Saturday Salutespotlight with none other than She is
Hope La. So don't you gonowhere, keep it right here. This
is KFI AM six forty live everywhereon the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening
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forty five pm to seven pm onSaturday, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app
Los Angeles, Orange County. IE in the Valley. This is Tawala
Sharp and you're listening to KFI AMsix forty Soul cal Saturday on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. I'm your host, Twaler Sharp, welcoming you to another
fun filled show today. Of course, we have our small business Saturday Spotlight
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with She Is Hope La. Wehave the president of She Is Hope La,
Miss Tisha Genie Jian I Hope I'mpronouncing that right. I know,
I butcher name. So Tisha willbe joining us later on to tell us
all about She Is Hope La,which is a nonprofit that helps single mother
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families get back on their feet througheducation, jobs and housing. And I
have to absolutely start off with theOlympics. Not that I am even really
following the games. I'm really not. I haven't watched anything having to do
with the Olympics. I am waitingfor taekwondo, which I believe happens sometime
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next week. And of course breakdancing. I have got to see breakdancing,
and I think I want to seeskateboarding as well. I want to see
skateboarding. I want to see breakdancing. Boxing. I like boxing. I
like boxing, but taekwondo, Olympictaekwondo is it's pretty pretty nice to watch.
I say that because the school thatI studied at, my Dojong,
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taught Olympic style taekwondo, and thatis why I'm a fan of that.
But the thing I think, forme at least is the most exciting about
the Olympics right now is seeing localWest Coast hero Snoop dog carrying the torch.
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I think that put the biggest smileon my face. Watching him dance
up and pass the torch light alongbeing one of the final torch bears in
the Olympic opening ceremonies this past Friday, that brought absolute joy to my heart.
I mean, Snoop Dogg has gonefrom being a local rapper out of
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Long Beach to being one of themost iconic rap personalities in the world,
rapping, acting, producing, Imean even the comedy that he is delivering
so far on his Olympic game coverage. It is absolutely hilarious. And to
think about where he came from andwho he is now, and to see
that he is still the same guyI have had Snoop Dogg on. I
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don't mean I can't even count howmany concerts shows, how many times I've
had him on my radio station,on my previous stations I worked at,
and he is the same guy andI love seeing him shine in this way.
So congratulations to Snoop Dogg for openingthe opening games with style. Something
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that you know I am keeping myeye on is our very own Mayor Bass's
visit to the Olympic Games. Andof course Mayor Baths went out to the
Olympic Games to kind of assess theOlympics and how they're rolling it out in
Paris, because, of course,in twenty twenty eight, Mayor Bass has
secured the Olympic Games here in southernCalifornia. If you don't suppoard Mayor Baths
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for anything at all, just knowthat this is a major, major coup.
Several cities went before the Olympic Committeeto vie for the Olympic Games in
their city and Mayor Bass actually securedthe deal. And we know all the
drama, all the trouble that wehave here in the south Land, and
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it wasn't a mystery, it wasn'tunknown to the Olympic Committee as far as
our traffic, congestion, crime,homelessness, all the things that we deal
with. And still mayor bas broughtthe games or secured the games for our
in twenty twenty eight, and rightnow she is in Paris kind of paying
close attention, as I said,to the games, and she is also
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letting me know what she knows hasto happen here in the Southland, especially
delivering what she's calling a car freeOlympics. That's that's tough. Southern California
car free, all the different placeswhere the Olympic Games where we happened.
I mean, this Olympic campus sofar in southern California is huge, and
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she plans on delivering a car freeOlympics. Right now, she is saying
that she needs some three thousand busesto come into town. Electric vehicle transportation
needs to enhance the ride share capacityin southern California around the Olympic campus.
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It is going to be insane,improving safety. And I think this is
why she has been taking such aart stance on trying to clean up homelessness
throughout the city, throughout all thesurrounding areas around Los Angeles County and under
her purview. Why she is tryingto clean this up again because it does
need to happen. Okay, itabsolutely needs to happen. But part of
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that is to be able to providea safe Olympic Games, improving safety along
bus routes and train routes. Imean, you know, if you listen
to Later with mo Kelly, almostdaily but definitely weekly, we have some
story on the show that has todo with violence on Metro. Someone being
(05:39):
stabbed, there's shootings, dead bodiesbeing found, or just pure homeless filth.
I'm talking urination, poopage, allof that, all along the routes,
and she's trying to clean that up. And you know, she's no
fool. She knows that this issomething that is part of her real election
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campaign, and this is something thatis part of her legacy and something think
about it. I believe Mayor Villavia Ragosa. I can't say it like
Mokelly, I can't roll my rs. But Mayor v he was trying to
get the Olympics to La. Hehad this big plan to revitalize the coliseum.
Didn't really come to pass. Mayor, I don't really want to do
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this and I want to be inIndia. Garcetti, you know, he
had no delusions of grandeur and tryingto get the Olympics here. So whatever
with him. Mayor Bass is like, no, I'm getting the Olympics here,
and she did, so bravo toMayor Baths. I just hope that
you are keeping your eyes on theprize. And I know the Olympic Games
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coming to Southern California is definitely behindyour push to clean up homelessness, definitely
behind your reason and rationale for whyyou're trying to improve the metro system.
But be on that. Once theOlympic Games comes and goes, you've got
to know and I know she knows, but Jesus got to know that the
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city will go on after that andyou cannot allow the homelessness to come back,
and there has to actually be programsin place to deal with that.
And maybe a lot of people areup in arms about you know, Governor
Newsom's new edict where he's just like, not see a camp, clean it
up when it comes to homeless camps. Maybe there's something to that. I
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don't know, let's take a lookat it. On the other side of
this news break, you're listening toSoul cal Saturday with Tawala Sharp on demand
from KFI AM six forty. Iam your host Twala Sharp, continuing my
conversation regarding homelessness here in the southLand. In the opening segment, I
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was discussing Mayor Bass's roll out planprojections for the twenty twenty eight Olympics in
Los Angeles and what she is lookingto make that happen by way of not
only improving of transportation but also cleaningup the city to help do away or
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reduce crime and homelessness and blight andall of that. And I mentioned that
Governor Newsom has also rolled out aplan to kind of attack the issue head
on. And this is actually aplan that Mayor Baths was not actually in
favor of, just the way it'sbeing rolled out. Let's say she's not
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really one hundred percent on board.But if you're not aware, you didn't
know. This past Thursday, GovernorNewsom issued in executive order. This is
officials from the Governor's Desk requiring stateagencies to remove homeless encampments in their jurisdiction
and encouraging state cities to follow suit. Meaning he is using the power of
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the Governor's desk to say I wanthomeless encampments cleared out, and every city
underneath my jurisdiction, I want youto follow suit, and I want you
to clean up these camps right alongwith me. According to Governor Newsom,
quote, we must act with urgencyto address dangerous encampments which subject unsheltered individuals
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living in them to extreme weather,fires, predatory and criminal activity, and
widespread substance use, harming their health, safety and well being, and which
also threatened the safety and viability ofnearby businesses and neighborhoods, and undermine the
cleanliness and usability of parks, watersupplies, and other public resources. End
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quote. This is going against that. This edict is going against a previous
US Supreme Court ruling that lesson restrictionsof the enforcement of anti camping laws and
new some statement says that, quote, there are no longer any barrier to
local governments utilizing substantial resources provided bythe state in tandem with federal and local
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resources to address encampments with both urgencyand humanity, or excuse for not doing
so. In quote, and thisis already rolled out. Trust to believe
Cayle Trans they had the trucks readyto go. You immediately saw along freeways
underpasses and the like them going inand just bulldozing camps out. And this
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is something that you know, ofcourse, as I said, Mayor Bass
has been working on for the longestin trying to get people off of the
streets with the Inside Safe program,which has had some success, not overwhelming
success, but enough success to say, okay, well the program is working.
But again, there are a lotof people who don't want to leave
the street. There's a lot ofpeople who are scarrd scared away, who
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don't trust a lot of these programsfor whatever reasons. There are a lot
of mental health issues that are notbeing addressed. And Governor Newsman is saying,
okay, hey, I get it, I understand. My heart goes
out to you. But we areno longer going to just allow individuals to
just say, okay, I don'twant to do anything else, I don't
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want to take advantage of any ofthe programs. I'm just going to be
on the street. No, no, And it's not necessarily to criminalize,
but you know, something's got tobe done, Something actually has to be
done. And if we are notgoing to approve funding, because I know
a lot of funding has been clawedback by the Governor's Also, if we
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aren't going to put more funding intomental health programs and the like to treat
those who have actual, verifiable mentalhealth issues versus those who have substance abuse
issues, then there's also those whohave just fallen on hard times. There's
a whole lot of of subgroups withinthe homeless community. Everyone has to be
addressed. But you know what you'renot going to do. You're not just
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going to set up camp in frontof a business. You're not just going
to set up camp across the streetfrom a school. You're not going to
just set up camp in a publicpark near a playground or just where you
know people can't use the restroom atparks anymore. They're just like no,
no, no, no no.And even though Mayor Baths poses on the
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surface this ruling or this order,a lot of Mayor Baths's peers are very
supportive and a lot of businesses withinterest in cleaning up neighborhoods are also plouting
this order because again, this isthis is allowing individuals to report en campments
and giving cow Trends and different organizationsthe ability to go in and just clean
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these places up. Outright, andlook, you know, hey, I've
been talking the homeless crisis for thelongest I have been out there, you
know, actually talking individuals I have, as you know, and I've discussed
this in the past. I usedto live in my car, and so
I know full in hell well howhard it is out there on the streets.
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I'm not unsympathetic to this, butthere does come a point in time
where something has to be done,and this may seem like the hard,
hard path to doing it. Thismay seem like the like the most extreme
approach and going about cleaning up thesecamps. But hopefully this will get more
funding approved by local governments, morefunding approved, like say, buy the
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mayor's office. That made me,more money coming from the governor's office to
help with the establishment of more affordablehousing, the establishment or the actual rollout
of some of these tiny homes thatare just waiting to be you know,
rolled out. I mean, Ithink it was back in a few years
ago, few years ago, maybetwenty twenty three, maybe tweeny twenty two.
(14:05):
Look, there was a lot ofmoney that was to go towards a
rollout of tiny homes here in southernCalifornia. And so far I think than
less than two hundred have rolled out. It has not been a lot that
have rolled out. So something's gotto be done. Because the big question
is, yes, we see yourmove, Governor Newsom, and we fill
(14:26):
in, we're cool with it,because we are tired of stepping over the
poop. We are tired of individualscamping out in front of restaurants, of
churches, schools and all of that. We are tired of finding needles and
all types of drug paraphernalia all over. We're tired of it. But where
are they going? It's the onlything I don't see about this whole plan.
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I don't see anything with this planthat I'm looking at, nothing that
I've read that says, hey,I'm clean up and this is where they're
going. Okay, are you lockingthem up? Where are you putting them?
Are you putting them in containers,shipping containers and shipping them off?
What are you doing? Very veryscamped on those details, And I think
that is a huge problem. Maybethat's why people are so kind of against
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the plan because what are you doingwith them? This is why I stay
on this stuff because I need answers. I know you need answers, all
right, we're going to continue tofollow us and try to find out what
is going on. All right,Coming up on the other side, I
absolutely positively have to get into SouthernCalifornia's ranking in a recent road rage study.
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As someone who has at one pointI was damn or addicted to road
rage. I was looking for individualsto cuss out and dare to pull over.
So I know, I know alltoo. I have contributed to probably
this study. I know Mark ronon a daily basis. You leave me
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out of this. So look,we got to get into it. I'm
here to spread peace with the middlefinger. Yes, well sometimes sometimes yes,
yes, we will get into that. On the other side, you're
listening to Soul col Saturday with TaWalla Sharp on demand from KFI Am six
forty. I was pointing out MarkRonner's road rage. I don't know if
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it's as serious as mine was.I just know his is very prevalent.
No yours sounds terrifying, And youshould know that I've never gotten violent.
I've never ever so much as gottenout of my car. Just when somebody's
driving obnoxiously and dangerously, sometimes theyget a helpful little push in the right
direction with the old middle finger,and we leave it at that. No
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violence. Oh yeah, yeah,yeah, Okay, I'm much worse.
Yeah yeah, I'm glad I clearedthat up. Yeah. And you know,
I don't say this with a hintof pride in my voice, but
I have I have even gone asfar as like kind of diagonally cutting in
front of cars that didn't want topull over, as if you're going to
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pull over or you're gonna hit mycarl. Like I've I've gone really,
really far. I've jumped out ofa car. I have donkey stomp doors.
What is that? What is adonkey stomp? That is just a
super hard back kick to a carlike you're gonna get out of the car.
And people have driven into yards together. Look it, it's it's not
good. The things that I usedto do. I used to do this,
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and I am reformed because of mydaughter and and my daughter one time
she she pointed out to me,she said, Daddy, oh my god,
she's in a car. And Ilost my mind one time and she
said, Daddy, oh my god. I get it. Daddy. You
are angry. I can see it. You are just foaming at the mouth.
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But what if they're crazy? Andwhen she said it, I understood
immediately what she was saying, becauseyou know, my anger, My anger
pels in comparison to someone who's crazyand may want to jump out of their
car with a gun. My anger, my fist, you know, fits
two handblocks. That means nothing toa pistol. Oh no, it's a
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complete crapshoot. Who you are goingto be up to think of it like
a Marvel team up. It couldbe Daredevil against Iron Fist, or it
could be Daredevil against Galactus, andyou don't know which one you're gonna get.
But would tell me, tawala,what are the kinds of infractions that
would get you to cut somebody offlike a cop and pull them over like
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that back back in the day.And some of this is on this list
of what makes California ranked number onefor road rage. Being cut off rudely
by someone who's already driving like abat of the hell and I can see
him coming up behind me, andthen they zip around in front of me.
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I have had incidents where someone wouldcut in front of me and then
when I give them a look,they want to look back in an equally
aggressive manner, which is I'm like, okay, well now it's on wait
just a look, not no,no, no, no, it's it's
a look of like, you know, what do you want to do about
And I'm like, let's pull overso I can show you. I can
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show you better than I can tellyou. Well you can determine that from
just a look, with just nomouthing of just a look. And then
there was there were a couple oftimes where I have rolled up on cars
close enough to almost take their window, their mirror off, and I have
rolled my window down, and thenall types of some of the worst language
(19:52):
to come out since maybe Andrew DiceClay's last show. I mean, yeah,
I would go hard. I wouldgo hard on anyone and call them
anything but a child of God.And I was bad. I was bad.
But again I am reformed because Ithought to myself, what if I
do roll up on someone who literallybecause there was a story and you may
(20:15):
not remember this mark, but therewas a story. It was the maybe
a couple of years ago, wherethere was a guy who was literally going
around instigating road raid incidents and assoon as someone will pull over, he
would get out and shoot them,and he was like a cereal road raid
shooter that does ring a bell.But it's really strange to me because you're
such a sweetheart now, I meanI've never seen that side of you at
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all, not even remotely. Well, look, I've spread love. I
love people. I am all aboutjoy, and I think that is why
I took things like incidents of rovers, like being cut off or you know,
being you know, looked at crazy, or even a getting a Mark
Roner. I've got a Mark Ronnerfingerbelore and yeah, I've gotten a rnor
where you know, I've accidentally cutsomeone off and someone decided to give me
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a ro honor and I'm like,dude, like that was a mistake.
You want to give me a I'llbreak your finger off, you give me
a runner. So you know,those things have happened, and I just
I think to myself, like,yes, being my job, my job
in life, you know, notnot here, not what I do at
the school, nothing. My mainjob is being a father to my children,
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right, you know. My jobis to get up in the morning,
do what I do and do whatI do for them. And I
think to myself, like when Ilook at this study and I look at
where we rank here in southern California, I mean California period. You know,
there is a whole lot of ronnorsbeing thrown around out here that is
just got us ranking nunder one.Let's just snip this in the butt.
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Okay, let's not let this catchon the middle finger is the middle finger?
I don't have any kind of proprietaryclaim on the middle finger. Now
that that mean it's your go toThe middle finger predates me by some time.
Yeah, but it sounds so muchcooler when you call it, or
I don't know it does not.But I mean, just to play amateur
sociologists here, what on God's greenEarth is causing people to get so violent?
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Is traffic actually that much worse?No, no, no, no,
this is coming from an East coast, so we can't take anything,
she says, Well, nobody candrive nobody. Yeah, so I mean
literally, you go anywhere and it'sjust it's madness. I think right now
we are at just one of themost uptight, one of the most tense
(22:33):
periods in our life. And Ithink that I blame everything on social media.
I really really do. I thinksocial media is the downfall of society
because social media and what I wouldsay, this is just me. What
I would say Trump is introduced intoour country is a lack of social standards.
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You know, I'm just telling thetruth. I'm just telling like it
is. And a lot of peopletook that and they ran with it and
now they're just insane with it.And I think we see a lot of
that on social media. Like moKelly recently was pointing out a very very
foul post that he got recently fromsome red hat who wanted to, you
know, give him the riot actabout his stance on VP Harris and the
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whole DEI derogatory slang that's going outaround. And I think that the way
this individual interacted with him on socialmedia is not the way that you would
interact with him in person. It'snot the way you would interact with me
or you or Elma or Kayla.There are certain things that you are able
to do in social media that youdon't that you're not capable of doing in
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person. I think what people doin social media is now carrying over to
their real life and it's really fracturedtheir minds. I think our minds are
fractured, and where at a pointwhere like giving someone a Ronnor is like
it's like it's almost like you're almoston social media doing it, and you
forget. Oh no, I'm in, I'm in. This is in real
life, I r L. Youknow I'm saying. And when you do
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those things in real life, we'restarting to see more and more and more
of the reaction. And this isjust where we're at. Less impulse control,
for sure, very much so.And that comes from just this instantaneous
world we live in. That thatis, you know, the Pandora's box
of the social media, and Ithat's that's where I take it. Yeah,
I wonder if it's as simple aslike they don't they don't teach kids
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certain things in school anymore. Imean, you and I are well beyond
any schooling whatsoever. But you know, we always hear complaints like, well,
they don't teach civics, they don'tteach X, Y and Z.
I wonder if the lack of impulsecontrol has to do with any of that
at all. Oh. Absolutely,the generation that that's coming up now,
they have absolutely zero social skills combinedwith zero impulse control. We just came
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out of a pandemic which really forceda lot of people into isolation, and
they weren't ready to be isolated,and coming out of that has gotten a
lot of people crazy. There's somany different factors, but here in California
it's hitting us harder than anywhere else. We are number one in the country
for incidents of road rage. Doyou think that's mainly because we spend so
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much time in our cars here comparedto other states? Possibly? Possibly,
I mean that that definitely plays apart in it. And I believe that
we drive angry because we work angryand we live angry out of here,
you know, a school as wemay be in California. There's a lot
of anger in California. Well,after this break, I'm coming in there
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and giving your honor, which isa big hug. By the way,
it's not the finger, it's ahug. A six forty Live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. You're listening toSoul cal Saturday with Taula Sharp on demand
from KFI AM six forty. I'myour host, Twala Sharp. And before
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I get to this next segment,which is very very serious for me,
regarding this super pervert predator catfishing teenagegirls, on roadblocks and I have just
some insight thoughts on that things thatI have seen happen on this gaming app.
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We have got one of the besttalkbacks that I have received. Elmer,
if you will good sir, dude. Twala, I love you,
bro Hey, dude, totally agreewith you. Man. You said,
cut fools off, freak and getout of the car. Yeah, I
know that. Look Bro, yousee that look You're like, Okay,
(26:47):
let's go. Let's go then,bro, And then I have my daughter
once that happened, dude, Yep, you're right. Instant stopped it because
what happens to her if something happensto me, instantly kill you brood one
man say, that's love. Sothat's the exact connection that I was lucky
(27:10):
to make just that. Not alonein this world. There are things that
change you and pull you out ofyour insanity, and your children, your
children will definitely do it something thatwould drive me right back into my insanity
quickly. Before we end the hour, there is this sixty four year old
super pervert predator from Riverside that isadmitted to posing as a thirteen year old
(27:36):
boy online and convincing a young girlto send him sexually explicit photos of herself
and a young relative. All right, now, this super perv who will
just be named super perve sixty fouryear old from him it he pleaded guilty
to one count of production of childpornography. And you know individuals like this,
(28:02):
Yeah, they're they're they're they're allover. They have whole shows dedicated
to catching these predators. The thingabout it is this pervert was going after
young girls on Roadblocks. Now Roadblocks. If you're a parent and you have
children who plays a game, youknow what I'm talking about. It is
the game with the weird looking characters, little block like characters in this you
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know, immersive sem like video gamewhere you're creating environments and stuff like this.
And it's an open world game,meaning individuals from wherever in this country,
even in this across the globe.You got people playing in India with
you on this game, and they'reinteracting talking to kids. You got kids
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who are sitting playing in this theygot their headsets on. One time at
the school that I work at,one of the children was playing Roadblocks.
And this is when I was aPARAPROFETSI. I was working one on one
with the students, and I walkedby one of the computer stations where one
of our students were playing, andI heard someone saying some really really perverse,
(29:08):
gross stuff and it comes off itcomes across as almost a childlike voice,
and I'm looking, I'm like,whoa, what is this? And
of course the school that I workas for children with special needs, primarily
autism, and the student was like, I don't know, you just start
saying crazy stuff to me. Idon't know who this is, and we
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just stopped the game, turned thegame off. All that I started looking
at it because this is an openworld game. Roadblocks does not have the
type of protections in place to protectyoung boys, young girls who are playing
this game from being cohersed, frombeing groomed anything on this game. And
so far Roadblocks is, you know, basically throwing up their hands like we're
(29:52):
trying, We're trying, but no, no, you're not trying, because
this young girl's life is possibly ruinedby her sending these images. Now,
we don't know where this individual putthese images or anything and what she's gone
through. And this is where alot of these predators are going. They're
going to these open world games andgetting you know, young people to run
(30:14):
away from home, getting young peopleto send them these these nude pictures and
stuff like this. As parents,you have got to monitor what your child
is doing, what games they're playingon these computers, games like Roadblocks,
games like what's the other one?Minecraft or whatever it is, you don't
know what, or Fortnite, youdon't know what. These kids are being
exposed to them these damn games.And it's like it can't be enough to
(30:38):
blame the game. Okay, youas parents, you see your kids playing
these things, you have got tomonitor the conversations and things that are happening
on this game. I feel badfor this little girl, and I'm glad
that they caught this pervert. Butthis is like the Roads theory. This
is just the one roach you see. There are thousands more on the wall,
and there are thousands more stalking andgrooming and going after your kids on
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these games. So just beware.Coming up at the top of the hour,
we have our small business Saturday Salutespotlight with none other than She is
Hope La. So don't you gonowhere, keep it right here. This
is KFI AM six forty live everywhereon the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening
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