August 3, 2024 • 35 mins
SBS Spotlight: Carole Lynne Dance Studio · What They Do: They are a dance studio in Rialto that has been providing affordable dance for over sixty years, they start lessons at ages three and up and teach tap, ballet, tumbling, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, hula and ballet folklorico. SBS Spotlight Continued: Carole Lynne Dance Studio. Things To Do in SoCal: 25 Best Things To Do In Los Angeles This August. Foster Support in SoCal: · Pasadena City College opens first housing unit for foster youth · L.A. City Council considering guaranteed income for abuse victims, foster kids.
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Los Angeles, Orange County.
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I E in the Valley.
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This is to Wallace Sharp and you're listening to KFI
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I'm Andrew Caravella.
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Yet it's so Cal Saturday.
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is so Cal Saturday? This, this is so Cal song.
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It's so Cal.
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This is Soul Cal KFI AM six forty live everywhere
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Beach and ya Kaipa. This is Soul Cal Saturday. I'm
your host Twalla Sharp, welcoming you to another Soul Cal
Saturday Small Business Saturday spotlight. Today, we are introducing you
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to Carolyn Dance Studio. At Carolyn Dance Studio, they are
a dance studio in Rialto that has been providing affordable
dance for over sixty years. They start lessons at age
three and they teach tap, ballet, tumbling, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, hula, ballet, folkloric,
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everything that your child could hope to learn about dance
and to walk us through Carolyn Dance Studio. We have
the operator Amy Crumb joining us today.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Amy, how are you you do?
Speaker 5 (02:01):
I'm blessed. I'm so blessed to be here. I just
wanted to see a few things really quickly. So Hi,
Kwala beart. I am a huge fan. So I heard
that one night and I just started laughing and listen
to you in Mo because I live in Palm Belle
and strive to rialto to get to the studio. So
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I come home with you guys every single night. I
love the horoscopes, the sports, the movies, everything, and just
the camaraderie between you and Mo and Mark and everybody.
It's it's just such a great evening to go home with.
And I just feel blessed to be able to have
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that as part of my you know, going home instead
of having to zone out. Just sharing music. It really
makes me think of other things. And I just wanted
to also say thank you for sharing your second birthday
with the community and telling us your story, because it really,
you know, makes me feel good that you acknowledge that.
And I really don't know if you hear that a lot,
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but I really appreciate that you share that because some
people are just like, no, I don't want to talk
about it, but you do. So I wish you a
second happy birthday and you're following your coming up and
I just thought that it was wonderful that.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You shared it amy Seriously, I mean, wow, thank you
that you have no idea what that means to us
to hear it, because sometimes we're operating like in a silo.
We're in a room and we're talking and we know
what we're saying is going out over the mic and
the show that we produce for later for mo Kelly.
We always say that our goal is to have fun,
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and we feel if we're having fun, the listeners are
having fun, and we're talking about things that we like
and things that we feel are going to be interesting
in may not change your mind, but may give you
a little context or you know, a little color to
what it is that you have been hearing or listening to.
And to hear that it is not only your way
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to get you through your ride home, but that you
enjoyed so much. Seriously, that that means the world to us.
It really really does. Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
I'd rather have you, guys been music in a radio station.
It's just a great feeling to go home. I have
my children listening to it, and you know, speaking of them.
I wanted to thank you also for working with people
with neurological disorders and with autism, because both of my
children are autistic.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Mom, Yeah, being a single mom for all these years,
it's it's been a lot. It's been difficult, but you know,
the greatest thing of owning my dance studio was that
I get to work with both of my children and
I've kind of given them minor jobs so that they
can be kind of out in the community and speaking
in front of people, and giving them my daughters my
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business managers and handles the social media. My pent assists
with all the other objectives when we got to show
set out. They're talking to people in the communit and
thriving and it's just it's just a blessing to be
able to hear your stories. When you guys were talking
about the adult autism the other night, you know, knowing
that there's somebody there that can be new, that that
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might not be, that might be something else.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, and this is this is this is already an
amazing conversation. I mean seriously, and thank you for you know,
for recognizing that. And I applaud you because trust and
believe I know all too well how not even how difficult,
but what a challenge it is as a parent raising
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two children with autism, and depending on where they are
at on the spectrum, are they high functioning, are they
low functioning? However the case or whatever the case may be,
you have now worked with them and gotten them to
a place where they can be a part of the community.
And working with you already you are I love what
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you do. Just with that, just with that alone, because
places like Carolyn Dance Studio that would actually employ someone
with autism knowing that that they just process things differently,
and and that is what you know the world needs
to know at large about working with children with autism.
And I think that right there, with what you're doing,
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you are showing proof that you just you just have
to allow them to work and allow them to shine
and they will.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Yeah. Absolutely, My daughter's like a little mini me now,
so she answers the phones and uh, you know, gets
the payments from people and helps me out when we
have shows and have to give out, you know, advertising information,
and it's it's just such a blessing to see where
she came from in elementary school where she didn't want
to talk to anybody and she didn't want to communicate
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it with something, you know, just that she has more
of the social anxiety with on the stud from and
so to see her now thriving so much and being
able to, you know, be those things out in the community,
it's just amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
And you say, you drive from Palmdale all the way
to rialto how long have you been making that drive
to the dance studio?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Well before I owned it, my godmother Caroline. That's why
the name is Caroline. She's my godmother and she had
owned it for fifty seven years. When COVID hit, she
decided to retire after all those years because she was
of an age and we didn't really know all the
information at the beginning with COVID, so she retired and
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I just I've been there since I was three years old,
and I've been teaching for the last twenty years. But
I just couldn't see the studio closing after all that
Caroline had given to me and other dancers throughout fifty
seven years. I mean we kind of calculated at one
time and it was like, you know, over like five
her family she had affected over her fifty seven years.
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It was it's just an amazing person. If you think
I'm a saying, she's a bigger one for doing this
for yeah, for fifty seven years. And you know, So
she retired and I took over. Unfortunately, with COVID, they
put me down in the gym category, so I wasn't
even able to open for a whole entire year, and
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so I was paying my rent with my EEDD money
that I was receiving because we thought it was going
to be a month, two months, Okay, I can deal
with that. Well, it was a year that they didn't
let us open, and so we got a grant from
the city of Ryalteln that helped us a lot, and
that saved our studio literally was getting that ground and
stuff like that. So I mean, it's just it's it's
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you know, when I'm looking at things now, it's really
interesting to me because most of the kids that come in,
they're three years old, they've never never been to daycare,
they've never been to school, and literally I'm their first teacher,
just like Carolyn was to me when I was three
years old and I started there, she was my first teacher.
And I just think that that's such a unique thing
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that we meet our children where they're at. And you know,
I've had children with autism in there, I've had children
with MS in there, I've had children with you know,
any kind foster children. A lot of our foster children
come and I meet them where they're at in that
day they might have got that day, and I just
wanted to, you know, teach them that our danced, teach
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them to have confidence, and to teach them, you know
that they can be you know, better than just that
you know, foster care category that somebody puts them in
for that day. And so you know, I just I
just reach to kids where they're at and what they're doing,
and you know, when they say, teacher, I love you,
it just melts your heart and you you know that
you've done something good in the day.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Look, you you are speaking the absolute truth. You know
what We're gonna have to take a quick pause because
I cannot wrap this up in one segment. I have
to talk more with you about the dance studio, what
you all are doing, what you all are offering for
lower income dancers and everything else. So hold the line, Amy,
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this is such a wonderful conversation. If you are just
tuning in, I am speaking with Amy Crumb, who is
the operator of Carolyn Dance Studio. At Carolyn Dance Studio
in Rialto, they have been operating sixty one years teaching
kids three and up, ballet, tap, tumbling, jazz, hip hop, contemporary,
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hula and ballet, folk lord, everything in the spectrum of dance.
They are teaching with their heart and you've got to
love it more with Amy Crumb and Carolyn Dance Studio
in just a moment before.
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You're listening to soul Cal Saturday with Tawala Sharp on
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This is soul Cal Saturday.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
If you are just tuning in, we are in the
middle of our soul Cal Saturday, Small Business Saturday Spotlight.
I'm speaking with miss Amy Crumb, who is the operator
of Carolyn Dance Studios en Rialto at Carolyn Dance Studio.
They are a dance studio that has been providing affordable
dance for over sixty years. They start lessons at age
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three and up, teaching tap, ballet, tumbling, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, hula,
and ballet, folkloric. Every single thing you need to know
about dance you can learn at Carolyn Dance Studio. Amy
bringing you back into the conversation with all that you
do at Carolyn Dance Studio and all the various dance
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styles that you teach. You also have a nonprofit program
called Dancing Dreamers, which is helping lower income dancers who
may not be afforded may not be able to afford
classes due to personal or financial hardships. Tell me more
about that program and what started it.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Well, we had some people during COVID and they would
come up and say, you know what, I can't afford
dance lessons this month because my husband's a bread winner
and he got COVID and we weren't able to continue.
And I said, you know what, let me think I
can get your scholarships. And so we did the scholarships
and we had another little girl whose dad passed away
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and the mom was like I'm not getting financial support
right now. I've got to wait till everything comes through.
And so she was going to quit, and I was like, no, like,
still up the scholarship form and we'll be able to
get you into the free lessons to the month or
two months or whatever you need it for. And so yeah,
we had that. And I was amazing though, because I
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was talking to Caroline last year and she told me
that when she was three, she wasn't able to afford
dance lessons because her brothers and sisters were all taking
it and they didn't have enough money for her, and
she yeah, and it was like a full circle moment,
knowing that I'm giving somebody, maybe at the age of three,
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a chance that maybe someday they'll be a dance teacher,
or they'll be a ballerinap on stage or whatever that they,
you know, want to do in the dance community. If
they have that, they can can do that. So Caroline
didn't actually get to start cheating, i mean, taking lessons
until she was six years old, and so yeah, yeah,
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so I'm thinking what would have happened in those three years,
what would have been a difference, you know, maybe for her,
and that would have been, you know, something different, like
would she be at that?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Was different These days, m H as a teacher not
just of dance, but as you said in our earlier conversation,
being many of these children's first teacher. For you, what
is the most rewarding part about teaching at Carolyn Dance Studio.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
I think it's the students because, you know, like I said,
when they go up on a stage, whether it's the
first time or hundredth time being up on a stage,
you know, they still get to go out there and
find that confidence. And I always tell people, I wouldn't
care if I, you know, perform at Dodger Stadium in
front of you know, seventy thousand people. It wouldn't bother
me one single bit because I've been in front of
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people since I was three years old, So no matter.
You know, when we do our recital in October, we
have a thousand people that attend it. I go out
there performing and I don't care who's in front of me.
Where some children are like, oh my goodness, what do
we do? And so just giving them that confidence and
you know, the strength to be able to go out
there and be in front of people and learn the
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art of dance. I mean, it can't get any better.
Like I said, one of my friends, her brother was
taking lessons earlier in the year and they had their
first show and he comes and says, I felt like
I was climbing a mountain. And to hear that, you
just go, that is so awesome to hear that, you know,
that's what children feel, is that they were climbing a
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mountain and being able to, you know, express themselves that
way and having so much fun. I just couldn't imagine
being any other way.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Wow. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
If any of our listeners want to say, visit the
studio to kind of check out the classes or even
sign up for classes, what is the website where they
can find Carol Lynn Dance Studio.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Yeah, we have Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube all on
Carol Lynn Dance Studio. It's c A r O l
E l y Nne Dance Studio. My daughter does a
lot of that post and things like that for me,
Like I said, it's great. We are actually doing a
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fundraiser right now for dancing Dreamers. Okay, we have a
go fundme account that we just set up and we're
trying to do for our anniversary because July first was
actually our sixty first anniversary, and so we're trying to
do sixty one scholarships in sixty days. So I'm trying
to raise fun for sixty one of our students to
be able to get a scholarship for Dancing Dreamers. We
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have that out so on our go fund me. It's
titled Cus and cat Ellis in Love see as in
Dance as in Sam Dancing Dreamers sixty one in sixty days.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I absolutely love it, and I know our Soul Cow
Saturday listeners love it as well, and they are going
to show up and show out and take action and
help you achieve your goal because what you are doing again,
it is a God's and I know for a fact
for so many of your students past and present. And
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I salute you and what you do for Carolyn Dance
Studio and the legacy that you are leaving for your
your godmother and taking it over and continuing the dream.
Bless you, Amy crom Bless you for doing what you do.
And I wish you absolutely nothing but success with Carolyn
Dance Studio.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Oh, thank you. You know, it's just a blessing to
be here with you, and like I said, you know,
just keep doing with you and Moe and everybody else
are doing because it's great for your listeners and we
really really do appreciate it. Whether you hear it or
not all the time, but you guys really are you know,
a great teams. And I haven't been able to listen
for a few days. But did you make it to Catalina?
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Yet?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I did? I did. I went to Catalina. It was good.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
The trip was fantastic, The trip was fantastic.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Jump off the boat.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I look, I was a little nervous, but my daughter
sat with me the whole trip there and I was fine.
And on the trip back, I actually sat on the
back of the boat and just watched the waves crash.
And so now I'm ready for my cruise with Mo.
Mo and I are going on a cruise on Labor
Day with our families, and I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
That's awesome, And now you know you can achieve your
next streaments having a cruise and being able to go
spend with Moe and your family and his family. I mean,
how much as could you get?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Absolutely, Amy, I want you to enjoy the rest of
your day and keep doing what you are doing at
Carolyn Dance Studio.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Thank you so much for having me. I really do
appreciate it and you'll always be Quala Bear to me.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
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When met cub Grand, Terrence and Bomm, this is so
Cal Saturday. I'm your host, Twala Sharp taking a look
at some really really fun things to do around the Southland.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And I love this.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
List of things that super producer Kayla has put together.
There is a Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice Experience that is coming
to the south Land if you are ready for a
ghastly good time ahead of Tim Burton's highly anticipated sequel.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetle Juice Beatle.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
The Afterlife Experience is an officially licensed Warner Brothers event
that opens August twenty third. This massive, interactive, interactive experience
features recreated sets, themed food, and drinks, photo ops to
die for, in so much more.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Now, all the things that I am listing.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Is going to go on the website because it's like
fifty eleven different websites for you to go to and
check out. So we'll put it on the website and
you'll be able to go and follow up where you
can find out everything about this. But that experience seems
like a fantastic event if you are dating, looking to date,
or you're just into gorgeous candlelate concert events.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
There is a wildly popular.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Candlelight concert series that is happening here in the Southland
where there is a live orchestra redoing music with a
classical twist like Taylor Swift, the Beatles, Lewis mcginny and more,
and the venue is lit wall to wall with candles,
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And I mean, this is gorgeous.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
I see this on TikTok at least every other day
and is unique. It's on TikTok and it is something
I am waiting for the perfect courtship to go because
it looks like the most romantic thing. Even though my
girlfriend offered to go with me, I just feel like
it's more of a man thing.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
I can't wait for the perfect time to.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Go see and if they have, like I don't know,
Jodasy classically. Yes, I don't drink. Okay, I think you've
given up drinking. No, okay, good, okay, okay, so you
still get down with this? Can There is an avocado
beer at Avocado Fest Okay, I know, don't turn don't
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turn up your nose yet. Avocado Fest at angel City
Brewery is returning for his twelfth annual celebration and this
is happening tomorrow from twelve to six, and they are
showcasing their Avocado al which is a crisp and refreshing
culsh style brew that is perfect for the summer. Look
it's avocado and his beer. And I don't know how
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that's good.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
But I would try it for the experience.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah, try just everything once. This is a two sixteen
Alameda Street in Los Angeles. If you just want to
go check out a cool brewery. I think that's kind
of fly just by itself. There is a contemporary twist
on a cult classic musical. I'm not familiar with the musical,
but it's Refer Madness. Refer Madness is offering a contemporary
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twist on the beloved cult classic musical combined sattire with
captivating performances. Look what drew me to this is the
images because it looked like some real sexy burlesque type happenings.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
And there's an after party at the.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Reefer Din sounds like a weed filled experience, So I'm
not down with it. But it's happening throughout August at
the Whitley sixty five five five, sixty five fifty five
every want to say it, Hollywood Boulevard Art. More information
will be on the website for that. And then there's
the river Fest. Friends of the Los Angeles River foul Are,
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that's your acroative. Are silly for that? You're so silly.
Faul Are is presenting their third annual rivers Fest, which
is a free outdoor festival focus on environmental arts and
community honoring the culture and history of individuals of the
La River.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, because that's what you wants. Hear people getting washed
away in La River.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
To La River.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Okay, well check it out. It's August eleventh.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
August eleventh, La State Historic Park And again, more information
on that will be on the website. But you know
what I was curious about and uh this super producer.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Kayla. I know you are still relatively new to the Southland.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Indeed, you know you no longer have Similac on your breath,
but you're still You're still finding out what's happening out here.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
What do you do for fun? Like when you because
you work like me, you work all the damn time.
But what do you do when you stretch your legs?
Speaker 9 (24:08):
Oh, nobody works like you. To Alibar, you are the
hardest working man I know. But as a close second,
I like to go to the Grove. They have free
little live music. Sometimes they give out a little blanket.
You could just sit on the grass and kind of
watch somebody before him. I did that yesterday and then
stashed out some nice bars. North Strums has a great
bar where you're kind of overviewing people watch. I also
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love going to Lacma. They do free jazz and wine
nights every Friday. And I live right like two blocks away,
so I walk there with little uh oh do I
say wine?
Speaker 10 (24:36):
There's no wine. I bring wine, So I actually jazz,
just free jazz.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
So it's like I bring my own wine and then
I sit there and I listen to the jazz music,
but just like free interactive things like that. I love
to go to slam nights or poetry slam nights if
I can find a free thing like that. They have
a lot of that downtown on Mondays. But yeah, yeah,
it's a lot going on in the Southland. It's much
more active than Atlantic City, New Jersey, I tell you
that much. It's much more to get into a round.
We got a compliment from Kleb that's that's real.
Speaker 10 (25:02):
You still can't drive though.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Okay, all right, Andrew, how about you? Good? So what
do you do when you are not living the news life?
Speaker 7 (25:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I just hang with my celebrity friends in the hills,
have a couple of Margarita's, you know when they're in
town and stuff. So yeah, sometimes I have to house sit,
so I'll go to and just raid the refrigerators.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
You're so fabulous.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Just lived that, babe. No, I like me days like
I did this. Yesterday. After I got off the air,
I went to go see Deadpool. Oh nice? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Did you love it? I did? I mean, it's that's
like that's the style of Deadpool, right if you know?
Speaker 5 (25:40):
You know?
Speaker 9 (25:41):
So it was good you see it at that ancient
Chinese theater that that I hear a lot of people
go to a psiconogy.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I hide in the valley, That's how because otherwise TMS
is gonna be taking my picture everywhere I go.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, in the volley, avoid the pops yep, right, oh
when you are not here? Are you still DJing?
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (25:59):
Yeah, I still DJ And I follow Andrew around and
take pictures of him and then sell it for money.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
That's another reason why I'm in the valley.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Yeah, he's avoiding me, No, I yeah, DJ and I'm
always following house music, so anything house music. There's day Trip,
which is a big one that I go to because
my friends do it. So we were in Seattle last
weekend for it, as a matter of fact. But yeah,
just house music. Anything to do with house music, that's.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
My that's my hobby. Where are you DJing are right now?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Well?
Speaker 7 (26:27):
No, actually I don't have anything right now. Since I
think I've been taking a lot of weekends off. I'm
going to try to work for a while so Oscar
doesn't get rid of me, thank you. Yeah, but yeah,
maybe I know. I'm going in October. I'm going to
Mexico for some a festival, and you know. And I
football fan too, so football is right around the corner.
So I'm going to do some football too. There you go,
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There you go, Jackie Ray. What do you do in
the LBC to you know, have fun? Stretch your legs.
Speaker 11 (26:56):
So I live in downtown Long Beach, so I've kind
of made my a local at a couple of bars,
which is always fun. There is this at Anna's Bar
right down the street from me. They have trivia night.
I love karaoke. I can sing a little bit, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Oh my god, let's go together next time.
Speaker 11 (27:14):
So I rap yo, so we can do the Rihanna
and Eminem song. I can never find anyone.
Speaker 8 (27:18):
To do that with me.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
We're great. Sweatpants.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Okay, that's a that's an Eminem thing, right gray sweatpants.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
No, that is a Chris Brown thing, if you know.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Oh, I'm going to the turn.
Speaker 10 (27:33):
He said.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I love the karaoke. I have got to see this.
I have got to see it because actually I do
know that you can sing. Yes, I do that. And
I have seen some of your videos on the socials.
Speaker 10 (27:50):
Do I have videos on the social still? Let me
singing it.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Look, there's just a couple of videos. You have to
dig though.
Speaker 10 (27:56):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
When I was when I was ching up, like for
different images and stuff like that to use for you
on our website. When I'm posting anytime you're doing, you know,
beyond the box score, I found like, wait, why does
Jackie have a guitar? Is that?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Is that just for a show?
Speaker 10 (28:10):
You got the picture picture then, and then I had
to file.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I was like wait, and then I follow this and
this and that, and I was like, oh, oh Jackie
sang something.
Speaker 11 (28:20):
Gar Yeah, well, no, I play guitar enough to That's
how I would chart out music and then I would
go to a producer to let them do everything else.
But I don't like to see Jackie, what's your stage name,
Jackie Jackie Ray?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
That works?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I mean, then the stage thing works, yere, Jackie Ray
works perfectly.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Hey, look at that. I had to find out some
new stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
That's why I wanted to go around and see what
y'all do, because we always look at what's happening in
the south Land and I think to myself, like, what
about the crew?
Speaker 5 (28:49):
What do we do?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I mean, I'll do nothing. I like when I leave here,
I go home and I watch anime and I have
to do my best to hang out with my kids.
And at that age where they're like, yeah, Daddy can
go to my friends, Like right now, they're at Magic Mountain.
Like I was supposed to pick them up later, but
they're like, oh, but we're going to Magic Mounts. So
they're at that you know, teenage age. You know, my son,
he's eighteen. He's finding himself, you know. And also I'm like, oo,
(29:12):
So any opportunity I get to hang out with them,
I'm doing it.
Speaker 10 (29:15):
But that frees up your time to do karaoke with us.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Now and sign yourself toala.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I was once told that I was proof positive that
not all black people can sing. I literally went karaoke
with some friends from my Taekwon taekwondosing I did John Mayers.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
No such thing that boys can't sing.
Speaker 10 (29:36):
Why don't you do like Barry White where you gotta do?
Speaker 4 (29:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Maybe, But I'm telling you. One of.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
My fellow students, she came in afterwards, and she's from
the Ukraine, and she said, uh, tala I, I I
have to tell you. Coming to America, I thought, and
I was told black people can sing. You are proof positive.
Not all black people. I can say, do not sing
a kid? And I was like, what you what racial?
(30:03):
Finally you lie in the car. I did, because even
the DJ afterwards he was like, okay, you heard that
pity clap in the.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Back that he just didn't have enough reverbon. That was
the problem. It was bad.
Speaker 11 (30:17):
You know, my dad couldn't sing a look, but he
said that's okay because he can make a joyful noise.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
That's that's cute.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
You love it.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
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sol Cal Saturday. I'm your host, Twalla Sharp. And before
we get out of here, I have got to highlight
and shout out two movements to help foster youth here
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in so Cal. One Pasadena City College my alma matter.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I guess you could say that.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I mean that's why I went to school for Telecom
and Dina anything happen to do with Dina.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Gotta love it.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
But Pasadena City College is opening its first housing unit
near the campus for transitional age foster youth. Yes, the
sixth studio units will be for PCC students who are
aging out of foster care in an effort to support
students graduation. And this, to me is absolutely amazing and
(31:56):
I love it because not enough attention is paid to
the foster care system here in southern California, and when
these children are aging out, what is there to do
for them? There is no safety net lots of times
for these children. And then we see them on the street.
We see young people on the street and we're like,
(32:16):
you know, look at this young person. You know you
have all these judgmental thoughts about them, about why they're
on the streets. I promise you nine times out of
ten that is someone who is aged out of the
foster care system. And so for Pasadena City College to
open up a housing unit for foster students or for
foster students foster youth, I absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
And La City Council is considering guaranteed income for foster children.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
That is right.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
The La City Council is looking at implementing a proposed
motion to expand a program allocating four million dollars four
to five million dollars to help victims of intimate violence
and foster youth aids sixteen to twenty four and guaranteed income. Absolutely,
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it's we have to remember, be you aging out at
eighteen or at twenty two, you are still a child
for the most part, being in the foster care system
and having to in a sense, fin for yourself, living
every day knowing that this may not be your permanent home,
that you may not be adopted into this family, and
(33:32):
that after you age out, you're just out there. And
lots of times you're not or they're not prepared for
life on their own. And so you know, you're given
a backpack and a checkbook of food stamps.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I mean, you know, what do you to do?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
And so I believe that here in the south Land,
providing a guaranteed income for foster youth is next level
and I salute the La City Council for that move.
Next week, next week, god willing, we will be back
with another fantastic show and another fantastic small business.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Who will it be? Raoul spin the wheel.
Speaker 9 (34:20):
We will have Patricia Langford and we will listen to
what she's representing next week when she comes on at
two o'clock.
Speaker 10 (34:25):
It's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
I love it. I love the vagueness of it. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I cannot wait for Patricia Langford to come on next week,
and I want you to join us. Make sure you do,
and I thank you for taking the time to listen
to us today. We truly appreciate it and we do
not take your listenership for granted. Super Producer Kayla, thank
you for another fantastic show. Thanks to Jackie Ray for
holding it down in the news room. Thanks to Andrew
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Caravella for joining us along the ride, Raoul for holding
it down on the board. I want you to keep
it where you got it, because up next, the one
and only Steve Gregory is here with another edition of Unsolved.
So don't you go nowhere, keep it right here. This
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is so Cal Saturday? This, this is so Cal song.
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It's so Cal.
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Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday Saturday zero. The word,
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he's the word.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
This is Soul Cal KFI AM six forty live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app in Calabasas to Luca Lake, sil
Beach and ya Kaipa. This is Soul Cal Saturday. I'm
your host Twalla Sharp, welcoming you to another Soul Cal
Saturday Small Business Saturday spotlight. Today, we are introducing you
(01:26):
to Carolyn Dance Studio. At Carolyn Dance Studio, they are
a dance studio in Rialto that has been providing affordable
dance for over sixty years. They start lessons at age
three and they teach tap, ballet, tumbling, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, hula, ballet, folkloric,
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everything that your child could hope to learn about dance
and to walk us through Carolyn Dance Studio. We have
the operator Amy Crumb joining us today.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Amy, how are you you do?
Speaker 5 (02:01):
I'm blessed. I'm so blessed to be here. I just
wanted to see a few things really quickly. So Hi,
Kwala beart. I am a huge fan. So I heard
that one night and I just started laughing and listen
to you in Mo because I live in Palm Belle
and strive to rialto to get to the studio. So
(02:23):
I come home with you guys every single night. I
love the horoscopes, the sports, the movies, everything, and just
the camaraderie between you and Mo and Mark and everybody.
It's it's just such a great evening to go home with.
And I just feel blessed to be able to have
(02:44):
that as part of my you know, going home instead
of having to zone out. Just sharing music. It really
makes me think of other things. And I just wanted
to also say thank you for sharing your second birthday
with the community and telling us your story, because it really,
you know, makes me feel good that you acknowledge that.
And I really don't know if you hear that a lot,
(03:04):
but I really appreciate that you share that because some
people are just like, no, I don't want to talk
about it, but you do. So I wish you a
second happy birthday and you're following your coming up and
I just thought that it was wonderful that.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You shared it amy Seriously, I mean, wow, thank you
that you have no idea what that means to us
to hear it, because sometimes we're operating like in a silo.
We're in a room and we're talking and we know
what we're saying is going out over the mic and
the show that we produce for later for mo Kelly.
We always say that our goal is to have fun,
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and we feel if we're having fun, the listeners are
having fun, and we're talking about things that we like
and things that we feel are going to be interesting
in may not change your mind, but may give you
a little context or you know, a little color to
what it is that you have been hearing or listening to.
And to hear that it is not only your way
(04:01):
to get you through your ride home, but that you
enjoyed so much. Seriously, that that means the world to us.
It really really does. Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
I'd rather have you, guys been music in a radio station.
It's just a great feeling to go home. I have
my children listening to it, and you know, speaking of them.
I wanted to thank you also for working with people
with neurological disorders and with autism, because both of my
children are autistic.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Mom, Yeah, being a single mom for all these years,
it's it's been a lot. It's been difficult, but you know,
the greatest thing of owning my dance studio was that
I get to work with both of my children and
I've kind of given them minor jobs so that they
can be kind of out in the community and speaking
in front of people, and giving them my daughters my
(04:50):
business managers and handles the social media. My pent assists
with all the other objectives when we got to show
set out. They're talking to people in the communit and
thriving and it's just it's just a blessing to be
able to hear your stories. When you guys were talking
about the adult autism the other night, you know, knowing
that there's somebody there that can be new, that that
(05:13):
might not be, that might be something else.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, and this is this is this is already an
amazing conversation. I mean seriously, and thank you for you know,
for recognizing that. And I applaud you because trust and
believe I know all too well how not even how difficult,
but what a challenge it is as a parent raising
(05:37):
two children with autism, and depending on where they are
at on the spectrum, are they high functioning, are they
low functioning? However the case or whatever the case may be,
you have now worked with them and gotten them to
a place where they can be a part of the community.
And working with you already you are I love what
(06:01):
you do. Just with that, just with that alone, because
places like Carolyn Dance Studio that would actually employ someone
with autism knowing that that they just process things differently,
and and that is what you know the world needs
to know at large about working with children with autism.
And I think that right there, with what you're doing,
(06:24):
you are showing proof that you just you just have
to allow them to work and allow them to shine
and they will.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Yeah. Absolutely, My daughter's like a little mini me now,
so she answers the phones and uh, you know, gets
the payments from people and helps me out when we
have shows and have to give out, you know, advertising information,
and it's it's just such a blessing to see where
she came from in elementary school where she didn't want
to talk to anybody and she didn't want to communicate
(06:54):
it with something, you know, just that she has more
of the social anxiety with on the stud from and
so to see her now thriving so much and being
able to, you know, be those things out in the community,
it's just amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
And you say, you drive from Palmdale all the way
to rialto how long have you been making that drive
to the dance studio?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Well before I owned it, my godmother Caroline. That's why
the name is Caroline. She's my godmother and she had
owned it for fifty seven years. When COVID hit, she
decided to retire after all those years because she was
of an age and we didn't really know all the
information at the beginning with COVID, so she retired and
(07:42):
I just I've been there since I was three years old,
and I've been teaching for the last twenty years. But
I just couldn't see the studio closing after all that
Caroline had given to me and other dancers throughout fifty
seven years. I mean we kind of calculated at one
time and it was like, you know, over like five
her family she had affected over her fifty seven years.
(08:03):
It was it's just an amazing person. If you think
I'm a saying, she's a bigger one for doing this
for yeah, for fifty seven years. And you know, So
she retired and I took over. Unfortunately, with COVID, they
put me down in the gym category, so I wasn't
even able to open for a whole entire year, and
(08:25):
so I was paying my rent with my EEDD money
that I was receiving because we thought it was going
to be a month, two months, Okay, I can deal
with that. Well, it was a year that they didn't
let us open, and so we got a grant from
the city of Ryalteln that helped us a lot, and
that saved our studio literally was getting that ground and
stuff like that. So I mean, it's just it's it's
(08:46):
you know, when I'm looking at things now, it's really
interesting to me because most of the kids that come in,
they're three years old, they've never never been to daycare,
they've never been to school, and literally I'm their first teacher,
just like Carolyn was to me when I was three
years old and I started there, she was my first teacher.
And I just think that that's such a unique thing
(09:08):
that we meet our children where they're at. And you know,
I've had children with autism in there, I've had children
with MS in there, I've had children with you know,
any kind foster children. A lot of our foster children
come and I meet them where they're at in that
day they might have got that day, and I just
wanted to, you know, teach them that our danced, teach
(09:30):
them to have confidence, and to teach them, you know
that they can be you know, better than just that
you know, foster care category that somebody puts them in
for that day. And so you know, I just I
just reach to kids where they're at and what they're doing,
and you know, when they say, teacher, I love you,
it just melts your heart and you you know that
you've done something good in the day.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Look, you you are speaking the absolute truth. You know
what We're gonna have to take a quick pause because
I cannot wrap this up in one segment. I have
to talk more with you about the dance studio, what
you all are doing, what you all are offering for
lower income dancers and everything else. So hold the line, Amy,
(10:14):
this is such a wonderful conversation. If you are just
tuning in, I am speaking with Amy Crumb, who is
the operator of Carolyn Dance Studio. At Carolyn Dance Studio
in Rialto, they have been operating sixty one years teaching
kids three and up, ballet, tap, tumbling, jazz, hip hop, contemporary,
(10:34):
hula and ballet, folk lord, everything in the spectrum of dance.
They are teaching with their heart and you've got to
love it more with Amy Crumb and Carolyn Dance Studio
in just a moment before.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
You're listening to soul Cal Saturday with Tawala Sharp on
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Speaker 1 (11:07):
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Speaker 2 (11:15):
This is soul Cal Saturday.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
If you are just tuning in, we are in the
middle of our soul Cal Saturday, Small Business Saturday Spotlight.
I'm speaking with miss Amy Crumb, who is the operator
of Carolyn Dance Studios en Rialto at Carolyn Dance Studio.
They are a dance studio that has been providing affordable
dance for over sixty years. They start lessons at age
(11:38):
three and up, teaching tap, ballet, tumbling, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, hula,
and ballet, folkloric. Every single thing you need to know
about dance you can learn at Carolyn Dance Studio. Amy
bringing you back into the conversation with all that you
do at Carolyn Dance Studio and all the various dance
(12:00):
styles that you teach. You also have a nonprofit program
called Dancing Dreamers, which is helping lower income dancers who
may not be afforded may not be able to afford
classes due to personal or financial hardships. Tell me more
about that program and what started it.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Well, we had some people during COVID and they would
come up and say, you know what, I can't afford
dance lessons this month because my husband's a bread winner
and he got COVID and we weren't able to continue.
And I said, you know what, let me think I
can get your scholarships. And so we did the scholarships
and we had another little girl whose dad passed away
(12:40):
and the mom was like I'm not getting financial support
right now. I've got to wait till everything comes through.
And so she was going to quit, and I was like, no, like,
still up the scholarship form and we'll be able to
get you into the free lessons to the month or
two months or whatever you need it for. And so yeah,
we had that. And I was amazing though, because I
(13:02):
was talking to Caroline last year and she told me
that when she was three, she wasn't able to afford
dance lessons because her brothers and sisters were all taking
it and they didn't have enough money for her, and
she yeah, and it was like a full circle moment,
knowing that I'm giving somebody, maybe at the age of three,
(13:22):
a chance that maybe someday they'll be a dance teacher,
or they'll be a ballerinap on stage or whatever that they,
you know, want to do in the dance community. If
they have that, they can can do that. So Caroline
didn't actually get to start cheating, i mean, taking lessons
until she was six years old, and so yeah, yeah,
(13:44):
so I'm thinking what would have happened in those three years,
what would have been a difference, you know, maybe for her,
and that would have been, you know, something different, like
would she be at that?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Was different These days, m H as a teacher not
just of dance, but as you said in our earlier conversation,
being many of these children's first teacher. For you, what
is the most rewarding part about teaching at Carolyn Dance Studio.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
I think it's the students because, you know, like I said,
when they go up on a stage, whether it's the
first time or hundredth time being up on a stage,
you know, they still get to go out there and
find that confidence. And I always tell people, I wouldn't
care if I, you know, perform at Dodger Stadium in
front of you know, seventy thousand people. It wouldn't bother
me one single bit because I've been in front of
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people since I was three years old, So no matter.
You know, when we do our recital in October, we
have a thousand people that attend it. I go out
there performing and I don't care who's in front of me.
Where some children are like, oh my goodness, what do
we do? And so just giving them that confidence and
you know, the strength to be able to go out
there and be in front of people and learn the
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art of dance. I mean, it can't get any better.
Like I said, one of my friends, her brother was
taking lessons earlier in the year and they had their
first show and he comes and says, I felt like
I was climbing a mountain. And to hear that, you
just go, that is so awesome to hear that, you know,
that's what children feel, is that they were climbing a
(15:18):
mountain and being able to, you know, express themselves that
way and having so much fun. I just couldn't imagine
being any other way.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Wow. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
If any of our listeners want to say, visit the
studio to kind of check out the classes or even
sign up for classes, what is the website where they
can find Carol Lynn Dance Studio.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Yeah, we have Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube all on
Carol Lynn Dance Studio. It's c A r O l
E l y Nne Dance Studio. My daughter does a
lot of that post and things like that for me,
Like I said, it's great. We are actually doing a
(16:04):
fundraiser right now for dancing Dreamers. Okay, we have a
go fundme account that we just set up and we're
trying to do for our anniversary because July first was
actually our sixty first anniversary, and so we're trying to
do sixty one scholarships in sixty days. So I'm trying
to raise fun for sixty one of our students to
be able to get a scholarship for Dancing Dreamers. We
(16:26):
have that out so on our go fund me. It's
titled Cus and cat Ellis in Love see as in
Dance as in Sam Dancing Dreamers sixty one in sixty days.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I absolutely love it, and I know our Soul Cow
Saturday listeners love it as well, and they are going
to show up and show out and take action and
help you achieve your goal because what you are doing again,
it is a God's and I know for a fact
for so many of your students past and present. And
(17:07):
I salute you and what you do for Carolyn Dance
Studio and the legacy that you are leaving for your
your godmother and taking it over and continuing the dream.
Bless you, Amy crom Bless you for doing what you do.
And I wish you absolutely nothing but success with Carolyn
Dance Studio.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Oh, thank you. You know, it's just a blessing to
be here with you, and like I said, you know,
just keep doing with you and Moe and everybody else
are doing because it's great for your listeners and we
really really do appreciate it. Whether you hear it or
not all the time, but you guys really are you know,
a great teams. And I haven't been able to listen
for a few days. But did you make it to Catalina?
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Yet?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I did? I did. I went to Catalina. It was good.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
The trip was fantastic, The trip was fantastic.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Jump off the boat.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I look, I was a little nervous, but my daughter
sat with me the whole trip there and I was fine.
And on the trip back, I actually sat on the
back of the boat and just watched the waves crash.
And so now I'm ready for my cruise with Mo.
Mo and I are going on a cruise on Labor
Day with our families, and I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
That's awesome, And now you know you can achieve your
next streaments having a cruise and being able to go
spend with Moe and your family and his family. I mean,
how much as could you get?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Absolutely, Amy, I want you to enjoy the rest of
your day and keep doing what you are doing at
Carolyn Dance Studio.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Thank you so much for having me. I really do
appreciate it and you'll always be Quala Bear to me.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yes, ma'am.
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When met cub Grand, Terrence and Bomm, this is so
Cal Saturday. I'm your host, Twala Sharp taking a look
at some really really fun things to do around the Southland.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
And I love this.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
List of things that super producer Kayla has put together.
There is a Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice Experience that is coming
to the south Land if you are ready for a
ghastly good time ahead of Tim Burton's highly anticipated sequel.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetle Juice Beatle.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
The Afterlife Experience is an officially licensed Warner Brothers event
that opens August twenty third. This massive, interactive, interactive experience
features recreated sets, themed food, and drinks, photo ops to
die for, in so much more.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Now, all the things that I am listing.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Is going to go on the website because it's like
fifty eleven different websites for you to go to and
check out. So we'll put it on the website and
you'll be able to go and follow up where you
can find out everything about this. But that experience seems
like a fantastic event if you are dating, looking to date,
or you're just into gorgeous candlelate concert events.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
There is a wildly popular.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Candlelight concert series that is happening here in the Southland
where there is a live orchestra redoing music with a
classical twist like Taylor Swift, the Beatles, Lewis mcginny and more,
and the venue is lit wall to wall with candles,
(21:06):
And I mean, this is gorgeous.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
I see this on TikTok at least every other day
and is unique. It's on TikTok and it is something
I am waiting for the perfect courtship to go because
it looks like the most romantic thing. Even though my
girlfriend offered to go with me, I just feel like
it's more of a man thing.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
I can't wait for the perfect time to.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Go see and if they have, like I don't know,
Jodasy classically. Yes, I don't drink. Okay, I think you've
given up drinking. No, okay, good, okay, okay, so you
still get down with this? Can There is an avocado
beer at Avocado Fest Okay, I know, don't turn don't
(21:46):
turn up your nose yet. Avocado Fest at angel City
Brewery is returning for his twelfth annual celebration and this
is happening tomorrow from twelve to six, and they are
showcasing their Avocado al which is a crisp and refreshing
culsh style brew that is perfect for the summer. Look
it's avocado and his beer. And I don't know how
(22:07):
that's good.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
But I would try it for the experience.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah, try just everything once. This is a two sixteen
Alameda Street in Los Angeles. If you just want to
go check out a cool brewery. I think that's kind
of fly just by itself. There is a contemporary twist
on a cult classic musical. I'm not familiar with the musical,
but it's Refer Madness. Refer Madness is offering a contemporary
(22:32):
twist on the beloved cult classic musical combined sattire with
captivating performances. Look what drew me to this is the
images because it looked like some real sexy burlesque type happenings.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
And there's an after party at the.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Reefer Din sounds like a weed filled experience, So I'm
not down with it. But it's happening throughout August at
the Whitley sixty five five five, sixty five fifty five
every want to say it, Hollywood Boulevard Art. More information
will be on the website for that. And then there's
the river Fest. Friends of the Los Angeles River foul Are,
(23:10):
that's your acroative. Are silly for that? You're so silly.
Faul Are is presenting their third annual rivers Fest, which
is a free outdoor festival focus on environmental arts and
community honoring the culture and history of individuals of the
La River.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, because that's what you wants. Hear people getting washed
away in La River.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
To La River.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Okay, well check it out. It's August eleventh.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
August eleventh, La State Historic Park And again, more information
on that will be on the website. But you know
what I was curious about and uh this super producer.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Kayla. I know you are still relatively new to the Southland.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Indeed, you know you no longer have Similac on your breath,
but you're still You're still finding out what's happening out here.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
What do you do for fun? Like when you because
you work like me, you work all the damn time.
But what do you do when you stretch your legs?
Speaker 9 (24:08):
Oh, nobody works like you. To Alibar, you are the
hardest working man I know. But as a close second,
I like to go to the Grove. They have free
little live music. Sometimes they give out a little blanket.
You could just sit on the grass and kind of
watch somebody before him. I did that yesterday and then
stashed out some nice bars. North Strums has a great
bar where you're kind of overviewing people watch. I also
(24:28):
love going to Lacma. They do free jazz and wine
nights every Friday. And I live right like two blocks away,
so I walk there with little uh oh do I
say wine?
Speaker 10 (24:36):
There's no wine. I bring wine, So I actually jazz,
just free jazz.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
So it's like I bring my own wine and then
I sit there and I listen to the jazz music,
but just like free interactive things like that. I love
to go to slam nights or poetry slam nights if
I can find a free thing like that. They have
a lot of that downtown on Mondays. But yeah, yeah,
it's a lot going on in the Southland. It's much
more active than Atlantic City, New Jersey, I tell you
that much. It's much more to get into a round.
We got a compliment from Kleb that's that's real.
Speaker 10 (25:02):
You still can't drive though.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Okay, all right, Andrew, how about you? Good? So what
do you do when you are not living the news life?
Speaker 7 (25:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I just hang with my celebrity friends in the hills,
have a couple of Margarita's, you know when they're in
town and stuff. So yeah, sometimes I have to house sit,
so I'll go to and just raid the refrigerators.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
You're so fabulous.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Just lived that, babe. No, I like me days like
I did this. Yesterday. After I got off the air,
I went to go see Deadpool. Oh nice? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Did you love it? I did? I mean, it's that's
like that's the style of Deadpool, right if you know?
Speaker 5 (25:40):
You know?
Speaker 9 (25:41):
So it was good you see it at that ancient
Chinese theater that that I hear a lot of people
go to a psiconogy.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
I hide in the valley, That's how because otherwise TMS
is gonna be taking my picture everywhere I go.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, in the volley, avoid the pops yep, right, oh
when you are not here? Are you still DJing?
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (25:59):
Yeah, I still DJ And I follow Andrew around and
take pictures of him and then sell it for money.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
That's another reason why I'm in the valley.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Yeah, he's avoiding me, No, I yeah, DJ and I'm
always following house music, so anything house music. There's day Trip,
which is a big one that I go to because
my friends do it. So we were in Seattle last
weekend for it, as a matter of fact. But yeah,
just house music. Anything to do with house music, that's.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
My that's my hobby. Where are you DJing are right now?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Well?
Speaker 7 (26:27):
No, actually I don't have anything right now. Since I
think I've been taking a lot of weekends off. I'm
going to try to work for a while so Oscar
doesn't get rid of me, thank you. Yeah, but yeah,
maybe I know. I'm going in October. I'm going to
Mexico for some a festival, and you know. And I
football fan too, so football is right around the corner.
So I'm going to do some football too. There you go,
(26:48):
There you go, Jackie Ray. What do you do in
the LBC to you know, have fun? Stretch your legs.
Speaker 11 (26:56):
So I live in downtown Long Beach, so I've kind
of made my a local at a couple of bars,
which is always fun. There is this at Anna's Bar
right down the street from me. They have trivia night.
I love karaoke. I can sing a little bit, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Oh my god, let's go together next time.
Speaker 11 (27:14):
So I rap yo, so we can do the Rihanna
and Eminem song. I can never find anyone.
Speaker 8 (27:18):
To do that with me.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
We're great. Sweatpants.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Okay, that's a that's an Eminem thing, right gray sweatpants.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
No, that is a Chris Brown thing, if you know.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Oh, I'm going to the turn.
Speaker 10 (27:33):
He said.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I love the karaoke. I have got to see this.
I have got to see it because actually I do
know that you can sing. Yes, I do that. And
I have seen some of your videos on the socials.
Speaker 10 (27:50):
Do I have videos on the social still? Let me
singing it.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Look, there's just a couple of videos. You have to
dig though.
Speaker 10 (27:56):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
When I was when I was ching up, like for
different images and stuff like that to use for you
on our website. When I'm posting anytime you're doing, you know,
beyond the box score, I found like, wait, why does
Jackie have a guitar? Is that?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Is that just for a show?
Speaker 10 (28:10):
You got the picture picture then, and then I had
to file.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I was like wait, and then I follow this and
this and that, and I was like, oh, oh Jackie
sang something.
Speaker 11 (28:20):
Gar Yeah, well, no, I play guitar enough to That's
how I would chart out music and then I would
go to a producer to let them do everything else.
But I don't like to see Jackie, what's your stage name,
Jackie Jackie Ray?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
That works?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I mean, then the stage thing works, yere, Jackie Ray
works perfectly.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Hey, look at that. I had to find out some
new stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
That's why I wanted to go around and see what
y'all do, because we always look at what's happening in
the south Land and I think to myself, like, what
about the crew?
Speaker 5 (28:49):
What do we do?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I mean, I'll do nothing. I like when I leave here,
I go home and I watch anime and I have
to do my best to hang out with my kids.
And at that age where they're like, yeah, Daddy can
go to my friends, Like right now, they're at Magic Mountain.
Like I was supposed to pick them up later, but
they're like, oh, but we're going to Magic Mounts. So
they're at that you know, teenage age. You know, my son,
he's eighteen. He's finding himself, you know. And also I'm like, oo,
(29:12):
So any opportunity I get to hang out with them,
I'm doing it.
Speaker 10 (29:15):
But that frees up your time to do karaoke with us.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Now and sign yourself toala.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I was once told that I was proof positive that
not all black people can sing. I literally went karaoke
with some friends from my Taekwon taekwondosing I did John Mayers.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
No such thing that boys can't sing.
Speaker 10 (29:36):
Why don't you do like Barry White where you gotta do?
Speaker 4 (29:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Maybe, But I'm telling you. One of.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
My fellow students, she came in afterwards, and she's from
the Ukraine, and she said, uh, tala I, I I
have to tell you. Coming to America, I thought, and
I was told black people can sing. You are proof positive.
Not all black people. I can say, do not sing
a kid? And I was like, what you what racial?
(30:03):
Finally you lie in the car. I did, because even
the DJ afterwards he was like, okay, you heard that
pity clap in the.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Back that he just didn't have enough reverbon. That was
the problem. It was bad.
Speaker 11 (30:17):
You know, my dad couldn't sing a look, but he
said that's okay because he can make a joyful noise.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
That's that's cute.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
You love it.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
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Speaker 6 (30:34):
You're listening to soul Cal Saturday with Tawla Sharp on
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Speaker 1 (30:56):
K five AM six forty live everywhere, the iHeartRadio app
and Receda Signal Hill, Valencia and Atlanta. Even This is
sol Cal Saturday. I'm your host, Twalla Sharp. And before
we get out of here, I have got to highlight
and shout out two movements to help foster youth here
(31:21):
in so Cal. One Pasadena City College my alma matter.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I guess you could say that.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I mean that's why I went to school for Telecom
and Dina anything happen to do with Dina.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Gotta love it.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
But Pasadena City College is opening its first housing unit
near the campus for transitional age foster youth. Yes, the
sixth studio units will be for PCC students who are
aging out of foster care in an effort to support
students graduation. And this, to me is absolutely amazing and
(31:56):
I love it because not enough attention is paid to
the foster care system here in southern California, and when
these children are aging out, what is there to do
for them? There is no safety net lots of times
for these children. And then we see them on the street.
We see young people on the street and we're like,
(32:16):
you know, look at this young person. You know you
have all these judgmental thoughts about them, about why they're
on the streets. I promise you nine times out of
ten that is someone who is aged out of the
foster care system. And so for Pasadena City College to
open up a housing unit for foster students or for
foster students foster youth, I absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
And La City Council is considering guaranteed income for foster children.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
That is right.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
The La City Council is looking at implementing a proposed
motion to expand a program allocating four million dollars four
to five million dollars to help victims of intimate violence
and foster youth aids sixteen to twenty four and guaranteed income. Absolutely,
(33:10):
it's we have to remember, be you aging out at
eighteen or at twenty two, you are still a child
for the most part, being in the foster care system
and having to in a sense, fin for yourself, living
every day knowing that this may not be your permanent home,
that you may not be adopted into this family, and
(33:32):
that after you age out, you're just out there. And
lots of times you're not or they're not prepared for
life on their own. And so you know, you're given
a backpack and a checkbook of food stamps.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I mean, you know, what do you to do?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
And so I believe that here in the south Land,
providing a guaranteed income for foster youth is next level
and I salute the La City Council for that move.
Next week, next week, god willing, we will be back
with another fantastic show and another fantastic small business.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Who will it be? Raoul spin the wheel.
Speaker 9 (34:20):
We will have Patricia Langford and we will listen to
what she's representing next week when she comes on at
two o'clock.
Speaker 10 (34:25):
It's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
I love it. I love the vagueness of it. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I cannot wait for Patricia Langford to come on next week,
and I want you to join us. Make sure you do,
and I thank you for taking the time to listen
to us today. We truly appreciate it and we do
not take your listenership for granted. Super Producer Kayla, thank
you for another fantastic show. Thanks to Jackie Ray for
holding it down in the news room. Thanks to Andrew
(34:54):
Caravella for joining us along the ride, Raoul for holding
it down on the board. I want you to keep
it where you got it, because up next, the one
and only Steve Gregory is here with another edition of Unsolved.
So don't you go nowhere, keep it right here. This
is KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
(35:17):
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hear us live on KFI AM six forty five pm
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