August 10, 2024 • 29 mins
SoCal Round-Up: · Newsom vows to take away funding from cities and counties for not clearing encampments · California rent control back on the ballot, twice · Here's how you can register to vote in California for Nov. 5, 2024 presidential election. Also in SoCal: · Project Homekey housing project for homeless breaks ground in Van Nuys · No food left uneaten: a monthly food exchange grows in Northeast LA · Guaranteed income expands. Business in SoCal: · Inglewood’s Intuit Dome is poised to be the future of SoCal’s live entertainment · Inglewood bans concerts at SoFi Plaza following Hard Summer music festival · Big Lots closing 75 stores in California. See the list · Status Update: Babies R Us returning to stores, this time inside 3 local Kohl’s · Elon Musk moves X out of San Francisco. City leaders shrug. GUEST INTERVIEW: Roxanne Bennett, Founder / Pinners Conference & Expo · Event Features 300+ Artisans, Vendors and Presenters Offering 100+ Specialty Classes & DIY Seminars.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Los Angeles, Orange County, I E in the Valley. This
is Tawala Sharp and you're listening to KFI AM six
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Yes Acres, Brentwood, Orange and Norco. This is soul Cal Saturday.
I'm yos Twilash Sharp. Welcoming you to another fantastic Soul
Cal Saturday show. Starting off one to take a look,
of course, at Governor Newsom's finals like proclamation that he
will clean up all of the homeless encampments in southern
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California and if you don't there will be penalties. I mean,
it's not come on to this. Dude is snapping his
fingers like seriously, he's some type of supervillain going around
cleaning up these camps. He was out in LA recently saying,
you know, quote, I want to see results. I don't
want to read about them. I don't want to see
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the data. I want to see it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
He was out there with his shovel and his gloves,
and he was just cleaning up so Cow by himself,
well along with cal Trans and Sheriff's department and all that.
But look, yes, something has to be done. Yes, the
encampments are unsightedly. Yes, they just grow and after a
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while they turn into like little shanty towns here in
so Cow. But while this cleaning up is happening, what
I didn't see out there with Governor Noose and what
I didn't see I saw him, I saw clean up cruise,
I saw you know, the authorities. I saw all that happening.
I did not see any social service workers out there.
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I did not see anyone there with program or plans
or helping individuals find housing. I didn't see that. Okay.
I saw shovels, and I saw the law, but I
did not see any resources out there helping anyone to
find some place to go. And that is problematic. Okay.
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So I get that you want this to happen, and
you want to see it. You want to see the
results now, But what about the other results, What about
the end result of the people who you are not
placing somewhere as you're going around doing that, Because while
the cameras were out there and while you were, you know,
taking matters into your own hands. I did not see
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you walking people into any of these temporary houses that
you've been holding up funding on. I didn't see that.
I didn't see that happening. So, yes, you're out there,
like you know, again, some type of supervillain cleaning up
so Cal. But I don't see you doing that other
part that superheroes do, and that is helping people directly.
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That's what was missing in your cleanup efforts and connected
to homelessness at large, rent in so Cal. We talk
about it all the time, how it is absolutely out
of control, and I've said time and time again that
we are mostly at fault because we did not vote
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for rent control. We had the opportunity to do so,
and we did not. But guess what, we have another
opportunity to do so come November fifth. Two propositions are
making their way back on the November fifth ballot, Proposition
thirty three, which would give local governments more control over
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rent caps and that would absolutely help. And to stop
the foundation from bankrolling or actually to stop various foundations
from bankrolling funds into erroneous buildings and things like that.
You have Prop thirty four, but no matter what, rent
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control is back on the bill. And I would love, love,
love to see how many people come out and vote
for that, because I constantly hear people talking about, oh,
it's too expensive in California. The rent keeps going up,
there's nothing that could be done. Ah ah ah ah.
Right here, coming up on November fifth, something can be done.
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You can actually exercise your power at the ballot box
and vote for any of these initiatives that will help
to establish rent control. And if you are not registered
for some crazy reason and you don't know how to
go about it, okay, maybe you're just turn eighteen and
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you haven't talked to your parents about registering to vote,
or maybe you got to care, or maybe you just
have been apathetic and don't care. Well, this is your
time to care, okay. And again on November fifth, it
is coming up. The The standard deadline to vote is
fifteen days before the election, which would be October twenty first,
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twenty twenty four. According to the California Secretary of State,
you can actually register online right now if you want
to register to vote dot caa dot gov. The state
does offer a safety net for Californians who fail to
make the registration deadlight and still wish to vote. In
those cases, voters can register to local register at their
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local election office, polling place or voting center, and you
can do a same day vote. All right, as long
as you are US citizen or eighteen years or older
on election day, damn it, you can exercise your power
and make sure that we get substantial change here in
southern California. Because I promise you this. Whatever you post
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on social media, that doesn't count as a vote. Your
complaints on social media, that's not a vote. That's not
how the system works. You know how the system works
is you take the time, you exercise your power, You
do the due diligence, and you go and you exercise
and let your voice be heard. So guess what we
don't have to do. We don't have to have Governor
Batman out there cleaning up the streets by himself like
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some type of one man army. All right, this is
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 1 (06:37):
KFI Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeart Radio
app and else the Gutno Green Meadow, Sell Beach in
you Hype. This is soul cal Saturday. I'm your host,
Twala Sharp, And I know sometimes you listen to us
bantering back and forth when the FOURK Reporter and I
are doing cross talking, you may hear all about all
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all the food that's you know, in the studio. And
let me tell you it's all real. I don't know
if they Instagram Live. Did y'all Instagram Live this week?
Producer Kiki No, I don't have access to Instagram Live.
It's all good. I have video and photos and that'll
all be up. I'm telling y'all, this was an absolute treat.
I just try. What is this this pork belly uh
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egg tackle thing and this brother at Awavos wavos delicious
geezuhise man, this is just this this. But that's why
I love coming on after the Fork Reporter, because the
treats that treats, that treats the treats. Okay, now you know,
close to my heart is all things having to do
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with housing the house, which is why I was just
I'm so upset with this move that Governor Newsom is
making even though yeah, I know something has to be done,
but I just don't know if the way he's going
about it is the way to go about it. One
way I think to go about it is something like
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what they're doing at where Project home Key, Project Home
Key housing project for a homeless or for the homeless,
has just broken ground in Van Nuys. This is a
new project where they are absolutely creating what is it,
some I don't know, ninety studio apartments, ninety studio apartments
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for the un housed, you know, including a kitchenette, bathroom,
bed dresser, dining table, all those things. There will also
be two bedroom manager units, multiple community rooms, barbecues. Look,
this is just a really really really nice building that
is being put together, and this is put together by
Project home Key, and this is what we absolutely need.
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We need programs where people are actually to Governor Whosom's
message to the people. He doesn't want to hear about it.
He doesn't want to read about it. He wants to
see it. Well, go see it, all right, go see
it in Actually this is right in like in the
Valley area where on the supposed the boulevard they have
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turned this old motel into a permanent supportive housing unit
for the homeless, and they're looking to do more. This
is just one of the first buildings, you know, and
they are looking to do more. So I would say
that instead of going around with the shovel and broom
cleaning up encampments, governments could focus more attention on making
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sure that funding is going to organizations like Project Home Key,
which is actually getting people off the street and the
end getting them counseling, getting them the help they need
to keep them off of the streets. Now, Okay, here's
this one program that it's it's wild to me only
because it's got a real, real hippie kind of vibe
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to it. Okay, It's called the Neighborhood Food Exchange. And
one Saturday a month, a group of individuals in northeast LA.
They meet at someone's house for about twenty minutes. Okay.
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They each bring a bag of goodies and an empty
table to sit it on. Each time they leave satisfied
with what someone else's contributions of food. How does this work? Okay,
A bunch of individuals in this group, and that this
group has like some now I think some seven hundred
members in it. They all get together on social media
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or on their website and they pick a house. Everyone
shows up with their contribution, something that would otherwise go uneaten.
Maybe you bought, you know, an extra loaf of bread,
you didn't need it. Whatever, you gather all this stuff,
and you know, say, if I'm in the group showing
up at Kenna's house and Canna's hosting, like you know,
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some thirty or so people, we all come over. Hey, everybody,
we all come in. We lay out blankets and all that,
and we just put all the stuff on that we have.
Everyone's bringing all this stuff in and and I guess
around eleven after the hour, you go in and just
take whatever you want. You grab whatever you want, stuff
your own little bag that you brought, and everyone walks
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out like, okay, we're glad I didn't take you. You know,
it's an interesting co op making sure that food does
not go to waste. If if you are into this idea,
if you want to be a part of this wild
new Earth, I just imagine a bunch of people with
like beads and I don't know, flowy dresses or what
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are those cities called not Daishiki's but just something. Just
I just I just imagine a bunch of hippies, a
bunch of people with no shoes on, sitting around you know. Peace, man, peace,
what did you bring? Oh man? We can't let any
of this go to waste. Man, I just see that. Okay.
But if you're down with this and you want to
be a part of it or learn more about this
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co op, you can actually email free Food at Hillside
Produce Cooperative dot org to join their contact list, or
you can request to join their Facebook group on Facebook.
You know, be a part of this food exchange, which
is again it is really really weird. But you know,
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God bless them, and really and truly seriously, this is
something that I absolutely love and I love that La
County is behind this. I hope that more counties, Orange County,
the Valley, everyone gets behind this. And establishing guaranteed income
for foster youth all right right now in La County,
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there is an expansion to a program that I told
you about last week where the La City Council was
looking to establish a program that guarantees income for foster youth.
Right now, this program is being expanded by the Department
of Children and Family Services to automatically enroll foster youth
between the ages of eighteen and twenty one into this
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program called Breathe Breathe with first launched in twenty twenty
two to give guaranteed monthly income to low income residents.
Will now it is expanded to include former foster youth,
all right, and this we need this right now. The
way the program is designed, the first group of eighteen
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to nineteen year olds and foster care well received five
hundred dollars monthly for eighteen months, and the second group
between nineteen to twenty one will receive fifteen hundred dollars
quarterly for an eighteen month period, and they will also
receive all types of services to help for job placement,
for housing and for all those things. Because again you
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see some of these young people out on the streets.
These are people who after the age of twenty one
have aged out of foster care and you know, no
telling what lives they lived before that. But now now
we are giving them an opportunity to be to be
successful and to really survive. So bravo to Breathe and
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expanding this guaranteed foster care monthly income because we need it.
This is again, something else which I would hope that
Governor Batman would be out there instead of you know,
out there with his brow and his shovel and his
Donald's gloves snapping up. You know, homeless encampments, invest in
programs like this. You know you keep talking about I
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want to see it. I want to see stuff happening.
It's happening, man, It's happening right under your nose. All right,
just open your eyes and look at it.
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Forty KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio.
I've been Canola, Mesa, Lo Media, Riverside, and Marino Valley.
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This is soul Cal Saturday. I'm your host, Tyler Sharp,
taking a look at some business happenings around here in
sol Cal. We know that the Intuit Dome is the
future of all things entertainment here in southern California. I mean,
this thing is massive. This two billion dollars that Steve
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Balmer and the group spent on this worth every dime
from everyone I know that's been there, I mean from
them having an almost gaming system built into the seats
where you can compete with other people in the venue,
to this Heylo scoreboard where you miss nothing see at
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angles that you wouldn't see even if you are looking
at it sitting in the room. I mean, look, this
place is amazing. And that's just for games, but for
all of the concerts and everything else that they have coming,
this place is going to be the truth in Southern California.
It is literally taking what the initial plan for the
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Staples Center was and taking it to the next level.
I mean, they really need to reinvest in the Stable Center.
I know we've got some beautiful statues there, you know,
the unveiling of the Kobe and Gianna statue out there.
Just yes, but man into it, don't. That's the future
of so cal and that's where we need to go
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to make Southern California the epicenter of all things having
to do with entertainment and traveling, all those things. We
want people coming to Socao, but we don't want in
Inglewood at the sofar Stadium is any more outdoor concerts.
I don't know if you were listening to later with
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Mo Kelly, but both Mo and Fush they let it
be known that you could hear this hard summer music festival,
you know, some miles away from the stadium. And yes
it was a problem, but problem solved because Mayor bus
has said after that there will be no more outdoor festivals.
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Not we're going to regulate, we're gonna check the sound,
we're gonna make sure.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
No.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Just that's it. We got too many complaints and that's
not what we need coming to so far. We don't
need people having reasons to complain or be upset with
something we're doing Inglewood because right now Inglewood is lo
and behold becoming the capital of entertainment here in southern California.
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That's something else. That is something else. I mean people
that come. I mean, look, I know the Olympics twenty
twenty eight will be in LA and they're gonna try
to make it in and around the UCLA Coliseum area
all around. But Inglewood has taken it. Inglewood is absolutely
taking it. Speaking of taking it, taking it in the shorts,
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Big Lots closing some seventy five locations here in California.
I mean first it was ninety nine cent store and
then now big Lots. It's almost as if shopping for
less is not working. For retailers here in southern California.
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But right now, discount retailer Big Lots is shuttering some
seventy five stores here in California. And I promise you
this one of these stores is near you in Anaheim,
the location on sixteen seventy West Katla and the one
on sixty three thirty six East Santa Ana Royal East
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Santa Ana Canyon Road, not Royal, but Canyon Road and Anaheim,
both of those will be gone. In Bakersfield twenty six
twenty one Fashion Place gone, Chino, the one in nineteen
twenty seven East twentieth Street gone, Culver City fifty five
eighty seven, So of over the boulevard gone, all of these.
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And this list is long. I mean, there's like so
many different ones to read through. But you will not
be going to Big Lots anymore. And this is tough
because my cousin used to work in Big Lots and
I know every Christmas he would come through with a
whole bunch of gigantic stuffed things, you know, for the
kids and all that stuff. So yeah, my cousin Paul
used to work there. It was a great place to
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get decorations, all of that yeah, plates, napkins, table settings,
I mean every you could find a little bit of everything.
And I went to a Big Lots and they had
a recliner in there, and I was like, well, you
got a furniture too, and it was like not far
from where the groceries where. I'm like, this place is wild.
This place is wild. It is. It is a step
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above a dollar store, but it's below a Walmarts. It's
kind of like in between. It's that gray area in
between those two. Yeah, they do sell a little bit
of everything. And again, look, if you're throwing, if you're
throwing a party or get together, yes you would go
to dollar store or nine nine cents store to get
all of your settings. But what Big Lots said is
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we're gonna step it up a little bit. And if
you want to really fancy little shin dig you want
to get together your friends, but you don't want people
saying they went to nine nine said store. No, you
want them. You want to say, oh, where'd you get this?
And you just say, hmm, my secret you go to
Big Lots. Now Big Lots gone. But coming back to
southern California, and I am excited about this because I
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used to work at this location sister store when I
worked at Toys r Us. Babies Are Us is making
a return, and this time is going to be in
three locations in Orange County inside of Cole's. Okay, like
Toys Russ came back and it's inside of Macy's, Well,
Babies or Us is coming back inside of Coals all right.
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The mini stores are going to be opening at the
Coals in Rancho, Santa Margarita, Irvine, and Tustin, and there
will be other locations coming to Orange County, including the
Coal Store in Buena Park and the one in Lagoon
and the guel So. Cole's is making a comeback, I
guess taking their locations to the next level with Babies
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or Us because Babies are Us was the place I
know when I worked at Toys r Us and we
had a Baby's r Us location open up kind of
within the store. That was where the most foot traffic was.
And I think I think Toys r Us kind of
closed a little too early. Again, I know I'm biased
because I used to work there, and again, I loved
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every minute of being in that toy store. I just
loved it. I loved everything about it. But when you
see all of these mothers expecting mothers, mothers to be
people shopping for, you know, baby shower gifts. The babies
are US Section and Toys Russ. That's where it was popping.
That's where it was. So look, hey, bravo to babies
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or us making a comeback. Hopefully Toys Russ expands outside
of those two or three aisles inside of Macy's. Maybe
get your own break and mortar again. I've still got
my badge on my box cutter. Actually still have my
blue shirt. All right, I'm Toys Russ ready for life.
And lastly, real quick shocking, unprecedented, unbelievable news. Elon Musk
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is moving its headquarters out of San Francisco, and in response,
San Francisco leader said, bye, don't let the door hit
you where good Lord split you. This is KFI AM
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KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
And Elizabeth Lake Huntington Park, your Melinda and Wildelmar. This
is so Cal Saturday I'm your host, Twalla Sharp, and
it is that time again. Yes, indeedy, the Pinners Conference
is returning to southern California. It is coming back to
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the Pomona Fair Plex August twenty third through the twenty
fourth in Pomona at the Pomona Fair Plex, eleven oh
one Wes McKinley Avenue, of course in Pomona. And I know,
I know, I am just as upset as you are
that we will not be able to broadcast again live
this year, because I'm telling you I had the absolute
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best time in the world at the Pinners Conference. So
much to see, so much to experience, so many great
people to talk to. But I have actually the founder
of Pinners joining us today to bring us into the
twenty twenty four Pinners Conference, Miss Rock Sanne Bennett Roxane.
How are you doing today? Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I am doing so great. We could not be more
excited to be heading back to California. It is going
to be our best event yet. We have so many
great things planned. There's actually still VI tickets available, which
I think is over the top. You don't have to
wait in mind, you get a fun swag bag all
sorts of goodies and so many things, and the classes
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this year are over the top, out of this world.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Now for anyone listening who may not know what we're
talking about, because you and I are excited. You founded
this event, You've been doing it for so long, bringing
so much joy to everyone who is part of the
Pinter's community. But to anyone listening right now, what is
the Pinners Conference?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Spinners Conference is literally a all the fun things that
we're scrolling, that we might be seeing on our TikTok,
that we might be seeing on our Instagram or on Pinterest,
all the fun current trendy ideas all brought together in
one location. So over the two days, we're going to
have one hundred and eight classes taught on all of
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those current trends, from DIY to home improvement, to hear
the makeup to cooking, all of these great things. And
half of those classes are going to actually be hands
on experiences where you can come try something new that
maybe you've always wanted to try, where whether it be watercolor, embroidery, sewing,
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all of these kind of things, and you're going to
have an expert there walking you through the process step
by step, and you're going to walk away with a
finished product that you take home that you made yourself.
It's absolutely incredible. Then in addition to those fun classes,
we also have over two hundred amazing vendors with finish
goods that you can just come and shop and do
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a whole cash and carry experience with all the latest
and greatest. I have this girl coming this year. I'm
so sad you're not going to be there because she
is bringing apple kermel chips like she's a kermel lady.
Oh my god, can made Kramel? I mean, is so good?
And then she does dried apples and she calls them
apple nachos. Oh so good, you guys, so good. You're
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in a love them.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
And see with these classes that are being taught, these
classes are being taught by people that you actually see
on Pinterest, the people when you're scrolling and you're seeing
people doing these amazing DIY products, or they're creating jewelry,
or they're showing you how to even create your own
clothing lines. These are individuals who are actually there teaching
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these hands on classes for you to participate in. And
and this is a family event. So the last time
I went to Pinners, you are seeing grandmothers with their
grandchildren and you're seeing mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins. Everyone
is at the Pinners Conference enjoying themselves. For you, since
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founding the Pinners Conference in Expo, what has been the
most rewarding thing about doing this event?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
You know, honestly, the whole experience of this that we
are creative beings. We humans love to create, and somehow
along the way, I don't know if this has happened
to you, but you just get busy, You get doing
the same things that you know, the things you have
to do over and over again, and sometimes we lose
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our creative spark. The thing I love most about what
we've done at Pinners is when I see someone try
something new that they might never have tried before and
they create something. They are so empowered. I love this
a bill for us to create. You see a child
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to try something new and succeeds at something for the
first time, and how magical that is. That's the same
thing for us. The more opportunity we have to try things,
to have new experiences, to better ourselves, to learn something
that maybe we want to have learned any other way.
This is just what I think is the reason behind Pinners,
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the purpose for us to really inspire people to learn,
create and connect with other individuals who are also you know,
feeding their creativity, all in.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
This one location, absoluutely. She is Roxanne Bennett, the founder
of the Pinners Conference in Expo, returning to Southern California
at the Pomona Fairplex August twenty third through the twenty fourth.
Tickets are on sale now. VIP tickets are going fast.
Make sure you get a hold of one of those
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so you can just skip the lines and try everything
first and just kind of look at people and say, ah,
you should have listened to the show and got your
VIP tickets. If you want, get it absolutely. If you
want any information, you can find it at CA dot
Pinnersconference dot com. I hope that you go, and if
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you do, please let us know what you saw on pinterest.
Miss Rock said Bennett. Thank you for joining us today
and taking us back inside the Pinners Conference and Xpo.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Thank you. We are so excited. You can't wait to
see everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
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Yes Acres, Brentwood, Orange and Norco. This is soul Cal Saturday.
I'm yos Twilash Sharp. Welcoming you to another fantastic Soul
Cal Saturday show. Starting off one to take a look,
of course, at Governor Newsom's finals like proclamation that he
will clean up all of the homeless encampments in southern
(00:47):
California and if you don't there will be penalties. I mean,
it's not come on to this. Dude is snapping his
fingers like seriously, he's some type of supervillain going around
cleaning up these camps. He was out in LA recently saying,
you know, quote, I want to see results. I don't
want to read about them. I don't want to see
(01:09):
the data. I want to see it.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
He was out there with his shovel and his gloves,
and he was just cleaning up so Cow by himself,
well along with cal Trans and Sheriff's department and all that.
But look, yes, something has to be done. Yes, the
encampments are unsightedly. Yes, they just grow and after a
(01:32):
while they turn into like little shanty towns here in
so Cow. But while this cleaning up is happening, what
I didn't see out there with Governor Noose and what
I didn't see I saw him, I saw clean up cruise,
I saw you know, the authorities. I saw all that happening.
I did not see any social service workers out there.
(01:55):
I did not see anyone there with program or plans
or helping individuals find housing. I didn't see that. Okay.
I saw shovels, and I saw the law, but I
did not see any resources out there helping anyone to
find some place to go. And that is problematic. Okay.
(02:16):
So I get that you want this to happen, and
you want to see it. You want to see the
results now, But what about the other results, What about
the end result of the people who you are not
placing somewhere as you're going around doing that, Because while
the cameras were out there and while you were, you know,
taking matters into your own hands. I did not see
(02:37):
you walking people into any of these temporary houses that
you've been holding up funding on. I didn't see that.
I didn't see that happening. So, yes, you're out there,
like you know, again, some type of supervillain cleaning up
so Cal. But I don't see you doing that other
part that superheroes do, and that is helping people directly.
(03:03):
That's what was missing in your cleanup efforts and connected
to homelessness at large, rent in so Cal. We talk
about it all the time, how it is absolutely out
of control, and I've said time and time again that
we are mostly at fault because we did not vote
(03:25):
for rent control. We had the opportunity to do so,
and we did not. But guess what, we have another
opportunity to do so come November fifth. Two propositions are
making their way back on the November fifth ballot, Proposition
thirty three, which would give local governments more control over
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rent caps and that would absolutely help. And to stop
the foundation from bankrolling or actually to stop various foundations
from bankrolling funds into erroneous buildings and things like that.
You have Prop thirty four, but no matter what, rent
(04:05):
control is back on the bill. And I would love, love,
love to see how many people come out and vote
for that, because I constantly hear people talking about, oh,
it's too expensive in California. The rent keeps going up,
there's nothing that could be done. Ah ah ah ah.
Right here, coming up on November fifth, something can be done.
(04:26):
You can actually exercise your power at the ballot box
and vote for any of these initiatives that will help
to establish rent control. And if you are not registered
for some crazy reason and you don't know how to
go about it, okay, maybe you're just turn eighteen and
(04:47):
you haven't talked to your parents about registering to vote,
or maybe you got to care, or maybe you just
have been apathetic and don't care. Well, this is your
time to care, okay. And again on November fifth, it
is coming up. The The standard deadline to vote is
fifteen days before the election, which would be October twenty first,
(05:09):
twenty twenty four. According to the California Secretary of State,
you can actually register online right now if you want
to register to vote dot caa dot gov. The state
does offer a safety net for Californians who fail to
make the registration deadlight and still wish to vote. In
those cases, voters can register to local register at their
(05:30):
local election office, polling place or voting center, and you
can do a same day vote. All right, as long
as you are US citizen or eighteen years or older
on election day, damn it, you can exercise your power
and make sure that we get substantial change here in
southern California. Because I promise you this. Whatever you post
(05:54):
on social media, that doesn't count as a vote. Your
complaints on social media, that's not a vote. That's not
how the system works. You know how the system works
is you take the time, you exercise your power, You
do the due diligence, and you go and you exercise
and let your voice be heard. So guess what we
don't have to do. We don't have to have Governor
Batman out there cleaning up the streets by himself like
(06:16):
some type of one man army. All right, this is
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you Hype. This is soul cal Saturday. I'm your host,
Twala Sharp, And I know sometimes you listen to us
bantering back and forth when the FOURK Reporter and I
are doing cross talking, you may hear all about all
(07:00):
all the food that's you know, in the studio. And
let me tell you it's all real. I don't know
if they Instagram Live. Did y'all Instagram Live this week?
Producer Kiki No, I don't have access to Instagram Live.
It's all good. I have video and photos and that'll
all be up. I'm telling y'all, this was an absolute treat.
I just try. What is this this pork belly uh
(07:21):
egg tackle thing and this brother at Awavos wavos delicious
geezuhise man, this is just this this. But that's why
I love coming on after the Fork Reporter, because the
treats that treats, that treats the treats. Okay, now you know,
close to my heart is all things having to do
(07:43):
with housing the house, which is why I was just
I'm so upset with this move that Governor Newsom is
making even though yeah, I know something has to be done,
but I just don't know if the way he's going
about it is the way to go about it. One
way I think to go about it is something like
(08:03):
what they're doing at where Project home Key, Project Home
Key housing project for a homeless or for the homeless,
has just broken ground in Van Nuys. This is a
new project where they are absolutely creating what is it,
some I don't know, ninety studio apartments, ninety studio apartments
(08:28):
for the un housed, you know, including a kitchenette, bathroom,
bed dresser, dining table, all those things. There will also
be two bedroom manager units, multiple community rooms, barbecues. Look,
this is just a really really really nice building that
is being put together, and this is put together by
Project home Key, and this is what we absolutely need.
(08:52):
We need programs where people are actually to Governor Whosom's
message to the people. He doesn't want to hear about it.
He doesn't want to read about it. He wants to
see it. Well, go see it, all right, go see
it in Actually this is right in like in the
Valley area where on the supposed the boulevard they have
(09:13):
turned this old motel into a permanent supportive housing unit
for the homeless, and they're looking to do more. This
is just one of the first buildings, you know, and
they are looking to do more. So I would say
that instead of going around with the shovel and broom
cleaning up encampments, governments could focus more attention on making
(09:35):
sure that funding is going to organizations like Project Home Key,
which is actually getting people off the street and the
end getting them counseling, getting them the help they need
to keep them off of the streets. Now, Okay, here's
this one program that it's it's wild to me only
because it's got a real, real hippie kind of vibe
(10:00):
to it. Okay, It's called the Neighborhood Food Exchange. And
one Saturday a month, a group of individuals in northeast LA.
They meet at someone's house for about twenty minutes. Okay.
(10:20):
They each bring a bag of goodies and an empty
table to sit it on. Each time they leave satisfied
with what someone else's contributions of food. How does this work? Okay,
A bunch of individuals in this group, and that this
group has like some now I think some seven hundred
members in it. They all get together on social media
(10:41):
or on their website and they pick a house. Everyone
shows up with their contribution, something that would otherwise go uneaten.
Maybe you bought, you know, an extra loaf of bread,
you didn't need it. Whatever, you gather all this stuff,
and you know, say, if I'm in the group showing
up at Kenna's house and Canna's hosting, like you know,
(11:03):
some thirty or so people, we all come over. Hey, everybody,
we all come in. We lay out blankets and all that,
and we just put all the stuff on that we have.
Everyone's bringing all this stuff in and and I guess
around eleven after the hour, you go in and just
take whatever you want. You grab whatever you want, stuff
your own little bag that you brought, and everyone walks
(11:25):
out like, okay, we're glad I didn't take you. You know,
it's an interesting co op making sure that food does
not go to waste. If if you are into this idea,
if you want to be a part of this wild
new Earth, I just imagine a bunch of people with
like beads and I don't know, flowy dresses or what
(11:51):
are those cities called not Daishiki's but just something. Just
I just I just imagine a bunch of hippies, a
bunch of people with no shoes on, sitting around you know. Peace, man, peace,
what did you bring? Oh man? We can't let any
of this go to waste. Man, I just see that. Okay.
But if you're down with this and you want to
be a part of it or learn more about this
(12:12):
co op, you can actually email free Food at Hillside
Produce Cooperative dot org to join their contact list, or
you can request to join their Facebook group on Facebook.
You know, be a part of this food exchange, which
is again it is really really weird. But you know,
(12:33):
God bless them, and really and truly seriously, this is
something that I absolutely love and I love that La
County is behind this. I hope that more counties, Orange County,
the Valley, everyone gets behind this. And establishing guaranteed income
for foster youth all right right now in La County,
(12:53):
there is an expansion to a program that I told
you about last week where the La City Council was
looking to establish a program that guarantees income for foster youth.
Right now, this program is being expanded by the Department
of Children and Family Services to automatically enroll foster youth
between the ages of eighteen and twenty one into this
(13:16):
program called Breathe Breathe with first launched in twenty twenty
two to give guaranteed monthly income to low income residents.
Will now it is expanded to include former foster youth,
all right, and this we need this right now. The
way the program is designed, the first group of eighteen
(13:37):
to nineteen year olds and foster care well received five
hundred dollars monthly for eighteen months, and the second group
between nineteen to twenty one will receive fifteen hundred dollars
quarterly for an eighteen month period, and they will also
receive all types of services to help for job placement,
for housing and for all those things. Because again you
(13:59):
see some of these young people out on the streets.
These are people who after the age of twenty one
have aged out of foster care and you know, no
telling what lives they lived before that. But now now
we are giving them an opportunity to be to be
successful and to really survive. So bravo to Breathe and
(14:20):
expanding this guaranteed foster care monthly income because we need it.
This is again, something else which I would hope that
Governor Batman would be out there instead of you know,
out there with his brow and his shovel and his
Donald's gloves snapping up. You know, homeless encampments, invest in
programs like this. You know you keep talking about I
(14:41):
want to see it. I want to see stuff happening.
It's happening, man, It's happening right under your nose. All right,
just open your eyes and look at it.
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(15:17):
This is soul Cal Saturday. I'm your host, Tyler Sharp,
taking a look at some business happenings around here in
sol Cal. We know that the Intuit Dome is the
future of all things entertainment here in southern California. I mean,
this thing is massive. This two billion dollars that Steve
(15:38):
Balmer and the group spent on this worth every dime
from everyone I know that's been there, I mean from
them having an almost gaming system built into the seats
where you can compete with other people in the venue,
to this Heylo scoreboard where you miss nothing see at
(15:59):
angles that you wouldn't see even if you are looking
at it sitting in the room. I mean, look, this
place is amazing. And that's just for games, but for
all of the concerts and everything else that they have coming,
this place is going to be the truth in Southern California.
It is literally taking what the initial plan for the
(16:19):
Staples Center was and taking it to the next level.
I mean, they really need to reinvest in the Stable Center.
I know we've got some beautiful statues there, you know,
the unveiling of the Kobe and Gianna statue out there.
Just yes, but man into it, don't. That's the future
of so cal and that's where we need to go
(16:40):
to make Southern California the epicenter of all things having
to do with entertainment and traveling, all those things. We
want people coming to Socao, but we don't want in
Inglewood at the sofar Stadium is any more outdoor concerts.
I don't know if you were listening to later with
(17:01):
Mo Kelly, but both Mo and Fush they let it
be known that you could hear this hard summer music festival,
you know, some miles away from the stadium. And yes
it was a problem, but problem solved because Mayor bus
has said after that there will be no more outdoor festivals.
(17:22):
Not we're going to regulate, we're gonna check the sound,
we're gonna make sure.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
No.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Just that's it. We got too many complaints and that's
not what we need coming to so far. We don't
need people having reasons to complain or be upset with
something we're doing Inglewood because right now Inglewood is lo
and behold becoming the capital of entertainment here in southern California.
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That's something else. That is something else. I mean people
that come. I mean, look, I know the Olympics twenty
twenty eight will be in LA and they're gonna try
to make it in and around the UCLA Coliseum area
all around. But Inglewood has taken it. Inglewood is absolutely
taking it. Speaking of taking it, taking it in the shorts,
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Big Lots closing some seventy five locations here in California.
I mean first it was ninety nine cent store and
then now big Lots. It's almost as if shopping for
less is not working. For retailers here in southern California.
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But right now, discount retailer Big Lots is shuttering some
seventy five stores here in California. And I promise you
this one of these stores is near you in Anaheim,
the location on sixteen seventy West Katla and the one
on sixty three thirty six East Santa Ana Royal East
(18:56):
Santa Ana Canyon Road, not Royal, but Canyon Road and Anaheim,
both of those will be gone. In Bakersfield twenty six
twenty one Fashion Place gone, Chino, the one in nineteen
twenty seven East twentieth Street gone, Culver City fifty five
eighty seven, So of over the boulevard gone, all of these.
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And this list is long. I mean, there's like so
many different ones to read through. But you will not
be going to Big Lots anymore. And this is tough
because my cousin used to work in Big Lots and
I know every Christmas he would come through with a
whole bunch of gigantic stuffed things, you know, for the
kids and all that stuff. So yeah, my cousin Paul
used to work there. It was a great place to
(19:37):
get decorations, all of that yeah, plates, napkins, table settings,
I mean every you could find a little bit of everything.
And I went to a Big Lots and they had
a recliner in there, and I was like, well, you
got a furniture too, and it was like not far
from where the groceries where. I'm like, this place is wild.
This place is wild. It is. It is a step
(20:00):
above a dollar store, but it's below a Walmarts. It's
kind of like in between. It's that gray area in
between those two. Yeah, they do sell a little bit
of everything. And again, look, if you're throwing, if you're
throwing a party or get together, yes you would go
to dollar store or nine nine cents store to get
all of your settings. But what Big Lots said is
(20:21):
we're gonna step it up a little bit. And if
you want to really fancy little shin dig you want
to get together your friends, but you don't want people
saying they went to nine nine said store. No, you
want them. You want to say, oh, where'd you get this?
And you just say, hmm, my secret you go to
Big Lots. Now Big Lots gone. But coming back to
southern California, and I am excited about this because I
(20:43):
used to work at this location sister store when I
worked at Toys r Us. Babies Are Us is making
a return, and this time is going to be in
three locations in Orange County inside of Cole's. Okay, like
Toys Russ came back and it's inside of Macy's, Well,
Babies or Us is coming back inside of Coals all right.
(21:06):
The mini stores are going to be opening at the
Coals in Rancho, Santa Margarita, Irvine, and Tustin, and there
will be other locations coming to Orange County, including the
Coal Store in Buena Park and the one in Lagoon
and the guel So. Cole's is making a comeback, I
guess taking their locations to the next level with Babies
(21:27):
or Us because Babies are Us was the place I
know when I worked at Toys r Us and we
had a Baby's r Us location open up kind of
within the store. That was where the most foot traffic was.
And I think I think Toys r Us kind of
closed a little too early. Again, I know I'm biased
because I used to work there, and again, I loved
(21:49):
every minute of being in that toy store. I just
loved it. I loved everything about it. But when you
see all of these mothers expecting mothers, mothers to be
people shopping for, you know, baby shower gifts. The babies
are US Section and Toys Russ. That's where it was popping.
That's where it was. So look, hey, bravo to babies
(22:10):
or us making a comeback. Hopefully Toys Russ expands outside
of those two or three aisles inside of Macy's. Maybe
get your own break and mortar again. I've still got
my badge on my box cutter. Actually still have my
blue shirt. All right, I'm Toys Russ ready for life.
And lastly, real quick shocking, unprecedented, unbelievable news. Elon Musk
(22:33):
is moving its headquarters out of San Francisco, and in response,
San Francisco leader said, bye, don't let the door hit
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And Elizabeth Lake Huntington Park, your Melinda and Wildelmar. This
is so Cal Saturday I'm your host, Twalla Sharp, and
it is that time again. Yes, indeedy, the Pinners Conference
is returning to southern California. It is coming back to
(23:29):
the Pomona Fair Plex August twenty third through the twenty
fourth in Pomona at the Pomona Fair Plex, eleven oh
one Wes McKinley Avenue, of course in Pomona. And I know,
I know, I am just as upset as you are
that we will not be able to broadcast again live
this year, because I'm telling you I had the absolute
(23:52):
best time in the world at the Pinners Conference. So
much to see, so much to experience, so many great
people to talk to. But I have actually the founder
of Pinners joining us today to bring us into the
twenty twenty four Pinners Conference, Miss Rock Sanne Bennett Roxane.
How are you doing today? Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I am doing so great. We could not be more
excited to be heading back to California. It is going
to be our best event yet. We have so many
great things planned. There's actually still VI tickets available, which
I think is over the top. You don't have to
wait in mind, you get a fun swag bag all
sorts of goodies and so many things, and the classes
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this year are over the top, out of this world.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Now for anyone listening who may not know what we're
talking about, because you and I are excited. You founded
this event, You've been doing it for so long, bringing
so much joy to everyone who is part of the
Pinter's community. But to anyone listening right now, what is
the Pinners Conference?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Spinners Conference is literally a all the fun things that
we're scrolling, that we might be seeing on our TikTok,
that we might be seeing on our Instagram or on Pinterest,
all the fun current trendy ideas all brought together in
one location. So over the two days, we're going to
have one hundred and eight classes taught on all of
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those current trends, from DIY to home improvement, to hear
the makeup to cooking, all of these great things. And
half of those classes are going to actually be hands
on experiences where you can come try something new that
maybe you've always wanted to try, where whether it be watercolor, embroidery, sewing,
(25:40):
all of these kind of things, and you're going to
have an expert there walking you through the process step
by step, and you're going to walk away with a
finished product that you take home that you made yourself.
It's absolutely incredible. Then in addition to those fun classes,
we also have over two hundred amazing vendors with finish
goods that you can just come and shop and do
(26:03):
a whole cash and carry experience with all the latest
and greatest. I have this girl coming this year. I'm
so sad you're not going to be there because she
is bringing apple kermel chips like she's a kermel lady.
Oh my god, can made Kramel? I mean, is so good?
And then she does dried apples and she calls them
apple nachos. Oh so good, you guys, so good. You're
(26:29):
in a love them.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
And see with these classes that are being taught, these
classes are being taught by people that you actually see
on Pinterest, the people when you're scrolling and you're seeing
people doing these amazing DIY products, or they're creating jewelry,
or they're showing you how to even create your own
clothing lines. These are individuals who are actually there teaching
(26:53):
these hands on classes for you to participate in. And
and this is a family event. So the last time
I went to Pinners, you are seeing grandmothers with their
grandchildren and you're seeing mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins. Everyone
is at the Pinners Conference enjoying themselves. For you, since
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founding the Pinners Conference in Expo, what has been the
most rewarding thing about doing this event?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
You know, honestly, the whole experience of this that we
are creative beings. We humans love to create, and somehow
along the way, I don't know if this has happened
to you, but you just get busy, You get doing
the same things that you know, the things you have
to do over and over again, and sometimes we lose
(27:42):
our creative spark. The thing I love most about what
we've done at Pinners is when I see someone try
something new that they might never have tried before and
they create something. They are so empowered. I love this
a bill for us to create. You see a child
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to try something new and succeeds at something for the
first time, and how magical that is. That's the same
thing for us. The more opportunity we have to try things,
to have new experiences, to better ourselves, to learn something
that maybe we want to have learned any other way.
This is just what I think is the reason behind Pinners,
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the purpose for us to really inspire people to learn,
create and connect with other individuals who are also you know,
feeding their creativity, all in.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
This one location, absoluutely. She is Roxanne Bennett, the founder
of the Pinners Conference in Expo, returning to Southern California
at the Pomona Fairplex August twenty third through the twenty fourth.
Tickets are on sale now. VIP tickets are going fast.
Make sure you get a hold of one of those
(28:59):
so you can just skip the lines and try everything
first and just kind of look at people and say, ah,
you should have listened to the show and got your
VIP tickets. If you want, get it absolutely. If you
want any information, you can find it at CA dot
Pinnersconference dot com. I hope that you go, and if
(29:23):
you do, please let us know what you saw on pinterest.
Miss Rock said Bennett. Thank you for joining us today
and taking us back inside the Pinners Conference and Xpo.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Thank you. We are so excited. You can't wait to
see everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
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