September 8, 2024 • 36 mins
The SoCal Fashion Industry: Don’t know what to do with your old clothes? California may require the fashion industry to take them back from you — for free. SoCal’s Hollywood Struggles: · California faces stiff competition from other states and their film tax incentives · Santa Monica’s ‘spheres’ are no longer happening following funding difficulties. Things to do in SoCal: · Pixar Putt mini golf course pop-up to debut in Southern California · 10 Best Things To Do In LA In September. The SoCal Saturday Grand Finale.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Los Angeles, Orange County. I E in the valley. This
is to Wallace Sharp and you're listening to kf I
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is so Cal Saturday.
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This, this is so Cal song.
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It's so Cal Saturday, Saturday Saturday and Saturday Saturday Saturdays.
Will Saturday the word, he's the word.
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This is so Cow KFI AM six forty live everywhere
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the Beach, and the kaipe of This is Soul Cal Saturday.
I am your host Twala Sharp. And I have a
daughter who is growing like a daisy sprouting up, just
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growing out of all of her clothes. But like I'm
going to guess, okay, this is a broad generalization. She's
into fashion like many a young girl her age, and
she goes through gear like it was water. Okay. She
goes through fashion items and clothing and gear like there
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was no tomorrow, and really and true there's only so
much that I believe at least that like the Goodwill
or you know, just whatever constant giving away bags and
bags of clothes. But did you know, and this is
something I actually did not know. I'm just finding this
out right now, beyond the fact that every year tons
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of unwanted clothing actually ends up in landfills, because there's
a lot of stuff that like Goodwill and various storage
even resale places, they can't take. This stuff just ends
up in landfills. And guess what, it's not biodegradable. It's
not biodegradable, it's just piling up. Well. This past Friday,
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state lawmakers here in California sent a bill to Governor
Gavin Newsom's office that would actually require companies to set
up the nation's first mandatory take back program for unwanted clothing.
I know, right, that is crazy. That is absolutely crazy.
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Sow if Governor knew some signs bill SB seven seven,
as it is, as expected as he will, companies that
make clothing and other textiles sold in California, including drapes, sheets,
and towels, will be required to create a nonprofit organization
by twenty twenty six that would set up hundreds of
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collection sites at thrift stores, begin mailback programs, and take
other steps in all of California's fifty eight counties to
take back and recycle their products by twenty thirty. Now
I don't see why this is something that's just being done.
I mean, it's clothing. Even if you take these materials
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and refashion them into new gears. I mean, gene is gene,
no matter what you know, take take the gene material,
put into a gene jacket or something. I don't know.
But now this will be if signed into law by
Governor and Gavin Newsom as I know Governor Batman will
do right. Yes, this will actually be something that they
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actually have to do.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I love this write so much, Like I think about
this all the time, the amount of clothes that we have.
And I too have a I have a daughter who
grows out of her clothes every few months. I feel
like I'm buying new shoes, new shirts. She's growing so fast, yes,
and I'm just giving away all these clothes, and I
just keep thinking like this just feels like such a waste,
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and I'm just losing money.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You're losing money hand over fist and beyond us losing money.
It's the impact on the environments here in southern California.
I mean one point two million tons one point two
million tons of clothing and textiles mixed in there were
disposed of in California. Now, while ninety five percent of
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them were reusable or recyclable, only fifteen percent is currently
being recycled. So think about that. Ninety five percent of
what you and I Heather are say doing away with,
you know, we send it to whatever, clothing reseal, goodwill, whatever,
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and they don't do anything with it, and they just
throw it in the trash. Ninety five percent of it
can be reused, but only fifteen percent of it currently is.
That's crazy. The rest of it is sitting on I
don't know trash island or wherever it is. It's absolutely crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I mean they they recycle mattresses and that material. I
know that that was a that's a state law and
that's something that they absolutely do. And why not this?
Why not this? You know, I don't understand that. This
is kind of side note. Why don't different stores? And
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maybe it should be added to this, there should be
more stores that take back old child items like car
seats and things like that, like a no Target, you
can I don't think you can resell, but they will
take them and recycle them. But that to me should
just be a given. There should be more recyclable things
that we get that aren't just cans and bottles. You
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have cans and bottles, that's a given, but things like
car seats and other stuff like that that just go
into landfill, isn't remelted down or turn back into a
better plaster for something else. All of that needs to
be used.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, well, there are some stores that do take back
worn clothes, like I know that have programs like Patagonia
has a worn wear program where they take back clothes
from people and recycle, reuse, girlfriend Collective, north Face, there's
a couple of brands that do that. I think with
car seats there might be some legalities there because if
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they've been involved in an accident, they have to prove
that somehow it's still safe. Like I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I mean, they're not even to be used again, but
I'm talking about to be recycled. To just break down
the materials so they're all plastic, it's all plastic, you know.
Just take the little covers off.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Even like strollers.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yes, all those things going into lands right now for
the most part, you know, they say, you know, you
can't take those back anywhere. But yeah, if if this
bill passes, this is going to do so so much
for California. And I think that this is actually actually
actually something that could be turned into a new business
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for anyone. I mean for all the small businesses that
we have on not just not just a salvation army,
but I'm talking about a company that actually breaks down clothing,
you know, with with with with the recycling centers that
break down cans and bowels and things like that. Think
about here in southern California, if you have someone who
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opens up I don't know, a warehouse, and these are
people who deconstruct jackets, deconstructor just so you can get
the reusable material from that jacket, you know, the lining,
the back of the shell of the jacket, that you
can just take that material and just have you know,
swatches and swatches of them material that you can just reuse.
I'm thinking I'll low Okay, So if someone's gonna take
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that idea, please do, please do. I'm not even gonna
look for any money.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
On the back drag him if you dog him on this, Yes,
if you can find me, because I'm hard to find
on social media.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
No I'm not. I'm actually not.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
You're literally the only to wallow on social media. All
they got to do is search. Okay, it's all right,
So one and only one and only the greatest.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Ladies, all right. I love that.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I love all this ideas, Like I'm such a nerd
for anything recycling. I think back to that. There was
a Project Runway episode early on in the show where
they had all the designers take go to a thrift
store and take clothes from this thrift store and repurpose
it in high into high fashion, and I just thought,
that's brilliant. Why don't we do stuff like that? Why
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don't we make something we have so much here, why
don't we find a way to make.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
It all good again? And yes, indeed, well, speaking of
making it good again or trying to hearing in so Cow,
you know, our bread and butter is Hollywood and our lifeline.
The studios are struggling here in the south Land, and
we are facing some serious competition from other states that
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are looking to increase their film tax incentives. What are
we going to do about it, we'll find out.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
You're listening to Soul Cal Saturday with Tawla Sharp on
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KFI AM six forty live everywhere where on the iHeartRadio
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This is Soul Cal Saturday host t Wallace Sharp And
what are we gonna do here in California? I A
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if we keep losing all of our film companies, losing
film companies that are going to other states for better
tax incentives. I know one of Mayor Bas's big initiatives,
of course, was bringing it into the homeless crisis in
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Los Angeles County everywhere under her purview. I know Governor
Knewsome got all these different, you know, kooky ideas about
things that he wants to do. One thing that I
think they both need to do is while they're still
able to sit down, put their heads together and find
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a way to keep Hollywood in California. If you go
to Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, their biggest market, They're
the thing that you go to Vegas for is for casinos. Right.
Imagine if all of a sudden you had casinos everywhere,
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sales popping up all over the place. What's the point
of going to Vegas? Then, right, Vegas wants to keep
casino life in Vegas. All the big casilos come to Vegas.
We will do every single thing we can to make
your casino win in Vegas. Right. They're not letting casinos
just go to Detroit or Louisiana or wherever else where.
They're just losing big business. No, they'll say, hey, you
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can open a smaller version of your casino there, but
make the main one here in Las Vegas. In New York, Manhattan, wherever.
What you got Broadway, you can't have Broadway. In Madison, Wisconsin,
you can't have it. People go to Times Square to
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check out a show on Broadway. They do everything they
can to keep those plays or on Broadway or to
make them run their first In southern California, we have
been been run under by other states who are offering
outsized tax incentives for productions, and it is hurting us.
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It is hurting us badly. At one point in time,
this was the status quote California for all things film,
all things Hollywood. Right now, though you've got more film
companies shooting in Atlanta and Louisiana and Detroit than you
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do in southern California. What are we going to do
about it? What are we going to do about it? Well,
you know how much I love Mayor Baths, all right,
someone pointed out on the talk back right now, La
Mayor Baths has assembled an entertainment industry cabinet dedicated to
supporting Hollywood and to combat production leakage. She's also putting
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together a task force of film liaxons from various city
departments that will meet quarterly. And the hope of this
is to, as I said in the beginning, keep Hollywood Hollywood.
I mean, think about all of the people who come
to visit California and they come to Hollywood to do
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the tours and things like that, or they used to
go and tour some of the studios. Imagine if you
imagine going on the Warner Brothers tour right here, right
around the corner, and you're just seeing empty buildings. You're
going over to the Warner Brothers lot, and it's a
tour director saying, well, this is where such and such
used to shoot once upon a time. This shot here.
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You know what, nothing is shooting anymore, right, now this
is just a place where we store props. Imagine going
on the Universal Studios tour and it's like, we have
a bunch of memorabilia from films, but nothing's shooting here. No, No,
all the sound stages here are empty. Right down the
way from us is the Disney Production Studios and things
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like that. Imagine all of that just being gone because
it's all just moving, moving somewhere else. We have to
keep our trade here. We absolutely need to, because the
more that is filmed here in California, the less we
have to worry about things like Heather Brooker having to
like say, hey, guys, I got to get on a
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plane and go shoot in Louisiana for a month or
two because I'm on the gig. But the gig doesn't
shoot in so Cow. No, we need the Heather Brucker
on commercials and films here. Heather needs to shoot here
in so Cow. You know, I'm just saying, I'm just saying.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
It's so true toilet because you know, I work at
Paramount and people always come to our lot and they're like,
oh my god, you're busy here. All the other lots
are like empty nobody, And I'm like really like I
cause I don't go there. But yeah, it's true. Everything
you're saying is one hundred percent true. Everybody tells me.
And we have CBS stuff on Paramount a lot, but
if it wasn't for that, we'd be right there with them.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And I think even which lot is it that just
was just sold or shut down? Paramount?
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Yeah that's a lot, okay, but we have CBS by
a Calm and some other stuff they're shooting there.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah, real now and CIS and now just imagine they say,
you know, Detroit is willing to put up some sound
stages for next to nothing and give us all type
of tax and censors actually pay us to shoot the
rookie there. You're telling me you can't have a downtown
La looking scene in Detroit. I think everybody's worried. Trust me,
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they are worried. Canada, all the all the productions that
go to Canada to shoot. No, no, rao, we need
you working here. We can't have you saying I gotta
take off to Louisiana to go work on on the lot.
There Heather saying, uh, you know Audi else or what
do they say in Canada? Gooday? Whatever they say out there.
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She's like, she's got to go shoot. They say something
to Canada. Was it good? Doctor Whinney on the phone,
She'll tell us something. Yes, well, dook, I say, when
I think about what the Heather Brookers of the world
have to go through when it comes to even booking
work out here, and it's becoming we're not only are
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we shooting less and lesson is being produced here. That
has a trickle down effect to everyone, set designers, uh,
all the below the line, you know, craft services, security, transportation,
all these different companies that rely on things being shot here.
And now that we are fully out of the Hollywood
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strike right now, something that we're seeing is is there's
not a lot of production happening here in southern California.
And that's tough. That is tough. We needed back. So
that was yet another opportunity for me to shout out
Mere Bass and the efforts that she's putting together to
try to get Hollywood back. In Hollywood, we.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Have to do something.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
You know.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Netflix just cut a deal in New Jersey for a
two hund eighty nine acre facility out there at nine
hundred and three million dollars for a new studio in
New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
There's literally no greater place to do it than New Jersey.
And you literally why wasn't it there soon a whole time? Yeah, Jersey,
that state that we have. Everybody knows it and this
is all your Faull Kailer.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You talked to someone over there in Netflix.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
I told them that they get their gas pumped and
it's actually less expensive.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
And they were like, what, let's bring a building over there. Okay,
find you are. You're going to get some talkbacks.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Girl, Listen, we already I already got cursed out for
reparations and I'm black and lazy, so I'm kind of
a lovely email. Thank him so much for his colorful
talk back. It was very nice. He went on for
three four talkbacks about how recis he is. So it's
been a great It's a great Saturday, all right, bless jays.
Yes shouts the Brad shouts to you, Brad.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
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This is soul col Saturday. I'm your host, Twala Sharp
taking a look at some fun things to do with
someone special, ord with the Fam. With the Fam, you
can go to Pixar Putt. Yeah, Pixar put Many Golf
Course has now opened up or will be debuting soon
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in southern California. Yes, characters from Like Toy Story, The Incredibles,
Monster Inc. Finding Nemo Coco, which I watched last night
while I was here doing the podcast, watching it without
even the sound or whatever, I still tear it up.
I could still hear him singing to Mama Coco in
the end Debt Grit. He's just singing this, don't you
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Damn Yes? So June too, Yeah. Juneto Entertainment CEO Sidney
Steele made this announcement at the D two three Expo
that this pop up experience and Pight Shopping Oh no,
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I'm sorry and no no. This pop up experience will
happen in the Pight Shopping district in Long Beach from
September twenty first, and it will last until January fifteenth,
twenty twenty five. Of course, twenty five what are you
talking about. It's not gona be twenty twenty six. It's
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a pop up. Pop ups can't be there that long,
so that's silly for me to put the year on January.
But look, this pop up golf experience with all your
Pixar favorite characters is going to be happening Monday through
Sunday and Monday through Thursday. It's open three pm to
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eight thirty pm, and on Fridays ten am to nine
thirty Saturday. Oh, Friday, Saturday, Sunday ten am to nine
thirty pm. Oh I'm sorry. No, Sunday it's closed again
at eight thirty pm. All right, so yes. Tea times
begin at seven pm at most most days, A reserved
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for Pixar Putt after Dark players who eighteen and older. Right,
So if you're eighteen and older and you want to
go and don't want to be around all the kids,
that's seven pm, and it's a that's for eighteen and overs.
Price to start with twenty five dollars, family, four pats
one hundred dollars. Tickets for this event can be purchased online.
Find out more information that picks our Putt dot com.
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I love going mini golf or mini golfing with the kids.
I love putt putt with the kids. Even now in
their teenage years, they're still not too cool for a
little putt putt. So now that this will be opening up,
damn it will. We will be going one of my
daughter's favorite films. I don't know why. I don't know
why she loves La La Land, but she has watched
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La La Land to just death. Okay, if there was
if like I remember back in the day with VHS tapes,
they would just they could pop if you watch them
too much. If there was a way for a digital
download to pop, it would have popped, all right. But
her favorite film is La La And there is going
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to be a rooftop cinema showing of La La Land
happening September fourteenth and fifteenth at La Historic State Park
near DTLA and Chinatown. And this I'm absolutely into it.
And they show a lot of movies at the rooftop Cinema,
you know, I think they have a September Pretty Woman
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will be showing Good Fellas, Back to the Future and
The Sandlot are going to be shown at the Rooftop Cinema.
But Rooftop Cinema if you ever can catch a show
with your family, it is a stone groove. If you
want to catch the Lalla Land showing, check them out
Street Foodcinema dot com, Ford slash schedule, Ford slash La
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La Land in Concert. Nice. There's a Bourbank International Film Festival. Wow,
I did I know there was such a thing, such
a thing as a Bourbank International Film Festival. But this
is happening. I'm curious to find out more about it.
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More information at Burbankfilmfest dot org. Oh so Kato walked out.
I was going to answer, like which films are showing there?
But I absolutely am interested in that well, because it's
right here in Burbank all month long. At Lakma Jazz
in the evenings on Friday. Oh I love a good
jazz show at Lakma Fridays six to eight. I've never
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been able to go to much stuff that's happening at night,
because you know, seven to ten are actually really five
thirty till eleven. I'm here at the station with Later
with mo Kelly. But if you want to go and
check out some jazz at Lackma on a Friday night
six to eight, you can even bring your own picnic
basket and alcohol. Check them out. Lachman dot Org, four
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slash Event, hyphen Calendar, Hyphenweekly. What else is going on
out here? Santa Monica and Venice Bike Tour all month long?
I love that. Oh, the flea market coming up? Flea
market coming up at the Rose Bowl And I don't know,
I don't know, think what would I get it? What
do I want to get into this weekend? Definitely not
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going to the beach, and outside of running errands, I'm
trying to think of something fun to do. I don't know, Heather,
what do you have going on this weekend?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I'm just here, just here, cow Yeah, I'm here this
all weekend.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
So that's what you might.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Try to go to the pool if it's not too hot,
you know, go to a pool somewhere.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Stay cool, Okay, stay cool? Rauh what do you get
into this weekend?
Speaker 6 (24:37):
I will be here, But if I wasn't going to
be here, i'd be La Historic Park. That's where I
would be hanging out for that day trip. It's the
last one of the season. Oh, so what's the lineup? Well,
it's Honey Love okay, and then it's kind of like
her crew and they're like they're really dope househeads. I
mean I would I would be there in a heartbeat
if I could, but I'd rather be working here too.
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But it's gonna be really good and you can drink
the big fish bowls so that we and they moved
it because of the weather, so it's like starts later
because it's quite nice.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yes, nice, nuys nice, I could say, had nice uh
a house shindig, you know when the weather's closer to
like ninety at night. Yeah, and a big fish bowl
full of you know, libations, full of the libations. Yes,
I would do it. That's an easy way to find
yourself from the hospital too. Nice big fish bowllet libations.
No matter what. Drink water, everybody just drink water. I
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love it all right. On the other side, I know
I teased it with the Fork reporter. But on the
other side, major announcement, major announcement, So you don't want
to go anywhere. Hold on to your butt because when
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Cow Saturday. Yes, the big news that I had to
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share with you all is that today marks the final
broadcast of soul Cow Saturday. I have decided to hang
up the mic now. Two years ago, fork reporter Nil
Savadra said, hey, Tea, with Moe Kelly moving on into
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the Monday through Friday slot, why don't you take on Saturdays.
You know you've got stuff to say? And I said, now,
I'm not the personal is not what I want to do.
I'm a behind the scenes kind of guy. And he said, Tea,
you never know until you try it. Well, Fork reporter,
(27:29):
I have tried it. And though I have loved being
here with you all every Saturday, especially the small businesses,
oh my goodness, all of the small business shout outs,
shining a light on all things. So col there comes
a time in someone's life where they have to say,
(27:51):
are you doing that what you want to do? Are
you following your calling? You know, being on their not
my calling. When I first got into radio, I was
I was behind the scenes. Then I worked at radio
station ninety two point three to beat producing for an
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individual named Julio g. And that's how I got my
feet wet working behind the scenes, and I loved it
making his show number one and nights that's where I
love doing. And then you know, I moved up and
I became the assistant music director, and then music director
and then the interim program director and all those things.
And at one point in time, I remember with Steve
hagwhod and Steve Hagwood said, Twala, you have to be
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on the air. If you're going to be a music
director or program director and you're not on the air,
how do you know what you're asking of your DJs?
How do you know what you're asking them to do?
So you're gonna have to get on the mic. And
I said, cool, I'll do it. And I did overnights, weekends,
you know, filled in for the Morner Show. I did
all of that, but I never liked doing it. I
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love being behind the scenes and working behind the scenes
with later with mo Kelly producing that show as I
have from the mo Kelly Show on Saturdays and Sundays
and now Monday through Friday, and every single day I
enjoy the hell out of making that show happen. I'd
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love everything that goes into it. And I may chime
in and talk with Mo and uh Fush and the
whole crew and Marques something crazy to say. I'll say
something crazy back. I love, you know, hanging out with
the crew and stuff like that. But really and truly,
I think if you're gonna be on the air, then
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it should be something that you absolutely love doing, something
that you cannot live without. It's got to be your kwan.
It's got to be that thing. So as an old
programming vet, I want this to be a space and
a place for someone to talk to you. It gets
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up in the morning and this is all they can
think of. First words out their mouth when they get
up in the morning is get on the mic on KFI. Exists.
That person exists absolutely, And I have to of course
thank Mo Kelly for even getting me here and bringing
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me into the KFI fold, Neil Sevadra for encouraging me
to do this, and Robin forgiving me the opportunity to
do so. I have to thank Raoul for holding it
down on the board as long as you have, good sir,
But most importantly I've got to thank my rock, the
woman who really and truly without this, if I could
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not have had her sitting across from me, I literally
would not have done it. I said, if I'm going
to do this, it's got to be with Kayla. Kayla
is quite possibly, next to me, one of the greatest
producers I have ever met. That No, you really are.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
You really are great, great, great producer, and I wish
to be half of the producer that you are. You
make ripping my heart out so smooth, and this is sad. Yeah,
he's all my God like you make ripping our hearts
out sound so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Mister, this this is a moment of love and of
reflection and and and then seriously just having the opportunity
to work with Heather and seeing her smile over there.
Now you're making me cry.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I have to change my late story.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Now I said you were going to cry, Heather. I
told him he was going to make you cry.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
You know what she said is you're trying. You just mean, no, try,
it just gonna make everyone up in here cry.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
That's use my off microphone voice.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
He caught you out. That was seriously, I mean, this
has been an absolute blast and it's not that I
don't enjoy spending time with you. It's just that this
just you know, it's just not that thing that I do.
You know, it's just not like being on the MiCT's.
You know, I can have the ability to do so,
and I think I'm fairly good at it.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
But you know, you know what, Touala, though, I gotta,
I gotta thank you. I will never be able to
go to the beach again and not think about poop water.
N Yeah, this morning when the earthquake hit, first person,
I thought it was twala, where's the water?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Do we have everything we need? If the big one's
gonna hit any day?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Now?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Say that's you? Hey, you cause that I love it.
I love that I've caused that pettican fear. Now, seriously,
I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I am so like just shocked and like heartbroken, to
be honest, because the only reason I come in on
Saturdays is because of this first hour of my shift
is such a joy. Otherwise I wouldn't I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
No, but you got to. You got such a joy
like it is.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
You truly bring so much joy, and I know that
everybody listening feels that joy through the microphone. You are
saying You've said several times, I don't feel like this
is what I'm meant to be and what I'm meant
to do, and that sort of thing. But it feels
very much like it's coming from love. Everything you've done,
every story you give us, every idea that you share,
it feels like it's coming from your heart. And I
feel that, and I know the listeners do too.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
So it it comes from my heart, But I think
that for me it is it is a reflection of
you all. It is reflection from the joy that you bring.
It is a reflection of wanting to see everyone shine
and want to see everyone smile, and wanting everyone to
feel good about where we are, to feel good about
living here in southern California, just feel good about our days,
(33:33):
feel good about going out into the world, and trying
to spread that. Trying to say, you know what, for
all for all the bad I could see, how about
instead I try to look at something good. How About
I try to put a spin on it. How About
I try to if I'm not going to put a
(33:54):
spin on it, and how I'm thinking about, how about
I try to maybe even do something to improve the
area that we're in because I think that where we
are Southern California, it's only as good as we make it.
And I wanted to bring that to the air. You know,
I do my best to live with love and every
single day be grateful and to live in full appreciation
(34:17):
of every single thing, the smallest things. I you know,
coming in today, I had to give thanks for just
the idea that I knew I had enough money to
decide what I want to eat today versus ooh, is
there a shelter that I can go to to get something?
And so I try to live in gratitude and all things,
and I think I, you know, I did my best
(34:38):
to bring that to the air. Is just that sense
of gratitude and appreciation for life, and I think that
is what we do in our work. You know, when
I listen to your newscasts that you approach it with
such joy, you know, with Raoul on the board, I
see him over there. It's we're living our passion, We're
living our dream, you know. And I see all the
things that Kayla's doing behind the scenes. I mean, y'all know,
(34:59):
this woman has like fifty eleven hats that she wears,
producing everything under the sun and She is literally the
truth with what she does. This is gonna be good
for Kayler too, because she's gonna get her Saturday Night's back.
That's that Saturday Night scene has missed me? Yeah, I
guess party.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Oh who's gonna be coming?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
What?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I have so many questions. I know, my little news
heart has so many questions. Please don't extend the murder shows.
I can't take it. Please, my heart can't take it.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You know what, I know for a fact, next Saturday
there will be something joyous in this spot. I know
that for a fact. All Right, the joy will continue,
and until then I want you to keep it right
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I'm Heather Brooker.
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is so Cal Saturday.
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This, this is so Cal song.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It's so Cal Saturday, Saturday Saturday and Saturday Saturday Saturdays.
Will Saturday the word, he's the word.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
This is so Cow KFI AM six forty live everywhere
on the Ihearted Radio app in Calabasas, Teluca Lake, Seal,
the Beach, and the kaipe of This is Soul Cal Saturday.
I am your host Twala Sharp. And I have a
daughter who is growing like a daisy sprouting up, just
(01:26):
growing out of all of her clothes. But like I'm
going to guess, okay, this is a broad generalization. She's
into fashion like many a young girl her age, and
she goes through gear like it was water. Okay. She
goes through fashion items and clothing and gear like there
(01:47):
was no tomorrow, and really and true there's only so
much that I believe at least that like the Goodwill
or you know, just whatever constant giving away bags and
bags of clothes. But did you know, and this is
something I actually did not know. I'm just finding this
out right now, beyond the fact that every year tons
(02:09):
of unwanted clothing actually ends up in landfills, because there's
a lot of stuff that like Goodwill and various storage
even resale places, they can't take. This stuff just ends
up in landfills. And guess what, it's not biodegradable. It's
not biodegradable, it's just piling up. Well. This past Friday,
(02:34):
state lawmakers here in California sent a bill to Governor
Gavin Newsom's office that would actually require companies to set
up the nation's first mandatory take back program for unwanted clothing.
I know, right, that is crazy. That is absolutely crazy.
(02:56):
Sow if Governor knew some signs bill SB seven seven,
as it is, as expected as he will, companies that
make clothing and other textiles sold in California, including drapes, sheets,
and towels, will be required to create a nonprofit organization
by twenty twenty six that would set up hundreds of
(03:16):
collection sites at thrift stores, begin mailback programs, and take
other steps in all of California's fifty eight counties to
take back and recycle their products by twenty thirty. Now
I don't see why this is something that's just being done.
I mean, it's clothing. Even if you take these materials
(03:38):
and refashion them into new gears. I mean, gene is gene,
no matter what you know, take take the gene material,
put into a gene jacket or something. I don't know.
But now this will be if signed into law by
Governor and Gavin Newsom as I know Governor Batman will
do right. Yes, this will actually be something that they
(03:58):
actually have to do.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I love this write so much, Like I think about
this all the time, the amount of clothes that we have.
And I too have a I have a daughter who
grows out of her clothes every few months. I feel
like I'm buying new shoes, new shirts. She's growing so fast, yes,
and I'm just giving away all these clothes, and I
just keep thinking like this just feels like such a waste,
(04:22):
and I'm just losing money.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You're losing money hand over fist and beyond us losing money.
It's the impact on the environments here in southern California.
I mean one point two million tons one point two
million tons of clothing and textiles mixed in there were
disposed of in California. Now, while ninety five percent of
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them were reusable or recyclable, only fifteen percent is currently
being recycled. So think about that. Ninety five percent of
what you and I Heather are say doing away with,
you know, we send it to whatever, clothing reseal, goodwill, whatever,
(05:10):
and they don't do anything with it, and they just
throw it in the trash. Ninety five percent of it
can be reused, but only fifteen percent of it currently is.
That's crazy. The rest of it is sitting on I
don't know trash island or wherever it is. It's absolutely crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I mean they they recycle mattresses and that material. I
know that that was a that's a state law and
that's something that they absolutely do. And why not this?
Why not this? You know, I don't understand that. This
is kind of side note. Why don't different stores? And
(05:47):
maybe it should be added to this, there should be
more stores that take back old child items like car
seats and things like that, like a no Target, you
can I don't think you can resell, but they will
take them and recycle them. But that to me should
just be a given. There should be more recyclable things
that we get that aren't just cans and bottles. You
(06:07):
have cans and bottles, that's a given, but things like
car seats and other stuff like that that just go
into landfill, isn't remelted down or turn back into a
better plaster for something else. All of that needs to
be used.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, well, there are some stores that do take back
worn clothes, like I know that have programs like Patagonia
has a worn wear program where they take back clothes
from people and recycle, reuse, girlfriend Collective, north Face, there's
a couple of brands that do that. I think with
car seats there might be some legalities there because if
(06:39):
they've been involved in an accident, they have to prove
that somehow it's still safe. Like I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I mean, they're not even to be used again, but
I'm talking about to be recycled. To just break down
the materials so they're all plastic, it's all plastic, you know.
Just take the little covers off.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Even like strollers.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yes, all those things going into lands right now for
the most part, you know, they say, you know, you
can't take those back anywhere. But yeah, if if this
bill passes, this is going to do so so much
for California. And I think that this is actually actually
actually something that could be turned into a new business
(07:19):
for anyone. I mean for all the small businesses that
we have on not just not just a salvation army,
but I'm talking about a company that actually breaks down clothing,
you know, with with with with the recycling centers that
break down cans and bowels and things like that. Think
about here in southern California, if you have someone who
(07:42):
opens up I don't know, a warehouse, and these are
people who deconstruct jackets, deconstructor just so you can get
the reusable material from that jacket, you know, the lining,
the back of the shell of the jacket, that you
can just take that material and just have you know,
swatches and swatches of them material that you can just reuse.
I'm thinking I'll low Okay, So if someone's gonna take
(08:03):
that idea, please do, please do. I'm not even gonna
look for any money.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
On the back drag him if you dog him on this, Yes,
if you can find me, because I'm hard to find
on social media.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
No I'm not. I'm actually not.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
You're literally the only to wallow on social media. All
they got to do is search. Okay, it's all right,
So one and only one and only the greatest.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Ladies, all right. I love that.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I love all this ideas, Like I'm such a nerd
for anything recycling. I think back to that. There was
a Project Runway episode early on in the show where
they had all the designers take go to a thrift
store and take clothes from this thrift store and repurpose
it in high into high fashion, and I just thought,
that's brilliant. Why don't we do stuff like that? Why
(08:53):
don't we make something we have so much here, why
don't we find a way to make.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
It all good again? And yes, indeed, well, speaking of
making it good again or trying to hearing in so Cow,
you know, our bread and butter is Hollywood and our lifeline.
The studios are struggling here in the south Land, and
we are facing some serious competition from other states that
(09:23):
are looking to increase their film tax incentives. What are
we going to do about it, we'll find out.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
You're listening to Soul Cal Saturday with Tawla Sharp on
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Speaker 1 (09:47):
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This is Soul Cal Saturday host t Wallace Sharp And
what are we gonna do here in California? I A
(10:07):
if we keep losing all of our film companies, losing
film companies that are going to other states for better
tax incentives. I know one of Mayor Bas's big initiatives,
of course, was bringing it into the homeless crisis in
(10:33):
Los Angeles County everywhere under her purview. I know Governor
Knewsome got all these different, you know, kooky ideas about
things that he wants to do. One thing that I
think they both need to do is while they're still
able to sit down, put their heads together and find
(10:55):
a way to keep Hollywood in California. If you go
to Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, their biggest market, They're
the thing that you go to Vegas for is for casinos. Right.
Imagine if all of a sudden you had casinos everywhere,
(11:16):
sales popping up all over the place. What's the point
of going to Vegas? Then, right, Vegas wants to keep
casino life in Vegas. All the big casilos come to Vegas.
We will do every single thing we can to make
your casino win in Vegas. Right. They're not letting casinos
just go to Detroit or Louisiana or wherever else where.
They're just losing big business. No, they'll say, hey, you
(11:36):
can open a smaller version of your casino there, but
make the main one here in Las Vegas. In New York, Manhattan, wherever.
What you got Broadway, you can't have Broadway. In Madison, Wisconsin,
you can't have it. People go to Times Square to
(11:58):
check out a show on Broadway. They do everything they
can to keep those plays or on Broadway or to
make them run their first In southern California, we have
been been run under by other states who are offering
outsized tax incentives for productions, and it is hurting us.
(12:23):
It is hurting us badly. At one point in time,
this was the status quote California for all things film,
all things Hollywood. Right now, though you've got more film
companies shooting in Atlanta and Louisiana and Detroit than you
(12:48):
do in southern California. What are we going to do
about it? What are we going to do about it? Well,
you know how much I love Mayor Baths, all right,
someone pointed out on the talk back right now, La
Mayor Baths has assembled an entertainment industry cabinet dedicated to
supporting Hollywood and to combat production leakage. She's also putting
(13:14):
together a task force of film liaxons from various city
departments that will meet quarterly. And the hope of this
is to, as I said in the beginning, keep Hollywood Hollywood.
I mean, think about all of the people who come
to visit California and they come to Hollywood to do
(13:35):
the tours and things like that, or they used to
go and tour some of the studios. Imagine if you
imagine going on the Warner Brothers tour right here, right
around the corner, and you're just seeing empty buildings. You're
going over to the Warner Brothers lot, and it's a
tour director saying, well, this is where such and such
used to shoot once upon a time. This shot here.
(13:56):
You know what, nothing is shooting anymore, right, now this
is just a place where we store props. Imagine going
on the Universal Studios tour and it's like, we have
a bunch of memorabilia from films, but nothing's shooting here. No, No,
all the sound stages here are empty. Right down the
way from us is the Disney Production Studios and things
(14:18):
like that. Imagine all of that just being gone because
it's all just moving, moving somewhere else. We have to
keep our trade here. We absolutely need to, because the
more that is filmed here in California, the less we
have to worry about things like Heather Brooker having to
like say, hey, guys, I got to get on a
(14:39):
plane and go shoot in Louisiana for a month or
two because I'm on the gig. But the gig doesn't
shoot in so Cow. No, we need the Heather Brucker
on commercials and films here. Heather needs to shoot here
in so Cow. You know, I'm just saying, I'm just saying.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
It's so true toilet because you know, I work at
Paramount and people always come to our lot and they're like,
oh my god, you're busy here. All the other lots
are like empty nobody, And I'm like really like I
cause I don't go there. But yeah, it's true. Everything
you're saying is one hundred percent true. Everybody tells me.
And we have CBS stuff on Paramount a lot, but
if it wasn't for that, we'd be right there with them.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And I think even which lot is it that just
was just sold or shut down? Paramount?
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Yeah that's a lot, okay, but we have CBS by
a Calm and some other stuff they're shooting there.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah, real now and CIS and now just imagine they say,
you know, Detroit is willing to put up some sound
stages for next to nothing and give us all type
of tax and censors actually pay us to shoot the
rookie there. You're telling me you can't have a downtown
La looking scene in Detroit. I think everybody's worried. Trust me,
(15:51):
they are worried. Canada, all the all the productions that
go to Canada to shoot. No, no, rao, we need
you working here. We can't have you saying I gotta
take off to Louisiana to go work on on the lot.
There Heather saying, uh, you know Audi else or what
do they say in Canada? Gooday? Whatever they say out there.
(16:13):
She's like, she's got to go shoot. They say something
to Canada. Was it good? Doctor Whinney on the phone,
She'll tell us something. Yes, well, dook, I say, when
I think about what the Heather Brookers of the world
have to go through when it comes to even booking
work out here, and it's becoming we're not only are
(16:34):
we shooting less and lesson is being produced here. That
has a trickle down effect to everyone, set designers, uh,
all the below the line, you know, craft services, security, transportation,
all these different companies that rely on things being shot here.
And now that we are fully out of the Hollywood
(16:54):
strike right now, something that we're seeing is is there's
not a lot of production happening here in southern California.
And that's tough. That is tough. We needed back. So
that was yet another opportunity for me to shout out
Mere Bass and the efforts that she's putting together to
try to get Hollywood back. In Hollywood, we.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Have to do something.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
You know.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Netflix just cut a deal in New Jersey for a
two hund eighty nine acre facility out there at nine
hundred and three million dollars for a new studio in
New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
There's literally no greater place to do it than New Jersey.
And you literally why wasn't it there soon a whole time? Yeah, Jersey,
that state that we have. Everybody knows it and this
is all your Faull Kailer.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You talked to someone over there in Netflix.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
I told them that they get their gas pumped and
it's actually less expensive.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
And they were like, what, let's bring a building over there. Okay,
find you are. You're going to get some talkbacks.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Girl, Listen, we already I already got cursed out for
reparations and I'm black and lazy, so I'm kind of
a lovely email. Thank him so much for his colorful
talk back. It was very nice. He went on for
three four talkbacks about how recis he is. So it's
been a great It's a great Saturday, all right, bless jays.
Yes shouts the Brad shouts to you, Brad.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
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This is soul col Saturday. I'm your host, Twala Sharp
taking a look at some fun things to do with
someone special, ord with the Fam. With the Fam, you
can go to Pixar Putt. Yeah, Pixar put Many Golf
Course has now opened up or will be debuting soon
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in southern California. Yes, characters from Like Toy Story, The Incredibles,
Monster Inc. Finding Nemo Coco, which I watched last night
while I was here doing the podcast, watching it without
even the sound or whatever, I still tear it up.
I could still hear him singing to Mama Coco in
the end Debt Grit. He's just singing this, don't you
(19:31):
Damn Yes? So June too, Yeah. Juneto Entertainment CEO Sidney
Steele made this announcement at the D two three Expo
that this pop up experience and Pight Shopping Oh no,
(19:53):
I'm sorry and no no. This pop up experience will
happen in the Pight Shopping district in Long Beach from
September twenty first, and it will last until January fifteenth,
twenty twenty five. Of course, twenty five what are you
talking about. It's not gona be twenty twenty six. It's
(20:13):
a pop up. Pop ups can't be there that long,
so that's silly for me to put the year on January.
But look, this pop up golf experience with all your
Pixar favorite characters is going to be happening Monday through
Sunday and Monday through Thursday. It's open three pm to
(20:35):
eight thirty pm, and on Fridays ten am to nine
thirty Saturday. Oh, Friday, Saturday, Sunday ten am to nine
thirty pm. Oh I'm sorry. No, Sunday it's closed again
at eight thirty pm. All right, so yes. Tea times
begin at seven pm at most most days, A reserved
(20:57):
for Pixar Putt after Dark players who eighteen and older. Right,
So if you're eighteen and older and you want to
go and don't want to be around all the kids,
that's seven pm, and it's a that's for eighteen and overs.
Price to start with twenty five dollars, family, four pats
one hundred dollars. Tickets for this event can be purchased online.
Find out more information that picks our Putt dot com.
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I love going mini golf or mini golfing with the kids.
I love putt putt with the kids. Even now in
their teenage years, they're still not too cool for a
little putt putt. So now that this will be opening up,
damn it will. We will be going one of my
daughter's favorite films. I don't know why. I don't know
why she loves La La Land, but she has watched
(21:40):
La La Land to just death. Okay, if there was
if like I remember back in the day with VHS tapes,
they would just they could pop if you watch them
too much. If there was a way for a digital
download to pop, it would have popped, all right. But
her favorite film is La La And there is going
(22:01):
to be a rooftop cinema showing of La La Land
happening September fourteenth and fifteenth at La Historic State Park
near DTLA and Chinatown. And this I'm absolutely into it.
And they show a lot of movies at the rooftop Cinema,
you know, I think they have a September Pretty Woman
(22:23):
will be showing Good Fellas, Back to the Future and
The Sandlot are going to be shown at the Rooftop Cinema.
But Rooftop Cinema if you ever can catch a show
with your family, it is a stone groove. If you
want to catch the Lalla Land showing, check them out
Street Foodcinema dot com, Ford slash schedule, Ford slash La
(22:44):
La Land in Concert. Nice. There's a Bourbank International Film Festival. Wow,
I did I know there was such a thing, such
a thing as a Bourbank International Film Festival. But this
is happening. I'm curious to find out more about it.
(23:09):
More information at Burbankfilmfest dot org. Oh so Kato walked out.
I was going to answer, like which films are showing there?
But I absolutely am interested in that well, because it's
right here in Burbank all month long. At Lakma Jazz
in the evenings on Friday. Oh I love a good
jazz show at Lakma Fridays six to eight. I've never
(23:30):
been able to go to much stuff that's happening at night,
because you know, seven to ten are actually really five
thirty till eleven. I'm here at the station with Later
with mo Kelly. But if you want to go and
check out some jazz at Lackma on a Friday night
six to eight, you can even bring your own picnic
basket and alcohol. Check them out. Lachman dot Org, four
(23:51):
slash Event, hyphen Calendar, Hyphenweekly. What else is going on
out here? Santa Monica and Venice Bike Tour all month long?
I love that. Oh, the flea market coming up? Flea
market coming up at the Rose Bowl And I don't know,
I don't know, think what would I get it? What
do I want to get into this weekend? Definitely not
(24:13):
going to the beach, and outside of running errands, I'm
trying to think of something fun to do. I don't know, Heather,
what do you have going on this weekend?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I'm just here, just here, cow Yeah, I'm here this
all weekend.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
So that's what you might.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Try to go to the pool if it's not too hot,
you know, go to a pool somewhere.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Stay cool, Okay, stay cool? Rauh what do you get
into this weekend?
Speaker 6 (24:37):
I will be here, But if I wasn't going to
be here, i'd be La Historic Park. That's where I
would be hanging out for that day trip. It's the
last one of the season. Oh, so what's the lineup? Well,
it's Honey Love okay, and then it's kind of like
her crew and they're like they're really dope househeads. I
mean I would I would be there in a heartbeat
if I could, but I'd rather be working here too.
(24:58):
But it's gonna be really good and you can drink
the big fish bowls so that we and they moved
it because of the weather, so it's like starts later
because it's quite nice.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yes, nice, nuys nice, I could say, had nice uh
a house shindig, you know when the weather's closer to
like ninety at night. Yeah, and a big fish bowl
full of you know, libations, full of the libations. Yes,
I would do it. That's an easy way to find
yourself from the hospital too. Nice big fish bowllet libations.
No matter what. Drink water, everybody just drink water. I
(25:31):
love it all right. On the other side, I know
I teased it with the Fork reporter. But on the
other side, major announcement, major announcement, So you don't want
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Speaker 5 (25:54):
You're listening to Soul cal Saturday with Tawalla Sharp on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
KFI am live everywhere on the Ihearten Radio app in Recita,
Signal Hill, Valencia and Adelanteau. This this has been soul
Cow Saturday. Yes, the big news that I had to
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share with you all is that today marks the final
broadcast of soul Cow Saturday. I have decided to hang
up the mic now. Two years ago, fork reporter Nil
Savadra said, hey, Tea, with Moe Kelly moving on into
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the Monday through Friday slot, why don't you take on Saturdays.
You know you've got stuff to say? And I said, now,
I'm not the personal is not what I want to do.
I'm a behind the scenes kind of guy. And he said, Tea,
you never know until you try it. Well, Fork reporter,
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I have tried it. And though I have loved being
here with you all every Saturday, especially the small businesses,
oh my goodness, all of the small business shout outs,
shining a light on all things. So col there comes
a time in someone's life where they have to say,
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are you doing that what you want to do? Are
you following your calling? You know, being on their not
my calling. When I first got into radio, I was
I was behind the scenes. Then I worked at radio
station ninety two point three to beat producing for an
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individual named Julio g. And that's how I got my
feet wet working behind the scenes, and I loved it
making his show number one and nights that's where I
love doing. And then you know, I moved up and
I became the assistant music director, and then music director
and then the interim program director and all those things.
And at one point in time, I remember with Steve
hagwhod and Steve Hagwood said, Twala, you have to be
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on the air. If you're going to be a music
director or program director and you're not on the air,
how do you know what you're asking of your DJs?
How do you know what you're asking them to do?
So you're gonna have to get on the mic. And
I said, cool, I'll do it. And I did overnights, weekends,
you know, filled in for the Morner Show. I did
all of that, but I never liked doing it. I
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love being behind the scenes and working behind the scenes
with later with mo Kelly producing that show as I
have from the mo Kelly Show on Saturdays and Sundays
and now Monday through Friday, and every single day I
enjoy the hell out of making that show happen. I'd
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love everything that goes into it. And I may chime
in and talk with Mo and uh Fush and the
whole crew and Marques something crazy to say. I'll say
something crazy back. I love, you know, hanging out with
the crew and stuff like that. But really and truly,
I think if you're gonna be on the air, then
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it should be something that you absolutely love doing, something
that you cannot live without. It's got to be your kwan.
It's got to be that thing. So as an old
programming vet, I want this to be a space and
a place for someone to talk to you. It gets
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up in the morning and this is all they can
think of. First words out their mouth when they get
up in the morning is get on the mic on KFI. Exists.
That person exists absolutely, And I have to of course
thank Mo Kelly for even getting me here and bringing
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me into the KFI fold, Neil Sevadra for encouraging me
to do this, and Robin forgiving me the opportunity to
do so. I have to thank Raoul for holding it
down on the board as long as you have, good sir,
But most importantly I've got to thank my rock, the
woman who really and truly without this, if I could
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not have had her sitting across from me, I literally
would not have done it. I said, if I'm going
to do this, it's got to be with Kayla. Kayla
is quite possibly, next to me, one of the greatest
producers I have ever met. That No, you really are.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
You really are great, great, great producer, and I wish
to be half of the producer that you are. You
make ripping my heart out so smooth, and this is sad. Yeah,
he's all my God like you make ripping our hearts
out sound so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Mister, this this is a moment of love and of
reflection and and and then seriously just having the opportunity
to work with Heather and seeing her smile over there.
Now you're making me cry.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I have to change my late story.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Now I said you were going to cry, Heather. I
told him he was going to make you cry.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
You know what she said is you're trying. You just mean, no, try,
it just gonna make everyone up in here cry.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
That's use my off microphone voice.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
He caught you out. That was seriously, I mean, this
has been an absolute blast and it's not that I
don't enjoy spending time with you. It's just that this
just you know, it's just not that thing that I do.
You know, it's just not like being on the MiCT's.
You know, I can have the ability to do so,
and I think I'm fairly good at it.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
But you know, you know what, Touala, though, I gotta,
I gotta thank you. I will never be able to
go to the beach again and not think about poop water.
N Yeah, this morning when the earthquake hit, first person,
I thought it was twala, where's the water?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Do we have everything we need? If the big one's
gonna hit any day?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Now?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Say that's you? Hey, you cause that I love it.
I love that I've caused that pettican fear. Now, seriously,
I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I am so like just shocked and like heartbroken, to
be honest, because the only reason I come in on
Saturdays is because of this first hour of my shift
is such a joy. Otherwise I wouldn't I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
No, but you got to. You got such a joy
like it is.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
You truly bring so much joy, and I know that
everybody listening feels that joy through the microphone. You are
saying You've said several times, I don't feel like this
is what I'm meant to be and what I'm meant
to do, and that sort of thing. But it feels
very much like it's coming from love. Everything you've done,
every story you give us, every idea that you share,
it feels like it's coming from your heart. And I
feel that, and I know the listeners do too.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
So it it comes from my heart, But I think
that for me it is it is a reflection of
you all. It is reflection from the joy that you bring.
It is a reflection of wanting to see everyone shine
and want to see everyone smile, and wanting everyone to
feel good about where we are, to feel good about
living here in southern California, just feel good about our days,
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feel good about going out into the world, and trying
to spread that. Trying to say, you know what, for
all for all the bad I could see, how about
instead I try to look at something good. How About
I try to put a spin on it. How About
I try to if I'm not going to put a
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spin on it, and how I'm thinking about, how about
I try to maybe even do something to improve the
area that we're in because I think that where we
are Southern California, it's only as good as we make it.
And I wanted to bring that to the air. You know,
I do my best to live with love and every
single day be grateful and to live in full appreciation
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of every single thing, the smallest things. I you know,
coming in today, I had to give thanks for just
the idea that I knew I had enough money to
decide what I want to eat today versus ooh, is
there a shelter that I can go to to get something?
And so I try to live in gratitude and all things,
and I think I, you know, I did my best
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to bring that to the air. Is just that sense
of gratitude and appreciation for life, and I think that
is what we do in our work. You know, when
I listen to your newscasts that you approach it with
such joy, you know, with Raoul on the board, I
see him over there. It's we're living our passion, We're
living our dream, you know. And I see all the
things that Kayla's doing behind the scenes. I mean, y'all know,
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this woman has like fifty eleven hats that she wears,
producing everything under the sun and She is literally the
truth with what she does. This is gonna be good
for Kayler too, because she's gonna get her Saturday Night's back.
That's that Saturday Night scene has missed me? Yeah, I
guess party.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Oh who's gonna be coming?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
What?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I have so many questions. I know, my little news
heart has so many questions. Please don't extend the murder shows.
I can't take it. Please, my heart can't take it.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You know what, I know for a fact, next Saturday
there will be something joyous in this spot. I know
that for a fact. All Right, the joy will continue,
and until then I want you to keep it right
where you have it. KFI AM six forty Live everywhere
on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to Soul col Saturday,
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you can always hear us live on KFI AM six
forty five pm to seven pm on Saturday, and anytime
on demand on the iHeartRadio app
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