April 13, 2024 • 32 mins
Guest Interview: Diane Luby Lane: 13th annual Youth Classic Slam Final competition at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre. SoCal SBS Spotlight: At Jones Brothers Brakes they have been supplying brakes and bearings for cars and trucks for over 75 years at same location. “Wiggle Waggle Walk” / “Beachlife Festival”
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Los Angeles, Orange County, IE in the Valley. This is to
Wallace Sharp and you're listening to kfI AM six forty Soul Cal Saturday on
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is Soul Cal Saturday. I'm yourhost, Tawala Sharp, keeping you up
to date on the latest. Iranhas launched dozens of drones towards Israel.
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Iran says that it will target anycountry that opens its airspace four and Israeli
attack against Iran. Currently, PresidentBiden is meeting with his national security team
in the situation room, and Israelimilitary plans to intercept drones before they even
reach Israeli skies. According to militaryofficials, We of course will keep you
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up to date on the latest asthat situation develops. Right now, I
would like to take the time tointroduce you to an event that is very
near and dear to my heart.Poetry. Back in the day I was
a poet. I was inspired byall types of poets, from gil Scott
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to the Watts Prophets to the LastPoets and so forth and so on,
and there were so many poetry groupsthat just touched me and I just felt
like, wow, like this issomething that just it speaks to me the
way individuals were able to put togetherwords to tell a story. And I
started actually becoming a poet, andI thought that was going to be my
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path. And then I met alocal producer who said, let's put your
poetry to a beat, and thenthat became rhythm in poetry, rap and
I was a rap artist. Andthen that's kind of like how I got
into the music industry and eventually gotinto music radio. And fast forward all
these years, I'm in talk radio. Okay, I say all that to
say. On April twentieth, getLit founded by Miss Diane Louby Lane,
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the get Lit Foundation or is itthe get Lit Competition, the get lit
Look. Get Lit is holding itthird Teeth Annual Youth Classic Slam, the
final competition which is going to beheld at the Wilshre Email Theater. Tickets
for this event are on sale rightnow. This Classic Slam will feature top
middle and high school students from theLos Angeles area communicating their thoughts, challenges
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and passions through spoken word performances.This is something that you absolutely cannot miss.
To tell us more about this event, I have the founder of get
Litton joining us today, Miss DianeLuby Lane. How are you doing today?
Hi? I'm doing great. Whata great intro. Thank you,
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You are quite welcome. And Dane, tell me, are you a poet
yourself? Is this how you gotinto poetry and founding get lit Gosh,
that's a good question. I wrotea one person about books that toured with
poet Jimmy Santiago Baka, and throughworking with him, he introduced me to
teachers and high schools and universities andwe went to the extensions and prisons and
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met all kinds of people. AndI did my show about books and he
did and the impact they had onme growing up the kids Latsky Kid in
the middle of Jersey that couldn't everget anywhere and only could get places in
my imagination and through books. AndJimmy talked about discovering poetry when he was
in maximum security prison. He actuallywrote the film blood In, Blood Out,
which just had a big aid Yeahhe's a legend. Yeah, isn't
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it incredible? And so it wasjust like wow. And then I was
part of a gorilla poetry troop inNew York City too, not so much
performing my own words but other peoples. And then got into monologue writing,
which was short form, so itwas similar to spoken words but a little
different. Anyway, put it alltogether forget lit, but wanted to see
it saved my life and Jimmy's life. What if we brought it to young
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people in LA because I was livinghere, What would they care? Would
it make a difference? And herewe are, all these years later,
I guess it has. Yes.I mean you are in your third teenth
year now of hosting this classic slam. And a slam is a poetry competition
where you have poets throwing down theirbest pieces, their most passionate art and
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kind of almost in a battle royalekind of format where they are using their
words to excite the audience and goafter the individual on stage right across from
them. Take us inside like aslam. Like, what is the energy
like when you are hosting the getLit competition? It's insane. If you
can imagine. The get Lit programis in schools throughout southern California. So
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these schools have individual slams within someschools. It runs every grade nine,
ten, eleven, twelve in Englishclass. You have hundreds of kids in
some schools taking this program. Thenyou have a slam within a school just
to get to the top six kidsto represent your school. Then they all
like are busting in from you know, it can be Central Valley, San
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Diego, it can be like allof southern California, Los Angeles County,
South LA, the Valley, youknow, everywhere. They're busting in with
all these stories. They're coming withtheir over the course of a week.
So it starts this whole week.Next week they're coming to LATC Theater to
have quarterfinals, semifinals. It's funnywatching these worlds converge and then the top
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four teams that emerge from that goto the Grand Slam Finals that are at
the Wilshire Ebail Theater on the twentiethand it is insane. The hottest poets,
the deepest storytellers. We also haveprofessional all star poets judging, like
Rudy Francisco, Yessica Salgado, andthey're also performing. So it is an
incorredible night. I absolutely love it. Look, I'm gonna have to carry
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this conversation over because I can't letyou go yet. I need more poetry,
I need more lit. So holdon for just a minute because right
now we have to head on overto the KFI twenty four our newsroom to
get the latest breaking news coming in. Iran has launched dozens of drones towards
Israel. Iran says that it willtarget any country that opens its airspace four
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an Israeli attack against Iran. Rightnow, President Biden is meeting with his
national security team in the Situation Roomto assess the situation as it is.
The Israeli military plans to intercept dronesbefore they reach Israeli skies, according to
military officials, and we are monitoringthis situation closely. You're listening to soul
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Cal Saturday with Tawala Sharp on demandfrom KFI AM six forty KFI and six
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio appin San Pedro, San Diego, Santa
Barbara, and South central Los Angeles. This is Soul cal Saturday. I'm
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your host Twala Sharp and as you'vebeen hearing from the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom, we are monitoring closely theevents happening in the Middle East. Iran
has launched dozens of drones towards Israel. Iran says that it will target any
country that opens its airspace four andIsraeli attacked against Iran. Currently, President
Biden is in the situation room,meeting with his security team to assess the
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situation Israeli military. The Israeli militaryplans to intercept drones before they reach Israeli
skies, according to military officials,and we are keeping our eye on everything
happening in regards to this situation.Right now, I want to delve back
into my conversation with Miss Diane lubyLane regarding get Lit. Get Lit is
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a annual Youth Classic Slam, apoetry slam, and they are holding their
Youth Classic Slam Finals competition at theWilshire Email Theater on April twentieth, tickets
are on sale now. And ifyou cannot fill my energy, if you
do not know why I am sohyped, it is because I literally live
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poetry. I love every single thingabout poetry, the thoughts and emotions and
everything that goes into taking words andusing it to tell a story, throwing
a pattern together with it. Imean the art of finding words that you
may not think rhyme, but actually, when said a certain way, actually
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do that. There's so much thatgoes into being a poet, just the
thought and the foresight of being ableto communicate in this medium its next level.
And you will not find a betterexample of this than the thirteenth Annual
Youth Classic Slam Finals competition at theWilshire Ebel Theater. Diane, tell me
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for you, as the founder,as the creator of this vision, what
is the most fulfilling thing that youget out of it? Oh? My
gosh, I don't. I guessyou know. The teachers that coach their
teams. We train about two hundredteachers a year, all year long,
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but specifically something called the poetic convergencein the fall. We train teachers to
teach this to their students. Sowatching the relationship between the students and their
teachers who are their coaches. It'sincredible. I mean, the teachers are
like the rock stars and they callit all shapes and size. It's just
they're so different. So the worldsthat are created. The chemistry between the
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young people and their stories and whatthey're saying and how close they all get,
and then their teachers coaching them,it's really magical. They each have
their own vibe and swagger and watchingthem represent where they're from in their own
unique way is so interesting and deeplyfulfilling. It's so interesting that you go
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back to the teachers and the relationshipsto the students and how they are working
hand in hand with these young people, to these stories. Because for me,
I was admittedly not a good student. I really really wasn't. I
was a bit of a trouble maker. And I was in a history class
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and I was on the verge offailing this course. And the teacher of
this class, he came over oneday to my desk and he looked over
my shoulder and he saw me writingpoetry and he asked me to stay after
class, and I did. Ithought I was in trouble as always,
and he said mister sharp, Iwas looking at some of the poetry you
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were writing. Could you read someof it for me? And I'm like,
sure, whatever, and I did. I read what I wrote for
him, and he was like,wow, you have real talent. He
said, I'm going to challenge youto something. I want you to read
through this chapter that we are workingon right now in history. And if
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you can take this chapter and putit into a poem and performing in front
of the class, I will giveyou a passing grade in this course.
And I said, no problem,and I said to reading through the chapter.
And it actually I had to readthrough the chapter and I took everything
that I could from everything that wasin this chapter, and this is like
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the final chapter of this book.And I put it into a poem and
I stood in front of that classand I read it and I poured my
heart into it, and the classactually clapped and everyone was like, man,
I thought this guy was just athug sitting in the back, like,
you know, messing around or sleepingin class. I mean it was
a transformative experience. And yes,I mean, you know, I didn't
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get an A in the course,but I did pass the course. And
that forever changed my life. Soto hear you talking about how the teachers
are working with these young people tocreate this magic, I mean, it's
it's damn near got me emotional,and I salute you for everything that you
do. Tell me, is thereone young person that has really stood out
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in this competition? If you canchoose one, even I'm sure there are
several, but if you can chooseone who really just shine bright like a
diamond and really took it to thenext level, I don't even know where
to start. I mean, there'sso many and a lot of our poets
we meet them in schools and thenthey some of them start coming after schools,
and then they start even performing,like Solemmi at Brogi. She started
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with get Lit when she was inhigh school and now she's the Youth Peloriate
of the United States and she justwent to the White House and she's at
Harvard. You know, watching thejourney. Did these students go on?
But I'll say there's one student namedPluto, and I know Pluto. Last
year it was their first time everperforming. They were a brand new poet,
and this year they're actually they didn'thave a teacher that was going to
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bring it to their school. Theteacher moved on to another school and they
were left without a coach, andso Pluto stepped up as the coach of
their team. So wow, yeah, you know, just watching how a
person that could be brand new tothis work last year is now the coach
and as the leader of this team. It's so moving watching people step into
their power and have that leadership experiencetoo, just to know what they're capable
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of at such a young age,to carry that with them forever. A
man to that, I'm telling youif you have been touched by this conversation
as I have, if you wantto see what it is that we are
talking about, I'm telling you again. Tickets are on sale right now the
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Youth Classic Slam Final competition April twentiethat the Wilsher Email Theater. You can
find out more information. As amatter of fact, where can you find
out more information, Diane, Theycan go to getrit dot org and right
on the front page of our websitethere'll be a ticket link and all the
information they need get litt dot org. Please do yourself a favor, Show
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up, show out, snap,clap, applaud these young people Diane Luby
Lane, thank you again for whatyou do. You are a true jewel
by even doing this, by seeingit within yourself to bring this together.
Bravo, absolutely bravo to you.Thank you for joining us today. We
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wish you all the best and pleaseplease please come on again next year for
the fourteenth Annual Youth Classic Slam Finalcompetition and let's have this conversation again.
Okay, I would love that.Thank you so much. You're listening to
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on the latest situation happening in Iran, where Iran has launched dozens of drones
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towards Israel. Iran says it willtarget any country that opens its airspace four
and Israeli attacked against Iran. Bidenis currently meeting with National Security right now
in the Situation Room. The Israelimilitary plans to intercept drones before they reach
Israeli skies. According to military officials. Again, we are keeping our eyes
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know what any of that means,but let me introduce you to mister Raymond
Sellers. He is the nephew ofthe founder of Jones Brothers Breaks, and
he knows everything there is to knowabout breaks inside and out. Mister Raymond
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Sellers, welcome to the program.How you doing today, Good sir,
doing great, doing great, myfriend and yourself. Hey, look,
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Just waking up in the morning.That's right, you got that right.
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And you know, over the years, cars have gotten more complicated and the
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braking systems have changed, but we'vestayed up on top of it all and
we have special machines that resurface brakeroders, or they call it turning,
but resurfacing, that's what we specializein. Because I don't know if you've
ever experienced this before, but sometimeswhen you apply your brakes on your car,
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you feel a little shake in orit doesn't stop really really smooth.
Well, that happens over time whenyour brakes begin to wear and your rots
or your drums, which is whatthe brakes press against when they go to
stop, they get high spots oruneven spots. And when that happens,
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it's done right, then once thecustomer leaves with their road's resurfaced and hit
those breaks, that stops nice andsmooth. Now I have a heavy,
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I run through breaks quickly, orso I think, is there then a
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you know what, you may notneed to replace them. You may
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to next to new as possible.Am I correcting that? Well, not
necessarily. When as your breaks wear, you know they're wearing onto the road
or the drums, and yeah,they get hot. You know, anytime
you're producing friction, you're applying yourbrake, So those roaders and drums get
really hot. And as they heatup, and then you say you might
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run through some something cold, Youmay run through some water. With all
the rain we've been getting, thenthe steel gets real cold fast and it'll
tend to walk and that will pausethat pulsation. You know, that will
cause that pulsation and cause it notto stop really nice and smooth. Now,
they're different qualities of breake lining fordifferent driving habits. You know you're
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hard on the brakes, and youhit the brakes real hard. Is good
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rotor when you go to apply thebrakes. But the main thing is having
a nice smooth stop with real goodquality lining, and you know you'll get
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some good time out of that.At least at least every six month,
you should have your break checked.But they should last at least twelve thousand
or fifteen thousand miles. You shouldbe good as long as all of the
parts are working properly with the brakesystem. I absolutely see why you all
have been in business as long asyou have. I mean, hearing you
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talk about breaks, I see thisis a lifestyle for you. I see
that you know everything there is toknow about breaking. What all do you
do there beyond just resurfacing breake rotorsand drums? Like, what is the
process of press bearings off and onspindles? What does that even mean,
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okay, Well, the pressing ofthe bearings. The wheel spins on a
bearing as you're driving down the streetor whatever. You got a hub which
spins, which is what the wheelsits on, and then the hub is
spinning on a bearing, and overtime the bearings a wear out. They'll
get hot, rye up, they'llstart making noise and wobbly or whatever.
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And when that happens, you haveto disassemble the thing called the spindle and
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the old bearing out and put thenew bearing in, relock it, and
then press the hub back in it, and then you're back to You're back
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to running real smooth without hearing alot of noise, a lot of whining
as you're driving down the roads.You know, when those bearings get bad,
they start whining and whining. Youknow, you'll know it because it's
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That's one of the things that thatwill cause that noise. And we have
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from back in the forties all theway to right now. Sometimes it's hard
to identify stuff. Sometimes people,you know, they may do a conversion
or they may just not be ableto find the proper road or drums that
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you know, I've been able toidentify it. You know, by sight.
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I can look at a road ordrum off of pretty much any car
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tires have sizes on them or whatever. Break drums and roaders they just you
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know, they're random, and youknow from the dealer they they they are
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to sixty pm weekdays and eight eightto five pm on Saturdays. We're closed
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as you should be. If you, like me, have a heavy foot.
If you are starting to hear thatlittle wine when your car starts to
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stop, or that little squeaking soundlike your breaks may be going out,
do not go another further. Youneed to head on over to Jones Brothers
Breaks once again. They are locatedat six five three four South Central Avenue
in Los Angeles. You can callthem directly at three two three five A
three four three oh one. Isthere a website where they can find you
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as well? Yes, so wwwdot Jones Brothers Breaks dot com. Mister
Raymond Sellers, I thank you,I thank your family for what you have
done for being an institution in thecity of Los Angeles. Being there for
seventy five years. That tells meone one thing, and that is that
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you all are a company that canbe trusted, because that's something that many
of us are always leary of.Can we trust someone working on our car
seventy five years later? You areabsolutely trustworthy? Good sir, you got
it man. Thank you very much, and yeah, we've been there all
those years and customers of nights.We treat the people right, we treat
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our neighbors right, and and we'vebeen through all of the riots and never
even had a broken wind in ourbuildings. So you know, we we
we treat people right. That's theway my uncle started the business back in
the parties, and that's the waywe continue, you know, as it
should be. Thank you, goodsir for joining us today and introducing us
to Jones Brothers breaks. All right, thank you so much, Thank you,
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thank you so much for taking timegiving giving us an opportunity to put
it out there. Yes, sir, you're listening to soul Cal Saturday with
Taula Shark on demand from KFI Asix just gotta be kf I am six
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forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio appin Santa Monica, syl Beach, Villa
Park, and Corona. This issoul Cal Saturday. And I forgot I
had an interview that I wanted torun today. It is h an interview
that I did with the host ofcrunchy Roll presents the Anime Effect and it
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was an absolutely uh stellar, stellarconversation, but technical difficulties, you know,
jumped in the way and the conversationwas absolutely cabashed. And so the
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the for the Anime Effect hosts.I was unable to air the conversation today
because, yeah, technical difficulties ranso hopefully actually not even hopefully. You
know what I'm gonna do with theautome Effect conversation, I'm gonna put that
on the Nerdorama page, So nerdRama on iHeartRadio, I'm going to air
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my conversation with the hosts of theAnime Effect. Country Role presents the Anime
Effect, and I'm going to airthat conversation there, so you'll be able
to get that later on tonight.Today, while we were airing my conversation
with the founder of get Lit,Miss Diane Diane Luis Lane, the first
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segment of that, we had technicaldifficulties here. There's a lot going on.
I mean, we're trying to reportthis breaking new, so that conversation
was interrupted and we will have thatfull conversation up now on It's on KFI
Future Segments as well as your paging. They can also click the link and
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purchase tickets to the poetry event comingup on April twentieth. Excellent, So
that is up there, so you'llbe able to hear the full conversation with
Miss Diane lubis Lane. There.I hope you enjoyed what you were able
to hear from that conversation, becauseit's I mean, it's literally my life
is all about poetry, so thatthat conversation really really touched, right.
I loved it, and I'm actuallyvery excited about get Lit. Yeah,
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Thanky, get Lit. Look whenit comes young people poetry and as a
means of communicating their thoughts and feelingsand emotions right now when they are so
stifled by social media, and tobe able to tap into their creative selves
and their true set and present themselvesin this poetic fashion. For me,
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it is, it is stellar andI absolutely love what Diane is doing with
get Lit, so absolutely if you'reable to check out tickets, tickets are
on sale now. That event againis at the Wiltshire Email Theater, going
down next Saturday, April twentieth,and coming up. Actually yeah, we're
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going to be on for another hourwow, taking it into overtime, overtime
remixed hour of Soul cal Saturday.So don't go anywhere because because we'll be
here till what till eight? Sohooray, hoorayel more us Heather more Yeah,
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yeah, yeah radio right, Yeah, I love it. Before we
go another further though, we doactually have another small business that we will
have joining us next week, andthat business is Robin. If you will
spind the wheel we have right bynumber. They sell kindergarten through eighth grade
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writing curriculum for schools, tutors,homeschools, and it takes students from writing
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You don't know what it means,what difference it makes when you start early,
Like seriously, talk to your children, start them early on reading and
writing that Like, this is whatI did with our children, me and
my co parent, and that's whyour children are orderline geniuses. Well they
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are Jesus. Actually they did teston the genius scale. My daughter is
actually twice gifted, so that hasa lot to do with this. So
I look forward to that conversation andI look forward to our three of soul
cows Saturday. We are keeping oureyes on all things happening in the Middle
East. We're in Iran has launcheddozens of drones towards Israel. US air
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defense systems in the Middle East haveintercepted some Iranian drones, according to US
officials. US President Joe Biden,who has already met with his national security
team, said in a social mediapost that the United States is committed to
israel security quote against threats from Iranand its proxies is ironclad end quote.
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We are keeping our eyes on this. Don't you go know where we will
be right back in two and two. Oh, I know you didn't get
that, kid, I'm sorry,I got it. That was an anime
reference. That's Mega buzzy Star Wars. It's a it's a dating game.
Oh, chuck rollerd back into andtwo. I knew what it was,
but I didn't want to date myself. Yeah, I dated. I'm all
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in and too. I knew whatyou meant whatever. I'm an old buddy
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to date on the latest. Iranhas launched dozens of drones towards Israel.
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Iran says that it will target anycountry that opens its airspace four and Israeli
attack against Iran. Currently, PresidentBiden is meeting with his national security team
in the situation room, and Israelimilitary plans to intercept drones before they even
reach Israeli skies. According to militaryofficials, We of course will keep you
(01:45):
up to date on the latest asthat situation develops. Right now, I
would like to take the time tointroduce you to an event that is very
near and dear to my heart.Poetry. Back in the day I was
a poet. I was inspired byall types of poets, from gil Scott
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to the Watts Prophets to the LastPoets and so forth and so on,
and there were so many poetry groupsthat just touched me and I just felt
like, wow, like this issomething that just it speaks to me the
way individuals were able to put togetherwords to tell a story. And I
started actually becoming a poet, andI thought that was going to be my
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path. And then I met alocal producer who said, let's put your
poetry to a beat, and thenthat became rhythm in poetry, rap and
I was a rap artist. Andthen that's kind of like how I got
into the music industry and eventually gotinto music radio. And fast forward all
these years, I'm in talk radio. Okay, I say all that to
say. On April twentieth, getLit founded by Miss Diane Louby Lane,
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the get Lit Foundation or is itthe get Lit Competition, the get lit
Look. Get Lit is holding itthird Teeth Annual Youth Classic Slam, the
final competition which is going to beheld at the Wilshre Email Theater. Tickets
for this event are on sale rightnow. This Classic Slam will feature top
middle and high school students from theLos Angeles area communicating their thoughts, challenges
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and passions through spoken word performances.This is something that you absolutely cannot miss.
To tell us more about this event, I have the founder of get
Litton joining us today, Miss DianeLuby Lane. How are you doing today?
Hi? I'm doing great. Whata great intro. Thank you,
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You are quite welcome. And Dane, tell me, are you a poet
yourself? Is this how you gotinto poetry and founding get lit Gosh,
that's a good question. I wrotea one person about books that toured with
poet Jimmy Santiago Baka, and throughworking with him, he introduced me to
teachers and high schools and universities andwe went to the extensions and prisons and
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met all kinds of people. AndI did my show about books and he
did and the impact they had onme growing up the kids Latsky Kid in
the middle of Jersey that couldn't everget anywhere and only could get places in
my imagination and through books. AndJimmy talked about discovering poetry when he was
in maximum security prison. He actuallywrote the film blood In, Blood Out,
which just had a big aid Yeahhe's a legend. Yeah, isn't
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it incredible? And so it wasjust like wow. And then I was
part of a gorilla poetry troop inNew York City too, not so much
performing my own words but other peoples. And then got into monologue writing,
which was short form, so itwas similar to spoken words but a little
different. Anyway, put it alltogether forget lit, but wanted to see
it saved my life and Jimmy's life. What if we brought it to young
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people in LA because I was livinghere, What would they care? Would
it make a difference? And herewe are, all these years later,
I guess it has. Yes.I mean you are in your third teenth
year now of hosting this classic slam. And a slam is a poetry competition
where you have poets throwing down theirbest pieces, their most passionate art and
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kind of almost in a battle royalekind of format where they are using their
words to excite the audience and goafter the individual on stage right across from
them. Take us inside like aslam. Like, what is the energy
like when you are hosting the getLit competition? It's insane. If you
can imagine. The get Lit programis in schools throughout southern California. So
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these schools have individual slams within someschools. It runs every grade nine,
ten, eleven, twelve in Englishclass. You have hundreds of kids in
some schools taking this program. Thenyou have a slam within a school just
to get to the top six kidsto represent your school. Then they all
like are busting in from you know, it can be Central Valley, San
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Diego, it can be like allof southern California, Los Angeles County,
South LA, the Valley, youknow, everywhere. They're busting in with
all these stories. They're coming withtheir over the course of a week.
So it starts this whole week.Next week they're coming to LATC Theater to
have quarterfinals, semifinals. It's funnywatching these worlds converge and then the top
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four teams that emerge from that goto the Grand Slam Finals that are at
the Wilshire Ebail Theater on the twentiethand it is insane. The hottest poets,
the deepest storytellers. We also haveprofessional all star poets judging, like
Rudy Francisco, Yessica Salgado, andthey're also performing. So it is an
incorredible night. I absolutely love it. Look, I'm gonna have to carry
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this conversation over because I can't letyou go yet. I need more poetry,
I need more lit. So holdon for just a minute because right
now we have to head on overto the KFI twenty four our newsroom to
get the latest breaking news coming in. Iran has launched dozens of drones towards
Israel. Iran says that it willtarget any country that opens its airspace four
(07:04):
an Israeli attack against Iran. Rightnow, President Biden is meeting with his
national security team in the Situation Roomto assess the situation as it is.
The Israeli military plans to intercept dronesbefore they reach Israeli skies, according to
military officials, and we are monitoringthis situation closely. You're listening to soul
(07:27):
Cal Saturday with Tawala Sharp on demandfrom KFI AM six forty KFI and six
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio appin San Pedro, San Diego, Santa
Barbara, and South central Los Angeles. This is Soul cal Saturday. I'm
(07:54):
your host Twala Sharp and as you'vebeen hearing from the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom, we are monitoring closely theevents happening in the Middle East. Iran
has launched dozens of drones towards Israel. Iran says that it will target any
country that opens its airspace four andIsraeli attacked against Iran. Currently, President
Biden is in the situation room,meeting with his security team to assess the
(08:18):
situation Israeli military. The Israeli militaryplans to intercept drones before they reach Israeli
skies, according to military officials,and we are keeping our eye on everything
happening in regards to this situation.Right now, I want to delve back
into my conversation with Miss Diane lubyLane regarding get Lit. Get Lit is
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a annual Youth Classic Slam, apoetry slam, and they are holding their
Youth Classic Slam Finals competition at theWilshire Email Theater on April twentieth, tickets
are on sale now. And ifyou cannot fill my energy, if you
do not know why I am sohyped, it is because I literally live
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poetry. I love every single thingabout poetry, the thoughts and emotions and
everything that goes into taking words andusing it to tell a story, throwing
a pattern together with it. Imean the art of finding words that you
may not think rhyme, but actually, when said a certain way, actually
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do that. There's so much thatgoes into being a poet, just the
thought and the foresight of being ableto communicate in this medium its next level.
And you will not find a betterexample of this than the thirteenth Annual
Youth Classic Slam Finals competition at theWilshire Ebel Theater. Diane, tell me
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for you, as the founder,as the creator of this vision, what
is the most fulfilling thing that youget out of it? Oh? My
gosh, I don't. I guessyou know. The teachers that coach their
teams. We train about two hundredteachers a year, all year long,
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but specifically something called the poetic convergencein the fall. We train teachers to
teach this to their students. Sowatching the relationship between the students and their
teachers who are their coaches. It'sincredible. I mean, the teachers are
like the rock stars and they callit all shapes and size. It's just
they're so different. So the worldsthat are created. The chemistry between the
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young people and their stories and whatthey're saying and how close they all get,
and then their teachers coaching them,it's really magical. They each have
their own vibe and swagger and watchingthem represent where they're from in their own
unique way is so interesting and deeplyfulfilling. It's so interesting that you go
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back to the teachers and the relationshipsto the students and how they are working
hand in hand with these young people, to these stories. Because for me,
I was admittedly not a good student. I really really wasn't. I
was a bit of a trouble maker. And I was in a history class
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and I was on the verge offailing this course. And the teacher of
this class, he came over oneday to my desk and he looked over
my shoulder and he saw me writingpoetry and he asked me to stay after
class, and I did. Ithought I was in trouble as always,
and he said mister sharp, Iwas looking at some of the poetry you
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were writing. Could you read someof it for me? And I'm like,
sure, whatever, and I did. I read what I wrote for
him, and he was like,wow, you have real talent. He
said, I'm going to challenge youto something. I want you to read
through this chapter that we are workingon right now in history. And if
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you can take this chapter and putit into a poem and performing in front
of the class, I will giveyou a passing grade in this course.
And I said, no problem,and I said to reading through the chapter.
And it actually I had to readthrough the chapter and I took everything
that I could from everything that wasin this chapter, and this is like
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the final chapter of this book.And I put it into a poem and
I stood in front of that classand I read it and I poured my
heart into it, and the classactually clapped and everyone was like, man,
I thought this guy was just athug sitting in the back, like,
you know, messing around or sleepingin class. I mean it was
a transformative experience. And yes,I mean, you know, I didn't
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get an A in the course,but I did pass the course. And
that forever changed my life. Soto hear you talking about how the teachers
are working with these young people tocreate this magic, I mean, it's
it's damn near got me emotional,and I salute you for everything that you
do. Tell me, is thereone young person that has really stood out
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in this competition? If you canchoose one, even I'm sure there are
several, but if you can chooseone who really just shine bright like a
diamond and really took it to thenext level, I don't even know where
to start. I mean, there'sso many and a lot of our poets
we meet them in schools and thenthey some of them start coming after schools,
and then they start even performing,like Solemmi at Brogi. She started
(13:30):
with get Lit when she was inhigh school and now she's the Youth Peloriate
of the United States and she justwent to the White House and she's at
Harvard. You know, watching thejourney. Did these students go on?
But I'll say there's one student namedPluto, and I know Pluto. Last
year it was their first time everperforming. They were a brand new poet,
and this year they're actually they didn'thave a teacher that was going to
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bring it to their school. Theteacher moved on to another school and they
were left without a coach, andso Pluto stepped up as the coach of
their team. So wow, yeah, you know, just watching how a
person that could be brand new tothis work last year is now the coach
and as the leader of this team. It's so moving watching people step into
their power and have that leadership experiencetoo, just to know what they're capable
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of at such a young age,to carry that with them forever. A
man to that, I'm telling youif you have been touched by this conversation
as I have, if you wantto see what it is that we are
talking about, I'm telling you again. Tickets are on sale right now the
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Youth Classic Slam Final competition April twentiethat the Wilsher Email Theater. You can
find out more information. As amatter of fact, where can you find
out more information, Diane, Theycan go to getrit dot org and right
on the front page of our websitethere'll be a ticket link and all the
information they need get litt dot org. Please do yourself a favor, Show
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up, show out, snap,clap, applaud these young people Diane Luby
Lane, thank you again for whatyou do. You are a true jewel
by even doing this, by seeingit within yourself to bring this together.
Bravo, absolutely bravo to you.Thank you for joining us today. We
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wish you all the best and pleaseplease please come on again next year for
the fourteenth Annual Youth Classic Slam Finalcompetition and let's have this conversation again.
Okay, I would love that.Thank you so much. You're listening to
soul Cal Saturday with Tawala Sharp ondemand from KFI AM six forty, KFI
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AM sixty live everywhere on the iHeartRadioapp in Lancaster, Coasta, Mesa Tustin
and Zan Clemente. This is soulCal Saturday. Welcoming you to another soul
Cal Saturday, Small Business Saturday Spotlight. Just know we are keeping our eyes
on the latest situation happening in Iran, where Iran has launched dozens of drones
(16:22):
towards Israel. Iran says it willtarget any country that opens its airspace four
and Israeli attacked against Iran. Bidenis currently meeting with National Security right now
in the Situation Room. The Israelimilitary plans to intercept drones before they reach
Israeli skies. According to military officials. Again, we are keeping our eyes
(16:45):
on this. Just no for allbreaking news regarding this situation. KFI is
there and now I want to takethe time to introduce you to Jones Brothers
Breaks, located at six five threefour South Central Avenue in Los Angeles.
At Jones Brothers Breaks, they havebeen supplying bearings and breaks for cars and
(17:06):
trucks for over seventy five years.At the same location, they resurface breaks
and roaders and drums and press bearingsoff and on spindles. And I don't
know what any of that means,but let me introduce you to mister Raymond
Sellers. He is the nephew ofthe founder of Jones Brothers Breaks, and
he knows everything there is to knowabout breaks inside and out. Mister Raymond
(17:32):
Sellers, welcome to the program.How you doing today, Good sir,
doing great, doing great, myfriend and yourself. Hey, look,
man, I am happy to behere. This is truly a blessing.
Just waking up in the morning.That's right, you got that right.
Well. We are located at sixtyfive thirty four South Central Avenue right on
the corner of sixty sixth in Centralbeen there for over seventy five years.
(17:55):
My uncle and his brothers started thebusiness back in nineteen forty six. Wow,
So you all have been holding itdown in la for a lifetime.
Literally, you got that right,and specializing in breaks since the fifties.
And you know, over the years, cars have gotten more complicated and the
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braking systems have changed, but we'vestayed up on top of it all and
we have special machines that resurface brakeroders, or they call it turning,
but resurfacing, that's what we specializein. Because I don't know if you've
ever experienced this before, but sometimeswhen you apply your brakes on your car,
(18:36):
you feel a little shake in orit doesn't stop really really smooth.
Well, that happens over time whenyour brakes begin to wear and your rots
or your drums, which is whatthe brakes press against when they go to
stop, they get high spots oruneven spots. And when that happens,
that's when we come in where we'reknown all over the city for doing the
(19:00):
job and doing the job right becauseit's a technique to it, and you
have to take your time. Youhave to do it right. And if
it's done right, then once thecustomer leaves with their road's resurfaced and hit
those breaks, that stops nice andsmooth. Now I have a heavy,
heavy foot. I'm an individual whowould I hit my brakes? I hit
(19:21):
hard. By foot is straight upmade out of lead. So I know
I run through breaks quickly, orso I think, is there then a
way instead of always getting my breaksreplaced? You look at breaks and say,
you know what, you may notneed to replace them. You may
just be able to resurface them andget them, you know, as close
(19:42):
to next to new as possible.Am I correcting that? Well, not
necessarily. When as your breaks wear, you know they're wearing onto the road
or the drums, and yeah,they get hot. You know, anytime
you're producing friction, you're applying yourbrake, So those roaders and drums get
really hot. And as they heatup, and then you say you might
(20:06):
run through some something cold, Youmay run through some water. With all
the rain we've been getting, thenthe steel gets real cold fast and it'll
tend to walk and that will pausethat pulsation. You know, that will
cause that pulsation and cause it notto stop really nice and smooth. Now,
they're different qualities of breake lining fordifferent driving habits. You know you're
(20:32):
hard on the brakes, and youhit the brakes real hard. Is good
to get a more durable break,which would be maybe made out of semi
metallic or real hard carbon fiber.That is the material that presses against the
rotor when you go to apply thebrakes. But the main thing is having
a nice smooth stop with real goodquality lining, and you know you'll get
(20:56):
some good time out of that.At least at least every six month,
you should have your break checked.But they should last at least twelve thousand
or fifteen thousand miles. You shouldbe good as long as all of the
parts are working properly with the brakesystem. I absolutely see why you all
have been in business as long asyou have. I mean, hearing you
(21:18):
talk about breaks, I see thisis a lifestyle for you. I see
that you know everything there is toknow about breaking. What all do you
do there beyond just resurfacing breake rotorsand drums? Like, what is the
process of press bearings off and onspindles? What does that even mean,
(21:40):
okay, Well, the pressing ofthe bearings. The wheel spins on a
bearing as you're driving down the streetor whatever. You got a hub which
spins, which is what the wheelsits on, and then the hub is
spinning on a bearing, and overtime the bearings a wear out. They'll
get hot, rye up, they'llstart making noise and wobbly or whatever.
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And when that happens, you haveto disassemble the thing called the spindle and
bring it in and then we pressthe hub out and then there's a key
that locks the bearing in place.You gotta unlock the bearing and then push
the old bearing out and put thenew bearing in, relock it, and
then press the hub back in it, and then you're back to You're back
(22:26):
to running real smooth without hearing alot of noise, a lot of whining
as you're driving down the roads.You know, when those bearings get bad,
they start whining and whining. Youknow, you'll know it because it's
just it just makes a lot ofnoise as you're driving down the road.
That's one of the things that thatwill cause that noise. And we have
specialized in roaders and drugs, youknow, for classic cars and cars just
(22:49):
from back in the forties all theway to right now. Sometimes it's hard
to identify stuff. Sometimes people,you know, they may do a conversion
or they may just not be ableto find the proper road or drums that
fit on their car. Over theyears, yeah, over the years,
you know, I've been able toidentify it. You know, by sight.
(23:11):
I can look at a road ordrum off of pretty much any car
or mid sized truck and get closeto Okay, I know this fits this
year that year, and then keepwhittling it down until we get to the
right one. So it's they're notnumbered like a tire would be. Most
tires have sizes on them or whatever. Break drums and roaders they just you
(23:34):
know, they're random, and youknow from the dealer they they they are
on the car. But then afterthat, once they're off the car,
if you can't identify them, you'rein trouble. Well that's you are the
expert. What are the hours ofJones Brothers breaks Nine thirty in the morning
(23:55):
to sixty pm weekdays and eight eightto five pm on Saturdays. We're closed
on Sunday. Everybody get the sameday. I'll will close on Sunday,
as you should be. If you, like me, have a heavy foot.
If you are starting to hear thatlittle wine when your car starts to
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stop, or that little squeaking soundlike your breaks may be going out,
do not go another further. Youneed to head on over to Jones Brothers
Breaks once again. They are locatedat six five three four South Central Avenue
in Los Angeles. You can callthem directly at three two three five A
three four three oh one. Isthere a website where they can find you
(24:40):
as well? Yes, so wwwdot Jones Brothers Breaks dot com. Mister
Raymond Sellers, I thank you,I thank your family for what you have
done for being an institution in thecity of Los Angeles. Being there for
seventy five years. That tells meone one thing, and that is that
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you all are a company that canbe trusted, because that's something that many
of us are always leary of.Can we trust someone working on our car
seventy five years later? You areabsolutely trustworthy? Good sir, you got
it man. Thank you very much, and yeah, we've been there all
those years and customers of nights.We treat the people right, we treat
(25:23):
our neighbors right, and and we'vebeen through all of the riots and never
even had a broken wind in ourbuildings. So you know, we we
we treat people right. That's theway my uncle started the business back in
the parties, and that's the waywe continue, you know, as it
should be. Thank you, goodsir for joining us today and introducing us
to Jones Brothers breaks. All right, thank you so much, Thank you,
(25:48):
thank you so much for taking timegiving giving us an opportunity to put
it out there. Yes, sir, you're listening to soul Cal Saturday with
Taula Shark on demand from KFI Asix just gotta be kf I am six
(26:14):
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio appin Santa Monica, syl Beach, Villa
Park, and Corona. This issoul Cal Saturday. And I forgot I
had an interview that I wanted torun today. It is h an interview
that I did with the host ofcrunchy Roll presents the Anime Effect and it
(26:40):
was an absolutely uh stellar, stellarconversation, but technical difficulties, you know,
jumped in the way and the conversationwas absolutely cabashed. And so the
(27:00):
the for the Anime Effect hosts.I was unable to air the conversation today
because, yeah, technical difficulties ranso hopefully actually not even hopefully. You
know what I'm gonna do with theautome Effect conversation, I'm gonna put that
on the Nerdorama page, So nerdRama on iHeartRadio, I'm going to air
(27:27):
my conversation with the hosts of theAnime Effect. Country Role presents the Anime
Effect, and I'm going to airthat conversation there, so you'll be able
to get that later on tonight.Today, while we were airing my conversation
with the founder of get Lit,Miss Diane Diane Luis Lane, the first
(27:57):
segment of that, we had technicaldifficulties here. There's a lot going on.
I mean, we're trying to reportthis breaking new, so that conversation
was interrupted and we will have thatfull conversation up now on It's on KFI
Future Segments as well as your paging. They can also click the link and
(28:18):
purchase tickets to the poetry event comingup on April twentieth. Excellent, So
that is up there, so you'llbe able to hear the full conversation with
Miss Diane lubis Lane. There.I hope you enjoyed what you were able
to hear from that conversation, becauseit's I mean, it's literally my life
is all about poetry, so thatthat conversation really really touched, right.
I loved it, and I'm actuallyvery excited about get Lit. Yeah,
(28:41):
Thanky, get Lit. Look whenit comes young people poetry and as a
means of communicating their thoughts and feelingsand emotions right now when they are so
stifled by social media, and tobe able to tap into their creative selves
and their true set and present themselvesin this poetic fashion. For me,
(29:03):
it is, it is stellar andI absolutely love what Diane is doing with
get Lit, so absolutely if you'reable to check out tickets, tickets are
on sale now. That event againis at the Wiltshire Email Theater, going
down next Saturday, April twentieth,and coming up. Actually yeah, we're
(29:26):
going to be on for another hourwow, taking it into overtime, overtime
remixed hour of Soul cal Saturday.So don't go anywhere because because we'll be
here till what till eight? Sohooray, hoorayel more us Heather more Yeah,
(29:56):
yeah, yeah radio right, Yeah, I love it. Before we
go another further though, we doactually have another small business that we will
have joining us next week, andthat business is Robin. If you will
spind the wheel we have right bynumber. They sell kindergarten through eighth grade
(30:23):
writing curriculum for schools, tutors,homeschools, and it takes students from writing
one sentence to eight paragraph essays.Yeah. They parents and teachers can use
this step by step curriculum to makesure students know how to write coherent,
correct paragraphs and essays for school andstandardized testings for life. Start early.
(30:47):
You don't know what it means,what difference it makes when you start early,
Like seriously, talk to your children, start them early on reading and
writing that Like, this is whatI did with our children, me and
my co parent, and that's whyour children are orderline geniuses. Well they
(31:07):
are Jesus. Actually they did teston the genius scale. My daughter is
actually twice gifted, so that hasa lot to do with this. So
I look forward to that conversation andI look forward to our three of soul
cows Saturday. We are keeping oureyes on all things happening in the Middle
East. We're in Iran has launcheddozens of drones towards Israel. US air
(31:33):
defense systems in the Middle East haveintercepted some Iranian drones, according to US
officials. US President Joe Biden,who has already met with his national security
team, said in a social mediapost that the United States is committed to
israel security quote against threats from Iranand its proxies is ironclad end quote.
(31:56):
We are keeping our eyes on this. Don't you go know where we will
be right back in two and two. Oh, I know you didn't get
that, kid, I'm sorry,I got it. That was an anime
reference. That's Mega buzzy Star Wars. It's a it's a dating game.
Oh, chuck rollerd back into andtwo. I knew what it was,
but I didn't want to date myself. Yeah, I dated. I'm all
(32:22):
in and too. I knew whatyou meant whatever. I'm an old buddy
goodie. Yeah. Yeah. You'vebeen listening to Soul col Saturday. You
can always hear us live on KFIM six forty five pm to seven pm
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