August 5, 2023 • 32 mins
Fallout From The End Of LA Covid Rental Protections. Los Angeles officials fear wave of evictions after deadline to pay pandemic back rent passes. Costa Mesa considers cracking down on unfair evictions, drafting rental protections. Property owners struggle as tenants are unable to pay owed rent. Amid California exodus, L.A. County could have 1.7 million fewer people by 2060. Cali Strikes Actors, Writers Strike Shuts Down Major Street Near Universal Studios •Scores of LA city workers prepare to strike Tuesday. Also In The News. Mural honoring famed mountain lion P-22 unveiled in West Hollywood. 'Bridgefest LA' takes over 6th Street Bridge in downtown Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles, Orange County i Ein the Valley. This is Tualla Sharp
and you're listening to KFI AM sixforty Soul Cow Saturday on demand on the
iHeartRadio app. Saturday KFI AM sixmorty live everywhere on the iHeart or Radio
app in Alandra Park, Compton,San Diego and Big Bear. This is
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soul Cow Saturday. I'm their host, Twala Sharp. And as I was
just discussing with the Fork reporter,the fallout from the covid E protections rental
protections is hitting the South Land andone of the first things that hit everyone's
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mind is will this lead to aroundthe evictions that only increases the homeless population
in Los Angeles. Thousands of LosAngeles ten had for their rent waived during
the first nineteen months of the pandemic. Many owe a small fortune today.
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According to Zillo, the average monthlyrent in Los Angeles being nearly three thousand
dollars a month, jumped seventy fivepercent since the pandemic begin. Compile that
over the nineteen months and people youknow, having their rent not necessarily even
those who had it waved, butfor those who were supposed to have received
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protection money or received funds to helpthem cover their rent and arguably did not
put it away, did not saveit, did not count on them having
to pay rent once the protections cameto an end. According to Jeffrey Uno,
who is the managing attorney at theFoundations Eviction Defense Center, it's very
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hard for folks who are barely makingit to account for rent that has been
that has ballooned over the past fewmonths. It's it's frightening and many of
them don't know what to do.And I know Mayor Basses has been everywhere
saying, hey, don't self evict. Make sure you reach out to us,
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to the city, to any departmentavailable to find out what you can
do. I just don't know ifthat is enough. Places like Costa Mesa,
they're actually considering cracking down on unfairevictions by drafting rental protection, something
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that I hope is mimicked in theLos Angeles area. In Costa Mesa,
where nearly sixty percent of the residentsare renters, the threat of eviction looms
large as apartment dwellers feel fair beingdisplaced from their homes and cast out because
of rental protections coming due. Butthe city council is considering drafting and or
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ordinance that would enhance protections for rentersagainst unfair or unlawful evictions by landlords.
Council members this past Tuesday directed staffto research eviction trends, look into programs
and laws in other cities, andreturn with findings to help with possible ordinance
language and a budget propose for theenforcement of this ordinance. Coasta Mesa has
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the second highest percentage of renters inthe country at fifty nine percent, and
it's ranked fourth for evictions, accordingto a report issued earlier this year by
Orange County United Way. California TendantProtections Act of twenty nineteen requires just cause
for terminating rental agreements, including failureto pay, breach of terms, nuisance,
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and criminal activities. It also capsrent increases at ten percent or five
percent above the charge in the costof living from year to year, whichever
is lower for tenants who have livedin their property for a certain amount of
time. And oh that's great,all that is really really great. Will
that help out in a situation likethis, because one thing I don't know
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if if we actually pay attention toif most people, if it even crosses
their mind, But what happens tothe property owners? Because I get it.
I get there's a lot of peoplewho owe back WHNT and there's a
lot of people struggling, struggling.There's a lot of people who are fearing
losing their places and ending up onthe street. And yes, that is
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a real fear. Again, everytime my mom on my way to work
and I pass by r V rowor whatever you want to call it,
but right on Forest Lawn, rightafter you pass the cemetery, it is
literally on both sides of the streetfor like two to three blocks, just
RVs parked, and it seems tobe growing. We have a lot of
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Angelinos who are facing situations like that. I know there are several tents and
camps that are cleaned up on adaily basis by the Mare and Her program,
But situations like this, those campsmay grow. But again, are
we thinking about the property owners,because these are individuals who have leased out
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these apartments, who have rented theseapartments with the expectation of getting paid.
There are actually cases of individuals whohave received funds for covert protections and that
money has not gone to property owners. We see it in the news all
the time, people doing things likebuying jury, buying clothes, buying cars,
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this, that and the other.What were you doing with that money
that you did not put some asidefor your rent? Leaving again LA landlords
holding the bag and LA Area landlordsare reporting their get not getting a flood
of checks from renters, even thoughthe deadline has now passed for back rent
accumulated doing COVID emergency period to bepaid. The owners say it's further evidence
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efforts to protect renters is not onlycosting them, but will worsen the housing
crisis. Most owners who aren't gettingany of their past do rent from COVID
emergency periods despite the August first deadlinefor renters to hold back are saying that
with eviction protections in place, landlordsare essentially being told to continue providing free
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housing. There are actually places peoplecan go right now that the mayor has
set aside. There are all typesof places that will provide free housing.
But can we rely or can wecount on these property owners to just what
just we're just housing people for noreason. We're housing people for the love
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of it. That's not why theygot into owning property. That's not why
they started leasing places out. That'snot why they start taking tenants in.
And this isn't everybody, This isn'tacross the board. I know there are
a lot of people who are reallyfighting hard, who are working with the
city and going beyond and working withthe state to try to make their landlord's
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whole. But what about those whoaren't. I just don't know if we're
hearing enough conversation about them. Andright now, I know the City of
Los Angeles say says one point fourbillion dollars has gone to landlords during the
COVID emergency, but the Apartment Associationsays they are still one billion dollars short
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from unpaid rent, a billion dollarsshort. Where is that going to come
from? Hopefully Mayor Bass has aplan we shall see. This is KFI
AM six forty Live everywhere on theiHeart Radio Apple. You're listening to Soul
cal Saturday with a Wall of Sharpon demand from KFI AM six forty KFI
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AM six ft am live everywhere onthe Heart or Radio app in Cabazon,
Paramount, Tustin, and Anaheim.This is Soul Cow Saturday. And there
is a report that came out recentlyand about Los Angeles and this reported exodus,
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which again I'm always wondering, whois it that's feeling all these exodus
stories, you know, an they'retrying to um trying to downplay the population
in California, or maybe it's individualswho are trying to drive into people out
of California. I suspect and Idon't know, but I think that a
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lot of the California exodus stories andstories that are put out about Californians leaving
the state are driven by the sameorganization that was all about recalling Governor Newsom.
I just I have noble. I'mnot saying that our facts that is
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connected, but the emphasis and thereasons why behind all of this exodus in
California, a lot of the thingsthat are said in there are they mimic
and match a lot of the reasonswhy the organization that was looking to recall
Governor Newsom was doing so. Andto me, it's just it's you know,
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it could be a coincidence, butI don't really believe in coincidences.
But anyway, there is a storythat has just come out, laughable as
it is that says that La Countycould have one point seven million fewer people
by twenty sixty. And that's right. I said, wait, what twenty
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sixty. You're literally trying to drumup I don't know, fear mongering or
whatever it is that you have againstCalifornia and saying that by twenty sixty there's
going to be one point seven millionfewer people here. That's like, okay,
it's laughable. But projections from thestate Department of Finance underscores a different
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future with fewer people living in LaCounty than are currently here now. And
okay, sure, Recently updated populationprojections show that the county losing over one
point seven million people between now andtwenty sixty, a decrease of more than
seventeen percent from the current total ofaround ten million is definitely possible. Statewide,
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the population is expected to remain flatduring the same time frame, with
low birth rates and net migration outsidedas the main factors in this projection.
So people in California, maybe it'syoung people whatever, people who are just
like man, I don't need akid. Those are thus going to be
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California's population. Those of us whoare parents already are not having any more
kids, and so Okay, sothe population stays flat while more people are
leaving. Okay, great, sure, let's go with that. Ala County,
the state's largest, is expected tolose far more people in total numbers
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than any other county. The countyis forecast to lose a higher population of
its populist than all but six others, all of which currently have under fifty
thousand residents. The shift can beexplained by continuation of the trends we've seen.
Blaine Andres Gallardo, a demographer withthe Department of Finance. The data
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predicts that a steep drop off inbirths as La gets older because fertility is
also tied to age, citing datafrom the California Department of Public Health that
showed a twenty percent reduction in birthsin the county from twenty sixteen to twenty
twenty one. Also that lower birthrates can now compound over time to significantly
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affect population, resulting in future generationshrinking. All this to say, individuals
like Kayla has to get on it. Super producer. Kayla, You've got
to get on You've got to getthat son and daughter out here quickly.
You got to do it. Okay, I need you to stop throwing that
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on me because I need time anytime. But we're gonna lose our population
because California's problem. Yeah, Iknow. It's so interesting because I swear
they're talking about our population decreasing,yet we've had like, what is it,
the fifty eleventh bust of migrants droppedoff here just recently, and the
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traffic hasn't gotten any better, youknow, if it's decreasing. Can I
see that on the roads? Please? Can we? You know? I
mean, I know twenty sixty isa bit far off, but I don't
know. It's interesting because they docount that the drop in legal immigration adds
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to this outlook, saying that wemay have basically the same number of people
here that the population may not dipis just the population in legal immigrants,
which is really really weird. Asif individuals coming to California just even between
now in twenty sixty have no planson becoming legal citizens. That's laughable.
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It seems like who ever wrote thisarticle just said, these are my ideas,
and these are my predictions, andI have really nothing to back it
up with ye at all, Butthis is what I think, So let
me write it and publish it.You know again, I have to laugh
at this article publicly because because whenyou think about the idea that this study
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is projecting all the way to twentysixty, it's upsetting because everyone acts like
they're somewhere else to go, Like, you know, like, man,
we're out of here. We're goingto Alabama. Good luck with that.
We're going to Mississippi, good luckwith that. Good luck with wherever it
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is you think you're going. Whereyou're going to have better weather, You're
going to have more opportunities for employment, especially considering here in California we're also
dealing with oddly enough, you know, when people pople are are facing evictions
and things like that, we arealso facing a resistance to individuals returning to
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the office. So there are goingto be arguably more jobs, you know,
in the diner future. There's stilla lot of building happening here in
California. For all that they're sayingpeople are moving, there's a lot of
industries here being built up in California. Song, I don't know again,
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I believe. I believe that articleslike this are fueled by organizations that are
looking to cast aspersions on the entiretyof the state who are trying to make
the option of living in California somethingthat's undesirable because I'm thinking maybe they think
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individuals living that are moving are individualswho may not vote the way they vote.
I don't know. Maybe they're thinkingthat people who live in predominantly blue
areas of California will move out,making way for more of a red wave
in California. I know I'm projectinghere, and I'm projecting because I actually
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believe that's where all of this iscoming from. That's just me, though,
That's just me. I don't know. It's kf I AM six forty
Live everywhere on the iHeart or radioapp. You're listening to Soul cal Saturday
with Twala Sharp on demand from kfI AM six forty KFI AM six forty
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Live everywhere on the I Heart orradio app. In is it failing?
Feeling sure? You know I'm nailing. Look, let's go with it.
Feeling all right? Feeling there?We go Porta Ranch, Rolling Heights and
Fullerton. Look, I'm learning moreabout southern California every day right along with
you, thanks to super producer Kayla. I've never been to feel it,
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never been there. You gotta go. It's beautiful there. Oh my god,
you tried it. You tried it. It's all good. And looking
at I was just looking at thenews and I was looking at this riot
that was happening from this influencer inNew York. I guess was giving away
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claiming to give away video games,and he started this massive riot. Now
hopefully he will go to jail forthat, because that's just absolute insanity.
People being out in the streets.Kids, mind you, kids being out
in the streets, sheer, pandemonium, um tearing up the street, attacking
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police officer, smashing cars, losingtheir ever loving minds, all for a
video game. I mean, peopletaking to the streets for no reason at
all, unlike the actors, writersand more who took to the streets to
shut it down near Universal Studios yesterday, when a march of hundreds of striking
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actors and writers descended on Universal Studiosand shut down a portion of Lancashire Boulevard.
Video from the scene shows picketers marchingin the streets and a large contingent
of strikers on the pedestrian overpass ofthe bridge that connects the Metro station.
Members of WGA and sag Aftra,of course, who had been picketing across
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an outside of the studio since theirstrike begin well this week, they informed
as members that there would be noofficial strikes outside of Warner Brothers in Disney
in favor of drawing a larger intentionof actors outside Universal. They were like,
look, we're taking it to Universal. We're gonna really let it be
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known. And that's where they were. In addition to the routine purpose of
demonstrating among amid the stellmate in contractnegotiations between the unions and studios, Friday's
move was meant to fight for afair picket environment, which is okay,
yeah, I can now looking atit, I can see why they would
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descend on Universal because Universal had allegedlyand illegally trimmed sidewalk planted trees that happened
to be providing shade for the picketers. So they were just like, oh,
you think you're gonna keep us fromcoming down here. No, here's
what we're gonna do. We're goingto get everybody outside in the middle of
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the street and let it be knownjust how strong their members feel about what
Universal is doing. Now that's theWGA and sag after strike, but coming
up this week on I believe it'sTuesday, tons, and I mean just
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tons and tons of LA City workersare preparing to go on strike on Tuesday.
Yes, the union representing workers employedwith the City of Los Angeles announced
on Friday that members will head tothe picket lines early Tuesday morning for a
twenty four hour strike to protest wherethey deemed a refusal to bargain in good
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faith. Sanitation workers, heavy dutymechanics, traffic officers, engineers, and
many more. City workers who arerepresented by SEIU seven twenty one planned to
walk off the job to protect citymanagement, oh to pro not protect,
to protest city management and other unfairlabor practices restricting employee and union rights.
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That is according to a statement fromthe union. Los Angeles City officials.
Of course, they have not respondedto request for comments, but at eleven
am Tuesday, workers will meet atcity Hall for a march and rally through
picket lines, and picket lines willbegin as early as four am. In
May, city workers representing SCIU seventwenty one voted Overwhelmley within a ninety eight
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percent approval to authorize an unfair laborpractice strike, a first by city workers
in more than forty years. Andyes, Tuesday is when it all comes
to a head. I think thateveryone striking right now, whether it's hotel
workers, even though I'm not asdown with the hotel workers strike only because
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they keep trying to drag Taylor Swiftinto it. And I think that is
absolute madness. I didn't even wait. Where did Taylor Swift from HAP Hotel
Workers Association? They are calling onTaylor Swift postponed shows or cancel shows because
of all the people who are cominginto town and all the hotels that are
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being packed up in downtown LA andor not downtown lab but in Inglewood and
all those areas for the show.They're saying, Taylor, postpone your shows
and support us, and I thinkdragging her name into it, uh,
it makes me frown on on thatstrike. But but but but I am
down with the w GA and UMand the SAG after strike and uh,
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even though I support your reasons forone into strike hotel workers, I just
don't think you need to drag Taylorinto it. But as bills too,
I'm sure, I'm sure. Andall the people who are working, look
look at all the truck drivers andall the people on tour and the people
who work at UM so far whoare also uh dating those checks and work.
You got people who are buying theirfirst homes based off that that tour.
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You want to cancel that you wantedto call that, That's what I'm
saying, That's what That's why Iissued with that one. But the city
workers going on strike again, Ithink that all of these individual striking UM
definitely should think the LAUSD for orthe laus D union for going on strike,
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because I believe it was uh theLAUSD teachers the union who was the
first to set it off and reallystick it to the man so to speak,
and demand change, demand fair practice, and they sparked something. Hell,
even Starbucks is trying to put togethera union so they can go on
strike, a coffee barista strike.You know that's interesting from I think,
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first you're gonna need an actual union, but sure, let's go with it.
UM, the ups they want tostrike. Everyone is going on strike
because everyone is seeing the need forit. But I'm wondering if this twenty
four hour strike is enough to reallyreally be impactful. And I get this
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almost seems symbolic I'm I'm I'm hopingand I'm pulling for Seiu seven twenty one
that this twenty four hour period ofgoing on strike really and truly does show
the city how valuable what it isthat you do is. And I promise
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you I absolutely understand how impactful andhow serious your position is in your role
in what it is that you aredemanding. I just hope again that in
twenty four hours this city is ableto see the value in the strike,
and and and and hopefully you don'thave to extend the strike because some of
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these apartments, man oh man,just just the sanitation department alone. Uh,
you all going on strike if thetrash doesn't get picked up right now?
Um as hot as it is outside, and Lord have mercy, and
there's already a fruit fly infestation.We don't have time for this, don't
see. Oh frustrated all these strikes. The Cydney needs to answer. Okay,
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look, okay, what I want? I want to get too far
off the kayala. You almost haveme jumping out the windows with this.
You got worked up quick to gofrom zero to sixty when it comes to
my striking people. You're listening tosoul cal Saturday with to Wallah Sharp on
demand from kf I AM six forty, kf I AM sixty live everywhere all
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the iHeart or Radio app in RunningSprings, Sandemas, Lake Forest, and
Valinda, California. This is soulCal's Saturday, and He's back back in
the news. That is P.Twenty two. That Majestic Mountain Lion is
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being honored with a mural in WestHollywood. A new mural honoring the famed
lion P. Twenty two was veledin West Hollywood last night. The mirrall,
called Keep La Wild, features theMajestic Mountain Lion with a monarch butterfly
perched on his beautiful nose. Thenew piece marks artist Corey Mattie's third mural
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in collaboration with the National Wildlife Foundation. P. Twenty two, the Bigloved
Mountain Lion, who was roaming theHollywood Hills in Los Angeles for over a
decade, was humanely euthanized in Decemberafter being struck by a car. And
of course, they found out thattwelve year old P. Twenty two had
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died not just from the car accident, but from multiple severe injuries and chronic
conditions that impaired his ability to functionin the while. According to officials,
he also had kidney, liver andpossible heart disease. Man, that's what
they found out after they maybe afterthey dug them up and they had to
do a different Bam, there yougo, some mines and mines and blanket
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on that. Yes, they dida second autopsy and they're like, let's
make sure that it wasn't just acar that took out P. Twenty two,
And so they found out this information. Since first being photographed in Griffith
Park, P twenty two became asymbol of California's endangered mountain lion and their
decreasing genetic diversity. He was alsoa mascot for Wildlife Conservation Los Angeles.
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According to Maddie Corey Corey Maddie,I'm sorry about said Maddie. You know
Maddie Cord Corey Maddie quote. It'sall about bringing light to conservation efforts and
urban environments. That's part of P. Twenty two's legacy moving forward, I
think it's important to continue to highlightthat. That is the point of this
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mural. Maddie's love of P.Twenty two stemmed from a close encounter that
she had with the cougar that shesays changed her life. Quote once I
met him, it was surreal,Maddie recalls. He could have eaten me
alive, but he didn't. Shefeels like he became her spirit animal and
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almost became humanized. Visitors who admirethe mural up close can notice other endangered
animals hidden within twenty two's body,such as bats, rabbits, and more.
Even though bats another endangered A don'tthose things like flying rats full of
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rabies? Oh no, okay,look look, hey, hey, hey,
hey hey, I'm not gonna castdispersions against our California bats. I
love the rabbits, so I'm gladthat they're all included in the mural.
According to Maddie, the idea ofincluding other animals speaks to P. Twenty
two's legacy of spearheading animal conservation inCalifornia. The mirural's unveiling was attended by
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West Hollywood City officials and the NationalWildlife Foundation. And you can actually go
and see this mural and bask inthe glory of P. Twenty two and
just taking all of that wildlife andand something else that just popped up real
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quick. Before we end this hourbridge Fest bridge Fest LA. It's kicking
off. It is happening. Itis a free music, arts and food
festival that is taking over six StreeBridge in downtown Los Angeles this weekend.
Bridge Fest LA twenty twenty three willtake over the iconic Viaduct and feature free
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live music performances, food drinks,and unique shopping and family friendly activities.
The festival is presented by the LosAngeles River Artists in Business Association, and
it's running from what started yesterday andis running all the way to Sunday.
The bridges is shut down. Youcan only walk on it, enjoy the
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food trucks. They have a beerand cocktail garden, in an auto show,
and there's even a picnic area.Yes, on the bridge. On
the bridge, you can picnic onthe bridge. Proceeds from the Bridge Festival
support a new Microbridge grant program helpingto help to help low nonprofit organizations through
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boil Heights in the arch districts.Yes, no tickets are required. No
tickets are required for this free event. If you're interested, you can rs
VP online to receive information about theartist lineup available vendors arrival instructions and more
entry to the festivals located at fivenine eight Matail Street in Los Angeles.
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Those driving to the festival can accessfree shuttles leaving from Mariachi Mariachi Plaza at
South Boilston Avenue and First Street orSouth boile Avenue and First Street, and
the shuttles will depart every fifteen minutesfrom twelve forty five pm to five thirty
pm. From five thirty pm tonine fifteen pm, the shuttles will travel
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from Mariachi Plaza to Mission Road insixth Street. For additional information, go
on and check out bridge Fest LAdot com so you can check out bridge
Fest or or or more importantly,you can go check out the mural of
the Majestic Wildcat P twenty two madehis memory last Forever. It's kfive AM
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Los Angeles, Orange County i Ein the Valley. This is Tualla Sharp
and you're listening to KFI AM sixforty Soul Cow Saturday on demand on the
iHeartRadio app. Saturday KFI AM sixmorty live everywhere on the iHeart or Radio
app in Alandra Park, Compton,San Diego and Big Bear. This is
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soul Cow Saturday. I'm their host, Twala Sharp. And as I was
just discussing with the Fork reporter,the fallout from the covid E protections rental
protections is hitting the South Land andone of the first things that hit everyone's
(00:45):
mind is will this lead to aroundthe evictions that only increases the homeless population
in Los Angeles. Thousands of LosAngeles ten had for their rent waived during
the first nineteen months of the pandemic. Many owe a small fortune today.
(01:07):
According to Zillo, the average monthlyrent in Los Angeles being nearly three thousand
dollars a month, jumped seventy fivepercent since the pandemic begin. Compile that
over the nineteen months and people youknow, having their rent not necessarily even
those who had it waved, butfor those who were supposed to have received
(01:32):
protection money or received funds to helpthem cover their rent and arguably did not
put it away, did not saveit, did not count on them having
to pay rent once the protections cameto an end. According to Jeffrey Uno,
who is the managing attorney at theFoundations Eviction Defense Center, it's very
(01:55):
hard for folks who are barely makingit to account for rent that has been
that has ballooned over the past fewmonths. It's it's frightening and many of
them don't know what to do.And I know Mayor Basses has been everywhere
saying, hey, don't self evict. Make sure you reach out to us,
(02:16):
to the city, to any departmentavailable to find out what you can
do. I just don't know ifthat is enough. Places like Costa Mesa,
they're actually considering cracking down on unfairevictions by drafting rental protection, something
(02:38):
that I hope is mimicked in theLos Angeles area. In Costa Mesa,
where nearly sixty percent of the residentsare renters, the threat of eviction looms
large as apartment dwellers feel fair beingdisplaced from their homes and cast out because
of rental protections coming due. Butthe city council is considering drafting and or
(03:00):
ordinance that would enhance protections for rentersagainst unfair or unlawful evictions by landlords.
Council members this past Tuesday directed staffto research eviction trends, look into programs
and laws in other cities, andreturn with findings to help with possible ordinance
language and a budget propose for theenforcement of this ordinance. Coasta Mesa has
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the second highest percentage of renters inthe country at fifty nine percent, and
it's ranked fourth for evictions, accordingto a report issued earlier this year by
Orange County United Way. California TendantProtections Act of twenty nineteen requires just cause
for terminating rental agreements, including failureto pay, breach of terms, nuisance,
(03:49):
and criminal activities. It also capsrent increases at ten percent or five
percent above the charge in the costof living from year to year, whichever
is lower for tenants who have livedin their property for a certain amount of
time. And oh that's great,all that is really really great. Will
that help out in a situation likethis, because one thing I don't know
(04:14):
if if we actually pay attention toif most people, if it even crosses
their mind, But what happens tothe property owners? Because I get it.
I get there's a lot of peoplewho owe back WHNT and there's a
lot of people struggling, struggling.There's a lot of people who are fearing
losing their places and ending up onthe street. And yes, that is
(04:38):
a real fear. Again, everytime my mom on my way to work
and I pass by r V rowor whatever you want to call it,
but right on Forest Lawn, rightafter you pass the cemetery, it is
literally on both sides of the streetfor like two to three blocks, just
RVs parked, and it seems tobe growing. We have a lot of
(05:00):
Angelinos who are facing situations like that. I know there are several tents and
camps that are cleaned up on adaily basis by the Mare and Her program,
But situations like this, those campsmay grow. But again, are
we thinking about the property owners,because these are individuals who have leased out
(05:25):
these apartments, who have rented theseapartments with the expectation of getting paid.
There are actually cases of individuals whohave received funds for covert protections and that
money has not gone to property owners. We see it in the news all
the time, people doing things likebuying jury, buying clothes, buying cars,
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this, that and the other.What were you doing with that money
that you did not put some asidefor your rent? Leaving again LA landlords
holding the bag and LA Area landlordsare reporting their get not getting a flood
of checks from renters, even thoughthe deadline has now passed for back rent
accumulated doing COVID emergency period to bepaid. The owners say it's further evidence
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efforts to protect renters is not onlycosting them, but will worsen the housing
crisis. Most owners who aren't gettingany of their past do rent from COVID
emergency periods despite the August first deadlinefor renters to hold back are saying that
with eviction protections in place, landlordsare essentially being told to continue providing free
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housing. There are actually places peoplecan go right now that the mayor has
set aside. There are all typesof places that will provide free housing.
But can we rely or can wecount on these property owners to just what
just we're just housing people for noreason. We're housing people for the love
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of it. That's not why theygot into owning property. That's not why
they started leasing places out. That'snot why they start taking tenants in.
And this isn't everybody, This isn'tacross the board. I know there are
a lot of people who are reallyfighting hard, who are working with the
city and going beyond and working withthe state to try to make their landlord's
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whole. But what about those whoaren't. I just don't know if we're
hearing enough conversation about them. Andright now, I know the City of
Los Angeles say says one point fourbillion dollars has gone to landlords during the
COVID emergency, but the Apartment Associationsays they are still one billion dollars short
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from unpaid rent, a billion dollarsshort. Where is that going to come
from? Hopefully Mayor Bass has aplan we shall see. This is KFI
AM six forty Live everywhere on theiHeart Radio Apple. You're listening to Soul
cal Saturday with a Wall of Sharpon demand from KFI AM six forty KFI
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AM six ft am live everywhere onthe Heart or Radio app in Cabazon,
Paramount, Tustin, and Anaheim.This is Soul Cow Saturday. And there
is a report that came out recentlyand about Los Angeles and this reported exodus,
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which again I'm always wondering, whois it that's feeling all these exodus
stories, you know, an they'retrying to um trying to downplay the population
in California, or maybe it's individualswho are trying to drive into people out
of California. I suspect and Idon't know, but I think that a
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lot of the California exodus stories andstories that are put out about Californians leaving
the state are driven by the sameorganization that was all about recalling Governor Newsom.
I just I have noble. I'mnot saying that our facts that is
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connected, but the emphasis and thereasons why behind all of this exodus in
California, a lot of the thingsthat are said in there are they mimic
and match a lot of the reasonswhy the organization that was looking to recall
Governor Newsom was doing so. Andto me, it's just it's you know,
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it could be a coincidence, butI don't really believe in coincidences.
But anyway, there is a storythat has just come out, laughable as
it is that says that La Countycould have one point seven million fewer people
by twenty sixty. And that's right. I said, wait, what twenty
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sixty. You're literally trying to drumup I don't know, fear mongering or
whatever it is that you have againstCalifornia and saying that by twenty sixty there's
going to be one point seven millionfewer people here. That's like, okay,
it's laughable. But projections from thestate Department of Finance underscores a different
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future with fewer people living in LaCounty than are currently here now. And
okay, sure, Recently updated populationprojections show that the county losing over one
point seven million people between now andtwenty sixty, a decrease of more than
seventeen percent from the current total ofaround ten million is definitely possible. Statewide,
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the population is expected to remain flatduring the same time frame, with
low birth rates and net migration outsidedas the main factors in this projection.
So people in California, maybe it'syoung people whatever, people who are just
like man, I don't need akid. Those are thus going to be
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California's population. Those of us whoare parents already are not having any more
kids, and so Okay, sothe population stays flat while more people are
leaving. Okay, great, sure, let's go with that. Ala County,
the state's largest, is expected tolose far more people in total numbers
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than any other county. The countyis forecast to lose a higher population of
its populist than all but six others, all of which currently have under fifty
thousand residents. The shift can beexplained by continuation of the trends we've seen.
Blaine Andres Gallardo, a demographer withthe Department of Finance. The data
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predicts that a steep drop off inbirths as La gets older because fertility is
also tied to age, citing datafrom the California Department of Public Health that
showed a twenty percent reduction in birthsin the county from twenty sixteen to twenty
twenty one. Also that lower birthrates can now compound over time to significantly
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affect population, resulting in future generationshrinking. All this to say, individuals
like Kayla has to get on it. Super producer. Kayla, You've got
to get on You've got to getthat son and daughter out here quickly.
You got to do it. Okay, I need you to stop throwing that
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on me because I need time anytime. But we're gonna lose our population
because California's problem. Yeah, Iknow. It's so interesting because I swear
they're talking about our population decreasing,yet we've had like, what is it,
the fifty eleventh bust of migrants droppedoff here just recently, and the
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traffic hasn't gotten any better, youknow, if it's decreasing. Can I
see that on the roads? Please? Can we? You know? I
mean, I know twenty sixty isa bit far off, but I don't
know. It's interesting because they docount that the drop in legal immigration adds
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to this outlook, saying that wemay have basically the same number of people
here that the population may not dipis just the population in legal immigrants,
which is really really weird. Asif individuals coming to California just even between
now in twenty sixty have no planson becoming legal citizens. That's laughable.
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It seems like who ever wrote thisarticle just said, these are my ideas,
and these are my predictions, andI have really nothing to back it
up with ye at all, Butthis is what I think, So let
me write it and publish it.You know again, I have to laugh
at this article publicly because because whenyou think about the idea that this study
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is projecting all the way to twentysixty, it's upsetting because everyone acts like
they're somewhere else to go, Like, you know, like, man,
we're out of here. We're goingto Alabama. Good luck with that.
We're going to Mississippi, good luckwith that. Good luck with wherever it
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is you think you're going. Whereyou're going to have better weather, You're
going to have more opportunities for employment, especially considering here in California we're also
dealing with oddly enough, you know, when people pople are are facing evictions
and things like that, we arealso facing a resistance to individuals returning to
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the office. So there are goingto be arguably more jobs, you know,
in the diner future. There's stilla lot of building happening here in
California. For all that they're sayingpeople are moving, there's a lot of
industries here being built up in California. Song, I don't know again,
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I believe. I believe that articleslike this are fueled by organizations that are
looking to cast aspersions on the entiretyof the state who are trying to make
the option of living in California somethingthat's undesirable because I'm thinking maybe they think
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individuals living that are moving are individualswho may not vote the way they vote.
I don't know. Maybe they're thinkingthat people who live in predominantly blue
areas of California will move out,making way for more of a red wave
in California. I know I'm projectinghere, and I'm projecting because I actually
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believe that's where all of this iscoming from. That's just me, though,
That's just me. I don't know. It's kf I AM six forty
Live everywhere on the iHeart or radioapp. You're listening to Soul cal Saturday
with Twala Sharp on demand from kfI AM six forty KFI AM six forty
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Live everywhere on the I Heart orradio app. In is it failing?
Feeling sure? You know I'm nailing. Look, let's go with it.
Feeling all right? Feeling there?We go Porta Ranch, Rolling Heights and
Fullerton. Look, I'm learning moreabout southern California every day right along with
you, thanks to super producer Kayla. I've never been to feel it,
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never been there. You gotta go. It's beautiful there. Oh my god,
you tried it. You tried it. It's all good. And looking
at I was just looking at thenews and I was looking at this riot
that was happening from this influencer inNew York. I guess was giving away
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claiming to give away video games,and he started this massive riot. Now
hopefully he will go to jail forthat, because that's just absolute insanity.
People being out in the streets.Kids, mind you, kids being out
in the streets, sheer, pandemonium, um tearing up the street, attacking
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police officer, smashing cars, losingtheir ever loving minds, all for a
video game. I mean, peopletaking to the streets for no reason at
all, unlike the actors, writersand more who took to the streets to
shut it down near Universal Studios yesterday, when a march of hundreds of striking
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actors and writers descended on Universal Studiosand shut down a portion of Lancashire Boulevard.
Video from the scene shows picketers marchingin the streets and a large contingent
of strikers on the pedestrian overpass ofthe bridge that connects the Metro station.
Members of WGA and sag Aftra,of course, who had been picketing across
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an outside of the studio since theirstrike begin well this week, they informed
as members that there would be noofficial strikes outside of Warner Brothers in Disney
in favor of drawing a larger intentionof actors outside Universal. They were like,
look, we're taking it to Universal. We're gonna really let it be
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known. And that's where they were. In addition to the routine purpose of
demonstrating among amid the stellmate in contractnegotiations between the unions and studios, Friday's
move was meant to fight for afair picket environment, which is okay,
yeah, I can now looking atit, I can see why they would
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descend on Universal because Universal had allegedlyand illegally trimmed sidewalk planted trees that happened
to be providing shade for the picketers. So they were just like, oh,
you think you're gonna keep us fromcoming down here. No, here's
what we're gonna do. We're goingto get everybody outside in the middle of
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the street and let it be knownjust how strong their members feel about what
Universal is doing. Now that's theWGA and sag after strike, but coming
up this week on I believe it'sTuesday, tons, and I mean just
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tons and tons of LA City workersare preparing to go on strike on Tuesday.
Yes, the union representing workers employedwith the City of Los Angeles announced
on Friday that members will head tothe picket lines early Tuesday morning for a
twenty four hour strike to protest wherethey deemed a refusal to bargain in good
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faith. Sanitation workers, heavy dutymechanics, traffic officers, engineers, and
many more. City workers who arerepresented by SEIU seven twenty one planned to
walk off the job to protect citymanagement, oh to pro not protect,
to protest city management and other unfairlabor practices restricting employee and union rights.
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That is according to a statement fromthe union. Los Angeles City officials.
Of course, they have not respondedto request for comments, but at eleven
am Tuesday, workers will meet atcity Hall for a march and rally through
picket lines, and picket lines willbegin as early as four am. In
May, city workers representing SCIU seventwenty one voted Overwhelmley within a ninety eight
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percent approval to authorize an unfair laborpractice strike, a first by city workers
in more than forty years. Andyes, Tuesday is when it all comes
to a head. I think thateveryone striking right now, whether it's hotel
workers, even though I'm not asdown with the hotel workers strike only because
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they keep trying to drag Taylor Swiftinto it. And I think that is
absolute madness. I didn't even wait. Where did Taylor Swift from HAP Hotel
Workers Association? They are calling onTaylor Swift postponed shows or cancel shows because
of all the people who are cominginto town and all the hotels that are
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being packed up in downtown LA andor not downtown lab but in Inglewood and
all those areas for the show.They're saying, Taylor, postpone your shows
and support us, and I thinkdragging her name into it, uh,
it makes me frown on on thatstrike. But but but but I am
down with the w GA and UMand the SAG after strike and uh,
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even though I support your reasons forone into strike hotel workers, I just
don't think you need to drag Taylorinto it. But as bills too,
I'm sure, I'm sure. Andall the people who are working, look
look at all the truck drivers andall the people on tour and the people
who work at UM so far whoare also uh dating those checks and work.
You got people who are buying theirfirst homes based off that that tour.
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You want to cancel that you wantedto call that, That's what I'm
saying, That's what That's why Iissued with that one. But the city
workers going on strike again, Ithink that all of these individual striking UM
definitely should think the LAUSD for orthe laus D union for going on strike,
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because I believe it was uh theLAUSD teachers the union who was the
first to set it off and reallystick it to the man so to speak,
and demand change, demand fair practice, and they sparked something. Hell,
even Starbucks is trying to put togethera union so they can go on
strike, a coffee barista strike.You know that's interesting from I think,
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first you're gonna need an actual union, but sure, let's go with it.
UM, the ups they want tostrike. Everyone is going on strike
because everyone is seeing the need forit. But I'm wondering if this twenty
four hour strike is enough to reallyreally be impactful. And I get this
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almost seems symbolic I'm I'm I'm hopingand I'm pulling for Seiu seven twenty one
that this twenty four hour period ofgoing on strike really and truly does show
the city how valuable what it isthat you do is. And I promise
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you I absolutely understand how impactful andhow serious your position is in your role
in what it is that you aredemanding. I just hope again that in
twenty four hours this city is ableto see the value in the strike,
and and and and hopefully you don'thave to extend the strike because some of
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these apartments, man oh man,just just the sanitation department alone. Uh,
you all going on strike if thetrash doesn't get picked up right now?
Um as hot as it is outside, and Lord have mercy, and
there's already a fruit fly infestation.We don't have time for this, don't
see. Oh frustrated all these strikes. The Cydney needs to answer. Okay,
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look, okay, what I want? I want to get too far
off the kayala. You almost haveme jumping out the windows with this.
You got worked up quick to gofrom zero to sixty when it comes to
my striking people. You're listening tosoul cal Saturday with to Wallah Sharp on
demand from kf I AM six forty, kf I AM sixty live everywhere all
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the iHeart or Radio app in RunningSprings, Sandemas, Lake Forest, and
Valinda, California. This is soulCal's Saturday, and He's back back in
the news. That is P.Twenty two. That Majestic Mountain Lion is
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being honored with a mural in WestHollywood. A new mural honoring the famed
lion P. Twenty two was veledin West Hollywood last night. The mirrall,
called Keep La Wild, features theMajestic Mountain Lion with a monarch butterfly
perched on his beautiful nose. Thenew piece marks artist Corey Mattie's third mural
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in collaboration with the National Wildlife Foundation. P. Twenty two, the Bigloved
Mountain Lion, who was roaming theHollywood Hills in Los Angeles for over a
decade, was humanely euthanized in Decemberafter being struck by a car. And
of course, they found out thattwelve year old P. Twenty two had
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died not just from the car accident, but from multiple severe injuries and chronic
conditions that impaired his ability to functionin the while. According to officials,
he also had kidney, liver andpossible heart disease. Man, that's what
they found out after they maybe afterthey dug them up and they had to
do a different Bam, there yougo, some mines and mines and blanket
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on that. Yes, they dida second autopsy and they're like, let's
make sure that it wasn't just acar that took out P. Twenty two,
And so they found out this information. Since first being photographed in Griffith
Park, P twenty two became asymbol of California's endangered mountain lion and their
decreasing genetic diversity. He was alsoa mascot for Wildlife Conservation Los Angeles.
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According to Maddie Corey Corey Maddie,I'm sorry about said Maddie. You know
Maddie Cord Corey Maddie quote. It'sall about bringing light to conservation efforts and
urban environments. That's part of P. Twenty two's legacy moving forward, I
think it's important to continue to highlightthat. That is the point of this
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mural. Maddie's love of P.Twenty two stemmed from a close encounter that
she had with the cougar that shesays changed her life. Quote once I
met him, it was surreal,Maddie recalls. He could have eaten me
alive, but he didn't. Shefeels like he became her spirit animal and
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almost became humanized. Visitors who admirethe mural up close can notice other endangered
animals hidden within twenty two's body,such as bats, rabbits, and more.
Even though bats another endangered A don'tthose things like flying rats full of
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rabies? Oh no, okay,look look, hey, hey, hey,
hey hey, I'm not gonna castdispersions against our California bats. I
love the rabbits, so I'm gladthat they're all included in the mural.
According to Maddie, the idea ofincluding other animals speaks to P. Twenty
two's legacy of spearheading animal conservation inCalifornia. The mirural's unveiling was attended by
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West Hollywood City officials and the NationalWildlife Foundation. And you can actually go
and see this mural and bask inthe glory of P. Twenty two and
just taking all of that wildlife andand something else that just popped up real
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quick. Before we end this hourbridge Fest bridge Fest LA. It's kicking
off. It is happening. Itis a free music, arts and food
festival that is taking over six StreeBridge in downtown Los Angeles this weekend.
Bridge Fest LA twenty twenty three willtake over the iconic Viaduct and feature free
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live music performances, food drinks,and unique shopping and family friendly activities.
The festival is presented by the LosAngeles River Artists in Business Association, and
it's running from what started yesterday andis running all the way to Sunday.
The bridges is shut down. Youcan only walk on it, enjoy the
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food trucks. They have a beerand cocktail garden, in an auto show,
and there's even a picnic area.Yes, on the bridge. On
the bridge, you can picnic onthe bridge. Proceeds from the Bridge Festival
support a new Microbridge grant program helpingto help to help low nonprofit organizations through
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boil Heights in the arch districts.Yes, no tickets are required. No
tickets are required for this free event. If you're interested, you can rs
VP online to receive information about theartist lineup available vendors arrival instructions and more
entry to the festivals located at fivenine eight Matail Street in Los Angeles.
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Those driving to the festival can accessfree shuttles leaving from Mariachi Mariachi Plaza at
South Boilston Avenue and First Street orSouth boile Avenue and First Street, and
the shuttles will depart every fifteen minutesfrom twelve forty five pm to five thirty
pm. From five thirty pm tonine fifteen pm, the shuttles will travel
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from Mariachi Plaza to Mission Road insixth Street. For additional information, go
on and check out bridge Fest LAdot com so you can check out bridge
Fest or or or more importantly,you can go check out the mural of
the Majestic Wildcat P twenty two madehis memory last Forever. It's kfive AM
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