June 14, 2025 • 26 mins
In an unexpected turn, Hour 2 of The Fork Report veers into breaking news as Neil Saavedra reacts to the fallout from the “No Kings Day” protests rocking Los Angeles. From freeway shutdowns to police activity across the city, Neil and the crew juggle food talk with fast-moving developments affecting weekend life in SoCal.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Niel Sevedra. You're listening to kfi EM six
forty the four Report on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Today.
We've shifted programming just a little bit as there's a
lot going on. We hope and pray that it stays peaceful,
but you know, when the sun goes down, things tend
to change here around Los Angeles. Want to keep you
(00:20):
abreast of what's going on the highways and byways where
you should stay out of. I mean, there's just a
ton os going on in Los Angeles. You have the
No Kings protest, of course, but you also have a
football game going on as well as a Dodger game. Right,
Holy smokes, is there a lot going on. Of course,
(00:43):
in about I don't know, twenty some odd minutes, the
celebration of the two one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the American Army, the US Army will take place. But
that's gonna take place, gosh, well, is it starting right
(01:04):
about now? I mean, it looks like I'm seeing some
cannons going off, so maybe maybe he's already. Looks like
the President is already in the review stands for the
parade viewing and has looks like some of the festivities
(01:26):
are starting. Of course, it is our president's seventy ninth
birthday as well as Flag Day today, so there's a
lot going on. And I will tell you my own
little soapbox about the flag. My father, a very proud Chicano,
started my love for the flag. I would go out
(01:50):
as a little boy and help him fly the flag
on the side of the house every appropriate day. And
I remember that, I remember the flag flying all over
the place when I was a kid. I am grossly
offended by the way the flag is treated. And I'm
(02:11):
not talking about the burning of the flag. Does that
bother me? Yes, I think anytime you burn a symbol
of something, you are burning more than the you know,
made in China or wherever the flag is. But I
will tell you the bigger offense to me is the
belief that it belongs to a particular party, or a
(02:35):
particular religion, or a particular group of Americans. And on
this Flag Day, my prayer, my wish is that when
we see the American flag, we see the Pride flag.
When we see the American flag, we see a Black
(02:56):
Lives Matter flag. When we see the American flag, we
see that brown people matter, we see that POW's matter,
we see all the things that makes America great. And
it is the accumulative power that starts everything that is
(03:21):
good about America. It starts with we, the people do
I am I bothered by some people that have held power,
and I'm not just talking about the presidency. I think
uh Mayor Bass is ineffectual. I wish and we've had
multiple mayors that have been ineffectual and seem to like
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that kid in class that always has his mind on
something else. Or you're at a party and somebody talking
to you is looking over your shoulder for somebody more
interest interesting to talk to you. That's what I feel
about our California government for the last couple of decades.
(04:02):
It just seems like they're always looking for something else.
So I want to see the flag. The flag was
a beautiful thing of rebellion. It showed that people came
together against tyranny, against a king, against a forced belief
(04:24):
system and religion, and that that continued to grow from
colonies to states to a nation, one of which I'm
very proud of. Warts and all. There is a lot
to this place, because freedom is ugly just is you
(04:45):
can't allow people freedom without you know, they're being sharp edges.
But when I see that flag, I don't see it
as one particular group's flag, only American. And until we
get to that place, until we can look at the
American flag, the stars and stripes, those colors that don't run,
(05:10):
all of those things, when we see everyone in that
flag and stop feeling like we have to post our
own flag to be heard, only then will I think
we hit that unity again. And I remember those days.
I didn't think, oh, somebody's holding a flag, they're a
(05:30):
maga person. Nothing is more vulgar to me than assuming
that one group gets to hold that flag, or one
group's religion becomes paramount or more important, or any of
these things. And certainly no one should ever fear in
(05:51):
the United States flying the flag based on being an American.
I hate that. I hate that people think that it
means that you're on the right or the left, or
any of these things. Don't let anybody take your flag.
It's all of ours. And if you're flying it today,
fly it with the pride of the beliefs in freedom
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that we all have, in the liberty that we all have,
and the stupidity of any of us trying to break
the liberty of somebody in the United States. How offensive
that is to those that created this nation, that we
should point at certain freedoms being okay and other freedoms
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not okay because of a person's belief system. So I
hope to see flags flying on my way home. I
know that it has become controversial, which is the dumbest
thing I've ever heard, But please try and see your
belief system, your goals, your freedoms in that flag, and
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not just one particular political group or whatever people they
call them patriots.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You're listening to the Fork Report with Nil Sevedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Slightly different today, little change in subject matter, as we
are focusing on a lot that's going on around town
and across the country, even globally. When you think that
Israel Tel Aviv is taking on fire from Iran as well,
that is probably going to I would imagine pick up
(07:33):
tonight as well. Mark Runner is here with us. I
see you diligently putting on your headphones. Is there something
you'd like to add to that, sir.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
No, no, I just want to be prepared to contribute
when called upon.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Hey, I don't take it lightly that you're in today.
I really do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I think coming together on these things are important so
that we can make sure that people get everything they need. Today.
The No King's protest is going on downtown or on
Michael Monks's Day down there. Thousands, tens of thousands Raleigh
are rallying today in downtown LA. Of course, other cities
as well, Pasadena, Santa Monica, Hollywood, Glendale, Culver City, Long Beach.
(08:13):
This is part of the anti authoritarian No King's Day
opposing Trump's military parade. I don't we've had military parades before.
I think, yes, it might mean something different when you
see Trump sitting above it all. I get it, the
authoritarian thing, but it's like you know, the when you
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don't like somebody, you're always going to see what they do,
and you're gonna perceive it through the lens that this
guy is a dictator. Now, does he do dictatory things? Yeah?
I think I think he wouldn't mind if he was
being born somewhere else that he would. I think he'd
(09:03):
work fine in that environ I think he would thrive
in that environ. Do I think the US is going
to go that way? No, I don't again, because we
the people, I think that protests and the like can
be a powerful tool. The idiots, the two hundred and
fifty three hundred idiots that at the end of the
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night that have to be dealt with by our men
and women in uniform. And I'm talking about the LAPD
and the Sheriff's Department, local you know, law enforcement officers.
Is an absolute shame and it is a blight on
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the city and the protests themselves because I separate the two,
as I did with the Black Lives Matter and all
of that. You've got to separate what's being said versus
what being done by a group. So in this particular case,
we continue to watch what's going on. It started out
(10:07):
in Grand Park with all kinds of you know, supporters
carrying flags slogans like no Kings, no crowns. I think
we can all agree on that, right. I said it
before every Fourth of July celebrate no king doing that
since I was brand new baby, so against that. I'm
(10:29):
a law and order guy, and I'd rather someone hit hard,
hit fast, hit first to keep the casualties down. If
necessary and those types of things. But I'm also somebody
who believes that if you serve a beautiful four course
meal and a dirty hubcap, nobody's going to eat it.
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So there's a balance to presentation and execution of things.
But I wish, quite honestly, we did more like celebrate
our armed forces. I wish we did more to say
thank you for doing something that most don't want to
do and don't have the fortitude to do. And so
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I'm all for celebrating. Am I all for spending one
hundred and forty three million dollars or whatever it is
to do a parade now, it's not probably the time
for that, But celebrating the men and women in uniform,
I'm all for it. I'm all for it. We don't,
you know, goose step the same way, We're not locked
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in such a tight formation that it looks odd or
you know, something like that. I think that everything can
be done its own way. Law enforcement currently is still
on high alert. The LAPD state officials have heightened security
planning keep protests peaceful into the night. Fingers crossed military
presence remains here in La, to the chagrin of many
(12:02):
National Guard US Marines, National Guard, mark National Guard. What's
the count of National Guard out here is at around
fifteen hundred or so?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I don't have that handy. I'm sorry, Okay, let me
look it up.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I know it's about seven hundred for the Marines. I
don't know why that sticks out to me, but it does.
I think it's because it's, like I said, a little
less than half of what we had here marine wise
in ninety two for the riots, but so they're still here.
Early the week this week, Marines detained an Army veteran.
That's an odd sight to see near a federal building,
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marking a first since deployment order was issued. There crowds
kind of coming in and out for the no Kings protest.
I don't know that that's going to be growing or not.
And also the curfew continues there. I don't think Mayor
Bass has given us any sort of end date. This
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is for one square mile downtown. It is an eight
pm to six am curfew being enforced. When we come back,
I'll get into how that curfew and the enforcement is
hurting yet again. Restaurants, they've been taking it in the
nuts over and over again since the pandemic got solar
(13:26):
plexus whatever hurts somewhere somewhere that is in the bikini area. Yeah,
somewhere in the private bikini region. But man, it just
breaks my heart to see more of that. Not to
mention that there are a contingent of people not showing
up because they're undocumented, and so there's places all over
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the place that I've been hearing about that there are
tons and tons of people that don't that aren't showing
up before work. They're fearful.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Rightly, So you're listening to the fork Report with Nil
Sevedra on demand from KFI AM six forty A little.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Different today as we break form out of the Forkport
and talk about so much news going across the south
Land and beyond. Of course there is Is it war
yet between Iran and Israel? Does it start if they
fire back again tonight? When is it not a what's
(14:22):
that that word mark runner that they use all the time,
A not a vent? But when it's a conflict, that's
the word I'm looking for.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
When do we get to call it a war? Is
that what you're saying? I don't know. They were calling
it a preemptive strike, which I don't believe was entirely
accurate either, because those are supposed to be when an
attack is imminent, so they weren't preempting anything. Experts are
saying that it was an unprovoked strike, and that's where
you can have the debate.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah, preemptive, I guess, in destroying their nuclear possibilities, right right,
that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Well, and we're not sure how far they got with those.
We do know that it was President Trump who scrapped
the JCPOA that it were on was abiding buy and
that was what was stopping them from developing nukes. So
you can draw a direct line from that in twenty
eighteen to right now.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And then at that point you have a response last
night going into Tel Aviv and civilian targets. Correct.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, we're really on the cusp of the whole region
blowing up into something very serious, and you would be
reasonable to be concerned about this.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, but you know what I keep coming back to
Mark is at least at least we can go to
a grocery store and know that we can wait, what,
there's an impending strike a grocery stores? Oh see, Oh
my lord, so a lot going on. Obviously, no Kings
(15:54):
protests downtown and beyond. I saw you gotta love La
What was it the you know, because a lot of writers.
I'm sorry, I don't want this to hurt buddy, but
a lot of writers. I'm still looking for work, right, Yeah,
(16:15):
So I see them using their skills on signs. I
saw one that made me chuckle. Let me see here.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
People get creative with the signs.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yes, but let's see what I see because this is
going on in a lot of places, including in the valley.
So in the San Fernando Valley you've got this going on.
This is in Studio City. One of these signs to
do list six fourteen, and it's got four checkboxes skincare,
routine check, ice, latte at Alfred's, check protest, this BS
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but spelled long form check. And then the only one
that's unchecked is dinner at Coosavega. So that is somebody
with priority and plans in our area. Just the creativity
that you see that I've been seeing this is going on.
(17:13):
And that crowd looked pretty big. I was just looking
at crowds in the Studio City there on Ventura Boulevard
near Laurel Canyon looked pretty pretty strong as well.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
The streets just look solidly packed with people.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, it's like an event of some kind. US Army
celebrates the two hundred and fifty years of service. God
bless each and every one of them that you know
sign up for service. And that's going on in Washington,
d C. Anything you're hearing about anything other than peaceful
(17:49):
parade going on in DC, I'm not seeing anything yet.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I think they're relatively sedate so far. Even the usual
trouble makers have kept a lid on it. But you know,
it's going to be a nights so I would expect
anything to happen, But the authorities have gone out of
their way to drill into us A, be peaceful and B.
If you're not, you're going to the old Gray Bar Hotel.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah, there was some forceful words prior to all this,
but I still wouldn't be surprised. You know, anybody that
can get close to do something, you know, becomes social
media famous pretty quickly. So you've got that going for you,
which is nice.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, and it'll be played in perpetuity. Like the one
way Mo car that was on fire.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Actually there was four or five.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
You get the idea, though, I the one that has.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Gone viral is the one with the guy standing on
top of the burning vehicle with the Mexican flag. That
one is yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah, in our twenty four hour news cycle, when somebody
gets a nice piece of b roll, it is played indefinitely.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah. I kind of like that we don't have visuals
in the same way because we don't have to lean
into just getting the visual on.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah. It can be misleading, and it can It can
lead people to think that things are a lot worse
than they really are.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, this, but then you could also argue that this
was squelched pretty early too. I have a vote of
no confidence for Gavin Newsom, Captain Hansom and Bass.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It saves time to vote no confidence for pretty much
everything I assume the worst.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, but this one. You know, I believe in our
in our leo's are local law enforcement officers, but the
but you know, when you're tied to politics, nobody gets
to do what is needed. They only get to do
what is allowed. So we shall see. I have a
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feeling that if anything is going to go south, it's
going to go south after four o'clock, five o'clock our time,
you know, as it gets darker here, as well, but
fingers crossed go no more to come. You've been listening
to the Fork Report, you can always hear us live
on KFI AM six forty two to five pm on Saturday,
(20:08):
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app, normally talking
all things food. We'll get into some food coming up
in just a couple of minutes. Right now, we're focusing
on the no Kings protests, and it seems a traffic
advisory just came out. F let's see LAPD issued dispersal
order for one particular area demonstration has taken to the street.
(20:31):
Dispersal audia order rather has been issued for all persons
located on Alameda, south of Aliso and north of Temple,
just right there off to the one to one freeway area,
immediately leave the area. I think they're concerned that people
might move into the street, maybe onto the freeway, which
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is something that we've been seeing. I just talked to
Tiffany Hobbs, who will be coming on at five o'clock,
and she said the drive was okay here, but there's
tons of stuff. She was telling me that there is
a jazz festival Blue Jazz Festival at the Bowl tonight,
so you've got a Dodgers game, I think coming up
a little bit later, you've got a soccer game. A
(21:16):
lot going on, but this is the first I've heard
of a dispersal order, and so we will keep an
eye on that. Anything else, Mark Runner, that you're seeing
that we should be abreast of at this point.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
No, and that dispersal order just now has come across
the wire. So we're getting all the very latest pretty
much as it happens.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Excellent, thank you.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So downtown LA restaurants spirally trying to keep their head
above water yet again because they continue to be kicked
in the teeth every time something goes down. Of course,
during the pandemic, everything's shut down, and they kept going
back and forth. You can eat outside, you can't eat outside,
you can eat outside, you can eat outside, all of
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these things. So in the wake of military Harry stuff
going on down in downtown LA, you've got nightly curfews,
the curfews from eight pm to six am. You've got
hotels seeing cancelations. You've got steep declines and reservations at restaurants.
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Restaurants are reporting losses of up to one hundred thousand dollars.
They're in a dire situation again after the dire situation
in January because of the fires and now this. So
over the past week you had four thousand National Guard troops,
seven hundred Marines that have been deployed to downtown LA
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along with all you LAPD with Sheriff's Department. This is
in response to protests and them being out here to
protect federal property and to protect those in the ice
that we're doing raids that I don't know of any
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more or any relaxing that will be done on those raids.
There was a story that came out in the New
York Times talked about President Trump made a rare concession
that he's going to be his crackdown was hurting American
farmers and hospitality businesses, and that he was going to
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hold on all work site enforcement investigations operations agriculture, including
meatpacking plans, restaurants, and operating hotels, so the agents were
not to be making arrests of non criminal collaterals, which
is a really weird way of saying it to people
who are undocumented. Now, this is something that we'll be
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hearing more of, I believe, but I hope that's true.
I mean, get the felons, yay, get the felons out,
But there's a lot of people in between. So these
things continue to go on. There's some restaurants that can't
even open, but many places downtown because of the curfew,
they make their money really between six and eleven PM
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and bars beyond that. And now they're losing not only
did they lose product, because product goes bad, so any
of the food that you had prepped or ready for
the day is lost, and that could be five to
ten grand in one, you know, in one day. Another
three thousand and five thousand and unreturnable labor, you know, labor.
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If labor comes in, you got to pay them. Regardless.
Out of towners are, you know, not coming into places.
They're not coming into town. It just keeps adding up,
and so we have a lot of issues right now
when it comes to food and food. These places are
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touched by everything. They really are the heartbeat of what
goes on in the in any neighborhood locally. So now
you have this another, yet another circumstance where they take
the short end of the stick. Call your favorite places downtown,
check on them, see if they're open. You can always
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buy gift cards or merch if they have a website,
but if they are open during certain modified hours that
they normally aren't, like in the morning and the afternoon,
I don't know exactly. And Mark, if you know, you
please jump in. But I don't know exactly what the
rule is. If you're already in a restaurant before eight,
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if you can stay, that's a possibility. But after that,
once you leave, I don't know what the rules are.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah, I don't know that either. That could be awkward here.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, right, it's like, well, I'm just you know, I
wouldn't wear a mask or you know, a hoodie, black hat,
leave the body armor at home. Ghost face mask not recommended. Yeah,
those things, you know, probably a good idea. But think
about these people that are wrestling with all this right now,
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and anything you can do to order from them or
to get in during the daylight hours and support them
is recommended. All right, stick around, much more to come.
We'll do a little bit of food stuff, tell you
about an evet that's coming up that we want you
to know about. So go know where
Speaker 2 (26:25):
You're listening to The Fork Report with Nil Savedra on
demand from kfi AM six forty
Hey, it's Niel Sevedra. You're listening to kfi EM six
forty the four Report on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Today.
We've shifted programming just a little bit as there's a
lot going on. We hope and pray that it stays peaceful,
but you know, when the sun goes down, things tend
to change here around Los Angeles. Want to keep you
(00:20):
abreast of what's going on the highways and byways where
you should stay out of. I mean, there's just a
ton os going on in Los Angeles. You have the
No Kings protest, of course, but you also have a
football game going on as well as a Dodger game. Right,
Holy smokes, is there a lot going on. Of course,
(00:43):
in about I don't know, twenty some odd minutes, the
celebration of the two one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the American Army, the US Army will take place. But
that's gonna take place, gosh, well, is it starting right
(01:04):
about now? I mean, it looks like I'm seeing some
cannons going off, so maybe maybe he's already. Looks like
the President is already in the review stands for the
parade viewing and has looks like some of the festivities
(01:26):
are starting. Of course, it is our president's seventy ninth
birthday as well as Flag Day today, so there's a
lot going on. And I will tell you my own
little soapbox about the flag. My father, a very proud Chicano,
started my love for the flag. I would go out
(01:50):
as a little boy and help him fly the flag
on the side of the house every appropriate day. And
I remember that, I remember the flag flying all over
the place when I was a kid. I am grossly
offended by the way the flag is treated. And I'm
(02:11):
not talking about the burning of the flag. Does that
bother me? Yes, I think anytime you burn a symbol
of something, you are burning more than the you know,
made in China or wherever the flag is. But I
will tell you the bigger offense to me is the
belief that it belongs to a particular party, or a
(02:35):
particular religion, or a particular group of Americans. And on
this Flag Day, my prayer, my wish is that when
we see the American flag, we see the Pride flag.
When we see the American flag, we see a Black
(02:56):
Lives Matter flag. When we see the American flag, we
see that brown people matter, we see that POW's matter,
we see all the things that makes America great. And
it is the accumulative power that starts everything that is
(03:21):
good about America. It starts with we, the people do
I am I bothered by some people that have held power,
and I'm not just talking about the presidency. I think
uh Mayor Bass is ineffectual. I wish and we've had
multiple mayors that have been ineffectual and seem to like
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that kid in class that always has his mind on
something else. Or you're at a party and somebody talking
to you is looking over your shoulder for somebody more
interest interesting to talk to you. That's what I feel
about our California government for the last couple of decades.
(04:02):
It just seems like they're always looking for something else.
So I want to see the flag. The flag was
a beautiful thing of rebellion. It showed that people came
together against tyranny, against a king, against a forced belief
(04:24):
system and religion, and that that continued to grow from
colonies to states to a nation, one of which I'm
very proud of. Warts and all. There is a lot
to this place, because freedom is ugly just is you
(04:45):
can't allow people freedom without you know, they're being sharp edges.
But when I see that flag, I don't see it
as one particular group's flag, only American. And until we
get to that place, until we can look at the
American flag, the stars and stripes, those colors that don't run,
(05:10):
all of those things, when we see everyone in that
flag and stop feeling like we have to post our
own flag to be heard, only then will I think
we hit that unity again. And I remember those days.
I didn't think, oh, somebody's holding a flag, they're a
(05:30):
maga person. Nothing is more vulgar to me than assuming
that one group gets to hold that flag, or one
group's religion becomes paramount or more important, or any of
these things. And certainly no one should ever fear in
(05:51):
the United States flying the flag based on being an American.
I hate that. I hate that people think that it
means that you're on the right or the left, or
any of these things. Don't let anybody take your flag.
It's all of ours. And if you're flying it today,
fly it with the pride of the beliefs in freedom
(06:15):
that we all have, in the liberty that we all have,
and the stupidity of any of us trying to break
the liberty of somebody in the United States. How offensive
that is to those that created this nation, that we
should point at certain freedoms being okay and other freedoms
(06:38):
not okay because of a person's belief system. So I
hope to see flags flying on my way home. I
know that it has become controversial, which is the dumbest
thing I've ever heard, But please try and see your
belief system, your goals, your freedoms in that flag, and
(06:58):
not just one particular political group or whatever people they
call them patriots.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You're listening to the Fork Report with Nil Sevedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Slightly different today, little change in subject matter, as we
are focusing on a lot that's going on around town
and across the country, even globally. When you think that
Israel Tel Aviv is taking on fire from Iran as well,
that is probably going to I would imagine pick up
(07:33):
tonight as well. Mark Runner is here with us. I
see you diligently putting on your headphones. Is there something
you'd like to add to that, sir.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
No, no, I just want to be prepared to contribute
when called upon.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Hey, I don't take it lightly that you're in today.
I really do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I think coming together on these things are important so
that we can make sure that people get everything they need. Today.
The No King's protest is going on downtown or on
Michael Monks's Day down there. Thousands, tens of thousands Raleigh
are rallying today in downtown LA. Of course, other cities
as well, Pasadena, Santa Monica, Hollywood, Glendale, Culver City, Long Beach.
(08:13):
This is part of the anti authoritarian No King's Day
opposing Trump's military parade. I don't we've had military parades before.
I think, yes, it might mean something different when you
see Trump sitting above it all. I get it, the
authoritarian thing, but it's like you know, the when you
(08:41):
don't like somebody, you're always going to see what they do,
and you're gonna perceive it through the lens that this
guy is a dictator. Now, does he do dictatory things? Yeah?
I think I think he wouldn't mind if he was
being born somewhere else that he would. I think he'd
(09:03):
work fine in that environ I think he would thrive
in that environ. Do I think the US is going
to go that way? No, I don't again, because we
the people, I think that protests and the like can
be a powerful tool. The idiots, the two hundred and
fifty three hundred idiots that at the end of the
(09:25):
night that have to be dealt with by our men
and women in uniform. And I'm talking about the LAPD
and the Sheriff's Department, local you know, law enforcement officers.
Is an absolute shame and it is a blight on
(09:46):
the city and the protests themselves because I separate the two,
as I did with the Black Lives Matter and all
of that. You've got to separate what's being said versus
what being done by a group. So in this particular case,
we continue to watch what's going on. It started out
(10:07):
in Grand Park with all kinds of you know, supporters
carrying flags slogans like no Kings, no crowns. I think
we can all agree on that, right. I said it
before every Fourth of July celebrate no king doing that
since I was brand new baby, so against that. I'm
(10:29):
a law and order guy, and I'd rather someone hit hard,
hit fast, hit first to keep the casualties down. If
necessary and those types of things. But I'm also somebody
who believes that if you serve a beautiful four course
meal and a dirty hubcap, nobody's going to eat it.
(10:50):
So there's a balance to presentation and execution of things.
But I wish, quite honestly, we did more like celebrate
our armed forces. I wish we did more to say
thank you for doing something that most don't want to
do and don't have the fortitude to do. And so
(11:14):
I'm all for celebrating. Am I all for spending one
hundred and forty three million dollars or whatever it is
to do a parade now, it's not probably the time
for that, But celebrating the men and women in uniform,
I'm all for it. I'm all for it. We don't,
you know, goose step the same way, We're not locked
(11:37):
in such a tight formation that it looks odd or
you know, something like that. I think that everything can
be done its own way. Law enforcement currently is still
on high alert. The LAPD state officials have heightened security
planning keep protests peaceful into the night. Fingers crossed military
presence remains here in La, to the chagrin of many
(12:02):
National Guard US Marines, National Guard, mark National Guard. What's
the count of National Guard out here is at around
fifteen hundred or so?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I don't have that handy. I'm sorry, Okay, let me
look it up.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I know it's about seven hundred for the Marines. I
don't know why that sticks out to me, but it does.
I think it's because it's, like I said, a little
less than half of what we had here marine wise
in ninety two for the riots, but so they're still here.
Early the week this week, Marines detained an Army veteran.
That's an odd sight to see near a federal building,
(12:39):
marking a first since deployment order was issued. There crowds
kind of coming in and out for the no Kings protest.
I don't know that that's going to be growing or not.
And also the curfew continues there. I don't think Mayor
Bass has given us any sort of end date. This
(13:02):
is for one square mile downtown. It is an eight
pm to six am curfew being enforced. When we come back,
I'll get into how that curfew and the enforcement is
hurting yet again. Restaurants, they've been taking it in the
nuts over and over again since the pandemic got solar
(13:26):
plexus whatever hurts somewhere somewhere that is in the bikini area. Yeah,
somewhere in the private bikini region. But man, it just
breaks my heart to see more of that. Not to
mention that there are a contingent of people not showing
up because they're undocumented, and so there's places all over
(13:46):
the place that I've been hearing about that there are
tons and tons of people that don't that aren't showing
up before work. They're fearful.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Rightly, So you're listening to the fork Report with Nil
Sevedra on demand from KFI AM six forty A little.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Different today as we break form out of the Forkport
and talk about so much news going across the south
Land and beyond. Of course there is Is it war
yet between Iran and Israel? Does it start if they
fire back again tonight? When is it not a what's
(14:22):
that that word mark runner that they use all the time,
A not a vent? But when it's a conflict, that's
the word I'm looking for.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
When do we get to call it a war? Is
that what you're saying? I don't know. They were calling
it a preemptive strike, which I don't believe was entirely
accurate either, because those are supposed to be when an
attack is imminent, so they weren't preempting anything. Experts are
saying that it was an unprovoked strike, and that's where
you can have the debate.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah, preemptive, I guess, in destroying their nuclear possibilities, right right,
that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Well, and we're not sure how far they got with those.
We do know that it was President Trump who scrapped
the JCPOA that it were on was abiding buy and
that was what was stopping them from developing nukes. So
you can draw a direct line from that in twenty
eighteen to right now.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And then at that point you have a response last
night going into Tel Aviv and civilian targets. Correct.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, we're really on the cusp of the whole region
blowing up into something very serious, and you would be
reasonable to be concerned about this.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, but you know what I keep coming back to
Mark is at least at least we can go to
a grocery store and know that we can wait, what,
there's an impending strike a grocery stores? Oh see, Oh
my lord, so a lot going on. Obviously, no Kings
(15:54):
protests downtown and beyond. I saw you gotta love La
What was it the you know, because a lot of writers.
I'm sorry, I don't want this to hurt buddy, but
a lot of writers. I'm still looking for work, right, Yeah,
(16:15):
So I see them using their skills on signs. I
saw one that made me chuckle. Let me see here.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
People get creative with the signs.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yes, but let's see what I see because this is
going on in a lot of places, including in the valley.
So in the San Fernando Valley you've got this going on.
This is in Studio City. One of these signs to
do list six fourteen, and it's got four checkboxes skincare,
routine check, ice, latte at Alfred's, check protest, this BS
(16:52):
but spelled long form check. And then the only one
that's unchecked is dinner at Coosavega. So that is somebody
with priority and plans in our area. Just the creativity
that you see that I've been seeing this is going on.
(17:13):
And that crowd looked pretty big. I was just looking
at crowds in the Studio City there on Ventura Boulevard
near Laurel Canyon looked pretty pretty strong as well.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
The streets just look solidly packed with people.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, it's like an event of some kind. US Army
celebrates the two hundred and fifty years of service. God
bless each and every one of them that you know
sign up for service. And that's going on in Washington,
d C. Anything you're hearing about anything other than peaceful
(17:49):
parade going on in DC, I'm not seeing anything yet.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I think they're relatively sedate so far. Even the usual
trouble makers have kept a lid on it. But you know,
it's going to be a nights so I would expect
anything to happen, But the authorities have gone out of
their way to drill into us A, be peaceful and B.
If you're not, you're going to the old Gray Bar Hotel.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah, there was some forceful words prior to all this,
but I still wouldn't be surprised. You know, anybody that
can get close to do something, you know, becomes social
media famous pretty quickly. So you've got that going for you,
which is nice.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, and it'll be played in perpetuity. Like the one
way Mo car that was on fire.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Actually there was four or five.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
You get the idea, though, I the one that has.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Gone viral is the one with the guy standing on
top of the burning vehicle with the Mexican flag. That
one is yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah, in our twenty four hour news cycle, when somebody
gets a nice piece of b roll, it is played indefinitely.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah. I kind of like that we don't have visuals
in the same way because we don't have to lean
into just getting the visual on.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah. It can be misleading, and it can It can
lead people to think that things are a lot worse
than they really are.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, this, but then you could also argue that this
was squelched pretty early too. I have a vote of
no confidence for Gavin Newsom, Captain Hansom and Bass.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It saves time to vote no confidence for pretty much
everything I assume the worst.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, but this one. You know, I believe in our
in our leo's are local law enforcement officers, but the
but you know, when you're tied to politics, nobody gets
to do what is needed. They only get to do
what is allowed. So we shall see. I have a
(19:46):
feeling that if anything is going to go south, it's
going to go south after four o'clock, five o'clock our time,
you know, as it gets darker here, as well, but
fingers crossed go no more to come. You've been listening
to the Fork Report, you can always hear us live
on KFI AM six forty two to five pm on Saturday,
(20:08):
and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app, normally talking
all things food. We'll get into some food coming up
in just a couple of minutes. Right now, we're focusing
on the no Kings protests, and it seems a traffic
advisory just came out. F let's see LAPD issued dispersal
order for one particular area demonstration has taken to the street.
(20:31):
Dispersal audia order rather has been issued for all persons
located on Alameda, south of Aliso and north of Temple,
just right there off to the one to one freeway area,
immediately leave the area. I think they're concerned that people
might move into the street, maybe onto the freeway, which
(20:53):
is something that we've been seeing. I just talked to
Tiffany Hobbs, who will be coming on at five o'clock,
and she said the drive was okay here, but there's
tons of stuff. She was telling me that there is
a jazz festival Blue Jazz Festival at the Bowl tonight,
so you've got a Dodgers game, I think coming up
a little bit later, you've got a soccer game. A
(21:16):
lot going on, but this is the first I've heard
of a dispersal order, and so we will keep an
eye on that. Anything else, Mark Runner, that you're seeing
that we should be abreast of at this point.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
No, and that dispersal order just now has come across
the wire. So we're getting all the very latest pretty
much as it happens.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Excellent, thank you.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So downtown LA restaurants spirally trying to keep their head
above water yet again because they continue to be kicked
in the teeth every time something goes down. Of course,
during the pandemic, everything's shut down, and they kept going
back and forth. You can eat outside, you can't eat outside,
you can eat outside, you can eat outside, all of
(21:57):
these things. So in the wake of military Harry stuff
going on down in downtown LA, you've got nightly curfews,
the curfews from eight pm to six am. You've got
hotels seeing cancelations. You've got steep declines and reservations at restaurants.
(22:18):
Restaurants are reporting losses of up to one hundred thousand dollars.
They're in a dire situation again after the dire situation
in January because of the fires and now this. So
over the past week you had four thousand National Guard troops,
seven hundred Marines that have been deployed to downtown LA
(22:39):
along with all you LAPD with Sheriff's Department. This is
in response to protests and them being out here to
protect federal property and to protect those in the ice
that we're doing raids that I don't know of any
(22:59):
more or any relaxing that will be done on those raids.
There was a story that came out in the New
York Times talked about President Trump made a rare concession
that he's going to be his crackdown was hurting American
farmers and hospitality businesses, and that he was going to
(23:20):
hold on all work site enforcement investigations operations agriculture, including
meatpacking plans, restaurants, and operating hotels, so the agents were
not to be making arrests of non criminal collaterals, which
is a really weird way of saying it to people
who are undocumented. Now, this is something that we'll be
(23:44):
hearing more of, I believe, but I hope that's true.
I mean, get the felons, yay, get the felons out,
But there's a lot of people in between. So these
things continue to go on. There's some restaurants that can't
even open, but many places downtown because of the curfew,
they make their money really between six and eleven PM
(24:09):
and bars beyond that. And now they're losing not only
did they lose product, because product goes bad, so any
of the food that you had prepped or ready for
the day is lost, and that could be five to
ten grand in one, you know, in one day. Another
three thousand and five thousand and unreturnable labor, you know, labor.
(24:32):
If labor comes in, you got to pay them. Regardless.
Out of towners are, you know, not coming into places.
They're not coming into town. It just keeps adding up,
and so we have a lot of issues right now
when it comes to food and food. These places are
(24:53):
touched by everything. They really are the heartbeat of what
goes on in the in any neighborhood locally. So now
you have this another, yet another circumstance where they take
the short end of the stick. Call your favorite places downtown,
check on them, see if they're open. You can always
(25:15):
buy gift cards or merch if they have a website,
but if they are open during certain modified hours that
they normally aren't, like in the morning and the afternoon,
I don't know exactly. And Mark, if you know, you
please jump in. But I don't know exactly what the
rule is. If you're already in a restaurant before eight,
(25:36):
if you can stay, that's a possibility. But after that,
once you leave, I don't know what the rules are.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah, I don't know that either. That could be awkward here.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, right, it's like, well, I'm just you know, I
wouldn't wear a mask or you know, a hoodie, black hat,
leave the body armor at home. Ghost face mask not recommended. Yeah,
those things, you know, probably a good idea. But think
about these people that are wrestling with all this right now,
(26:07):
and anything you can do to order from them or
to get in during the daylight hours and support them
is recommended. All right, stick around, much more to come.
We'll do a little bit of food stuff, tell you
about an evet that's coming up that we want you
to know about. So go know where
Speaker 2 (26:25):
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